5.2/1020 votesLoading...#1 - The Son also Rises
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/20/2007
Chode gets contacted from a long-past ex-girlfriend, and informs him he has a son. Now suddenly a father, he is forced into custody and takes him home to the ship. An unexpected twist takes him from showing he can try to be a good father, to his old self again.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Mark Amato
5.3/1023 votesLoading...#2 - Chode-Eraser
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/2007
When Darph Bobo and Bernice are informed that their sweet little Babette is with child and Chode is the father, Bernice re-programmes a killer cyborg to travel back in time and dispense with the pathetic, purple pervert before he can do the dirty deed. But hey, don’t worry too much about Chode. In the words of the Terminator…`He’ll live`.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Jon Minnis
5.3/1023 votesLoading...#3 - Chuckles Bites The Dust
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/2007
Darph Bobo’s grandfather has just passed on and his dying wish was for his old nemesis, Chode’s granddaddy Benito, to attend the funeral. Benito informs everyone that he’ll attend…over his dead body. But that may be closer to the truth than Benito realises, especially as Granddad Bobo isn’t quite as deceased as he lets on.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Mark Amato
5.4/1024 votesLoading...#4 - Skankenstein
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/2007
The evil and accent challenged Prime-Minister of Slovenia plans to kill the country’s Princess in order to take control. For his coup to work, he must first hire bodyguards for her to divert suspicion away from him, and secondly make sure the bodyguards are an incompetent bunch of numb nuts. No second-guessing who gets the job.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney, Jon Minnis
5.4/1021 votesLoading...#5 - Witness Protection
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/2007
Chode is picked up for shoplifting, but Commander Adam is only using him to get to Darth Bobo. To keep Chode safe, Adam sends him off to a far away planet in the witness protection program. On the planet, four housewives, desperate for sex, all try to compete to get Chode.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Jon Minnis
5.4/1021 votesLoading...#6 - Extreme Take-Over
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/2007
Chode enters Bob (and the crew) in a space race called "The Fifty MKronig Flaming Colossus." In an attempt to cheat himself into first place in the race, he gets Bob modified in a chop-shop. But he soon finds out that he got more modifications done to Bob than he had wanted.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Mark Amato
5.4/1018 votesLoading...#7 - Battle of the Bulge
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/2008
Chode is suffering from dysfunction, and while single-mindedly trying to prove his manhood, he ends up putting the ship and the whole universe in danger.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Ken Goin
5.5/1023 votesLoading...#8 - 23 ½
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2007
Darth Bobo nous prouve encore une fois qu’il est le clown le plus exécrable en ville. Cette fois, il a kidnappé Sixe afin de forcer Ardillon à tuer le commandant Adam. Ardillon doit non seulement libérer Sixe, mais il doit affronter un avion plein d’horribles serpents venimeux qui pique tout droit dans le désert.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Mark Amato
5.5/1024 votesLoading...#9 - The Need For Greed
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/2007
The crew is broke, but Six gets an e-mail that she is receiving a huge inheritance. Rather than help the crew, she wants to give it away to charities. They suck up to her and make her captain hoping to trick her into giving them some of the money.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Ken Goin
5.5/1022 votesLoading...#10 - Raiders of the Lost Crock of */@?#!
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/2007
After Six cuts off Chode, he and Gus decide to hit a strip club. At the club, Chode is given a medallion that is supposedly a key to a treasure, but we soon find out its true purpose. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew are stuck in a tractor-beam, and the ship is running out of air...but they can't get away because Chode locked the controls when they left for the club.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Ken Goin
5.6/1025 votesLoading...#11 - To Ebay or Not To Ebay
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/2007
Strange things are going on aboard the Jupiter 42. Personal items along with parts of the ship are disappearing. Every one’s a suspect but the finger of guilt is eventually aimed squarely at Gus who has a gambling debt and might be selling the stuff on Ebay to get out of the hole. Question: can a robot with cement shoes drown?
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Ken Goin
5.6/1022 votesLoading...#12 - Hollow Chode
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/2007
After Chode refuses to pay a gypsy at a carnival (who just read him his "fortune") she puts a hex on him to make him invisible. But it turns out he is more than just invisible, he is being erased from existence.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Mark Amato
5.9/1020 votesLoading...#13 - Tragically Whip
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/2008
Chode takes the crew on a company vacation, since he finds an offer for a free family vacation, but it ends up costing Chode much more than he bargained for.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Ken Goin
6.0/1039 votesLoading...#14 - Totally Recalled
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/8/2004
Gus is recalled and replaced with a new model, while Chode's grandfather shows up for a visit.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Mark Amato
6.0/1038 votesLoading...#15 - Power to the Peephole
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/22/2004
The crew ended up on Floridia 7 and in the middle of an election between Dark Clown Confederation presidential candidates.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney
6.0/1030 votesLoading...#16 - Ghost Ship
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 8/10/2005
When they run out of fuel, Chode and crew must board a ghost ship to refuel and must confront their greatest fears.
Director: Jon Minnis
Writer: Mark Amato
6.1/1038 votesLoading...#17 - Nature vs. Nurture
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/6/2004
After a firefight with Darph Bobo the crew is forced to make an emergency landing on the planed Muldavia 5 (It's not the one with insatiable nymphos either to Chodes chagrin). On the planet Chode finds his long lost (and to him unknown), identical twin, HRH King Regis Philbrick ruler of all Muldavia. The twins decide to swap places, to try out each others life style. Chode soon finds the boring dreary side of being ruler with all the handshaking and baby kissing, and Regis sees the dangers of fighting dark clowns.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Adam I. Lapidus
6.1/1038 votesLoading...#18 - Aliens, Guns & a Monkey
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/13/2004
Chode and the crew land on a planet where everyone has guns, and a father and son need reuniting as only Chode can do.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Dode B. Levenson
6.2/1036 votesLoading...#19 - Android Love
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/3/2004
After Six takes T'nuk to a male strip bar, she finds that one of her old friends is working there.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney
6.3/1067 votesLoading...#20 - God Is Our Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/4/2004
Chode and Gus embark on a time travel adventure to find out how the begining of time happened. Was it God or the "Big Bang" that create the universe? During their adventure, Chode alters the universe forever, but was this cosmic change a good one? Will Chode and Gus meet God, or will they meet their end?
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Bill Rosenthal, Andrew Borakove
6.3/1055 votesLoading...#21 - Mutilation Ball
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/11/2004
The Mutilation Ball Championship game is coming up. The Confederation is set to take on The Dark Clowns. They haven't beaten the Clowns since their star player Malek retired. Chode and crew are assigned to find Malek and get him to make a one time comeback. In exchange for Chode's service the Confederation would drop all charges against him.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Sy Rosen, Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney
6.3/1047 votesLoading...#22 - Miss Galaxy 5000
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/18/2004
Chode enters Six in the Miss Galaxy 5000 pageant in order to make $1 million. Chode and Darph Bobo are judges (having stolen the real judges ID badges). However, Darph Bobo's daughter, Babette, is also in the contest --- and is killing off all of her competition.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Jackie Beat
6.3/1044 votesLoading...#23 - Sidewalk Soiler
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/25/2004
The episode starts with hot Chode-on-android action, showcasing Chode's disinterest in Six's satisfaction. Their sexual games are discovered by Whip, who turns blind. Chode watches a commercial about shield devices available on a nearby planet, where he decides to go to make a bargain. On the planet Snozzle, polluting is punishable by the death penalty. After getting a free package of Clownzooka chew and spit gum, Chode is arrested and convicted of polluting after spitting his gum on the street. Chode is sentenced to death by public electrocution. While Six wants to rescue Chode, the others are more interested in letting him fry.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Dode B. Levenson
6.3/1037 votesLoading...#24 - Love Conquers All... Almost
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/27/2004
After losing a load of cocoa butter that he was transporting, Chode needs to repay the cost of the cargo. There's a one million gold piece prize up for grabs, so Chode decides to try to play matchmaker and set up Commander Adam's son and Darph Bobo's daughter.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: John Unholz
6.3/1029 votesLoading...#25 - Extreme Chode
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 8/31/2005
The Jupiter 42 crew is unwittingly sold into slavery after a mutiny against Chode.
Director: Jon Minnis
Writer: Ken Goin
The Worst Episodes of Tripping the Rift
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"The Son also Rises" is the worst rated episode of "Tripping the Rift". It scored 5.2/10 based on 20 votes. Directed by Bernie Denk and written by Mark Amato, it aired on 12/20/2007. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Chode-Eraser".