The BEST episodes of Tripping the Rift
Every episode of Tripping the Rift ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Tripping the Rift!
The continuing comic saga of a bizarre gang of misfits who live, work and play on the starship Jupiter 42, which is controlled by a neurotic A.I. known as Spaceship Bob. The ethically-challenged shipmates travel through the galaxy taking on one epic adventure at a time all while looking to make a quick buck and avoid getting thrown in jail.
#1 - 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.
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#3 - Roswell
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/14/2005
As Chode and his crew try to outrun a couple of brickering Grey Alien scam artists, a mid-space collision sends both ships plummeting to the Earth - to the town of Roswell circa 1947. The only way our gang can get off this planet is to replace Bob's damaged fuel rods with ones from the alien's disabled ship - but the alien ship is under lock and key in a highly-secured military hangar.
#4 - 23 ½
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2007
Darph Bobo is still out to prove he’s the baddest clown in town. This time he’s kidnapped Six in order to force Chode to kill Commander Adam. Not only must Chode get Six back, he has to deal with a plane full of ugly, venomous snakes as it careens into the desert.
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#5 - Totally Recalled
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/8/2004
Chode's Scatterbrained, bumbling grandfather Benito pays the crew a visit on the same day that Gus is recalled and replaced with an upgrade - the super efficient Gus XP. The new improved Gus is everything the crew needs, but unbeknownst to the crew, it has a hidden and evil agenda.
#6 - 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?
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#7 - Android Love
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/3/2004
In an intergalactic spoof of Casablanca, the crew takes a little time off on a planet where Six is reunited with Ten, the hunky android who helped her escape her home planet. Now caught up in a battle between androids and their owners, Six is experiencing "feelings" she never knew she had. Can androids love?
#8 - Benito's Revenge
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/17/2005
Chode's Grandpa Bento and his cronies escape from the fun city rest home because, they say, the staff is stealing their brain waves. Chode chalks the crazy charges up to senility and gets the old folks re-admitted. Then he learns that their brainwaves are being stolen to power up a nearby amusement park. While Gus and T'Nuk sneak back into Fun City to break out Bento and his friends, the others work madly to shut down the treacherous brains behind the deadly scheme.
#9 - Honey, I Shrunk the Crew
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/3/2005
Darph Bobo gets back at Chode for Pilfering his credit card by stealing Bob and programming the ship to self-destruct in just ten minutes. In order to stop the catastrophe, our gang must extract a critical password from Bobo's brain. Six and T'Nuk take a scientific approach, while the boys opt to enter Bobo's body by shrinking themselves and their shuttle to the size of gnats.
#10 - All For None
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/24/2005
Fed up with the lousy working conditions and Chode's continued mistreatment, the crew decides to accept a sweet job offer aboard a luxury ship. But when it seems too good to be true, it usually is. As Chode struggles along with a new crew of illegal alien aliens, the captain of the luxury ship is prepairing his unwitting crew of newcomers to be sold as slaves on the White Market.
#11 - Ghost Ship
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/10/2005
When circumstances land Chode and the crew on board a ghost ship in the Bermuda Quadrant, they discover the ship is full of gold. But the second Chode grabs a handful of the loot, the ship battens its hatches. The crew is trapped and - according to legend - the only way out is to confront their worst fears.
#12 - Extreme Take-Over
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/2007
In order to win the prestigious, “Flaming Colossus Space Race”, Chode juices up the Jupiter 42. But in doing so, Bob is the recipient of a rogue microchip, and before one can say, “Hi, my name is HAL”, Chode and the crew are hurtling towards certain death. First one across the finish line is dead!
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#13 - Love Conquers All… Almost
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/27/2004
The crew decides to land on the "Party Planet" for some R&R. At the same time and unbeknownst to each other, mortal enemies The Dark Clowns and the Confederation are also vacationing on the same planet. The crew decides to hatch a scheme to end the war between the enemies - by playing matchmaker with the son and daughter of Adam and Bobo. Unfortunately, the scheme works too well, much to their parent's chagrin. Can the crew break up this intergalactic Romeo and Juliet?
#14 - Chode & Bobo's High School Reunion
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/28/2005
At the highschool reunion, Chode is still the coolest of the cool; T'Nuk and the mean girls - recent prison escapees - are back to torment poor Sarah and her misfit friends; and Darph Bobo, a high school nerd who fell for every practical joke, plans to flaunt his new found success. But Bobo's grand entrance is ruined by Chode. When Bobo threatens to kill him, Chode offers to teach Bobo how to be cool.
#15 - Nature vs Nurture
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/6/2004
To escape direct attack from the Dark Clowns, the crew lands on the planet Muldavia 5, where King Philbrick is throwing a lavish soiree. The crew crashes the party, and to both Philbrick's and Chode's surprise, the two blobs discover that they are long lost twin brothers. Intrigued with each others lives and bored with their own, they decide to pull a switch. Can the refined King Philbrick fool the crew? Can a scoundrel like Chode fool the people of Muldavia? Or are the two blobs not so different after all?
#16 - Extreme Chode
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/31/2005
When Commander Adam and his cronies start bragging about their son's athletic prowess, Chode boosts his wavering macho pride by pushing young Whip into competing at the upcoming spaceboard competition. But what starts out as fun for Whip turns sour when Chode turns into the ultimate hardass coach in a bit to win at any cost.
#17 - Tragically Whip
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/2008
While the others are being scammed and brainwashed, Whip is out drinking, doing hard drugs and sowing his wild oats with a bunch of like-minded horny teenagers. Only Gus can pull Whip out of his self-induced state of bliss in order to help him bring the crew safely home. But what’s a lecherous lizard to do, have a screw or screw the crew?
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#18 - Santa Clownza
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/21/2005
Desperate for a little R&R, Chode takes the crew to his favorite getaway on Gulibus 4, and off-season bargain planet offering half-priced suites, all-you-can-eat buffets, and bargain basement prostitutes. But when they arrive, the hotel is booked up, the buffet is sold out, and Chode quickly realizes his trip has been ruined by "Santa Clownza", a bogus over-commercialized holiday deviced by his archenemy, Darph Bobo.
#19 - Cool Whip
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/27/2005
Whip inadvertently takes control of Jupiter 42, and crash lands the ship on the lush planet of Kraven. Just one glimpse of the teenaged lizard whips adoring fans into a frenzy; the king proclaims a holiday, and the allure of instant stardom goes right to Whip's head. but his friends make a gruesome discovery; a trophy room filled with stuffed lizard heads - with one empty plaque awaiting its next victim.
#20 - Battle of the Bulge
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/2008
When Chode’s libido fails to “rise to the occasion”, he tries various ways to correct the problem, including doing the nasty with Six in public. Unfortunately, their escapades on the control panel end with the ship accidentally firing lasers at a death star. The expanding star threatens to destroy all in its path. Can the crew save the day or will this really be, “Chode’s last stand”?
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#21 - Aliens, Guns and a Monkey
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/13/2004
While on a mission to sell the prized Monkey Diamond, the crew crash lands on the planet Harmonia, rumored to be the most peaceful planet in the galaxy. Once on Harmonia, it becomes clear that the rumors are't true - Harmonia is a planet whose inhabitants make the NRA look like Tibetan monks. Worse, the mayor of the planet is in a war with his peacenik son. Can the crew fix their ship and escape the planet without getting caught in the crossfire?
#22 - God is Our Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/4/2004
Chode and Gus decide to take their vacation at the beginning of time. When the first attempt fails, they steal the spacecraft and drive it themselves, and kill God in the process! However, upon their return to their present-day lives, they find that the absence of God has resulted in a world of peace and harmony. How long can Chode stand living in a "perfect" world?
#23 - 2001 Space Idiocies
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/15/2004
Chode is enlisted by a mysterious figure to implant a huge monolith on the planet Kubrickia. Turns out that Darph Bobo (the mysterious figure) is using the monolith as a Trojan Horse of sorts to enslave the Kubrickians and plunder the planet's gold. An incensed Six convinces Chode that they must follow the Prime Directive and leave primitive people in peace. The crew (minus Whip, who is left alone on the ship) set forth to free the Kubrickians without the Dark Clowns discovering their plans.
#24 - Mutilation Ball
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/11/2004
The crew is enlisted by the Confederation to kidnap Malik, a sports superstar who retired from the game of Mutilation Ball (a fast-paced but violent sport where players use chainsaws to disable their opponents), and bring him into the big game as a ringer. The crew then kidnaps Malak and brings him back to the ship, where T'Nuk inadvertently kills him - only to find out that he is a robot! Now they must find the real Malak and get him into the big game before the Confederation finds out.
#25 - The Son also Rises
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/20/2007
Chode reluctantly becomes the caregiver to a child he fathered many moons before. Not known for his paternal qualities, he must now be a role model for his newly acquired son. But typical of something that sprung from Chode’s loins, is his off spring a little bastard in more ways than one?
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