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Tripping the Rift is a Canadian CGI science fiction comedy television series. It is based on two popular short animations published on the Internet by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen. The series aired on the Canadian speciality channel SPACE: The Imagination Station in 2004. The series is currently airing on Canada's cartoon network TELETOON. The series has been airing on TELETOON since August 2006.

Setting

Space, the future. The universe is modelled mostly after the Star Trek universe, including things such as warp drive, beaming up, occasional time travel, the Confederation and the Vulcans, but with plenty of elements borrowed from other sources.

Characters

* Chode McBlob — (Stephen Root) Chode is a three-eyed, purple alien with green spots, who serves as captain of the smuggling spaceship Jupiter 42. His race believes that one's job should be determined by society and not by the individual. Since he strongly disagrees with this philosophy, he left his home planet as soon as he could. He is fairly stupid and is constantly sexually aroused. Chode was raised by a promiscuous single mother. He has a twin brother, Regis Filbrick, who was adopted at birth and is king of the planet Moldania. His grandfather, Benito, has also appeared.

* Six of Nine (or just Six) — (Gina Gershon season 1, Carmen Electra season 2) Six is a sexy android that was designed as a sex slave. She acts as the ship's science officer, thanks to a programming upgrade by Chode; much to his chagrin, this upgrade has also given her a conscience and sense of decency (in spite of her sexual nature). She often gets the crew out of trouble by using her erotic attributes. Six's name is a parody of Star Trek: Voyager 's Seven of Nine, and the phrase "Six of One, Half a Dozen of the other". Her name is also a parody of 69 - a sexual position. The final episode of the second season revealed that she was modelled after a stripper named "Half a Dozen". Although both Patricia Beckmann and Terry Farrell were listed in the credits of the pilot as Six of One, a small pamphlet included in the Season 1 DVD Box set listed her name as Six of Nine.

* T'nuk — (Gayle Garfinkle) T'nuk is the ill-tempered, triple-breasted, quadrupedal pilot of the ship. Most other characters consider her of grotesque appearance , while she believes herself attractive with a great libido. She was chosen as the pilot because she is particularly good at keeping Spaceship Bob in check. She also acts as cook, and is apparently half owner of the ship.

* Whip — (Rick Jones) Whip is a bipedal alien reptile, and Chode's nephew. He serves as the ship's foreman, though he is rarely seen working, and is an impulsive, horny teenager. As a chameleon, he is able to conceal his appearance and cling to walls.

* Gus — (Maurice LaMarche) Gus is Chode's robot-slave. He is the ship's engineer and is implied to be homosexual (a running joke is that he frequently denies it, often while engaging in extremely homoerotic behavior). Though smarter than those around him, he is forced to serve them, as silicon organisms don't have the same rights as carbon-based ones. He has a cynical attitude due to the many failures he has experienced due to his less intelligent carbon-based bosses' actions. His appearance and voice is a parody of C-3PO, while his personality bears some resemblance to that of Marvin the Paranoid Android (from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

* Spaceship Bob — (John Melendez) Spaceship Bob is the A.I. that controls the ship. He suffers from agoraphobia, and often has panic attacks at inconvenient times. Only T'nuk's insults can snap him out of his panic attacks. He also desires Six.

* Darph Bobo — (Terrence Scammell) Darph Bobo is the supreme Dark Clown. He wants to take over the universe because he was teased as a child. He attended high school with Chode, and the two also spent time in prison together. He has a shrewish wife, Bernice, and a daughter, Babette. Bobo is often seen with his "clown trooper" guards - a direct parody of Storm Troopers. Both his name and outfit are a parody on the Darths of the Star Wars movies.

* Captain Adam — Captain Adam is the captain of a Confederation ship. He resembles Al Gore, has a wife named Nancy and a clone/son named Adam 12. He has been known to blackmail Chode into doing his dirty work. Adam's speech pattern is a parody of James T. Kirk, who was played by William Shatner. Adam 12 is a reference to Adam-12, the police-themed television show; presumably this is a sideways reference to the police-themed television show T. J. Hooker, which starred William Shatner as the title character.