History WesternAnimation / TrippingTheRift

* {{Flanderization}} - A little bit with Six, but the biggest example here, is Gus. He went from being a not-exceptionally-masculine bot with some ambiguously gay tendencies to his stereotypically gay characteristics being the sole definition of his character, kinda like the Larry 3000 on ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'', only not as toned down, since ''Tripping The Rift'' isn't a children's cartoon.

* ArtEvolution: Season 3 looks a bit more realistic and the [[AnimationBump animation more natural]] than the previous two.

* BiggerThanJesus: In the episode "Cool Whip", Whip becomes an instant celebrity on a planet where the king proclaims him "Bigger than Jesus" but not Music/TheBeatles. [[spoiler:Though he learns that he is [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame going to be hunted]] and mounted.]]

'''Chode:''' (Sheepishly)Yeah.\\

* DecapitationPresentation: [[spoiler:In "God Is Our Co-Pilot", Six beheads T'Nuk in the Godless reality.]]

* FrenchMaidOutfit: In one episode, T'Nuk forced Six to wear one while serving her.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's either "T'Nuk" or "T'nuk".

* {{Bandito}}: One episode has a group of Mexican freedom fighters helping Jupiter 42 crew.

%%* TheFederation

* GodIsEvil - Well... a grade-A {{Jerkass}} at any rate. And usually towards Chode and his crew.

%%* TheGreys

%%* RoswellThatEndsWell

* TakeThat: "Did anyone care that they canceled ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]''?"

* DecapitationPresentation: [[spoiler:In "God Is Our Co-Pilot", Six beheads T'Nuk.]]

* GodIsEvil - Well... a grade-A {{Jerkass}} at any rate.
* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks - To Chode at least. They don't want him in Heaven or Hell, so they each try to get him to go to the opposite side. To be fair, it's Chode we are talking about..

%%* TheMonolith: "2001 Space Idiocies".

%%* MindOverMatter: Darph Bobo in 'Chode & Bobo's High School Reunion' which is parodying ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}''.

%%* MindOverMatter: Darph Bobo in 'Chode & Bobo's High School Reunion' which is parodying ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''.

%%* MindOverMatter: Darph Bobo in 'Chode & Bobo's High School Reunion' which is parodying ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}''.

%%* MindOverMatter: Darph Bobo in 'Chode & Bobo's High School Reunion' which is parodying ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''.

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%%* MindOverMatter: Darph Bobo in 'Chode & Bobo's High School Reunion' which is parodying {{Carrie}}.

* RealityEnsues: The devil's contract for Chode's soul is rendered void because he signed it under duress, and it's still voided when the devil reveals he fabricated the hole event.

''Tripping The Rift'' is a computer-animated sci-fi parody created by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen (of [[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} "The Draco"]] infamy) in 1998 as a short film released on the Internet. The film gained popularity, especially after being shown on the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]], and was made into a television series in 2004 featuring a group of smugglers trying to scrape a living while going perilous adventures.

** Chode also mentions in other episodes that he's been a prison bitch more than once, which explains why he's such a perverted sexhound for females since he's secretly try to compensate for reluctantly enjoying his time as a prison sex slave.

* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks - To Chode at least. They don't want him in Heaven and Hell, so they each try to get him to go to the opposite side. To be fair, it's Chode we are talking about..

* HenpeckedHusband: Darph Bobo and Commander Adam. So much so that they'd rather fight a war with each other than spend time at home with their wives.

'''Six:''' And frankly, the God I pray to doesn't need acne medicine and chronically masturbate.

''Tripping The Rift'' is a computer-animated sci-fi parody created by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen (of [[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} "The Draco"]] infamy) in 1998 as a short film released on the Internet. The film gained popularity, especially after being shown on the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]], and was made into a television series in 2004.

* CrapsackWorld: The general setting is that known space is politically divided between two superpowers: the Confederation (led by Humans, and a parody of the Federation from Star Trek) and the Dark Clown Empire (a parody of the Galactic Empire from Star Wars). The Dark Clown Empire is a totalitarian, tyrannical police state, led by the evil Darph Bobo. In contrast, the Confederation is technically a democratic society, but in practice, is dominated by mega-corporations and bloated bureaucracies. Ultimately, both superpowers end up exploiting and restricting their inhabitants, albeit in different ways. The value placed on life is so commercialized in the Confederation that clearly sentient robots and androids are reduced to essentially slave-status. The Dark Clown Empire practices actual slavery, and while the Confederation does not, most of its inhabitants (including the Human ones) are openly described as living in wage slavery. The only place that anyone can truly be free is in the border region between the two superpowers, which is directly controlled by neither. This borderland is known as "the Rift", hence those outlaws (like the main characters) on the fringes of society who cling to their freedom by moving back and forth around the Confederation/Dark Clown Empire border to evade detection are said to be "Tripping the Rift".

%%* TheEmpire

* {{Expy}}: Darph Bobo is an Expy of [[StarWars Darth Vader]]
** Darph Bobo's Clown Troopers are Expy's of the Stormtroopers while the name is a play on clone troopers

%%* MonsterClown: Darph Bobo and everyone else in the Clown Federation.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Six in "Power to the Peephole", where she gets reprogrammed by Candidate George Goodfella and turned into his brainless sex slave.

''Tripping The Rift'' is a computer-animated sci-fi parody created by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen (of [[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} "The Draco"]] infamy) in 1998 as a short film released on the Internet. The film gained popularity, especially after being shown on the SciFiChannel, and was made into a television series in 2004.

* {{Flanderization}} - A little bit with Six, but the biggest example here, is Gus. He went from being a not-exceptionally-masculine bot with some ambiguously gay tendencies to his stereotypically gay characteristics being the sole definition of his character, kinda like the Larry 3000 on ''TimeSquad'', only not as toned down, since ''Tripping The Rift'' isn't a children's cartoon.