History WesternAnimation / TrippingTheRift

''Tripping The Rift'' is a computer-animated sci-fi parody created by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen (of [[Comicbook/XMen "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.

* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Chode.
** TheLancer: Gus.
** TheBigGuy: T'Nuk
** TheSmartGuy[=/=]TheChick: Six
** TagalongKid: Whip

* TheGambler: One of Chode's many vices.

* {{Gainaxing}}: ANY female with a noticeable chest (which is pretty much ''every female on the show''), but Six is the one who is noticed the most.

* {{Mooks}}: Clown Troopers.

%%* {{Satan}}

* {{Expy}}: Darph Bobo is an Expy of [[StarWars Darth Vader]].

* RealityEnsues: The devil's contract for Chode's soul is rendered void because he signed it under duress, regardless of whether the event of the duress really happened or not.

%%* NotSoDifferent: Chode and Philbrick.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: the villains are outright evil, but the heroes are morally ambiguous at best if not full AntiHero.

* UglyGuysHotDaughter: In "Miss Galaxia 5000" Darth Bobo is revealed to have an actractive teenage daughter.

* TheReptilians: Whip, who looks like a giant chameleon.

* TripleNipple: T'nuk has three breasts.

* 419Scam: The plot for "The Need For Greed" kicks off when Six recieves a hefty inheritance from someone claiming to be her creator's second cousin once-removed. At the end, after she gives it to Chode, who wires the necessary jurisdictional inheritance transfer fees, the crew catches on when Chode mentions that said fees were sent to Nigeria.

%%* HetIsEw: One episode had a planet with this as its [[PlanetOfHats hat]].

* BeautyContest: "Miss Galaxy 5000" is a intergalactic beuty contest.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: the villains are outright evil, but the heroes are morally ambiguos at best if not full AntiHero.

** 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 trying to compensate for reluctantly enjoying his time as a prison sex slave.

'''Gus:''' The trans-digital freon converter.\\

* TheReptilians: Whip, who looks like a giant chamaleon.

'''Hal:''' Nothing, I'm a computerprogram that refuses to do anything.\\

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

** Gus is an Expy of C-3PO. To really nail it in, his vacuum cleaner in the opening looks like R2-D2.

%%* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Whip in "Cool Whip"

* RapeAsBackstory: Six time as SexSlave among the Clowns as she prefer to die than return.

* TakeThat: "Did anyone care that they canceled ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]''?" (One of the {{Couch Gag}}s.)

-->'''Hal:''' Nothing, I'm a computerprogram that refuses to do anything.\\
-->'''T'nuk:''' Be careful, it sounds' like it's from Microsoft.

* GrayAndBlackMorality: the villains are outright evil, but the heroes are morally ambiguos at best if not full AntiHero.

%%* HelloNurse: Surprise, surprise; Six.

* ExposedExtraterrestrial: Chode always walks around naked, which Six points out once.

%%* AllCGICartoon

%%* BeautyContest: "Miss Galaxy 5000".
%%* BigBad: Darph Bobo.

%%* FantasticVoyagePlot - the season 2 episode, "Honey, I Shrunk the Crew"

%%* GrayAndBlackMorality: And barely that.

%%* MindOverMatter: Darph Bobo in 'Chode & Bobo's High School Reunion' which is parodying ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''.
%%* MsFanservice: Six is literally made of this trope.

%%* {{Mooks}}: Clown Troopers.

%%* RoswellThatEndsWell: "Roswell" is about the Jupiter 42 crew and a bickering Grey couple accidentally thrown back in time to 1942, where they crashed in Roswell, New Mexico.

%%* {{Sexbot}}: Six.

%%* TheSlacker: Whip.

%%* TransparentCloset: Gus.

%%* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Chode.