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Season 1

  • S01E01 God is Our Pilot

    • March 4, 2004
    • SYFY

    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?

  • S01E02 Mutilation Ball

    • March 11, 2004
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S01E03 Miss Galaxy 5000

    • March 18, 2004
    • SYFY

    Chode enters the reluctant Six in a beauty pageant with a million dollar payoff. Darph Bobo enters his daughter Babette in the same contest. All's fair in love, war, and beauty - until contenstants are not-so-mysteriously killed off, one by one.

  • S01E04 2001 Space Idiocies

    • April 15, 2004
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S01E05 Sidewalk Soiler

    • March 25, 2004
    • SYFY

    When Bob's cloaking device malfunctions, the crew decides to beam down to the squeaky-clean, morally pristine planet Snozzle to pick up a reconditioned device. They realize too late that Darph Bobo; who, knowing Chode's penchant for littering, has set a trap whereby Chode is immediately arrested and put on trial for littering has lured them to the planet. The sentence? Death! Can Chode escape the wrath of Snozzillians?

  • S01E06 Power to the Peephole

    • April 22, 2004
    • SYFY

    While in the midst of a turbulent plasma storm, Chode decides to escape his boredom by beaming the crew down to the planet Florida 7 aka "the Spring Break" planet. While there, Chode is engaged by a shady Presidential candidate to help undermine his "Mr. Perfect" opponent. But as it turns out, "Mr. Perfect" isn't quite what he appears to be.

  • S01E07 Totally Recalled

    • April 8, 2004
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S01E08 Nature vs Nurture

    • May 6, 2004
    • SYFY

    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?

  • S01E09 Aliens, Guns and a Monkey

    • May 13, 2004
    • SYFY

    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?

  • S01E10 Love Conquers All… Almost

    • May 27, 2004
    • SYFY

    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?

  • S01E11 The Devil and a Guy Named Webster

    • April 1, 2004
    • SYFY

    The ship is hurtling toward a black hole, and death is imminent! Suddenly, the Devil appears on the ship and Chode unwittingly sells him his soul to save the lives of his crew. when T'Nuk remembers the famous case "The Devil"

  • S01E12 Emasculating Chode

    • May 20, 2004
    • SYFY

    Chode is "The Man" - or so he thinks until a battle with Bobo leaves him with one tentacle cut off. Now Chode considers himself less of a man that even Gus, and his timing couldn't be worse - Bobo has kidnapped Whip!

  • S01E13 Android Love

    • June 3, 2004
    • SYFY

    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?

Season 2

  • S02E01 You Wanna Put That Where?

    • July 27, 2005
    • SYFY

    When he finds a spilled load of G-Y Jelly in space, enterprising Chode tries to sell it at Governor McJersey's Annual Back Room Ball on the gay planet, Fabulous Heaven. But when Chode and Six get caught having forbidden hetero-sex at the gay affair, they're hauled off to jail.

  • S02E02 Cool Whip

    • July 27, 2005
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S02E03 Honey, I Shrunk the Crew

    • August 3, 2005
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S02E04 Ghost Ship

    • August 10, 2005
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S02E05 Benito's Revenge

    • August 17, 2005
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S02E06 All For None

    • August 24, 2005
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S02E07 Extreme Chode

    • August 31, 2005
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S02E08 Roswell

    • September 14, 2005
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S02E09 Santa Clownza

    • September 21, 2005
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S02E10 Chode & Bobo's High School Reunion

    • September 28, 2005
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S02E11 Creaturepalooza

    • October 5, 2005
    • SYFY

    When Commander Adam's jet goes down on Vitalius 4, his wife Nancy implants a nonobot parasite in Chode's head and threatens it will eat his brain if he doesn't bring adam back in 24 hours. Armed with a ticking "Death" watch, and a PDA to track Adam's life signal, Chode and the crew arrive on Vitalius 4 - a planet renowned for its heinous creatures.

  • S02E12 Chode's Near Death Experience

    • October 12, 2005
    • SYFY

    When a near death experience brings him face-to-face with the Devil, Chode vows to change his vile ways. True to his word, he's kind to his wary shipmates and not even his archenemy Darph Bobo can get a rise out of him. But when he prepares to meet an enemy clown ship as if he were greeting a new friend, it turns out Bobo is at the helm of the ship - and he intends to blow Chode's ass out of the sky.

  • S02E13 Six, Lies and Videotape

    • October 19, 2005
    • SYFY

    T'Nuk plots to break Six out of jail after the sexy cyborg is thrown into the slammer on an unidentified charge. But in a case of mistaken identity, T'Nuk escapes with her friend's identical vissitor, Haffa Dozen, the career stripper that Six was modeled on. Everyone is happy to have 'Six' back on board - and no one is more relieved or ready for sex than Chode. But Haffa's only interested in stealing the ship's precious cache of Dilithium Crystals.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Chode Eraser

    • September 6, 2007
    • SYFY

    Chode impregnates Babbette, Darth Bobo's daughter, and her mother sends a Terminator-like clown-bot into the past to kill Chode before he impregnates her.

  • S03E02 Skankenstein

    • September 13, 2007
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S03E03 To Ebay or not to Ebay

    • September 20, 2007
    • SYFY

    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?

  • S03E04 23 ½

    • October 11, 2007
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S03E05 Chuckles Bites the Dust

    • October 18, 2007
    • SYFY

    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.

  • S03E06 The Need for Greed

    • October 25, 2007
    • SYFY

    Six inherits a fortune and her loving crewmates all set about getting their grubby hands on it as soon as possible. Chode is the only one of them with the goodies to interest her in an exchange: the Captaincy of the ship. And faster than one can say “Nigerian internet scam”, Six is in charge and making everyone’s life a misery.

  • S03E07 Hollow Chode

    • November 1, 2007
    • SYFY

    A carnival gypsy puts a curse on Chode and he becomes invisible. Despite his enjoying the perks that invisibility brings, the effect doesn’t stop there and Chode`s condition progresses to not having existed at all. Despite always saying that they all could see through Chode, the crew set about trying to reverse the curse. And it’s a race against time. Meanwhile, Bernice has grown quite fond of her “Phallic Phantom”.

  • S03E08 Raiders of the Lost Crock of @#!

    • November 8, 2007
    • SYFY

    Down on planet Pyritia, Chode and Gus obtain a medallion that will supposedly lead them to a treasure beyond their wildest dreams. But it’s all a hoax fabricated by the villainous Pyritians who enslave them and force them to search for the actual key to said treasure. It’s up to Chode’s cunning and Gus’ metal to get them out of another tight spot.

  • S03E09 Witness Protection

    • December 13, 2007
    • SYFY

    The Confederation is after Darph Bobo big time and Chode is the only one who can finger him and send him to the slammer. But Chode has to survive Bobo’s death attempts long enough to testify at the trial so he’s placed in a witness protection program. Too bad for him he ends up in a neighbourhood full of horny housewives. In order to avoid Bobo he has to lie low and keep his head down, and to achieve that his head certainly shouldn’t be any lower than a housewife’s hotplate.

  • S03E10 The Son also Rises

    • December 20, 2007
    • SYFY

    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?

  • S03E11 Extreme Take-Over

    • December 27, 2007
    • SYFY

    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!

  • S03E12 Battle of the Bulge

    • January 3, 2008
    • SYFY

    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”?

  • S03E13 Tragically Whip

    • January 10, 2008
    • SYFY

    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?