Editing Tripping the Rift (section)

==Characters==
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* '''Chode McBlob''' (voiced by [[Stephen Root]]) — The captain of the ship. Chode is a purple, three-eyed [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]] who is described as a street-savvy, strong scoundrel and sex hound. He typically gets his crew to do what he wants through manipulation and threats. Chode is extremely self-centered, selfish, conceited, loathsome, and has total disregard for others. He desires wealth and a better life and is driven by nothing but sex, money and food.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ww38.trippingtherift.tv/|title=trippingtherift.tv|website=ww38.trippingtherift.tv|access-date=Oct 16, 2019|archive-date=October 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006090526/http://ww38.trippingtherift.tv/|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to the Sci Fi website, Six is his "sometimes-lover." His twin brother, Philbrick, is the king of planet Moldavia 5.
* '''Six of One''' (voiced by Patricia Beckmann and [[Terry Farrell (actress)|Terry Farrell]] in the pilot (two versions), [[Gina Gershon]] in season 1, [[Carmen Electra]] in season 2 and [[Jenny McCarthy]] in season 3) — The ship's science officer. Six is an intelligent [[gynoid]] who was first designed as a sex robot, but was later given a conscience and a sense of decency thanks to a programming upgrade by Chode. She often gets the crew out of trouble by using either her smarts or her skills in bed. The final episode of the second season revealed that she was modeled after a stripper named "Haffa Dozen" (voiced by [[Patty Hearst]]), who later switched to a life of crime. Six's name is a play on the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' character [[Seven of Nine]] and the phrase "[[Wiktionary:six of one, half a dozen of the other|six of one, half a dozen of the other]]."
* '''T'Nuk Layor''' (voiced by Gayle Garfinkle) — T'Nuk is the ship's ill-tempered, triple-breasted, quadrupedal, amorous [[pilot (harbour)|pilot]] and cook. While most of the other characters consider her as grotesquely unattractive as she is unpleasant, she is considered attractive on her (unknown) home planet. She was chosen as the pilot because she is skilled at keeping the Spaceship Bob in check. Her name is based on the word ''nuclear'', while her name spelled backwards says ''Royal Kunt''.
* '''Whip''' (voiced by [[Rick Jones (voice actor)|Rick Jones]]) — Whip is a green, teenage [[Reptilian humanoid|reptilian]] and Chode's dim-witted nephew. He serves as the ship's foreman, though he is rarely seen working and prefers to slack off. He is typically impulsive.
* '''Gus''' (voiced by Chris Moeller in the pilot, [[Maurice LaMarche]] in the series) — Gus is Chode's robot servant. He is the ship's engineer and is implied by the others to be [[homosexual]] (a running joke, he frequently denies his sexuality, often while engaging in stereotypical homosexual behavior). Though smarter than those around him, he is forced to serve them, as [[silicon]] organisms like him don't have the same rights as [[carbon]]-based life. He has a cynical and sarcastic attitude, resulting from 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]] (in the opening credits, as he uses a vacuum cleaner shaped like [[R2-D2]]).
* '''Spaceship Bob''' (voiced by [[John Melendez]]) — Bob is the [[Artificial intelligence|A.I.]] that controls the spacecraft ''Jupiter 42'' (a reference to ''[[Lost in Space]]'' and possibly ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''). 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, even though she says they're just friends. Bob is a parody of [[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']]'s [[Hal 9000]]. In fact, in one episode, a Hal program takes over the spaceship, impeding their actions as he is a computer program that "refuses to do anything".
* '''Darph Bobo''' (voiced by Chris Moeller in the pilot, [[Terrence Scammell (Canadian actor)|Terrence Scammell]] in the series) — Darph Bobo is the supreme leader of the Dark Clown Empire. He wants to take over the universe because he was teased as a child (mostly by Chode). He attended high school with Chode, and the two also spent time in prison together.<!-- from the teaser short --> He has a belittling wife, Bernice, and two daughters, the teenager Babette and an unnamed younger child. Bobo is often seen with his "clown trooper" guards - a parody of [[Imperial stormtrooper|Storm Troopers]], while the name is a play on [[clone trooper]]s. His creepy clown appearance looks similar to [[Pennywise (character)|Pennywise]] from ''[[It (novel)|It]]'', while both his name and outfit are a parody of the [[Darth]]s from the ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies, as is his desire to construct a "Death Orb", a deadly battle station, which is a parody of the [[Death Star]].
* '''Captain Adam Francis Shatner''' (also called Commander Adam) — Captain Adam is the captain of a Confederation ship. He has a domineering wife, Nancy, and a cloned son named Adam 12. He has been known to [[blackmail]] Chode into doing his dirty work. Adam's halting and exaggerated speech pattern is a parody of [[William Shatner]]'s portrayal of [[James T. Kirk]]. Adam 12 is a reference to ''[[Adam-12]]'', the police-themed television show. A running gag throughout the series is that he and his son each have a very small penis.