Emasculating Chode

Emasculating Chode

May 20, 2004 TV Episode Tripping the Rift

Studio
CinéGroupe, Film Roman Productions, CHUM Television
Distributor
Ciné-Groupe Corporation

Synopsis

Captain's Log: Whip's sixteenth birthday and umpteenth hissy fit.

Like every other punk-ass kid I've ever met, Whip dissed the present I gave him for his sixteenth birthday. (What self-respecting teenager doesn't want a paint-by-numbers kit? Sheesh.) He slouched off to his room to sulk, then opened a spam e-mail from Darph Bobo. My old Dark Clown nemesis yanked Whip through his computer, all the way to some dirtball planet ? where Bobo strung him up over a vat of flesh-eating Melties and gave me a call.

Bobo insisted that I beam down to a precise point on the planet's surface. Yeah... like that wasn't a trap. Not being an idiot, I beamed in above Bobo and pummeled him with my toned physique. We fought an epic battle, and ? just as I was about to jam his floppy shoes right up his flabby backside ? he cheated and sliced off one of my tentacles. Cackling like a mental patient, he scooped it up, grabbed Whip, and escaped.

Sure, I went through a period of minor depression after losing one of my male appendages. What red-blooded he-man wouldn't? Besides, I was really using all that time in my room to... uh... formulate a plan. I let T'Nuk take command for a while because I... um... wanted Six and Gus to appreciate me more when I returned. No, better answer: I wanted to teach them a lesson. Look, it doesn't really matter, okay? And I wasn't impotent, so don't even think it; when Six stopped by in her French maid's outfit to cheer me up with sex, I only kicked her out because I was... uh... meditating.

Soon, with an added boost of confidence (courtesy of the Tentacle Club for Men) and coordinates to Bobo's home planet (obtained from Whip's frantic long-distance call for help), I was ready to rescue my real tentacle... and also Whip (as long as he was somewhere nearby and didn't make me look too hard to find him).

After Bob raced us to Bobo's world, Gus and I disguised ourselves as Dark Clowns and waltzed right into the middle of a freakish orgy at Bobo's house. (Yechh. I can never find a bottle of Pepto-Bismol when I need one.)

Just as Bobo was about to show off my severed tentacle to his sweaty guests, I intentionally let him figure out who I was (clever, eh?), then intentionally sneezed off my replacement tentacle so he would know I meant business. As for what happened next, I have witnesses: I kicked Bobo's ass and whacked off two-thirds of his oh-so-manly clown hair. Then I beamed out, along with Gus, Whip and my rescued tentacle.

My purple pride is reattached now and I'm feelin' fine, thanks for asking. Plus I got Whip a new present: booze, cigarettes and a gift certificate for some top-notch whorin'. Best of all, for some wussbag teen reason, he turned it all down, so now it's all mine.

Who's da man? I'm da man!

Characters

Six, Chode, Gus, T'Nuk, Whip, Spaceship Bob, Darph Bobo, Adam, Ms. Bobo, Bobo

Credits

Directing

Director
Bernie Denk

Producing

Producer
Daniele Joubert, Andrew Makarewicz

Writing

Writer
Dode B. Levenson
Story Editors
Bill Rosenthal, Andrew Borakove

Animation

Animator
Bernie Denk

Voices

Voice
Gina Gershon (Six), Stephen Root (Chode), Maurice LaMarche (Gus), Gayle Garfinkle (T'Nuk), Rick Jones (Whip), "Stuttering" John Melendez (Spaceship Bob), Terence Scammel (Darph Bobo, Adam), Cathy Weseluck (Ms. Bobo), Lee Tockar (Bobo), Matt Hill

Music

Music
Mario Sevigny

Editing

Editor
Thomas Gill, Martin Briand

Production notes

A humorous and sexy send-up of all things SF, following the adventures of The Free Enterprise, a smuggling vessel led by a stumpy purple alien named Chode, who, along with his colorful group of misfit shipmates, battles arch-enemies and new obstacles in space each week.

Chode's crew includes Six, a sexy cyborg who happens to be the most advanced android ever created; Gus, Chode's sexually confused and verbally abused robot slave; T'Nuk, the ship's esthetically challenged pilot; and Whip, Chode's teenage slacker nephew. Spaceship Bob is the fastest ship in the galaxy.

3D animation.

The Sci-Fi Channel's first-ever original animated series.

Based on a Web short film of the same name, which debuted on Level13.net in November 1999, and which won the grand prize in the Playboy Animation Contest in 2000.