CGI sci-fi comedy series set in universe divided between Confederation and Dark Clown Empire. Follows outlaw group led by Chode aboard Spaceship Bob evading both powers while pursuing schemes in lawless "Rift" border region.
Chode and Gus take a time travel trip to the beginning of creation and mess up the nature of the universe.
The Confederation forces Chode and the crew to kidnap former Mutilation Game star Malak and bring him out of retirement for a game against the Dark Clowns.
Chode enters Six in the Miss Galaxy 5000 pageant after getting himself instated as one of the judges (as Fritz Feltchman). Darph Bobo has also gotten himself a judge's pass (as Marvin Wankerstein) and enters his daughter Babette as a contestant. Even T'Nuk enters, coached by Gus. When contestants end up being murdered, evidence incriminates Six (though the murder weapons are all clown related).
Just before beaming down to the planet Snozzle, an irresistible packet of Clownzooka Chew-n-Spit gum materializes at Chode's feet. When he spits out the gum planet-side, he is immediately arrested for soiling the sidewalk and sentenced to be electrocuted on live pay TV.
Chode takes the Devil to court.
Gus is recalled by Baltar Industries and replaced by a new Gus XP model while Chode's grandpa Benito comes to visit.
Chode is hired to place a giant monolith on the primitive planet of the Kubrickians. When it turns out to be a scheme by Darph Bobo to enslave the planet, Six convinces Chode to go back. The fact that the planet houses a heap load of gold also helps to sway Chode's greedy little mind.
Having been trapped in a plasma storm for nine days, the Jupiter 42 crew takes a holiday detour to Floridia 7 (a.k.a. the "Spring Break Planet") and are immediately forced by Dark Clown presidential candidate Klak Klownman to find and/or fabricate some dirt on his Confederation opponent, George Goodfellow.
On the run from Darph Bobo, Chode meets the twin he never knew he had, King Regis Philbrick, ruler of the planet Moldavia. Naturally the two of them swap places.
With Bob critically damaged, Chode crash lands the Jupiter 42 on the extremely violent planet Harmonia VII and goes in search of replacement parts.
Darph Bobo kidnaps Whip, then slices off one of Chode's tentacles during a lightsaber duel. Feeling like he's lost his masculinity, Chode retreats into his quarters leaving Whip, Bobo's slave, and T'Nuk in charge of the ship.
Chode steals T'Nuk's idea to win a peace prize (and a million Kronigs reward) by hooking up Darph Bobo's daughter Babette with Commander Adam's son Adam 12 so the war between the Confederation and the Dark Clowns would have come to an end. Naturally the two commanding officers and their wives strongly disagree.
During girls-night at strip club The Full Moon, Six bumps into Ten, a male sex slave who once saved her live. To help him and his companions escape from bounty hunter Francis Boba Fett III, Six takes off with the Jupiter 42 shuttle called "Surrender Dorothy." An enraged Chode immediately replaces her with a new sex droid, Angel.
Feeling unappreciated, Whip takes control of the ship (thinking he's playing a video game) and soon crash lands on a planet whose entire population seems to worships him.
The crew travels to gay planet Fabulous Heaven to get rid of a stolen shipment of G-Y Jelly. There, Chode is soon thrown in jail for having illegal heterosexual sex with Six.
Darph Bobo finds out his credit card is being used by Chode. He retaliates by taking over the Jupiter 42 and setting it on self destruct. Whip then comes up with a desperate plan to get Bobo's password out of his brain by going in there using his new Inschrinkerator gun.
The Jupiter 42 is out of fuel and has to pass through the Bermuda Quadrant in order to get to a fueling station. On the way they run into the ghost ship USS El Dorado.
Chode's grandpa Benito and a few of his pals have escaped from the Fun City Retirement Home, where the old folks' brainwaves were being used to power an amusement park. Naturally Chode does not believe this, sends them right back and visits 7 ½ Flags.
The crew walks out on Chode and find new jobs on a Cruiseship in space. Meanwhile, Chode hires a group of illegal alien aliens to run the Jupiter 42.
Chode bets his life-long rival Adam Shatner that Whip can beat Adam 12 at the Intergalactic X-Games hoverboard games. If Whip wins, Chode gets Adam's ship. If he loses, Adam gets Six.
When two Alien Greys try to scam Chode into paying for an accident they caused, he escapes through a time warp. This leads both ships to travel back in time and crash land on Earth near the lackluster town of Roswell.
The crew takes a holiday at Gillabus IV and find the entire planet celebrating the holiday of Clownza. Realizing the festivities are part of one of Darph Bobo's schemes, Chode invents his own rival holiday, "Peacester."
At their high school reunion, Chode regains his former status of the King of Cool, Darph Bobo is again the King of Dorks, and T'Nuk the Queen of Bullies.
Commander Adam has crashed on Vitalius IV, a planet inhabited by just about every scifi monster ever created. His wife Nancy forces Chode to go rescue him by injecting an earwig that will consume his brain within 24 hours.
Chode nearly chokes to death on a hamburger and resolves to change his selfish ways. Meanwhile, God and the Devil bet on which one of them will have to take Chode when his time comes.
Six is arrested for several counts of robbery. The real culprit turns out to be Haffa Dozen, the woman Six was modeled after. When T'Nuk goes undercover as a prison guard to break Six out, she mistakes Haffa Dozen for Six.
Babbette Bobo is pregnant, apparently by Chode, so her mother Bernice sends the Arnie 1000 android two months back in time to erase Chode before the deed is consummated.
Chode gets his crew a job as royal bodyguards to the princess of the black and white nation of Slovenia. Despite their presence, the princess falls victim to foul play anyway, so they set about reanimating her in Dr. Skankenstein's long forgotten secret laboratory.
While visiting an online casino, Gus makes some debts. Soon afterwards, all of the least beat up stuff on the Jupiter 42 starts disappearing...
Darph Bobo concocts a convoluted plan to get rid of Chode and Commander Adam at the same time. He kidnaps Six and demands Chode murders Adam within 23.5 minutes. However, Jack Hour of the Alien Terrorist Unit offers to help rescue Six from Intergalactic Airlines flight 69 instead. Once aboard the plane, they find it booby-trapped with deadly snakes.
Darph Bobo's grandfather, Chuckles Schlomo Bobo, has kicked the bucket. One of his last requests is for his arch-nemesis, Benito McBlob to give a eulogy at the funeral. So, it's up to Chode to convince his grandpa to leave the retirement home and say something nice about the man he hated most.
Six receives an email announcing a hefty inheritance. The crew all wants a piece of the action and come up with a mutinous plan to support Six as their captain instead of Chode.
Fortune teller Gypsy Rosaly puts a curse on Chode after he refuses to pay her. Back on the Jupiter 42, Chode has turned invisible and immediately begins to take advantage of the situation. After a while it becomes apparent that the curse is causing Chode to be erased from existence all together.
Chode heads down to the Grope-a-Cabana to "catch some snatch" and takes Gus along. There he acquires a medallion that could lead to the treasure of the Pyridians. Meanwhile, the Jupiter 42 and the remaining ship are locked in a tractor beam.
Commander Adam forces Chode to testify against Darph Bobo in a murder case and puts him in a witness protection program until the trial. Settling down on a suburban planet under the name of "Chance," Chode becomes the object of desire for all the desperate housewives in the neighborhood.
Dinia, an old flame of Chode's, contacts him and informs him of their son, Chode Jr. Soon, Chode is provided custody and has to take the boy on board, giving him Whip's room. Whip has to sleep in the broom closet.
Chode desperately wants to win The Fifty Million Kronig Flaming Colossus Race. Whip proposes to have Spaceship Bob souped up at his friend Sergio's chop shop. Chode also strikes an endorsement deal with Pucker Up hemorrhoid ointment. Things take a turn for the worse when the upgrade installs a virus into Bob's mainframe.
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"?
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?
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