Space, the future. The universe is modelled mostly after the Star Trek universe, including things such as warp drive, beaming up, occasional time travel, the Confederation and the Vulcans, but with plenty of elements borrowed from other sources.
Chode McBlob — (Stephen Root) Chode is a three-eyed, purple alien with green spots, who serves as captain of the smugglingspaceshipJupiter 42. His race believes that one's job should be determined by society and not by the individual. Since he strongly disagrees with this philosophy, he left his home planet as soon as he could. He is fairly stupid and is constantly sexually aroused. Chode was raised by a promiscuous single mother. He has a twin brother, Regis Filbrick, who was adopted at birth and is king of the planet Moldania. His grandfather, Benito, has also appeared.
Six of Nine (or just Six) — (Gina Gershon season 1, Carmen Electra season 2) Six is a sexyandroid that was designed as a sex slave. She acts as the ship's science officer, thanks to a programming upgrade by Chode; much to his chagrin, this upgrade has also given her a conscience and sense of decency (in spite of her sexual nature). She often gets the crew out of trouble by using her erotic attributes. Six's name is a parody of Star Trek: Voyager 's Seven of Nine, and the common phrase "Six of One, Half a Dozen of the other". The final episode of the second season revealed that she was modelled after a stripper named "Half a Dozen". [Contrary to popular belief, her name is Six of Nine (69) not Six of One, although both Patricia Beckmann and Terry Ferrell were listed in the credits of the pilot as Six of One. A small pamphlet that is included in the Season 1 DVD Box set lists her name as Six of Nine.]
T'nuk — (Gayle Garfinkle) T'nuk is the ill-tempered, tri-mammaried, quadrupedal pilot of the ship. She has a rather grotesque appearance (though she thinks she's attractive) and a great libido. She was chosen as the pilot because she is particularly good at keeping Spaceship Bob in check. She also acts as cook, and is apparently half owner of the ship.
Whip — (Rick Jones) Whip is a bipedal alien reptile, and Chode's nephew. He serves as the ship's foreman, though he is rarely seen working, and is an impulsive, horny teenager. As a chameleon, he is able to conceal his appearance and cling to walls.
Gus — (Maurice LaMarche) Gus is Chode's robot-slave. He is the ship's engineer and is implied to be homosexual (a running joke is that he frequently denies it, often while engaging in extremely homoerotic behavior). Though smarter than those around him, he is forced to serve them, as silicon organisms don't have the same rights as carbon-based ones. He has a cynical attitude due to 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, while his personality bears some resemblance to that of Marvin the Paranoid Android (from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).
Spaceship Bob — (John Melendez) Spaceship Bob is the A.I. that controls the ship. 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.
Darph Bobo — (Chris Moeller) Darph Bobo is the supreme Dark Clown. He wants to take over the universe because he was teased as a child. He attended high school with Chode, and the two also spent time in prison together. He has a shrewish wife, Bernice, and a daughter, Babette. Bobo is often seen with his "clown trooper" guards - a direct parody of Storm Troopers. Both his name and outfit are a parody on the Darths of the Star Wars movies.
Captain Adam — Captain Adam is the captain of a Confederation ship. He resembles Al Gore, has a wife named Nancy and a clone/son named Adam 12. He has been known to blackmail Chode into doing his dirty work. Adam's speech pattern is a parody of James T. Kirk, who was played by William Shatner. Adam 12 is a reference to Adam-12, the police-themed television show; presumably this is a sideways reference to the police-themed television show T. J. Hooker, which starred William Shatner as the title character.
Episodes
Pilot
Love and Darph
Oh Brother (Teaser)
Season 1
God is Our Pilot
Mutilation Ball
Miss Galaxy 5000
Sidewalk Soiler
The Devil and a Guy Named Webster
Totally Recalled
2001 Space Idiocies
Power to the Peephole
Nature vs. Nurture
Aliens, Guns & A Monkey
Emasculating Chode
Love Conquers All...Almost
Android Love
Season 2
Cool Whip
You Wanna Put That Where?
Honey, I Shrunk the Crew
Ghost Ship
Benito's Revenge
All for None
Extreme Chode
Roswell
Santa Clownza
Chode and Bobo's High School Reunion
Creaturepalooza
Chode's Near-Death Experience
Six, Lies and Videotape
International broadcasting
The show aired on Space: The Imagination Station in Canada and Sci Fi Channel in the United States in March 2004. Sky One began airing the show in the United Kingdom in early 2005. Space and the Sci Fi Channel and aired the second season in the fall of 2005. In Latin American it appeared on Adultswim. Reruns of the show now air in Canada on Teletoon. Both seasons are now available on DVD in North America.
Future production
In November of 2006 it was announced that a third season was under production. [1] Voice actor Stephen Root has indicated that plans are under way for a feature film version of the series. [2]
Trivia
In one of the original short films made for the Internet, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine alumna Terry Farrell provided the voice of Six. Originally, this film short featured Patricia Beckmann as the voice of Six and was subsequently replaced by Farrell's voice for an episode of the Sci-Fi Channel's short film series Exposure in which Farrell was guest host. Farrell's version of Six was heard only once on television.
In the opening sequence, Gus is seen using a vacuum cleaner that looks and sounds like R2-D2, Whip flies a remote-controlled model of the Enterprise, and there is a view of the back of T'Nuk's chair that resembles the black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bob the computer utters a different phrase in each opening sequence (as Darph Bobo threatens the ship), including on one occasion referencing voice actor John Melendez's recent appointment as announcer for The Tonight Show.
Terry Sweeney (Saturday Night Live's first [and so far only] openly homosexual writer and castmember) and his partner, Lanier Laney, are credited as story editors and creative consultants.
Several runs of the D.V.D. box set include stickers stating that the material is uncensored, however, much of the show is the same as the censored, syndicated run.
The name Six may be a joke in itself as 6 in Latin is sex.
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