Title:
Tripping The Rift: Second Season Premiere: “You Wanna Put That Where?”
Starring
The Voices Of: Stephen Root, Maurice Lamarche, Carmen Electra, John Melendez,
Gayle Garfinkle, Rick Jones, and Terrence Scammel
Writer:
Dan Berendsen
Created
By: Chuck Austen and Chris Moeller
Director:
Jon Minnis
Executive
Producers: Jacques Pettigrew, Michael Lemire, John Hyde, and Scott Greenberg
Running
Time: 22 minutes without commercials
Media:
SCI FI Channel Original Series (NTSC DVD Screener)
Second
Season Premiere Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at 10pm (ET/PT)
Network:
SCI FI Channel (Check your local cable/satellite listings for channel)
TV
Rating: Not Available At The Time Of Review
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
The
second season premiere of the SCI FI Channel Original CGI animated series
intended for more mature audiences and perhaps of few immature ones too…
“Tripping The Rift” will begin it’s second season as a part of the
original programming under the SCI FI Wednesday banner with an episode that
mixes recent headline news with some sexual sci-fi comedy entitled “You Wanna
Put That Where?” Following a galactic traffic jam due to a misbehaving drunk
Vulcan, the Jupiter 42 crew commandeers crates of lubricant and heads off to the
all-gay planet of Fabulous Heaven to sell it. On Fabulous Heaven, heterosexual
behavior is considered a crime punishable by death, which is what lands Chode
(Stephen Root) and the stacked sexy cyborg Six (Carmen Electra) in jail
awaiting public execution since Chode is too homophobic not to grab a quickie
with Six to reassure himself of his sexuality.
However
the Planetary Governor McJersey is a closet heterosexual and is somewhat
responsible for the predicament Chode and Six are in. It’s up to the rest of
the crew of the Jupiter 42 to set things straight on this gay world in order to
save their comrades. Mildly amusing, “Tripping The Rift” has some cute sight
gags and some funny sophomoric humor, but it is not nearly as clever a mix of
sci-fi and comedy as an animated series like “Futurama.” However more than
any other form of writing, comedy writing is a tough thing to do and then to try
and mix it with a genre like sci-fi is even more difficult so for the series to
be returning for a second season on SCI FI Wednesdays following “Ghost
Hunters” and “Master Blasters” is a testament that they must be doing
something right. This is too risqué for kids, which is why it’s on after
10pm, but for the college crowd and older, “Tripping The Rift” should be fun
when it debuts for it’s second season on Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at 10pm
(ET/PT) on SCI FI.
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Copyright 2005 By Mark A. Rivera
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