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Tripping the Rift - The Complete First Season, a DVD boxed set featuring all 13 episodes from the first season of the animated comedy will be released on October 25th 2005. Tripping the Rift currently airs on the Sci-Fi Channel and is the saga of five misfits who live, work and play on the starship Jupiter 42. A starship controlled by the neurotic AI Spaceship Bob. Aboard the ship are verbally abusive pilot T’Nuk, Gus the melancholoy robotic chief engineer; teen slacker Whip and sexy andriod Six. This group of screwups is overseen by Captain Chode who hates his crew as much as they hate him.

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Features on the Tripping The Rift: The Complete First Season DVD set include:

Disc One: • Original Full-frame Presentation • Episode Titles: God Is Our Pilot; Mutilation Ball; Miss Galaxy 5000;2001 Space Idiocies; Sidewalk Soiler

Disc Two: • Original Full-frame Presentation • Episode Titles: Power to the Peephole; Totally Recalled; Nature Vs. Nuture Vs. Chode; Aliens, Guns And A Monkey

Disc Three: • Original Full-frame Presentation • Character Gallery • Artwork Gallery • Teleplays ( DVD -ROM) • Episode Titles: Love Conquers All…Er, Almost; The Devil & A Guy Named Webster; Emasculating Chode; Android Love Produced by CineGroup in association with IDT Entertainment, Tripping The Rift started its galactic journey to the airwaves as an award-winning short film, first airing on the Sci-Fi Channel series “Exposure.” Created by Chuck Austen and Chris Moeller (both veterans of the Fox animated series “King Of The Hill”), Tripping The Rift also taps the perverse humor of head writers Lanier Laney & Terry Sweeney (formerly of “Saturday Night Live” and “MadTV”). The voice cast is equally twisted, featuring Stephen Root ( Office Space and Dodgeball: A Love Story ) as the officious Captain Chode, Gina Gershon ( Showgirls ) as the oversexed android Six and “Stuttering” John Melendez (“The Howard Stern Show”) as the high-strung Spaceship Bob .