There seems to be much debate on what the word chode means and why it is funny that the captain on Tripping the Rift answers to Chode. The Urban Dictionary has a raging debate of 333 definitions for the term. Most people, meaning those who do not spend all their time engaged in flame wars on UrbanDictionary.com, agree that chode refers literally to the perineum, the location between a gentleman’s scrotum and testicles. In colloquial use, calling someone a chode tends to mean you think they are an unsmooth idiot or at least acting like one. Some men find it comfortable to use various commercially available powders in the chode region in order to prevent chafing. That is all you all need to know about what Stephen Root meant about what a chode is. You can all stop emailing now. Future debate on the definition should be directed to UrbanDictionary. Thank you. (via Urban Dictionary)
Home Media Retailing, the trade magazine for the DVD market, just ran an interesting article about how Stephen Root got involved with Tripping the Rift. Root is probably best known, at least to SexyFandom readers, for his Have you seen my stapler? character in the movie Office Space, but he is one of our most accomplished voice actors. On King of the Hill, he voices regular characters Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland, as well as a variety of additional animated Texans. Root has given sound to cartoons on Kim Possible, Ice Age, American Dad, and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and more. When he saw the five minute demo for Tripping the Rift, he tells HRM, ““I thought it was beautiful,” he said. “They asked, ‘Do you want to play Chode?’ I said, ‘What’s Chode?’ They told me it’s the name of the space between your … ‘Oh, that’s the name of that!’”” Root also told HRM that he is big into sci-fi and enjoyed comic books from the 60′s.
I don’t usually post about the trade magazines I read for my day job, but Home Media Retailing often provides interesting insights into the DVD and related products market. You may also be interested to know that cyperpunk level evil overlord online corporation Netflix is suing cyperpunk level evil overlord brick and mortar corporation Blockbuster to keep them off the internet. (via Home Media Retailing)
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Tonight Sci Fi Channel will be running the You Want to Put That Where? episode of Tripping the Rift. YWTPTW is a sensitive and daring study of how sexual identity can be a personal prison and the power of a really great sexbot to arouse beyond the usual constraints of gender and preference.
How is it possible that the first lucky thirteen episodes of Tripping the Rift came out on DVD a few weeks ago and I failed to mention it? Perhaps because I was not really updating for a little while there or perhaps because the show is not too awfully good. I admit I might be biased because I might know some people who work on the show. It just seems like TTR should be a tremendous show, yet it seems to miss the mark somehow. There is the brainy but nearly naked fembot hottie who looks like she could definitely beat the Svedka Grl in a screw off. There is the hackeresque teen reptile goth boy who masturbates to net porn. There is the fat warty centaur chick with too few teeth and too many breasts. There is the gold robot who makes C3PO seem like an Adam Carolla fan. The arch enemies are alien clowns. The whole thing is presided over by Chode, a short purple alien with tentacles on his head and it is strongly implied that he regularly inserts multiple head tentacles into the aforementioned hottie robobabe. Okay, the show is not as go0d as it should be. The alien clowns would make any good juggalo (not to be confused with juggies) cringe and the plots are beyond lame. But the show is so conceptually funny that it is watchable anyway. You can view the trailer at this link.
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