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September 6, 1997 (1997-09-06) – August 29, 1998 (1998-08-29)
Release
May 20, 2005 (2005-05-20) – May 12, 2006 (2006-05-12)
Space Goofs (French: Les Zinzins de l'Espace) is a French animated series that was produced by Gaumont Multimedia for its first season and Xilam for its second season, produced for France 3, and broadcast on that network from September 6, 1997 to May 12, 2006. The first season was also on Fox Kids in the United States from 1997-2000, while the second only aired internationally.
The series also served as the basis of an adventure game, developed by Xilam themselves and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows and Sega Dreamcast called Stupid Invaders in 2000 – which was dedicated to its co-creator, Jean-Yves Raimbaud. In contrast to the original show, it featured plenty of toilet humor and slightly more crude, adult content. It also was the first work produced by Xilam to be made for an older audience – the others being the adult animated movies, I Lost My Body and Kaena: The Prophecy, as well as another series, Mr. Baby.
Plot
Five extraterrestrials from the fictitious planet Zigma B, Candy H. Caramella, Etno Polino, Bud Budiovitch, Gorgious Klatoo and Stereo Monovici go on a picnic together in space. However, their spaceship crashes into an asteroid, and they fall to planet Earth. They realize that if any human finds out that they are aliens, they could be captured and experimented on by scientists, so they take shelter in the attic of a house that is up for rent.
The aliens have two goals: return to their home planet, and chase away anybody who tries to establish themselves in the house. To remain unknown from humans, the aliens use a device called the SMTV that lets them transform into almost any entity of their choosing, but always cycles through three other unrelated transformations (as a running gag) when used.
In the second season, Stereo is now no longer part of the main cast, with said character only being bought back for two episodes. An explanation was provided where Stereo has somehow managed to get back to Zigma B, so Candy, Etno, Bud and Gorgious continue to find a way back home.
Characters
Etno Polino
Voiced by (French): Peter Hudson (season 1), Bernard Alane (season 2)
Being short and purple with red lips, a big red nose and red eyes, Etno is the leader and brains of the group. A scientific genius, he creates all sorts of machines with the intention of aiding the group's return to their own planet, including rockets. The aliens often fail to blast off into space, either due to Etno's rockets malfunctioning or someone else boarding the ships. In the original French dub, he speaks with an English accent, but in the English dub, he has a rather fast-paced manner of speech, vaguely reminiscent of those found in educational films about space exploration from the 1950s.
Candy Hector Caramella
Voiced by (French): Éric Le Roch (season 1), Éric Métayer (season 2)
Small and green, with a wrinkled forehead, red eyes, and wearing a polka-dotted apron, Candy is the uptight neat freak of the group. He is homosexual (often disguising himself as a woman), and it is not uncommon to see him flirt with other men, such as Gorgious. He is very energetic (often cleaning around the house). In both the French and English versions, Candy's voice parodies a sophisticated English accent.
Bud Budiovitch
Voiced by (French): Marc Brettonière (season 1), Éric Métayer (season 2)
Voiced by (English): Jeff Bennett (season 1), James Louis Gomez-Garneau (season 2)
Tall and orange with three strands of hair, a long neck, and big pink bloodshot eyes, Bud is lazy and naive. He is a television addict and spends most of the time sitting in front of it and drinking soft drinks. Like Etno, Bud is laid-back and usually the last one to panic in a situation. He always comes up with the best solution, but most of the time no one will listen to him.
Voiced by (English): Michael Sicoly (earlier episodes), Danny Mann (onward)
Fat and blue with a heavy chin, green eyes and a protruding tooth, Gorgious is the grumpy and snarky one of the group. He is very greedy and his hobbies consist of eating, lazing around, and bullying his friends.
Stereo Monovici
Voiced by (French): Antoine Tomé (season 1), Patrick Guillemin (season 2)
Voiced by (English): Jeff Bennett (season 1), Danny Mann (season 2)
Two-headed and red in which each head has a slightly long nose and green eyes, Stereo acts as two people since each head has its own mind. Early episodes portray him as the "bookworm" of the group who often wastes his intelligence on the most useless information. Stereo is very energetic (like Candy) and is usually feeling happy. Both heads sometimes argue with each other. Stereo was removed from the series for Season 2 (as Xilam considered him a weak character), but reappeared in two segments of that season ("Other World Champs" and "UFO"). One of the heads speaks with a distinct, high-pitched voice, while the other head speaks with a rather low-pitched one.
Almost every episode features a new visitor, a la a "villain of the week" formula, who will come to the presumed "vacant" home. These visitors come in a weird variety of characters (mostly humans, but sometimes animals like pigs and birds, and even other aliens). While the credits do not specify who, additional voices include:
The aliens go on vacation together in space (or, as Gorgious calls it, a picnic), but their spaceship breaks down after Candy crashes it into an asteroid and they are left stranded on Earth. Not knowing a way to fix the spaceship, the aliens take shelter in the attic of an abandoned house that is up for rent while Etno tries to fix the spaceship. Meanwhile, the government realize the aliens are hiding in the house, and attempt to capture them.
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2a
"Venus Junior" "(Vénus junior)"
Nicolas Gallet
Mauro Casalese
September 20, 1997 (1997-09-20)
Etno tries to attract more aliens to return to their planet. Unfortunately, the ones he summons are apparently no help.
Note: Oggy and the Cockroaches make their first appearance in the episode, a year before the proper debut of their own animated series (the clip comes from the unaired pilot).
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2b
"One Minor Technicality" "(Incident technique)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Mauro Casalese
September 27, 1997 (1997-09-27)
The aliens are about to launch their spaceship to evacuate from a coming asteroid, but a neighboring boy prevents their only chance of evacuating. At the end of the episode the boy changes the asteroid's course, saving the Earth from danger and apocalypse.
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"Toon in, Drop Out" "(On efface tout et on recommence !)"
The aliens are watching a cartoon on television and realize that the characters from the show (Foxy and Ducky, who spoof Warner Bros.' Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner) are downstairs, so they try to evacuate them from the house. After they exhaust all their plans, the backstory of Foxy and Ducky is revealed by a toon-hating producer.
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4a
"TV Connection"
Nicolas Gallet
François Reczulski
October 18, 1997 (1997-10-18)
While Bud is watching television, a cartoon raccoon leaves the television and places Bud inside it. Bud has a good time inside the television, and does not want to leave. Candy goes along with his complaint, but Etno decides to get him out of there anyway.
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4b
"Showdown in Tiny Town" "(Règlement de comptes à Tiny Town)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Diego Zamora
October 25, 1997 (1997-10-25)
Bud watches a Western movie on television and, getting too into it, ends up shooting it with a gun. Depressed, he unsuccessfully tries to play with Gorgious in an attempt to occupy himself. When that fails, he sulks in the basement before finding an electric model railway, which he uses (alongside a ton of other junk) to build a Western bug town. He becomes the sheriff of the town and even falls in love with a singing earwig named Ramona.
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5a
"Old MacDonald Had a House" "(Le porc de l'angoisse)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Thomas Szabó
November 1, 1997 (1997-11-01)
Tired of tenants trying to move in, the aliens try to make the house uninhabitable, but its farm look ends up attracting a farmer with his animals, and a pig named Sooee who behaves badly to the others. To sort things out, the aliens team up with the rest of the animals (they also use the SMTV to transform into five different types of animals themselves) to revolt against the farmer and Sooee.
A gang of bats take over the house. The aliens attempt to take them out and then accommodate to their presence but fail every time. Candy finally snaps after being treated with underwear and drives them out.
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6a
"You Can't Go Home" "(Trompe la mort)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Mauro Casalese
November 15, 1997 (1997-11-15)
An elderly elephant goes to what was once the ancient burial grounds for elephants to die: the aliens' house.
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6b
"Clowning Around" "(Faites le clown)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Thomas Szabó
November 22, 1997 (1997-11-22)
A couple of runaway clowns make a circus out of the aliens' house. Etno is under the impression they are highly advanced human specimens. By the time he is fed up with the impractical jokers, Candy sends for the circus' ringmaster to come and take them away.
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7a
"Scouts' Night Out" "(Scout que coûte)"
Isabelle de Catalogne & Samuel Kaminka
John Martin
November 29, 1997 (1997-11-29)
The aliens' house is being invaded by a troop of boy scouts, so Gorgious volunteers himself to get rid of the Scouts (and steal their food). But after he uses the SMTV to transform himself into a scout and join them, the other scouts force him to undergo a series of painful tests to prove his worth.
The aliens try to expel a rock band who have moved into their house. But after one (successful, but soon failed) attempt at chasing away the band, Etno ends up being forced to join them, so the other aliens drive the band away with country-and-western music.
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8a
"Maybe Baby" "(Bébé boum)"
Kelly Armstrong & Bob Jaques
Thomas Szabó
December 13, 1997 (1997-12-13)
A baby tumbles into the aliens' house. Gorgious wishes to eat him, while Etno and Stereo (but not Bud) do experiments on him, which horrifies Candy. When the aliens find the baby "stinky", they try to get him away from their house. At the end of the episode, Candy trips on a puddle of mucus that the baby had dripped onto the floor of their house which causes the baby to fly back to his mother.
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8b
"Holiday Heave Ho" "(Profession Père Noël)"
Kelly Armstrong & Bob Jaques
Thomas Szabó
December 20, 1997 (1997-12-20)
In this Christmas episode, Bud convinces his friends that Santa Claus is the red blob from that night's horror movie, so the aliens prevent him from coming down the chimney of their house with a series of slapstick traps.
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9a
"Short Changed" "(Cash-cash partie)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
John Martin
December 27, 1997 (1997-12-27)
Two robbers rob a bank and hide in the aliens' house, and the aliens don't have a clue what their money is for.
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9b
"Backyard for Eternity" "(Cours tourjours)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Thomas Szabó
January 3, 1998 (1998-01-03)
Bud accidentally locks himself out of the house in the pouring rain and cannot get any of the others to let him back in. He spends the entire night trying all sorts of ways to get back into the house, but none of them succeed.
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10a
"The Flyling" "(La mouche)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Thomas Szabó
January 10, 1998 (1998-01-10)
Bud's obsession with TV reaches a new high and his friends try to help him branch out his interests, but they are in vain, and Etno declares Bud a lost cause. Fortunately for him, he finds an injured fly and raises him like his own child until they become too much trouble for the others.
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10b
"Bad Luck Blues" "(Scoumoune blues)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Mauro Casalese
January 17, 1998 (1998-01-17)
A very unfortunate person enters the aliens' house and his presence brings the aliens numerous shortcomings.
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11a
"No Account Art" "(Flou artistique)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Lionel Allaix
January 24, 1998 (1998-01-24)
Gorgious discovers his talent for art. Snobby art critic Vladimir Zakarov loves them, but takes credit for them as his own, so Gorgious unsuccessfully tries to bite back.
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11b
"Granny Go Home" "(Mamy Dehors)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Thomas Szabó
January 31, 1998 (1998-01-31)
An old lady and her dog enter the aliens' house, the former making an awful racket with her organ music. The lady proves to be tough for the aliens to remove from their house, but Etno (disguised as the Grim Reaper) finally convinces her to leave with a trip to the afterlife.
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12a
"Buy Now, Pay Later" "(Marché conclu !)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Mauro Casalese
February 7, 1998 (1998-02-07)
A sleazy salesman tricks the aliens into buying numerous useless products.
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12b
"Toy Trouble" "(Candy s'amuse)"
Nicolas Gallet
Thomas Szabó
February 14, 1998 (1998-02-14)
As Candy tends to his watermelons, the children in the neighboring house mistake him for a doll. In their house, Candy takes plenty of abuse from both the children and their cat until he escapes, along with a pink duck who had also been captured.
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13a
"Gnome Alone" "(À vos souhaits !)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Gontran Hoarau
February 21, 1998 (1998-02-21)
The aliens see what looks like a gnome outside their house and try to catch him for a wish. The gnome, seeing this as an advantage, pools the aliens' resources while they remain ignorant of the fact that he is a fake.
Note: For this episode's English dub, Gorgious is voiced by both Michael Sicoly and Danny Mann, and only two others have this distinction ("Sweet Tooth Blues" & "Flora and Feast").
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13b
"Rip Van Etno" "(Le monde selon Etno)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Thomas Szabó
February 28, 1998 (1998-02-28)
Etno is experimenting on cockroaches until Bud accidentally knocks out him with a golf ball. Etno dreams of waking up 47 years later in a world that is ruled by cockroaches. When he eventually wakes up in real life, he sends the cockroaches out of the house.
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14a
"Rebel Without a Brain" "(Rebelle)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Mauro Casalese
March 7, 1998 (1998-03-07)
Candy, Etno, Stereo and Gorgious try to help Bud, who happens to be going through a rebellious stage in his adolescence, by transforming themselves into a human family. However, Bud and his visiting friend Brandon become too unbearable for them to cope with.
Tired of lowly tenants moving in, the aliens transport themselves and the house back in time to the seventeenth century. However, after finding the humans who lived in that era no better than those that came after them, the aliens travel back to the present.
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15a
"Snoutra"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Mauro Casalese
March 21, 1998 (1998-03-21)
Candy's favorite singer (and obsessive crush) Snoutra (whose name is a pun on Sinatra), along with his wife and bodyguard, move into the aliens' house. Candy goes to great lengths to get Snoutra to notice him. Meanwhile, the others, sick of his music, try to get rid of him.
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15b
"Sweet Tooth Blues" "(Brosse-toi les dents)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
François Reczulski
March 28, 1998 (1998-03-28)
Gorgious is eating excessive junk food. After he takes his craving too far, the other aliens take drastic action to snap him out of it after he has a nightmare inspired by Candy Land.
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16a
"Flora and Feast" "(Dites-le avec des fleurs)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Olivier Poirette
April 4, 1998 (1998-04-04)
Etno gives Candy some alien plants for a flower-growing contest after Gorgious carelessly eats them, but Candy gives them an overdose of growth formula, and begins to take care of the plant (which he names Charlie) excessively while shirking his daily duties. The plant then becomes a monstrous glutton and wrecks the aliens' house.
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"Dingo Bingo"
Nicolas Gallet
François Reczulski
April 11, 1998 (1998-04-11)
Gorgious wins the lottery, and soon after receiving his $20 billion, he builds a sky-high mansion with his new money. He does not share it with his fellow aliens and Candy, Etno, Stereo and Bud are enraged. The other aliens then attempt to work for Gorgious, and much to their dismay, he pays them in peanuts. Gorgious later realizes his mistake and starts to miss his friends, eventually blowing up his mansion and returning to the abandoned house.
Note: Starting with this episode, Danny Mann voiced Gorgious for the remainder of the English dub.
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17a
"We Robot" "(Un cerveau, trois boulons)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Mauro Casalese
April 18, 1998 (1998-04-18)
Etno creates a robot to serve him. The other aliens are initially unhappy with Etno for not letting the robot serve them all, until he gives in and says that they can share him. The aliens then proceed to overwork the enslaved robot and he eventually escapes from their house in a rocket ship that Etno built to try and get them back to the planet Zigma B, taking Candy's vacuum cleaner with him.
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17b
"Neighborhood Watch" "(Témoin gênant)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Olivier Poirette
April 25, 1998 (1998-04-25)
The man living in the house next door to the aliens' discovers the aliens in their house and tries to report them to the police. When the police refuse to believe him, he tries numerous times to take photographic evidence of them as proof of their existence.
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18a
"Mother from Another Planet" "(Maman !)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
François Reczulski
May 2, 1998 (1998-05-02)
Candy's mother Marzipan lands on Earth for a visit and quickly overstays her welcome with her embarrassing stories about Candy's past and general demeanor.
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18b
"Spook to Rent" "(Être ou ne pas spectre)"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Mauro Casalese
May 9, 1998 (1998-05-09)
The ghost of the Flying Dutchman is wrecking everything in the aliens' house (including Candy's brown pantyhose, Etno's ascots and Gorgious' mahogany backscratcher), so they try to drive him out with a series of kooky rituals.
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19a
"20,000 Feet Under Home to Rent" "(20 000 lieues sous la mere)"
Nicolas Gallet
François Reczulski
May 16, 1998 (1998-05-16)
When Gorgious tries to flood the bathroom, wasting water when he falls asleep in the bathtub, Candy opens the bathroom's door and soaks the aliens' entire house. Etno then has a brilliant idea to flood the entire house into an aquatic-like atmosphere to keep human tenants away forever. However, two hydrologists, Professor Coustel (whose surname is a pun on that of Jacques Cousteau) and his assistant Bernard move aboard the submarine to observe some of the rare aquatic species (including the aliens themselves, who transformed themselves into a seahorse, lobster, two-headed octopus, electric eel and piranha with the SMTV so they were able to breathe underwater).
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19b
"Bongo Park"
Jim Gomez & Bob Camp
Bob Camp
May 23, 1998 (1998-05-23)
Fox Bongo, a strange entertainment tycoon builds a new theme park called "Bongo Land" outside the aliens' house with a roller coaster, known as the "Death-Defying House of Space Weirdos", running through the house (Candy, Etno and Gorgious are also forced to wear fake green antennae, while Stereo brushes their teeth and Bud reads a paper in the bath) – as well as a rocket ship ride.
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20a
"Flashman vs. Zork" "(Flashman contre Zork)"
Nicolas Gallet
François Reczulski
May 30, 1998 (1998-05-30)
The aliens' next visiting tenant is none other than the famous superhero Flashman (whose name is a cross between that of The Flash and all superheroes whose names end with "man"). Then his brother and rival Zork moves into their house and battles against him. The aliens' only chance of removing them from their house is to call their mother, who is referred to as "Mrs. Hero".
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20b
"Pinball Planet" "(Pète-planète)"
Jean Louis-Capron
Mauro Casalese
June 6, 1998 (1998-06-06)
Gorgious unwittingly unleashes three troublesome genies while cleaning the toilet. The genies start wreaking havoc and eventually blow up several planets in the galaxy (they even threaten to blow up Zigma B as well). In response, Gorgious transforms himself into a genie with the SMTV and retaliates by reflecting the genies' magic onto them, defeating them, and flushing them down the toilet from whence they came.
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21a
"Cassius Gorgious"
Jean Louis-Capron
François Reczulski
June 13, 1998 (1998-06-13)
A heavyweight champion named Mickey moves into the aliens' house and turns it into a boxing center to face him. When the aliens' attempts at removing him from their house fail, they try stealing his teddy bear, Bobo, for ransom. However, Bobo turns out to be living, and reveals that he also hates Mickey, so the episode ends with Bobo driving Mickey away from the aliens' house in his teddy car.
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21b
"Busy Bees" "(Abeilles de mon cœur)"
Jean Louis-Capron
François Reczulski
June 20, 1998 (1998-06-20)
A beekeeper moves into the aliens' house. Gorgious tries to remove him from it but merely makes him successful enough to turn it into a honey factory. The overworked bees soon leave to go on a hot-dog business, while Gorgious returns to his betrayed friends.
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22a
"Party Time in Hell" "(Allez au diable !)"
Jean Louis-Capron
Mauro Casalese
June 27, 1998 (1998-06-27)
The aliens find that their basement has become a doorway to Hell, where people sign their souls to the Devil. When the aliens get sent to Hell, they make the Devil take them back up to Earth after they manage to change the ways of his two Imp henchmen.
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22b
"Our Ancestors the Humans" "(Nos ancêtres les humains)"
Nicolas Gallet
François Reczulski
July 4, 1998 (1998-07-04)
Etno has constructed a time machine, but it also has a huge debt, owing the aliens 23 years of back taxes. Plus, if they do not pay up or fork over the money, the tax collectors Nefu Ganioni and Alex will confiscate everything in the house. They set the time machine to three different eras (the Stone Age, the Medieval Age, and the future), but there is no escape from the tax collectors. At the end, the tax collectors ring the aliens' doorbell and the aliens open the door to find all three versions of them, causing them to faint.
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23a
"Timber"
Jean Louis-Capron
François Reczulski
July 11, 1998 (1998-07-11)
The aliens go to the countryside to escape from the noisy and dirty town. However, the pesky creatures make their stay a torment.
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23b
"Prison Pals" "(Les aliens font le mur)"
Nicolas Gallet
Rudy Mertens
July 18, 1998 (1998-07-18)
The aliens' house is turned into a prison with cells, walls, and aggressive rats, blocking off their access to their own refrigerator. After the aliens turn themselves into prisoners with the SMTV and get jailed, they team up with another prisoner to escape.
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24a
"The Pro" "(Lucien)"
Jean Louis-Capron
François Reczulski
July 25, 1998 (1998-07-25)
A hitman named Bolok and his pet fish move into the aliens' house, and the former destroys all their garden gnomes. With this evidence, they have to get him arrested. At the end of the episode, Bolok ends up in a hospital, screaming, as a dog is put into his injured body by a mailman for a payment and being called a useless loser, and he is now also a bandaged gnome with his arms falling down.
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24b
"Dead Funny" "(Et vous trouvez ça drôle ?)"
Jean Louis-Capron
Diego Zamora
August 1, 1998 (1998-08-01)
Candy, Etno, Bud and Gorgious give Stereo a wannabe comedian for their birthday, which soon leads to chaos.
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25a
"Zero Stuff" "(L'étoffe des zéros)"
Nicolas Gallet
François Reczulski
August 8, 1998 (1998-08-08)
A mad scientist named Dr. Sakarin and his assistant Igor are trying to destroy a planet, of which the aliens disapprove.
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25b
"Small You Said?" "(Au royaume des minus)"
Nicolas Gallet
François Reczulski
August 15, 1998 (1998-08-15)
Gorgious gets shrunk down with Etno's new shrinking machine after tormenting small creatures.
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26a
"Count Gracula" "(Gracula)"
Jean Louis-Capron
François Reczulski
August 22, 1998 (1998-08-22)
The vampire Count Gracula (whose surname is a pun on that of Count Dracula) and his bat friend move into the aliens' house on the night of Hallowe'en, and after the former bites Gorgious, he becomes a vampire himself, so he soon bites the other aliens to turn them into vampires as well. Count Gracula, his bat and the aliens then try to bite other people to turn them into vampires but fail.
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26b
"First Love" "(La toute première fois)"
Jean Louis-Capron & Regis Hochman
Mauro Casalese
August 29, 1998 (1998-08-29)
A seductive and shallow woman moves into the aliens' house, dumps her boyfriend/husband, and makes Etno, Stereo, Bud and Gorgious fall in love with her one by one after she hits on them. Candy is the only one unaffected by her wiles.
Season 2 (2005–06)
All episodes in this season were directed by Olivier Jean-Marie and aired on Fridays.
An escaped zoo monkey named Maurice hides out inside the aliens' house. Gorgious soon becomes a target for Maurice to set up and torment.
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"Operation Guinea Pig" "(Cochon dingue)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Olivier Jean-Marie
May 27, 2005 (2005-05-27)
Bud gets a guinea pig who apparently has a mind of his own. The others are amazed by his genius, but Etno quickly becomes jealous of him.
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"Zero Gravity" "(Gravité Zéro)"
Thomas Szabó
Olivier Jean-Marie
June 3, 2005 (2005-06-03)
Etno launches the house into space hoping to get himself and the others (apart from Stereo, as they only appeared in two episodes of this season) back to their home planet, but it ends up landing on the Moon instead. They soon find out the hard way that the Moon is not real.
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2b
"Macho Kung-fu"
Olivier Jean-Marie
François Reczulski
June 10, 2005 (2005-06-10)
Gorgious has developed an obsession with Kung Fu, which is intensified when the movie star Steve Wong moves into the aliens' house. Candy and Gorgious' attempts at getting themselves closer to Wong by transforming themselves with the SMTV, which fail, only make things worse.
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"Stupid Invaders" "(Les Envahisseurs)"
Thomas Szabó
François Reczulski
June 17, 2005 (2005-06-17)
The aliens get new neighbors who are extremely annoying. After Etno has finished building his new saucer, one of them rings their house's doorbell to invite him and the others (after they transform themselves into a model family with the SMTV) to come to a barbecue organized in their backyard as a housewarming party. The aliens try to befriend them but end up revealing their true identities to them at the end.
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3b
"Musical Chairs" "(Chaises musicales)"
Nicolas Gallet
François Reczulski
June 24, 2005 (2005-06-24)
A robot who drives a space cab arrives on Earth, and even though he can take the aliens back to their home planet, his cab only has three available seats, so one of them will have to stay behind on Earth (Candy, Etno and Bud decide that Gorgious should be the one who stays).
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4a
"Space Cruiser to the Rescue" "(Space micmac)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Olivier Jean-Marie
July 1, 2005 (2005-07-01)
When Bud is watching his favorite science-fiction television series, a bolt of lightning blows a fuse and causes a short-circuit, and the two main characters in the series (Steve and Barbara) find themselves materialized inside the aliens' house. They are convinced that they are on a mission and hunt with ice cubes to freeze the aliens, but Etno tries to explain to them that they are merely cartoon characters.
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4b
"Madame Zelza"
Olivier Jean-Marie
François Reczulski
July 8, 2005 (2005-07-08)
A psychic named Madame Zelza moves into the aliens' house. After Gorgious accidentally breaks her crystal ball, she places a curse called "The Dreaded Curse of the 2,000 Dirty Gym Socks" on the aliens, which causes Candy's vacuum to break down, Bud's favorite television show to be cancelled and Gorgious to become sick from eating chocolate-stuffed oysters until they pay her €5000. Etno specifically researches, reacts and demonstrates the irrationality of Zelza's practices, and transforms himself into a rival psychic named "Madame Zetno" with the SMTV to try and drive her out of business.
Note: As a referential gag, Oggy from Oggy and the Cockroaches can be seen on a page of a book during this episode.
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"Get Off My Couch!" "(Divan le terrible)"
Pierre Colin-Thibert
François Reczulski
July 15, 2005 (2005-07-15)
A psychiatrist named Dr. Sigmund (after Sigmund Freud) moves into the aliens' house and gets them to change their ways. Soon Candy is acting calmer, Bud is acting mature, and Gorgious is eating healthy.
Note: As the second Oggy reference, a minor character (a large, fat woman with a bobcut) and her pet poodle appear in the episode.
31b
5b
"The "Thing" from Beyond" "(L'extraterrestre)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Charles Vaucelle
July 22, 2005 (2005-07-22)
A small green alien which can duplicate itself lands in the aliens' yard.
Note:Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice can be heard in this episode during the scene when Candy conducts with the duplicated green aliens as vacuum cleaners cleaning a massive pile of dust.
32a
6a
"Tired Big Time" "(Grosse fatigue)"
Nicolas Gallet & Olivier Jean-Marie
Charles Vaucelle
July 29, 2005 (2005-07-29)
A man who has not slept in seven years and has a sleepwalking problem moves into the house. However, the aliens cannot deal with it, because the man sleepwalks.
32b
6b
"Heavy Metal Madness" "(Gros cubes)"
Pierre Colin-Thibert
François Reczulski
August 5, 2005 (2005-08-05)
A group of motorcycle riders named the Roadkill Gang move into the aliens' house. The aliens then, after using the SMTV to transform into four motorcycle riders themselves so they can form a rival gang, try to get rid of the Roadkill Gang by showing off their stunts to them.
33a
7a
"Sir, Yes Sir!" "(Marche à l'ombre)"
François Rosso
Hugo Gittard
August 12, 2005 (2005-08-12)
A training officer named Colonel Kenny moves into the aliens' house, and Gorgious decides to help him in his objective after transforming himself with the SMTV, but their mission may involve eliminating Candy. Meanwhile, Etno and Bud try to find the source of a heat problem.
33b
7b
"Crash Test Dummy" "(La poupée qui fait boum)"
François Rosso & Olivier Jean-Marie
François Reczulski
August 19, 2005 (2005-08-19)
A robot which is actually a crash test dummy moves into the aliens' house and persuades Bud to take his place as a new dummy replacement.
34a
8a
"Which Witch is Which?" "(Coquin de sort)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Charles Vaucelle
August 26, 2005 (2005-08-26)
When Etno, Bud and Gorgious forget to get Candy something on his birthday, a witch named Miss Cleo casts a spell on them to cheer him up.
34b
8b
"Other World Champs!" "(Champion du monde)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Hugo Gittard
September 2, 2005 (2005-09-02)
A team of basketball players are playing a game on the ground floor of the aliens' house and the players keep getting injured. The aliens replace them all, but when the fifth player is out, they must rely on a miracle (Stereo, as he returns in this episode).
35a
9a
"Bollywood Aliens" "(Les Zinzins de Bollywood)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Olivier Jean-Marie
September 9, 2005 (2005-09-09)
An Indian princess named Zibouya moves into the aliens' house. When Etno sees her, he falls in love with her, but Candy, Bud and Gorgious want to get rid of her, because she (much like every other human who had moved into their house before her) could reveal their existence.
35b
9b
"The Tunnel" "(Le tunnel)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
François Reczulski
September 16, 2005 (2005-09-16)
A very strange criminal moves into the aliens' house and plans to dig a tunnel from it to a bank he is intending to rob. Bud tries to get rid of him by using the SMTV to transform into a criminal himself and join him in the tunnel-digging, but he soon forgets about the plan.
36a
10a
"Meet My Cousin" "(Un cousin qui vous veut du bien)"
Franck Ekinci
Charles Vaucelle
September 23, 2005 (2005-09-23)
A wanted alien named Walter lands in the aliens' house and tells Candy that he is his cousin (even though he is not). This excites Candy, who believes his lie and allows him to stay as a result, but unfortunately for him and the others, he soon ends up taking over the house.
36b
10b
"Who's Who?" "(Qui est qui ?)"
Franck Ekinci
Olivier Jean-Marie
September 30, 2005 (2005-09-30)
When Etno tries out his latest invention, Gorgious' toenail clippers cause time periods to overlap, resulting in the creation of multiple Etnos which end up making Candy lock himself in the bathroom and repeat "There's only one Etno!" over and over to himself on seeing them.
37a
11a
"Pygmy Planet" "(Toute petite la planète)"
Nicolas Gallet
Hugo Gittard
October 7, 2005 (2005-10-07)
Etno accidentally summons a miniature planet which is inhabited by a couple of tiny aliens (named "Pygmy Venusians", a possible throwback to "Venus Junior"). The two Pygmy Venusians then cause trouble for the aliens.
37b
11b
"You Drive Me Crazy!" "(Passe ton code d'abord !)"
Thomas Szabó
François Reczulski
October 14, 2005 (2005-10-14)
Candy, who has transformed himself into a blond woman with the SMTV, is trying to get a driver's license but continually fails miserably. Feeling guilty, the other aliens also transform themselves into humans with the SMTV and try to bribe Parry (Candy's driving instructor).
38a
12a
"A Dog's Life" "(Une vie de chien)"
Nicolas Gallet
Hugo Gittard
October 21, 2005 (2005-10-21)
After Candy decides not to cook, he and the others get the idea of turning themselves into dogs with the SMTV for dog food (as the latest human to move into their house is a dog owner). Unfortunately for Gorgious, he is trained to be a guardian dog and does not get any food.
38b
12b
"Manga Mania"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Charles Vaucelle
October 28, 2005 (2005-10-28)
An anime panda named Panda Manga hides in the aliens' house to get away from crazed fans who want him to sign his autograph for them. But after staying there for a while, he upsets the aliens, so they use the SMTV to transform themselves into 1950s Franco-Belgian cartoon characters Papa Smurf (Candy), Tintin (Etno), Lucky Luke (Bud) and Obélix (Gorgious), scaring him off.
39a
13a
"@spacegoofs.com" "(@zinzins.com)"
Thomas Szabó
François Reczulski
November 4, 2005 (2005-11-04)
Bud develops an addiction to the Internet. When Candy, Etno and Gorgious learn about it, they join him and find it impossible to log off.
39b
13b
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" "(Voyage au centre de la Terre)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Olivier Jean-Marie
November 11, 2005 (2005-11-11)
After seeing a documentary about volcanoes, the aliens decide to go to the center of the Earth in order to find a source of energy in the form of magma from a volcano that is capable of powering Etno's new rocket. However, after embarking on a 3-day expedition, they find out that getting the energy will not be so easy when they meet a man named Eddy (based on Eddy Merckx) and a fluffy creature named Jerry.
40a
14a
"Abracadabra!" "(Abracadabrantesque !)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
François Reczulski
November 18, 2005 (2005-11-18)
A magician named Marty moves into the aliens' house and performs magic tricks on its lower floor. However, his assistant, Roger, is aware of the fact that his tricks are fake, so the aliens transform themselves into replacement human assistants with the SMTV to join his act.
40b
14b
"Mummy's Boy" "(Fils à maman)"
Franck Ekinci
Charles Vaucelle
November 25, 2005 (2005-11-25)
Etno is on the verge of giving up on trying to get back to Zigma B until a large woman and her son, Norman, move into the house. However, the aliens' attempt to get hold of Norman's getaway project only seems to succeed in bringing Norman and his mother closer to each other.
41a
15a
"Soap Chick Number One" "(Le poussin collector)"
Nicolas Gallet
François Reczulski
December 2, 2005 (2005-12-02)
Bud has developed a new hobby of collecting numbered soap chicks from soap boxes. However, he is only missing one (which is the eponymous "Number One"), and when a new tenant named Thomas Mancini (who is based on Henry Mancini) moves into the aliens' house and apparently has a Number One, Bud tries to steal it but fails. Meanwhile, Etno tries to go back in time to get another Number One for Bud.
41b
15b
"Arctic Intelligence" "(Une froide intelligence)"
François Rosso & Olivier Jean-Marie
Hugo Gittard
December 9, 2005 (2005-12-09)
Because of Bud's blunder that has caused the city to freeze, he and the other aliens are stuck in the form of penguins. A scientist named Professor Etienne then moves into their house studying penguin intelligence and thinks that they would make perfect specimens to examine.
42a
16a
"The Alien" "(Le truc venu d'ailleurs)"
Thomas Szabó
Hugo Gittard
December 16, 2005 (2005-12-16)
The aliens are looking for a flight tester but cannot seem to find a suitable one. Meanwhile, a young alien named Zekla is wishing to try out for the position, but Candy, Etno, Bud and Gorgious all think that, because of the way he appears to them, he is a human in disguise.
42b
16b
"Be My Baby" "(Un amour de cigogne)"
Olivier Derynck
Karim Bayadh
December 23, 2005 (2005-12-23)
When Candy bans Etno from experimenting in the house for a week, he cannot control himself. Meanwhile, a stork's baby hatches from an egg that his mother laid down the house's chimney and thinks, because Etno is the first individual he saw on hatching, that he is his father.
43a
17a
"SOS"
Franck Ekinci
François Reczulski
December 30, 2005 (2005-12-30)
When Etno records a message to space in the hope that other aliens might hear it, travel down to Earth and take them back to Zigma B, two alien hunters named Gregor and Tatiana get hold of it. They then kidnap Etno and demand he inform them where Candy, Bud and Gorgious are.
43b
17b
"The Collector" "(Le collectionneur)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Hugo Gittard
January 6, 2006 (2006-01-06)
A nerdy collector moves into the aliens' house and might have their original spaceship (as in the one they were travelling in during both seasons' opening sequences). Excited, the aliens try to find out if the spaceship is real in an attempt to get back to their home planet.
44a
18a
"Be My Friend" "(Un ami au poli)"
Nicolas Gallet
Hugo Gittard
January 13, 2006 (2006-01-13)
Candy comes across a diary belonging to a little girl who used to live in the house and incessantly tries to summon the girl's old friend Molux (which is pronounced "Maloo"). When Molux does turn up, he spreads a pungent aroma due to his overgrown hair, so the aliens have to shave it off, and Etno realizes the hair can be used as a fuel for his latest spaceship.
44b
18b
"Time Traveller" "(Le voyageur du temps)"
Nicolas Gallet
François Reczulski
January 20, 2006 (2006-01-20)
Etno uses a time period device to evolve a tadpole into a Neolithic caveman named Ugg. Finding this specimen not very useful, Etno evolves him into a chivalrous Middle Ages knight, a laid-back 21st-century man, and a hyper-intelligent cyborg from the future.
45a
19a
"Back to School Blues" "(Les Zinzins à l'école)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Charles Vaucelle
January 27, 2006 (2006-01-27)
A school teacher named Mrs. Durante and her pupils have moved into the aliens' house. Candy, Bud and Gorgious want to get rid of her, but Etno hesitates because Bud has not had any education since they landed on Earth. Candy and Gorgious agree with Etno that Bud should start school, so they all transform into pupils with the SMTV and become students.
45b
19b
"Remote Control Home" "(La maison se rebiffe)"
Franck Ekinci
Hugo Gittard
February 3, 2006 (2006-02-03)
Etno installs a robot named Halena in the house to set Candy, Bud and Gorgious straight. But when Gorgious cannot handle her any more and breaks her, she starts taking over the house.
Note: A McDonald's-style French fry box that has a yellow X (for "Xilam") on it is shown on the aliens' television screen as Halena's symbol in this episode.
46a
20a
"U.F.O." "(OVNI)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
François Reczulski
February 10, 2006 (2006-02-10)
A family of alien lovers named Marie, Fred, Gustavo and Stephanie Friendly move into the aliens' house and try to make contact with outer space. This excites the aliens, who befriend them, but soon it gets out of hand.
Note: Stereo makes his final appearance in this episode.
46b
20b
"Invisible Invaders" "(Invisibles Zinzins)"
Thomas Szabó
Charles Vaucelle
February 17, 2006 (2006-02-17)
The aliens are harassed all day long by Harry, a real estate agent of Harry's Real Estate and Development Company, who wants to buy their house and build a five-story, $5,000 car-parking garage with an Olympic-sized swimming pool where it stands. Etno then decides to perfect his incredible extra-strength invisibility cream that can make the aliens and their house invisible (including Candy as a carrot, Etno as a piece of cheese, Bud as a pickle and Gorgious as a piece of sausage). At the end of the episode, the almost-finished car-parking garage just disappears, but the aliens' house always reappears back the way it is, and when Mr. Edward (Harry's boss) comes to the house to look for Harry's disappeared and unseen parking structure, he rips up his $20 million check and wrecks Harry's car with his longest limousine.
47a
21a
"Inside Gorgious" "(Il faut sauver Gorgious)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Hugo Gittard
February 24, 2006 (2006-02-24)
Gorgious wakes up with a red bump-like virus known as the "Microbe Microbius" on the front of his head, and the other aliens quarantine him in the washing machine. Although Gorgious' disease is not contagious, it is difficult to cure, so Etno miniaturizes himself with the SMTV and enters Gorgious' inner body to get rid of the Microbe Microbius using Candy's vacuum cleaner.
47b
21b
"Gorilla Island" "(L'île aux singes)"
Thomas Szabó
François Reczulski
March 3, 2006 (2006-03-03)
When the aliens' latest spaceship is struck by a lightning bolt, it crash-lands on an island that is inhabited by fierce gorillas. To the aliens' surprise the island is in the city zoo, but the gorillas have moved into their house, so they have to get them back out of there.
48a
22a
"Welcome!" "(Bienvenue !)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Olivier Jean-Marie
March 10, 2006 (2006-03-10)
The aliens are finally on their way back to Zigma B and take time to reminisce on past adventures. However, when they arrive there, they are greeted by an angry Madame Zelza, Colonel Kenny, Crash Test Dummy, Norman and his mother, Princess Zibouya, Collector, Mrs. Durante and Molux, meaning that all of Etno's previous spaceships actually worked. The others start to attack, forcing the aliens to retreat back into their spaceship, which Etno reveals only has two destinations programmed into it (Zigma B and Earth), so they have no choice but to return to Earth.
Note: This episode is a clip show.
48b
22b
"Dr. Artichoke & Mister Candy" "(Docteur Artichaut et Mister Candy)"
Thomas Szabó
François Reczulski
March 17, 2006 (2006-03-17)
To complete his vitamin encyclopedia, Etno gets Candy to taste a syrup which was left behind by the house's most recent tenant, a certain Dr. Jekyll. Candy finds that it tastes of artichoke, but during the night, he transforms into an evil, angry version of himself who attacks the others.
49a
23a
"Buffalo Blues" "(Des plumes dans la prairie)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
François Reczulski
March 24, 2006 (2006-03-24)
A Native American named Nanook and his pet buffalo move into the aliens' house. Nanook sets up his tepee in the lounge, while his buffalo eats the plants. Candy loses it, while the others watch with curiosity. Nanook says that the house is on the land of his ancestors and he is not leaving. In an attempt to get rid of Nanook, the aliens go back in time to the 17th century (which was the time of his ancestors).
49b
23b
"24H"
Nicolas Gallet
Hugo Gittard
March 31, 2006 (2006-03-31)
Bud accidentally breaks the SMTV and is transformed into a human. Candy, Etno and Gorgious must then help their friend return to his normal form within twenty-four hours, because if he does not, he will have no choice but to stay a human forever.
50a
24a
"The Alien King" "(Le roi des Zinzins)"
Franck Ekinci
Hugo Gittard
April 7, 2006 (2006-04-07)
A spaceman named Colonel Fédor Zakouski plans on going into space but lands in the aliens' house instead. Thinking that he is on another planet, he makes the aliens bow down to and worship him.
Note: This episode's name is a parody of The Lion King.
50b
24b
"Doodle" "(Gribouillages)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Charles Vaucelle
April 14, 2006 (2006-04-14)
Bud finds an old childhood doodle and raises it like his own, while the others try to find its original artist.
Note: As the third Oggy reference, Oggy, his cousin Jack and three cockroaches (Dee Dee, Marky and Joey) can be seen in two pictures during this episode, along with all four of the aliens in their forms of 1950s Franco-Belgian comic characters, Papa Smurf, Tintin, Lucky Luke and Obélix on five posters.
51a
25a
"Gorgious the 1st" "(Gorgious 1er)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
François Reczulski
April 21, 2006 (2006-04-21)
Gorgious wants to be the boss of something, given that Candy, Etno and Bud all are. He then meets a tough-talking mouse who makes him the boss of the house.
51b
25b
"Space Sailors" "(Les marins de l'espace)"
Olivier Jean-Marie
Hugo Gittard
April 28, 2006 (2006-04-28)
The aliens decide to sail away from the city in order to get away from humans. Unfortunately for them, a man who has been lost at sea and his wooden girlfriend (a figurehead of a mermaid from a galleon which he named "Simone") find their house and automatically move into it.
Note: As the fourth Oggy reference, Joey, Marky and Dee Dee appear in this episode for a quick gag, along with a character from the Oggy episode "Castaway Cats" (which would air a few years after this).
In the series finale, the aliens go on a reality show called "Lost Story" (a parody of Loft Story, itself a retooling of the Dutch-created Big Brother) that's hosted by a friend of Etno's to receive a flying saucer as a prize and finally go back home.
Note: As the final Oggy reference, Oggy and his almost-identical twin sister Monica are also shown on the aliens' television screen in this segment.
An adventure game based on Space Goofs named Stupid Invaders was released in 2000–2001 by Ubisoft. It featured crew members from its first season and the voice actors of its English dub as the five aliens, having to go back home in a surreal world, after an infiltration by a bounty hunter named Bolok (voiced by Billy West).
Broadcast and home media
On top of airing on France 3, it also debuted in the same year in Germany on ProSieben, and aired in Canada on Teletoon. In the UK, the first season premiered on Channel 4 in 1998 under the show's original title of Home to Rent and the second season premiered under the series' final name on Nicktoons UK on November 5, 2005 at 9:30 AM. Furthermore, the first season aired as part of the Fox Kids lineup on Fox in the United States.[1]
Of the more notable physical releases, three VHS tapes (entitled Alien Antics, Cartoon Tales and Animal Crack-Ups) of the series were released in the U.S. on August 11, 1998. The complete series (in 2 season sets) was also released in France on June 13, 2011.
In other media
A film adaptation for the show titled Stupid Invaders was planned, but was never released for reasons unknown – what only remained was a short video posted online. The cast of the original show reprised their roles for the main characters (sans Stereo). It was a CGI-animated adaptation of the show, where the four aliens (Etno, Candy, Gorgious and Bud) have ended up accidentally crash landing into someone else's house. Said house is revealed to be inhabited by an unnamed brunette girl, who gets curious upon her sight of the aliens.
References in other Xilam properties
While a revival has never been considered, the main characters make several cameos in some of Xilam's other TV shows. It should be noted most of these references took place in the mid-2000s, when the second season was airing.
In earlier seasons, the interior of Oggy's house features a framed picture of main cast of aliens (for the first season). These were removed in the remade episodes.
A miniature version of the house for rent is seen and utilized in the episode "Baby Doll" (from its first season) and its remake.
The characters also made a cameo in the episode "Night Watchmen" (from its third season), where the titular characters end up transforming into the four aliens (as a gag) in one scene.
In the film, Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure, a scene featuring Roger and the cockroaches (Dee Dee, Marky and Joey from Oggy) has him mention "monster men", which may be a reference to the show's theme.
In The Daltons episode "Le Secret Passage", Candy was one of Joe's transformations in Fort Dalton.
References
^Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 770. ISBN978-1476665993.
