Space Goofs

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Space Goofs
Space Goofs

Space Goofs (France/Quebec title: Les Zinzins de l'espace, UK title: Home to Rent, German title: Ein Heim für Aliens, international title: Stupid Invaders) is a French animated series first aired in 1997. It was airing, in Quebec, on Télétoon. In the UK, it premiered on Channel 4 under the name Home to Rent and it also premiered under its original moniker on Nicktoons UK on 5th November 2005 at 9:30am.

The series also served as the basis of an adventure game titled Stupid Invaders.

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[edit] Plot

Five extra-terrestrials, Etno, Gorgious, Stereo, Candy and Bud, go to vacation together in space. They have an accident and crash in planet Earth. Forced to hide from humans, they take shelter in an old abandoned house and Etno creates a mutating machine that can change their bodies so they can go out sometimes.

The aliens have two goals: return to their home planets and chase away anybody who tries to establish themselves in the house.

[edit] Characters

  • Etno Polino: Short and purple with red lips and a big nose, Etno is the nerd and the brains of the group. A scientific genius, he creates all sort of machines. In the original French version, he speaks with an English accent. Etno's voice was done by Maurice LaMarche.
  • Bud Budiovitch: Tall and orange with a three strands of hair, a long neck and big bloodshot eyes, Bud is lazy and naive.He act as the teenager of the group which makes somewhat makes him adolescent. He is a television addict and spends most of the time sitting in front of it and drinking soft drinks.like ethno bud is always the last one to panic in a situation.He always come a with the best solution but most of the times one one will listen to him. Bud's voice was done by Jeff Bennett.
  • Candy Caramella: Small and green with a wrinkled forehead and wearing a polka-dotted apron, Candy is very effeminate and acts as the "mother and woman" of the group. Candy's voice was done by Charlie Adler.
  • Gorgious Klatoo: Fat and blue with a heavy chin and a protruding tooth, Gorgious is the grumpy and brutal one. He is very greedy and his hobby consists of eating and bullying the others. Gorgious' voice was done by Danny Mann.
  • Stereo Monovici: Two-headed and red each head with a slightly long nose, Stereo acts as two people since each head has its own mind. "He" is pretty much the bookworm of the group, yet wastes his intelligence on the most useless information often. Stereo was removed from season two of the show because several viewers and even xilam studios described him as "a very weak character". Stereo's voices were also done by Jeff Bennett.

[edit] Reaction

[edit] Stupid Invaders

"'Stupid Invaders box art
"'Stupid Invaders box art

An adventure game based on Space Goofs titled Stupid Invaders was released in 2000 by UbiSoft. The plot centers around the aliens and their attempts to return to space. All the main characters of the series are playable through the course of the game. The game is notable for deliberately rejecting or distortinc some cliched aspects of the adventure genre; standard adventure game tactics such as picking up, talking to or interacting with anything encountered will often result in instant (albeit highly comical) death for the player character and the need to reload, for example, often with no warning.

Stupid Invaders was developed by Xilam for Windows and Mac OS, and ported to the Dreamcast by Titanium Studios.[1]

[edit] Trivia

  • From the creators of George and William
  • The theme song 'Monster Men' is performed by Iggy Pop
  • In one of the episodes, there is a rocking horse of Oggy, from the fellow Gaumont Film Company show Oggy and The Cockroaches.
  • In the episode "Bats in the belfry" Stereo dosn't say a single word in the whole episode but only makes on noise.
  • Stereo was removed from season 2 but only appears in one episode in season 2 (he arrives to rescue the others) in total he was only seen in 53 episodes and was never seen again
  • In the episode "Venus junior" of season one, Oggy From Oggy and the cockroaches makes a brief cameo appearance on their tv set.

[edit] Airing history

[edit] France

  • France 3
    • 1st season (1996-1998 on the Minikeums show)
    • 2nd season (2004-2005 on the France Truc show)

[edit] Canada

[edit] Quebec

  • Télétoon as "Les Zinzins de l'espace" (cancelled)

[edit] USA

[edit] UK

[edit] Malaysia

[edit] Latin America

  • Magic Kids -1st Season
  • Jetix

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