Space Goofs (Les Zinzins De l'Espace) | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Created by | Jean-Yves Raimbaud Philippe Traversat |
Directed by | Thomas Szabo (Season 1) Olivier Jean-Marie (Season 2) |
Starring |
Charlie Adler Jeff Bennett (Season 1) Danny Mann Maurice LaMarche Michael Sicoly Louis Garneau (Season 2) Billy West Kath Soucie |
Opening theme | "Monster Men" by Iggy Pop |
Composer(s) | Herve Lavandier Ramon Pipin |
Country of origin | France |
Original language(s) |
English French |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 104 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Marc du Pontavice |
Producer(s) | Marc du Pontavice |
Running time | 10 minutes (each segment) 20–22 minutes (series) |
Production company(s) |
Gaumont Multimedia Xilam Animation |
Distributor |
Saban International (season 1) Pictanovo France Televisions Canal J Gulli |
Release | |
Original network | France 3 |
Original release | October 2, 1997 – February 20, 2008 |
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Review scores | ||
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Publication | Score | |
Dreamcast | PC | |
Adventure Gamers | N/A | |
AllGame | N/A | |
EGM | 6.5/10 | N/A |
Eurogamer | N/A | 8/10 |
Game Informer | 5/10 | N/A |
GameSpot | 6.2/10 | 6.6/10 |
GameSpy | 7/10 | 35% |
IGN | 7/10 | 7.2/10 |
PC Gamer (US) | N/A | 52% |
The Cincinnati Enquirer | N/A | |
Aggregate scores | ||
GameRankings | 75.48% | 68.46% |
Metacritic | 64/100 | 65/100 |
Space Goofs (French title: Les Zinzins de l'espace) is a French animated series produced by Gaumont Multimedia, and Xilam for France 3 that first aired in 1997. It also debuted at the same year in Germany on ProSieben. It also aired, in Quebec, on Télétoon. In the UK, the 1st season premiered on Channel 4 under the name Home to Rent and the 2nd season premiered under its original moniker on Nicktoons UK on 5 November 2005 at 9:30am. It also aired as part of the Fox Kids lineup on Fox in the United States.
The series also served as the basis of an adventure game titled Stupid Invaders.
Five extraterrestrials from the planet Zigma B, Candy, Etno, Gorgeous, Stereo and Bud go on a picnic together in space. However, their spaceship crashes into an asteroid, and they fall to planet Earth. They realise that if any human finds out that they're aliens, they could be experimented on, so they take shelter in a house for rent.
The aliens have two goals: Return to their home planets and chase anybody away who tries to establish themselves in the house.
They use a device called the SMTV that lets the aliens transform into almost any entity of their choosing. It often doesn't work on the first try, leading to some wacky transformations.
A family of alien lovers move in and try to make contact with outer space. This excites the aliens and become friends with them but soon it gets out of hand.
This episode is the series finale, was released on November 4, 2007, and Gorgeous the 1st, is the sequel, was the final aired on February 20, 2008, His last two episodes features in his 1st, While the Space Goofs were watching TV, Etno recognizes Fabrice, a childhood friend at college who works as a mailman in the past and now the host of the reality show, Lost Story (a parody of Big Brother). and 2nd, Gorgeous wants to be the boss at something, since his friends are. That's when he meets a tough talking mouse who makes him the boss of the house. for the past 11 years. to his farewell messages