Space Goofs

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 season aired internationally.

Space Goofs
Also known as	Home to Rent
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Jean-Yves Raimbaud Philippe Traversat
Developed by	Isabelle De Catalogne Samuel Kaminka
Directed by	Thomas Szabó (season 1) Olivier Jean-Marie (season 2)
Voices of	Charlie Adler Maurice LaMarche Danny Mann Jeff Bennett (season 1) Michael Sicoly (season 1) Louis Garneau (season 2)
Theme music composer	Iggy Pop
Opening theme	"Monster Men"
Composers	Hervé Lavandier Ramon Pipin
Country of origin	France
Original languages	French English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	52 (102 segments)
Production
Executive producer	Marc du Pontavice
Producer	Marc du Pontavice
Editors	Daniel Reynes (season 1) Florence Poli (season 1) Patrick Ducruet (season 2)
Running time	21–24 minutes (10–12 minutes per segment)
Production companies	Gaumont Multimedia (season 1) Xilam (season 2)
Original release
Network	France 3
Release	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)

The series also served as the basis of an adventure game, developed by Xilam themselves and published by Ubisoft for Windows and 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, and the adult animated series Mr. Baby and Twilight of the Gods.^[1]

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)

Voiced by (English): Maurice LaMarche

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 both the original French and English dubs, he speaks with an English accent, but in the English dub, he also 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)

Voiced by (English): Charlie Adler

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 choosing to disguise himself as a woman, unlike the other aliens in the house), and it is not uncommon to see him flirt with other men. 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 naÏve. 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.

Gorgious Klatoo

Voiced by (French): Patrick Préjean

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, although he is shown at several points in the series to care deeply about them underneath his gruff exterior.

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, à 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^{[citation needed]}:

• Jim Cummings
• Billy West
• Carlos Alazraqui
• Rob Paulsen
• Kevin Michael Richardson
• Tom Kenny
• Laraine Newman
• Frank Welker
• Kath Soucie
• Grey DeLisle
• Tara Strong
• Susanne Blakeslee
• Kat Cressida
• Michelle Layton
• Jessica DiCicco
• Jackie Gonneau
• Sirena Irwin
• Carolyn Lawrence
• Terrence Scammell

Some characters are voiced by the main cast. This is especially more prevalent in Season 2.

Production

The show's producer, Marc du Pontavice, met creator Jean-Yves Raimbaud at the 1993 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where their first meetings went very well. One such meeting was when Raimbaud invited Pontavice to his studio, Jingle. Jean had several projects, and one of them, Maison à louer (Home to Rent), particularly caught Marc's attention. When Jean-Yves spoke to Marc about the series, he mentioned a reference he hadn't yet heard of: The Ren & Stimpy Show. When Marc du Pontavice watched the series upon his return to Paris, he was captivated and impressed by the characters and its groundbreaking animation. Jean-Yves and Marc were convinced that this was the model upon which the future of French animation should be built. Jean's projects and John Kricfalusi's model enthused Marc. Jean-Yves was the first artist hired by Marc.^[2]

In the autumn of 1994, Pontavice traveled throughout the United States to present several projects he was working on. He had a presentation of Space Goofs with the entire visual concept full of designs with a silhouette so un-childlike and entirely constructed according to its character, the principle of light in a very colorful square on a black background and the aliens' house with proportions. All the sets were created by the series' co-creator, Philippe Traversat.^[2]

One of his appointments took him to the office of the head of children's programming at CBS in Los Angeles, where he was surprised to see his interlocutor turn around and return the message he had presented after a brief, well-structured pitch. Marc hadn't imagined that an American network would be so interested in a project like this, as their tastes are usually quite reasonable, and he showed the series by chance at the end of the meeting, after having tried other, less surprising projects. Unbeknownst to him, Marc was happy about this, because CBS's ratings began to fall in the face of competition from Nickelodeon, so he left the meeting with the promise of a development deal, much to his delight. However, Marc discovers that the network intends to maintain total editorial control and impose its American authors, with the obvious risk of turning them into mere executors, since American animation dominates the world and the market had never seen a French cartoon on its screens, as they have an almost abysmal advantage over them.^[2]

Due to the network's terrible proposal, CBS is discarded and France 3 enters the production of the series. Bertrand Mosca, who was preparing to seize power, was irritated by the success of the Highlander cartoon and especially by the fact that Marc hadn't thought to present it to him. He is attracted to the show's transgressive side, which is quite audacious for a public service broadcasting program at the time. Mosca took the rare risk of committing to the series against the advice of his colleagues at the channel, and he gives it the largest budget ever granted to a public service television animation. It wasn't enough to balance the budget, but it was a good amount.^[2]

Germany's ProSieben also gets involved in the show, and Marie-Line Petrequin, like Bertrand Mosca, is bored with the somewhat classic programs that were being aired and dreamed of something new. A few months before they met, she had been charmed by Jean-Yves and couldn't stop wanting to work with him. She would become one of Marc's most fervent supporters in the following years. And they close the deal with the support of Italy's Mediaset. Marc du Pontavice feels that there's a point when networks are ready to play the game, but he doesn't say anything about it to Gaumont, hoping that international sales will offset the excesses he anticipated.^[2]

A pilot was produced in early 1995, a kind of three-minute short film that allowed them to test all phases of production before launching the bulk of it. Jean volunteered to direct and animate the pilot. Although the result was honorable, it was really far from their American model, as the project seemed more like a pale copy of the Disney style and the production lacked rhythm. He seeks out the Ren and Stimpy team, who served as the model for the show; he convinces, with great difficulty, Bob Jaques and Kelly Armstrong to come and spend a year in Paris to launch the series and train young talent. They are joined by their Ren and Stimpy colleagues, Bob Camp and Jim Gomez, who provided voice direction in Los Angeles at Gunther Wahl studio and helped with some episode scripts for the series. Jim brought voice actors for the American dub of the show, such as Charlie Adler (Candy), Maurice LaMarche (Etno), Danny Mann (Gorgious), Jeff Bennett (Bud and Stereo), and several others. In addition to the American series team, there was Olivier Jean-Marie in animation direction, Thomas Szabó in storyboarding, Nicolas Gallet in scriptwriting, Hugo Gittard in character design, and Hughes Mahoas in set design.^[2]

Since part of the animation was done at Sunwoo Entertainment and Big Star studios, production management had to send material every week for the directors to check before sending it, but the Koreans complained that the delivered materials were incomplete. The series team later discovered that Bob Jaques and Kelly Armstrong were stealing some sheets of the sent material to disrupt production and force it to proceed as they wished.^[2]

It took almost ten months for the first episode to finally reach post-production. Several episodes needed to be delivered to MIPCOM, which took place in early October 1996. The budget had fallen significantly due to these delays and the directors' demands. Marc didn't see how international sales could compensate for the deficit, and since the other two productions he launched were unsuccessful, sales from these wouldn't make up for this disaster. The series' deficit was almost 9 million francs.^[2]

The image editing of the first episode was finally complete, with the animation being a luxurious, expressive, and precise masterpiece. In the following weeks, Marc didn't give up on the project, knowing that only one episode would be ready for MIPCOM, as the others had been postponed. He wanted this episode finished on time and perfect. He put on the pressure, canceled his vacation, and began participating in all the sound effects, music, and mixing sessions.^[2]

One essential element for the series' success was the opening sequence, which initially was missing. This worried Marc, as he needed a signature, someone whose music reflected the series, something rock and transgressive.^[2] Marc du Pontavice always believes that the opening sequence is, in a way, the signature of a series, serving two functions for him: a call to action, signaling the start of an episode and drawing the viewer into the television screen, but also playing an important role in creating lasting memories. He always wanted his opening sequences to have their own visual identity and not just a montage of clips from the series.^[3]

Jean-Yves Raimbaud suggested David Bowie, of whom he was a big fan, but since Bowie was very busy, he came up with Iggy Pop. Not entirely convinced, they contacted the musician's manager, sending some images and a presentation of the series. Two weeks later, Iggy sent them a cassette tape with the opening theme accompanied by a simple guitar. A few weeks later, Marc and Jean were invited to an Iggy Pop concert in Bercy. He asked them to accompany him backstage at the end of the concert, and Iggy and Jean-Yves hit it off. Iggy Pop went to Paris a few months later to record the opening theme for the series, Monster Men at the Gaumont Multimédia studio.^[2]

The first episode of the series in production order, Maybe Baby, was ready in time a few days before MIPCOM. Marc was relieved because the result was beyond anything he could have imagined; the series team was very happy. Bob Jaques and Kelly Armstrong left the series. Regarding the credits, Jaques and Armstrong stubbornly refuse to put their names on the series against the advice of their agent, not even in the first episode, which they mastered from beginning to end. They are probably convinced that the rest of the series will be of a very low standard, since it was made without them, seen as a funny disregard by Marc's team towards them, as they will in fact continue without them.^[2]

The initial screenings of the episode generated polite reactions; buyers found it very entertaining, but their schedules made it difficult to watch the show if it clashed with their other cartoons. Then, a certain John arrived at their booth unannounced. He worked in Los Angeles on the editorial team at Fox, which aired Fox Kids. Two years earlier, Marc had met him during his time in Los Angeles. John came to see the result two years later, which captivated him, but he didn't say anything about it, and in the middle of the episode, he stopped watching and simply said he would return in two hours, taking the DVD with him.^[2]

Marc was confused, but sensed something had happened, and that same afternoon he was summoned by Margaret Loesch and Haim Saban, who announced their intention to make him an offer. Marc had difficulty hiding his joy, as he was standing before them. Fox Kids was enjoying great success with two programs produced by Haim's company, Saban Entertainment: X-Men: The Animated Series and Power Rangers. When Pontavice learns about them, Nickelodeon is beginning to threaten their leadership, which was also the reason they bought the series.^[2]

When Marc du Pontavice arrives in California a few days later, Haim does everything he can and takes Marc on a personal tour of his production studios. To his surprise, many people seem to know who Marc is during his visit. He later discovers that Haim has released the episode and impressed the artists present. Saban takes him in his limousine. Haim writes the article for Pontavice, explaining how he plans to promote Space Goofs on air. It's the first time a non-Anglo-Saxon cartoon aired on an American network. Gaumont was delighted with this news. A few days later, back in Paris, Marc signs the contract. He and his team celebrated the news at the Gaumont Multimédia studio, much to their delight.^[2]

Marc du Pontavice's wife, Alix de Maistre, was chosen by him to work as post-production supervisor on the first season, a decision made by Marc himself when one episode of the series, Rip Van Etno, whose qualities and originality were obvious, was deemed completely beyond the comprehension of a children's audience. Alix understood and quickly mastered the narrative and humorous codes of the series. Highly skilled and meticulous in matters of image editing and relevant in all aspects of sound effects and mixing, she played a crucial role in the final quality of the animation.^[2]

Episodes

Series overview

Season	Segments	Episodes		Originally released
				First released	Last released
1	50	26		September 6, 1997 (1997-09-06)	August 29, 1998 (1998-08-29)
2	52	26		May 20, 2005 (2005-05-20)	May 12, 2006 (2006-05-12)

Season 1 (1997–98)

All episodes in this season were directed by Thomas Szabó and aired on Saturdays.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Written by	Storyboard by	Original release date
1	1	"Once Upon a Time..." "(Il était une fois...)"	Jim Gomez, Nicolas Gallet & Bob Camp	François Reczulski	September 6, 1997 (1997-09-06) (Part 1) September 13, 1997 (1997-09-13) (Part 2)
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.
2a	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).
2b	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.
3	3	"Toon in, Drop Out" "(On efface tout et on recommence !)"	Jean Louis-Capron	Rudy Mertens	October 4, 1997 (1997-10-04) (Part 1) October 11, 1997 (1997-10-11) (Part 2)
The aliens are watching a cartoon on television and realize that the characters from the show (Foxy and Ducky, who spoof Warner Bros. Animation' 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.
4a	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.
4b	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.
5a	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.
5b	5b	"Bats in the Belfry" "(Chauve qui peut !)"	Kelly Armstrong & Bob Jaques	Mauro Casalese	November 8, 1997 (1997-11-08)
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.
6a	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.
6b	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.
7a	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.
7b	7b	"Pink Rhinoceros" "(Les Pink Rhinocéros)"	Kelly Armstrong & Jean-Yves Raimbaud	Patrick George	December 6, 1997 (1997-12-06)
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.
8a	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.
8b	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.
9a	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.
9b	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.
10a	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.
10b	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.
11a	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.
11b	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.
12a	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.
12b	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.
13a	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").
13b	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.
14a	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.
14b	14b	"Time for a Change" "(De temps en temps)"	Jim Gomez & Bob Camp	Chris Savino	March 14, 1998 (1998-03-14)
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.
15a	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.
15b	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.
16a	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.
16b	16b	"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.
17a	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.
17b	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.
18a	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.
18b	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.
19a	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).
19b	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.
20a	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".
20b	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.
21a	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.
21b	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.
22a	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.
22b	22b	"Our Ancestors the Humans" "(Nos ancêtres les humains)"	Nicolas Gallet	François Reczulski	July 4, 1998 (1998-07-04)
Tax collectors Nefu Ganioni and Alex pay a visit to the aliens' house, saying that the aliens owe them 23 years of back taxes. Unwilling to lose their house, the aliens attempt to flee using a time machine that Etno has constructed, only to encounter the same tax collectors at every era they visit.
23a	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.
23b	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.
24a	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.
24b	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.
25a	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.
25b	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.
26a	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.
26b	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.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Written by	Storyboard by	Original release date
27a	1a	"Don't Monkey with Me!" "(Hypocrite)"	Thomas Szabó	Olivier Jean-Marie	May 20, 2005 (2005-05-20)
An escaped zoo monkey named Maurice hides out inside the aliens' house. Gorgious soon becomes a target for Maurice to set up and torment.
27b	1b	"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.
28a	2a	"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.
28b	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.
29a	3a	"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.
29b	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).
30a	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.
30b	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.
31a	5a	"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	Hugo Gittard	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, the family of alien lovers and Molux, revealing 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.
52a	26a	"Fairy Tale" "(Conte de fée)"	Franck Ekinci	François Reczulski	May 5, 2006 (2006-05-05)
The Big Bad Wolf from the folk story of Little Red Riding Hood moves into the aliens' house and tries to eat them. Note: Jack the Giantkiller, Snow White and Prince Charming also appear in this episode.
52b	26b	"The Alien Show" "(Le Zinzin Show)"	Thomas Szabó & Olivier Jean-Marie	François Reczulski	May 12, 2006 (2006-05-12)
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, a clip from "Love and Kisses" is shown on the aliens' television screen in this segment, featuring Oggy and his almost-identical twin sister Monica.

Stupid Invaders

Main article: Stupid Invaders

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). Development of the game initially began at Gaumont through Gaumont Multimédia before the studio was shut down by Gaumont in 1999, and it was originally slated for release in December 1999.^[4]

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 worldwide on Fox Kids on August 31, 1997^[5] and 3 weeks later on Channel 4 on September 21, 1997,^[6] both under the show's original title of Home to Rent. 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.^[7]

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

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 Oggy and the Cockroaches:
  • In earlier seasons, the interior of Oggy's house features a framed picture of the main cast of aliens from just 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 Shuriken School: The Ninja's Secret, a picture of Candy is on the cover of Jimmy B.'s manga, Star Attacks, a parody of the Star Wars franchise.
• 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 "The Secret Passage", Candy was one of Joe's transformations in Fort Dalton.