Space Goofs (Les Zinzins de l'espace in French, and originally Home to Rent in Britain) is a 1997 French animated series produced by Xilam (starting with the second season - the first was produced by Gaumont Multimedia).

It tells the story of five aliens: the intelligent Etno, couch potato Bud, clean freak Candy, gluttonous Gorgious, and two-headed Stereo. Upon returning from a vacation trip in their Flying Saucer, they collide with an asteroid and crash on Earth. Seeking refuge and a place to hide, they take residence in the attic of an old house to rent. While they try to work out a solution to return back home, they also have to chase away anybody who takes residence in the old house.

It first aired on the France 3 channel in France, as part of the Minikeums block. American audiences might remember this played on Fox Kids during the late 90's; as such, it was part of the first batch of programming seen on the newly-formed Fox Family Channel. The show's main theme was written and performed by Iggy Pop, of all people.

The series was renewed for a second season that premiered on May 20, 2005, and it also aired on Nicktoons in the UK under the show's official English title in November of that year. Stereo was also Put on a Bus in this season (save for two episodes), and their existence was retconned. The show ended with 104 episodes on May 12, 2006.

Stupid Invaders, a video game based on the series was released in 2000.

Lalalala, lalalalala, we like monster tropes!

• A Lizard Named "Liz": In the episode "Space Sailors" Robby the castaway has a pet bernard-l'hermite^note a French name for a hermit crab named Bernard.
• Aliens Speaking English: The aliens have no problem talking to humans, even when they're not disguising themselves.
• All Just a Dream: "Rip Van Etno" is revealed at the end to be Etno's dream.
• Amusing Alien: The premise of the show - watch five silly aliens get into all sorts of hijinks on Earth.
• And I'm the Queen of Sheba: In "Small You Said?", Gorgious retorts to a mouse named Livingston offering to help him return to normal size by saying that he's the Pope and is able to make sausages grow in Arizona.
• Art Evolution: Between the first season in 1997 and the second in 2005, the increase in quality is really obvious. The main cast were given slight redesigns to appear somewhat more rounded, and human designs were overhauled entirely to better match the updated visuals. They did reuse characters from the first season as background characters, some were given a different voice and personality. (For example, the bespectacled wart-ridden British-accented TV gardening show host became a professional-sounding news anchorman.)
  • Additionally, the animation for season 1 changed within production. The earlier episodes are much more loose and "cartoony" and have a similar style to Bob Clampett, whereas by the second half, the animation becomes a bit tighter.
• The Artifact: The show's Expository Theme Tune still retains the "Five little monsters were riding through space..." part in the Season 2 intro even though Stereo no longer appears in the show, to the point that he's not even in the intro where they're shown crashing into Earth.
• Bad Future: The future in "Rip Van Etno" is this. Candy, Gorgious and Stereo are all dead, cockroaches have become the dominant species and humans have regressed to cockroach-like lifeforms. Bud and Etno are forced to be the golf caddies for a group of angry cockroach men.
• Babies Make Everything Better: Averted in "Maybe Baby", where the baby causes the aliens a lot of inconvenience to the point that they try to dump the tot onto others, who refuse to take the baby due to their disgust at the baby's dirty diaper.
• Bathroom Control: In "Rebel Without a Brain", Stereo is forced by Bud's new friend Brandon to pay to use the bathroom even though Brandon is a guest at the aliens' home. Even after Stereo reluctantly complies, Brandon proceeds to charge extra for toilet paper.
• Big Eater/Extreme Omnivore: Gorgious. Candy's flower from "Flora and Feast" had an appetite that outdid Gorgious, even eating the house and part of the screen.
• Big "NO!": "Inside Gorgious" ends with Etno screaming "No" after Bud sets free the virus that was inside Gorgious.
• Birthday Episode: "Dead Funny" takes place on Stereo's birthday.
• Bowdlerise: While the Latin American Spanish dub for season 2 reverted Candy's gender back from female to male, the dub also went out of its way to remove most, if not all, of Candy's Camp Gay moments. This is particularly noticeable in the episode "Other World Champs", where Candy's initial fear, followed by intrigue of showering with "big, sweaty thugs", as well as him flirting with the basketball team's manager, and his comment near the end of the episode of how he's "always been attracted to bad guys" are all cut from the Latin American Spanish dub of the episode.
• Broken Pedestal: In "No Account Art", Gorgious loses his respect for art critic Vladimir Zakarov when the latter steals credit for Gorgious's paintings, which drives Gorgious to try and expose Zakarov as a fraud undeserving of the fame and wealth the paintings have given him.
• Butt Biter:
  • Bud gets bitten on his behind by a poodle in "Backyard for Eternity".
  • In "Holiday Heave Ho", Santa Claus's first attempt at going down the aliens' chimney ends with Gorgious biting his butt.
• Butt-Monkey: Poor Candy! If you count Bud, Gorgious, and Stereo as well, Etno might be the only character who isn't a Butt Monkey.
• The Cameo: In the episode where Etno becomes a Phony Psychic, the antagonists from the video game make an appearance in the line to get their reading.
  • The show also isn't shy about characters from Xilam's other shows getting cameos. A show that Bud watches on TV in an episode is clearly Oggy and the Cockroaches, right down to using the theme music, and Joey, Marky and Dee-Dee make a quick cameo at the start of "Space Sailors". Bud also briefly transforms into Razmo from Ratz near the start of "Buffalo Blues".
• Centerfold Gag: Used in "Toon In, Drop Out", where Ducky opens a magazine to its unseen centerfold as an example of "cartoon anatomy" as Candy is appalled by Ducky and Foxy demonstrating antics that aren't so family-friendly. Upon looking at the centerfold, Candy pleads the children watching to avert their eyes.
• Cheesy Moon: In "Zero Gravity", the astronaut reveals to the aliens that he's on a secret mission to prevent anyone from finding out that the moon has been replaced with a fake, the real moon's destruction apparently the result of a cheese-related experiment.
• Christmas Episode: "Holiday Heave Ho" is set on Christmas Eve and has the aliens attacking Santa due to mistaking him for a threat when he attempts to go down the chimney to give them presents.
• Color-Coded Characters:
  • Bud: Orange
  • Candy: Green
  • Etno: Purple
  • Gorgious: Blue
  • Stereo: Red
• Competition Coupon Madness: In "Flashman vs. Zork", Bud mentions that he got his inflatable doll of Ladrax the Vermin by saving cereal box tops for 16 years.
• Contrived Coincidence: In the second season, whenever they needed Stereo in the plot, he would happen to crash-land back on Earth again.
• Currency Cuisine: When the aliens discover the grandmother and grandson criminal duo's loot in "Short Changed" and don't know what to do with it, Gorgious chooses to eat the dollar bills.
• Curse Cut Short: In "Get Off My Couch", Gorgious nearly makes a profane threat towards Candy, but is interrupted by Bud.
  Gorgious: I ought to kick your little green a—
  Bud: My TV!
• Delivery Stork: In "Maybe Baby", the aliens at one point try to get rid of the baby by bribing a stork into taking the baby away. The smell of the baby's soiled diaper instead drives the stork away.
• Denser and Wackier: The second season takes it even further than the first one, being much sillier than the previous one.
• Deranged Animation: And that's putting it lightly. It's basically inspired by Ren & Stimpy.
• Digging to China: In "The Alien", the aliens' first test pilot ends up blasting through the Earth and entering China.
• Disco Sucks: In the episode "S.O.S.", the alien hunters Gregor and Tatiana use disco dancing as a method of torturing Etno.
• Distinction Without a Difference: In the episode "Stupid Invaders", Bud responds to Bob Jr. and Viola's suspicions that he and Gorgious are aliens by stating that they're extraterrestrials.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: At the start of "Buffalo Blues", Candy describes a sudden protrusion on some sheets that he's hung up as "big, throbbing and wet". He thinks it's Gorgious, blowing his nose on the sheets in question, but it's quickly revealed to be a buffalo instead, kickstarting the episode's plot.
• Don't Try This at Home: In the Christmas Episode, the aliens are trying to drive Santa Claus away. He tries to slide down the chimney but they shock him with electricity. Before they do, they all (including Santa and his elf Bradley) urge the viewer not to try this at home, as they could hurt themselves or someone they care about.
  Etno: "Don't try this at home, kids."
  Candy: "Yes. You could hurt yourself."
  Gorgius and Bud: "Or someone you love."
  Stereo: "So remember, girls and boys..."
  Santa Claus: "Have a safe and happy holiday."
• Donut Mess with a Cop:
  • In "Neighborhood Watch", the police chief is eating a donut when he answers the deranged neighbor's phone call about witnessing the alien protagonists.
  • In "Meet My Cousin", when Etno tries to call the police, he is informed by the phone line that the cops are taking a donut break.
• Embarrassing Old Photo:
  • In "Mother from Another Planet", Candy's mother shows the other aliens some embarrassing pictures of her child, including one where Candy is still in diapers at age five and one where Candy is being potty-trained.
  • Candy's potty-training photo shows up again in "Zero Stuff".
• "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Several episodes end with this, especially during season 1. Examples include "Short Changed", "Maybe Baby", "Rebel Without a Brain", "Neighborhood Watch", and "Party Time in Hell", among others.
• Evil Lawyer Joke: In "Holiday Heave Ho", lawyers are one of the pests that Stereo mentions are susceptible to mousetraps.
• Exposed Extraterrestrials: None of the aliens wear any clothes unless they are wearing a disguise. Candy wears an apron, but that's about it.
• Expository Theme Tune: By none other than Iggy Pop. It's titled "Monster Men" and spells out how the aliens crash-landed on Earth and are hiding in a house before they can find a way to get off the planet and return home.
  • Theme Tune Extended: There's an extended version of "Monster Men" that runs just under four minutes.
• Everyone Is Bi: Implied with the entire main cast except Candy. As Bud, Etno, Gorgious, and Stereo have been shown to be attracted to women throughout the series, they all fell head over heals for Candy in “First Love” when Candy transforms into an attractive woman to lure the aliens away from a women they were already smitten with.
• Failure Is the Only Option: In "Our Ancestors the Humans", the aliens encounter a tax collector who threatens to take the house's furniture, saying that they owe 23 years of back taxes. They use Etno's time machine to teleport to certain time periods, only for the tax collector to follow them every time. The episode ends with the tax collectors from all four depicted time periods showing up at the aliens' door, much to their chagrin.
  • Similarly, in "Time for a Change", in an attempt to escape their latest tenants (a group of bikers), the aliens (except for Bud) use a time machine to escape to the past. However, they find that the humans in that era are no better than the ones in the present, so they end up traveling back to their own era. The episode ends with them looking out the window in despair while the bikers prepare to move in, as they reluctantly sing "No Place Like Home".
• False Teeth Tomfoolery:
  • In "Backyard for Eternity", a poodle that bites Bud's butt turns out to have dentures when they're still stuck to Bud's rear after his chain pulls him back.
  • "Clowning Around" has a bit where Bud loses his dentures from getting pummeled by the clowns and his false teeth wind up in the mouth of a fish.
  • "Heavy Metal Madness" has two scenes where Etno loses his false teeth from being patted on the back.
• "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: "Inside Gorgious" has Etno shrink in order to enter Gorgious's body and cure him of a virus that infected him.
• Flanderization: The characters went through this to some degree in season 2. In the French dub, this is especially noticeable with the change of voice actors (except for Gorgious).
  • Etno becomes more self-absorbed and manipulative in season 2. In the French dub, he also loses his English accent (due to changing voice actors).
  • Bud becomes more dumber and addicted to TV than he was in season 1.
  • Candy has gone through this the most, becoming more of an exuberantly moody and panicky Butt-Monkey (compared to season 1, where he tries to keep the peace amongst the group). Also, his effeminate traits are dialed up to the maximum.
  • Gorgious mostly remains the same, although his greedy Big Eater behaviors are slightly toned down, depending on the episode writer. He also becomes a bit more of a Jerkass compared to the first season, arguably being more fully aware of his actions.
  • Also, in the two episodes he does appear in, Stereo's only character trait seems to be arguing with his other head (a trait established in only a few episodes of season 1).
• Four-Fingered Hands: Because of the characters being aliens. Even lampshaded in "Back to School Blues":
  Teacher: How much is 5+5?
  (Candy is nervous)
  Random Girl: Use your fingers.
  Candy: Hmmmm. EIGHT!
  • Also lampshaded near the end of the episode "Don't Monkey With Me!", where all of the aliens, sans Gorgious, panic and freak out over humans potentially touching them with their five-fingered hands.
• Ghost Pirate: "Spook to Rent" has the aliens haunted by a ghost pirate who won't leave until he finds the keys to his ship.
• Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies: In "Venus Junior", the aliens are pestered by three Venusians who turn out to be children when their enormous parents show up to pick them up.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: In "Be my Baby", Etno is tempted by a devil version of himself to disobey Candy's restriction that he can't conduct experiments for a week.
• Groin Attack: During the basketball game in "Other World Champs", one of the players on the team the aliens compete against gets hit in the crotch by the ball.
• Gross-Up Close-Up:
  • "Granny Go Home" shows disgusting close-ups of the old woman's nose and ear hairs.
  • "Fairy Tale" shows a nasty close-up of Gorgious's arm when he disguises himself as a human biker and convinces the hunter that what he smelled was his skin condition.
• Hairy Girl: In "Bollywood Aliens" an Indian woman stays in the house and in one scene she can be seen shaving her legs in the bath.
• Halloween Episode: "Count Gracula" takes place on Halloween and has the aliens encounter a vampire.
• Hand-or-Object Underwear:
  • In "Old MacDonald Had a House", a disguised Etno is shown covering his groin after losing his pants to being beaten by the farmer's pig.
  • "Timber" has Etno grab a bush to cover himself after some mites eat off his fur.
• Have a Gay Old Time: Poopy The Bear's catchy little ditty in "One Minor Technicality" uses the word "gay" in the archaic sense meaning "happy".
• Heart Beats out of Chest: Happens to Bud after falling in love with the broken-up lady from the episode "First Love".
• High-Pressure Emotion: Including having set up during the moment Candy becomes Driven to Madness from "Bats in the Belfry”.
• Humans Are Bastards: Just about every human that comes to the house is either stupid, a jerk or both. Not that the aliens are much better.
• I Fell for Hours: In "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Etno, Candy, Gorgious and Bud fall down a large hole in their attempt to get to the center of the earth, which takes so long they forget they're even falling in the first place until they're near the bottom.
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: In "Space Sailors", Etno states that he is a scientist, not a plumber.
• Impossible Pickle Jar:
  • The woman in "First Love" tries to get the aliens to open a jar of pickles when they start ignoring her to instead give their attention to Candy disguised as a female.
  • At the end of "Sir Yes Sir", Etno is punished for losing today's spaceship by being forced to open a bunch of pickle jars.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: Gorgious gets shrunk by one of Etno's inventions in "Small You Said?"
• Inelegant Blubbering: Candy often cries excessively whenever he's upset, especially during season 2. In "The Thing from Beyond", he dissolves into less than a minute of this when the aliens get lost in the woods.
• I Take Offense to That Last One:
  • In "Once Upon a Time...", Gorgious calls Candy apple-headed, bow-legged, cross-eyed and humpbacked.
  Candy: Humpbacked? I'll have you know I have perfect posture!
  • In "Venus Junior", Stereo tells Gorgious that one of the Venusians said he reminds him of a scruffy, filthy, stagnant, rancid, bird-brained blob of space garbage.
  Gorgious: Bird-brained? Who's he calling bird-brained?!
  • In "Bongo Park", Etno insults the park mascot Wheezy Weasel by calling him a big, fat, stupid, ugly, rat-faced weasel. Wheezy is most enraged at being called fat.
• Jackass Genie: In "Pinball Planet", the aliens are pestered by a trio of obnoxious genies who offer them a single wish. Before the aliens have a chance to wish their way back to their home planet, the genies instead assume that the aliens want Gorgious to be returned to normal after he was earlier transformed into a talking fruit cake. When Etno explains what the aliens really wanted to wish for, the lead genie responds by smugly rubbing it in that there are no do-overs.
• Jekyll & Hyde: "Dr. Artichoke & Mister Candy" has Dr. Jekyll mentioned as a recent tenant of the aliens, with the conflict revolving around Candy drinking his formula and transforming into a vicious, artichoke-headed brute every nightfall.
• Jumping Out of a Cake: In "Dead Funny", Burt the wannabe comedian makes his entrance by jumping out of Stereo's birthday cake.
• Kids Hate Vegetables: In "Toy Trouble", the kids who mistake Candy for a doll grouse about having to eat creamed spinach for dinner and get rid of it by feeding it to Candy.
• Kubrick Stare: "The Flyling" has Stereo, Candy, Gorgious and Etno pull off these twice: the first time is when Bud struggles to turn off his TV, and the second time occurs when they see Bud and his fly friend (who had been causing trouble for them) breaking down in tears when the fly has to leave.
• The Last Straw:
  • In "Bats in the Belfry", Candy snaps after being bullied enough by bats. When he chases them away, he chews out the other aliens as well. This moment also counts as a Berserk Button, Unstoppable Rage or a Driven to Madness example.
  • In "Buy Now, Pay Later", Etno snaps near the end of the episode, after constantly paying the salesman to get rid of several pests in the house.
  • From the Prison Episode, the aliens attempt to get out of the prison built around their house. One attempt involves the aliens making a bridge. When Ernie comes, he is holding an anvil, which is enough for the alien-bridge to collapse and fall.
• Longer-Than-Life Sentence: In "Prison Pals", the convict Ernie mentions serving three life sentences.
• Look Behind You:
  • In "Operation Guinea Pig", Bud distracts Candy by claiming to see a half-price sale on lingerie.
  • In "Abracadabra", Candy disguised as a supermodel distracts the magician by claiming to see the ghost of Houdini.
  • In "Back to School Blues", Gorgious cheats at marbles by claiming to see a flying Elvis impersonator.
  • In "Inside Gorgious", Gorgious distracts Candy by claiming to see Brad Pitt's stand-in.
• Mailman vs. Dog: "The Pro" has Lucien Bolok in a full-body cast end up berated by a mailman who's mad at him for failing to kill a dog that was bothering him.
• May It Never Happen Again: "Dingo Bingo" has Gorgious become rich from winning the lottery, afterwards he lets his new money go to his head and ditches his friends. After finding that he's not happy with his fortune, he blows up his mansion and returns to the aliens' house. Bud wins a new fortune at the end of the episode, but is persuaded by the other aliens glaring at him to tear his winning ticket to pieces and eat it.
• Metronomic Man Mashing: "Count Gracula" begins with the titular vampire being tossed and bludgeoned around by an old woman he tried to bite the neck of.
• Mock Cousteau: In "20,000 Feet Under Home to Rent", the aliens try to keep humans out of their house by flooding the building's interior and subsequently transforming themselves into aquatic life to prevent drowning in their home, which leads to a Cousteau parody becoming interested in studying them.
• Mocky Mouse: In "Bongo Park", the main mascot of the titular park is Wheezy Weasel, a vicious brute of a rodent who wears mouse ears and red shorts with buttons.
• Mooning: Implied in "Zero Gravity", where Gorgious threatens to show the dark side of his moon if the astronaut doesn't leave.
• Mr. Alt Disney: "Bongo Park" has a mustached theme park mogul named Fox Bongo offer to buy the land surrounding their house to build a theme park. As a riff on the urban legend that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen, Bongo has to periodically lock himself in a freezer so he doesn't melt from staying out in the sun too long.
• Multi-Part Episode: The episodes "Once Upon a Time" and "Toon In, Drop Out" are split into two parts.
• Negative Continuity: Not much seems to stick with this shows in terms of what continues or not. Several episodes end with the alien’s house being severely trashed or destroyed while other episodes end with the aliens being permanently changed into a different form like gnomes or vampire dust only to be inexplicably fine in the next episode. Then there is the issue with Stereo, who was with the other aliens in season one but his involvement was retconned and only makes two appearances in season 2.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • Johnny the bat in "Bats in the Belfry" talks like John Travolta.
  • When a rock band invades their house, Etno disguises as Slick Stagger.
• No OSHA Compliance: The video game adaptation features very few stairs and ledges that have actual railings. Most notable is the second act, which takes place in a huge factory and has plenty of unsecured platforms over huge drops.
• No Shirt, Long Jacket: Bud's biker disguise from the episode "First Love". Here he wears shorts, a green hat and a black small jacket, but no shirt.
• Non-Standard Character Design: The episode "Doodle" features a boy in a different art style. Considering he was drawn by someone else In-Universe, it's Justified.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Alluded to in "Holiday Heave Ho", where Stereo's list of pests susceptible to mousetraps includes mother-in-laws.
• Pig Man: In "Snoutra", the titular singer, his wife and his bodyguard are all anthropomorphic pigs.
• Precision F-Strike: At the end of "Doodle", Gorgious flat-out says, "This is such a retarded idea!" after getting roped into cheering up Bud.
  • Also, in "Time for a Change", when Bud tries to warn his friends that using a time machine to escape tenants will "juggle the eggs of fate", they all just laugh at him, with Gorgious adding, "That Bud always says the funniest crap in his sleep!"
  • In "Once Upon a Time", Candy exclaims "Intergalactic damnation!" in response to learning that the group has landed on the human-populated Earth. Not long after, Etno refers to Earth as a "God-forsaken planet".
• Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat: In "Abracadabra", the trick is used by the magician on Gorgious, albeit substituting a man in a rabbit suit for a real rabbit.
• Put on a Bus: Stereo in the second season, although he then came back in 2 episodes.
• Rake Take: A variant is used in "Party Time in Hell", where Satan steps on a pitchfork and gets hit in the face as a result.
• Refugee from TV Land: "Space Cruiser to the Rescue" had the aliens deal with television characters Captain Steve and Barbara winding up in the real world during a blackout.
• Retcon: The opening for the second season shows the aliens crashlanding sans Stereo, even though he comes back in other episodes.
• Running Gag: When one or more of the main characters use the transforming machine to become humans or whatever, they always pass three different forms before the final transformation—with the third usually being something outrageously over-the-top. In an episode they remain aliens, but Candy becomes huge and muscular with the others looking in awe, in another, Gorgious becomes an egg laid by a chicken who came out of nowhere, in another, the whole group becomes a color coded set of vacuum cleaners and in another they become four stereotypical Chinese men stacked on each other... the list goes on.
• Right Behind Me: In "Bats in the Belfry", Candy at one point goes on a tirade about the bats before Stereo gestures to him that the bats are behind him and can hear him.
• Satan: The Devil appears in "Party Time in Hell".
• Saw a Woman in Half: In "Abracadabra", the aliens are forced by the magician's assistant to humor the magician's belief that he has real magic powers by aiding him in traditional magic tricks. For Candy, he has to let the magician saw him in half while disguised as a woman in a bunny suit.
• Scenery Censor: In "Old MacDonald Had a House", Gorgious when disguised as a cow has a flower pot located over his crotch when the roughing up from the farmer's pig results in him losing a lot of his fur.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Candy is essentially the Sensitive Guy to Gorgious's Manly Man. Candy acts like a hammy house-wife, while Gorgious is usually the Jerkass.
  • Similarly, Bud tends to fall into the Sensitive Guy to Etno's Manly Man.
• Slapstick: Extensively utilized in the episode "Toon In, Drop Out" as part of its homage to classic cartoons.
• The Song Remains the Same:
  • All dubs except for the Māori dub keep the opening theme song in English. Although the show had first premiered in French and English, Iggy Pop (the artist) never recorded a French cover. Only the original Italian dub featured an Alternative Foreign Theme Song for the first season.
  • Foreign dubs of season 2 combine this with Non-Dubbed Grunts.
• Sphere Eyes: Everyone's eyes are spherical.
• Springtime for Hitler: In "Old MacDonald Had a House", the aliens try making the house look as much a dump as possible to dissuade people from moving in. A farmer and his animals then take interest.
• Status Quo Is God:
  • The aliens never manage to return home. Except in the adventure game, where they manage to escape Earth. But that one's dubiously canon, so take it with a grain of salt.
  • "Get Off My Couch!" has the aliens seeing a therapist who manages to get them to drop their obsessive quirks: Candy stops cleaning and decides to write a novel, Gorgious becomes a healthy eater and sheds a lot of weight, and Bud stops watching TV and becomes a musician. Eventually, Etno drives the therapist out of the house and manipulates the other three into going back to the way they were before.
  • Both episodes where Stereo came back in the second season ended with him accidentally being launched off the planet while testing a ship.
• The Talk: In the episode "Bollywood Aliens", Bud responds to Candy's passionate rambling about love by asking him how babies are made. Candy stutters for a while before settling on claiming that two aliens go through a mind meld in a jacuzzi and go to the garden of love to find a baby in a cabbage. Bud replies by indicating he already knew how reproduction works, much to Candy and Gorgious' confusion.
• Team Mom and Team Dad: Candy and Etno, respectively. To top it off, whenever the aliens go into disguise as humans, Candy and Etno literally disguise themselves as a couple in their respective roles.
• Teens Are Monsters: In "Rebel Without a Brain", Bud befriends a rather obnoxious human teenager.
• Temporal Duplication: In "Who's Who?" Etno attempts to teleport back home and accidentally sends himself back in time just before he used the teleporter, resulting in two Etnos being there at the same time.
• Theme Tune Roll Call: Not the normal theme tune played on the show, but the extended version of "Monster Men" has lyrics naming the aliens and quickly summing up their personalities.
  Poor old Stereo he ain't sure just what he knows
  Etno is intelligent he's quite a super-head
  Gorgious is a great big guy but he's fat from too much pie
  Bud is cool of course it's true but he's a TV fool
  ...
  Candy is the sweetest one cleans and cooks and acts like Mom
• Thermometer Gag: "The Flyling" has a bit where Bud uses a thermometer on the fly and the fly makes a face implying that his temperature was taken rectally.
• They Look Like Us Now: The gang have a machine that makes them look like humans, Earth animals, or even inanimate objects.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: A common plot is that there's a new tenant in the house that the aliens need to somehow drive away.
• Toilet Humour: A fair number of jokes about bodily functions occur in the series, such as Gorgious abruptly farting on occasion, Candy being irritated by the piles of guano left around by the bats in "Bats in the Belfry" or the aliens trying to get rid of the baby in "Maybe Baby" because of its dirty diaper and the stench thereof driving away everyone and everything they try to dump the baby off of.
• Tooth Fairy: In "Sweet Tooth Blues", Gorgious has a nightmare where he loses his teeth to the tooth fairy in a card game.
• Vampires Hate Garlic: "Count Gracula" has the titular vampire's birthday cake turn out to have garlic in it, Gorgious explaining that he always puts garlic in his cakes. Instead of killing him, consuming the garlic cake causes Count Gracula to become a human being.
• Vegetarian Vampire: The titular vampire of "Count Gracula" admits that he doesn't like drinking blood, preferring grape juice and strawberry jam.
• Vocal Evolution: Candy in the second season has a voice that's slightly higher in pitch and more nasal.
• Warm Water Whiz: In "Tired Big Time", Gorgious attempts a similar trick to get a sleeping man to let Candy go, but instead of wetting himself, having his hand placed in warm water causes the man to get out of bed and rush to the bathroom.
• What Does This Button Do?: In "Arctic Intelligence", when aliens are just about to leave Earth, Bud presses a button on their spaceship that releases a disco ball and more disastrously, another one that freezes everything, preventing the aliens from going home once again.
• Went to the Great X in the Sky: "Rip Van Etno" has Bud tell Etno that Candy, Stereo and Gorgious have gone to the big caddyshack in the sky.
• Whoopee Cushion: In "Dead Funny", Gorgious falls victim to a whoopee cushion put in his chair by Burt and later sits on it deliberately.
• Wife Husbandry: In "Time Traveler", Candy begins to treat the evolved caveman Ug as his own son. When Etno evolves Ug further into a knight, Ug mistakes Candy for a woman and asks for his hand in marriage. When Etno informs him that Candy is his parent and not a fair maiden, Ug gets mad at Candy for his "deceptions" and declares war on the aliens.
  Candy: Is it illegal to... marry your own son?
  [Everyone but Candy laughs.]
• Wilting Odor: In "Be my Friend", Maloo turns out to stink so bad that his very presence causes his surroundings to decay, melt or spontaneously combust.
• Word, Schmord!:
  • "Once Upon a Time" has Gorgious remark "Picnic, schmicnic" when he decides he'd rather start eating the food now instead of waiting until they've stopped at the picnic site.
  • In "Flashman vs. Zork", Gorgious Klatoo remarks "Hero, schmero" to express his ire at Flashman eating his chicken.
• Worthless Yellow Rocks: In "Short Changed", a family of robbers make the aliens' home their hideout, stashing their stolen cash there. Not knowing what it's for, the aliens try to find uses for it: Gorgious eats it, Candy uses it as wallpaper, Bud uses it for kindling, Stereo makes paper airplanes out of it and Etno ends up transmogrifying it into toilet paper.
• Wrong Restaurant: Early in the episode "Neighborhood Watch", the man who ends up discovering the alien protagonists makes his second false alarm when he calls the police to report what he thinks is a murderer about to decapitate his victim. Once he sees that it's just a turkey being cut up, he covers up the false alarm by ordering an anchovy and marshmallow pizza from the police station.
• You Can't Get Ye Flask: Happens in the episode "We Robot", where all of the other aliens want Etno's robot, even though at first he says it is programmed only for him. To get out of this trope, Etno's robot does what they wanted.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Part of the trope's name is used for an episode title. Averted at the end of Stupid Invaders, but played straight at the end of "Welcome!", where it's revealed that all of the humans that the aliens have inadvertently or intentionally sent away using one of Etno's "failed" spaceships ended up sending them to their home planet. Needless to say, the humans are not amused, prompting the aliens to return to earth, instead.