Space Goofs

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 transformations when used.

In season 2, Stereo has somehow managed to get back to Zigma B, so Candy, Etno, Bud and Gorgious continue to find a way back home.

• Candy Hector Caramella: Small and green with a wrinkled forehead and wearing a polka-dotted apron, Candy is the uptight neat freak of the group. He is homosexual, and it is not uncommon to see him flirt with men. In the Latin American Spanish dub that was aired on Jetix and Magic Kids, Candy's sex was changed to female (despite his middle name). In both the original French dub and the English dub, Candy's voice parodies a fancy English accent, He is Voiced by Charlie Adler.
• Etno Polino: Being short and purple with red lips and a big nose, Etno is the leader and brains of the group. A scientific genius, he creates all sorts of machines with the intention of aiding the group's return to their own planet, including rockets. The aliens often fail to blast off into space, either due to Etno's rockets malfunctioning or someone else boarding the ships. In the original French dub, he speaks with an English accent, but in the English dub, he has a rather fast-paced scientist speech, vaguely reminiscent of those found in educational films about space exploration from the 1950s. He is Voiced by Maurice LaMarche.
• Bud Budiovitch: Tall and orange with three strands of hair, a long neck, and big pink bloodshot eyes, Bud is lazy and naive. He is a television addict and spends most of the time sitting in front of it and drinking soft drinks. Like Etno, Bud is always 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. He was Voiced by Jeff Bennett in Season 1 and Louis Garneau in Season 2.
• Gorgious Klatoo: Fat and blue with a heavy chin and a protruding bottom tooth, Gorgious is the grumpy and brutal one of the group. He is very greedy and his hobbies consist of bullying the other aliens and eating. He was Voiced by Danny Mann, though in early episodes he was voiced by Michael Sicoly.
• Stereo Monovici: Two-headed and red in which each head has a slightly long nose, Stereo acts as two people since each head has its own mind. They are the "bookworm" of the group yet often waste their intelligence on the most useless information. Both heads often argue with each other. Stereo was removed from the series for Season 2, but reappeared in two segments of that season ("Other World Champs" and "UFO"). Both heads were voiced by Jeff Bennett.

• Charlie Adler - Candy Hector Caramella
• Maurice LaMarche - Etno Polino
• Danny Mann - Gorgious Klatoo
• Louis Garneau - Bud Budiovitch (Season 2)
• Jeff Bennett - Stereo Monovici and Bud Budiovitch (Season 1)

• Jim Cummings as Slick Stagger and Ernie
• Kath Soucie
• Carlos Alazraqui
• Rob Paulsen
• Kevin Michael Richardson
• Tom Kenny
• Billy West
• Laraine Newman

The series was created for France 3 by Jean-Yves Raimbaud and Philippe Traversat. Raimbaud was also known as the co-creator of Oggy and the Cockroaches, which premiered a year later, but he died during production on the first season due to suffering lung cancer. The series was done in a similar style to cartoons of the 1940s and the 1950s, from the likes of Looney Tunes and MGM cartoons. Some people involved with The Ren & Stimpy Show have also worked on the series, including Jim Gomez, Bob Camp, and Chris Savino, the latter of whom would later create The Loud House before his firing in 2017 due to sexual harassment.

The theme song was titled "Monster Men", which was performed by Iggy Pop done to explain the plot of the series. A CD of the song was released in 1997, which included other tracks, including a remix edit of the theme song.

Xilam announced plans for a film based on Space Goofs as Stupid Invaders. Produced by Action Synthese (who previously did The Magic Roundabout) and Xilam and was going to be directed by Olivier Jean-Marie, the film was going to be originally released in the second quarter of 2009. The film was never finished, as Action Synthese, one of the studios produced the film along with Xilam, ended in a compulsory liquidation and went bankrupt on March 25, 2013.

The series was a hit in its home country of France, in particular due to its absurd, slapstick, and tongue-in-cheek slightly politically incorrect humor. It also enjoyed reasonable success in both the US and UK at the time.

An adventure game based on Space Goofs named Stupid Invaders was released in 2000–2001 by Ubi Soft.

• In Shuriken School: The Ninja's Secret, a picture of Candy is on the cover of Jimmy B.'s manga, Star Attacks.
• The characters also made a cameo in the Oggy and the Cockroaches episode "Night Watchmen" (the eponymous main characters for that series also made their first appearance in this one's third episode, "Venus Junior", when the aliens were watching their television)
• In the Les Dalton episode "Le Secret Passage", when Candy was one of Joe's transformations in Fort Dalton.

• (in French) Official website
• Stupid Invaders official website
• Space Goofs at IMDb
• Stupid Invaders at MobyGames

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