'Webster' Returns to Primetime ... on the SCI FI Channel?

SCI FI AIRS "Tripping the Rift" episode "THE DEVIL AND A GUY NAMED WEBSTER"

"I'm not Webster, but I played him on TV."

Chode (voiced by Stephen Root) hires a guy named Webster (Emmanuel Lewis as himself) to litigate him out of a Faustian pact with the Devil on a very special April Fools episode of Tripping the Rift. "The Devil and a Guy Named Webster" airs Thursday, April 1 @ 10:30pm ET/PT, exclusively on SCI FI.


Emmanuel Lewis Guest Stars on a Very Special 'Tripping the Rift'

Tripping The Rift
'The Devil and a Guy Named Webster'
Thursday, April 1 @ 10:30 p.m. ET/PT

NEW YORK, March 24 -- It's every April fool's dream - Webster back in primetime!

When Chode sells his soul to the Devil to save his blobby purple behind, his crew searches desperately for a way out of the demonic pact. Looking back over history, they discover that a guy named Daniel Webster once successfully litigated his client out of a similar contract with the Devil. So they go back in time to get Webster to represent Chode. But, inevitably, the bumbling crew screws things up -- instead of finding Daniel Webster in the 1800s, they end up on the set of Webster in 1983. Unaware of the error, they kidnap series' star Emmanuel Lewis and bring him back to the ship.
Emmanuel Lewis makes a special guest appearance as himself. Surreal.
Based on an award-winning webisode of the same name, Tripping the Rift is a humorous and scandalously sexy send-up of all things sci-fi. The series follows the adventures of the Jupiter 42, a smuggling vessel led by a stumpy purple alien named "Chode" (Stephen Root, News Radio) who, along with his colorful group of misfit shipmates, battles archenemies and new obstacles in space each week. Chode's crew includes "Six" (Gina Gershon), a sexy cyborg who happens to be the most advanced android ever created; "Gus," (Maurice LaMarche, voice of "Brain" from Pinky & The Brain) Chode's sexually-confused and verbally-abused robot slave; "T'Nuk," (Gayle Garfinkle) the ship's aesthetically-challenged pilot; and "Whip," (Rick Jones) Chode's teenaged slacker nephew. "Stuttering" John Melendez provides the halting voice of "Spaceship Bob," the fastest ship in the galaxy.