Five extraterrestrials from the fictitious planet Zigma B, Candy H. Caramella, Etno Polino, Stereo Monovici, Bud Budiovitch and Klatoo 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.
Characters
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. In both the original French dub and the English dub, Candy's voice parodies a fancy English accent, and was done by Eric Le Roch in Season 1 of the French dub, Éric Métayerin Season 2 of the French dub, and Charlie Adler in the English dub.
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. Etno's voice was provided by Peter Hudson in Season 1 of the French dub, Bernard Alane in Season 2 of the French dub, and Maurice LaMarche for the English dub.
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. Both heads are voiced by Antoine Tomé in Season 1 of the French dub, Patrick Guillemin in Season 2 of the French dub, and Jeff Bennett in Season 1 of the English dub. One of the heads also speaks with a distinct high-pitched tone, while the other head speaks with a rather low-pitched one.
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. Bud's voice was provided by Marc Bretonnière in the French dub, Jeff Bennett in Season 1 of the English dub, and Jim Gomez in Season 2 of the English dub.
Klatoo: Fat and blue with a heavy chin and a protruding bottom tooth, is the grumpy and brutal one of the group. He is very greedy and his hobbies consist of bullying the other aliens and eating. ' voice was done by Patrick Préjean in the French dub, Michael Sicoly in early episodes of the English dub, and Danny Mann in all subsequent episodes of the English dub.
An adventure game based on Space Goofs named Stupid Invaders was released in 2000–2001 by Ubi Soft.
Appearances in other Xilam series
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", and in the Les Dalton episode "Le Secret Passage", when Candy was one of Joe's transformations in Fort Dalton.
