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Flip is one of the five aliens in Pet Alien.

Biography[]

"Flip is easy to start, but impossible to stop.

After 300 years cooped up in the Conforma Dimension, Flip is now a force that can barely be contained.

He'll push the red button, flip the master switch or open any box just to see what happens. A true alien troublemaker, Flip put the "hyper" in hyperactivity."

From the official Pet Alien website.

History[]

The Most Special Place[]

Flip appears flying on a comet, where he meets Dinko and Scruffy. He helps them sneak into an Elvis museum, but they get caught. He then decides to join them in search for a new home. Along the way, they are joined by another alien named Zuffy and only end up causing trouble everywhere they go. The aliens fly back to Tommy’s backyard and accidentally break his swing set. Tommy forgives them and offers the aliens to live in his treehouse as his new friends. The aliens accept and settle into their new home.

Pet Alien[]

One night while relaxing in his bedroom, Tommy Cadle discovers a spaceship crashing into his lighthouse roof with five aliens: Dinko, Gumpers, Swanky, Scruffy and Flip. Terrified, Tommy tries to run away and falls off the lighthouse, but is saved by Dinko. The two form a friendship and the aliens beg Tommy to let them live with him in the lighthouse. After much pleading, Tommy agrees, but as long as they promise to let anyone else move in. The series revolves around Tommy trying to stop the aliens from causing any trouble.

Flip seems to be Dinko, Gumpers, and Swanky's pet alien parrot who loves to run around and make trouble for all of the humans. He frequently accompanies Dinko and Gumpers on their exploits and misguided attempts to help Tommy. Despite being heavily featured in Season One, the following season severely downplays him, he's absent a lot, no longer accompanies Dinko and Gumpers, and he mainly exists as a filler character.

Appearance[]

Flip is an alien parrot with purple feathers, an orange stomach, a green beak and legs. and red hair on his head. In the original pilot, his hair was pink, his feet were purple and his stomach was green.

Personality[]

Flip is a hyperactive alien parrot who loves to run around and screw over everyone, especially Swanky. Flip speaks gibberish and it's difficult to understand what he's saying, although the last word uttered in his sentences is in English. Later episodes seem to drop it altogether and he only speaks in one short sentence.

In the original pilot episode, Flip could speak in complete sentences, loved to ride on comets, and wasn't all that hyperactive. If anything, he was more calm and collected.

Trivia[]

  • In season two, Flip’s gibberish speaking is dropped and he usually just says one word in English after laughing manically.
  • The season two theme song, "On Pet Alien" introduces Flip and Scruffy as a comedy duo, but they are rarely seen together, are seriously downplayed throughout the series, and are absent from a lot of episodes.
  • Flip and Scruffy weren’t part of the original draft of the show, since the show was originally supposed to just feature Dinko, Gumpers and Swanky as the main aliens. When Splash Entertainment took over and rewrote the series, they were added to the lineup, most likely because they were important characters in the original pilot (although Swanky and Gumpers only had brief cameos at the end). Despite the decision to add them, they were heavily underutilized in the final product and rarely get any screen time or focus episodes.
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