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Zim goes rampaging through the city in a giant robot that has a cloaking device that, unbeknownst to Zim, cloaks everything except him. It makes for a beautifully silly and perhaps budget-conscious image of Zim floating in mid-air with a giant cable dragging behind him, destruction all around.

I give this one the edge because I favor the concept of an explosion exploding in slow-motion over the partially-cloaking robot just a bit more. The moment where Dib is sent flying toward the explosion looks really cool and cinematic too it even goes all letterboxed! Gir can be great in small doses, but his inane, noisy cuteness often dominates Invader Zim. In general, this episode ties up its loose ends more so than most Zim.

It makes a point of reverting Gir back to normal and even gives the squid man a little coda at the end he returns to the sea and, um, probably drowns. You may notice, as we get closer to the top of this list, that my criteria is getting to be more about plot structure than anything else. Another, much better Irken invader, Tak, comes to Earth to take it over and get revenge on Zim, who unwittingly screwed her over during Operation Impending Doom I.

It also may be the only episode that ends with a clear indication that developments in this episode will be carried over into future ones i.

The drawback of the ambitious, film-like plot is that the dialogue occasionally has to dip into awkward, expository sci-fi hootenanny, which feels out of place in a series typically dedicated to stupidity. Children selling candy door-to-door are accompanied by lasers firing from nowhere.

Two children shovel a pile of what appear to be roaches they were roaches originally; Nickelodeon had them changed to roach-like sausages into their mouths. Zim sells candy by showing people a post-apocalyptic version of the future featuring a mutant that eats doll heads.

The color palette of the episode is really unique. I just have to put this one up here for being such a relentless mindfudge. This is really the first episode to go for an epic, sci-fi, cool space battles kind of thing. This happened a lot more in the latter portion of the series, but this first outing did it best as it looked awesome and felt action-y without going too overboard by remembering to keep it all fundamentally silly. You even hear a portion of the human population shrieking in unison as the moon slams into the earth.

Of course, good things never actually happen to Dib and everything turns out to be a VR simulation engineered by Zim just to find out whether it was Dib who threw a muffin at him in the lunchroom. This episode kind of feels like Invader Zim in a nutshell: loads of epic stuff all in service of something unabashedly stupid… and Dib always loses. This one actually also ends with Dib overall better off than Zim, which is nice to see once in a while. Kids T-Shirt. Zim Tank Top Where can I find other zim designs?

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