SEASON 1 (MARCH 31, 2001-DECEMBER 10, 2002)

PILOT                                                                                                                                                                                           SEASON 1, EPISODE 0 PRODUCTION CODE # 000                                                                                                     ORIGINAL AIRDATE: UNKNOWN Dib has been taking notice of how ZIM never eats human food and he believes he may just be able to exploit this fact to prove ZIM is an alien. However, ZIM isn’t about to let someone ruin his mission and he does everything he can to appear as normal as possible, though will any of their attempts actually matter since most of the children at the school aren’t even paying attention to them? THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS                                                                                                       SEASON 1, EPISODE 1 PRODUCTION CODE # 101                                                   ORIGINAL AIRDATE: MARCH 31ST, 2001   On planet Conventia, the start of a galactic conquest known as Operation Impending Doom 2 is about to begin. The Irkens want all the races of the universe to serve them under their already vast Irken Empire, so they send Irken Invaders to make the planets vulnerable so the Irken Armada can easily invade and conquor them. Zim arrives uninvited, and it is revealed that Zim singlehandedly ruined Operation Impending Doom 1 by stealing a Frontline Battle Mech and unwittingly annihilated a portion of his home planet, Irk. Reluctant to have Zim involved with the new operation, The Tallest(Current two leaders of the Irken Empire) send Zim away to a distant planet on other side of the Galaxy, represented on their galactic map with a sticky note with a circle drawn onto it with a question mark in the circle. It turns out to be Earth, thus ending the assignment process. On Earth, a boy named Dib intercepts a signal and hears about the Irken invasion plan, though no one, these being his sister and father, takes any interest. Back on Irk, Invaders are receiving robot assistants called S.I.R. Units(Standard-issue Information Retrieval Units). Not wanting to give away advanced technology to Zim, he is given a robot constructed of garbage named GIR. It is not known what, if anything, the G stands for. GIR appears unintelligent and Zim comments on this, but The Almighty Tallest lie and convince him all is well, telling him, "It's not stupid...It's advanced!". Zim and GIR head for Earth, and upon their arrival Zim picks disguises and constructs a base. The disguises scene involves cameos of the creator, Jhonen Vasquez, and the director, Steve Ressel. The next day Zim attends the local school as he believes he will learn about his enemy there. Dib is there and recognises Zim as an alien, but nobody else does. Dib makes an attempt to capture Zim but gives up when Zim gets to his base, as the front lawn is covered in laser firing lawn gnomes. BESTEST FRIEND/NANOZIM                                                                                                SEASON 1, EPISODE 2 PRODUCTION CODE # 102A/102B                                              ORIGINAL AIRDATE: APRIL 13, 2001 BESTEST FRIEND When Zim makes a huge scene over his inability to eat lunch food, he overhears one of the girls at school talking about how inhuman he seems to be and how he has no friends. In an attempt to appear more normal, Zim decides to spend time with a student named Keef, though Zim soon finishes his plan and he considers himself normal, so he tries to get Keef to leave him alone. Much to Zim’s chagrin, however, Keef continues to follow Zim around, so Zim decides to take unorthodox measures to ensure Keef leaves him alone. NANOZIM When Dib finally manages to get a picture of Zim without him in his disguise, Zim formulates a plan to shrink himself down into a microscopic size to get into Dib’s body and perform a brain wipe to prevent him from remembering where he located the picture. Fortunately for Dib, his father has been working on some technology that may just help Dib stop Zim before it’s too late, though he’ll been to be careful because he’s extremely vulnerable due to the fact that Zim is inside of him. PARENT TEACHER NIGHT/ WALK OF DOOM                                                                    SEASON 1, EPISODE 3 PRODUCTION CODE # 103A/103B                                                ORIGINAL AIRDATE: APRIL 6, 2001 PARENT TEACHER NIGHT After another day at the Earth school, Ms. Bitters reminds the children that it’s Parent Teacher Night and that all the parents must come to the school at the end of the day. Zim becomes worried because his robotic parents aren’t programmed for such a task yet and he cannot permit them to blow his cover, so he attempts to help them become the parents they should be, but Gir’s carefree nature soon puts his plans in jeopardy. WALK OF DOOM When Zim gets annoyed by Gir’s inept nature for the last time, he finally gets around to upgrading Gir’s guidance technology and he wishes to test its capability. Initial tests look good so Zim wants to take Gir into the city to test and see if Gir can get them safely back to their headquarters. However, when Gir forgets to bring the new guidance chip with him, Zim and Gir must find a way to get back home, despite the fact that they have very little understanding of the way the city functions. GERMS/ DARK HARVEST                                                                                                       SEASON 1, EPISODE 4 PRODUCTION CODE # 104A/104B                                              ORIGINAL AIRDATE: APRIL 20, 2001 GERMS After Zim watches an old movie where some invading aliens are defeated by some bacteria, he begins to study germs more. However, when he discovers that such germs truthfully are everywhere, he begins a crusade to kill every germ in his headquarters so that he can be safe, which is helped by the fact that Gir had some cleaning spray handy in the house; though when the cleaning bottle runes dry, Zim must attempt to go to the store and get some more, despite the fact that he knows just how many germs are out there. DARK HARVEST When Dib finds out that Zim has no human organs, he attempts to exploit Zim’s ailment of head pigeons to get the school's nurse to examine Zim in hopes she will see the truth. However, when Dib blurts his plan out to Zim, Zim develops a device that will permit him to switch objects for organs, in which he begins to steal the organs of his fellow classmates in order to appear more human in time for his appointment at the nurse’s office. ATTACK OF THE SAUCER MORONS/ THE WETTENING                                                    SEASON 1, EPISODE 5 PRODUCTION CODE # 105A/105B                                                   ORIGINAL AIRDATE: APRIL 27, 2001 ATTACK OF THE SAUCER MORONS Zim attempts to test some of the defenses that Earth has by taking his Voot out for a drive to monitor local police units. However, when a bumble bee crashes into his vehicle, Zim comes crashing down in the park, in which he heads home because he will be unable to recover it the next day. However, when a space cult known as the Saucer Morons discover the Voot first, Zim must find a way to get his vehicle back without causing him to lose his cover. THE WETTENING When it begins to rain one day, Zim becomes worried because he’s never experienced rain before. Dib takes notice of his fear and he coaxes Zim into stepping into the rain, only to discover that the Irken race has an innate weakness to water, which causes a burning sensation upon impact. Dib decides to exploit this new fact to create the ultimate weapon to stop Zim once and for all, but Zim himself attempts to find a way to protect himself from this new found weakness, which all leads up to a confrontation that neither of them would have expected. CAREER DAY/ BATTLE-DIB                                                                                                 SEASON 1, EPISODE 6 PRODUCTION CODE # 106A/106B                                                  ORIGINAL AIRDATE: MAY 4, 2001 CAREER DAY Ms. Bitters is assigning students their mentors for Career Day through the use of an aptitude test and a machine. Both Dib and Zim attempt to get their desired professions on the test, in which Dib manages to get paired with a Paranormal Investigator while Zim gets stuck working at a fast food facility. However, when Zim misinterprets the 8 billion served sign and thinks that the individuals in charge of the company are the leaders of the planet, he becomes dedicated to his job in hopes of being promoted to Lord of All Humans. However, thanks to the alignment of the planets, Zim is about to go through some uncontrollable changes that could jeopardize his mission; which Dib is looking to exploit, though both Zim and Dib find their situations to go much different than they anticipated. BATTLE-DIB When Dib finally manages to be permitted to present his findings on Zim to the Swollen Eyeball Network, he believes he will be able to put an end to Zim’s schemes once and for all. However, when he discovers that he needs his father’s permission and since his father is busy working on his television show, Dib must venture into the studio where his father is in order to attempt to get the signature he needs; though he soon discovers that speaking to his father isn’t going to be as easy as it should be. A ROOM WITH A MOOSE/ HAMSTERGEDDON                                                                 SEASON 1, EPISODE 7 PRODUCTION CODE # 107A/107B                                           ORIGINAL AIRDATE: AUGUST 17, 2001 A ROOM WITH A MOOSE When Zim formulates a plan to get revenge on his skoolmates and especially Dib, he gets them all participating on a fieldtrip. Dib, however, realizes that the driver of the bus isn’t real, but due to his constant theories, the other students disregard his warnings. Zim decides to gloat about his magnificent plan and he informs Dib of every detail in confidence that Dib can do nothing to stop him, though Dib refuses to give up and he does everything he can to save his skoolmates and himself; despite the fact that he doesn’t know why Zim’s plans involve a room with a moose. HAMSTERGEDDON While at skool one day, Ms. Bitters tells the class that they need a new pet hamster due to the orders of the skool’s board of directors. When the hamster arrives, all the children love the hamster because of how adorable it is, in which Zim decides to exploit that fact since the hamster could help make the humans too weak to resist him. Zim plants an Irken device on the hamster that will permit it to grow larger and be controlled by Zim, but when the hamster grows rampant and breaks free, Zim must attempt to stop the huge hamster from destroying his headquarters, all the while worrying about the growing military presence that may have no choice but to attack the hamster, which would ruin all of his efforts. INVASION OF THE IDIOT DOG BRAIN/ BAD, BAD RUBBER PIGGY                         SEASON 1, EPISODE 8 PRODUCTION CODE # 108A/108B                                           ORIGINAL AIRDATE: AUGUST 24, 2001 INVASION OF THE IDIOT DOG BRAIN When Zim’s headquarters are having security problems, Zim attempts to upgrade the security system and get the job over with. He decides to put Gir in charge of ensuring nothing goes wrong while he replaces the computer’s AI, but when Gir begins to mess around with things, he inadvertently causes the house to shut down along with himself. However, Zim soon discovers that Gir’s AI has been uploaded into the central hub of the house, which worries Zim quite a lot since Gir is being unresponsive and uncontrollable, which soon puts their mission in jeopardy. BAD, BAD RUBBER PIGGY Zim finally finishes one of his self proclaimed brilliant inventions, a space-time-object-transfer device, in which he plans to send a giant robot into the past in order to put an end to Dib once and for all. However, when the robot isn’t compatible with the temporal field, he throws a rubber pig into the vortex instead, which turns out to be compatible and it causes Dib to crash his tricycle in the past. Zim decides to send many more rubber pigs into Dib’s past, which ultimately affect him in the future; though when Zim overdoes himself, he discovers that history isn’t something that should be messed with. PLANET JACKERS/ RISE OF THE ZITBOY                                                                          SEASON 1, EPISODE 9 PRODUCTION CODE # 109A/109B                                           ORIGINAL AIRDATE: AUGUST 31, 2001 PLANET JACKERS Zim is upset because all of the other Invaders are doing much better in their tasks than he is, though he inadvertently discovers that his signal to the data hub has been interrupted. When Zim takes a closer look, he discovers that the Earth has actually been hijacked by the Planet-Jackers, an alien race who must throw other planets into their dying sun in order to survive. Zim begins to formulate a plan to stop the Planet-Jackers, but when Dib refuses to believe him, he realizes that he must save the world he plans to destroy by himself, just for the sake of being the one who gets to destroy it. RISE OF THE ZITBOY When Zim comes home from a lousy day at skool because he found out that Dib knows a flaw in his security system, Gir attempts to cheer him up by rubbing bacon oil all over his face. However, when Zim develops a pimple due to the grease, he fears that he will be considered abnormal and that it will jeopardize his mission. Zim believe he can use some acne medicine to get rid of the pimple, but when it only gets worse and when Gir draws a little face on the pimple, Zim believes all hope is lost; though Zim soon discovers the pimple has hypnotic powers and he hopes to exploit this new power in order to get Dib to reveal his secret. PLAGUE OF BABIES/ BLOATY'S PIZZA HOG                                                                 SEASON 1, EPISODE 10 PRODUCTION CODE # 110A/110B                                        ORIGINAL AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 7, 2001 PLAGUE OF BABIES When Zim’s Voot Cruiser has a mechanical failure and it sends Zim and Gir flying through the skies, Zim manages to gain control just in time to land safely in their headquarters. However, Zim is highly upset because a human baby saw the whole thing and despite Gir’s attempts to reason with him, Zim decides to go meet with the baby to see what he can do. However, Zim soon discovers the true nature of the baby and he must do everything he can to prevent them from accomplishing their goals. BLOATY'S PIZZA HOG Dib believes he has figured out a way to successfully tunnel into Zim’s underground base, but when his father comes in and announces that it’s the Membrane family’s night out and that Gaz gets to pick the place to eat, Dib runs off saying that he will be back in time for them to leave. However, when Dib fails to arrive on time, Professor Membrane decides to wait until Dib gets back, which causes Gaz to become quite frustrated as she really wanted to get some of her favorite food; she decides to go find Dib at Zim’s place and despite the fact that Zim’s already taken Dib into an in-space laboratory, she refuses to miss her opportunity to eat out so she plans to let nothing get in her way. DOOR TO DOOR/ FBI WARNING OF DOOM                                                                  SEASON 1, EPISODE 11 PRODUCTION CODE # 111A/111B                                            ORIGINAL AIRDATE: MARCH 29, 2002 DOOR TO DOOR The skool is holding a candy drive in order to get some finances, in which the individual who sells the most chocolate bars will get a secret mystery prize. Zim becomes interested and he attempts to find a way to sell the most chocolate bars, which causes Dib to get into the contest in order to gain a defeat over Zim. Zim soon realizes, however, that he may have to take drastic measures in order to sell more candy bars than Dib. FBI WARNING OF DOOM Gir has recently been watching a movie he rented from the local mall, in which Zim just happens to be in the room when the FBI Warning is displayed on screen. Just as Zim realizes this, he gets a phone call from the mall saying they need the video back, in which Zim begins to panic because he believes that there is foul play at hand. When his computer tells him that the FBI must be an alien hunting group, he grabs the movie and makes his way to the mall, despite the fact that he doesn’t know what to expect when he arrives. BOLOGNIUS MAXIMUS/ GAME SLAVE 2                                                                         SEASON 1, EPISODE 12 PRODUCTION CODE # 112A/112B                                      ORIGINAL AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 21, 2001 BOLOGNIUS MAXIMUS When Dib once again notices that Zim isn’t eating his food, he throws a piece of bologna at him in order to taunt him, in which the bologna fuses with Zim’s skin, causing him immense pain. Zim vows to get his revenge and during the next day of school, Dib sits on a tack, which causes Zim to begin laughing hysterically. Dib believes Zim is just being pathetic, but when Dib begins to transform into a living piece of bologna, he realizes that Zim’s plan was better than he had thought and he must formulate a method of curing himself before it’s too late. GAME SLAVE 2 When Gaz sees an advertisement for the new handheld gaming console, the Game Slave 2, she decides that she really needs to go to the mall in order to get one. However, when her father insists that she takes Dib to the mall as well, he forces her to wait until Mysterious Mysteries goes off, which causes them to arrive at the mall late. Gaz, in rage, tricks Dib into running off into the underground parking lot while she attempts to get a Game Slave 2; though Gaz discovers an annoying kid managed to get the last copy so she seeks to steal his copy, all the while Dib must attempt to get out of the underground parking lot, which is filled with rat-like people who just annoy him. BATTLE OF THE PLANETS                                                                                                     SEASON 1, EPISODE 13 PRODUCTION CODE # 113                                                          ORIGINAL AIRDATE: APRIL 5, 2002 When Zim goes to Mars to attempt to find a way to destroy the Earth, figuring that whatever killed the life on Mars may work for Earth as well, he stumbles across the face on Mars, which he later discovers that is actually the controls for a spaceship, in which the entire planet of Mars was the spaceship. Dib learns of this and he attempts to go to NASAPLACE in order to get them to see what Zim is doing, but they refuse to believe him as they can’t look at the monitors. Will Dib be able to find a way to stop Zim before he uses the red planet to squish all the life out of the Earth? MYSTERIOUS MYSTERIES/ FUTURE DIB                                                                         SEASON 1, EPISODE 14 PRODUCTION CODE # 114A/114B                                            ORIGINAL AIRDATE: MARCH 22, 2002 MYSTERIOUS MYSTERIES When Mysterious Mysteries is having trouble in ratings due to their lack of stories, they decide to take drastic measures and they finally let Dib onto the show. Dib believes this is his best chance to reveal Zim for what he is and he plays a short clip of Zim and Dib in the woods, which actually makes the anchor of the series quite pleased. However, when Zim gets on the show the next day to attempt to prove Dib wrong, they soon get into a battle of words over the real events that occurred on that day as they both attempt to persuade the host of Mysterious Mysteries to believe what they have said. FUTURE DIB Professor Membrane has just unveiled a world changing machine that will completely remove the entire need for fuel, though if the machine were to malfunction, it could cause a giant shockwave that would destroy all life on Earth. However, Professor Membrane refuses to turn the machine on until his children are present, in which Dib is absent because he is attempting to prevent Zim from sabotaging the machine. However, things soon take a turn for the worse as Dib falls into one of Zim’s traps and the crowd in front of Professor Membrane beings to grow uneasy over the fact that they’ve waited so long, so Professor Membrane decides to send Gaz to go find Dib and put an end to his foolishness. HOBO 13/ WALK FOR YOUR LIVES                                                                                  SEASON 1, EPISODE 15 PRODUCTION CODE # 115A/115B                          ORIGINAL AIRDATE: JULY 12/SEPTEMBER 28, 2002 HOBO 13 When Zim’s constant requests to the Tallest get on their nerves, they attempt to remind him that he is an Invader, not a battle soldier, and that he doesn’t have the training to use the equipment he requested. In order for Zim to prove himself to them, they send him to Hobo 13, an elite training facility that only the best of soldiers stand a chance of completing. While the Tallest hope that Zim will die on the mission and be gone once and for all, they soon discover that Zim is much more cunning than they gave him credit for. WALK FOR YOUR LIVES During Probing Day, the day where the Tallest evaluate the Invaders’ performances, Zim has Dib captured in a space-time-field prison which is keeping him in slow motion, in which Zim wants to perform experiments on him for the Tallest. However, when a malfunction causes the prison to explode, Zim finds a piece of explosion that is expanding very slowly; in which Zim believes he can end if he throws it into the city’s cesspool. However, when he discovers that getting the explosion to the cesspool is much more difficult than he expected, he finds that he may just have to use unconventional means to complete the task. HALLOWEEN SPECTACULAR OF SPOOKY DOOM                                                          SEASON 1, EPISODE 16 PRODUCTION CODE # 116                                                   ORIGINAL AIRDATE: OCTOBER 26, 2001 It’s Halloween and the entire town is getting into the Halloween spirit; much to Zim’s dismay because he considers the entire concept to be insane and he doesn’t want filthy Earth children coming to his house. Meanwhile, Ms. Bitters sends Dib to an insane asylum because he has been acting crazier than normal, in which in truth he has been getting sucked into a nightmare world that was created due to his meddling with one of his father’s inventions. After finally getting out of the nightmare world and out of the insane asylum, Dib sees Zim’s house and decides to force Zim to come with him into the Nightmare world because he believes Zim will have the capability to put an end to all the madness, but will they manage to work together despite the fact that they’re enemies and that Zim didn’t want to help him in the first place? MEGADOOMER/ LICE                                                                                                           SEASON 1, EPISODE 17 PRODUCTION CODE # 117A/117B                                              ORIGINAL AIRDATE: APRIL 26, 2002 MEGADOOMER The Almighty tallest are examining a storage planet in order to send valuable goods to the Invaders to help them on their missions. They decide to send a Megadoomer Combat Stealth Mech to Invader Tenn to help her conquest of the planet Meekrob and they decide to send a box of malfunctioning SIR units to Invader ZIM, but when the two packages addresses are switched by an angry slave, ZIM gets the Megadoomer and plans to use his new gift from the Tallest to put an end to Dib once and for all. LICE When at skool one day, a child comes into class late because his head was itchy, which Ms. Bitters recognizes that it was due to lice. Before she can do anything, however, the lice infect the rest of the students in the class, so Ms, Bitters informs the Delouser, who proclaims martial law and the children are taken into separate rooms. However, Zim shows no sign of being infected by the lice, which causes the Delouser to take special interest in him. ABDUCTED/ THE SAD, SAD TALE OF CHICKENFOOT                                                   SEASON 1, EPISODE 18 PRODUCTION CODE # 118A/118B                                              ORIGINAL AIRDATE: APRIL 12, 2002 ABDUCTED When Zim is attempting to explain to the Almighty Tallest that the humans are both dumb and tall, he gets interrupted when the doorbell rings and his transmission to the Tallest is cut short. The two individuals at the door claim to be human, but Zim doesn’t believe them and he attempts to tell them that their spaceship is jamming his signal; they respond by merely sacking both Gir and Zim and taking them to their spaceship. Will Zim be able to get back to his base and finish his report to the Tallest, and what will Zim do to the two aliens who dared to capture him? THE SAD, SAD TALE OF CHICKENFOOT When Professor Membrane invites some of his colleagues over to the house, they insult and mock Dib because of his hobby of paranormal investigation. Matters become even worse for Dib when Mysterious Mysteries begins to show a segment on Chickenfoot, a being that is obviously a guy in a suit. Dib decides to go on a crusade to prove Chickenfoot is a fraud in order to establish the fact that paranormal investigation also disproves the frauds along with proving the real mysteries, though will Dib be able to find the elusive Chickenfoot and even if he does, how will he manage to get the suit off of him? GIR GOES CRAZY AND STUFF/ DIB'S WONDERFUL LIFE OF DOOM                       SEASON 1, EPISODE 19 PRODUCTION CODE # 119A/119B                                                ORIGINAL AIRDATE: MAY 24, 2002 GIR GOES CRAZY AND STUFF When Zim attempts to taint the Earth’s cow-meat supply with sewer water is ruined because of Gir’s antics, he decides to increase the power on Gir’s behavioral modifier, which will permit him to stay in serious mode all the time. However, when the serious Gir starts to consider Zim a threat to the mission and runs off to learn things on his own accord, it’s up to Zim and Squidman to find Gir and turn down the power on his behavioral modifier before too many individuals see them and jeopardize their mission. DIB'S WONDERFUL LIFE OF DOOM While at school one day, Zim throws another fit about the lunch food so Dib throws a muffin at him, which causes Zim to run away in anger. The next day, a pair of Meekrob come to Dib in his sleep and grant him marvelous super powers, in which Dib decides to use to put an end to Zim once and for all. When Dib manages to suppress Zim quite easily, he decides to use his power for the greater good and he lives out the wonderful life he always wanted to have; though perhaps it’s too wonderful. TAK, THE HIDEOUS NEW GIRL                                                                                           SEASON 1, EPISODE 20 PRODUCTION CODE # 120A/120B                                                ORIGINAL AIRDATE: MAY 10, 2002 It’s Valentines Day and everyone is celebrating by giving out meat valentines, but when a new girl named Tak arrives and starts giving out sausages, Zim believes she has a crush on him so he exploits the opportunity to examine human love rituals. However, when such doesn’t turn out so well, he decides to head home, only to discover later that Tak followed him home and that she is actually a member of the Irken race. Tak plans to take over Zim’s mission so she can show the Tallest that she is worthy of being an Invader, but that’s not something Zim is going to permit so easily so he vows to prevent her from doing this, as the Earth is his planet to destroy.

SEASON 2 (2006 - DVD ONLY PREMIERES: PREVIOUSLY UNAIRED EXCEPT ON NICKTOONS NETWORK)

BACKSEAT DRIVERS FROM BEYOND THE STARS                                                           SEASON 2, EPISODE 1 PRODUCTION CODE #121                                                          ORIGINAL AIRDATE: JUNE 10, 2006 When Zim notices that the Almighty Tallest are very close to Earth, he wants them to view his newest scheme to destroy the humans: a monster that sucks out and eats the brains of people. The Tallest don’t care because they have their own problems to deal with, such as the group of resistance fighters that are trying to attack The Massive. Zim decides to take control of The Massive and force the Almighty Tallest to come to Earth, though his plans are interrupted when Dib uses Tak’s ship in order to take control of The Massive as well, not to mention the fact that the robo-parents are malfunctioning and that the brain eating monster is about to break free. Zim will need to work three times as hard if he wants to ensure his plan will be a success, though with the odds against him, will Zim be able to get the Tallest to Earth on time to witness his brilliance? MORTOS DER SOULSTEALER / ZIM EATS WAFFLES                                                     SEASON 1, EPISODE 22 PRODUCTION CODE # 22A/22B                                                   ORIGINAL AIRDATE: JUNE 17, 2002 MORTOS DER SOULSTEALER Dib summons Mortos der Soulstealer, a mystical being who emerges once every thousand years, in order to wish for him to steal ZIM’s soul. However, when it turns out that Mortos needs to recharge his power before he can complete the task that Dib requested, Dib must help him do many absurd things in hopes of putting an end to ZIM once and for all. Meanwhile, ZIM heads around town undergoing his latest evil scheme, which is the reason Dib was so eager to enlist Mortos’ help in the first place. ZIM EATS WAFFLES When Dib finally manages to get a spy camera inside Zim’s house, he plans to exploit the moment to show the Swollen Eyeball Network the truth about Zim’s nature. Unfortunately for Dib, Zim is more concerned with Gir’s waffles than his next evil plan, which causes Dib some complications as there is nothing special about waffles. However, when something out of the ordinary does occur, Dib believes he may just have a chance to succeed in his plans. THE GIRL WHO CRIED GNOME / DIBSHIP RISING                                                      SEASON 1, EPISODE 23 PRODUCTION CODE # 23A/23B                                                   ORIGINAL AIRDATE: JULY 15, 2006 THE GIRL WHO CRIED GNOME When a girl named Moofy comes to Zim’s house and attempts to sell him cookies, he freaks out and sends a robot gopher to get rid of her. However, when Moofy falls into a hole, the story breaks out and a crowd of people and a news agency shows up to cover the breaking events. Zim is worried because he doesn’t want his identity to be revealed, though he begins to formulate a method to exploit the moment to free Moofy and help him destroy the world. DIBSHIP RISING When Dib discovers that Tak’s ship he recovered has a built in AI, he decides to reprogram the ship with his own personality. While Dib is quite pleased with initial results, the spaceship begins to behave more and more like the real Dib and it attempts to actually take his place. All of the attention of a huge spaceship going to school causes Zim to realize that it’s really Tak’s ship, so he plans to override the machines AI and order it to attack Dib; though can he really force a machine so smart to attack it’s counterpart? VINDICATED! / THE VOTING OF THE DOOMED                                                             SEASON 1, EPISODE 24 PRODUCTION CODE # 24A/24B                                                   ORIGINAL AIRDATE: JULY 22, 2006 VINDICATED! When Dib messes up during gym class, he is forced to go see the skool’s counselor, Mr. Dwicky, in which Dib mentions what happened with Zim. However, when it turns out that Mr. Dwicky believes in Dib and proposes to work with him to prove Zim’s nature to the world, they forge a plan to lure Zim into a trap through the use of an alien translation device; however, Dib doesn’t realize the true nature of Mr. Dwicky’s intentions. THE VOTING OF THE DOOMED It’s time for the class elections at skool, in which Zim decides to participate in because he figures that if he wins the election, he’ll be one step closer to ruling the world. Dib wants to stop him but he knows that nobody would vote for him, so when Willy is nominated to compete against Zim, Dib decides to help Willy out in hopes that he’ll manage to defeat Zim in the polls. However, will Willy be able to do what Dib tells him, and even if he does, would he be able to prevent Zim from winning the election? GAZ, TASTER OF PORK                                                                                                        SEASON 1, EPISODE 25 PRODUCTION CODE # 25A/25B                                              ORIGINAL AIRDATE: AUGUST 12, 2006 When Dib finally manages to get his book of spells somewhat fixed, he casts a spell on his sister in order to test and see if things work properly. However, when the spell makes everything Gaz eat taste like pork, Gaz threatens to destroy him if he doesn’t help her get back to normal. All their father could do was put Gaz in a cage and treat her like a freak so Dib goes off to ask the Swollen Eyeball Network if they have any advice on the situation; there is only one way Gaz can get her sense of taste restored: she must travel to an alternate dimension and get The Pork King to return her back to normal. THE FRYCOOK WHAT CAME FROM ALL THAT SPACE                                                    SEASON 1, EPISODE 26 PRODUCTION CODE # 26A/26B                                           ORIGINAL AIRDATE: AUGUST 19, 2006 When Sizz-Lorr, the owner of a restaurant on Foodcourtia, captures Zim and takes him back to Foodcourtia to continue his banishment, Zim must find a way to escape Sizz-Lorr’s wrath. While Zim managed to escape once by going out the door, the restaurant has been upgraded with new security features that will make him explode if he attempts to leave. The Great Foodening is also about to begin, so if Zim doesn’t escape before it occurs, he’ll be locked on Foodcourtia for twenty years; will Zim manage to find a way out, despite the fact that Sizz-Lorr is quite confident in his ability to make Zim suffer? THE MOST HORRIBLE CHRISTMAS EVER                                                                         SEASON 1, EPISODE 27 PRODUCTION CODE # 27                                                   ORIGINAL AIRDATE: DECEMBER 10, 2002 This episode takes place in the future, in which a robotic snowman named Sludgy is telling children the story of the most horrible Christmas ever. It all started when Zim, Gir and Minimoose were on the streets trying to make money; he notices that fat men in red coats and white beards were making a lot of money. He captures one and he discovers the story of Santa Claus, in which he is amazed over how much power Santa has over the humans. Zim decides to create a giant Santa suit that he can use in order to pretend to be Santa, in order to have more power over the humans and become their ruler, so Zim collects all info on Santa and creates his suite, though Dib figures out Zim’s scheme and heads out to stop him in order to not only save Christmas, but to save the entire human race as well.