List of Invader Zim episodes
Nickelodeon's animated television series Invader Zim has a pilot episode, 27 completed episodes and several others that were not complete at the time of the series' cancellation. As of August 19, 2006, all 27 episodes have aired. Most episodes are split into two, each lasting half an episode. There are eight full length episodes.
Season 1: 2001-2002
| Code | Title | Air Date | |
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| 0 | "Pilot" | May 11, 2000 | |
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Zim finds that he is weak to the school cafeteria's beans, and Dib uses this to try to prove to the other children that Zim is an alien. | |||
| 01 | "The Nightmare Begins" | March 30, 2001 | |
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Hoping never to see him again, The Almighty Tallest send Zim on a "mission" to far off Earth. | |||
| 03A | "Parent Teacher Night" | April 6, 2001 | |
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Zim makes use of his robot parents at the school's parent-teacher conferences. | |||
| 03B | "Walk of Doom" | April 6, 2001 | |
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Zim updates GIR's guidance chip, which he tests out in the big city. Unfortunately, GIR has removed the chip, leaving the duo stranded. | |||
| 02A | "Bestest Friend" | April 13, 2001 | |
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Zim adopts an annoying best friend in order to appear more human. | |||
| 04B | "NanoZIM" | April 13, 2001 | |
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Dib sneaks into Zim's base, taking pictures and putting them on a floppy disk. Hoping to erase Dib's memory of where he hid the disk, Zim shrinks down and enters Dib's body. | |||
| 04A | "Germs" | April 20, 2001 | |
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After watching a B-war movie, Zim becomes germophobic and dedicates his life to exterminating Earth's bacteria. | |||
| 02B | "Dark Harvest" | April 20, 2001 | |
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Zim harvests the organs of the school children to appear more human. | |||
| 05A | "Attack of the Saucer Morons" | April 27, 2001 | |
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A group of true believers steals Zim's ship and, after catching Zim trying to recover it, begin to worship him. | |||
| 05B | "The Wettening" | April 27, 2001 | |
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Zim searches for a water-proof paste to shade his water allergies so he can survive a water war with Dib. | |||
| 06A | "Career Day" | May 4, 2001 | |
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It's career day at school and Dib has been paired with a paranormal investigator. However, after discovering Zim is molting due to an equinox, Dib tries to convince his mentor to help him destroy Zim forever. | |||
| 06B | "Battle Dib" | May 4, 2001 | |
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Trying to get a permission slip signed, Dib must endure trials (including a parody of the Thunderdome) to gain access to his father. One of three episodes not to feature Zim. | |||
| 07A | "Planet Jackers" | August 31, 2001 | |
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Zim attempts to stop two planet thieves who intend to burn the Earth in their sun for fuel, therefore ending his mission. | |||
| 07B | "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy" | August 24, 2001 | |
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Zim sends a series of rubber piggies back into the past to stop Dib from meddling with his plans in the future, but the piggies end up causing trouble for Zim. | |||
| 08A | "Rise of the Zitboy" | August 31, 2001 | |
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Zim uses his hypnotic pimple to force Dib into revealing a weakness in Zim's base. | |||
| 08B | "Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain" | August 24, 2001 | |
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GIR's brain takes over the base's operating system, and uses it to travel to the local taco restaurant. | |||
| 09A | "A Room with a Moose" | August 17, 2001 | |
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Zim hijacks a school bus and sends it into a wormhole, at the end of which lies a very large moose. | |||
| 09B | "Hamstergeddon" | August 17, 2001 | |
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Zim turns the class pet into a Godzilla-like creature in order to kill everyone in the city, but must team up with Dib when the giant hamster attacks his base. | |||
| 10A | "Plague of Babies" | September 7, 2001 | |
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Zim discovers that aliens who look like babies are living on Earth. When they decide to take Zim's ship to return to their homeworld, Zim must fend off the attack of "Giganto-Baby." | |||
| 10B | "Bloaty's Pizza Hog" | September 7, 2001 | |
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After Dib is kidnapped by Zim, Gaz goes to save him in time for family dinner at her favorite restaurant. | |||
| 11A | "Door to Door" | March 29, 2002 | |
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Zim utilizes virtual torture and destruction in order to sell candy bars for the school fund raiser. | |||
| 11B | "FBI Warning of Doom" | March 29, 2002 | |
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Zim sees an FBI warning on a rented video and fears that his mission is threatened unless he returns the video immediately. At the mall, he faces the head of mall security. | |||
| 12A | "Bolognius Maximus" | September 21, 2001 | |
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Zim infects Dib with a virus that gradually turns him into meat. Dib manages to infect Zim with his own virus so they must work together to find the cure. | |||
| 12B | "Game Slave 2" | September 21, 2001 | |
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Gaz is on the trail of a video game fan who took the game console that was rightfully hers. One of three episodes not to feature Zim. | |||
| 13 | "Battle of the Planets" | April 5, 2002 | |
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Zim and Dib discover that two of the planets in the solar system are actually spacecraft created by alien civilizations, and use them to battle each other. | |||
| 14A | "Mysterious Mysteries" | March 22, 2002 | |
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Dib goes on the TV show Mysterious Mysteries to tell the world the story of Zim. To Dib's surprise, Zim, GIR, and Gaz also appear on the show also to tell their sides of the story. | |||
| 14B | "Abducted" | April 12, 2002 | |
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Zim and GIR are abducted by aliens as human and dog specimens. Escaping is not difficult, as the aliens have only managed to stop one specimen from escaping in the past. | |||
| 15A | "Hobo 13" | July 12, 2002 | |
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Zim is sent to training planet Hobo 13 by The Tallest to take a series of tests and prove he is worthy of new equipment | |||
| 15B | "Future Dib" | March 22, 2002 | |
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Zim uses a robot Dib to capture the real Dib while he attempts to destroy the earth. | |||
| 16 | "Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom" | October 26, 2001 | |
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As a result of experiments done by Dib, Zim and Dib are trapped in an alternate universe where the only escape is through Dib's head. | |||
| 17A | "The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot" | April 12, 2002 | |
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Dib sets out to disprove the legend of the Chickenfoot, who is actually a man stuck inside a chicken costume. One of three episodes not to feature Zim. | |||
| 17B | "GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff" | May 24, 2002 | |
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Zim adjusts GIR's behavior but things go wrong when GIR sees Zim himself as a threat to their mission on Earth. | |||
| 18A | "Lice" | April 26, 2002 | |
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A lice hunter comes to the school to investigate an outbreak of headlice. She soon discovers that the only ones who are immune to the infestation are Zim and Ms.Bitters. | |||
| 18B | "Walk for Your Lives" | September 28, 2002 | |
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Zim causes a very slow explosion and must put it out before The Tallest call and see his mistake. Originally intended to air alongside Hobo 13. | |||
| 19A | "Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom" | May 24, 2002 | |
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Zim simulates Dib's entire life to find out whether or not he threw a muffin at Zim. | |||
| 19B | "Megadoomer" | April 26, 2002 | |
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Zim is accidentally shipped a high-powered robot with a cloaking device and he immediately heads off to kill Dib with it. | |||
| 20 | "Tak: The Hideous New Girl" | May 10, 2002 | |
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A pretty new girl, Tak, joins the class and is instantly beloved by all the other children. Zim thinks she's in love with him until she reveals that she's Irken and has come to destroy Earth to impress the Tallest and take his mission. Intended to be the season finale, it was aired out of order. | |||
Season 2: 2002 and 2006
| Code | Title | Air Date | |
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| 29 | "The Most Horrible X-mas Ever" | December 10, 2002 | |
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A snowman in the future tells children the story of Zim (referred to as "Zam") and Dib ("Doob")'s battle at Christmas. After the series was canceled, this episode was planned to act as the series finale. | |||
| 21 | "Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars" | June 10, 2006 | |
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Dib tries to stop Zim from bringing The Tallest to Earth while The Tallest themselves have to deal with the resistance against Operation Impending Doom 2. Originally intended to be the season 2 premiere, it was long delayed until 2006. | |||
| 22A | "Mortos Der Soulstealer" | June 17, 2006 | |
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Dib summons a mystical beast to attack Zim, but the beast is easily distracted. | |||
| 25A | "Zim Eats Waffles" | June 17, 2006 | |
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Dib manages to get a spy cam into Zim's base, but all he manages to show anyone is Zim eating GIR's waffles. | |||
| 22B | "The Girl Who Cried Gnome" | July 15, 2006 | |
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A girl gets stuck in Zim's yard, attracting unwanted attention from neighbors, the press and the Earth president. | |||
| 25B | "Dibship Rising" | July 15, 2006 | |
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Dib downloads his personality into Tak's ship, but the ship soon thinks that he is the real Dib, then Zim reminds the ship that it is Irken and attempts to throw Dib into the city sewage plant. | |||
| 24B | "Vindicated!" | July 22, 2006 | |
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The school counselor, Mr. Dwicky, believes Dib when he says that Zim is an alien. The two team up to expose him. | |||
| 24A | "The Voting of the Doomed" | July 22, 2006 | |
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Dib has to stop Zim from winning the school election. | |||
| 26 | "Gaz, Taster of Pork" | August 12, 2006 | |
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Dib uses an ancient spell drive to cast a spell on Gaz that makes everything except food made from pigs taste disgusting. | |||
| 23 | "The Frycook What Came from All That Space" | August 19 ,2006 | |
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Zim's former master from Foodcourtia arrives on Earth to take him back to his sentence of hard labor. | |||
DVD Episodes
All 27 episodes of Invader ZIM were released on DVD, along with the pilot, an alternate cut of The Most Horrible X-mas Ever, and audio from seven of the unfinished episodes.
Unfinished Episodes
All episodes after "The Frycook What Came from All That Space" were scrapped in mid-production. A handful of recordings by the series voice cast exist for some of these unfinished episodes, and the scripts for many can now be found on fansites on the web. Most of this material was also released with the Invader Zim 'house' DVD box set as a special edition disc. Jhonen stated in the audio commentary that had the show continued, it would have leaned more towards a sci-fi styled show, with more space battles along the lines of "Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars".
| Title | Episode Notes | Production Number |
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| Roboparents Gone Wild | Zim's Roboparents become aggressive parental figures. Zim is deemed "naughty" and is cast out of the house. The Roboparents take in an escaped zoo monster named Dinky as their new son, and Zim must team up with a hobo to reclaim his base.
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| Simon Sez Doom | Mr. Elliot, Gaz's teacher, is running an orphanage care program. | 27B |
| Invader Poonchy | Zim attempts to distract Dib from him by making it seem as though their classmate Poonchy is also an Irken Invader. | 28A |
| Nubs of Doom | Introduction of Minimoose | 28B |
| 10 Minutes to Doom | Zim's PAK gets disconnected, which gives him only ten minutes of time before he dies without its life support systems; includes timer throughout the episode. Jhonen Vasquez planned for Zim to actually die in this episode due to the series' upcoming cancellation, finding it to be a convenient end, but Nickelodeon did not allow it in case they decided to bring the show back. | 30A |
| GIR's Big Day | GIR is captured by some scientists for experimentation.
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30B |
| The Return of Keef | An episode that was to feature Keef in a prominent role. | 31A |
| Day of da Spookies | An episode that was to feature Skoodge in a prominent role.
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31B |
| Mopiness of Doom | Dib gives up on the paranormal to study real science like his father. Zim becomes bored with no arch nemesis, and Dib is unhappy with his new life. The two realise how much they need each other and promise to keep fighting till the end. | 32A |
| Those! | Zim attempts to take over the world with giant ants.
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32B |
| Top of the Line | The Almighty Tallest hold a contest to find the greatest SIR unit, and Gir makes it into the finalists. Tak was scheduled to appear as the main villain, sabotaging the SIR units.
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| The Trial | Zim is put on trial by the Almighty Tallest for everything he's done to Irk in his life.
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34 |
| It Feeds on Noodles | Zim becomes a vampire that must feed on Chinese food, with chopsticks for fangs.
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35A |
| Pants! (When Pants Ruled!) | Zim attempts to take over the world with mind-controlling pants.
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35B |
| Squishy: Hugger of Worlds | An enormous creature called Squishy that destroys planets by hugging them finds Earth.
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| Untitled Season Finale (1) | The two-part season finale was supposed to deal with Invader Tenn being captured by The Resisty and the rest of the Irken army attempting to save her. | 39 |
| Untitled Season Finale (2) | 40 | |
| Invader Dib | This was intended to be a series finale tv-movie, in which Dib leads a war against the Irkens on their home planet of Irk. |