| Episode Guides 1-17 |
| Episode 1: The Nightmare Begins Invader ZIM was banished from the Irken Empire after going on a rampage and destroying his home planet during Operation Impending Doom I, a mission to capture a good deal of the universe and convert it to useful territory for the empire. Now Operation Impending Doom II has been put into place, and new Invaders have been assigned to various planets, in order to clean out all resisting forces. Suddenly, ZIM shows up, and begs for another chance. The Almighty Tallest decide to get rid of him by assigning him to a tiny galaxy at the edge of the universe, hoping he'll die along the way. They give him a malfunctioning SIR unit made out of scrap metal, who dubs himself GIR. ZIM discovers "Earth", and sets up his base in the form of a house, with miles and miles of spooky alien stuff underneath. He gives himself and GIR some pitiful "disguises" and enrolls in a local SKOOL in order to discover weak points in the Earth's society. There, he meets Dib, who freaks out upon seeing him. After school, Dib takes out a pair of UFO-handcuffs, which will render all ET life unconscious. He chases after ZIM, but ZIM manages to call GIR and fly him home. Dib follows, and discovers ZIM's house, but ZIM's spooky lawn gnomes vaporize the handcuffs, and Dib goes off to prepare some more. |
| Episode 2 : Parent Teacher Night It's been a long day of SKOOL, and ZIM's wants to go home-- when Ms. Bitters reminds all the children that it was Parent-Teacher Night and that all the kids had to bring their parents to SKOOL that evening. ZIM argues that he never agreed to it, but Ms. Bitters has it on tape. ZIM goes home to find Robomom assaulting an Avon Lady. He orders the Roboparents to go back inside the house. Frustrated, he notices that the parent decoys aren't ready for social stuff. He calls GIR, and all four of them go down into the base. he Roboparents are strapped to chairs with their eyes fastened open, Lots of monitors are stacked against the wall, showing lots of different commercials. ZIM inserts a disc labeled "Proper Earth Parenting" into a computer, and the monitors all start to show a happy family. GIR gets tired and starts changing the channels to different things such as a kung-fu movie, "Poke of Doom". ZIM and the Roboparents depart happily, and go to the SKOOL. Dib and Gaz, with Professor Membrane transmitting from his lab to a floating monitor, are there, too. Dib is suspicious of the Roboparents, and watches them carefully for any faults. At first, everything's perfect, but soon too much input sets them off, and Robomom goes on a poking rampage against Ms. Slunchy, and Robodad starts running into a wall. ZIM nervously begs the Roboparents to go home, but they refuse. They continue their haywire business, and Dib tries to get other people to notice, but the entire crowd is gathered around a fainted Ms. Slunchy. Eventually, ZIM pretends to break his spine, and Robomom suggests they go home. ZIM is relieved until the Roboparents' legs turn into jetpacks, and they rocket off. Dib turns around to the crowd, assuming no one saw a thing. No one did. Dib throws his punch on the ground in defeat, and everyone crowds around him angrily. |
| Episode 3 : Walk Of Doom The episode starts out with Gir running around and goes into the lab and Zim has upgraded his guidance system chip and wants Gir to take a feild test. so they go out into the city and when Zim tells Gir to turn the chip on then Gir gets confused and starts pointing in all directions to their base. Gir tells Zim that he left the chip home for a cupcake. They try and raise money for a bus . but Zim cant stand the MADNESS! So Zim and Gir go to the top of a bank building and what they dont know is that some guy who llooked like zim stole for the bank and zim and gir are chased by cops on to the roof. Zim instructs Gir to Use his jets to fly them home but gir took out the gas for TUNA. so Zim and Gir get it a taxi and end up by a butcher shop. |
| Episode 4 : Bestest Friend After having an allergic reaction to the SKOOL lunch food, ZIM overhears the popular girl Jessica talking about how weird it is that he doesn't have any friends. ZIM realizes with horror that he's been overlooking the human concept of "friendship", and could be found out if he doesn't become more social. After surveying the cafeteria, ZIM decides that the best potential friends are the reject group in the corner-- Gretchen, Melvin, and Keef. After running a series of tests on them, he finds that the boy called Keef is the worthiest, and announces that Keef is his new best friend. ZIM and Keef go around the SKOOL, parading their friendship. At the end of the day, ZIM feels he's done his job, and tells Keef he's fired. Keef doesn't get it, though, and continues to bother ZIM. The next day, ZIM finds out from GIR that Keef is planning to bring all the kids from SKOOL to ZIM's house for a surprise party. ZIM is not happy, and decides to plan some evil. As the SKOOLkids approach, ZIM greets Keef with a new, shiny set of red eyeballs... which cause Keef to obey ZIM's every command. ZIM tells Keef to believe that a rabid squirrel in his yard is his new best friend. Keef goes to make friends with the squirrel, and promptly gets killed by it. (He's okay, though.) |
| Episode 5 : Nano Zim Gir comes home with chocolate bubble gum and leaves the doors and windows open and when Zim comes up Dib is discised and takes a picture. He then escapes and goes home ready to send it to mysterious mysteries Zim isnt in skool the next day . Because he shrunk his self down to bacterial size and hid in dib's food. he then deletes the location of the master disk and other stuff happens. |
| Episode 6 : Germs After watching a video where aliens are defeated by human germs, ZIM labels it as propaganda, but subsequently runs down to his lab to run an analysis. His lab gives him a commercial about germ-spying microgoggles preaching the dangers of germs; when he runs a five-second trial, he discovers that the germs are everywhere, and decides he must defeat them. After getting his own pair of microgoggles, he begins spraying the germs down with Germ-Away, but is continuously foiled by GIR's hijinks. Running low on spray, he takes GIR to the drug store to buy more, but GIR drags him to the local MacMeaties, which is obviously filled with germs; but, as ZIM discovers, the hamburgers are completely clean. When going up to ask the man at the register for an explanation, he finds out after a long story about "space meat" that the burgers are made out of napkins. Proclaiming that "the answer is in the meat," ZIM comes back to skool the next day clothed in hamburger. |
| Episode 7: Dark Harvest Zim knows he doesn't have human organs but when he was in class listening to Ms. Bitters and te Big Bang Theory, a pigeon landed on his head. He was sent to the nurse to be examined, but on his way he looked into a Biology room and studied the human organs. He started to worry about this and decided to steal his fellow school members organs and replace them with random objects such as alam clocks and remote controlls. Zim turned into a "hideouse blob of stolen organs," and was missing lungs... thats when he decided to steal Dibs lungs |
| Episode 8 : Attack Of The Saucer Morons ZIM is out one night in his Voot Runner testing the human defenses, which he decides humans are just totally pathetic and explode on impact with huge hotdogs. He is about to call it quits for the night, when the computer tells him that something's coming his way which he should watch out for. ZIM see's a little bee. He claims that the computer has gone crazy. The bee hits the Voot Runner and causes it to become a spinning fireball in the sky. It crashes, and Zim tries to get GIR. Though, GIR is busy. ZIM decides to come back later on, but what he hadn't thought about, was the leader of the Saucer Morons seeing the whole thing. When ZIM comes back the next day within the tow vehicle, he is discovered for what he really is when he see's that his ship has been claimed. He is worshipped for a bit, but GIR finally comes in disguise as a "Government Man, come from the Government." He takes ZIM, ready to go, when he is also discovered. Zim acts quickly, getting his ship and telling Gir to... "RIDE THE PIG!". Gir does so, and they both go off, leaving the Saucer Morons behind with a confused face. Just as they're about to go home, and all seems well, the bee suddenly appears again, and hits the Voot carrier. It crashes right in the middle of a more formal alien discussion. |
| Episode 9: The Wettening It started to rain at the 'skool' and this is Zims first time ever seeing rain. Dib taunts him and asked him "don't they have rain on your planet?" Zim of course was reluctant to reply but just makes something up. Once outside, Zim touched the rain and his finger started to burn. He walked out in it and started running around the skool yard in pain. He takes shelter under a tree, where he spots Gaz. In the end ZIm makes a giant water balloon and dumps it on earth. |
| Episode 10: Career Day Ms. Bitters feels like all dreams will turn into hideous implosions, so the school gives a test to determine the students placement in careers. Dib (of course) gets to be a paranomal investigator, but Zims dream to become world leader failed, his career was asigned to fast food preperation at McMeaties. Although he doesn't know about the Galactic Equinox, Zim is excited to be premoted to world leader. The Equinox takes Zim through an ugly and seemingly uncomfortable mulch that only takes a few minutes. Dib on the otherhand was in a hurry to see Zim and his mulch but got there a little to late... thanx to his paranormal career teacher. |
| Episode 11: Battle Dib Dib is in a hurry to get to his dad's (Prof. Membrane) work, so he can sign something that will supposobly save the world. But when he got there, the gards didn't believe he was Porf. Membranes son and wouldn't let him in. The told him the only way he could get in was to take the tryouts for Porf. Membranes audience. As much as Dib thought it was stupid, he took the test and passes.... thinking that was simple, he didn't know what lies infront of him. He has to battle Shrunk (an odd looking...thing, with a deformed head,) to be able to see P. Membrane. They are taken through a series of battles, and in the end Dib loses, but gets his paper signed! |
| Episode 12: A Room WIth A Moose Zim tricks all the kids in his class to go into a school bus that actually is a rocket. The rocket it set to go to a dimention where there is only a room with a moose. Nobody except Dib realizes this and he MUST come up with a plan to save everybody. |
| Episode 13 : Hamstergeddon When Ms. Bitters's class receives a hamster known as Peepi, ZIM is amazed that Peepi's "cuteness" can distract the humans. He thinks he can grow Peepi and use his "cuteness" to distract them as he takes over the world. He makes Peepi grow all right, but unfortunately he finds out he has no control over "Ultra-Peepi". |
| Episode 14 : Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain Zim is contacting the tallest as a baby comes into the house Zim and Gir then go down to the lab and get a new A.I. brain for the house. As Zim installs it the beam has struck Gir leaveing him in complete control of the house he uses this to his advantage to get tacos. |
| Episode 15 : Bad Bad Rubber Piggy Using a type of time machine, Zim accidentally sends a rubber piggy into Dib's past. The piggy causes a freak accident which fatally injures Dib, and affects the present Dib. Finding this approach effective in destroying his arch-enemy, Zim sends pig after pig into Dib's past, hurting Dib more and more. But when Dib is on the verge of death, Professor Membranebuilds him a huge titanium exoskeleton that revives him and increases his strength by 10,000 times. Dib uses his new strength to get revenge on Zim. |
| Episode 16: Planet Jackers The planet jackers (an alien species that captures planets and throw them in to burning suns) has taken earth over. They have placed a dome that looks like the sky over the earth so no body finds out. Well. Somebody did find out. Not just anybody. Zim finds out. He leaves the dome and he goes to the planet jackers to give him a piece of his mind. |
| Episode 17: Rise Of Zit Boy ZIM comes home after a lousy day (he just found out from Dib that there is a flaw with his security system) and GIR tries to cheer him up by rubbing bacon oil all over his face. That gives ZIM a pimple (I know how you feel ZIM). GIR tries to get rid of it by using acne blast but that made it even bigger. To make things worse, GIR draws a face on ZIM's pimple. Amasingly enough, the pimple seems to have hipnotic powers. After all, it did control GIR (is that even possible?). This gives ZIM an idea. The next day, he takes Pustulio (his pimple's name) to SKOOL and uses it to hypnotize all the students. He hypnotizes Dib and forces him to tell what the security flaw in his house is. But then his pimple or Pustulio pops with a big explosion and pus everywhere. But ZIM already has his 411, so I'd say victory is his. |