Invader Zim is an American animated dark comedy science fiction[1] television series that was created by comic book writer and cartoonist Jhonen Vasquez and aired on Nickelodeon.
The series revolves around an extraterrestrial named Zim (voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz) from the planet Irk and his ongoing mission to conquer or destroy a dark and satirical version of the Earth.
His various attempts to subjugate and destroy the human race are invariably undermined by some combination of his own ineptitude, his malfunctioning robot servant GIR (Rosearik Rikki Simons) and his nemesis Dib (Andy Berman), one of very few humans not oblivious enough to be unaware of Zim's identity.
[9] Despite its early cancellation, it has been widely regarded as a cult classic[10][11][12][13][14][15] due to increasing popularity and above-average merchandise sales.
A television film based on the series, entitled Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, premiered August 16, 2019 on Netflix.
There Zim discovers that he can protect himself from germs using a germ-resistant hamburger "meat" made of recycled napkins, which is sold there.
Eventually, Zim gets in contact with GIR who is able to rescue him and recover the spaceship, but a second encounter with a bee causes the duo to crash-land at a much larger UFO convention.
It's career day at school and Dib has been paired with a paranormal investigator named Bill while Zim goes to work at MacMeatie's.
During maintenance of Zim's underground base, GIR's brain is accidentally put into the house's operating system.
Zim orchestrates a fake field trip for his schoolmates, intending to send them to an alternate dimension that consists entirely of a room occupied by a moose.
Zim requests more powerful weapons but the Almighty Tallest do not want to give them to him, so he is sent to the deadly training planet Hobo 13 to prove his worth.
Zim is accidentally shipped a high-powered robot mecha with a cloaking device and immediately heads off to destroy Dib with it.
In August 2001, Nickelodeon officially renewed Invader Zim for a second season which was originally planned to consist of twenty episodes.
[9] Dib summons a mystical ghostly beast called Mortos der Soulstealer to attack Zim and prevent him from taking over the world.
A girl selling cookies gets her foot trapped in Zim's front yard, attracting nationwide attention.
Dib sees school counselor Mr. Dwicky about his problems and tells him about how Zim's an alien trying to take over the Earth.
They trick Zim into thinking aliens are coming to meet him in the woods to give him super weapons but after a while of waiting, Mr. Dwicky reveals he doesn't really believe Dib.