Thanks so much for watching! What's your favorite episode of Invader Zim?

@theworstspeedrunner

Жыл бұрын

can't choose a single one but Christmas one is good

@christopherkillian3368

Жыл бұрын

Tak the hideous New girl

@BestOnThursdays

Жыл бұрын

the TV drama one "I was the chubby lady hiding in the bushes" Or The piggy episode "ZIM, don't use the time machine love ZIM"

@TheFacelessStoryMaker

Жыл бұрын

Tak, the hideous new girl

@okjeffy6581

Жыл бұрын

Ice Cream

Invader Zim was definitely one of the shows that influenced my tastes as a kid. It was edgy, amusing, twisted and gross. It helped to nourish my then budding love of horror.

@kiraoshiro6157

Жыл бұрын

yeees I was the middle school girl who had the whole fan drip: gir themed hoodie, belt, and pajama pants, piggy sunglasses, zim socks.. I was high key obsessed w this show. I noticed the week after I wore the hoodie, some of the ig popular girls started wearing it, one of them I'd spoken to before. thought to myself "oh I didn't know she liked the show too, I'll give her an early xmas gift and maybe we can fangirl together!" put a ribbon bow on a pair of gir sunglasses and when I gave it to her.. she looked at me with disgust and I died inside realizing my naivete

@Sgt.Dornan117

Жыл бұрын

Same for me, both Invader Zim and Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.

@jul2447

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching it was like a fever dream lol

@Gacha_Nerd551

4 ай бұрын

Invader Zim is what started my love and belief in the paranormal as I got older. After watching the show, I became more interested in the idea of the existence of ghosts, aliens and other creepy things

Dark Harvest was the creepiest episode for me with Zim stealing organs replacing them with random stuff and putting the stolen organs in him. Also the fan series "A Very Tall Problem" is a testament to the lasting legacy of Invader Zim.

@Sinnathan

Жыл бұрын

Love that episode, reminds me of the movie Alien

@FMrewind

Жыл бұрын

that episode literally sounds like a lost episode creepypasta or something

@SuperShadowKinTwitch

Жыл бұрын

For me it was the baloney episode. Something about slowly mutating into baloney and being helpless to stop it. Just terrified me.

@TheFacelessStoryMaker

Жыл бұрын

@@FMrewind Well there is a youtube Slenderman series called "Dark Harvest".

@jeremiahnoar7504

Жыл бұрын

That wasm my all time favorite. It was just as comical as it was horrific.

I love this show so much! One of my favorite episodes is “Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom". Where Dib throws a muffin at Zim, but won’t admit it. The episode is set up to make us think that Dib had finally succeeded in exposing Zim to the world, but in the end it was just a simulated ploy to get Dib to admit that he threw the muffin. I just love how Zim has all this awesome technology and uses it for petty reasons 😂

@itzjetlife3639

Жыл бұрын

bro that episode always stood out to me as a kid. shit was dark imagine living out your whole life just to figure out it was a simulation

@JoshuaJacobs83

Жыл бұрын

I believe it was a porkcow, sir. Not a muffin. ;)

@KaiserMattTygore927

Жыл бұрын

I can't believe I actually remember that one.

@lj9386

Жыл бұрын

@@itzjetlife3639 ikr, and for what? If Zim put that much energy into invading the Earth he might have succeeded 😅

@lj9386

Жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaJacobs83 😁

Invader Zim is amazing. The idea of Nickelodeon looking at Vasquez' work and going "yeah, we can make a show with this" is so funny to me. Also, what surprises me about Invader Zim is not the stuff they had to censor, but the stuff they got away with.

@pinkbubblesnake

Жыл бұрын

The scene where Zim removes a kids eyes and replaces them always gets me

I love the “Bloody GIR” Easter egg! I’ve had him as my profile picture for like a year and a half now. It’s so unsettling to see such a bubble character frowning, and covered in blood…

@wonderland9601

Жыл бұрын

Bloody gir is canon in a sort of way

@johnstarke5981

Жыл бұрын

@[WONDERLAND] how so?

The Rubber Piggy episode is for me the most disturbing one ever, the ending is just psychological terror at it's finest with that note Zim send to himself into the time portal to his brain and how Dib nearly died. The original idea for the creators was for Dib to die for the rest of the series and they had to change it due to Nickelodeon, so great they did because this ending is far more creepy, just incredible.

@WerewolfUlrich

Жыл бұрын

This is a myth. Dib was never going to be killed off. Fans took Jhonen's jokey commentary of the episode as truth. He was just kidding about replacing Dib with "Louie." lol

@theotherther1

Жыл бұрын

The DVD featured a "Pig Commentary" track of that episode that was literally nothing but pig squealing sounds. Whenever something dramatic happened, the pigs would squeal even more loudly in excitement.

@Evenifindoingidieinonehour

6 ай бұрын

*_"ZIM!!!_* Don't use the time machine! Love, *_ZIM!!!"_*

I think the reason why Invader Zim was so unique to me and probably other people is how the humor is kinda like a forerunner to Rick and Morty's with how random and snappy it is. It was our introduction to it and topped off with Jhonen Vasquez's unique and bizarre art style. I always liked how even as a kid I knew I would've hated to live on Dib's world where everything looked dirty and everyone was insane but that's its charm. My favorite moments were when one of the characters had to go into the inner city at night and just how spooky and over the top outlandish everything was

@poweroffriendship2.0

Жыл бұрын

Poor Dib can't catch a break.

@shylapollard5165

Жыл бұрын

The fact that they have high grade military tech for the most mundane things in society, like mall security, makes me Want to learn more about their downfall.

@rymacreeks2k07

Жыл бұрын

@@poweroffriendship2.0 nah bro i cannot escape you

My favorite story about Invader Zim is that my 4th grade teacher had a brother on the animation crew and was able to get our class to be a test audience for the pilot. Got to see it about 6 months before its TV release.

No matter how dark the show was, I still find the lore the most underrated aspect of the show. The best too

@SuperDoomNinja

Жыл бұрын

Agreed and it was suppose to be bigger too if the rumors are to be believed. Take ships was going to get fixed and they'd travel off planet but Nick keep pushing for school episodes.

@raphaelbrown6314

Жыл бұрын

Well thats nick for ya always trying to make everything there way and not give people that much Freedom with there shows 😒

@kawaiiemolga

8 ай бұрын

For real! I wish there were more episodes about Irk or other planets and species

Yeah, Invader Zim was certainly a show that doesn’t seem like nickelodeon would greenlight for a series. It was dark, cruel, and gross but honestly, I think that made me love it even more. The series worked well because the main two characters, Dib and Zim, trade loses and its usually their own fault, it’s not like in Catdog or bad episodes of others good shows where the world honesty hurts just one character(s) who didn’t do anything to deserve it. you also relate to both, zim thinks he’s great and is loved by his leaders were in actuality the tallest HATE him and just want him out of the way. Dib is the “crazy loser” in class who annoys the other students with his ideas of the supernatural. Both have really great egos that often case them to fail. It’s a dark weird show that I don’t think I would change anything about if I could.

@williamthompson1109

Жыл бұрын

See, IZ was like Ren and Stimpy: sometimes it NEEDED censorship, but unlike the Ren and Stimpy that came out later(it was horrific tbh, give it a watch) I feel like Invader ZiM wouldn’t have that problem

@cyr3n_signall

Ай бұрын

imagine he had pitched this to Cartoon Network though. he would’ve gotten away with so much lmao

Zim was influential for its time. I remember Making Fiends having a super similar tone and art direction. Nobody ever talks about Making Fiends, man.

@sissysovereign1294

Жыл бұрын

It's a real shame that show faded into obscurity.

@360Aiii

Жыл бұрын

Yooooooo u just unlocked memories I completely forgot about that show was good af

@supernova_29

Жыл бұрын

Omg thank you I have been searching for that show for so long and forgot the name until now lol

@redactedoktor

Жыл бұрын

You glorious fucker you, I can't believe you made me finally remember the name of that show, I'd been wondering about the name of that one show for forever, and now, I remember it all. Holy hell.

@maysee2515

Жыл бұрын

Oh I remember that one.

For those who wished the show went on longer than I did, there are some old videos on KZread on the voice cast of the show doing a table reading of a few unproduced episodes at some conventions. I'd really recommend watching them.

It blew my mind finding out Zim was made by my favorite comic author as a kid. One of my fondest memories with my sister is when she would drive me to our local Newbury Comics every Friday to buy me the next Johnny the Homicidal Maniac comic. I was in middle school and she just got her driving permit so it was a nice bonding experience. I still have all of them in perfect condition. Great video Jordan!

glad they fought back against a lot of the changes, networks will literally ruin a show for no reason cause they never have any idea what kind of shows people want to actually watch, this show defined a generation, horror is one of my favorite genres shows like this and courage the cowardly dog are definitely part of it, there needs to be more horror based animation for younger audiences

@thecreatorofthedark

Жыл бұрын

Honestly I'm surprised that the creator stuck around with how much hed had to change. Like "hey we need you to make an edgy tv show for kids " ... "NO NOT LIKE THAT!!!"

@demonking-zm3rs

Жыл бұрын

I'd argue that the constant push back made the content greater. A lot of the initial concepts were darker but in a more direct and let's be honest brutal fashion and come off more juvenile then dark it's like Ren and Stimpy where the moment they could do whatever the show just became more gross out humor and explicit sex jokes

This was the Nick rival to CN's Courage for me, my two favorite shows bar none. Weird, creepy and genuinely hilarious, I can't not notice the VAs in other work now, instantly knowing them and always smiling. There's added hilarity to the Invader Zim behind the scenes weirdness when you listen to the commentary on the old DVD box set with my favorite episode, Dark Harvest, having the most telling moment. Apparently, said episode was a test to see how far they could push it and still get the green light, and they were excited.... until they remembered how new episodes would get shown. Nick would show them in a gymnasium and play them for test groups and the approval people and I can mostly quote what is still vividly in my head in the commentary for it: "So first up was a Dora episode and after that a Nick Jr show.... and THEN Dark Harvest came on! I've never heard a roomful of people go dead quiet that fast in my life. We were looking for the closest exit to try and run." Never laughed so hard at commentary in my life.

My friend circle at the time (all young adults) were huge fans of Johnny and Squee, so I immediately recognized the art style in Zim when I first encountered it channel-surfing. They were confused why I would enjoy a “kid’s show,” but I recognized that there were a lot of implied things happening off-screen, and for me that just makes the writing of certain gags seem more clever than something uncensored as the aforementioned comics.

I loved invader zim when it was on air and still love it, just re-watched recently. It was exactly my idea of humor and loved the visuals. I didn't find it scary and I think its good for kids to see that stuff in a safer environment like invader zim. One of my favorites was definitely dark harvest, loved the organ stealing.

@IceSick88

Жыл бұрын

Yeah cause kidnapping kids, cutting them up, stealing their organs and then eating them isn't scary lol

@raphaelbrown6314

Жыл бұрын

I honest to god don't know how you don't find it scary 😦

This was one of those shows that would’ve been great with a reboot for more mature audiences

“Lice” was one of the 1st episodes I watched, and I don’t know why I kept watching. But I’m glad I did. The humor was just so weird I couldn’t look away. I loved how much the show dunked on society, and people in general.

Fun fact: did you know that the Invader Zim episode Plague of Babies was intended to be a crossover episode with Rugrats and Tommy Pickles would be the leader of the baby aliens with E.G Daily set to reprise her role but Nicklelodeon refused to greenlight the crossover aspect of the episode but the crossover aspect can still be seen in the lead babies design chosen to resemble that of Tommy Pickles.

The lasting presence of Invader Zim on store shelves like Hot Topic and Spencers amazes me. We're talking about a short lived cult show that hasn't had a new episode over 15 years.

As an edgy goth teen at the time I was a huge fan of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. So when I learned Zim was coming out I was hyped. Did not dissapoint. Still to this day quote the show on a regular basis.

@dezzydream

Жыл бұрын

oh man my mom was exactly the same. she had the dvds of invader zim simply because she likes jhonen vasquez's work and would put them on for me and my brother when we were literally still in diapers, and i think that permanently affected the type of people we would become. my goth mom and metalhead dad gave birth to a scene daughter. how fitting.

@TheBrotherGrim

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I was just entering high school when Zim came out, and was a big fan of his previous work after finding scans of a bunch of the comics online. I was totally on board the Zim hype train that went through most of the metal head and goth kids at skool, and had an Invader Zim hoodie I adored, and bought the DVDs as they were released later on. Had some printouts of my favorite shots from Johnny and Squee pinned to my walls. The art was so unique.

I would be happy if they continued the Zim series on Netflix post Enter the Florpus. I wasn't an Invader Zim fan growing up but I really liked this special.

Something I find interesting is that a person Jhonen worked with during Invader Zim and other projects is a guy named Aaron Alexovich, whose art style is similar to Invader Zim's. He made the webcomic Serenity Rose and did the art for the Invader Zim comics, along with working on the show itself

This show hits different as an adult. Miss Bitters really had some good points about how the world works😂.

I remember growing up that the only thing my friends seemed to like about Invader Zim was GIR and how "randumb xd" he was. Myself, on the other hand, absolutely adored the art style. I loved how sharp and lean the machinery and a lot of characters were, and I was fascinated by just how stupid nearly all of the side characters had to be. In high school, I ended up doing a presentation on Jhonen, and in turn this influenced my art from then on out. It wasn't just about the horror aesthetic and gritty humor at that point for me, but the fact that he was actually taking jabs at people and doing some spot on social commentary with his work. Nobody sees the potshots he's taken at obsessive fans (for those that have taken a long enough look at JTHM, Jimmy was a huge example of this but oddly wasn't the first), conformity, consumerism, goth subculture, and willful ignorance. He isn't just a great cartoonist, but a fantastic storyteller within that medium, especially in Invader Zim. Unfortunately, all that usually gets lost in the cracks because "little robot fella funny haha". At least he's left his mark on us, even if that's all most will take away from it. That dude is so damn talented and I still check out his recent work whenever he posts.

@radioactivepower600nanaspersec

Жыл бұрын

What did he do to those obsessive fans? Now I'm interested

I am AMAZED I was allowed to watch this show as a kid. My mom was super strict on tv shows like no iCarly, no Drake and Josh, no SpongeBob, but for some unknown reason, this was perfectly fine. I love this show so much

Dude, Invader Zim was a big part of my childhood. It was the series that would lead to me loving punk & goth culture, as well as horror. It was scary, but never to the point that I would stop watching, which was impressive because I was always afraid of the original Doom until I was 12. GIR was definitely responsible for me acting like a random goofball in my childhood, while Dib kinda sparked my interest in supernatural stuff by proxy of his enthusiasm and dedication to the subject. The more I think about this show, the more I realize just how integral this show is to who I am, and I really thank Jhonen Vasquez and the rest of the team on this show for making it. It may have been a pain in the ass dealing with Nickelodeon's constant objections to their ideas, but what they made remains one of the most remembered and loved animated shows by goths, punks, and other edgy outcasts of the world like myself.

My favorite episode as a kid was the Halloween one. I wasn't ever especially "edgy" as a kid (my tastes were wildly eclectic), but the striking art style of Zim just struck me as really cool.

I actually had to watch this show in secret because of my grandma forbidding me from watch it. This show was a huge influence for me creatively.

@Cam1417-TK

11 ай бұрын

Same!! lol

I am 28 years old and Bloody Gir still unnerves me and makes me glance at nearby doors like some threat is about to come through. I don't have any idea why that particular image being hidden all over the episodes bothers me so much, but it was actually triggering to see it again, though for being this close to Halloween I commend you on its inclusion

Invader Zim is probably our favorite Nicktoon ever, the dark humor and character designs were so cool and interesting at a young age and we even watch a few episodes from time to time for fun. Also question, is Bloody Gir hidden on the skateboard?

I was just a little too young to have seen it on air but I do remember seeing one specific episode when my older sister was rewatching it. The scene of Zim yelling "AH! My squigglyspooch!" is seared into my vocabulary as something silly to say

I always loved the bit with "ADHESIVE MEDICAL STRIPS" in the episode with the candy bars. Since bandaid is actually a brand name, and not the actual name for an adhesive medical strip. I'm not sure if they added the voice JUST for comedic reasons, or if the lines had already been recorded and would need to be redone. But either way, it fits in with the rest of the show's humor completely.

This is the most important show to my life path. I started writing fanfic for it when I was 8, I did comics, eventually it influenced me to start developing my own stories. Everything I have and have ever managed successfully is at least partially due to Invader Zim, and it will always have a special spot in my heart.

I watched this series as a child with my mom. She still remembers it and I fully enjoyed this amazing masterpiece.

Invader Zim absolutely owned my entire imagination when I was a kid. My poor mom having to put up with me decorating Easter eggs with Jhonen's signature initials or the Irken emblem.

I only saw like two episodes of Zim ( the pilot and the one when it's revealed that he's allergic to water) and they've stuck in my head ever since. I distinctly remember Zim using Dibs's sister as an umbrella.

As a fan of invader Zim I remember him doing an interview saying that he was already packing his bag when he got the episode bestest friend approved because he felt like the backlash would be too much and they would sack him

Love Invader Zim. Lots of great facts here!

@JordanFringe94

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for checking out the video! :D

This has become my most watched channel since i found Jordan’s vids. I love revisiting old cartoons from my childhood and seeing what the continuations of shows looks like after I stopped watching them.

The comics are also pretty good. The zib arch is my favorite by far. Thanks to it we got our favorite feral Roach child.

One of the best shows of all time, absolutely love me some Invader Zim 👏🏾

my favourite genre in any medium is Horror, and I think I can greatly attribute that to Zim, as a kid it was the first thing to be even remotely scary-- and from there I sorta wanted to chase that feeling, and ended up watching a lot of 80's horror films lol,

Invader Zim came out when I was 12/13 years old and it couldn't have came at a better time for me. It was witty and campy and random and most importantly weird. I loved it. Gir def molded my taste in random screaming humor. I still quote this show at today: Let's Make Biscuits, my tequitos!, why was there bacon in the soap? I made it myself!

@IceSick88

Жыл бұрын

I offten still yell at my cooks at work "You GOT TO MAKE BISCUITS! "

@ematooney01

Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid my mom and I when scream at each other, “WHY IS THERE BACON IS THE SOAP” “I made it myself!” We still do this… 10 years later… 😂

@ryanp7546

Жыл бұрын

@@ematooney01 oh wow,10 years

This is the Jordan Fringe video I've been waiting for this whole time. I love Invader Zim like newborn Zim loves the cold, unfeeling robot arm. Or like how Gir loves the scary monkey show. Or how Gir loveded his piggy.

i completely agree with the combination of visceral and subtle lack of context that lets you fill in those blanks its an important lesson for growing minds to understand what mystery and uncertainties can feel like even if its as simple as cartoons

I am so glad you brought up Squee, so many people overlook Vasquez’s and earlier work, legitimately such a good comic series too!

"GIR!, what happened to all the rocket fuel?" "I had to make room for the tuna!"

Invader Zim was absolutely wild. Normally I wasn’t a horror fan.(still kind of not.) this was a hell of a first step

Dark harvest was one of my favorite episodes...damn that was one dark episode but still I have literally seen 98% of the shows you have ever covered on your channel...you sir are a man of beautiful nostalgia And yes I grew up watching a lot of horror...a lot...which started with are you afraid of the dark....

Jhonen Vasquez has always had a very unique talent. That is, taking you to the very pinicle of discomfort, then right before you wish to get off the ride, he yanks you back in by doing something so out of pocket random that you can't help but laugh and see what strange place that ride will take you next.

I really wish i could make cartoons of my own in that 2000's style. It has such a special style but I just can't describe it

This just made me want to rewatch invader Zim and appreciate the series

Yes I was waiting for the Invader Zim video

It's literally my favorite show ever and influenced my art style and sense of humor so much xd

Ah Yes a video on Zim! Invader Zim is one of my top most favorite cartoon shows from my childhood and yet still holds a special place even within my adulthood. One of the reasons why I love Invader Zim as a kid ( and still do enjoy it now ) was due to the fact that it was about an alien, which for me as someone who love all thing alien-related or stuff dealing with anything involving outer space including the possible life inside it. Seeing a cartoon show about an alien trying also failing to take over the earth while also focusing on things in space was a giant thumbs up for young me. One of my favorite episodes is " Backseat Drivers from beyond the stars" mostly because it was more center on what was going in space with the Tallest's ship being controlled due to Zim messing with it, also another episode I like is " The Wettening " due to the epic water balloon fight between Dib & Zim.

I'd really love to JTHM given a proper animated show, just like a single season of that beautiful insanity! Also I still blame the Invader Zim intro for my love of industrial music

I absolutely fell in love with this show when my dad first mentioned it offhandedly and I got overly curious. The fast paced episodes and implied gore grabbed my mind when I was around 7. While it didn’t spark a love for horror movies, it did help me realize what good character design and sequencing can do for an animation. It’s truly a shame that the show didn’t go on for longer, as the episodes that did air left a lasting impression on those who cared to watch.

I discovered the show during the summer before 6th grade after searching up “Netflix trailers” and the teaser for ETF popping up. I looked into the show and immediately became obsessed with Vasquez’s delightfully dark works. This show would also play a key role in me meeting a lot of my online friends, whom of which I met through an Invader Zim Discord server. Although I was a cringy ass middle schooler, I still look back at those carefree days of begging my mom to take me to the mall to shop for merch at Hot Topic and watching reuploads of the episodes on DailyMotion and think of all the memories I’ve made through this show. (Also, I love Tak’s character. I wish we could’ve seen more of her before the show got cancelled :()

What’s funny is the only episode that messed me up was when Zim and Gir are abducted by aliens and Zim finds that abducted specimen crying in a containment tube. The blob is sentient enough to cry, feel pain, and know how to escape, and even helps Zim, but is abandoned anyway. I don’t know if we are meant to feel distrustful of it, or if Zim was just truly heartless, but the thought of losing memory of who you are but knowing you’ve been abducted, and then the one person who can help abandons you, that was sad to me at 9.

Dude, those Ka-BLAM! T.V. spots REALLY took me back! That show was a really cool variety animation show that I wish would have lived longer. It would be amazing if they would consider making a reboot of that show today to help animators have a springboard to get their work seen!

Honestly really proud of Jordan for continuing to output such high, consistent quality to his subscribers. You're inevitably going to amass millions of followers, man! Keep at it!

I'm currently going through invader Zim brainrot again and I'm consuming all of it over and over and over!! I NEED MORE! WE DESERVE MORE!!

Love this show soooo much!!! It's much more about what you don't see than what you do. I'm excited to see it come back...one day.

Damn this gives me way more respect for the show as a child I was scared af to watch this at night but low-key I kinda wanna rewatch this series as an adult

This show should have been on adult swim. Imagine how much more freedom they would have.

Didn't know invader Zim had such an interesting history, great video!

I am so glad to see you brought up JHTM, no one really talks about it much unless you gotten very obsessed with Jhonen's works, or read it ages ago in the 90s.

This show is amazing and I love the person who voices Zim.

I don't know if I watched Invader Zim as a kid, but I watched it last year and I love it. I would pay money to see the episodes how the directors of invader zim originally wanted it to be.

This show will always have a special place in my heart. It 100% shaped me and my tastes in my youth. The amount of GIR things I own is absurd. 😅 Thank you for covering such a beloved piece of animation! Long live the Irken Empire!

I have a long, strange relationship with this show and it's creator, Jhonen Vasquez. I used to watch all kinds of shows about the paranormal as a kid even though they probably scared me or freaked me out, and Jhonen has stated that his inspiration for the show was his his childhood interest in the paranormal. In addition, I played the Ultimate Spiderman video game a few years before I heard about IZ and years later started listening to the game's soundtrack before listening to ZIM's soundtrack as well. I noticed a familiar name listed under composer: Kevin Manthei I found that Invader ZIM and Ultimate Spiderman had the same composer and similar styles, having an Industrial sound. Industrial music is my favorite genre of music and I remain a huge fan of it along with (to a lesser extent) electronic music in general. I feel a strange connection with this show and Jhonen and have found it has influenced my tastes and myself as a person in general quite significantly and there are even more weird coincidences I have found between myself and my life and Jhonen and his work but I won't go into them here as that would make this far too long and I don't want too sound like too much of an obsessed autistic loony fanboy so I should stop already.

Even if that spine joke with the aspirin had to be changed, it ended up creating one of the FUNNIEST jokes in the whole series.

I remember The Most Horrible Xmas ever had a character die. A woman's heart explodes in pure joy and she falls over dead. Also, Jhonen is aware of Chuck from Panty and Stocking and notes the similarities between Chuck and GIR.

I can still notice how my best buddy was heavily influenced by this show, and I appreciate it. Sometimes kids do need shows that are unhinged and edgy to have variety of flavors in their small lives.

I loved and still love Invader Zim. It was one of only 2 pieces of media that I loved so much I bought physical copies of it.

My sister watched it when it was on air and I faintly remember watching it with her but I didn’t get into it fully until middle school and got back into it HARD after enter the florpus was shown to me by some now former friends. I work at a comic shop now so I read oni’s 25th anniversary edition of invader zim when it came out this past week and I have a new appreciation of it as an adult now and it’s nice going back and reading it We did have JTHM as singles a few months ago and found out my boss,whom is a Sunday school teacher,fucking LOVES JTHM and I did not know that until I was doing the show we sold them on with her

You just can't forget that early 2000s art style. One of my favorites.

One of the weirdest experiences I had rewatching this show back in 2018 when I bought a dvd set of the whole thing was pausing during an episode which happened to be one of the episodes with a bloody gir in it. I paused right on the frame where it appeared and it was one of the appearances where the bloody gir image was very large and easy to spot. I was familiar with the bloody gir image and knew it was in a few episdoes but did not know which ones, I dont remember the episode I paused on

Invader Zim was crazy and chaotic and Gir will always go on to be one of my favorite characters. People always called me Gir because of my bubbly personality. I occasionally quote Invader Zim to this day because I just loved it and it really was a fun part of my teen years growing up in the early 2000's. Having been watching horror since I was 3, I didn't find it too bad of a show for kids, but then again... I grew up watching horror and Return to Oz and other stuff people deemed to messed up for kids. Regardless, I am glad we got Invader Zim. Definitely made Nick a better channel because of it.

I'm gen X and I love invader Zim. My kids and I spent meant hours watching. And it brought into clarity the focus of my life as an engineer with one line. My people worked themselves to extinction turning our world into a navigable space ship... Because it's cool."

I remember my friend who was a year a head of me in highschool giving loaning me the JTHM comics I loved those so much and I was super stoked when Nick came out with Invader Zim! I have the JTHM Director'c cut book signed as well as Signed Squee and I have the Hardcover Invader Zim Book 1. He is an interesting dude for sure!

This still my #1 fave cartoon. Anyways, I remember watching an interview of Jhonen Vasquez saying it wasnt the ratings it was a budget problem because the art style and 3D apparently cost alot and nickelodeon didnt like that. Which to me makes sense cus back then they had to draw each frame (which already took long) and adding 3D (which is very new at the time + Rendering times + cost). Now, I do some 2D and 3D stuff myself. I would say it would take a very long time just to make a simple 2D + 3D with older computers from the 90's/2000's.

Honestly, invader zim and courage the cowardly dog were the two biggest influences growing up that I had that drew me for my love of horror media, movies and games. They were unsettling at times but helped convey darker themes in a whimsical way that only cartoons could manage.

I love invader Zim and the movie is great. Love your content

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I didn't watch Invader Zim all the way through until college. I really appreciate the fact that it has dark humor while also being pretty goofy--it never takes itself too seriously, and that's what makes it such a fun show. Also, GIR.

Tbh JTHM deserves an animated series of its own on some streaming service

Absolutely loved Invader Zim. So many great quotes

Disappointed with the lack of Minimoose in this video. He was there the whole time, ya know?? Thank you for the dive into Jhonen Vasquez's fever dream of a series. His comics got me through a very interesting time of my life, and I absolutely loved ZIM. It was fun to look back on it all.

I have no interest in gross out humor, but this show was never truly reliant on it, and I LOVED the dark tones and absurdism. Special shout-out to the music. It takes the subject matter way too seriously, which makes the contrasting humor all the funnier!

I love Zim & while I did recognize it had a unique style compared to most of the other stuff on TV I watched I never thought bout anythin in regards to how "insane" it was, it was jus another show I liked as a kid & that was it. No matter how freaky it got I never bat an eye. I was also more than pleasantly surprised by the movie when I saw it randomly sittin in Netflix & put it on immediately & it was all as good as I remembered. I'd LOVE a full continuation but I'm glad of wut I got throughout my life

My husband got me JTHM directors cut before it went out of print and I'm so thankful. It's a beautiful book

Loved this show as a kid. The episode I remember the movie was the Xmas episode. It was so weird and so cool. I think that the only reason it had low ratings was bc parents were forbidding their kids to watch such a "weird" show. At least that's how it was with my parents. They would actually make me watch the news whenever Invader Zim was on 😫

Loved the episode where Zim went to that battle planet as a punishment and ended up sacrificing his entire team to get to the finish line 😂

Awesome video!!! I love Invader Zim so so much (despite me preferring more lighthearted things, this is one of those exceptions :'D), I watched a few episodes when I was younger and I love Enter the Florpus so much, I really wanna binge the whole series sometime!!

can i just say i love the little commercial break type things in between sections in your videos, its just a cool addition

Some of my favorite memories are from when me and my psuedo sister would go to my house after work, drink, and watch Invader Zim or the Hannibal TV show.

I loved and still love invader zim, so much funny moments in that show and the dark atmosphere of the show just makes those funny moments even better. I dont think we'll ever see another show like invader zim on Nickelodeon ever again