History Funny / TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim

* The Children's testing for Dib and Steve's "worthiness" to reach the ship involves dragging them into a tent filled with [[NoodleImplements torture devices, gym equipment, medical tools]], and for some reason, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a pen of livestock]].

* The RunningGag of Norlock hating ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''-style vampires.

* Ying gives a heartfelt speech about why he's so loyal to Nyx… and then GIR [[MoodWhiplash kills the mood]] by walking in with his pig friend, the two proceeding to make a mess all over the base. [[SuperOCD Ying]], who just cleaned the base, gives an EyeTwitch.

* The Tallest getting into an argument over [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY the proper pronunciation of "caramel"]]. According to Senior, they've been doing this for years.

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* The RunningGag of toxic fans taking DuelingFandoms to an unhealthy extreme.

* Below leaving Foodcourtia, Nyx takes the time to blow up Sizz-Lorr's restaurant as payback by proxy for Zim.

* Zim stabs Norlock in the chest because he thinks that's where vampires have their hearts. As he explains it, vampires eat blood, blood goes through the heart, so why wouldn't the heart be in the stomach?

-->'''Dib'': (''to Steve'') Don't bother. Trust me, trying to explain human terminology to him is a long road to a dead end. It's not worth the headache.

** As Team Save Earth are surrounded by monsters, Mortos completely [[MoodWhiplash kills the tension]] by walking up and asking Dib to pay for the ice cream he just bought. Even the monsters stare at him confusion.

* While MIMI snaps Tak and Tenn out of their dream illusions by means of rebooting their PAKs, Minimoose and GIR are more direct with Skoodge and Zim — Minimoose zaps Skoodge with electricity, while GIR just bites hard on Zim's hand.

* The Tallest getting into an argument over [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY the proper pronunciation of "caramel”"]. According to Senior, they've been doing this for years.

** Upon learning about the rampaging Ham Demon, Bill concludes that it’s an invader from an alternate universe when humans evolved from ham instead of apes. Dib is left rolling his eyes when the other CREAM agents take this seriously.
* Steve’s assignment is to be a gofer at a bland corporate office. The first we see of this, he’s being shown the vast number of water coolers that the office has, in order to keep employees from dehydrating; to Steve’s shock, he’s shown the skeleton of a former employee who died from exactly that, still left slumped over in its cubicle.
** Steve is incredulous that the company’s big product that they’re working towards is a new kind of ‘’paper clip’’.
* Viera is assigned to be a personal assistant to a D-list actress, and is left stunned by how incredibly diva-ish and petty the woman is. Also, said actress is [[AccidentalMisnaming completely unable to remember her name]], cycling through every other name that starts with a “V”. And then “Rebecca”, which as Viera notes doesn’t even fit the pattern.

** Viera ends up leading the mob chasing her into the office where Steve’s assignment is, and quickly fills him in on what’s happening:
->’’’Viera’’’: Oh, you know, the main actress on the movie set I was assigned to is some kind of banshee or demon or something, and I pissed her off so now she ordered the cast and crew to feed me to her, that's all.
->’’’Steve’’’: [[ButForMeItWasTuesday …Our lives should not be so messed up that that sounds normal.]]

* For some more BlackComedy, there’s Skoodge being assigned to assist Nny at the skool. Poor Skoodge is forced to watch Nny give a tutorial on how to properly disembowel someone, before finally vomiting and passing out; Nny makes a note to make Skoodge clean up the mess when he regains consciousness.
* Gaz is assigned to Game Slave headquarters, where the woman in charge, Mrs. Albertson has anyone in violation of corporate rulings being beaten by security guards. Gaz greatly enjoys watching and encouraging this, but [[LaserGuidedKarma karma bites her later]], when the rat people burst into the place and cause a mess before leaving, with only Gaz and a janitor as witnesses; the janitor proceeds to blame the mess on Gaz, leaving her to get beaten by the guards.

** After beating up a group of rat people in the garage, Rankle says he’s going to do the only “humane” thing he can with them. Namely selling them to a big corporation as slave labor.
->’’’Tenn’’’: Is that legal?
->’’’Rankle’’’: In some states. [[LoopholeAbuse Depends on how you define ‘legal’]].

** When Agent Spider Monkey tries to dismiss the team’s efforts due to lack of evidence, Dib fires back by asking what he’s ever gotten evidence of, leading to this:
->’’’Spider Monkey’’’: I'll have you know that I discovered a tribe of Tikoloshe trying to sneak into the country onboard a freighter!
->’’’Tunaghost’’’: Hang on, didn't those turn out to just be some rare breed of monkey some rich jackass was smuggling?
->’’’Spider Monkey’’’: None of that was ever confirmed!

* Team Save Earth are quick to call out the “HauntedHouse” as over the top and cliched, inadvertently getting a dig in at Spider Monkey/Quis by commenting on this.
* After the team splits up to check one floor, Steve finds a room full on mannequins that appear to move when he’s not looking. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere He immediately leaves the room.]]
->’’’Steve’’’: [[GenreSavvy I've seen enough horror movies to know how this goes]], and I am ‘’not’’ dealing with that on my own.
** After the clown listed below shows up, Steve states that he’s sure he’s seen that in a movie.
** And when they flee the clown into the basement, he asks if he’s the ‘’only one’’ here who’s actually seen a horror movie.
* A MonsterClown shows up and attacks the team… much to Quis’ confusion, as he didn’t put it there.
** Naturally, it turns out to be Zim’s creation, and he’s convinced it’ll blend right in because:
->’’’Zim’’’: Everyone knows that abandoned houses are where clowns build their nests before they hibernate for the winter.
->’’’Skoodge’’’: …That doesn't sound right.
->’’’Zim’’’: Do not question Zim's research!

* Grabbing an axe, the clown smashes down a door and snarls “[[Film/TheShining Here’s Johnny!]]”… and Nny, who’s walking nearby, comments on it.
* When Viera comments that the basement isn’t so bad, the three all look around, expecting that to have been TemptingFate, but nothing happens. Then after a few moments, zombies burst out of the floor.
->’’’Dib’’’: Yeah, that figures.

* Red rebukes Purple’s laziness, saying he takes their responsibilities seriously. Senior then cheerfully points out that this doesn’t seem to extend to doing paperwork, causing Red to snap at him.
* A meta example: Wiyn’s MookLieutenant is named [[MeaningfulName Lieutenant Mook]].
* Dite likes dark and gritty movies, yet found ‘’[[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice Dawn of Justice]]’’ to be a “[[TakeThat nonsensical bloody mess]]”.
* Peech complains about how when she used to work directly under Wiyn, any mistakes were punished by being made to clean all the toilets on the ‘’Massive’’.
->’’’Peech’’’: Do you guys have any idea how many toilets there are on a ship this big?!
->’’’Maht’’’: 989,975. (‘’everyone stares at him in surprise’’) I used to be a janitor before I was re-encoded as a Table Head. Take my word for it.

* After Dite kills the technician and saves everyone from his grenade, the Tallest reward her by… giving her the rest of the day off. She’s understandably nonplused by the “reward”.

* As Zim’s group is building the Energy Harvester, Zim’s instructions are less than helpful:
->’’’Zim’’’: No, no, Zim said that those cables rotate into place clockwise!
->’’’Ying’’’: I ‘’am’’ turning them clockwise, sir.
->’’’Zim’’’: I meant ‘’my’’ clockwise, not yours!
* Zim knows better than to ask GIR if he’s going to be useful. And while talking to him, admits that he doesn’t actually have a plan for what to do with the cosmic energy he’s collecting, which Dib overhears and rubs in his face shortly after when he’s trying to gloat. And it later turns out Tak overheard that too.

* When Tenn determines the NegativeSpaceWedgie that the three teams fell through as a Smarkle Rift, [[SmallNameBigEgo Zim]] naturally tries to claim he figured that out already.

->’’’Steve’’’: Are you just making up words because you know we don't know enough about space science to tell?
* In the middle of saying that all three teams need to work together to get back to their own universe, Dib realizes that Zim’s group has already taken off to do things on their own.
* While Skoodge is weirded out at the thought of meeting another Zim, Nyx is quite happy, saying that she’s had dreams about multiple Zims before.
->’’’Ying’’’: [[TooMuchInformation I don't believe any of us needed to know that, Madame.]]
* Zim is incredulous to find out that his counterpart peacefully uplifts less advanced species, but manages to keep from revealing he’s a wannabe conqueror in his own universe. Mostly.
->’’’Zim’’’: Zim loves to aid lesser species. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial That doesn't make me sick at all!]]

->’’’Nyx’’’: (‘’being held back by Ying’’) Kill it! [[KillItWithFire Kill it with FIRE!]]
->’’’Ying’’’: [[ServileSnarker Always good to see you taking your own advice, Madame.]]
** All three Irkens are dumbfounded to find out that Skoodge’s counterpart is a tall and muscular adventurer.
** Minimoose’s counterpart looks and acts exactly like him. Zim notes that some things are universal.
* Team Save Earth are surprised to find an actual farm smack in the middle of the city, and even more so to find this universe’s counterpart to Professor Membrane — a stereotypical hick farmer, complete with accent — running it. And not doing so in an efficient way, either, as he insists on giving free samples to anyone who visits. It takes Steve pointing out the flaws in this (namely, what’s to stop people from just taking samples and never buying anything) for him to realize it’s not a good business model.

* Tenn isn’t happy to find out that her counterpart is a laid back slacker.
* Dib and Viera’s reactions to being asked if they’re a couple like their counterparts is for both of them to give a BigNo, then blush and look away from each other awkwardly.
** Which they do again at the end of the chapter when Steve asks if they’re going to discuss the above.
* Nyx continues to be aggravated by her counterpart’s personality, trying to get her to be more of an anarchist, only for Anti-Nyx to keep countering her efforts. She even goes so far as to help the owners of corporate buildings Nyx blows up get their insurance papers in order.

* While Anti-Dib breaks out a MiniMecha and Anti-Viera surrounds herself with the flaming silhouette of a demonic harpy, Anti-Steve just flexes his large muscles. Steve comments that that’s mildly disappointing.
** Anti-Steve proceeds to give a speech about how not using his “thinky part” (his brain) makes him the strongest there is. Ying proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle kick his ass]].
* To test if it’s now possible to pass back through the Smarkle Rift, Zim punts GIR, who flies into it with a happy yell.
* Skoodge isn’t certain he grabbed the right Minimoose before returning to the main universe. Zim tells him that since they were identical it doesn’t matter, which Minimoose apparently agrees with.

* Dib’s annoyance at the fact that there’s naturally no one around to see it when Nyx shows up in her ship to pick up Gaz in broad daylight.

* Due to the Irken security officers not recognizing Gaz as a sentient being, instead of being arrested she’s sent to a pound. She’s naturally infuriated at this, especially since the animal catcher running the place — Leashlor the Relentless — is an idiot and running on InsaneTrollLogic that keeps him from seeing her as anything other than an animal even though she can talk.

* Ying’s response to Grissom’s BadassBoast about his control of Slumia:
->’’’Grissom’’’: I own this planet. Nothing happens here without my say-so. And if it does, I strike down on the perpetrators like a wrathful god.
->’’’Ying’’’: [[DeadpanSnarker Your humility is inspiring, sir.]]
* Leashlor’s mother Tammy was apparently also known as “the Relentless”. According to him, it’s a family name.
* Nyx arrives at the pound and blows open the entrance. [[ThereWasADoor Leashlor points out that the door wasn’t locked.]]

* Below leaving Foodcourtia, Nyx takes the time to blow up Sizz-Lorr’s restaurant as payback by proxy for Zim.

* Zim has Minimoose attack Tak and Tenn’s Conversion Engine, only for the attack to [[NoSell have no effect]], leaving Zim’s team staring awkwardly at the machine for a moment.
* Skoodge tries to get GIR to help in the fight, only to find he’s busy messily eating fried chicken. He decides to not bother trying, and moves on.

* When trying to prove that Nyx is his sister, Zim gives her a hug, though it’s described as him clearly having have no idea how hugs work.
** And then, when called out on where Nyx has been this whole time if she’s his sister, Zim claims she was part of an exchange program in [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents Tibecuador]]. And “proves” that it’s a real country by quickly pasting a post-it note to a globe; Steve questions why he just happened to have that on him.

* Ying gives a heartfelt speech about why he’s so loyal to Nyx… and then GIR [[MoodWhiplash kills the mood]] by walking in with his pig friend, the two proceeding to make a mess all over the base. [[SuperOCD Ying]], who just cleaned the base, gives an EyeTwitch.

->’’’GIR’’’: I'm a hamster.

->’’’Nyx’’’: Ying, what do I always say?
->’’’Ying’’’: [[BombThrowingAnarchists 'Death to the Control Brains’?]]
->’’’Nyx’’’: What? No… well, yeah, but I meant the other thing.
->’’’Ying’’’: [[MadBomber ‘Boom’?]]
->’’’Nyx’’’: No! The ‘’other’’ other thing!
->’’’Ying’’’: [[AxCrazy 'If in doubt, blow things up’?]]

->’’’Tenn’’’: I mean, at least Zim's somewhat subtle most of the time-
->’’’Tak’’’: Zim wouldn't know subtle if it punched him in the face.
* To Zim’s surprise, Nyx has programmed Ying with detailed criteria for judging the “awesomeness” of explosions.
* Zim tries to use Nyx’s minigun, but the recoil knocks him over and ends up damaging his mech’s controls to the point of making it unusable.

->’’’Dib’’’: [[LampshadeHanging …That figures.]]

* Arachnos, the first bounty hunter who comes after Dib, leaves a series of snare traps across the forest he’s currently in. Unfortunately for her, these traps capture pretty much everything but Dib — bugs, birds, various woodland animals, and even ‘’Bigfoot’’. And then one trap captures a guy on a motorbike, which causes Arachnos to snap and start tearing things out of her traps, but this just causes the motorbike to slam into her ship and blow her up.
** Afterwards, it turns out that the guy on the bike was somehow left stuck to Bigfoot’s back, with the pair left wandering the woods looking for someone to pry him free. Naturally, they pass right through where Team Save Earth were waiting in hiding for Bigfoot, right after they leave the area.
** A piece of Arachnos’ blown up ship lands in front of Team Save Earth. And before they can try and take it for study, it blows up ‘’again’’ for no apparent reason.
* The second bounty hunter, Ma’lack, tries to use SuperSpeed to obliterate Dib, but keep overshooting him by happenstance. The first time, he ends up slamming into a dumpster; the second time, he crashes into the kitchen, where in a bit of BlackComedy the staff are all completely casual about his presence and how Nny ends up dragging him away for torture.
* Some more BlackComedy — the third bounty hunter, Syrax, breaks into the Membrane house to lay in wait for Dib, but accidentally enters Gaz’s room and is promptly attacked by her security dolls. They’re later shown dumping his remains in the trash on the sidewalk.
* Mr. Dwicky returns, having become a bounty hunter after “[[NoodleIncident a series of thrilling adventures]]” in space, much to Dib’s surprise.
* A minor one, but Havok mentions that he was [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller expecting Zim to be shorter]]. Which is pretty solid burn considering the Irkens’ belief in the connection between height and competence.
* Havok takes Dwicky out of commission right before the big fight, and he doesn’t show up again until right after Dib has just seemingly killed Havok by causing his ship to fall off a roof and explode.
->’’’Dwicky’’’: …What’d I miss?

* Zim starts crowing about how his CharacterDevelopment since the last Career Day means he’s sure to get a better job placement… and in the middle of a sentence, he’s cut off and informed he’s being assigned as a fast food manager.
** One he gets to [=MacMeaties=], Zim tries to make the most of it, only to find he’s being shoved in an “office” (really a repurposed closet) and forced to do paperwork. While grueling through it, he notes that a small part of him feels bad for Sizz-Lorr… a small part that he then “clubbed, stabbed, shot, set on fire and threw out an airlock” because he doesn’t want to feel bad for his former employer/tormentor.
** ’’Then’’, it turns out that all that paperwork was practice for the real thing. Zim promptly [[RageBreakingPoint goes wild]], rampaging through the restaurant before finding himself outside and in the middle of a riot caused by all the events from elsewhere in the chapter mixing together. He then decides to call it a day and go home.

->’’’Nyx’’’: What am I supposed to learn in a dump like that, anyway?
->’’’Skoodge’’’: [[AskAStupidQuestion How to make and sell paint?]]
->’’’Nyx’’’: Don't point out the obvious while I'm complaining about something!
** When she gets to the paint factory, she’s dumbfounded that her assignment is to literally ‘’watch paint dry’’ and time how long it takes. She eventually gets bored and wanders off, eventually finding a room where rat people are used as slave labor and freeing them.
->’’’Nyx’’’ (‘’[[ShoutOut half her face covered in blue paint]]’’) [[Film/{{Braveheart}} Freedom!]]
* Dib is assigned to a scientific research center, only to find that it’s run by Bill, who proceeds to tie him up because he’s convinced that they keep crossing paths because Dib is spying on him. He then tries to prove this by pulling out a StringTheory board based entirely on his InsaneTrollLogic. Dib, understandably, states that ThisIsGonnaSuck.
** When we cut back to them later, Dib has fallen asleep from listening to Bill and gets slapped awake, with Bill saying he’s going to have to start over.
->’’’Dib’’’: Oh come on, can't you just torture me instead?

* Dib and Steve can’t believe that Viera is actually [[PassThePopcorn eating some of the popcorn]] GIR brought for Zim while they’re [[GoKartingWithBowser watching Norlock go after the convention]]. Which doesn’t stop Steve from having some too later on.
* Zim’s odd reaction when he doesn’t like something Steve said:
->’’’Zim’’’: Lies! You lie, Not-Dib! From your filthy mouth full of deceit and, um, pork!
->’’’Steve’’’: I'm… not eating any pork.

->’’’Zim’’’: Shut your filthy mouth full of corn, Not-Dib!
->’’’Steve’’’: Okay, before you said my mouth was full of pork, now it's corn? It's bad enough none of your insults make sense, but couldn't you at least keep them consistent?

** Rankle’s zombie security force is, if anything, even less effective than it was in canon. Viera notes one in particular that is walking repeatedly into a wall.
** After Rankle sends Norlock flying into the ‘’Sunset’’ stars (apparently not caring what happens to them), he starts monologuing to himself about receiving Presidential commendations. Norlock then counterattacks by tossing the actors (and their whole table) at him; Rankle shatters the table and sends the actors flying into the crowd of their fans, who proceed to go feral on them.
** When Rankle pulls out his final security measure, Norlock sarcastically asks if it’s something stupid like radioactive gerbils. [[SarcasmBlind Rankle]] admits that’s not a bad idea, with [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Zim agreeing with him]].

->’’’Dib’’’: Wait, wait, wait. Okay, so I can sort of understand the robot tendrils, and the lasers, and maybe even the zombies. But why in the world would you have a giant rocket underneath where that stage was? Were you planning on launching it the whole time, even before Norlock showed up? Why was that there?!
->’’’Rankle’’’: [[{{Eagleland}} Because America!]]

* Like Zim before her, Tenn’s ship is brought crashing out of the sky by a ‘’bee’’.

->’’’Steve’’’: Are we sitting in some big sign that says 'Please Invade Here’?
* When Team Save Earth comes across Tenn’s crashed ship, Dib starts excitedly taking pictures, only for Viera to point out that he left the lens cap on his camera. Then, Steve brings up the rather obvious point that they should be more focused on capturing the newly crashed alien rather than stopping to take pictures.
* Team Save Earth aren’t impressed when the group of Men in Black that show up turn out to work for an organization whose name has [[FunWithAcronyms “CREAM” as an acronym]]. The agent who reveals this awkwardly explains that they didn’t check out how it looked when written down until after they’d trademarked it.

->’’’Norlock’’’: …Well, that happened.
* Tenn is completely baffled by the stupidity and insane theories put forward by Bill and the other CREAM agents, to the point that her initial reaction is to wonder if she’s crashed into a mental hospital.
** Later, in a spoof on AliensSpeakingEnglish, Tenn finally snaps after having to hear their various attempts to communicate with her and shocks them by revealing she already understands them. The agents all assume she’s reading their minds and flee in a panic, to her surprise.

->’’’Bill’’’: I've seen things that would give you nightmares for life! I've fought mole men living underneath the State Capital building! I've hunted were-elk across the tundra! I've faced off with eight-foot tall zombie elves!
->’’’Viera’’’: Wait, hold on. How can they have been elves if they were eight feet tall?
->’’’Bill’’’: It was a leap year.
* Bill is so focused on fighting Norlock that he has no problem telling the Irkens where he’s keeping Tenn.
* Zim demands that Tenn grovel in thanks for him coming to rescue her, trying to stand up taller to look intimidating in the process. Since Tenn just escaped by herself, and also happens to be about six inches taller than Zim, she’s not impressed.
* Bill hides from Norlock in a panic room whose door reads “Definitely Not A Vampire Panic Room”. He mentally notes that he’s sure even Zim wouldn’t go with something that obvious, then amends that being ‘’mostly’’ sure.
* After Norlock easily beats all of Bill’s folklore-based means of countering vampires, he resorts to ‘’throwing cheese’’ at him, on the “logic” of vampires being weakened by the color yellow. Norlock has to point out that he’s thinking of ComicBook/GreenLantern.
* Zim snapping at Skoodge for being MrExposition, and then accidentally revealing the existence of the Meekrob crystal and Project Domination to the humans, to Tak and Tenn’s exasperation.

->’’’Norlock’’’: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Don't blame me! This wouldn't have happened if your moose hadn't electrocuted me!]] (‘’beat’’) Wow, that's a sentence even ‘’I’ve’' never had a reason to say before.
* After the CREAM facility is destroyed, Bill gives a heroic monologue about how his quest for the truth will continue… much to the confusion of the paramedics loading him into an ambulance. They decide he’s delusional from pain and sedate him.

* As Zim, Tak and Tenn are arguing over who’s the best Invader, Skoodge points out that Larb was officially declared such in the last Invader newsletter.
->’’’Tak’’’: [[BigWhat What?!]]
->’’’Tenn’’’: [[LockedOutOfTheLoop When?]]
->’’’Zim’’’: [[SkewedPriorities We have a newsletter?]]

->’’’Bartender’’’: Miss, that's the fifth Poop Cola Deluxe you've had. I think you've had enough.
->’’’Tenn’’’: I'll tell you when I've had enough!
* Skoodge gives Tenn some heartfelt advice on how to cope with her situation. She thanks him — not for the advice itself, since she finds it “sad and stupid” but because she feels that if he can survive working with Zim, then he’s proving that she can handle working with Tak.
* Norlock’s [[SeenItAll completely casual reaction]] to the energy storm Tak accidentally unleashed on Doomsville.

** Miss Bitters doesn’t care about the alleged health condition Tak tries to use to get out of the beach trip.
->’’’Miss Bitters’’’: As I said, it's mandatory. And your health problems don't matter, as the skool is not liable for any harm that comes to its students.
->’’’Dib’’’: That… doesn't sound right.
->’’’Miss Bitters’’’: Be quiet, Dib, no one cares what you think!

* Zim realizing he [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn’t think through]] how to actually catch the sea hydra he just attacked.
* Dib lampshading the fact that a ‘’demon’’ sea hydra is just [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot a little over the top]].
* When Squidman shows up and Zim explains his origin, Skoodge asks why Zim [[StatingTheSimpleSolution didn’t just wipe his memory]] instead of swapping the man’s brain with a squid’s. Zim’s confusion makes it clear this never occurred to him.
** Viera [[LampshadeHanging calling out]] Squidman’s special spear, which is the only thing capable of killing the hydra, as a DeusExMachina, and asking why he didn’t use it ‘’before’’ they fought it. Squidman admits he dropped the ball on that one.
** After Squidman destroys the hydra, causing it to explode, he tries to give a heroic speech, only to realize he’s forgotten most of it.
** When the hydra explodes, one of the pieces hits Zim and sends him flying. By sheer bad luck, he crashes into the Bloaty’s where Gaz is about to have her lunch, and smashes her pizza. The chapter then ends with her presumably giving him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.

* Zim’s complete paranoia after what happened in the canonical Halloween episode, which makes act even more over the top than usual.
** His defenses for his base against the Halloweenies include stacking every piece of furniture in the house against the door and chaining the Robo-Parents to it (which they don’t seem to mind). Norlock casually tosses this barricade aside when leaving the base.
* Dib’s idea of a costume? [[DressingAsTheEnemy Dressing up as Zim]]. Mostly so that if Zim shows up and sees him, he’ll be either freaked out or annoyed.
** Zim does end up seeing Dib in the costume, and is only a little perturbed to be told it’s meant to be him:
->’’’Zim’’’: Zim is not that ugly!
->’’’Dib’’’: [[DeadpanSnarker Debatable.]]
* This ShoutOut to ‘’WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures’’, after Zim calls the outfit Norlock is wearing in the cemetery a dress:
->’’’Norlock’’’: It's not a dress, it's a sorcerer's ceremonial gown!
->’’’Skoodge’’’: Isn't a gown a dress?
->’’’Norlock’’’: No!
* Norlock gives a brief speech crowing about how terrifying the monsters he’s summoned are… and then GIR points out one that’s just a giant head with vestigial limbs attached. Norlock concedes that some of them are just random bits of chaotic energy given physical form.
* As Norlock’s monster summoning is a result of Zim calling him useless, afterwards he asks for an apology, which goes about as well as you’d expect:
->’’’Norlock’’’: Well now, I believe someone is owed an apology.
->’’’Zim’’’: Yes, yes, Zim accepts your apology.
->’’’Norlock’’’: You accept- what do ‘’I’’ have to apologize for? You called me useless!
->’’’Zim’’’: Because you were. But now you've proven that you're somewhat more useful than I thought you were, and have therefore made up for being so useless before.
->’’’Norlock’’’: That's going to be the best I can expect, isn't it?

** When Dib attempts to ask for his help fighting Norlock’s monsters, Mortos tries to get Dib to buy him cotton candy. Dib, naturally, refuses.

->’’’Dib’’’: Are you kidding me? I specifically said that I wasn't going to pay for things for you this time!
->’’’Mortos’’’: I thought you [[ExactWords just meant cotton candy?]]

* Zim threatens to [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon make Mortos eat his own legs]]. Norlock claims that [[NoodleIncident he’s actually done that to people]].
* Dib tossing the pipe he’s using as a weapon into Zim’s face.

** When Purple asks why they keep Senior around despite his sass, he points out because he’s [[UltimateJobSecurity the best at what he does]], but also because they needed someone to fill the post after they tossed the last guy out the airlock.
* Purple sarcastically asks if Zim’s planning to unleash a flock of flesh-eating seagulls. Zim admits that’s not a bad idea.
* When Team Save Earth enter Zim’s base, already trashed from Tak and Tenn breaking in, the broken Robo-Mom grabs Viera’s ankle:
->’’’Robo-Mom’’’: Well hi there, sweetie. Want some cookies?
->(‘’buzzsaws pop out of Robo-Mom’s head, Viera panics and blows her up’’)
->’’’Robo-Dad’’’: I love what you've done with your hair, honey!
* Informed by the Computer that the base has no internal defenses on the lower levels, Zim angrily demands to know what idiot decided that was a good idea. Then ignores the Computer when it points out that ‘’he’’ was the one to design the base.
* The Robot Gopher from “The Girl Who Cried Gnome” is one of the experiments Zim unleashes to fight off Tak and Tenn, and actually manages to be one of the most effective, knocking out Tenn by randomly open a space-time portal near her.

* Purple gets completely drunk from [[CantHoldHisLiquor only two-and-a-half drinks]], and is left rambling incoherently and spouting out random insults at Zim and Skoodge. And while this takes a dark turn as he finally tells Zim the truth about his mission, [[MoodWhiplash right after this serious scene]] he’s shown to have passed out on a console, to the annoyance of the technicians manning it.

* Gaz’s disbelief at the incompetence displayed by the SMOG members as they bumble their way through abducting her. She’s clearly more embarrassed than angry at how they managed to get the drop on her despite this.
** She also points out that “SMOG” is a terrible acronym for a secret society of gamers.
* Iggins’ canonical UnexplainedRecovery is acknowledged here, with him admitting even ‘’he’s’’ surprised he’s alive.
* Gaz repeatedly shooting down Iggins’ attempts to gloat or monologue.

* After winning the competition and usurping Iggins’ place as Grandmaster of Gaming, Gaz helpfully points out to the other SMOG members that she wouldn’t have had to beat them all up if Iggins hadn’t ordered them to bring her to him. The SMOG members pause to think about this, then proceed to mob Iggins.

* In a CallBack to the HalloweenEpisode, Zim mentions the “dress” that Norlock was wearing. Norlock’s still not amused by the comparison.
* Zim’s brilliant idea for an alias for his revolutionary alter ego? [[SdrawkcabAlias Miz]]. Though his [[BeneathSuspicion reasoning for this]] is actually rather clever.
* Steve [[LampshadeHanging questions why]] the Doomsville sewers [[AbsurdlySpaciousSewer are so big]]. At first, Dib is able to explain this away by citing how old they are, but when it’s later shown that portions are big enough for an entire city made of trash and inhabited by hobos, it’s acknowledged as ridiculous.

* Skoodge commenting on the Hobo King’s ‘’[[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome Thunderdome]]’’ reference:
->’’’Hobo King’’’: For remember, two men enter, one man leaves!
->’’’Skoodge’’’: But there's four of them. And Tak’s female.
->’’’Hobo Captain’’’: Be quiet when the King speaks!

* Norlock sends a group of hobos attacking him through a portal. When Tenn questions where it goes, he replies that it’s supposed to send people to a hellish nightmare world but for some reason just leads to Newark. After pausing to think about this for a moment, he notes that [[PlaceWorseThanDeath it’s the same end result]].
* GIR giving the unconscious Hobo King a makeover. In the process he ends up triggering Tenn’s PTSD, and while she’s running away from him, she grabs Skoodge and throws him in GIR’s direction, but misses and hits Minimoose instead.
* Dib finally managing to get the Spittle Runner working by [[PercussiveMaintenance hitting it]]. He’s dumbfounded that worked.
* Zim vents his frustrations over losing the crystal by trashing his base, which includes tossing the Robo-Parents [[DestinationDefenestration through a window]]. It’s noted that they don’t seem to mind.

* Viera isn’t impressed that Steve’s reaction to Tak and Tenn doubling back to confront their ship in midair is to complain about Tak destroying the bug he worked hard to design and plant on MIMI.
* Zim has Norlock play ‘’Ride of the Valkyries’’ as [[AutobotsRockOut mood music]] as he makes his dramatic entrance into the aerial confrontation, only to get annoyed as it keeps playing while he’s trying to talk.
* It’s noted that with so many people crammed into Zim’s Voot, Skoodge is literally squeezed off to the side.

** Zim and Dib later have him do the same thing to ‘’Norlock’’ (specifically, Norlock in his OneWingedAngel form) in order to distract him.
* When Zim “kills” Norlock in his LotusEaterMachine, he dissolves into ichor while saying “[[Film/TheWizardOfOz what a world]]”.
* Steve’s LotusEaterMachine is of him being an {{Expy}} of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]], while Viera’s has her as a ‘’Anime/SailorMoon’’-like MagicalGirlWarrior. Dib is in utter disbelief of both of these.

* While MIMI snaps Tak and Tenn out of their dream illusions by means of rebooting their PAKs, Minimoose and GIR are more direct with Skoodge and Zim — Minimoose zaps Skoodge with electricity, while GIR just bites hard on Zim’s hand.

->’’’Dib’’’: What? It was my… no, never mind, not going down this road.
* How does Tak get Phil’s attention for the trap set for him? She sprays Skoodge with BBQ sauce so that Phil will chase him.
* Zim stabs Norlock in the chest because he thinks that’s where vampires have their hearts. As he explains it, vampires eat blood, blood goes through the heart, so why wouldn’t the heart be in the stomach?
->’’’Dib’’’: Huh, that… actually kind of makes sense when you think about-
->’’’Tak’’’: Would you two shut up and help me kill him already?!
* When Dib finds Zim cowering behind Project Domination during the fight with Norlock’s OneWingedAngel form, Zim [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial spontaneously denies hiding]], even though Dib didn’t say anything about it.

* What happened to Phil after he was launched out of the Project Domination ship? He ended up with the Children of the Bright and Shining Saucer, who adopted him as their new prophet after he ate the Blotch. And then he starts to eat one of the cult members during a Mysterious Mysteries interview, leading to the show cutting to a “technical difficulties” sign.
* How karma bites Gaz in the ass for her decision to sell out Team Save Earth to Zim. When it doesn’t have the result she wanted, she decides to sabotage the Spittle Runner just to spite them… which leads to her being electrocuted, followed by the ship’s security systems launching her through the air in a capsule, crashing into the skool. And while she’s lying passed out in a pile of rubble, Miss Bitters orders Nny to make her clean it up when she wakes up.

* The list of {{Noodle Incident}}s that occurred during the TimeSkip between Season 1 and Season 2 includes a ‘’sentient mutant zucchini monster’’.
* Dib’s epic SpitTake when Gaz [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend calls Viera his girlfriend]].
* The Tallest getting into an argument over [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY the proper pronunciation of “caramel”]]. According to Senior, they’ve been doing this for years.
* It turns out that Zim’s ridiculous attempt at an alias ‘’actually works’’, with only Tak realizing he’s Miz, to her exasperation.
* Nyx is so excited to meet Zim that she literally throws herself at his feet, speaking rapid fire about what a big fan she is, and even starts ‘’drooling’’. Zim is understandably confused.

** Nyx is completely casual about being imprisoned for [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much]], which deflates Zim’s mood a bit.