History Trivia / InvaderZim

* CreatorBacklash: Minor example:Jhonen wasn't fond of the original design of Mac Meatie's in "Germs", thinking it looked too cartoonish, so as a result it was given a radically different look in "Career Day"

* RelationshipVoiceActor: In the Japanese dub, Naomi Nagasawa and Ayumi Kida voiced together in the Japanese version of ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'' as Yang and Yuck, respectively, ironically enough with the protagonist and antagonist roles switched.

* NamesTheSame: This Gaz is not the same one from ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare''.

* LifeImitatesArt: In 2005, a 17-year-old psychopath named Scott Dyleski attempted to re-enact the episode "Dark Harvest" in real life. Thankfully(?) he was only able to eviscerate one person before he was caught, tried and sentenced to life in prison.

* TalkingToHimself: Dib and Dibship. Dib literally talking out loud to himself is also a RunningGag in the show.

* CreatorBacklash: Minor example:Jhonen wasn't fond of the original design of MacMeatie's in "Germs", thinking it looked too cartoonish

* ReleaseDateChange: Two episode pairings were changed before airing, "Dark Harvest" was originally paired with "Bestest Friend" and "Germs" was originally paired with "NanoZIM", but the network execs didn't like the former pairing as they didn't think it was a good idea to put two of the most disturbing episodes of the series together, so the order was switched around.

** Due the show's proximity to 9/11, some elements (firefighters watching the slow explosion from their fire truck in Walk For Your Lives, vision of destroyed New York in Door to Door) were [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents deemed too offensive to air]]. The explosion was turned green instead of orange, the firefighter gag was removed and a new "horrible future" vision (that was somehow more destructive than the original one) was produced for Door to Door. Jhonen Vasquez said he preferred the new vision to the old one, as it was more violent.

* RoleReprise: ''Enter the Florpus'' brought back a good majority of the original cast from the TV series, even those who voiced minor roles. The same can be said for the Latin American Spanish and Japanese dubs.

** Outside of the Americas (Brazil, Mexico, USA), GIR is often voiced by a woman.

* ImageSource:
** AFormYouAreComfortableWith ("Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom")
** AmusingAlien
** [[AttentionWhore/WesternAnimation Attention Whore.Western Animation]] ("The Girl Who Cried Gnome")
** BlindedByTheSun ("Walk of Doom")
** EatingMachine (Fanart)
** [[HalloweenEpisode/WesternAnimation Halloween Episode.Western Animation]] ("Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom")
** LovableNerd ("Gaz: Taster of Pork")
** [[ReferencedBy/ThePowerpuffGirls Referenced by....The Powerpuff Girls]] ("The Girl Who Cried Gnome")
** ProjectileToast ("Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain")
** {{Santabomination}} ("The Most Horrible X-mas Ever")
** [[Wedgie/WesternAnimation Wedgie.Western Animation]] ("A Room With A Moose")
** WorldGoneMad

* QuoteSource:
** AlienAmongUs
** BizarreAlienBiology
** BreathlessNonSequitur
** ChickenWalker
** ClassPet
** CooldownHug
** DoomyDoomsOfDoom
** TheDreadedToiletDuty
** ExplosiveLeash
** Expositron9000
** GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul
** HughMann
** SuperiorSpecies
** ToKnowHimIMustBecomeHim

* WorkingTitle: The [[SarcasmMode wildly different]] ''Invader: ZIM''.

* Richard Horvitz, voice of Zim brought over a few of his fellow actors from ''The Angry Beavers'' including John Garry, Wally Wingart, and Creator/KevinMcDonald.

* CharacterSpecificPages: [[Characters/InvaderZimZim Zim]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** According to [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9eKOqh-E5WPa3hLTGFiS0MzS0k/view?pref=2&pli=1 the show's original pitch bible]], the show was intended to be in a format similar to ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', and ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', with short interludes appearing in between episodes.
** Wally Wingert was originally cast as Almighty Tallest Purple but was recast as Red when Kevin [=McDonald=] became available.
** Before pitching the ''Zim'' idea, Jhonen Vasquez and Nickelodeon toyed with adapting his comic ''ComicBook/{{Squee}}'', but quickly decided that, while it ''starred'' a child, it [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids was definitely not child-friendly]]. Jhonen was also reluctant to adapt his previous work, fearing it might ruin the comic's integrity if it turned out badly. Some aspects of the comic still appeared in the show, such as the aliens in "Abducted," Miss Bitters and the school being called "skool" (the gag of the children climbing out the windows once classes let out was also from the comic).
** The show's aesthetic was originally more of a 1950s B-movie spoof. It barely got to development before Jhonen realized that he hated doing something that predictable.
** Danielle Koenig's original script for "Vindicated" had Dwicky genuinely believing Dib. She refers to the change as Jhonen having "mangled" it, but she didn't sound as annoyed about it as her word choice might lead one to believe.
** Another commentary tidbit is that Iggins was originally slated to die at the end of "Game Slave 2," but ExecutiveMeddling prevented that.
** In "Door To Door," the kids shoveling sausages into their mouths were originally going to be eating cockroaches, hence the sausages' bug-like design and coloring. Nick said it was too disgusting.
** In a [[http://www.questionsleep.com/mindspill/?p=1742 blog post]] Jhonen noted the original script for "Gaz: Taster of Pork" simply ended with Dib defeating the Porklord and then sharing pizza with Gaz. Eric Trueheart came up with the ending we got instead.
** Creator/MarkHamill was originally considered for the role of Zim, but was dismissed by Nickelodeon for sounding too old.
*** Billy West was also considered, and his voice is Zim's in the original pilot, available on Youtube. However, with ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' already on the air, Jhonen didn't want West's voice in two sci-fi shows at the same time, citing it to be too recognizable across both shows.
** Skoodge's SIR unit would have appeared in a cancelled episode. Its name was CHIPZ.
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Tommy Pickles]] was going to be one of the Nhar-Gh'ok. Naturally, Nickelodeon did not approve.
** Being huge fans of Creator/MontyPython, the creators wanted to get Terry Jones and Eric Idle to voice the two aliens in "Abducted," but scheduling conflicts prevented it.
** Pipi the hamster from "Hamstergedon" was originally named Mr. Boodles, but Jhonen thought "Pipi" was funnier for [[ToiletHumor obvious reasons]].
** When GIR self-destructs in "Dib's Wonderful Life Of Doom," his exclamation of "FINALLY!" was originally supposed to be "SWEET RELEASE!" Nickelodeon asked that it be changed to something less suicidal-sounding.
** In 2010, Creator/{{Nicktoons}} spent a month heavily rerunning the show, even giving it a 24-hour marathon at one point. According to Jhonen Vazquez, this was Nickelodeon testing the waters to see if it was feasible to bring back the show for another season. Despite the reruns doing extremely well in ratings, it was ultimately decided that a revival would be too expensive. The network would continue to float the idea of a new season/series around for several years however, and regularly inquire about Vasquez's interest in returning. In addition, prior to deciding on doing a television movie, Jhonen proposed a six-episode miniseries before realizing that such a project would make him miserable.
** Mini-Moose is introduced as Zim's other sidekick, who'd been present all along. Subsequent episodes would have flashbacks with Mini-Moose crudely photoshopped into existing episodes as a gag, but the show's cancellation came before this could be realized.
** Ms. Bitters was supposed to have more random flashbacks, like the "fairy princess" or "hideous implosion" ones, but they kept being cut for time. Her comment about "having a Valentine once" was also apparently supposed to show [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu a bunch of tentacles]].
** ''Tak: The Hideous New Girl'' was originally planned to be an hour-long episode, but Nickelodeon asked the crew to keep it down to being a half-hour.
** Had the show continued, there would have been stronger continuity and more reoccurring characters. For example, it would have been revealed that after the events of "Hobo 13", Invader Skoodge was now living in Zim's basement as a permanent roommate, Tak would have become a reoccurring antagonist, the very minor character Invader Tenn would have had more, plot-important appearances, and it would have been revealed the inhabitants of her designated planet, the Meekrob (seen in the show only as artificial illusions in "Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom"), were allied with the Resisty and would have eventually led an all-out attack on the Irken Empire in a two-part finale of season two, supposedly followed by a three-part series finale.

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* CharacterSpecificPages:
** [[Characters/InvaderZimZim Zim]]

* FanNickname:
** Dib and Gaz did not not have an official last name in the original series. Many fans had taken to giving them the last name "Membrane," after their father, which would be [[AscendedFanon made canon]] in the comic book series.
** Of the four Girly Rangers seen in "The Girl Who Cried Gnome", only Moofy (the red one) is actually named in-show. Fans have given nicknames to the other three: Millie for the blue one, Madelyn for the green one, and Mia for the purple one.

** BlindedByTheSun (“Walk of Doom”)
** [[BrattyHalfPint/WesternAnimation Bratty Half-Pint.Western Animation]] ("Gaz: Taster of Pork")
** EatingMachine
** AFormYouAreComfortableWith ("Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom")

** ProjectileToast

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Mrs. Bitters' actress, Lucille Bliss, died in 2012. In ''Enter The Florpus'', she only makes a silent cameo in a fantasy sequence, while the 2008 video game ''[[VideoGame/NicktoonsUnite Nicktoons: Globs of Doom]]'' has Creator/CandiMilo filling in for her.

* CharacterSpecificPage:

* GodNeverSaidThat: Unfortunately, the phrase "[[WordOfGod Jhonen said]]" has been falsely appended to so many baseless rumors that unless there is an actual verifiable citation included you're far more likely to be reading something someone ''heard'' Jhonen said from someone else who who heard it and so on... following the GossipEvolution back to its source often leads only to the reveal of glorified {{fanon}} whose origin had been lost in the shuffle. According to (note the citation) [[http://www.questionsleep.com/mindspill/?p=1208 Jhonen on his blog]], even Wikipedia and IMDB have included errors as a result of this.