Funny / Invader Zim (Oni)

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Issues 0 - 10

Issue 0 (TruthShrieker Magazine)

• Pretty much the entire thing is a hilarious read. Highlights include an interview with Santa Claus where the interviewer has mistaken Santa for a Yeti and The Letter M claiming that he doesn't believe in bees.

Issue 1

• Due to having obsessively monitored his surveilance cameras since Zim's disappearance, Dib's...let himself go a bit. This has included not taking time to bathe. Just how bad is the end result? Gaz reacts to Dib's re-emergence with more emotion than she ever displayed in the TV series.
  Gaz: Wait. What're you doing?
  Dib: I'm going to Zim's house.
  Gaz: Dib, no! Take a bath! Take a bath, Dib!
  Dib: Out of my way, Gaz! I've got a human race to save!
  Gaz: NOOO! THE SMELL!
• Where has Zim been all this time? Hiding inside his toilet.
• Zim's "reign of terror" now that Dib is too invalid to fight him, which consists of such horrible things as kicking trash cans, stealing his neighbor's newspaper, and mixing up the mail. And then GIR launches a dog into space from inside his head.
• Dib singing his own workout montage, and then recruiting Gaz to do it for him (complete with a guitar solo that ends up setting the guitar on fire) when he points out that it'll help him stop being so grossly out of shape.
• Zim says that he has no time to waste to start his new Evil Plan... and then it Gilligan Cuts to a week later, where he and GIR are on the couch, binge-watching some show.
  Zim: They've completely ruined this show, GIR. Not a single original cast member remains. I want the purple one to be dead.
  • The fact that Zim actually uses the very streaming era-specific term "binge-watching" to describe what they were doing is a pretty funny reminder of how much time has passed since the show's original run from 2001–2002.
    Zim: The Dib has returned! Curse you, GIR! Curse you and your binge-watching!
• As Zim frantically prepares to take on the recovered Dib, GIR picks a great time to start Calling the Old Man Out. It actually seems to catch Zim off-guard for a second.
  Zim: Computer, ready the Voot Cruiser! GIR, bring me my spacepants! It is time.
  GIR: Master...A long time agoooo, I asked you for a puppy. You said, "Billy, when you're older, maybe. Maybe..." Welll, I'm older now, Master. Did you lie to me?
  Beat
  Zim: GET. MY. SPACEPANTS.

Issue 2

• An unintended side-effect of Zim's hiding is that the Tallest have forgotten about him! But don't worry, because Zim's pretty quick to job their memory:
  Zim: MY TALLEST! No doubt you've been worried sick about where I've been all this time. Well, all will be made clear soon when my plan succeeds. And when it does succeed, which it will, You will know. All sentient life in the galaxy will know. AHHAHHAHHAHHAH! I HAVE TO YELL BECAUSE GIR IS MAKING A SMOOTHIE! BYE!
  Red: (Face Palm) Oh...right. Him.
  Purple: (Looking miserable) He's...not dead?
• Dib tracks Zim down across space in Tak's ship. And starts getting sass from it.
  Dib: Listen, computer, if you're patterned after Tak's brain, then you hate Zim as much as I do. If Zim takes control of that... thing, whatever it does, it means nothing good for Earth and victory for Zim. Zim winning is bad. Help me!
  Tak's Ship: Ooh. It's tough, though. Because I hate you both.
• Dib catching up with Zim:
  Zim: (Evil Laugh) Victory is near, GIR! Soon I'll be in control of the Gargantis Array! This was almost ''too'' easy to pull off without that meddling little-
  Dib: Zim!!
  Zim: What? No, I was gonna say Dib. Waitaminute!
  • Then he tells Dib how to fire the ship's lasers:
  Zim: Just because you have an Irken ship doesn't mean you know how to use it, Dib! Eat my space dust!
  Dib: Well you're right about that. So how do you fire the lasers or whatever on one of these things?
  Zim: Oh. Well you see that dark red panel on the right arm console?
  Dib: Nope. Wait.. oh yeah, there it is.
  Zim: Okay, just double tap that until it lights up and you get a reticle overlay. Why do you wanna know? (gets shot by the lasers)
  • Then he tempts fate again:
  Zim:(While flying on GIR after his ship gets blown up) Ha! Zim is always one step ahead, Dib! Probably two steps ahead if you really th-(GIR gets zapped) WHOA WHOA WHOOOOAH!
  GIR: Yaaaay! I'm exploding!
  • This also leads to a moment absolutely meant to parody sudden dramatic moments in comic revivals of old shows, like Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (Boom! Studios).
  GIR: (sliced in half and heavily damaged) -koF- Don't worry about me, master. I'll -koF- -koF- be okay. Go on without-
  Zim: (already leaving) Eh? Are you saying something GIR?!
  • Also it took Zim and Dib a full two days to reach the Gargantis Array's control room, and judging by his dialogue, Zim was ranting about the brilliance of his evil plan the whole time.
• Zim's evil plan: not to destroy Earth, but to use an ancient transmitter built by an alien race that "liked yelling a lot" to broadcast Dib's training montage from the slob he was in issue 1 across the entire galaxy and transmit the sound of laughter from every being in the galaxy. Except the Tallest:
  Fat!Dib: My belly button hurts.
  Red: This is the most horrible thing I have ever seen.
  Purple: Why can I smell the transmission?
  • The end:
  Zim: Hey! Can I get a ride home?
  Dib: No.
  Zim: Curse you then, I guess.

Issue 3

• Gaz trolling Dib by taking pictures with Bigfoot, who posts them online.
• SHMINVADER SHMIM!!
• "You even knocked down the wing of a hospital for the donkey butt."
• Everything about Zim pretending to be a modern artist.
• The lampshading of the series' Negative Continuity, as the issue ends with Earth being sent flying into the Sun... and then uses a "Next time on" panel to show Zim denying remembering the events of the issue.
  Dib: Remember when I told you not to do that thing, and you did that thing anyhow and a giant donkey destroyed the Earth?
  Zim: Nope.

Issue 4

• The Tallest send a loaf of cheese through a prototype portal onto Zim's head for kicks. Zim traces it back to them and thanks them for giving it to him.
  • Then they convince Zim that it's a weapon and order him to "charge it". Cue Zim "testing it" on humans at the park:
  Old lady: My, my. What a lovely baby!
  Zim: The prune woman feels the weapon's power! But it's not enough. Need more scans! (wacks the old lady in the face with the cheese) Taste the baby, human!
• Zim's other tests (which involve falling off a floor in the mall, with a cowboy hat on with to fly on it).
• The final prank. The Tallest "warn" Zim about that he's being hunted for the cheese and they tell him not to call them back. Cue Zim's frantic paranoia.
  • Zim sets up his defense gnomes and orders them to destroy anything that moves. They blow each other up the moment they raise their weapons.
  Zim:(Hears explosion) What's that? I'm under attack!
  • Zim's Department of Redundancy Department lines.
  Zim: An unknown enemy slithers towards me on his nefarious belly. Life the nefarious-bellied slitherer of planet Slitherfarious Four.
  Zim: My enemies may be outside. Stalking me. On stalks. Little stalking stalks.
  Zim:(to the computer) Lock down the base immediately! Maximum Maximumness!

Issue 5

• Dib yet again involves Gaz (who's in the middle of playing an online game, which Dib turns off) in spying on Zim... telling a cat being fed by GIR to get off his lawn.... You think Dib would learn by now.
• The next morning begins as sickeningly peaceful... Until, of course, a Darth Vader Expy breaks down Dib's door, kidnaps him, and forces him to be played by other gamers in mind simulators, in each of which he dies horribly. Membrane had to pay them to let him take Dib or else they would take his families' robot chef away.
  Dib: You chose Foodio 3000 over me?
  Membrane: Have you ever tasted his poached eggs? Have you!?
  • As it turns out this wasn't the reason why he did it. Gaz asked him to. With ingenious manipulative skill...
  Membrane: Build you a machine capable of allowing you to enter alternate realities so you can kidnap your brother and trap him in a nightmare of virtual horrors? That sounds awful. Why would I help you do this?
  Gaz: I dunno, Dad. Science or somethin'.
  Membrane: WHAT!? I'll do it!
• Dib's first simulation. He's a Minecraft character who's Eaten Alive by zombies.
  Dib: AAAAAAAAH! They're eating my blocky innards!
• Gaz's dimensional travel montage. In her search for the gaming universe, she found alternate versions of Zim and GIR with toast for heads, as zombies, with goatees (and a scar on Zim's face), as babies, and as flowers.
• The amount of references to other games in general. Soldier of Doody 25, Dank Souls, Bloayo Kart 9, Puzhole, Angry Turds, and finally... Meat Gear Solid 13. Just one name change and an added number.
  • The best one of all: Critter Debt Simulator, where Dib is killed by a Tom Nook Expy for not being able to pay the mortgage on his house.
• After panels of endless suffering and humiliation, Dib apologizes for putting his interests above Gaz's hobbies while a Gray Fox Expy just stands next to him.
  Gray Fox Expy: Okay, I'm just uncomfortable now.
• At the end of of the comic, Dib plays a game with Gaz and beats her at it.
  Dib: Hey! I actually won a round! Neat!
  Gaz: CHEATER! (Throws Dib though a wall)

Issue 6

• Zim spends most of the issue running around in half a robot suit because GIR ran off with the bottom half (the legs), eating anything he could find, while Zim is chased by panicked EMTs. Near the end, Zim gets him back, only for a now bloated GIR to come shooting out. So, Zim responds the only way he can:
  "I HAVE GIVEN BIRTH! That was the problem all along!"
  • The robot suit that Zim wears? Given the "skin" tone and the hairstyle it's quite obviously a parody of Donald Trump.

Issue 7

• This exchange, when Zim is trying to repair his crashed ship:
  Zim: GIR, hand me a wrench. (beat) This is a pretzel.
  GIR: Yeah it is.
• The whole reason the ship crashed was because GIR bought some kind of giant slug, which pops out of his head and attacks Zim mid-flight.
• Zim experiments with the primal ooze of the planet by spitting in it, which creates a mini-Zim... which is quickly killed by the amoeba creatures worshipping Zim, for being a heretical "false Zim". Zim himself doesn't care.
• Zim initially likes having the amoebas worship him, but they quickly get on his nerves.
  • Also, a side effect of them evolving so fast seems to be a very loose concept of time, as they keep making references to centuries passing every few minutes.
  • And at the end of the issue, they ask Zim to destroy them, as they find the idea of him destroying them glorious. Zim is confused, but happily does it anyway. He just pulls out a portable bomb, presses the button and casually leaves before it blows up the planet.
  • And then realizes that all the weapons he bought at the start of the issue were left behind on the planet when he blew it up.
• The backup strip, which has Zim attempting to wipe Dib's memories, only to accidentally wipe his own by mistake.

Issue 8

• GIR dressing up as a hobo and building a campfire... on Zim's feet.
• Dib's log entry on cutting his vacation short after discovering that vampires and cowboys are mortal enemies. And not at all because he ticked off Gaz, who broke his computer over his head.
  • And then he rants about people not seeing the paranormal even when it's right in their faces, all while not noticing the pants zombies around him.
• Groyna's Imagine Spot of a comic about her and Dib being "pants hunters".
• Dib just casually abandoning Groyna to the pants zombies while sneaking into the hive.
• Dib and Zim's fight, otherwise known as "Pants Pants Revolution".
• After everything's over, Zim casually admits that the plan didn't work the way he wanted, and then he and Dib part amicably.
  • He also realizes that in activating his Pants Jammer to defeat Dib, he accidentally saved every Human on Earth.
  Dib: So, uh... see you tomorrow?
  Zim: Probably. Death to the Humans though.

Issue 9

• The Running Gag of the insane and stupid comments on Dib's web videos. The first time around, the last one simply reads "I Have Knees" by a guy with an account name that reads as such as well.
• For Black Comedy, there's Gaz enjoying inflicting pain on Dib with the flesh processor while giving him his alien disguise.
  • There's also the Brick Joke of her giving herself extra arms so that she can play multiplayer games by herself.
• Everything that comes from Dib having to pretend to be Zim's intern:
  • His first task is to clean out the puppies GIR stuffed in his head and "disguised" by covering them in honey.
  • The montage contains such gems as dusting a vat of ooze (the ooze, not the vat), walking Minimoose (who's on fire for some reason), eating peanuts in order to shut up GIR, and doing data processing and yard work.
  • The final straw comes when Zim tries to tell him to clean up GIR's vomit.
• The activity pages that follow the comic...they must be seen to believe.

Issue 10

• The Skool talent show. Zim has a good, cruel laugh at the pathetic assemblage of performances, but becomes genuinely enraged (note: he wasn't even competing) when the winner winds up being a boy whose talent was "owning a pet snake."
• Hoping to attain similar adulation, Zim plots to capture a Sylvestran Snarl Beast to flaunt in front of his classmates. Even though the beast is a notoriously deadly creature, bringing it to Skool could potentially blow his cover, and Dib just heard him loudly plot this scheme.
• Gaz lets herself be dragged to Zim's house by Dib, but warns her brother that the 10 dollars he paid her to be there are "wearing off." Dib explains the importance of what they're doing, but ends his spiel by reminding her that he actually bribed her with 20 dollars.
• Dib ending up on top of the Voot Cruiser as it starts to fly towards space.
• Zim and GIR gear up for their Snarl Beast hunt. Powered Armor, loads of guns, knives, camouflage paint, bandanas; the works. Their last step? Plopping their heavily armed posteriors on a "hunting couch" from a nice, safe vantage point as they remote control the Voot Cruiser to do all the hunting for them.
• Zim explains that the Snarl Beast they're fighting is the first one anyone has seen in "over a thousand years" because "nobody has been dumb enough to look for one in all the time." He then boasts that "Zim is dumb enough!"
• With his plan seemingly foiled, Zim shrugs and begins walking home with GIR, who tells him that he ate some of the kids from Skool. Zim scolds his robot companion as he had stipulated that GIR could eat "just one" of the children.

Issues 11 - 20

Issue 11

• The cat GIR brings inside the base gets kicked outside by Zim, only for Zim to find Dib. The cat rubs against Dib, and you can't help but laugh at Dib after his allergic reaction happens.
• Zim when he throws a robotic cat on Dib, the way he throws the pet is hilarious.
• Zim disguises himself as a vet, takes a customer's pet, then proceeds to hit Dib with them using a cannon.
  • The final animal is a poodle, which only Dib sees as a beautiful dog, getting the animal to drag him to a supermarket to get anti-allergy medicine.

Issue 12

• Zim's latest evil plan involves detonating a bag of "Flaming Hot Cheeze-Os" in the atmosphere. Even Emperor Zim later admits this was stupid.
• Among other things, Emperor Zim has renamed every street after himself.
• Zim being forced to sit in a waiting room for six months waiting for his future self to see him. And then it turns out Emperor Zim completely forgot about him.
• Not even Emperor Zim knows what the "T" in "GIRT" stands for.
• While it's also Nightmare Fuel, Dib going slightly crazy while imprisoned with no company other than his future self's corpse and arguing with it.
• Dib Logic Bombing himself while wondering what happens if one of the Zims defeats the other, something Emperor Zim does too shortly after. In both cases, Tak's ship advises them not to think about it.
• Emperor Zim is only taller than Present Zim because he wears high heels.
• At the start of the issue, GIR is carrying around a baby (that he doesn't remember where he got it from). During the climax, he uses the now rapidly-aged baby to distract GIRT.

Issue 13

• The entire premise of this issue is a couple of aliens mistaking Dib for Zim's best friend and kidnapping and torturing him to try and blackmail Zim into surrendering a Super Serum to them. Naturally, Zim just sits back and watches.
  • The aliens also mistake Dib for a girl, causing Zim to question if he is, since he can never tell with humans.
• Dib protesting the aliens' beliefs:
  Dib: Zim and I hate each other. You know, "hate"? The opposite of "like"?
  Alien: On our planet, "hate" is the opposite of "shoe".
  Dib: ...Why?
• The aliens' "proof" that Dib is Zim's friend? A series of flashbacks showing such things as Zim and Dib fighting at school, having a battle with ray guns, and fighting over a pie on a window sill. And later, during Humongo-Dib's Roaring Rampage of Revenge, we see how those scenes ended — Zim stomping on Dib, Dib's face scorched, and Zim slamming the pie into Dib's face.
• Dib sneaking into Zim's base by hiding in a "gift sandwich".
  • In a flashback, Agent Darkbootie tells Dib to stop spelling "you" without the "y" or "o" (an effective Take That! against texting vocabulary).
• At the end of the issue, Dib is turned into a giant monster, but still goes to school. The only reaction is Ms. Bitters telling him to "stop being a monster".
• The backup comic, of Zim and GIR going to the gym and stealing people's sweat to use as fuel, before getting kicked out for being creeps. And then GIR drinks it before Zim can use it.

Issue 14

• Zim is written out of the issue pretty quickly, as he falls into a random hole outside his house. The end of the comic reveals that he's still stuck down there.
• Agent Batflaps' "explanation" for how he escaped from his captivity in Zim's base back in Issue 9 is that he starved to death, and that somehow helped him get free.
• When Gaz is asking her gaming buddies to help her keep Dib happy, one bluntly comments that he lives in Guam.
  • Gaz's complete indifference to her "friends" ending up mutilated by one of the Quatches she and Dib are hunting.
  • Her You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! reaction to some of said cryptids.
  • For that matter, the fact that she criticizes people for classifying the various Quatches under "paranormal" instead of "cryptozoology".
• The long string of creatures that Dib and Gaz hunt:
  • Squishsquatch, who is "like Sasquatch, but squishier".
  • Fishquatch apparently instinctively attacks anyone who's ever eaten bass.
  • Hamquatch lives in a giant side of ham.
  • Bobquatch is "half normal guy", and is only threatening in that he bores people to death.
  • Crotchquatch. Which is exactly what it sounds like.
  • Guacquatch seals its victims in giant avocados.
• Professor Membrane offhandedly referring to Bloaty's status as a restaurant as "questionable".
• As soon as Dib is no longer under threat of exploding, Gaz slams his face into his pizza.
• The backup comic has Dib "investigating" a haunted mansion by running in and loudly screaming for ghosts to do stuff. One finally shows up, tells him to chill out, and breaks his camera.

Issue 15

• Due to budget constraints, the Skool can't afford a substitute teacher for Miss Bitters' class. Instead, they use a side of ham.
• The sheer Arbitrary Skepticism of Dib being the only one who thinks Miss Bitters is perfectly normal.
• Keef believes that Miss Bitters is part of an evil secret society called S.M.O.E.B. — "Secret Masters of Evil."
  Dib: What's the "B" stand for?
  Keef: Uh, "Bleargh"?
  • According to Keef, Miss Bitters started her sadism off with doing things like throwing fax machines at cars. This makes Dib question what year this was supposed to be in.
  • Zim complains that Keef's story doesn't have any moose in it. Cut to a second look at Miss Bitters' Torture Cellar, which now has its floor covered in copies of Minimoose.
  • Miss Bitters apparently finally impressed S.M.O.E.B. by turning into a giant cyborg vampire turtle.
• After a girl tells her story about how Miss Bitters is a centuries-old golem out for revenge, another student asks who she's supposed to be getting revenge on, since the people who wronged her are all dead. The girl responds with Your Mom.
• Gretchen is a Conspiracy Theorist who thinks that Miss Bitters is the Hive Queen of a race of bug people out to Take Over the World.
  • A part of her story has the army fighting the bugs, but their guns have been "digitally" replaced with hot dogs.
  • After that story, while Dib argues with Gretchen over the implausibility of it, Poonchy looks up at the ceiling pipes and sees, to his horror, one of the Miss Bitters bugs giving him a sinister smile.
• Zim says that the ham has been Miss Bitters in disguise the whole time. Dib snaps, and smashes the ham to prove him wrong. Then Miss Bitters, who was in a Parent-Teacher conference all along, shows up and tosses him in detention for "disrespecting the ham".

Issue 16

• Zim's attempts to scare Dib and prove he's the master of fear include replacing his lunch with frozen corn, breaking his pencils, and having Willy dress up as Santa Claus when it clearly isn't Christmas time.
  Zim: Who's that over there, Dib? Could it be... YOUR BELOVED CHRISTMAS MAN? But it's not Christmastime is it, Dib? WHY WOULD CHRISTMAS MAN BE HERE NOW??
  • To add to the joke, this issue was released the same week as Christmas.
  • Zim starts getting a little desperate:
  Zim: Beans in your shoes, Dib! BEANS IN YOUR SHOES!!!
• Throughout the issue, Zim keeps referring to Gaz as "Gus", while asking for her advice on how to scare Dib.
  • At one point, Zim politely asks why they never talk more. She responds by bluntly saying that she hates him, to which which he testily responds that he hates her more.
• Gary, the owner of the (not) haunted house, is more concerned about the noise Zim and Dib are making in his attic than the fact that it's being increasingly filled with scary things. Or, you know, the fact that his house has been converted into a makeshift Humongous Mecha.
• The kid who explains the supposedly haunted house to Zim, going on a rant about how it's full of poison blood ghosts made of poison and blood. Zim ends up punting him into the horizon.
• The second montage of Zim's attempts to scare Dib include such things as Bigfoot and a witch (who take a selfie with Dib), a heavy metal rock band, Dracula (who's really just some guy in a cape), and sticking GIR in a ghost sheet and tossing him at Dib's head.
• Zim abducts a famous horror writer and tries to get him to tell a scary story to Dib. The guy's so confused and scared that he just babbles out something about goblins with big ears that are mummies (the ears, not the goblins). Zim's so annoyed, he launches the guy away in an escape pod. He and Gaz then proceed to mock the man's pathetic storytelling skills.
• In the end, Zim turns everyone present into clowns, causing Dib so much fear that his fear siphon explodes, coating him and Zim in fear juice, making them both afraid of everything.

Issue 17

• The Running Gag of Zim being confused by the alien named Dolores. Right off the bat, he finds her name unlikely, later refers to her as "the improbably-named Dolores", and when she reveals the truth of herself, Zim assumes that her name was fake all along (though she admits it's not).
  • Dolores' idea of her big reveal is to throw off her "disguise" (a hat and scarf) and pose dramatically, which has no effect on either Zim or Dib.
    Zim: I have no context for your kind. Did you just molt?
• The unlikely stories told throughout the issue:
  • Dib's first story has him go on an epic quest to get the other Skoolchildren pizza, acting like an action hero the whole time.
  • Zim tells a story about Dib's head growing to gigantic sizes and blocking the sun, and having to move the Earth to undo the block.
  • GIR's story is just him finding a cat in the couch cushions and declaring his intent to eat it.
  • Dib's second story has him as some kind of badass, who saves the world by beating Zim's deadly stink out of him.
• Zim and Dib are borderline friendly with each other as their usual nonsense drives poor Dolores up the wall:
  Dolores: Perhaps it's time to tell you exactly who I am.
  Zim: At last, let us get on with this!
  Dib: Geez. Finally.
  Zim: I knew your name wasn't Dolores.
  Dolores: No, that really is my name.
  Dib: That hat better make sense.
  Dolores: Can I tell you who I am already??
  Dib: Geez. Finally.
  Zim: Why does it not just tell us?
  Dolores: SHUT UP!
  Zim: So cranky...
  Dib: Yeah, Dolores.
• GIR shows up, claiming to be Zim's lawyer, and presents Dolores with a bunch of empty jelly jars, apparently thinking that counts as evidence to free him from incarceration.

Issue 18

• Recap Kid claims that they hold their breath between issues.
• Zim's idea of impressing the Tallest to get a new ship? An augmented battle sloth.
  Zim: He is deadly! And sloooow.
  GIR: Sloooooowwww-hoooo!
• When Zim is complaining about all the "easy" victories that Larb is getting credit for, he's looking at a picture of Larb on the Universe's Most Comfortable Couch; GIR states that his "butt wants that couch".
• After Zim takes over the Burrito King, he demands his first new "follower" kiss his burrito ring.
• GIR is sent back to make burritos, and we see a brief view of the world through his eyes — cans of beans are registered as "Mice", a stack of tortillas are a "World of Adventure", bags of cheese are "Space Feet", and a rat is his "Little Friend".
• For that matter, GIR's long string of failures at making burritos:
  • His first shows attempts are: a bunch of salsa packets covered in melted cheese, wet napkins, a rat in a sombrero, and an actual burrito... containing a face-eating spider robot.
  • When Zim goes in to check on GIR, he's for some reason hiding in a tortilla that's stuck to the ceiling, and attacks Zim, saying that he's going to lay burrito eggs in Zim's stomach.
  Zim: GIR, I'm going to say this once. Burritos do not hatch from eggs, you make them!
  • He fills a pot with beans, sits on it while holding a stack of tortillas, and then lets the cooked burritos explode out of him.
  • He brings out a burrito, seemingly perfect, but when the customers try to eat it, a live Howler monkey bursts out and attack them. Zim is less angry at this and more confused as to where GIR found a monkey.
• When Dib discovers what Zim's up to and starts a heroic rant, the customers all pelt him with burritos — not out of loyalty to Zim, but because they find Dib annoying.
• The parodying of Avatar: The Last Airbender that occurs once Burrito Royale returns as a "beanbender".
  • When he says he walked the Earth to gain this power, Dib points out that he's only been gone since that morning.
  • Burrito Royale's insistence that they're not copying Avatar: The Last Airbender when it's very obvious that the work is being parodied.
  • On top of that, the very next page is a poster for "M. Nob Shoobadoob's The Last Beanbender. As a Take That! to the movie's infamous whitewashing of the cast, the very much not white Burrito Royale is played by a white skinny blonde dude, has a white skinny blonde ensemble cast, and a Zim-esque Zuko Expy who is a white skinny grey haired character.

Issue 19

• Zim's freaked out reaction to the Robo-Parents showing up at Job Day.
• The flashback showing GIR lying on his back on the couch, while the Robo-Parents feed long links of sausages into his mouth.
• The wink at the series' Negative Continuity, as Zim references the events of a non-existent comic issue where he apparently made a clone army of the Tallest (complete with a thought bubble from GIR showing the clones attacking the Delishus Weenie building).
• Everything about the absurdity of the "animals" at Zim Zoo, and the Robo-Parents obliviously acting like it's normal.
• Zim and GIR breaking into the Town Zoo to steal real animals that can pass inspection of Zim Zoo... and just a few panels later, Zim tosses them out of his ship because he's disgusted by their smell.
• At the end of the issue, the police shut down Zim Zoo and arrest the Robo-Parents, but leave Zim alone because they aren't going to blame him for his parents' actions. This leaves Dib crushed and Zim confusedly stating his victory. The last panel shows the Robo-Parents quite happy in jail.

Issue 20

• At the start of the issue, the computer tells Zim that the Conquer-Blob is one hundred percent complete.
  Zim: Not enough percents!
  Computer: That's... all the percents.
  • When Zim explains how the Conquer-Blob works, the computer explains that it already knows this, and asks why Zim is bothering to say it again.
• Zim and GIR's obsession with Floopsy Bloops Shmoopsy has them just sitting on the couch for over a year watching the thousands of episodes — this despite Zim hating everything about the show — while garbage just keeps building up more and more around them. By the end, there's a literal mountain of garbage that they're both buried in.
  • A group of raccoons infesting the garbage pile also become obsessed with the show, apparently to the point that they starved to death watching it, as their skeletons are visible after one of the Time Skips.
  • At one point, GIR offers Zim some doughnut balls. Zim points out that they're actually chicken beaks.
  Zim: Why do you have a bucket of chicken beaks?
  GIR: Why you gotta know all mah secrets?
  • Zim gets attacked by a sentient-fungus-infested hot dog with teeth. A hot dog with teeth.
• Minimoose is a fan of an Expy of Orange Is the New Black.
• The Conquer-Blob unleashed on Earth somehow ends up on friendly terms with the crowd of humans surrounding it while it awkwardly waits for Zim to show up.

Issue 21 - 30

Issue 21

• When Gaz shows that she couldn't care less about Zim's plans for her and Dib, she states that she's running late for some of her online games. Zim admits that he didn't understand half of what she just said.
• When Zim and Dib are freaking out over being stuck in the wrong bodies, GIR doesn't even seem aware of what's happened.
• Dib freaking out over the insanity he finds in GIR's mind files.
• After Gaz-as-Zim reveals herself to the world, there's a Running Gag of people wondering why no one ever told them there was an alien hiding among them; Dib's annoyance is what really sells this.
• GIR turning Dib's body into a cyborg, with pointless add-ons like a record disk player up one sleeve (which he calls an "AM/FM upgrade") and "fork fingers".
• Gaz reveals that Irkens apparently have more than two arms, and states that Zim's just too oblivious to have ever noticed.
• Dib, when the GIR insanity finally overwhelms him — he hallucinates a bunch of mini-GIRs (a crowd in the dog disguise, a few without) asking him to "come play with us forever".
  Dib: (running away) NOO!!! I don't want your dog babies!
• GIR's idea of helping Zim prove he's the real Zim is to act like a deranged stylist.
  GIR: Girlfriend, I'm gonna make you look fabulous!
• Just... just how everyone looked in this issue thanks to the body switching, but special mention goes to Gaz for just how damn shady she looked!

Issue 22

• The "Evolution of Man" style banner explaining humanity's long obsession with cheese, featuring Dib, only to explain he's not actually in the issue (much to his annoyance).
• GIR's wig makes him look like the Fonz.
• When GIR attempts to attack Zim the first time, only to change back to normal when he turns around:
  Zim: GIR! Did you try to smash in my skull with a kwag hammer?
  GIR: Nooooo....
  Zim: Are you suuuure?
  GIR: Yessss....
  Zim: Strange. Well, I'm going to yell at you anyway. BAD GIR! BAD!
• At the start of the security officer's interrogation of Zim:
  Benchee: I bet you're wondering why Cheezo security is so important to me.
  Zim: Not really.
  Benchee: It's because when I was a child, I had a bag of Cheezos... and somebody stole it.
  (Beat panel)
  Zim: That's it?
• One of GIR's weapons is a toaster.
• Zim begins panicking at the prospect of a meltdown, explaining why this would be bad, only to realize that GIR's not there for him to explain this to.
• After Zim manages to stop GIR's rampage:
  GIR: I was gonna murder yoooooo! Now I wants a puppy face!
• Benchee thanks Zim for stopping the Cheezo factory plant from melting down. It promptly does, seemingly killing Benchee.
  Zim: Er... whatever.
• The look at GIR's Mental World. It has to be seen to be believed.

Issue 23

• The Roboparents Breaking the Fourth Wall to tell Dib he's not in this issue, to his confusion.
• Zim recapping last issue to Minimoose, while stating that it's a good thing that there's someone there for him to explain things to.
• The Running Gag of Zim complaining that nothing in GIR's mind makes sense.
• Zim asks a floating triangular program where to find Virooz, and after it helps, it says how lonely it is, causing Zim to wonder how software can be lonely. And then when some of Virooz's Mooks come after him:
  "Who, Zim? No, you want this sad triangle man!" (throws program at them)
  • He then tries to escape via subway, only for the entrance to turn into a head and arms, which hug him.
• Sent into a fight arena, Zim is confused at having to fight with monkey-headed sticks, until he figures out how to use them.
  • Zim's opponents — Legless the Clown, Susan Sad-Orb, and Sergeant Oysterface.
• Hok "rescues" Zim from the arena with a Chihuahua-shaped car. And when he slams through a wall to make their escape, Zim approves of his making holes in things.
• Hok's exasperation at how broken and nonsensical everything in GIR's mind is, complete with demonstration to Zim.
  Hok: Like that chair you're sitting on. It's not a chair, it's Biffy the Happy Sit-Crab! (chair turns into a crab and greets Zim cheerfully)
  • This is also the reason the Virtual Hok can't bring himself to fulfill his role as the repair program. Virooz is the only thing currently in GIR that actually works.
• Zim proves his "master of disguise" moniker to Hok by sticking the latter in a sack that barely looks like the Virooz drones' heads, and wears it as a hat. Naturally, it doesn't work.
• GIR's operation system is a giant version of himself, chained up like King Kong and rampaging. According to Hok, he's always like this.
• While climbing GIR's "Like Stack", Zim decides to check how much GIR likes him due to his ego. We don't get to see what he does, but given he gets incredibly Squicked out he probably saw something that meant GIR liked him too much.
• Virooz's messenger, for some reason, takes on the form of a floating golden baby. Which apparently poops out Virooz's message.
• At the end of the issue, a restored GIR accidentally deletes the coordinates leading to Virooz, much to Zim's exasperation and GIR's obliviousness.

Issue 24

• This exchange when Dib sees Zim flying off in his ship:
  Robo-Mom: Zim's not here, sweetie.
  Dib: He's right there!
  Robo-Mom: That's not here.
• Zim's janitor disguise is him standing on top of GIR with a coat over them... and Minimoose dressed as a bucket.
  • GIR later fills the bucket with pasta. Minimoose doesn't seem to mind.
• How did Zim "rent" his temporary base? Locking the landlord in a box.
• The Running Gag of the trigger-happy criminals shooting each other just from Zim mentioning Virooz. At one point, he realizes he's in a store that sells only glass and bombs and wisely chooses not to bring it up, only for GIR to say Virooz's name as they're leaving, causing the place to explode.
• At one point, Zim interrogates a small alien for information on Virooz. When all he gets is gossip, he has GIR throw the guy through a window.
• The very end of the issue. Dib arrives on Cyberflox and is told by GIR that he just missed Zim. So he states in annoyance that he's going home.

Issue 25

• The reveal, after the past three issues presented Virooz as a great enemy, that he's actually a huge fanboy.
• Zim contacts GIR and Mimimoose for help, and we see that GIR is dressed as a birthday cake, and Minimoose is wearing a floral hat.
• Zim makes an attempt at escaping through the air vents, only to go in a circle.
• After Virooz steals his body, Zim's PAK attaches to Virooz's hover chair. Zim now calls himself "ChairZim".
  • Their ridiculous fight scene, due to Virooz having weak control over Zim's limbs and Zim being, you know, in a chair.
• Virooz's final fate: his makeshift PAK stuck attached to a couch, which an alien lizard uses as a pillow.

Issue 26

• Many of the overdramatic gestures and faces made by the characters in this issue.
• Dib points a gun he found in GIR's secret tunnels at Zim... and it turns out it just shoots muffins. Apparently GIR uses it to shoot them into his mouth.
  • Dib then shoots some into Zim's eyes.
• GIR is so happy to see Zim (and/or the muffins) at the end of the issue that he rips off his human costume and changes into his dog one. And then to Dib's frustration, everyone just accepts this as normal (and someone throws a muffin at him for trying to point it out).
• Zim finding out to his annoyance that the secrets on GIR's memory chip that he was so desperate to uncover are just pointless school gossip. Including the fact that at least one student thinks he smells like bologna.

Issue 27

• The documentary Zim is watching at the start of the issue seems to outright admit that it stages beaver attacks on people for the sake of having something to show.
  • At the end of the issue, there's now another documentary covering the battle between Zim's beavers and Xooxi's moles. Dib and Gaz debate how the show makers could have known about this secret fight and made a documentary about it already.
• GIR ruined Zim's plan for an army of exploding beavers by sending them to his "space pals" (we see one receive his beaver and get blown up).
  • When Zim is looking for some replacement splodium, he comments on not wanting to think about all the ways GIR has failed him. GIR then spends the next several panels listing examples of how he's done so, including eating Zim's space sandwich, making a moose cry with his mind, and betraying everyone he's ever loved.
• There's a random hobo living right outside one of the secret entrances to Zim's base. He doesn't seem to care, and the hobo meanwhile is seemingly nonplussed by seeing an alien running around. GIR even seems to be acquainted with him.
• Absolutely everything about Zim being bored out of his mind by Xooxi's stories.
  • At one point, the comic suddenly cuts off with a black void, with a message from the artist saying that it's too boring and he's giving up.
  • When Zim finally snaps and tells Xooxi to his face that he's boring, GIR and Minimoose look shocked.
• Zim doubts Xooxi's claims at having conquered Earth, pointing out that no one has. GIR points out that means him too, causing Zim to tell him to shut up.
• Zim calls Minimoose, telling him to bring some weapons to Xooxi's base and create a distraction. While he obviously meant for Minimoose to attack, Minimoose instead just shows them off.

Issue 28

• GIR smelling space and declaring it smells like old people.
• Zim having to clarify to GIR that hot dogs aren't made by making "hot dog babies". He then, in an overly-dramatic close-up panel, says that no one knows how hot dogs are made.
• The Running Gag of GIR throwing things at Zim's head.
• The montage of Zim's failed plans to retrieve the Time Accelerator... including at one point having the other Irkens build him a spa.
• The stereotypical way all the Irkens act when they reach old age.
• Miss Bitters stating that, since the skool could only afford four textbooks for the class, everyone else should stare at their desks and think on how unprepared they are for the future now.

Issue 29

• Let's start with the basic concept of this and the following issue — that secret societies of wizards power their magic by means of Poop Cola. Even Dib has trouble believing that one.
  • Also, the Running Gag that all the Poopwatch members wear obviously fake beards. Even the women.
  • At one point, Dib's guide Fizzmitz burps open a secret doorway.
• During a flashback, Dib and Gaz were fighting over the TV remote, only for Dib to spill Gaz's Dark Poop cola, thus starting the issue's plot. Professer Membrane scolds him for it, all the while Gaz is confronting Dib while upside down on the ceiling.
• The sheer number of varieties of Poop can be seen as a playful jab at real life marketing.
• Dib has trouble finding any Darkpoop because GIR has bought it all. And this is because Zim needs it to clean off the stains on his ship that were apparently gained by GIR flying it through a "fudge nebula".
• Dib is made Poopwatch's new seer. How do they trigger a vision? By making him drink every kind of Poop until the sugar rush kicks in.
• The existence of a monster called Poopthulhu.

Issue 30

• Recap Kid pointing out that there's already a recap of last issue's events in the new issue itself, so they don't have to do anything.
• Poopwatch uses a cow which has visions in order to see the future. Its name? Future Cow.
• A Poopwatch member uses a spell to make the attack team invisible. Another one points out that it didn't rhyme.
• Everything Dib goes through in order to get a Darkpoop from Zim:
  • Letting Zim put an alien squidmonkey on his head to eat his brain. He has trouble getting it on right, and it doesn't cause him any harm, so Zim gives up.
  • Zim sticks him in a virtual simulation which supposedly contains all of humanity's worst fears — a giant sandwich which expresses disappointment, a giant mustache made of blades, a galaxy of "terror cheese", and some random ugly guy. Dib isn't affected by any of these, understandably.
  • Finally, Zim just forces Dib to pay him a compliment. Dib has to think really hard, and finally settles on trying to say something positive about Zim's boots. At this point, Zim just gives up and lets him have the soda.
  • And after all that, Dib arrives at the battle to find it's already over, leaving him to get chewed out for being late.
• Zim's plan, which he is carrying out while Dib is dealing with the Poop stuff, apparently involves taping bees together. That's literally all we're told.
• For two issues straight, Dib goes through one of his most bizarre adventures ever in order to get Gaz her precious Darkpoop... and in the end, it turns out that she doesn't even like it that much.

Issues 31 - 40

Issue 31

• The issue opens with Dib discovering a strangely mutated bird, a grackle with a round body and three legs. He naturally assumes Zim is responsible, but before he can finish his sentence, it cuts to Zim's base, where Zim flatly states that the bird's not one of his experiments.
  • Zim does state that he has a "big bird plan" prepared, but not until the next week. Dib asks if it's a plan with a big bird, or if the plan itself is big, but gets the door slammed in his face. And as he's walking away, he sees a giant bird chick through one of Zim's windows.
• Dib is in the park with the grackle in a cage, and a squirrel is lying on the grass a short way away with an acorn in a cage. And when the grackle escapes the cage, the acorn is shown to have likewise somehow escaped.
• Dib acting way too excited to be attacked by mutated animals in the woods.
  • One of said animals a buck with a second butt (complete with legs) growing out of its back. And when it tries to attack Dib, it gets attacked by a flying raccoon, which flies off with it in its mouth.
• Upon coming across a heavily mutated Super Bear, Dib laments that he only has one panel to appreciate its cape.
  • Dib tries to fight the bear by using the carnival's random sideshow games. At one point he tries to get some baseballs from one booth, only for the mutant frog running the booth to point to a sign saying he needs to pay for them.
  Dib: (slams cash on the booth counter) Choke on it!
  • Moments after gloating about hurting the bear with the baseballs, Dib realizes he's standing on a "Test Your Strength" platform; the bear stomps on it and sends him flying. He lands inside a cannon, leading to the grackle shooting him at the bear like a cannonball.
• It turns out that the cause for all the mutant animals was irradiated ice cream which was sold under the table. The ice cream company is rounding up all the evidence in order to bury a class action lawsuit.
  • Because Dib was exposed to the ice cream, he's put through painful decontamination. Which includes shaving him bald.
• At the end of the issue, Zim visits Dib at home to clarify that his plan is a big plan with birds. Namely, pouring birdseed over Dib's heads so that birds will attack him.

Issue 32

• When Coach Walrus gives a skool-wide announcement about the National Fitness competition, Dib complains about it being a waste of time, causing her to yell at him. While on the floor, he wonders how she managed to hear him.
• Upon learning that President Man will be personally awarding the winner of the competition, Zim loudly proclaims his intention to win and disintegrate the President's head, followed by Dib just as loudly proclaiming his intention to stop Zim... and then Torque, sitting next to them, also loudly states that he's going to win, for fun. After a beat panel of the two staring at him, Dib points out that Torque's not even in their class.
• Hearing that Dib is planning to cheat to win the competition, Membrane dramatically makes three self-admitted contradictory points — a) cheating is wrong, but b) the competition is pointless, so c) Dib should just do what he wants. Then he flies to the moon with rockets in his boots.
• Gaz wears a virtual reality helmet that makes it look like Dib's head is an entire monkey. Apparently it's the only way she can stand to listen to him.
  • At the end of the issue, she offers the helmet to President Man, stating that it'll make Dib and Zim's endless sit-ups more entertaining.
• The assistant coach overhears Dib trying to buff up even more, and warns him about trying to win at all costs, bringing up his own past as a pudding licking champion. After a moment to absorb this, Dib says he's just going to pretend he never talked to this guy, which is apparently something people do all the time.
• Dib and Zim's sit-ups culminate in them ending up outside the multiverse, which is composed of sentient ab muscles. Yeah.

Issue 33

• When Dib points out that Zim never plays during recess like a normal child, Zim tries to claim that he does, stating that he pretends rocks are ham. Dib points out that human children don't do that, while in the background a kid is trying to eat some rocks, apparently doing just that.
• Dib tries to point out that the Innovation Fair is exploitative, only to be countered by the corporate representatives claiming that it's not if they hand out free hats.
• Zim very loudly states his intention to use the Innovation Fair as part of a new plan to conquer Earth. Dib is miffed that no one seemed to hear him say that.
• Dib is so determined to win the fair that he creates a machine that makes loud noises and shoots lasers... then admits that he doesn't actually know what it's supposed to do.
  • Even by the time of the fair he doesn't know, and he ends up zapping the CEO with it.
• While Zim is working on some invention for the fair, GIR is making "Mr. Wiener Face", a wiener with a mouth carved into it and googly eyes glued on. And to Zim's disturbance, GIR's made countless copies of it.
  Zim:...Good. Good... Good job. Now let's never discuss the wieners again.
• The CEO of Conglamo is a robot containing the brains of their past 20 human CEOs.
• Zim is horrified to find that GIR has replaced his invention with the wieners, and shocked when they win the fair. And when Dib, who doesn't know they were GIR's idea, demands to know what the evil plan with the wieners is, Zim has to quickly BS his way into making them seem like his idea, then runs off to find a way to make use of them.
  • The montage of Zim trying to find a use for the wieners, while Dib tries to figure out what Zim is up to. Both become quite desperate.
  Dib: Why wieners?!?
  Zim: How wieners?!?
  GIR: It's fun to yell!
  • Zim finally gives up on finding a use for the wieners, when a crazed Dib shows up, believing he's determined that Zim is planning on getting people so obsessed with the wieners that they spend all their money on them, collapsing the economy, which Zim quickly pretends was his plan all along. And then the wieners are rejected by the public, bankrupting Conglamo and leaving Zim with hundreds of worthless wieners in his house.

Issue 34

• Moo-Ping 10 is a space prison built by a species that worships right angles. And they despise wads (which don't have proper angles), to the point that seeing them are a red alert situation, complete with special security teams to handle it.
• Among the prisoners Zim pays to have locked up is Madness the Chihuahua.
• Zim is shocked that his bill hasn't been paid, saying he put GIR in charge of doing so. Cut to GIR dressed as a giant chicken drumstick, shouting "I'm paying".
• Throughout the issue, Zim tries to call GIR for help, but GIR is preoccupied with raising robot birds which hatched from metal eggs that he somehow laid.
• The vengeful prisoners repeatedly beating up Zim so badly he's reduced to a shapeless wad.
• Zim smacks a random fellow prisoner to show his dominance. Then he sees all the other prisoners standing over him, leading to one of the above-mentioned beatings.
• The warden gets so annoyed with Zim being made a wad that he assigns him a special guard. Who looks about 12 feet tall and fills up most of Zim's cell.

Issue 35

• The first time we see Zim in this issue, he's pressed up against the door to his cell by his new guard's bulk.
• The Running Gag of Zim egotistically claiming that he's the one planning his break out, even when it's clear he has no idea what he's doing.
• Zim's reaction to his mysterious ally turning out to be Madness, who's really a shapeshifting alien named Zorphic. The latter has to slap him across the face to snap him out of the shock.
  • When Zorphic begins to tell his backstory, Zim bluntly states that he's already bored.
  • Zorphic's people hide in disguised form to observe other worlds. And by "observe" he means "smell".
  • Speaking of which, he asks to smell Zim, and is flatly refused.
• When told Zim has escaped, the warden is more concerned with making sure there are no more wads. One of his guards states that he doesn't appear to be very good at his job, which he admits to.
• Zorphic repeatedly turning into wads in order to scare off the guards.
• The skin bag-looking aliens Zim and Zorphic run into are called Skinbagsi of planet Skinbaiszus (Zim comments that the name is easy to remember) and they periodically shed their entire skins. Even they find it gross.
• Zim kicking Zorphic across the breadth of the station to reach their destination, then mildly adjusting the angle for himself when he realizes his aim was off. Then he gets hit by a spaceship on the way into the docking bay.
• Zim discovers his spare paything was in his ship all along, and quickly settles his account. The warden accepts payment and then offers a complimentary lanyard; Zim states that everyone hates those things.
  • Zim refuses to release Zorphic even after all his help, because he doesn't want to go through all that paperwork.
• Zim contacts GIR to see if he missed anything on Earth. According to GIR, his robot baby birds ended up going on a rampage.

Issue 36

• Zim tries to get some trick-or-treaters to leave by offering "candy" that's actually cuts of meat. It doesn't work and it turns out that GIR told him meat was candy.
• One of the signs in Doolan Dilby's abandoned candy factory depicts an Oompa-Loompa being decapitated and reads "Watch out for boo-boos".
• The revelation that Doolan Dilby was turned into a candy cyclops called the Candyclops.

Issue 37

• Ms. Bitters mentions that the Skool nurse has to work in a bathroom stall because of budget cuts.
• When it turns out that the whole thing was a simulation Dib was going through while energy was harvested from his body, Dib wastes no time in pointing out the flaws in Zim's scheme, like how it takes more energy to sustain a living battery than the energy obtained from one and how Zim is egotistical enough to think that Dib's greatest dream is to be brothers with him.
  Dib: Why would anyone want that?
  (panel of Zim staring blankly)
  Zim: Because... Zim is great?
• Zim ends up trapped in his own Lotus-Eater Machine, resulting in him living at Dib's house in the simulation with a copy of himself as his brother. Both Zim and his duplicate are thrilled.

Issue 38

• The Skool doing a play extolling the virtues of the telephone company which paid for their new theatre program.
• Zim bragging about how he's managed to compress a normally 6-foot device down to 5.5 feet. And when Dib shows up to interfere in his plan and Zim demands to know how he knew about it, Dib states that Zim's been talking about it non-stop.
• When everyone believes that GIR died heroically, Zim has to replace his dog costume, but GIR keeps rejecting the proposed substitutes (GIR finds the cat disguise too fluffy, GIR is disappointed that the mongoose isn't a goose, and he complains that the reanimated salmon disguise is "too much of a goose"). Finally, Zim gives up and tells GIR to just pick one. Come the next day, and GIR is now dressed up like Dib.
  • To Dib's shock, everyone finds GIR's costume believable, to the point that they think the real Dib is a clone (their main evidence being that the huge head on GIR's costume is the right size for Dib, while Dib's actual head is too small). They then form an angry mob and drive him out of town.
  Skoolkids: Go back to the woods where you came from!
  Dib: Why would a clone have come from the woods?
• Zim has GIR keep impersonating Dib in order to keep the real one away, but after prompting from Gaz, GIR starts trying to expose Zim as an alien. And despite having less credible "evidence" (Zim's posture, his elbows, his singing voice and his lack of a buzzing noise), he proves more convincing than Dib ever was.
  • Zim trying to remind GIR that he's supposed to only be pretending just confuses him, leading to him chasing after Zim with a butterfly net.
  Zim: Look deep inside yourself, GIR. You know this isn't the real you. You're not a maniac with a butterfly net. And neither is Dib, for that matter. I'm not sure where you're getting this.
• After GIR-as-Dib seemingly dies saving Zim, it's now Dib treated as a hero while GIR the dog is forgotten, allowing him to go back to that disguise. As for Dib, he returns from the woods, only to be mistaken for a zombie and once again chased into the woods.

Issue 39

• Inquistious the Observer is an alien scout who's very proud of his people's hat — watching things on other planets and writing about them. Also, he's a bit out of date of events on Earth.
  Inquistious: Are you still building those pointy things?
  Gaz: Pyramids?
• Zim clearly having no idea who Inquistious' people are, despite their races apparently having close ties. And blatantly lying that he does when the subject is brought up.
• When asked by Dib why the memory viewing machine is in third person, Inquistious brushes the question off.
• The memories of how Inquistious' probe was destroyed:
  • In Dib's recollection, he's attacked by Zim in a Mini-Mecha, claiming that this is exactly how he knew their Final Battle would play out. He then questions the makeshift nature of the mech, such as how one arm is a drill and one is a golf club (also, GIR is acting as a knee), and how this could possibly help him conquer Earth. Then the probe arrives, and the robot pilot claims that Dib possesses the most advanced technology on the planet (namely, Tak's ship), which angers Zim into attacking it. He's briefly blasted into the distance in self-defense, but as Dib is relishing the chance to be humanity's self-appointed ambassador to space, Zim launches a rocket that destroys the robot and its ship, which he decides to loot two seconds after dismissing it as having anything useful.
  • In Zim's recollection, he's crowing about how he obviously knew the probe was coming all along, and is there to greet it peacefully in a much more elegant mech (for which GIR is now serving as an elbow). Dib, meanwhile, is portrayed as a drooling moron wearing underwear outside his pants and a pie on his head. Zim and the robot discuss how all humans are morons but Dib is stupider than most, while Dib is chewing on the mech, until accidentally launching Zim's "welcome firework rocket", which blows up the robot (who spends its last moments blaming Dib).
    • Inquistious is dumbfounded by how radically different Dib and Zim's memories are, having only expected minor discrepancies due to personal biases. He states that this can only happen if one of the people involved is completely delusional.
    Dib: Gee, I wonder who that could be.
    Zim: I don't, it's obviously you!
    • Dib takes great offense at Zim's portrayal of him, and demands to know why Zim showed him wearing a pie on his head.
  • Gaz's memories show that she wasn't even paying attention to what happened. She just sat on the couch playing her Game Slave while the fight occurred outside the window and offscreen.
  • GIR's memories... are utter nonsense, which end up overloading the memory machine and destroying Inquistious' ship.
• Inquistious' superiors apparently view him with the same disdain as the Tallest treat Zim, and so dismiss his warnings about GIR. Cue their whole planet apparently blowing up.
• The final panels show Zim back on Earth, oblivious to the fact that GIR is missing.

Issue 40

• The issue revolves around Recap Kid accidentally getting sucked out of the universe and viewing alternate realities with the aid of Recap Brain in order to find their way home. Hilarity Ensues as we witness many of those universes:
  • Recap Brain keeps showing Recap Kid universes where Zim and Dib giant trash hobos, with the only differentiation between each of these being what kinds of hats they're wearing.
  • The first universe shown in depth is a fantasy world where Dib is a warrior fighting against the Irken horde, for whom Zim is a warlock. They fight over control of an armor powered by thousands of baby ghosts, which Zim eventually gets... only to find out that it forces him to take care of the ghost babies. When he begs Dib to take it from him, Dib runs and leaves Zim stuck there.
    • GIR is a giant golem, which Gaz stabs in the head when reluctantly helping Dib out. GIR's reaction is to laugh and run off with her stuck on his head. They're later shown having drinks on a beach.
    • Dib's partner, Torque, is such a dumb brute that he thinks Dib's dead just because he's sleeping.
  • The second universe features Dib as a supervillain and Zim as a superhero, with GIR as his Humongous Mecha. After beating Dib in a fight and saving the city, Zim only asks for one thing in return — letting GIR dump his "wasteload" on the mayor's front lawn.
  • The third universe is the basic Zim and Dib conflict plot presented as a musical play. The audience member narrating a review of it turns out to be totally oblivious to the part about Zim being an alien.
    • When Ms. Bitters shows up, the narrator figures she's an embodiment of the poor educational system, due to how stupid all the students are presented as.
  • The fourth universe is one where everyone is completely nice and friendly all the time, even Gaz... who turns out to force people to attend tea parties with her against their will, including tying them up and electrocuting them. The narrator then notes that some things appear to transcend time and space.
  • The fifth universe is a "depressing indie film", where everything's black and white, and Zim and Dib find everything dull and pointless.
  • The sixth universe is just Dib and Zim as beans, which are silent for several panels until the Dib bean says "I hate you" to the Zim bean.
• When Recap Kid is finally sent back home, they wonder how they're supposed to recap all of this.

Issues 41 - 50

Issue 41

• Recap Kid is apparently so traumatized by what happened last issue that they've decided to pretend it never happened.
• The entire plot concept of this issue is absurd, with an experiment by Professor Membrane causing Dib's skeleton to come to life and leave his body, before going to wander the streets. Along the way, it freaks out a random guy, gets its bones used as dipping sticks in a Bloaty's, gets mistaken for a restless spirit by a paranormal show, and loses both its arms playing fetch with GIR. In the end, it returns to Dib's body, and he wakes to find that his arms are now totally limp due to being boneless.
  • The Professor's reaction to seeing Dib's skeleton walking around is to mistake it for Dib and tell "him" to put some clothes on.
  • The skeleton has a scythe in the shape of Dib's distinctive hairstyle growing out of the skull.
• The B plot is Zim trying to scare Dib by extending his PAK legs so that he can peer in through Dib's bedroom window in the middle of the night. Things then go horribly wrong for Zim, as seeing Dib's boneless body flapping around freaks him out, and then he finds that he can't retract the PAK legs and is stuck in midair, with his attempt to get GIR to cut him down just leaves GIR convinced that he's a lumberjack as he runs off to find a beard. The next morning, a now ragged-looking Zim is found by an awakened Dib, who thinks that Zim is responsible for his useless arms; Zim replies that a critter has run up his pant legs and is biting him.
  • GIR finds that beard, incidentally, and then runs into Dib's skeleton. After taking its arms, he then rips off the beard and shouts out that he's not really a dog. The last panel of the issue then shows him playing with the arms.

Issue 42

• The issue opens at the end of a 74 hour high-speed chase between Zim and Dib in their spaceships. It's gone on for so long, in fact, that neither of them even remember what Zim was plotting before Dib interfered.
  Zim: GIR, do you remember what this thing is for?
  GIR: I don't remember what I'm for!
• This lovely bit of playing with the Planet of Steves trope when Dib meets the new aliens.
  Plim #1: You are on Plim!
  Plim #2: With the Plim!
  Plim #3: In the city of Plim!
  Plab: My name is-
  Dib: Plim?
  Plab: No, Plab.
• While Dib spent two days unconscious after the crash, Zim has spent that time creating commercials encouraging the Plim to vote for him as prophesied hero. All Dib has going for him, meanwhile, is a live-stream of him sleeping, while Plab narrates his name over and over.
• In a Call-Back to Issue 37, Dib warns the Plim that if Zim wins he might use them all as batteries. An annoyed Zim points out that he only did that once.
• Zim realizes that GIR is the best one to help him win over the Plim (since he's just as stupid). Cue montage of him doing things like him measuring his arms and saying he tastes better than Dib. Later, he also rubs food paste over his face, which the Plim all love.
• Just when it looks like Dib is about to win out over Zim via an Engineered Public Confession of Zim admitting he doesn't care about the Plim, only for Zim to win their attention back thanks to... wearing a duck with a top hat on his head. Dib is dumbfounded that the Plim are so excited by that.

Issue 43

• The first thing we see of Zim? He's on a parade float of himself to impress the Plim. And having GIR use a water hose to blast away any of them that get too close.
• Zim's Plim assistant says that of course they can't just incinerate all the Plim still voting for Dib... Because it'd take longer than just winning over their votes.
• A desperate Dib starts doing everything that the Plim like — wearing a Zim costume and a duck hat, eating their food paste, and making blatantly empty promises.
• The "baby" Plim that Dib is guilt-tripped by turns out to actually be an elder.
• GIR is shocked to find out that they're not on Earth.
• For some Black Comedy, there's Dib's moment of triumph being ruined by the Irkens immediately showing up to conquer the Plim after he's just "saved" them. Furthermore, in an ironic twist on the usual dynamic, the Irkens are fooled by Dib's Paper-Thin Disguise and think he's an actual Invader; both Dib and Zim are shocked to hear that he'll be remembered as one of the greatest Invaders ever.
  • Dib tries to fight off the Irken commander by... throwing the forcefield remote control at him. After a Beat panel of the two of them staring awkwardly, he runs off.
• In the biggest twist of all, it turns out that the vault that Zim was after and Dib was trying to stop him from getting his hands on didn't actually contain superweapons, but old Plim movies and TV shows.

Issue 44

• The entire main concept of this issue — a ski resort on a mountain made of ground beef. Which was apparently coated over a mountain of old tires as a means of removing waste.
• Professor Membrane drives an RV with a model of his hair spike atop it.
• The people running the ski resort take themselves way too seriously. Aside from the general Drill Sergeant Nasty routines they keep throwing at Dib, when he earns his first badge the Ski Patrol member who gives it to him salutes him with tears in her eyes. After a couple of Beat panels of her doing this without saying a word, Dib decides to just walk away.
• Zim big evil plan this issue is to abduct people... so he can sell them as pillow stuffing to an alien retail stores.
• Dib beats Zim, not with the aid of his skiing exosuit but by weaponizing his lack of skill. He lets himself fall down into the meat, so that other skiers will trip over him, quickly creating a ball that rolls down hill and slams into Zim's decoy waffle shed, which proceeds to blow up for no reason.

Issue 45

• The fact that the crazy hobo who showed up in a couple of episodes of the show serves as this issue's narrator.
  • Then the very end of the issue reveals that it's actually a robot (or "Robo-Hobo") kept in Zim's lab, and that it's been telling the story to GIR all along. Zim tells GIR to shut it off, since it apparently keeps telling the story over and over.
• When the students are made to take care of inanimate objects as if they were babies, Zim doesn't have one, so he quickly has GIR make him one out of meat. Zim becomes enamored of this new creation, which he dubs "Li'l Meat Man".
  • Gretchen's "baby" is a brick, which she apparently already hates, to her own confusion.
  • Dib's is an actual baby were-slug. By the time the assignment's over, it's apparently tried to kill him.
• The montage of Zim caring for Li'l Meat Man. And later, the montage of their road trip, which includes a fast food mascot-based version of Mount Rushmore.
• When Zim is told to toss out Li'l Meat Man at the end of the assignment, he refuses and goes on the run, stealing a weenie-shaped car from Deelishus Weenie and hits the road.
  • An employee at Deelishus Weenie tries to stop Zim from stealing the car by firing a weenie-shaped bazooka at it, blowing off the back half. Zim responds by having GIR hold the back and act as wheels.
• Bill the paranormal investigator now works for the FBI. And by "works", we mean they let him hang around in exchange for getting them coffee and rubbing cinnamon oil on their feet.
  • When Bill and Dib are chasing after Zim, Bill stops at a carnival because he "thinks better around clowns".
• In the end, when Zim takes Li'l Meat Man to the beach, he encounters a man with a Li'l Bread Boy. This causes Zim to fully register the fact that he's been so worked up over a wad of meat, and when it's promptly eaten by a random dolphin, he completely stops caring and goes home.

Issue 46

• The issue opens with Zim trying to kill Dib with the Car-Nivore, a mechanical monster made from a repurposed car. When Zim gloats that this is him unlocking the potential of cars that humans waste by just using them to drive around in, Dib actually takes a momentary break from his terror to point out that that's what cars are specifically made for.
  • It turns out that GIR didn't install the obedience module he was supposed to put in the Car-Nivore, instead wearing it as a hat.
  • The Car-Nivore then accidentally defeats itself by slamming against a light pole and triggering its airbags, knocking the brain out of its head.
• Back at base afterwards, Zim is ranting about his constant defeats, and how it's everyone's fault but his, with him rhetorically asking if he can be held responsible for his minions failures. Cue GIR starting to say "Yes", only to stretch out the "ye" (for four panels) as he tries to come up with something else to say; despite knowing what he's doing, Zim eventually just sighs and suggests "yellow". Instead, GIR goes with "yelephant", and is disappointed when Zim explains that that's not a word.
• Zim doesn't remember Tak or Skoodge, but has built a shrine to memorialize Thoob, an Irken we've never heard of before now (something that an editor's note box takes the time to remind us of).
• When Tak's Ship tries to talk Dib out of chasing Zim into Pandora's Quadrangle by comparing it to chasing Zim into the sun, Dib takes her seriously and ponders why Zim would fly into the sun.
• With the Quadrangle screwing up his weapons, Zim resorts to throwing GIR at Dib, leaving him stuck to the latter's windshield.
  GIR: I'm a weapon! Pew pew!
  • After they crash on the planet on the other side of the Quadrangle's portal, Dib is disappointed that GIR survived. GIR responds by throwing debris at him in order to "destroy" him.
  • When they get lost in the planet's underground tunnels, GIR tries to help by marking their path. Except as Dib points out, he put the mark on himself.

Issue 47

• There's an entire planet full of Alternate Universe versions of Zim. That's funny enough on its own, especially since they're all equally egotistical and constantly bragging about how they're better than each other. But there's also some unique differences among them that are laugh-worthy on their own:
  • A Zim who wears an eyepatch because a cow kicked him in the face. Because of this, he's rather obsessed with cows.
  • A Zim whose head was turned into a waffle.
  • A Zim whose PAK was installed into his face. He holds up a sign claiming that it's clearly superior.
  • A Zim whose name is Carl. All the other Zims are annoyed by this, while he's annoyed that they don't like his name.
  • The "visual aid" Zims used to explain things to the new arrivals, by means of having one use puppets of Zim and his ship to represent the real things, and slamming them into the face of another Zim representing the planet's main tower. Understandably, this Zim isn't happy with his job.
  • A Zim whose bones were turned to noodles.
  • A Zim who, for some reason, is a giant ear of corn.
  • A Zim who never figured out how to undo the transformation into baloney (from the episode "Bolongius Maximus"). For bonus points on this one, Dib nearly reveals how to do so (and thus almost finally provides an explanation for one of the series' most infamous uses of Negative Continuity) only to be interrupted.
  • The leader of the Zim Resistance is an elderly Zim, complete with a beard. Dib questions if Irkens even grow beards (and asks how the Elder grew his in six months).
• When Dib is trying to hide from the Zims, GIR exposes him by calling out to them.
  GIR: Must... help masters!
  Dib: Since when?!?
• Zim 2002 expresses surprise at GIR's presence (as all the other Zims' GIRs were destroyed when they crashed). After a beat panel, he then cheerfully states that he has no emotional reaction to this at all.

Issue 48

• There's something hilarious in how badly Zim gets beaten by Zim 100.
  • Zim 100 is gleeful in how he's expanded his strength at the expense of his mind, even helpfully noting it's why he talks in third person.
• Dib is hiding in a helmut that Zim 100 puts on without noticing him, which leads to Dib pretending to be 100's conscience, trying to convince him to join the rebellion against Number 1. Instead, he somehow talks 100 into knocking himself out.
• Zim Number 1's monument to himself includes statues of him conquering Earth, defeating Dib, and... eating a very large sandwich.
  Zim: That one seems less impressive.
  Zim Number 2: The stairway had space for three statues.
• The Running Gag of how everything in the Elite Zims' training program involves them being sent on fire.
  Zim: Does everything have to involve being lit on fire?
  Zim Number 2: No! But it does.
  • Which leads to this when Zim is assigned to guard duty, and Number 2 makes a fire pun, only for nothing to happen.
  Zim Number 2: Weird. There's usually flamethrowers in here too.
  Zim: WHY?!?
• Zim 100 using Dib's head as a battering ram.

Issue 49

• According to Zib (the alternate Dib impersonating Zim Number 1), people in his timeline now respect him so much that instead of calling his head big, they accept that theirs are small, and now use "Dib's head" as the standard unit of measurement.
• After two issues of the other Zims asking what our Zim's "thing" is that separates him from other Zims, it turns out to be... that he once accidentally choked on styrofoam packing peanuts he mistook for popcorn. Everyone is incredulous at this.
• When Zim Number 2 fights his way onto the Massive, the Tallest are confused by his competence. Red states that he doesn't know whether to be impressed or to order his execution, with Purple saying he's leaning towards both.
• Dib and Zib are utterly confused by Zim's exploitation of the Timey-Wimey Ball to eliminate the timelines of all his counterparts, with a frustrated Dib stating that timelines don't work like that.
  • When Dib questions how Zim could have gone through the pasts of over 2000 other Zims, Zim admits he had GIR do it for him.
  GIR: I'm 200 years old now!

Issue 50

• The Black Comedy that comes from Zim's newest plan involving stealing brains:
  • GIR not even trying to hide the fact that he's carting around a bucket full of brains, yelling about it to anyone who looks at him.
  • GIR also somehow doubles the amount of brains in the bucket between panels, despite still standing in the same spot.
  • Near the end of the issue, GIR apparently becomes addicted to the brains' squishiness.
  • Minimoose collected even more brains than GIR. When Zim asks how, Minimoose's response shocks him, complete with extreme closeup of his horrified face.
• Zim and Dib are dumbfounded by Chammy's attitude throughout the issue.
• Chammy somehow makes Zita her best friend, with the latter unsure how it happened.
  • More than that, she later convinces Zim's brain-powered robot and Dib's robot to stop fighting and become friends, who run off together. Later still, Zim notes that they sent him a text, saying that they have a dog now.
• Zim is plotting his newest plan out of a warehouse formerly belonging to a peanut company that went bankrupt because no one wanted to buy their tiny peanuts. Cue extreme closeup of GIR and Minimoose, with the former saying he likes tiny peanuts and the latter apparently agreeing.
• Dib counters Zim's brain-powered robot with one his father built specifically to fight brain-powered robots. He notes that at the time, he thought it was oddly specific.
• Gaz repeatedly pulling a Stealth Hi/Bye on Chammy. Bonus points for how the first time plays out:
  Chammy: I've never felt this before, Zita! Is this what it's like to doubt? It's horrible... it's like a dark shroud is blocking out all the light in the world.
  Zita: No, that's just Gaz.
  (Chammy turns and screams as she sees that Gaz has appeared next to her)
• Chammy's comic strip about what life would be like if Zim and Dib were friends ends with them dying in a rollercoaster accident. Zim and Dib are both disturbed by this.

Invader Zim Quarterly

Issue 1

• Some people see GIR passing them on the street:
  Woman: Look at that dog!
  Man: What a fine dog that is!
  Old Man: I am old and in pain!
• GIR runs past Dib, who is watering his yard:
  Dib: Hey! Zim's dog! Are you out to do something evil?
  GIR: I'm on a mission to floobie the zoobie!
  Dib: Well... um... you better not floobie it in an evil way!
  • Even better, is that Clembrane is standing nearby watching Dib, who ends up accidentally spraying him when he gets distracted by GIR. Clembrane doesn't seem to mind the water spilling his pudding everywhere.
• A time traveler appears to warn GIR about a Bad Future and gives him a cyborg-beaver that's key to changing the future, but GIR runs at a donut stand instead of listening to him.
• Dr. Fongo is introduced monologuing about how much he hates his life, and questioning who pays for his lab.
• When GIR is locked up with all of Fongo's mutant animal test subjects, he tells a nonsensical story about a pig that somehow inspires them to rebel and fight their way free.
• GIR imagines the moon having his face and talking to him.
• While nearing the moon, GIR finds spaceship shaped like a giant pie, crewed by a race of aliens who look like berries. They don't appear to get the joke of their situation, which is highlighted by a cutaway to the alien salespeople who sold them the ship:
  Alien 1: So, you sold those little guys who look like berries the ship that looks like a pie, and they didn't even notice?!
  Alien 2: I know, right?!
  Alien 1: Why did we even have that ship??
  • When he gets aboard the ship and starts eating the aliens, they try to hide in a room full of explosives. Naturally, they end up blowing up the whole ship.
• On the moon, GIR finds the prison of an Ancient Evil Eldritch Abomination (the Darkness of Th'gol) and purely by not understanding the situation convinces its guardians that he's its destined custodian, then lets it out of the prison by beating a security system that works very much like the electronic game Simon, of all things.
  • After the Darkness eats GIR, he and the cyborg-beaver light a fire and cook marshmallows, which manages to injure the Darkness and make it crash into Earth.
  The Darkness: How am I on fire? I'm pure darkness!
• After the Darkness crashes into a coal mine, GIR meets a miner and by pure happenstance inspires her to pursue her dream of being a DJ.
• As Fongo's army of donut apes and the escaped mutant animals prepare to fight, the time traveler shows up again and tells GIR he needs to use the beaver to stop the battle by teaching both sides to dance. Since GIR left the beaver in the mine (where it's refusing to share marshmallows with the Darkness), he does the dancing instead, which saves the day.
• Where has Zim been all this time? Trapped under a giant amoeba, waiting for GIR to find something to poke it with and make it get off of him.

Issue 2

• The central premise of this issue is a creature called the Beeboogoat, which Maxwell Beesworth describes as being "half goat, half bees, half ghost". When he calls it his white whale, someone in the audience gets confused and thinks it's literally a whale too.
• Dib has somehow captured Zim and trapped him in a giant glass jar. Even Zim doesn't know how.
  • Dib brags about the speech he's going to give when he exposes Zim, only to immediately forget how it goes, so he wanders off to get cue cards.
  • Zim gives GIR a detailed plan for helping him escape, which GIR actually seems to understand, as he repeats it perfectly. Next thing we see is the jar Zim's trapped in going flying out a window.
  Zim: HOW, GIR?!? How did you even do this?!?
  GIR: I don't knoooow!
• The best alias that Zim can come up with on the spot is "Mike Audience". Which comes from the microphone and audience he's looking at.
• When Gaz hears what's happening, she calls Dib to blame him and then tells him she's on the way to join them, with the last thing he hears over the phone is her forcing her way through a crowd of reporters.
  Professor Membrane: How's your sister, son?
  Dib: Terrifying.
• While Dib is trying to figure out a way to get past Beesworth's security, his father just shuts it off.
• Dib is shocked when Zim hijacks Membrane's junior executive exosuit and reveals that it's armed with More Dakka.
  Dib: Why does an executive suit have missiles?!?
  Professor Membrane: Being a modern executive is a complicated profession, son!
  • And then this in the next panels:
  Dib: Get out of my dad's suit!
  Zim: No, you get out of my dad's suit! Wait, that's not right.

Issue 3

• The first story in this anthology shows the Santa suit encountering an alien AI Hive Mind, which it quickly brainwashes into being its elves.
• The second story features the return of the two idiotic aliens from "Abducted", who are still Too Dumb to Live, as they force Zim into Yet Another Christmas Carol.
  • When they call Zim a "mean and nasty" human while posing as ghosts, he admits that he is those things, but definitely not human.
  • One of the aliens just makes spooky ghost noises for several panels, annoying his partner.
  • The aliens have mistaken Christmas as "Fistmas", a heavily ham-based holiday. Even Zim can't believe how stupid they are.
  • The "Past" portion of the simulation features a simulated Zim, who wears a beaver for a wig, works in an office that uses giant shoes as desks, and is engaged to a woman who has a giant hand for a head. The real Zim is understandably not impressed with any of this.
  • For the Crachit family, GIR (whose head is on a human body) is Bob, Dib (who has kittens for feet) is Tiny Tim, and various other nonsensical characters are the rest of the family.
  • Again, Zim takes the family's insults as compliments, until they say they feel bad for them. Then he starts attacking them with a giant ham and has to be dragged away.
  • Eventually, Zim punches his way out of the simulation and demands to go home. The aliens state they're thousands of light-years away from Earth, but Zim quickly realizes that their ship is still hovering over his house, disguised as a giant ham.
• The third story chronicles Professor Membrane's life-long vendetta against Santa Claus. It's shown repeatedly that he'll randomly snap over how unscientific it is and scare people away.
  • Membrane apparently plays chess with lab monkeys as quality time.
  • Membrane's assistant Lucius offers to blow up the anti-Santa arsenal if the Professor ever wants to get rid of it. When Membrane asks just how many of their buildings Lucius has planted bombs in, Lucius creates a distraction and runs off.

Issue 4

• Ms. Bitters states that the skool is trying to teach children to stop having dreams.
  • When Zim returns to class after six weeks, she says she hopes he has a good excuse... then states that she doesn't care.
  • In response to Zim stating that the Zip program is brainwashing the students, she says she's just glad that it's keeping the skool under budget.
• GIR's response to Zim saying he has no ideas for plans is to say he has ideas, but he's referring to the bananas in his head.
  • He still has the same bananas in his head six weeks later, disgusting Zim with the stink.
• According to Zim, Minimoose often posits him with philosophical thought exercises.
• Almost as soon as Zim is in the sensory deprivation tank, he starts screaming about hallucinations.
• Zim being freaked out to see that the Zip program looks and talks just like him.
• Dib was apparently hiding in a trashcan the whole time, waiting for Zim to show up, much to Zim's confusion.
• Learning that only Zip mascots are being allowed into the corporate building, it looks like Zim is about to ditch his disguise and go in on himself. Instead, he sticks GIR and Minimoose into a Paper-Thin Disguise of himself.
  Zim: Nice work, Minimoose. Very convincing head. GIR, terrible butt. The worst I've ever seen.
• Zim having to deal with the prerecorded messages he left for himself. Not just for his frustration with his own antics, but because while the videos anticipate some of Zim's responses, the rest of the time they're way off because of his ego.
• The montage of things Zim has to do to complete his plan:
  • Dump hundreds of disco balls into a volcano.
  • Wrap cows in plastic wrap.
  • Buy a lot of rutabagas.
  • Give kazoos to apes in the zoo.
  • Decontaminate and then re-contaminate the sewers.
  • Plant a bunch of tuning forks.
  • We don't see it, but he's also told to rotate his tires, batten the hatches, and wax his eyelids.
• Zim agonizing over whether to blindly follow the recording's order to press a button to activate the plan, going through a whole I Know You Know I Know spiel about the recording anticipating his actions. And then it turns out that both buttons on that panel did the same thing, just in case.
• It turns out that the whole plan was just to destroy the world's balloons, because Zim was in a manic delusional state when he thought it up. Despite the stupidity of this, Zim claims it as a victory.

The Dookie Loop Horror
As the special oneshot issue designated as the end of the series, there's naturally plenty of laughs to tie everything off.

• The final cover, which doubles as a call back to the very first issue's, features Dib and Zim's graves being side-by-side with the tombstones having statues of the two yelling at each other. Even in death the rivalry wages on, plus it's a perfectly twisted and darkly humorous take on the Together in Death trope if there was one.
• Dib makes the grave mistake of finishing the Honey Ghost cereal after Gaz "called dibs" on the last bowl.
  Dib: I thought that meant you wanted me to have it...because my name's...
• For some Black Comedy, there's Gaz casually admitting that she saws open Dib's head at night and stuffs things into it, then sarcastically denies it.
• GIR bringing Zim some snacks, by means of stuffing himself full of them and then vomiting all over the place. Zim watches this in silence for several panels, then asks Minimoose for a hammer to hit GIR with.
• The issue manages to squeeze in one last "Dib's big head joke", with Zim saying that Dib could never wear a hat because of his head's size. Dib retorts that his head isn't big, everything else is just too small.
• The Running Gag of Minimoose freaking out if anyone even mentions a time loop.
  Zim: Sheesh. You really need to talk to someone about that.
• Zim's master plan was to use the "time poop" of other-dimensional beings to turn all humans into babies and shoot them into the sun. Dib calls him out on how stupid this is, especially since the dial that's supposed to activate this has clearly just been drawn and probably doesn't do anything.
• The cause of the time loop — GIR somehow keeps getting into the time poop container with a pig wearing a tuxedo, top hat, and monocle, which then farts so hard it bursts the container and unleashes the time poop.
• Zim being so casual and laid back, having come to look on the bright side of the loop by taking the time for his personal hobbies. Dib is weirded out and figures Zim has gone insane from the loop.
• GIR randomly revealing that he's got a live hippo stuffed into his body.
• Zim finally decides to end the time loop... because he managed to finish the puzzle he was working on.
  • Unfortunately, his plan to end the loop is another button he just made, labeled "fix time loop", which doesn't do anything except trigger a sound effect. He seems genuinely confused when this doesn't do anything. Dib's response (and last line of the series) is telling Zim that he hates him.

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