Funny / Ruby Pair

Meeting of Ruby Eyes

• Tenn attacking Zim and accidentally starting a Bar Brawl when she thinks he stole the Megadoomer that was meant for her and starting the chain of events that led to her being exiled.
  Tenn: You vrik na tishanti! That was my Megadoomer! (throws a firewhiskey bottle at him)
• While in jail, Tenn and Zim both agree that the Megadoomer being designed to be invisible without also making its pilot invisible was stupid.
• Zim's plan to get himself and Tenn out of jail is to have GIR blast them out.
  Zim: (noticing that Tenn looks disconcerted) What's wrong with you?
  Tenn: A malfunctioning SIR Unit. That's your plan. That's what got me into this mess in the first place!
  Zim: Hey! I'll have you know that while GIR may be a piece of junk, he's perfectly reliable at least 75 percent of the time!
  Tenn: Oh, I feel so much better now.
• When Gabo Amoebo tells his minions to fit Zim and Tenn with concrete shoes (i.e. kill them), one of them is confused and asks if they've started selling shoes.
  Gabo: No, you idiot! That's code for putting their feet in concrete and tossing them in the nearest pool to drown! You know what? Forget it — just take them out back and shoot them until they're vaporized!
• Tenn slices her cuffs open using her PAK legs. Everyone stares at her in shock, including Zim, until she reminds him he's capable of doing that too.
• Zim pulls out something from GIR's head and warns everyone he's holding a thermal detonator. Gabo's minions back away in fear until one of them points out he's just holding a can of tomato soup.
• When running from Gabo, Zim creates a distraction by yelling, "VIROOZ!" Everyone in the area is immediately scared at the mention of his name, and takes out their weapons and starts blasting each other. When the dust clears, everyone has either been charred to a crisp or disintegrated...except Gabo and his minions, as Tenn helpfully points out.
• Minimoose, who is Intelligible Unintelligible, convinces Zim to take Tenn with him back to Earth just by saying, "Nyah!"
  Zim: Curse you! Why did I make you such an eloquent and charismatic speaker!

Welcome to Urth

• Clembrane apparently once filled Tak's Ship with pudding. Dib uses the threat of this happening again to get the Ship to cooperate with him.
• Tenn demanding to know why Zim's Holographic Disguise generator is so painful when it's putting her disguise on. And then she gets put through it again when he doesn't like her disguise, leaving her with a Paper-Thin Disguise as poor as his, which Zim naturally thinks is brilliant. She proceeds to sucker-punch him and knock him out.
  Computer: You have no idea how long I've been wanting to do that. Damn... the one time I'm not recording anything.
• When Dib demands to know the name of The Old Country that Tenn claims she and Zim are from, Zim blurts out "Oldcountrystan!" Tenn is left feeling like she wants to either Face Palm or throw something heavy at his head.
• Dib startling the Irkens by jumping out of the bush he was hiding in, just in case they walked by and said something incriminating. Tenn is incredulous that he'd go to such an extent.
• Tenn flying into a rage against Dib when he call her Zim's minion.
• Keef comes to Zim's base to try and gift Tenn a stray cat he found, which he leaves when he realizes she's not home and he goes looking for her. Zim commands the cat to leave, and it attacks him; when Tenn returns some time later, he's resorting to blaster fire to chase it off.
• A fight after Dib breaks into the base leaves him falling into the caves under it, where he's taken "guest" by Xooxi the Dooxisi, and is subsequently bored to death by him.

Beefus Megabombus

• Skoodge arrives and starts complaining about the Tallest, only to immediately switch to singing their praises when he notices Tenn's presence, unaware that she's bitter against them too.
• Skoodge doesn't think anything unusual of it when he sees the Carne Bees' hive ship parked atop of Zim's base, having Seen It All from Zim by this point.
• Ned, the first mate of the pirate bees, is the only one who insists on talking like a pirate. The Irkens can't understand a thing he says, and even the other bees find it annoying.
• Zim using Skoodge as a battering ram to break the viewport on the hive ship's bridge and escape. And later using him to knock down the Membranes' front door.
  Tenn: Why do you keep doing this?
  Zim: Convenience.
• When Zim orders GIR to defend them from the bees, GIR makes several dramatic movements, then pulls a bowl of spaghetti out of nowhere and eats it alongside the meatball cannonballs that the bees fired at the Irkens.
• Both Tenn and Dib acknowledging how "pirate space bees out to steal Earth's meat" is A Rare Sentence.
• Tenn is incredulous at the existence of Clembrane, and how Zim's only complaint is his inability to properly make pudding.
  Tenn: Zim, I've seen footage of Professor Membrane, and this thing doesn't look or sound anything like him. What did you do, insert some of his DNA into a fish or something?
  Gaz: You know, I've been curious about that myself.
• Tak's Ship needs a PAK to tap into in order to bypass damage to its weapons systems, and refuses to use Zim's. Tenn proceeds to step back so it looks like Skoodge is volunteering, and he ends up forcibly hooked into the ship, which reassures him that it will "only hurt a lot". He barely has a chance to question this before the process starts.
• Ned turns out to have survived the destruction of the hive ship and comes after the Irkens for revenge... and they casually vaporize him.

My Fair Tenn

• Keef surprises Tenn by somehow managing to hide inside her locker. She responds by tossing a grenade in with him and walking away.
• It turns out that GIR, Minimoose, and the Computer take turns telling Zim about Dib's break-ins into the base.
• Gaz doesn't even try to hide the fact that she's only in the contest to spy on Tenn for Dib.
• When Keef tries to serenade her, Tenn spin-kicks him in the face, sending him flying into a trashcan, which then rolls out of the building and next to a garbage truck, which Keef gets dumped into by an oblivious garbageman.
• During the brief Time Skip leading up to the date of the contest, Zim is mentioned to have tried to create sentient humanoid animals to use as soldiers, but the only viable one is a raven which just spends all day sitting around in front of a fireplace and shouting random philosophy. Zim doesn't even know where the fireplace came from, as he didn't have one beforehand.
• For some Black Comedy, there's the reason Gaz doesn't have a supervising assistant for the contest — the one she did have tried to make her wear a pink fairytale-style dress, so she set it on fire with an Aerosol Flamethrower, which spread to the woman's hair, resulting in her falling down some stairs and breaking her legs when she tried to put it out.
• GIR aggressively giving Zita a makeover.
• Miss Bitters trying to give all the contestants zeros on all categories of the contest before it even starts, due to how little she wants to be there.
• The contest's categories start out normally, but then reach truly ridiculous levels, including everything from medieval costumes to military fatigues.
• Jessica's talent performance involves trained birds, which goes pretty well... until they touch the spilled chemicals left over from an earlier contestant's science experiment, causing them to mutate into monsters that rampage before Membrane casually takes them all down.
• When Tenn breaks stacked boards as part of her martial arts demonstration during her talent portion, Zim tries to show he can do the same by hitting his seat's armrest, only managing to hurt his hand.
• Beauticiatron declaring GIR the winner, despite him not being a contestant, because he's cute and it's her contest to run.
• Keef pops up one last time after the contest, and Tenn shoves him front of a bus.

Gaols & Ghouls

• Tenn's annoyance at Zim spelling out their entire plan of the week to Dib, who is likewise not impressed with the plan.
  Dib: You'll never get away with this, Zim! Like, seriously, I can just tell the people in charge here that you're pulling some kind of prank and they'll kick you out. I don't even need to mention the mind control stuff.
  Zim: Foolish worm-baby! Zim will merely distract them with my ingenious cover story of feeding the micro-fish that live on dusty objects.
  Dib: That's not a thing!
• Gaz dismissively explaining the Chainmail Bikini trope to Tenn.
• Zim tries to summon his PAK legs but can’t, leaving a confused Dib to ask if he's flexing.
• The Gaol Master explains that the group's campaign quest will take them through places called "the Plains of Suffering", "the Forest of Certain Death", "the Canyon of Agony", and "the Mountain of Dread" to reach "the Vile Lair of the Beast King”.
  Gaz: Creative naming.
  Zim: Meh, Zim's heard worse. Everything on Hobo 13 had 'pain' in its name.
• The Running Gag of Zim trying to use magic only for it to literally blow up in his face.
• GIR mistakes a group of centaurs for ponies and tries to ride them. Since he's now a giant rock golem, he keeps crushing them.
• After the Black Knight has been reduced to a limbless torso and still won't stop trying to be intimidating, Zim tells GIR to "kick the can", resulting in the knight getting launched into the distance.
• When Zim accidentally sets himself on fire during the fight with the Knights Who Say Icki-Icki, he runs around trying to put out the flames, with GIR cheerfully chasing him until Tenn trips him so that he drops and rolls, extinguishing the fire.
  • In the process of this, GIR slams into the lead knight, causing him to accidentally impale himself with the herring he was going to fight Tenn with.
• Tenn using a frozen-solid Zim as a battering ram against a horde of demons.
• After a cow is dropped on Zim from the sky, GIR grabs it, squeezes it like a plush, then tosses it away.
• No one being impressed by the griffons' insults... except when they mock the size of Dib's head.
• After escaping the game, Gaz and Tenn literally drag Dib and Zim away from each other, rather than let them drag them into another pointless argument.

Multiplying by Tenn

• Tenn's annoyance not just at the ridiculous nature of many of her counterparts, but also at Zim for being jealous of how much cooler he perceives them to be than his own counterparts from the Zimvoid.
• At one point, Tenn asks her counterparts whether any of them actually managed to conquer their version of Meekrob. There's absolute silence in response, except for the sounds of crickets chirping... which turn out to be coming from one Tenn who has giant cricket legs sticking out of her back. Apparently they do that on their own when she's agitated.
• Palindrome refuses to let Zim live down his status as the only Zim to ever choke on styrofoam packing peanuts.
• Palindrome has his own Minimoose, except his is Miniwhale. And when the two meet, they exchange "Nyah!"s, which Zim refers to as "deep, soul-searching philosophical discussions".
• Zim is elated that Crazy Tenn has been detained in a closet, but gets sidetracked by questioning how long the closet's been there.
  • Crazy Tenn escapes from the closet on a motorcycle. When Tenn questions where she got it, Zim mentions that GIR's pig friend brought it over for his last visit. Tenn complains that that makes even less sense.
• Zim's neighbors freak out at seeing the undisguised Crazy Tenn rampaging around the neighborhood, but are immediately calmed down when Palindrome says that she's just practicing for a musical.
• Zim's double take after all the Tenns are sent back to their own universes, only to realize that Palindrome is still around. Rather than deal with him, Zim has him and Miniwhale sucked up by a tube and shot into the ocean by a cannon.
  • Palindrome is later shown stranded on a rocky island, swearing revenge... only to be attacked by seagulls.

Frosting the 13th

• Dib is very confused to learn that all Irken months are named after food.
• Zim goes back to the Membrane house after deciding to recruit Gaz's help in robbing Larb. She realizes this has happened when she finds GIR and Minimoose sitting in her fridge eating waffles, and later finds Zim hiding in her toilet.
• Tak's Ship apparently gets so annoyed with Dib that it sits on him, asking how he likes having a butt on top of him.
• Minimoose gets jealous when he learns about the Room With a Moose, no matter how much Zim says that he's a better moose minion. And later, when he turns into a Mini-Mecha for Gaz to use, Zim admits that he didn't know he could do that.
• All the Irken security forces on Vort become obsessed with Floopsy Bloops Shmoopsy when GIR displays it, leaving most of them chasing after him and leaving the prison vulnerable.
• Keef gets thrown into the Room With a Moose. Somehow, he tames the Moose and gets it to take him to Vort, where he accidentally rampages while looking for Tenn.
  • And then he somehow gets back to Earth to greet Tenn when the group returns without him.
• Zim initially doesn't remember Lard Nar, and when he does recall him, only remembers that the latter designed the toilets on the Massive.
• Tenn is incredulous that there's a Big Red Button that turns off all the security in the prison.
• Just when it looks like the group is going to be in an epic space battle, the scene suddenly cuts away, with the narration stating that it's because of a "cosmic burp". The characters' casual descriptions of what happened only make it funnier.
• It turns out that GIR ate most of the snacks, rendering the whole chapter pointless and turning himself into a disgusting blob that freaks everyone out. And then he vomits on Tenn, the chapter ending with her screaming in outrage.