Invader Zim, what a loser.
Zim must train his robot decoy parents for Parent Teacher Night at Skool.Tropes
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Timmy's parents not only won't stop talking about him to everyone, but then his mom shows photos of him crying after getting kicked off the soccer team for crying too much.
- Baby's First Words: Zim's first words after being pulled out of the incubation tube were, "I love you, cold, unfeeling robot arm!"
- Crazy-Prepared: When Zim says he never agreed to bring his parents to Parent Teacher Night, Miss Bitters pulls out a video recording of him doing exactly that, without paying attention.Zim: Why would you tape that?
- Doomy Dooms of Doom: "Oh, by the way, it's not called 'Parent Teacher Night.' It's called 'Zim Doom Parent... Zimmy Doom Parent... Night."
- Screams Like a Little Girl: Mr. Elliot when the robot father's arm flies off and lands, whipping about, at his feet.
- Shout-Out
- Zim's birth (read: decanting) echoes Brave New World.
- Zim reeducates the robot parents by forcing their eyes open as they watch various screens.
- The robot parents attempt to cheer Zim up by Riverdancing.
- Spanner in the Works: Zim tries to make the robot parents watch a video of proper Earth parenting techniques, but when he leaves, GIR changes the channel to a bunch of random shows. Hilarity Ensues.
- Unusual Euphemism: Robodad tries to back up Zim claiming that the obviously mechanical arm that had shot off due to some error in his design was lost in "The War" by claiming that said arm was his "Squeezing Arm".
