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Recap / The New Adventures of Invader Zim, S2E8 "Space Road Trip"

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With Skool out for Spring Break, Nyx and Gaz decide to take a trip to the gaming planet. But when they're sidetracked by a favor for Nyx's friend Grissom, Hilarity Ensues.


  • Badass Boast: Grissom gives a subdued one regarding his influence on Slumia:
    Grissom:I own this planet. Nothing happens here without my say-so. And if it does, I strike down on the perpetrators like a wrathful god.
  • Call-Back: Gaz recalls Nyx mentioning the video game planet Arcadikon back when they first met in Episode 2.
  • Clingy MacGuffin: Nyx is unable to get the alien dog collar off of Gaz, who decides to just go with it.
  • A Day in the Limelight: This chapter is about Nyx and Gaz going on a space road trip and hijinks ensuing. The rest of the main cast either don't show up at all or only have minimal appearances near the beginning.
  • Destination Defenestration: Nyx tosses the two Irken cops who sent Gaz to the pound off of Grissom's office balcony to land in a fountain several floors below.
  • Girl's Night Out Episode: This chapter is all about Gaz and Nyx going on a trip together.
  • Human Pet: While on Slumia, Gaz is mistaken for an animal (since none of the locals know what a human is) and sent to the pound, where's she collared and groomed before Nyx manages to save her.
  • Insane Troll Logic: Leashlor, the Animal Catcher of Slumia, stretches rationality quite a bit to justify treating Gaz as an animal.
  • Monster Clown: The Happy Fun Times Death Clan, an Irken gang on Foodcourtia which for some reason has its members all dress up like clowns.
  • Mythology Gag:
    • At one point during the trip, Nyx's ship's radio is playing the song "Hinka Dinka Hoinka Smeedge" from Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus.
    • Also during the trip, Gaz sees a billboard for the Galaxy's Largest Space Donut, which appeared in Issue 1 of the comic series.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Synchronous Episodes: This chapter and the next happen mostly at the same time.
  • There Was a Door: When Nyx blasts her way into the Slumia pound, Leashlor points out that the door wasn't locked.

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