History Tearjerker / InvaderZim

*** During the experiments, this starts a merchandise of her, meaning ''Professor Membrane is using his own daughter as his cash cow.'' Experiment tours, plush dolls, story books, and even a '''theatrical film!''' Even though he did apologize to her at the end, it still doesn't make up how cruel it was to Gaz.

** Despite the fact that this episode is praised by fans for [[ADayInTheLimelight giving Gaz a main role]], it also received mixed reaction by others due to Dib and Gaz being slightly OOC and for the DownerEnding. Even Nickelodeon seemed to hate it, or at least dislike the majority of the episode, to the point where it’s ''hardly'' seen on the network anymore.

* Because of the monstrous Santa Claus suit Zim made, all future christmases are now under attack and have to be put under a dome to protect themselves from the Santa suit. All of this wouldn't have happened if Zim just told Dib to destroy the Santa suit [[WhatAnIdiot instead of just launching it to space.]] It is unknown whether this future christmas timeline is canon or not.

** There was a fan project by ''Soapy Waffles'' (aka. Emily Rose Satterfield) that animated the entire unfinished episode. As of 2021, it sadly hasn't been fully finished.

** The entire episode makes you think of Zim and Dib's relationship, do they really hate each other? Or are they just lonely or nothing without each other?

** Mixes with NightmareFuel and FridgeHorror. "The Trial" would have revealed that mere moments after his "birth" Zim was thrown down a chute into a "downloading chair" and encoded with what would turn out to be defective information, meaning that part of the reason Zim's the way he is because ''he was literally reprogrammed to become that way.'' Even worse is before that Zim had a completely different personality [[UsedToBeASweetKid akin to that of an affectionate and curious child,]] so it's a question of how Zim (and by extension the other Irken invaders and ''possibly'' Red and Purple) might have turned out had he not been recoded by the Control Brains.

** Mixes with NightmareFuel and FridgeHorror. "The Trial" would have revealed that mere moments after his "birth" Zim was thrown down a chute into a "downloading chair" and encoded with what would turn out to be defective information, meaning that part of the reason Zim's the way he is because ''he was literally reprogrammed to become that way.'' Even worse is before that Zim had a completely different personality [[UsedToBeASweetKid akin to that of an affectionate and curious child,]] so it's a question of how Zim (and by extension the other Irken invaders) might have turned out had he not been recoded by the Control Brains.

* Dib's situation is not one that anyone would want to be in. As prideful and self-serving he can be, he genuinely wants to save the Earth from Zim's schemes, but is believed by ''no one'' (except Gaz, who doesn't care) in regards to Zim's true identity and is continuously made a pariah by the very people he's trying to protect. And things are no better at home where he is constantly on the receiving end of Gaz's wrath as well as belittled by his father for not studying "real science". The sheer amount of times he gets beaten up and put down would certainly take a toll on anyone's sanity, and in instances such as the Halloween episode, it's implied that Dib has indeed been negatively affected by his circumstances and he is '''only a kid.'''

** Mixes with NightmareFuel and FridgeHorror. "The Trial" would have revealed that mere moments after his "birth" Zim was plunged down a chute into a "downloading chair" and encoded with what would turn out to be defective information, meaning that part of the reason Zim's the way he is because ''he was literally reprogrammed to become that way.'' Even worse is before that Zim had a completely different personality [[UsedToBeASweetKid akin to that of an affectionate and curious child,]] so it's a question of how Zim (and by extension the other Irken invaders) might have turned out had he not been recoded by the Control Brains.

** Mixes with NightmareFuel and FridgeHorror. "The Trial" would have revealed that mere moments after his "birth" Zim was plunged down a chute into a "downloading chair" and encoded with what would turn out to be defective information, meaning that part of the reason Zim's the way he is because ''he was literally reprogrammed to become that way.'' Even worse is that before that Zim had a completely different personality [[UsedToBeASweetKid akin to that of an affectionate and curious child,]] so it's a question of how Zim (and by extension the other Irken invaders) might have turned out had he not been recoded by the Control Brains.

** According to the IP bible for ''Invader Zim'', Gaz is hinted at naturally being how she is in the show, but part of the reason why she acts the way she does to Dib is because he [[BigBrotherBully constantly used her as a lab rat for a lot of experiments that would hurt or humiliate her,]] one time tricking her into another experiment ''as an apology for the previous one.'' While this was for dark comedy purposes, it does explain a bit.

** According to the IP bible for ''Invader Zim'', Gaz is hinted at naturally being how she is in the show, but part of the reason why she acts the way she does to Dib is because he [[BigBrotherBully constantly used her as a lab rat for a lot of experiments,]] one time tricking her into another experiment ''as an apology for the previous one.'' Though this was for dark comedy purposes, but still.

** According to the IP bible for ''Invader Zim'', Gaz is hinted at naturally being how she is in the show, but part of the reason why she acts the way she does to Dib is because he constantly used her as a lab rat for a lot of experiments. Though this was for dark comedy purposes, but still.

* Though Dib seems to care far less than Gaz, interestingly enough. He was more than willing to miss out on that annual family outing without even a hint of regret. Though this is reasonable since his family is quite dismissive and abusive.

* Dib's situation is not one that anyone would want to be in. As prideful and self-serving he can be, he genuinely wants to save the Earth from Zim's schemes, but is believed by ''no one'' (except Gaz, who doesn't care) in regards to Zim's true identity and and is continuously made a pariah by the very people he's trying to protect. And things are no better at home where he is constantly on the receiving end of Gaz's wrath as well as belittled by his father for not studying "real science". The sheer amount of times he gets beaten up and put down would certainly take a toll on anyone's sanity, and in instances such as the Halloween episode, it's implied that Dib has indeed been negatively affected by his circumstances and he is '''only a kid.'''

* [[AbusiveParents Professor]] [[ParentalNeglect Membrane]]. he’s so busy that he, Dib, and Gaz only go out to eat together ''once a year''. Which seems sort of funny... until you think about it.

* Overall, all of these unfinished episodes had potential. [[ScrewedByTheNetwork But because of the show's cancellation, none of them were even finished nor got the chance to.]] We would've seen how Minimoose came to be in "Nubs Of Doom", we would've seen how Zim losing and trying to retrieve his PAK back in "Ten Minutes To Doom", we would've seen Zim's backstory in "The Trial", we would've seen how Dib and Gaz are revealed to be clones of Professor Membrane, we would've seen Skoodge again in "Day Of da Spookies", etc. Too bad almost all of them weren't used for the comics. Talk about wasted potential.

** While it’s PlayedForLaughs, Billy crying over his parents (and later his mom) is very heart-wrenching and distressing to hear.
** Later in the scene where all the parents are witnessing Billy’s mother getting severely injured by RoboMom, his brother is clearly seen crying.