List of Invader Zim episodes

Invader Zim is an American animated dark comedy science fiction[1] television series that was created by comic book writer and cartoonist Jhonen Vasquez and aired on Nickelodeon. The series revolves around an extraterrestrial named Zim (voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz) from the planet Irk and his ongoing mission to conquer or destroy a dark and satirical version of the Earth. His various attempts to subjugate and destroy the human race are invariably undermined by some combination of his own ineptitude, his malfunctioning robot servant GIR (Rosearik Rikki Simons) and his nemesis Dib (Andy Berman), one of very few humans not oblivious enough to be unaware of Zim's identity.

Invader Zim premiered on March 30, 2001. The series was targeted at tweens and teens[2][3][4] and met with critical acclaim. As the series went on, ratings declined and budgetary issues became more frequent.[5][6] Before the second season was completed, Nickelodeon canceled the series, leaving several episodes unfinished.[7][8] The show originally ran on Nickelodeon from 2001 to 2002,[9] with six of the completed second-season episodes initially going unreleased. These episodes were first made available on DVD in 2004 and later made their television debut on the Nicktoons Network in 2006.[10] Despite its early cancellation, due to increasing popularity and above-average merchandise sales,[11][12][13] it has been widely regarded as a cult classic.[11][13][14][15][16][17]

The series consists of a pilot episode, twenty-seven episodes split into forty-six episode segments, and at least seventeen unfinished episode segments that were in production at the time of the series' cancellation. On December 24, 2011, the pilot episode aired on television for the first time. Thirty-eight episode segments were originally broadcast in pairs, each 12-minute episode segment debuting in the same half-hour. There are eight double-length episodes which run for 24-minutes each. This list is ordered by the episode order in the DVD releases, with broadcast dates noted. Almost every episode was directed by Steve Ressel; the only exception is the pilot, which was directed by Jordan Reichek.

A television film based on the series, entitled Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, premiered August 16, 2019 on Netflix.[18][19][20]

Series overview

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired	Network
	Pilot			May 11, 2004 (2004-05-11) (DVD) December 24, 2011 (TV)		Nicktoons
	1	20		March 30, 2001 (2001-03-30)	July 12, 2002 (2002-07-12)[9]	Nickelodeon
	2	7	6	June 10, 2006 (2006-06-10)	August 19, 2006 (2006-08-19)	Nicktoons
			1	December 10, 2002 (2002-12-10)[n 1]		Nickelodeon[n 1]
	Enter the Florpus			August 16, 2019 (2019-08-16)		Netflix

Episodes

Pilot

A pilot for Invader Zim was produced for Nickelodeon in 1999, featuring Billy West as the voice of Zim. It was first released publicly as a special feature on the Invader Zim Vol. 1: Doom Doom Doom DVD set on May 11, 2004. The pilot made its television debut on Nicktoons on December 24, 2011, as part of their "Nicktoon's Winter Funderland" block.

Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboard by	Original release date
"Pilot"	Jordan Reichek	Rob Hummel, Ed Scharlach, Jhonen Vasquez & Eva Almos Jhonen Vasquez (story)	Jordan Reichek & Jhonen Vasquez	May 11, 2004 (2004-05-11) (DVD) December 24, 2011 (2011-12-24) (Nicktoons)
Zim finds that he is severely allergic to the school cafeteria's food, and Dib uses this fact to try to prove to the other children that Zim is an alien.

Season 1 (2001–02)

The first season of Invader Zim consists of twenty episodes, which are ordered below by production number and not their original broadcast order.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboard by	Original air date
1	1	"The Nightmare Begins"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel	Kyle Menke & Shawn Murray	March 30, 2001 (2001-03-30)
The Irken race is having a great assigning for Operation Impending Doom II, where all Invaders are assigned a planet to conquer. Wanting to rid themselves of the irritating and arrogant Zim, the Almighty Tallest give Zim a faulty SIR unit (named GIR) and send him to the farthest reaches of space. When Zim arrives, he finds a planet named Earth where he sets up base and, in disguise as a human, infiltrates the local school. Unfortunately, one schoolmate, Dib, is a young paranormal investigator, who vows to capture Zim and prove that he is an alien.
2	2	"Bestest Friend" "NanoZim"	Steve Ressel	Rob Hummel, Roman Dirge, & Jhonen Vasquez Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel	The Graham Bros. Kyle Menke & Shawn Murray	April 13, 2001 (2001-04-13)
Zim notices that all the other children in the school have friends except him. Zim conducts a series of bizarre tests on some students in order to select the "best" friend. However, it proves harder to lose a friend afterward than it was to gain one. After Dib sneaks into Zim's base and takes incriminating pictures of Zim without his disguise on, Zim shrinks to microscopic size, enters Dib's body, accesses Dib's nervous system and "controls" Dib in order to crush the storage disk with the photos on it. However, when Dib reveals he has a copy of the disk hidden in his house, Zim travels to Dib's brain to erase the memory of where the copy is hidden.
3	3	"Parent-Teacher Night" "Walk of Doom"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel	Ron Brewer & Kyle Menke Bryan Konietzko & Chris Graham	April 6, 2001 (2001-04-06)
Parent-Teacher Night is approaching and Zim is confronted with the fact that he doesn't have any parents. He makes use of his robot parents to attempt to fool the students, teachers, and parents. However, Zim knows that the Roboparents aren't equipped for such a job. Zim goes on an outing to the downtown area in order to test a new guidance chip he installed in GIR, but when GIR removes the chip before leaving in order to store a cupcake, Zim and GIR are left lost and have to resort to public transport to find their way back. Their journey home is complicated further by Zim temporarily losing his vision by looking at the sun, his disguise being mistaken for that of a bank robber, and his escape from the police being wrecked by GIR replacing his extra rocket fuel with tuna fish.
4	4	"Germs" "Dark Harvest"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel Eric Trueheart & Rob Hummel	The Graham Bros. Kyle Menke & Shawn Murray	April 20, 2001 (2001-04-20)
Zim sees a B-movie where advanced extraterrestrial life is thwarted by common germs. Zim becomes acutely germophobic and dedicates himself to studying and exterminating all of the Earth's bacteria. He embarks on incredibly thorough cleaning sprees and uses germ spray on himself and GIR. After running out of germ spray, he heads out to buy more, but GIR runs off to a "MacMeatie's" restaurant. There Zim discovers that he can protect himself from germs using a germ-resistant hamburger "meat" made of recycled napkins, which is sold there. When a pigeon lands on Zim's head in class, he is sent to the nurse's office for having "head pigeons", but he becomes concerned that the nurse may discover that he is not actually human. To avoid this, Zim steals human organs from other children. "Note": Dark Harvest (and the series in general) became controversial when it was mentioned at Scott Dyleski's murder trial in 2006.[21][22][23]
5	5	"Attack of the Saucer Morons" "The Wettening"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez & Eric Trueheart Roman Dirge, Eric Trueheart & Rob Hummel	Chris Graham & Bryan Konietzko Ron Brewer & Kyle Menke	April 27, 2001 (2001-04-27)
Zim's spaceship is sent spiraling out of control after an encounter with a bee and it crash-lands in a park. Zim attempts to recover it, but a meeting of UFO enthusiasts finds Zim's ship. Zim is captured by the group once his disguise falls apart, and they begin to worship him as their prophesied alien god. Eventually, Zim gets in contact with GIR who is able to rescue Zim and recover the spaceship, however a second encounter with a bee causes the duo to crash-land at a much larger UFO convention. Dib discovers that water has a harmful effect on his Zim's skin. After Dib splashes Zim with a puddle and a water balloon, Zim vows to wet Dib as a form of retribution.
6	6	"Career Day" "Battle-Dib"	Steve Ressel	Rob Hummel Jhonen Vasquez & Eric Trueheart	The Graham Bros. Shawn Murray & Kyle Menke	May 4, 2001 (2001-05-04)
It's career day at school and Dib has been paired with a paranormal investigator named Bill while Zim goes to work at a fast food restaurant called MacMeatie's. However, after discovering Zim is moulting due to "the galactic equinox", Dib tries to convince his new mentor to help him expose Zim. Dib desires to do a presentation about Zim for a meeting of the Swollen Eyeballs, a secret society focussed on the paranormal. Before he can do this, the society requires that he must have a permission slip signed by his father, Professor Membrane. Professor Membrane is very famous, so he has a television show and Dib must endure various trials to gain access to his father.
7	7	"Planet Jackers" "Rise of the Zitboy"	Steve Ressel	Rob Hummel & Jhonen Vasquez Frank Conniff & Roman Dirge	Bryan Konietzko & Kyle Menke Ron Brewer, Joseph Daniello, & Ian Graham	August 31, 2001 (2001-08-31)
Zim discovers that the planet is being stolen by "planet jackers," aliens who use planets as kindling for their dying sun. After failing to persuade them to leave the planet for his conquest, Zim attempts to steal the planet back. Zim is outraged when he discovers that Dib knows of a flaw in his bases defences. Meanwhile, GIR eats a pizza and then jumps on Zim, covering him in grease, which causes Zim to develop a large pimple. GIR draws a face on the zit and Zim discovers that its motion has hypnotic powers. Zim uses this hypnotic zit to gain control of the school children and forces Dib into revealing the weakness in Zim's base defenses. At that point the pimple grows even further to monstrous proportions and explodes; Zim then leaves to reinforce his base's, while Dib is forced to clean up the mess.
8	8	"Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain" "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel Eric Trueheart	Kyle Menke & Shawn Murray The Graham Bros. & Dave Krocker	August 24, 2001 (2001-08-24)
During maintenance of Zim's underground base, GIR's brain is accidentally put into the house's operating system. Using a time portal device, Zim hopes to make a machine go back in time and kill Dib when he is a small child. However, the machine is incompatible with time travel and Zim's new plan is to send small rubber pig toys into the past in an attempt to injure Dib. After some initial success, Zim realises that altering the past can cause undesirable results in the present.
9	9	"A Room with a Moose" "Hamstergeddon"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel Eric Trueheart	Chris Graham & Miyuki Hoshikawa Rayfield Angrum & Ian Graham	August 17, 2001 (2001-08-17)
Zim orchestrates a fake field trip for his schoolmates, intending to launch the class into a wormhole in space. The wormhole leads to an alternate dimension which consists entirely of a room occupied by a moose. Zim's class at school gets a new hamster and Zim decides that its cuteness can be used as a form of mind control. Zim attaches a device to the hamster which causes it to grow to Godzilla-like size and develop several superpowers, such as the ability to fire a laser beam from its mouth. Unable to control it, Zim instead allows the hamster to rampage throughout the city. But when the hamster heads for Zim's base, Zim is forced to team up with Dib and use alien technology to launch the creature into deep space.
10	10	"Plague of Babies" "Bloaty's Pizza Hog"	Steve Ressel	Rob Hummel Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel	Bryan Konietzko & Kyle Menke Dave Krocker & Chris Graham	September 7, 2001 (2001-09-07)
Zim fears that he has been seen out of disguise by a human baby. Believing the baby to be a threat to his mission, he attempts to interrogate it. He soon after finds out that they are in fact extraterrestrials that have been stranded on Earth. It's Gaz's turn to choose a restaurant for the family's annual night out. When Dib fails to return from an attempt at defeating Zim, Gaz sets out to rescue him and return in time to make it to the restaurant.
11	11	"Door to Door" "FBI Warning of Doom"	Steve Ressel	Eric Trueheart & Courtney Lilly Frank Conniff & Jhonen Vasquez	Joseph Daniello & Ian Graham Kyle Menke & Shawn Murray	March 29, 2002 (2002-03-29)
The school starts a candy fundraiser in order to get some finances. Zim isn't interested at first, until he finds out about a secret prize. Zim gets scared after finding an "FBI Warning" on the rental movie GIR keeps watching. Zim takes the DVD back to the mall to return the disc and avoid the wrath of the FBI.
12	12	"Bolognius Maximus" "Game Slave 2"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez Eric Trueheart & Jhonen Vasquez	Chris Graham & Miyuki Hoshikawa Rayfield Angrum & Ian Graham	September 21, 2001 (2001-09-21)
Dib throws bologna at Zim during the lunch break at school, which dissolves his skin. As revenge, Zim places a thumbtack on Dib's chair, which Dib sits on. The next day Zim informs Dib that he infected Dib with a virus that is altering his DNA, turning him into bologna. When Zim discovers that Dib's initial attack is also turning himself into bologna, the pair team up in an attempt to find a cure. Gaz is in line for a newly released handheld games console when the person behind her tricks the salesperson into giving the final console to him. Gaz will stop at nothing to obtain the Game Slave from the boy.
13	13	"Battle of the Planets"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez	Louie del Carmen, Chris Graham, Bryan Konietzko, Dave Krocker, Kyle Menke, & Steve Ressel	April 5, 2002 (2002-04-05)
Zim sends out probes to the planet Mars to see if the planet is of any use for the Irken Empire. When the probes send back photos of artificial-looking structures, Zim and GIR travel to Mars only to discover that the planet is actually a giant spaceship. Zim then plans to pilot Mars to Earth and use it to "squish" all the life on Earth. Dib discovers Zim's plan and gains control of Mercury, which is also a spaceship, in order to stop Zim's plan.
14	14	"Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel	Bryan Konietzko & Kyle Menke	October 26, 2001 (2001-10-26)
Dib accidentally creates a portal in his own forehead which leads to a dimension filled with monsters. Dib passes back and forth to the dimenson and forces Zim to come through with him. The monsters capture Zim and say they won't release him if Dib doesn't allow them access through the portal to Earth. However, when the monsters look through the portal, they turn back as they are disgusted by the sight of GIR eating candy.
15	15	"Mysterious Mysteries" "Future Dib"	Steve Ressel	Courtney Lilly & Rob Hummel Rob Hummel	Shawn Murray & Kyle Menke Rayfield Angrum & Ian Graham	March 22, 2002 (2002-03-22)
Dib goes on his favorite TV show, Mysterious Mysteries, to tell the world the story of Zim and to share a video of Zim he had filmed. To Dib's surprise, Zim, GIR and Gaz also appear on the show to tell their sides of the story. They each tell their own versions, which are then performed in reconstructions on the show for the benefit of the viewer. Professor Membrane constructs an energy-creating device and Zim gets the idea to sabotage it to destroy the world.
16	16	"Hobo 13" "Walk For Your Lives"	Steve Ressel	Eric Trueheart & Danielle Koenig Eric Trueheart	Chris Graham & Miyuki Hoshikawa Miyuki Hoshikawa & Kyle Menke	July 12, 2002 (2002-07-12)
Zim requests more powerful weapons but the Almighty Tallest do not want to give them to him, so he is sent to the deadly training planet Hobo 13 to prove he is worthy of the new equipment. Zim, through extreme selfishness and sacrifice of his teammates, surprisingly gets to the end of the trials. Zim is doing time-related experiments on Dib, but the experiment explodes. Dib manages to escape but he is "slowed down" and can only move very slowly. Also produced is an explosion, which is also exploding very slowly.
17	17	"Megadoomer" "Lice"	Steve Ressel	Roman Dirge, Eric Trueheart, and Jhonen Vasquez Rob Hummel	The Graham Bros. Rayfield Angrum & Ian Graham	April 26, 2002 (2002-04-26)
Zim is accidentally shipped a high-powered robot mecha with a cloaking device and he immediately heads off to destroy Dib with it. The robot does not come with batteries, requiring the machine to be plugged into a power outlet to stay cloaked. Unbeknown to Zim, only the robot cloaks; he himself and the power cable are plainly visible the entire time. There is an infestation of head lice at the school and so an extreme lice hunter comes to investigate the outbreak.
18	18	"Abducted" "The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel Roman Dirge & Eric Trueheart	Joseph Daniello & Ian Graham Joseph Daniello, Louie del Carmen, & Miyuki Hoshikawa	April 12, 2002 (2002-04-12)
Zim and GIR are abducted by two aliens who think of them as human and dog specimens. Frustrated at how people see paranormal science, Dib sets out to disprove the legend of Chickenfoot, who is actually a man stuck inside a chicken costume.
19	19	"GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff" "Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom"	Steve Ressel	Eric Trueheart Jhonen Vasquez & Eric Trueheart	Chris Graham & Shawn Murray Kyle Menke & Shawn Murray	May 24, 2002 (2002-05-24)
Zim is frustrated with how useless GIR is, and puts him in permanent defensive mode. Things start to go wrong when GIR sees Zim himself as a threat to their mission on Earth. Zim is hit by a muffin during the school lunch break and suspects it is Dib who threw it, but he cannot know for sure. That night, in a dream, Dib is visited by aliens who say they have given Dib special powers. Dib then uses these powers to threaten Zim, who willingly turns himself up and has GIR self-destruct. Time passes and Dib spends his life solving other mysteries and thwarting aliens. Finally, at a very old age, Dib is being interviewed on TV when he is asked if he threw the muffin at Zim and Dib admits it. At that point it is revealed that Zim had simulated Dib's entire life just to find out whether or not Dib was the one who actually threw the muffin.
20	20	"Tak: The Hideous New Girl"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez & Eric Trueheart	Joseph Daniello, Bryan Konietzko, & Kyle Menke	May 10, 2002 (2002-05-10)
A new girl at school, Tak, joins the class. Tak is actually an Irken and soon reveals her plan to hollow out the Earth's core to prove herself worthy of being an Invader. Zim, Dib, Gaz, and GIR team up to try to stop Tak. At the end, Dib laments that he is unable to explore beyond Earth, only for Tak's abandoned ship to crash right in front of him.

Season 2 (2002; 2006)

In August 2001, Nickelodeon officially renewed Invader Zim for a second season which was originally planned to consist of twenty episodes.[6] In January 2002, Nickelodeon announced that they had plans to cancel the series. The series finished with a total of twenty-seven out of its initially contracted forty episodes, leaving several episodes unfinished.[6] The seventh episode of season two aired on Nickelodeon on December 10, 2002. The remaining six completed second season episodes were initially unreleased. These episodes would first be made available on DVD in 2004 and later made their television debut on the Nicktoons Network in 2006.[10]

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboard by	Original air date [n 1]
21	1	"Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez	Rayfield Angrum, Bryan Konietzko, Kyle Menke, & Shawn Murray	June 10, 2006 (2006-06-10)
Zim desires to bring his leaders, the Almighty Tallest, to Earth to witness his next plan for world domination involving a brain-eating parasite, so he remotely takes control of the "Massive". However, at the time he takes control, the Tallest are under attack from a resistance group of ragtag aliens known as "The Resisty", who are against the Irken Empire. Meanwhile, Dib has been attempting to salvage/reverse engineer Tak's spaceship (which he acquired in "Tak: The Hideous New Girl") and manages to repair enough of its systems to establish a remote connection of his own to get into Zim's computer and wrestle for control of the Tallest's ship. When the Tallest realize what is going on, they transfer their hacked power-core to the Resisty so their ship is pulled toward Earth. This forces the Resisty to safely evacuate their starship and set it to “shrinky self-destruct” to protect the secrets of its technology from alien thieves. The Tallest then contact Zim to punish him for what he has done, only to find that he is under attack from the brain-eating parasite.
22	2	"Mortos der Soulstealer" "Zim Eats Waffles"	Steve Ressel	Eric Trueheart	Greg Colton & Perry Zombolas Rayfield Angrum & Bryan Konietzko	June 17, 2006 (2006-06-17)
"Mortos der Soulstealer": Dib summons a mystical ghostly beast called Mortos der Soulstealer to attack Zim and prevent him from taking over the world. Mortos will grant Dib anything he wants, but is tired and requests time and food to regenerate. It soon becomes clear that Mortos just wants to have fun, and spends time eating and trying on clothes. Dib confronts Zim with Mortos and demands that he fulfill his request to stop Zim, but Mortos grants a random person's request for ice cream instead, and then returns to his realm to rest. Guest star: Wally Wingert as Mortos "Zim Eats Waffles": Dib has managed to get a spy camera into Zim's base in the hopes of recording some evidence that will prove he's an alien. Unfortunately for Dib, his hard drives aren't working and need to be automatically repaired, so Dib watches Zim while this is happening. It is a quiet day for Zim. GIR is trying to get Zim to eat waffles, but every now and then he reveals part of an evil plan or gets attacked by a giant flesh-eating squid. Every time this happens Dib tries to contact a member of the Swollen Eyeball to witness it, but by the time they answer Zim is eating waffles again, and he eventually throws up on Dib's camera. Dib's hard drives finally repair, but then the cyborgs sent by Zim destroy them.
23	3	"The Girl Who Cried Gnome" "Dibship Rising"	Steve Ressel	Rob Hummel Eric Trueheart	Josheph Daniello & Scooter Tidwell	July 15, 2006 (2006-07-15)
"The Girl Who Cried Gnome": A girl selling cookies gets her foot trapped in Zim's frontyard and it attracts the attention of the neighbors, press and the Earth president. The girl loves all the attention and won't let anyone simply pull her out. Dib manages to persuade the president to use a digging machine to dig under the girl to get her out. He suggests this because then Zim's base will be discovered. Zim finally decides that enough is enough and simply pulls the girl out of the hole. Guest stars: Eliza Schneider as Moofy, Jeffrey Jones as the President Man "Dibship Rising": Dib is again working on Tak's crashed spaceship, which turned on him the last time he activated it because its computer AI is a digital copy of Tak's mind. To stop it from acting so hostile to him he downloads his own personality into the ship. This does not go as planned because the ship then starts to believe that it is Dib. Zim discovers what Dib has done and reminds the ship that it is Irken technology and must do what Zim says. Zim commands the ship to throw Dib into the city sewage plant but the ship remembers that it is Dib, and throws Zim across town. The ship is so depressed that it is "Dib" that it deletes its personality. Guest star: Olivia d'Abo
24	4	"Vindicated!" "The Voting of the Doomed"	Steve Ressel	Danielle Koenig Eric Trueheart	Kyle Menke & Shawn Murray Rayfield Angrum & Louie del Carmen	July 22, 2006 (2006-07-22)
"Vindicated!": Dib sees the school's counselor, Mr. Dwicky, about his problems at school, and Dib tells him about how Zim's an alien trying to take over the Earth. Surprisingly Mr. Dwicky says he believes him and that he wants to help him out. He later reveals to a colleague that this is just a ruse to get Dib to trust him. They trick Zim into thinking aliens are coming to meet him in the woods to give him super weapons but after a while of waiting, Mr. Dwicky reveals he doesn't really believe Dib. At that point, some real aliens turn up and offer to take Mr. Dwicky with them. As he loved aliens as a child he jumps at the chance and Dib is left behind with nobody else believing him. "The Voting of the Doomed": Zim decides to use the school's election to gain power, so Dib becomes the manager of his opponent to try and stop him. Zim streaks ahead after making many promises to the students that are crazy but wins them over anyway. Dib counters this by using a cellphone to feed dialogue to a boy who is opposing Zim so he can debate with him properly. Dib's candidate wins the election, but the school faculty brings him to a lab where they (very painfully) remove his individuality and free will, making him nothing more than a mindless figurehead for the oppressive school. Needless to say, Dib is not pleased, as it would have been Zim who would have met this fate if not for Dib's efforts.
25	5	"Gaz, Taster of Pork"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez	Greg Colton, Perry Zombolas, Chris Graham, & Ian Graham	August 12, 2006 (2006-08-12)
Dib discovers that his electronic spell drives still have two credits on them, which allow him to cast spells. Not knowing what the spells would do, he casts one on his sister Gaz instead to see what would happen. The result of the spell is that Gaz tastes pork no matter what she eats. To help Gaz, Dib decides to go to another dimension to request the spell be undone. Gaz must face the Shadowhog and answers three questions correctly to reverse the spell. As part of a deal he imposed on the creator of the spell, Dib is stuck cleaning toilets with brushes on his head.
26	6	"The Frycook What Came from All That Space"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez	Kyle Menke, Shawn Murray, Chris Graham, & Ian Graham	August 19, 2006 (2006-08-19)
While in school, powerful Irken Frylord Sizz-Lorr kidnaps Zim and takes him into space. It is revealed that Sizz-Lorr was previously Zim's jail-master and boss before Zim escaped his banishment in the first episode. Zim resumes his original exiled work in a fast food restaurant on the Irken snacking planet of Foodcourtia, but manages to escape before a massive amount of snacking causes the gravity to prevent anyone from leaving the planet for 20 years.
27	7	"The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever"	Steve Ressel	Jhonen Vasquez & Eric Trueheart	Rayfield Angrum, Louie del Carmen, Bryan Konietzko, Chris Graham, & Ian Graham	December 10, 2002 (2002-12-10)[n 1]
Zim discovers how much people like Santa Claus and decides to use this in a plan to take over the world by dressing up in a Santa suit full of data about Christmas. Dib realizes his father dislikes Santa. The Santa suit malfunctions and engulfs Zim, effectively turning him into a real Santa Claus before Dib beats it and then launches it into space. The episode ends two million years in the future in which it is revealed that the Santa suit (now massive) returns to Earth every Christmas to wreak havoc and eat milk and cookies.

Netflix film (2019)

In April 2017, Nickelodeon announced that there would be a television film based on the series.[24] On June 26, 2018, it was announced that the film was titled Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus.[25] The film released digitally on Netflix on August 16, 2019.

Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboard by	Original release date
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus	Jenny Goldberg (art) Jake Wyatt (storyboard)	Jhonen Vasquez	Tyson Hesse, Megan Lawton, Samir Barrett, Sofia Alexander, Stephan Park, Rie Koga, Shawna Mills, & Chris Graham	August 16, 2019 (2019-08-16)
When Zim suddenly reappears to begin Phase 2 of his evil alien plan to conquer Earth, his longtime nemesis Dib sets out to unmask him once and for all.

Notes

1. The final episode, "The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever" (S02E07), originally aired on Nickelodeon on December 10, 2002, before the rest of the second season. All six of the prior episodes from the second season were first released on DVD on October 12, 2004, prior to their respective television debuts on Nicktoons in 2006.

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External links

• Invader Zim – list of episodes on IMDb
• List of Invader Zim episodes at TV.com