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This is a list of episodes for Nickelodeon's animated television series Invader Zim. The list is comprised of a pilot episode, 27 completed episodes and at least seven episodes that were in production at the time of the series' cancellation. The series premiered on March 30, 2001, and as of August 19, 2007, all 27 episodes have been aired in all territories and released on DVD. Nineteen of the episodes are split into two individual stories, each lasting around twelve minutes. There are eight "double length" episodes.

All episodes were directed by Steve Ressel; the only exception is the unaired pilot episode which was directed by Jordan Reichek.

This list is ordered by production code with broadcast date noted for proper viewing.

|- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"The Nightmare Begins" || Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel|| 2001-03-30 || 01 |- |colspan="5"|The Irken race is having a great assigning for Operation Impending Doom II, where all Invaders are assigned a planet to conquer. Zim is not invited, yet turns up anyway. Hoping to never deal with him again, The Almighty Tallest send Zim on a "mission" to a far-off "mystery planet": Earth. After arriving on Earth, Zim attempts to fit in and fools everyone except his schoolmate Dib, who vows to catch Zim.¹ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Bestest Friend" || Rob Hummel, Roman Dirge, & Jhonen Vasquez || 2001-04-13 || 02A |- |colspan="5"|Zim notices that all the other children in the school have friends, yet he has not. He decides that as he doesn't want to appear strange, he must also have a friend. Zim chooses an annoying classmate to be his best friend and once people have acknowledged that Zim has a friend, he ditches him. The friend however does not take a hint and so Zim must use scientific measures to get rid of him.² |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Dark Harvest" || Eric Trueheart & Rob Hummel || 2001-04-20 || 02B |- |colspan="5"|Zim is in class at school when a pigeon lands on his head. He is then sent to the nurse for "head pigeons". He starts to believe that because of his anatomy, he won't pass for human and the nurse will discover that he is an alien. To avoid this, Zim harvests the organs of various skool children in order to pass the medical examination. Dib, who realizes that Zim has been out of class for a long time goes to find Zim. He discovers what Zim is doing and attempts to stop him but fails.³ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Parent Teacher Night" || Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel|| 2001-04-06 || 03A |- |colspan="5"|The parent teacher night is approaching and Zim is confronted with the fact that he doesn't have any biological parents. He makes use of his robot parents to attempt to fool the students, teachers and parents. Despite the robotic parents malfunctioning during the evening, nobody finds out that they are fake and Zim is an alien.⁴ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Walk of Doom" || Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel || 2001-04-06 || 03B |- |colspan="5"|Zim updates GIR's guidance chip, which he plans to test out in the city. Unfortunately, GIR removed the chip before leaving the house - to make room for a cupcake - leaving the duo lost in the sprawling metropolis. Lost in the city, Zim attempts to use public transport to return home but fails. Their plight is made worse when Zim is mistaken for a bank robber, and the police are after him; at the end, they somehow end up in Mexico.⁵ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Germs" || Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel || 2001-04-20 || 04A |- |colspan="5"|Zim sees a B-movie reminiscent of War of the Worlds where an alien race is thwarted by common germs. Zim quickly becomes acutely germophobic and dedicates himself to exterminating all of the Earth's bacteria. After running out of germ spray he heads out to buy more, but discovers that he can protect himself from germs using a resistant hamburger meat made of napkins.⁶ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"NanoZIM" || Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel || 2001-04-13 || 04B |- |colspan="5"|Dib sneaks into Zim's base, takes incriminating pictures, and puts them on a floppy disk. Zim discovers Dib and shrinks to microscopic size to enter Dib's body. Zim accesses Dib's Arm Control Nerve and makes him crush the floppy disk, but Dib reveals he has a copy. Zim travels to Dib's brain to wipe the memory of where the disk copy is hidden.⁷ This episode also features more intense computer generated sequences. Computer-generated imagery has been used in the series already, but this episode was the most demanding so far⁸. |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Attack of the Saucer Morons" || Jhonen Vasquez & Eric Trueheart || 2001-04-27 || 05A |- |colspan="5"|Zim's spaceship is sent spiraling out of control after an encounter with a bee and it crash lands into a park. A UFO-obsessed group finds Zim's ship and so Zim attempts to recover it. Zim is captured by the group once his disguise falls apart, and they begin to worship him as a prophesized extraterrestrial savior. Eventually, Zim gets in contact with GIR who is able to rescue Zim and recover the spaceship only to crash once more.⁹ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"The Wettening" || Roman Dirge, Eric Trueheart, & Rob Hummel || 2001-04-27 || 05B |- |colspan="5"|It is raining after a school day, and Zim discovers that water has a harmful effect on his alien skin. Dib also learns this and over the weekend he constructs an automatic water bomb firing weapon. Zim realizes he must defend himself and he discovers that paste protects his skin from the harmful effects of water. On Monday morning, Dib turns up at school with his weapon but Zim is nowhere to be found. Zim is in fact in space with his own water bomb weapon. The device sucks up all the water from the planet and puts it into a water bomb of his own, which he subsequently drops onto Dib.¹⁰ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Career Day" || Rob Hummel || 2001-05-04 || 06A |- |colspan="5"|It's career day at school and Dib has been paired with a paranormal investigator "Bill" while Zim goes to work at a fast food restaurant called McMeaty's. However, after discovering Zim is moulting due to a planetary equinox, Dib tries to convince his new mentor to help him expose Zim. The expert however is not interested and Dib must trick him into going to the restaurant. "Bill" is distracted and fails to see Zim's molt.¹¹ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Battle-Dib" || Jhonen Vasquez & Eric Trueheart|| 2001-05-04 || 06B |- |colspan="5"|Dib desires to do a presentation for a meeting of the Swollen Eyeballs, a secret society he is a member of. The society requires that he must have a permission slip signed by his father, Professor Membrane before he can do this though. Professor Membrane has a television show and must endure various trials (including a parody of the Thunderdome) to gain access to his father. Dib fails the trials, but is successful in getting his father's signature. However, he cannot do the presentation as he had lost his files.¹² This is one of three episodes to not feature Zim. |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Planet Jackers" || Rob Hummel & Jhonen Vasquez || 2001-08-31 || 07A |- |colspan="5"|The Earth's gravity starts to fluctuate and Zim attempts to find out why. He discovers that the planet is being stolen by two thieves who intend on using the Earth as fuel for their dying sun. After failing to persuade them to leave the planet for his conquest, Zim goes about stealing the planet back and is eventually successful. The citizens of Earth have no idea what was happening and the Planet Jackers never realize that they lost the Earth.¹³ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy" || Eric Trueheart || 2001-08-24 || 07B |- |colspan="5"|By using a time portal device, Zim finds that sending a series of rubber piggies back into the past stops Dib from meddling with his plans in the future. With each pig sent back to certain points in time, Dib becomes weaker and weaker. After Zim thinks he has killed Dib in the past, it becomes clear that Dib had been enhanced with a life supporting, super strong exo-skeleton. With each pig that Zim now sends back Dib only gets more powerful. To stop this from happening, Zim sends a pig back to himself with the message not to use the portal device.¹⁴ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Rise of the Zitboy" || Frank Conniff & Roman Dirge || 2001-08-31 || 08A |- |colspan="5"|Zim reacts to being covered in grease by getting a zit. After the Zit grows he discovers that its motion has hypnotic powers. Zim uses this hypnotic pimple to gain control of the school children, and then forces Dib into revealing a weakness in Zim's base defenses. At that point the pimple grows even further and explodes; Zim then leaves to reinforce his base's defenses to remove the weakness, while Dib is forced to clean up the mess.¹⁵ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain" || Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel || 2001-08-24 || 08B |- |colspan="5"|During maintenance of Zim's underground base, GIR's brain is accidentally put into the house's operating system. Zim cannot control GIR and attempts various methods at getting control of the house back. Eventually GIR decides he wants tacos and the house transforms into a dog shape. The house, with Zim inside then travels in full view to the restaurant to collect food. When discovering that he no longer has a mouth to eat the food, GIR lets Zim rectify the situation.¹⁶ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"A Room with a Moose" || Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel || 2001-08-17 || 09A |- |colspan="5"|After being ridiculed and generally treated badly by his schoolmates, Zim decides that he will get rid of them. To do this he tricks the class into thinking they're going on a field trip, but in reality the school bus is heading for an inter dimensional portal, with the end being a room containing a moose. On the bus, Dib discovers Zim's plan and is able to force the bus to enter a portal back to Earth.¹⁷ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Hamstergeddon" || Eric Trueheart || 2001-08-17 || 09B |- |colspan="5"|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 a huge size and go on a city wide rampage. Though not exactly what Zim planned, he lets this happen because the city is being destroyed anyway. The hamster then starts heading towards Zim's base and fearing destruction of the base and discovery by the humans, Zim uses his alien technology to stop the hamster.¹⁸ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Plague of Babies" || Rob Hummel || 2001-09-07 || 10A |- |colspan="5"|Zim and GIR return from a mission, but Zim fears that he has been seen out of disguise by a human baby. He then discovers that aliens who look like babies are living on Earth. When they decide to take Zim's ship to return to their home world, Zim must fend off their attack and leave them stranded on Earth forever.¹⁹ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Bloaty's Pizza Hog" || Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel || 2001-09-07 || 10B |- |colspan="5"|Dib is kidnapped by Zim and taken to a station orbiting Earth for experimentation. Gaz is forced to go to save him so as to be in time for a rare family dinner at her favorite restaurant. Gaz uses Zim's spaceships to return Dib back to Earth where they crash land into the restaurant.²⁰ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Door to Door" || Eric Trueheart & Courtney Lilly || 2002-03-29 || 11A |- |colspan="5"|The school is having a fund raising door to door candy sale with the promise of a mystery prize for the student who sells the most candy. Intrigued about what the prize could be, Zim attempts to sell as much candy as possible. Initially he fails, but he then utilizes virtual torture and destruction in order and sells a huge quantity of the candy bars. He wins the prize only to find it is nothing and was just a form of motivation to raise funds.²¹

Door to Door originally contained a scene showing the destruction of Earth, in which you can see a burning Statue Of Liberty. This was seen as inappropriate after the September 11, 2001 attacks and so the scene was altered.^{citation needed} |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"FBI Warning of Doom" || Frank Conniff & Jhonen Vasquez || 2002-03-29 || 11B |- |colspan="5"|GIR is watching a rented movie and Zim sees the FBI piracy warning on it. The rental store calls to demand that the movie be returned as it is very over due, but Zim fears that his mission is threatened unless he returns the movie immediately. He returns to the mall and breaks in so he can return the disc into the return slot, but mall security discovers him and so he battles through to get the DVD returned.²² |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Bolognius Maximus" || Jhonen Vasquez || 2001-09-21 || 12A |- |colspan="5"|Dib throws bologna during the lunch break at school, which then hurts Zim's skin, so as revenge Zim places a thumbtack on Dib's chair, which he then sits on. The next day Dib discovers that he smells like meat and is ridiculed by the other children, and at that point Zim informs Dib that his vengeance is complete. Dib discovers that Zim has infected him with a virus that is altering his DNA into that of bologna. As revenge he infects Zim with the same virus and as they start turning into sausages, they both work together to try and find a cure, but fail and hide in a deserted house.²³ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Game Slave 2" || Eric Trueheart & Jhonen Vasquez || 2001-09-21 || 12B |- |colspan="5"|Gaz is in line for a newly released hand-held games console when the person behind her tricks the salesperson into giving the final console to him. Gaz is on the trail of this video game fan boy and pursues him to his home where she removes the batteries. Desperate for batteries so he can save his game, the boy heads to the shopping mall. While in the elevator Gaz scares him into handing over the console. She then puts some batteries into it and continues playing.²⁴ This episode is one of three episodes not to feature Zim.

The ending of this was quickly tacked onto the episode because Vasquez says that Nickelodeon protested against killing Iggins. It took several meetings before this ending became a reality. Vasquez claims that Nickelodeon protested, claiming that Vasquez was mocking them with the 'flying away' concept²⁵. The fictional console Game Slave 2 was originally going to be called the Game Slave Advance. Because of complaints from Nintendo that the name sounded too much like the newly released system at the time, Game Boy Advance, the name was changed.²⁶ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Battle of the Planets" || Jhonen Vasquez || 2002-04-05 || 13 |- |colspan="5"|Zim is surveying the other planets in the solar system and discovers that Mars has actually been converted into a space vehicle by the previous inhabitants of the planet. Zim decides to use the planet to crush all the lifeforms on Earth, but Dib discovers his plan and attempts to stop him. Dib uses Mercury that has also been converted to a vehicle, and the two use the planets to battle each other in space. Zim, attempting to lose Dib goes into the asteroid belt but completely loses control. Dib, who thinks he's won, then realises that GIR had destroyed all his evidence recording equipment.²⁷ This is the third double-length episode of Invader Zim. This episode was planned to be the first season finale until Nickelodeon ordered seven extra episodes for the season.²⁸ This episode was voted one of the Top 5 Best Invader Zim episodes by Toyfare.²⁹ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Mysterious Mysteries" || Courtney Lilly & Rob Hummel || 2002-03-22 || 14A |- |colspan="5"| 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 version story, which is then performed in reconstructions on the show for the benefit of the viewer. The presenter of the show decides that everyone is crazy and tells the viewers that nobody will ever know what truly what happened in the video, although even going kinda mental himself, it somewhat received strong ratings and he's not fired. .³⁰ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Abducted" || Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel || 2002-04-12 || 14B |- |colspan="5"|Zim and GIR are abducted by two aliens who think of them as human and dog specimens. Zim immediately informs the aliens that he is not human and GIR is not a dog, but they don't believe him as they are stupid. Escaping is not difficult, as the aliens have only managed to stop one specimen from escaping in the past. Zim and GIR escape the aliens and return to the base.³¹ The aliens in this episode were previously featured in Jhonen Vasquez' Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee!. Their voices were provided by Brian George and Jim Wise. |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Hobo 13" || Eric Trueheart & Danielle Koenig || 2002-07-12 || 15A |- |colspan="5"|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. The instructor who is appalled at how Zim has acted, decides to take Zim on in a fight, but Zim manages to beat him by stealing the power from his exo-skeleton.³² |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Future Dib" || Rob Hummel || 2002-03-22 || 15B |- |colspan="5"|Professor Membrane constructs an energy creating device and Zim gets the idea to sabotage it to destroy the world. Dib realises that he must stop Zim but during his preparations he discovers a version of himself who is beaten up and hurt laying in his bed. The version tells Dib that he is from the future and he needs his help to stop Zim as he's too weak. So Dib goes to where future Dib told him to go but it is a trap set by Zim, and the future Dib is in fact a robot controlled by Zim. Dib is stuck in a cage while future Dib goes to the starting of the energy device to destroy it. Gaz is annoyed by Dib and beats him up, preventing him from causing the destruction. She then realises he is a robot after one of its robotic eyes pops out.³³ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom" || Jhonen Vasquez & Rob Hummel || 2001-10-26 || 16 |- |colspan="5"|Dib is doing experiments with is father's equipment until it goes wrong. Dib now starts passing to and from an alternate dimension where everything is evil. He manages to force Zim to come into the dimension with him. It is revealed that Dib's brain is the only portal out of the dimension and all the evil creatures within it want to go through it. Zim saves Dib so that he can get through the portal but he then leaves Dib to the monsters. The monsters have a look through the portal but turn back as they are disgusted by the sight of GIR eating candy.³⁴ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot" || Roman Dirge & Eric Trueheart || 2002-04-12 || 17A |- |colspan="5"|Frustrated at how people see paranormal science, Dib sets out to disprove the urban legend of the Chickenfoot, who is actually a man stuck inside a chicken costume. The zipper on the costume got stuck after a microwave exploded at a chicken restaurant. Dib manages to unstick the zipper and remove the suit, but now people are suggesting that all legends, even ones that Dib believes in, are false.³⁵ This is one of three episodes not to feature Zim. |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff" || Eric Trueheart || 2002-05-24 || 17B |- |colspan="5"|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. GIR escapes to gain more knowledge of the humans so that he can complete the mission, but Zim follows him and manages to put him back into his normal, broken mode.³⁶ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Lice" || Rob Hummel || 2002-04-26 || 18A |- |colspan="5"|There is an infestation of headlice at the school and so a lice hunter comes to investigate the huge outbreak. She quarantines the entire school and Dib believes she is crazy, but it is revealed that there is a giant lice queen beneath the school. The lice hunter soon discovers that the only ones who are immune to the infestation is Zim, and uses Zim's immunity to fight the lice queen in a parody of Aliens.³⁷ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Walk for your Lives" || Eric Trueheart || 2002-09-28 || 18B |- |colspan="5"|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. Zim decides that the explosion needs to be put into the city cesspit to stop it from exploding and destroying his base. After some frustration and against the advice of GIR and the computer, Zim decides to throw Dib into the explosion to cause it to speed up. The explosion then explodes at normal speed.³⁸ This episode was originally intended to air alongside Hobo 13. |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom" || Jhonen Vasquez & Eric Trueheart || 2002-05-24 || 19A |- |colspan="5"|Zim is hit by a muffin during the school lunchbreak and suspects it is Dib, but he cannot know for sure. That night, in a dream, Dib is visited by aliens and they say they have given him special powers. Dib then uses these powers to capture Zim. 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. He then proceeds to throw his own muffin at Dib.³⁹ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Megadoomer" || Roman Dirge, Eric Trueheart, & Jhonen Vasquez || 2002-04-26 || 19B |- |colspan="5"|Due to an angry prisoner who sorts packages, Zim is accidentally shipped a high-powered robot with a cloaking device and he immediately heads off to destroy Dib with it. The robot does not come with batteries so every few Blocks, the machine has to be plugged into a new power outlet to stay cloaked. What's more is that the robot is cloaked, but Zim inside is not, making him visible for everyone to see. When he gets to Dib's house the cloak fails and he destroys the robot so Dib cannot get any pictures of it.⁴⁰ |- |- style="background-color: #ffccff;" | |"Tak: The Hideous New Girl" || Jhonen Vasquez & Eric Trueheart || 2002-05-10 || 20 |- |colspan="5"|A pretty new girl, Tak, joins the class and is instantly beloved by all the other children. Zim thinks she's in love with him until she reveals that she's Irken and has come to destroy Earth to impress the Tallest and take his mission. Zim and Dib both get into her base to stop her from destroying the world. Zim distracts her in his spaceship while Dib turns off the world destroying machine. GIR and Gaz manage to wreak havoc remotely.⁴¹ Intended to be the season finale, it was aired early.^{citation needed} |}

Season one

The First season of invader zim premiring in 2000,june the 18th.There is,currently,a second season.

Unfinished episodes

Due to the cancellation of the show mid season, several episodes were not completed and were left at various points in the production process.

DVD release

For more details on this topic, see Invader Zim merchandise.

All 27 episodes of the completed Invader ZIM were released on DVD, along with the pilot, an alternate cut of The Most Horrible X-mas Ever, and audio from seven of the unfinished episodes.

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