At the start of the episode, Zim is sitting in the observatory checking up on the progress of the other Invaders. As he tries to check up on Skutch, the screen goes all static. Zim yells for GIR, who hasn't done anything, and is quite scared that something is wrong and it isn't his fault. As Zim examines the static on the screen, trying to remember why it's familiar to him, a sudden earthquake hits, destroying the telescope. Now, Zim is walking around town in search of another telescope to confirm his suspicions. He finds Dib's telescope, and with GIR's prodding decides to go try to use it. He rings the doorbell, and knocks Dib backwards when he answers the door. Their ensuing verbal exchange ends with Zim running out of the house screaming like a monkey, and Dib getting very melodramatic about saving the Earth. With no telescope, Zim decides to take the voot cruiser out to investigate. As they fly off, the G-Force Compensators seem to have not been fixed properly, so Zim and GIR are pinned to their seats until the cruiser hits a giant TV screen. Zim screws his eyeball back in, and begins screaming once he sees what they hit. Zim explains to GIR about the Planet Jackers: A race whose home world orbits a dying sun, and throws other planets into their sun "like firewood" to keep it from burning out.
Utilizing an exit "for Planet Jacker use only," Zim escapes the bubble, and locates the ship towing the planet. An exchange between a very angry Zim and a very calm Nik results only with Zim getting shot off into space by one of the ship's thrusters. So Zim enacts his amazing plan: Hit the coupling until it breaks off. All this noise makes Oog-ah very upset, so he comes out and tells Zim to stop. After being commanded to release the planet, Ooh-Ah informs Zim that the only way to undo the coupling is with a key, and that Zim would have to get it from him. Zim leaps at Oog-ah with his spider legs twice. The first time, Oog-ah simply sidesteps him. The second time, Oog-ah grabs hold of Zim's spider legs, spins him a bit, then breaks them with a flick of his wrist. Zim flys off into space, calling for GIR to come catch him. GIR does (with the windshield), and Zim enacts his next plan. The side pods of the voot cruiser shall cut through the shell as Zim (now in snazzy spacesuit) distracts the Planet Jackers. Again, Oog-ah comes out, and he and Zim leap at one another, screaming their battle cries. Zim ends up magnetically anchored via his shoes to the coupling, with Oog-ah using him as a punching bag. Next we know, Oog-ah is stepping on Zim's head, and GIR calls to Zim that the pods are done cutting. Zim tells Ooh-Ah that he's through with him, and flies off. Dib looks outside to see a very strange sun in the night sky, and then the moon hits the ocean. Sweet. The End.
Humor: 6
I rather enjoyed the humor in this episode. Much of it wasn't gross-out or slapstick humor, but rather "that's funny!" humor. Stuff such as Nik's "I have a better idea: Why don't we take this planet, and you go doom a different one?" as well as Zim's "I think I'm through with you," are incredibly amusing. Plus, even though he wasn't too involved with the episode, Dib did a very good job being funny in the episode. You gotta love the monkey face he makes right before he pokes Zim in the eye with the Membrane lamp.
Plot: 6
I'm gonna be nice and gracious with the Plot score here. I'm going to ignore the total "lalalalalalala I can't hear you!" given to the laws of physics (especially the small ship towing the giant planet). The script was well written, a nifty fact of the Irken-Planet Jacker treaty was given, and the concept (like much of Zim!) is a quite unique one. It's just a nicely written episode, giving us plenty of substance and good dialogue.
Zimmyness: 7
Everybody acted quite like themselves in this episode. Zim puts out some really nice quotes in this episode "Imagine the entire armada showing up and the entire planet is missing!" coupled with "Yes, but this is something else entirely..." are some pretty good ones. I also really think GIR was well done in this episode, even if his role was pretty minor.
Overall: 7
This episode rocked. The sequence with Zim flying to the tow ship (when he's by the coupling) is awesome, and I just love the visuals sprinkled through the whole thing. The concept behind the Planet Jackers themselves is pretty cool too. What can I say? Some episodes have it, and this episode certainly does. Best quote: "You haven't touched it? Something is broken and it's not your fault?" "I know, I'm scared too."
Again, we get to see a bit of Professor Membrane's show: Probing the Membrane of Science. On the segment of the show we get to see, a kid in the audience asks if they could go back into time to stop Breakfast Chunks Cereal from ever being invented. Membrane says that this is indeed possible through the use of a space-time object replacement device. He demonstrates this by having the lab guys send a giant squid into the past to replace the grain that Walton Chunky got the idea for Breakfast Chunks for. However, Membrane also warns of the terrible consequences of doing this: Breakfast Squids (we get to see a cool clip where the squid attacks the kid who had been wrangling with a breakfast chunk before), and a giant fish in a bear suit rampaging through Tokyo! Membrane ends the show segment by stating that anyone who would use such a device is a complete moron. Cue Zim's "GIR! The space-time object replacement device is ready!"
Zim tries and fails to send a Hunter Destroyer Machine into the past to kill Dib as a three-year-old. When the computer says that the HDM isn't compatible with the temporal field, Zim gets angry, grabs GIR's rubber piggy, and chucks it at the HDM. It bounces off the machine and into the portal, and is accepted by the portal. It then goes on to replace Dib's tricycle, causing him to fly into a tree. Cut to Dib in the present time. Suddenly, he loses some teeth, sounds funny, and has a metal hooky clawy hand thingy. Zim has GIR fetch him another pig, and now replaces a hover helmet with it. Of course, Dib is using the helmet, and is like forty feet in the air, at least. Back in the real world, Dib loses even more teeth, and how has tubes sticking out of his neck and into a breathing thing on his back. Plus, he's changed from wanting to spy on Zim, to wanting to leave a nasty note on his door. Gaz hushes him so she can watch the bats on TV eat the cow, and Dib walks off to bother Zim. Zim replaces a camera Dib was using to videotape a very hairy kid. This startles Dib, causing him to fall down very far, and shatter his breathing apparatus. In the real world, Dib gets even more hurt, and encounters GIR in front of Zim's house. Both are startled, and GIR screams and runs off, leaving his pig on the ground. Dib sees this, and realizes that Zim is somehow behind the piggies, and starts pathetically pounding at Zim's door. Back in the past, Zim finishes his filthy evil by replacing the defibrillator pads being used by a paramedic to revive Dib with some piggies. Dib's history, heartbeat, and lifeline lines all flat line, and Zim sips a cocktail as he goes upstairs. Of course, 'twas not meant to be. Membrane ends up making Dib the Mega Boy 3000 fusion powered titanium exoskeleton, giving him the strength of 10,000 little boys. Zim freaks as Dib breaks into the house, ignoring the laser blasts by the gnomes, and starts tossing piggies into the portal like a crazy person. This just adds a vast array of weaponry to the Mega Boy 3000, and GIR gets very freaked out. Dib unleashes all his missiles, and GIR screams and runs downstairs with the last piggy. Zim decides that his only hope is to keep himself from ever using the time machine, so he writes a message down on the piggy and sends it back in time. Suddenly, the Mega Boy is gone, and the gnomes drag Dib off and start beating him up off-screen. GIR notes that "It's like none of it ever happened..." and asks where the last piggy went. Cue Zim holding his brain and drooling like a moron, with a piggy inside his head that says "Zim, don't use the time machine. Love, Zim."
Humor: 4
A lot of this episode is freaky, creepy, and downright disturbing. However, I can't totally annihilate its Humor score, because there is some awesome stuff in there. Membrane's show was pretty much 100% funny; Zim's "GIR! The temporal object displacement device is ready!" was right on cue; the paramedic's "Come on kid! If I lose one more patient today, I'm gonna get written up!"; and the thought of the gnomes beating Dib up are all hilarious. Plus, I like the "Dib! Shhhhhh! They're going to show the bats eating a cow!". Still, these are the exception rather than the norm, so the episode's humor score suffers.
Plot: 9
This plot really is quite exceptional. Another excellent episode concept, and a well-written script. I don't see any major plot holes (well, aside from the time travel paradox that GIR points out). Events progress incredibly well, and not just for the sake of their happening. Really, another excellent writing job.
Zimmyness: 8
So zimmy, you can't believe it! It gets pretty danged scary, and I'd have to say that GIR is perfect in this episode. You will not find an episode where GIR acts any cooler than he does in Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy. Gaz plays good backup as always in the scenes showing Dib in the current world, and Membrane is still his utterly awesome self (as opposed to the stupid, self-mocking self he becomes later in the series).
Overall: 10
This episode has everything you can really ask for. The only thing that wasn't totally awesome was the sag in the coolness during the Walton Chunky portion of Membrane's show. Aside from that, the entire episode is totally sweet. The ending is perfect, and the flat line sound was utilized perfectly when Dib "died" and it was quite dramatic when his heart started beating again. Really, just the whole part from the paramedic all the way to GIR getting back down to the basement was a totally awesome scene. Tremendous work. In fact, if I ever do have a "coolest scene" competition, it's definitely getting nominated. Still, I think the entire Zim team did an excellent job on this episode. I salute you all!
At the start of the episode, Zim is experimenting with chickens. He starts on rotating really fast, then it gets launched towards the sun. He's about to launch the chicken from the second tube (without rotation) when his computer warns him of a security breach. The next thing we see is a disguised Zim opening his front door, and looking outside. There's a big ceramic squirrel shuffling around (and it has eye holes at its neck...). Zim seems aware that something is wrong, but he can't figure it out. He turns around, watching the squirrel in the reflection of a gnome's eye. When the squirrel moves, Zim orders the gnomes to capture it. They pick it up and drop it, revealing none other than Dib. Dib ends up running off telling Zim that he needs to tighten his security, and Zim screams that his defense is impenetrable, while a Bloaty's Pizza Hog delivery boy walks up and delivers GIR's pizza. GIR gets down to munching loudly on his pizza after Zim finishing musing about how there perhaps is a flaw in his defenses. When GIR finishes, he jumps up and starts hugging Zim, with pizza cheese still oozing around on his face. Zim manages to force GIR off him, and demands "cleansing chalk." GIR gives him some, and Zim hurriedly scrubs himself with it. After quite a bit of scrubbing, the cheese is still there, and Zim unrolls the bacon in his hand. He then notices a bubble on his face, and GIR shouts "You got a pimple!" When Zim asks what a pimple is, GIR turns on the TV, and a commercial for acne blast plays. When Zim states that he needs to get some Acne Blast, GIR says that he has some, pops a tube out of his chest, and begins sucking the Acne Blast out of the tube. Zim grabs it from him and pokes his pimple with it a couple times, until the pimple enlarges to absorb the tube. Zim shouts that it made it worse, but GIR is nowhere around to be yelled at... He's swimming around in the pimple, which has grown still larger! GIR hops out, still sucking on the tube, and Zim sits down to whine. He hears a squeaky marker sound, and turns to find that GIR has drawn a face on his pimple!
What transpires from here is quite odd (but that's why we love everyone who wrote for Zim!). Zim yells for GIR to stop, and GIR's eyes get a hypnotic look as he (slowly and hypnotizedally [no, it's not a word]) says that he'll obey. Zim tests out this obedience, until he notices GIR's eyes and concludes that the pimple has hypnotized him. As he talks about its hypnotic powers, it begins to hypnotize him as well. Zim shakes it off, and decides to try it out on humans, after he disguises it (using an outfit out of a box labeled "Gears, Circuits, Headless Bodies"). We next see Zim at skool, and he "ambushes" Peyoppi as she plays hopscotch, hypnotizing her and getting her to follow him. Next comes Mary, then all the kids playing on the jungle gym. Dib notices the procession of kids following Zim with swirly eyes, and knows Zim is up to something. He tries to warn Gaz, but all she is interested in is reading "Punch Club." Zim notices her sitting on the steps, and tries to hypnotize her, but he's no match for her incredible apathy. Zim gives up and takes the procession to Ms.Bitters' room for interrogation. Dib breaks in and shouts for everyone not to look at Zim's zit, and a kid screams out "Pustulio rocks!" Zim orders Torque to hold Dib, and Torque jumps at Dib with incredible speed, tackling him to the ground. Knowing Zim's about to try to hypnotize him, Dib says that he won't be hypnotized, and shuts his eyes. And here comes the perfect quote set. DIB: "You can't make me look! I'll just shut my eyes." ZIM: "Oh, you'll open them. You have to breathe some time." DIB: "No I, wait... What do eyes have to do with breathing?" And so ensues a battle of wills that ends with Dib telling Zim that there's a hole in his gnome field. Right after that, Pustulio starts expanding at a rapid rate, until it's many times larger than Zim's head. It then pops, leading to a pretty big explosion and as much pressure as a fire hos. Dib's lying on his back at this point, and spits up some of the pus. Zim runs off to plant more lawn gnomes, and Peyoppi asks "What happened?" Dib gets up, and Ms.Bitters appears behind him, telling him he can't leave until he's cleaned up the (very large) mess. She then hands him a tiny piece of sponge. He sees a bigger piece floating by, and asks if he can use it instead. Ms.Bitters just says "no," and leaves. Ha.
Humor: 5
There was some good humor in this one, but it wasn't awesome humor. I love the exchange between Zim and Dib about eyes and breathing (see summary), and the "I'm in pain." "It is as Pustulio wishes." "Does Pustulio wish for me to pop my spine back into place?" "Yes, very well." Still, I feel that the entire episode was just average for humor.
Plot: 5
You know what? I'm not even going to ask who came up with the premise "Zim gets a pimple that he uses to mind control skool children." Weird as it is though, it was done pretty well, and provided yet another off the wall episode of Zim. Nothing is exceptional here, but it definitely makes the cut.
Zimmyness: 6
There's just something particularly Zimmy about such a weird, strange plot concept. The whole thing about bacon in the soap fits in with Zim's randomness, without forcing it to be overly stupid, and without hijacking the episode (as goofy things are so often capable of doing).
Overall: 5
I can't say this is an "oober" episode, but it's certainly a good one. You should all know the drill by now: A good solid episode that doesn't disappoint the viewer, and has some pretty good moments.
As the episode opens, Zim is speaking about how he recently fixed some glitches in his security system, and that the base is now impenetrable. Just as he finishes saying this, a kid wanders into the living room, and his mom walks in after him and takes him with her. Neither of them notice Zim at all, even though he's in plain sight, undisguised, and communicating with the Tallest. Zim recruits GIR (bad choice) to assist him in replacing the house's AI brain. GIR's job will be to watch the download conduit (to get him to pay attention to it, he tells him to pretend it's a taco). GIR goes into duty mode and begins watching the beam, and Zim goes to put the new brain in. However, GIR loses interest and begins playing with a rubber moose. It slips, and falls underneath the data beam. As Zim replaces the brain, the beam is passing through GIR's head, and GIR is downloaded into the house. Zim demands to know what's wrong, and notes that GIR is just standing there. He taps GIR's lifeless body, and it falls to the ground. He drags GIR off, not knowing what has happened, and tells the elevator to take him to the equipment room. However, nothing happens, and GIR tells him to say please. Zim realizes that GIR is in control of the house when one of the hands begins playing with the moose toy. Zim tells GIR to take him to the equipment room because their defenses are down, but GIR just gets bored and begins squeezing Zim with the robot hand. Zim manages to wriggle out, and break into the elevator just before the hands get him again. GIR is playing and humming along to elevator music, and tells Zim to dance. At first Zim refuses, but he eventually relents, and GIR sends him rocketing to the surface.
Zim flies out of the toilet, breaking the ceiling and smashing his head in the toilet bowl. He tries to chastise GIR for sending him too far, but GIR decides to play with the machinery in the kitchen. He decides to cheer Zim up with TV, who decides to wear GIR down by out-waiting him. A year later, the madness has finally caused Zim to break down, and he pleads with GIR to take him to the equipment room. Ignoring him, GIR focuses on a Krazy Taco commercial, shouts "Must obey the taco man!", and begins uprooting the house from the base. GIR shakes dirt off of himself (hitting two dudes walking the Madness Dog), and begins charging down the street towards the Krazy Taco. He smashes the car of this one dude yammering into the phone (but apparently, he never dialed a number after picking up), who proceeds to dial 911, and calmly report a giant house flying out of the sky and destroying his car. He hangs up, still looking calm. After a couple more seconds of no movement, he begins screaming his head off. A cop car is alerted to a mobile home rampaging through the downtown area, and we see a bunch of cars chasing after GIR. In the house, Zim is still pleading with GIR (who decides to get a giant burrito in addition to his tacos). GIR smashes a gas truck, and knocks a light off a light post, setting the gas on fire, making all the cops slam on their brakes. The cool old cop gets out of his car, and says his line ("GET HIM!" if you can't remember). Now, at the Krazy Taco, GIR ends up ordering two large tacos, a burrito, and a large Classic Poop. The guy at the window is the second human in the episode to see Zim without his disguise and not care, and Zim stuffs a wad of bills in the dude's face, and the guy doesn't react at all. Zim tells GIR that he can only have the tacos if he takes them back to the base. All the cops pile up at the entrance to the Krazy Taco, and sit there just looking at the house. GIR then pops some rockets out of the back of the house, smashes into the middle of the cops, and runs off with just three cars chasing him (one of which is the awesome old dude). GIR jumps over the City Center Mall, and the other three cop cars crash into it. Finally, we see GIR walking over a street full of little craters, and putting the house back over the base, and back to normal. GIR tries to stuff a taco into his mouth; however, he can't find his mouth. So, he agrees to cooperate with Zim. Zim then reports back in to the Tallest, and GIR sits in the background with a Krazy Taco hat eating tacos. Finally, the episode ends with the dude in the building next to Zim's house sitting in his chair with a metal tentacle stuck to his head. The tentacle then comes off his head, and rushes at the camera.
Humor: 6
I liked the humor in this episode. "Pretend it's a taco," the guy pretending to talk on the phone, and pretty much everything GIR said or did. This is probably the best episode for anyone who loves it when GIR, since there's such a large amount of GIRish nonsense in the form of quotable quotes ("I love the little tacos. I love them goooood." for example). Also, the cops are funny, funny guys. "Must be one 'a them new ones."
Plot: 4
Meh... Not so much. The story is pretty well written, but it comes off as being a bit far-fetched. Even though a lot of Zim episode are quite odd and impossible in their premise, those episodes are normally written so it seems normal. It's not a huge amount of seeming impossibility, but the "One year later" seemed gratuitous and generally n00Bed the scene. Aside from that, I feel there's somewhat of a story lag, where the episode doesn't get cool until after GIR uproots. Since the boredom is the script's fault, this hurts the plot score.
Zimmyness: 4
Something seems off about the episode. GIR acts perfect, but the way the episode plays out seriously throws off the typical groove of the standard Invader Zim episode. Meh.
Overall: 5
Another standard, enjoyable episode. There isn't really much to say here. The humor is pretty good, but the concept of the episode makes it feel weird, even with pretty good writing. Still, I can't say I hate the episode, because I enjoyed watching it.
As the episode opens, we see Zim sitting there in his little pod (whatever it's called...) watching videos of various mean things the skool children have done to him in the past. In order, he's been pegged in a game of catch, had someone do the eye-pulling thing with a tongue-stick (what the HECK is that called?), been pushed, been tripped, been laughed at when ice cream tasted terrible, been hit in the head with mashed potatoes (by Dib), wrapped to a tetherball pole (also by Dib), and had a bucket of water poured on him (yep... Dib). Then after Zim vows that Dib won't find out everything about him, we go to Ms.Bitters' room, with Ms.Bitters giving another one of her famous lectures. Dib notes that Zim has been in the bathroom for awhile, but Ms.Bitters doesn't care. Zim shows up (after three hours in the bathroom), and then GIR comes over the intercom pretending to be the new announcer. He announces that everyone in Ms.Bitters' room except Zim is going on a surprise mandatory field trip to a special place made entirely of food. GIR starts going crazy, and Zim cuts him off, and the children all excitedly leave, while Zim remains to be quizzed over the copyright information in his textbook. Zim takes his final restroom break for the school year, and goes and retrieves GIR (still bustin' out his rhythm). The two teleport away to begin phase two, and the machine GIR was using to cut into the intercom self-destructs (very much freaking Duh, who was going to the bathroom). Next, we're on the bus, where it seems that Zim is looping a video of a dog walking along on the sidewalk. When Dib notes that it's the same dog they've passed four or five times, several kids get mad at him, and Dib goes to talk to the driver.
Up front, there is no video, and you can see that the bus is driving to the city outskirts. The robot driver turns around and tells Dib to go back to his seat (and to keep his arms and legs inside the bus). When Dib starts to ask him something, the robot's face pops apart to reveal a monitor displaying Zim, who begins to tell him about his plan. The bus begins to launch into space, and the two talk for a bit (blah blah blah), and then they enter a wormhole (and Dib starts to find Zim's plan to be less stupid). Zim begins going over the other wormholes he considered (dimensions of pure itching, and pure dookie). However, Zim informs Dib that the end of the wormhole he's flying towards contains a room with a moose. Dib isn't concerned (though since he was expecting to be scared, he screamed for a bit until he realized what Zim said). Zim is surprised that Dib isn't scared, and launches some walnuts at the moose to demonstrate. The moose crunches on them, and though I didn't find the moose any scarier, Dib ended up fleeing in fear. As Dib tries to tell the skool kids about their moosey fate, he gets a REALLY big wedgie. He goes to use his laptop to chart the course of the wormhole, and finds that there's a fork in the wormhole that can lead them to either the moose, or Earth. Dib has to go through a major moment to decide whether or not he should save himself (and the other kids in the process), or let them all get munched on by the moose. The kids laugh at him for talking to himself, and it seems that Dib's made up his mind. However, Dib remembers Zim's words ("My mission might not be as exciting without you around to annoy me. But it will be more... Pleasant."). Dib then makes up his mind to save the bus of skool kids, so he can survive to save Earth. He tries to get them all to move to his side of the bus to tilt the bus to the right, and towards Earth. The kids don't bite, however, because that would put them closer to Dib (which isn't cool). Zim is watching this all transpire on his monitor, and GIR changes the channel to some cartoon. Zim quickly changes back, and Dib ends up sighing and sitting with all the other kids. Once he does this, each and every one of them filter over to the other side of the bus, which tips to the right and towards Earth. Everyone gets off, complaining about how dumb the fieldtrip was (though it's not as stupid as Dib, they decide). Dib triumphantly hops off the bus, smelling the sweet scent of victory, and Zim starts banging his fists on the table, screaming that the moose has failed him. GIR joins him in the banging of fists, until Zim has descended out of sight on his little elevator. Then GIR stops, and turns his cartoons back on.
Humor: 5
Again, just not a hilarious episode. Most of the episode was plot driven, rather than gag driven, so the humor takes a secondary role. Still, it plays backup well, keeping the episode lighter than others (*cough* Dark Harvest and Bestest Friend *cough*). I especially like the part from Zim returning from the bathroom, to the part where Zim and GIR teleport away as Zim shouts "LEAVE NO EVIDENCE!" and the microphone thingie blows up.
Plot: 6
For all its weirdness, this episode strikes me as being a bit more well written than the average episode. It was driven entirely by the characters interacting (as opposed to awesome action sequences that other Zim episodes toss in), and I think I just got a kick out of watching Dib and his classmates go at one another. And as always, the episode is a very unusual concept (though not quite as off the wall of some Zim episodes can get).
Zimmyness: 6
This episode shows quite well how everybody feels about Zim and Dib. They're both outcasts, and they both hate each other as well. Plus, the ending to the episode is just beautiful. Heh heh. GIR is very deserving of the title "Most popular Invader Zim character."
Overall: 6
All in all, this episode is a bit better than the standard. As I stated in Zimmyness, it's pretty neat so see how Zim, Dib, and the skool kids all interact. Also, the writing is just nice, and what's not to love about GIR?
As this episode opens up, Ms.Bitters is standing behind a desk, on which sits a large black box with a ticking electronic counter. It looks like a time bomb, and all the kids are nervous (hiding behind desks and whatnot). Ms.Bitters presses a button on the box, causing it to open (jettisoning its sides into the wall). Once the smoke clears, we see the pretty little creature within (Class pet; Hamster class; Name: Peepi), who Ms.Bitters explains was issued to them by order of the School Board's Program to Reduce Misery Among School Children. Everybody starts talking about how cute Peepi is (I love Zita's voice there), and it goes over to the corner of his cage, causing Zim to run screaming. Dib is, of course, the only one who notices the weirdness of this, and explains to Zim that humans find hamsters cute. Zim fantasizes about riding a giant Peepi, and frying the humans while they bow before him (since they're hypnotized by Peepi). Oh look, Peepi is running on his exercise wheel (Ms.Bitters makes a funny remark comparing it to our "nightmarish corporate system"), isn't it cute? Cut to nighttime. The voot cruiser is parked outside, and we see a cool scene of Zim messing with a frightened Peepi. The next day in class, Peepi is getting very big (Dib says he's 3x his normal size, but he looks more like 5x the dimensions [that would be 25x the overall size]). Peepi breaks out of the classroom, knocking over some desks, busting a hole in the wall, and biting a section out of the chain-link fence (which causes him to grow). He gets up on his hind-legs, and waddles across the street, causing some havoc inside a building. Zim keeps calling him (kinda to heel, I guess), and Dib asks if Zim has anything to confess (of course, Zim has no part in this whatsoever). Inside the WHUH news studio, the anchorman gives a report about the giant hamster ravaging the city. The little picture-in-picture showing Peepi cuts to the outside of the studio, and Peepi raises his foot to step on it. Then, Peepi's foot comes crashing through, and the anchor guy screams. Outside, Peepi continues his ravaging, eating half a school bus, picking his teeth with an antenna tower, and dropping the other half of the bus on a lady who was hypnotized by his cuteness. Zim decides to let Ultra-Peepi destroy the humans, and Peepi squashes Frank.
Inside a tent, a group of military guys (including a brigadier general) discuss how to stop Peepi. The general consensus is that nobody is capable to firing a missile at the very cute Ultra-Peepi. Dib breaks in, reporting that Peepi gets bigger when he eats. When asked how to stop Peepi, he doesn't have a clue, and the general order the troops to remove Dib (instead, they start beating him up). The communications man calls to the general, saying they believe they know where Peepi is going. Cut to Zim's house, with GIR watching TV. Zim sits down, and asks GIR what he's watching (The Angry Monkey Show), and GIR asks where Ultra-Peepi is ("he's working."). Zim busts out the Lik-a-sticks. The news comes on, reporting that Peepi is headed towards the city's hamster pellet manufacturing plant. Zim hears a loud stomping, and goes out to see a humongous Peepi walking right for his base. After yelling at Peepi a bit, Zim runs into the house and almost immediately comes out of the attic in the voot cruiser. He yells at Peepi some more (you can't tell, but if you pay attention later in the episode, he's speaking via loudspeaker). After firing some balls of plasma or energy, at Peepi, Zim gets brought down by a firebreath, crashing through many buildings until he crash lands, and is thrown from the voot (makes a hole in the window, which we know is VERY hard!) and is lying on the ground unconscious. Dib comes on, debating whether to let Zim go, or finish him. While Dib debates with himself, Zim regains consciousness and calls for GIR to come pick him up. As Zim races off, Dib begs Zim to promise he's on Earth's side this time. Zim flies back to say that he isn't on their side, but is very intent on stopping Ultra-Peepi. Zim races off, and now we cut to Peepi, doing his pimp-stroll towards the pellet plant, which is being defended by a bunch of tanks. They're preparing to fire on Peepi, when the commander is hypnotized by the cuteness of Peepi (who promptly squishes the dude's tank). Zim comes in (with a new voot cruiser) with a weenie stand in tow. Peepi notices it, and rushes towards it. Zim panics, and does evasive maneuvers. At just that moment, the tank commander pops his head out of his ruined tank, and sees the weenie flying overhead ("Now we're being attacked by giant weenies. Get the weenie! GET IT!"). The tanks start shooting at Zim, but he dodges all of their blasts. Cut to the amusement park, where Zim prepares a Ferris wheel with booster rockets, and the weenie stand as bait. Peepi walks up, and (to Zim's dismay) begins eating the wheel. The tanks drive up ("Ok, let's try and go at the hamster this time. We gotta USE this stuff on SOMEthin."), and Dib begs them to not interfere with Zim's plans. The tank commander orders the crazy boy to be put in a crazy bucket, and some infantry soldiers comply. The tanks start firing at Peepi, and Zim launches the booster rockets while he's distracted. But Peepi lets go of the wheel before the boosters get enough thrust to carry him off the ground, and the wheel flies off. Zim, with no time to spare, tries what he should have tried first. He takes the other two booster rockets with his voot cruiser, and deploys them straight onto Peepi. They latch onto him, and zim launches them. Peepi flies off, and a little kid cries and asks why. Dib starts to yammer about alien tampering, but Zim knocks him out of the way and speaks of stuff, until he says that Peepi will live on ("Out there... In the stars..." [Cue Peepi falling to the ground in the horizon]). End!
Humor: 7
Ha ha. I love this episode. It makes me laugh. The tank commander rocks, the pimp stroll was good, and the ending was another good element. Also, though she had a very small part in the episode, Ms.Bitters' lines kicked some serious butt (the exercise wheel remark, the way she described Peepi ("Hamster class"), and just the way Lucille Bliss always says Ms.Bitters' lines perfectly. Another favorite clip of the episode is when Zim goes home to find GIR sitting there watching TV. I have one thing to say to Eric Trueheart (or if not him, whoever else thought that up): GENIUS!
Plot: 5
This episode is well-written (Trueheart never disappoints), that is for sure. The ending feels a bit hurried (you can tell they were short on time, but didn't want to take out any of the fun mass destruction Peepi was wreaking downtown), but it doesn't take away too much from the script. There are a few things that go down the road of "we know that this isn't very realistic, and we don't care," but they're done in such a way as to be nifty (as opposed to stupid). Still, not an exceptionally written episode. Just a solid, average script on the high end of a 5.
Zimmyness: 7
This episode is quite random feeling at times (though, in classic Zim fashion, is in fact all nicely woven together), has a lot of screaming, and Zim gets along with his mission quite nicely. This episode is quite above average in the "Zimmyness of a Zim Episode" category. I definitely like it. Even GIR's lack of being loud and stupid in this episode helped keep the feel of the scene he was in right.
Overall: 8
This episode kicks some serious rear end. The beggining and endings are totally awesome (you start and end on very good notes!), and the action in between never gets old. The only part I didn't really like was when Dib ran in on the general while he was talking with his soldiers. The part just seemed dumb, and something they could have cut to lengthen the ending a bit (something I feel it needed: more time in between when Zim launches the first set of pods on the Ferris wheel, and when Zim launches Peepi). Still, that one scene can only hurt it so much, and all was forgiven as soon as Zim and GIR were sitting there watching TV (did I mention that I love that scene?).