@@WeebTrashQuips Grim Adventures some what softens up after the pilot/first episode. Don't get me wrong its still some what a dark show sometimes but the art caters more to kids. While Misadventure of Flapjack is nightmare inducing like Invader Zim 🤣
The creator of Invader Zim, Jhonen Vazquez, original script, was much darker, but Nikelodeon told him to make it nicer. This is also how Nightmare Before Christmas was with Tim Burton, yes Nightmare Before Christmas was orihinally much darker.
@@takantiIt'd never happen, but I'd like to see a reboot on, say, Adult Swim, Max, or Netflix and it lean more into that darker side. Not much more though since I feel like the limitations led to subversive and creative dark themes and moments (ie. the Dark Harvest). But I'd love to see ones that learn more into that horror and morbidity that Dark Harvest brought
One thing that made me love Invader Zim is the fact that despite the goofy off the wall insanity and sheer stupidity of all of its universes inhabitants, it's clear the writers put a lot of thought into the actual backstory and setting that every so often they let leak through in small scenes like Zim recalling how he was "born". In aggregate, it all paints a clear picture of the Irkens as a post-singularity species. Whatever they were before they became what they are as we know them, they've been heavily modified to effectively be mass produced cybernetic biodrones for the express purpose of being tools of artificial intelligences. As a kid who was really into speculative sci-fi and hard sci-fi, that sort of stuff was my jam and let's me continue to enjoy the series on other levels to this day.
Apparently, before, they were beastlike and deadly, then a subset we all know and love would be born but vunerable to the more dumb and dangerous populace, so the most intelligent few that managed to survive went subterranian and evolved more irks to be more like the smarter but smaller populated subset, they'd be born from artificial wombs and installed subdermal implants to behave and have the same knowledge and experiences that the smarter subset of the species had before going underground to speed things up. The smeets would spend a decade underground doing lab learning and the best of the best would be chosen to go to the surface and separate the more animalistic ancestors from the quickly evolved irks. After obtaining total control they would turn to astrophysical endeavors and end up wanting to take total control of any planet they come across.
I was already in my very early 20s when this came out, but being an avid fan of all warped comics and animation, from Ren and Stimpy, very early South Park to Fritz the Cat etc (we didn't have as many options back then), I was instantly hooked on this incredible piece of art....it was hilarious but also darkly witty and a perfect reflection of the society to come.
If I remember correctly, on the DVD commentary, they said that Old Kid was inspired by a security guard for their building or something like that, so he's a parody of a real person
Oh, you didn't include the episode that scared me for life, "Bestest Friends." That's the one where a boy wants to be Zim's BFF, so Zim removes his eyeballs and makes him think every squirrel is actually Zim. Freaked me out as a kid. XD great analysis, regardless.
From what I remember Vasquez said Nickelodeon was unhappy about his other projects (like JTHM) and told him it was one or the other. So he told Nickelodeon to suck it.
Invader Zim, man. Talk about a pop culture phenomena and icon. Holy shit! And for GREAT reason too. It’s the perfect time capsule of early-2000’s animated shows. It was DARK as hell, morbidly hilarious, and so original. It absolutely still holds up today. It’s just as good now as an adult as it was when I was a kid. There’s never been anything like it before or since it aired. While there obviously were MANY great animated shows at that time, they pale in comparison to Invader Zim. It out shown everything. It’s a true testament to how even animated shoes CAN/SHOULD be smartly written and to trust that the kids watching it don’t need their hands held watching it, or every thing explained to them as if the character’s on screen are talking directly to the audience through the TV, rather than actually having a cohesive show full of cohesive episodes. Invader Zim is one of the all time greatest animated shows ever aired/created. It was almost immediately an instant classic for the 11-14 year old demographic. I loved(still do obviously) Invader Zim so much that when I found out the creator had actually wrote a comic called Johnny the Homicidal Maniac before ever creating Invader Zim; that had a 7 issue run I had to try and snag some. It’s similar in style to Invader Zim, but cranked to 12. Same type of humor but just VASTLY darker. If you have read it do yourself a favor and read it. It’s a one of kind comic run that if you’re into comics, you absolutely MUST read it.
you skipped a whole bunch of episodes 😝 Career Day, Rise of the Zitboy, Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain, A Room with a Moose, Door to Door, FBI Warning of Doom, Bolognius Maximus, Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom, Mysterious Mysterie, Future Dib, Megadoomer, Lice, Abducted, The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot, Mortos der Soulstealer, The Girl Who Cried Gnome, Vindicated!, The Voting of the Doomed and Gaz, Taster of Pork
At 8:42 that hall pass is a bomb that is triggered by the student attempting to leave the school. If said kid is hauled off in an ambulance due to the emergency of lacking a stomach or liver, then that hall pass bomb will detonate, filling his heart and lungs with casing shrapnel. Even if it were a weak explosive, the fluid sacs around the heart could still risk getting ruptured which would be very bad since said sacs prevent the hearts movements from causing friction heat.
This is so weird.. I was a huge Zim fan growing up, like I not only remember every episode he has talked about plus some aspects he didn't talk about. However for the absolute life or me I have 0 memory of "Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars"... I have binge watched the show probably around 3-4 times as an adult also so I don't know why I have no memory of that specific episode... Its so odd..
I never watched this show but I remember in middle and highschool (probably 2006-2012) seeing a bunch of kids wearing invader Zim shirts and hats and bags and stuff. I'm really surprised to find out it was on way back in the early 00s. I assumed it was still on when I saw people wearing all the merch but it must have already been long cancelled by then.
I heard a rumor the creator of invader Zim said things at a company party that pissed off management so they fired the whole invader Zim team over night 👀
I watched this show when I was way too young and absolutely loved it still do, it definitely influenced my sense of humor along with courage the cowardly dog and Mr meaty. 😂
Some suggestions: 1. Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja 2. Camp lakebottom 3. Space goof 4. Beetleborgs 5. Rekkit rabbit 6. super robot monkey team This are my childhood memories, if you can please make video's on it😊😊
that's forgetting "into the florpus" though, which is still official content thats far more recent (as well as the comics but hey i get it if we wanna keep to the animation) :p
nothing will ever unsettled me like career day when Zim had all those pimples on his skin, turned all slimy and gross. It literally made my flesh crawl. Nothing was worse than that for me not even dark harvest😭😭😭
had to double check it but i remembered the iggins episode was supposed to end with iggins death but nick forced the scene of him bursting from the elavator lol
Now there's one thing fun fact About Invader Zim. You thought the story was over? Well, not exactly. In 2016, they announced at Comic Con that they're bringing back two Nicktoons. Ohh, regional. But they wanna make like, not like a reboot series, like 2 Nicktoons movies. First it was returned.called moguls model life and then i was very shocked they brought back the Invite your SIM. So in 2017, they gave us a little bit of hint that both movies were coming to Netflix, and I never expected that. Actually, scratch that, I think there were three Nick Toons returns. First it was Hey Arnold the Jungle Movie, which was epic collusion, which a little fun fact to you. And then they also brought back Rocco's my life so which took place after the finale was left off.And now the affair Sam brought back. But this was the last one, and it was called Enter the Flips. It was the last one, but it was the first feature film movie, so yeah, you're welcome.
51:56 that who scene was hilarious, oh ive never seen that cuz i missed season 2, i was too old for the 06 nick toons revamp, well not too old, but i was heavy into football at the time, too much training not enough tv time
Hey jartoon I have some shows that you should talk about and the shows I'm talking about are wonder over yonder and cw flash and CW Legends of tomorrow and CW arrow and CW Supergirl and darkwing duck and TMNT 1989 and TMNT 2003 and TMNT 2012 and pokémon XY and pokémon black and white and pokémon Sun and Moon and pokémon journeys and power rangers Dino charge and Megaforce and Henry danger and danger Force and batman The brave and the bold and Batman The animated series and Superman the animated series and static shock so all of these shows could be in future videos so jar toon I hope you like these ideas for future videos and everyone else like this comment and leave a reply to say what you think and don't forget to like subscribe on jartoon.👍🌟😀
I watched this video with the hope youd explain the comics as well like you mentioned in the opening, and like your thumbnail has a picture of. This videos feels misleading
Invader Zim was ahead of its time. It feel like this was the Misadventure of Flapjack of Nickelodeon.
Honestly I feel like it was inspired by tGAoB&M
What if Invader Zim was on CN
IT'S WILL HAVE 5 OR 6 SEASONS
@@WeebTrashQuips Grim Adventures some what softens up after the pilot/first episode. Don't get me wrong its still some what a dark show sometimes but the art caters more to kids. While Misadventure of Flapjack is nightmare inducing like Invader Zim 🤣
@@ArtistTheComedy all we can do is dream about additional season 🥲
me too,@@thejoe9175 Me too
"I put the fires out"
YOU MADE THEM WORSE!
"Worse, or better?"
Man this show had so much to it that you couldn’t help but get addicted.
It was outrageous and nutty but has a million one liners.
The creator of Invader Zim, Jhonen Vazquez, original script, was much darker, but Nikelodeon told him to make it nicer. This is also how Nightmare Before Christmas was with Tim Burton, yes Nightmare Before Christmas was orihinally much darker.
Makes sense considering how violent jthm was. I’d like to see the original script for zim
Zim probably killed/experimented on humans more often. Remember Squidman?
@@takantiIt'd never happen, but I'd like to see a reboot on, say, Adult Swim, Max, or Netflix and it lean more into that darker side. Not much more though since I feel like the limitations led to subversive and creative dark themes and moments (ie. the Dark Harvest). But I'd love to see ones that learn more into that horror and morbidity that Dark Harvest brought
One thing that made me love Invader Zim is the fact that despite the goofy off the wall insanity and sheer stupidity of all of its universes inhabitants, it's clear the writers put a lot of thought into the actual backstory and setting that every so often they let leak through in small scenes like Zim recalling how he was "born".
In aggregate, it all paints a clear picture of the Irkens as a post-singularity species. Whatever they were before they became what they are as we know them, they've been heavily modified to effectively be mass produced cybernetic biodrones for the express purpose of being tools of artificial intelligences.
As a kid who was really into speculative sci-fi and hard sci-fi, that sort of stuff was my jam and let's me continue to enjoy the series on other levels to this day.
Apparently, before, they were beastlike and deadly, then a subset we all know and love would be born but vunerable to the more dumb and dangerous populace, so the most intelligent few that managed to survive went subterranian and evolved more irks to be more like the smarter but smaller populated subset, they'd be born from artificial wombs and installed subdermal implants to behave and have the same knowledge and experiences that the smarter subset of the species had before going underground to speed things up. The smeets would spend a decade underground doing lab learning and the best of the best would be chosen to go to the surface and separate the more animalistic ancestors from the quickly evolved irks. After obtaining total control they would turn to astrophysical endeavors and end up wanting to take total control of any planet they come across.
I worked at a Dish Network uplink when this show came out and the line "Its not stupid, its advanced" was the tag line for the whole setup.
“Sir we’re still on our home planet”
“SILENCE” 😂
Twist those knobs! Pull some levers pull some levers!!!
😂😂😂🤣🤣iconic words@@ecosmith7852
.....I put the fires out 😁
I was already in my very early 20s when this came out, but being an avid fan of all warped comics and animation, from Ren and Stimpy, very early South Park to Fritz the Cat etc (we didn't have as many options back then), I was instantly hooked on this incredible piece of art....it was hilarious but also darkly witty and a perfect reflection of the society to come.
one i wish you would cover is chalk zone!!
such fond memories of this show!!
One of the BEST cartoons of ALL time and my favorite by FAR!
No lice episode, no pusskoolio, and not even the episode when zim and Dib get turned into bologna 😢
Also missing walk of doom. Room with a moose. Germs. Halloween special. The mall. Tacobell. Ye...
The bologna episode terrified me so much as a child that it’s still hard to watch.
Those are like the best ones..
@@whateverwhatever4026 those are my 3 favorite
I forgot about the Old-Kid gag, I remember choking on my chocolate milk as a kid, it was so hysterical to me (and still is, I won't lie)
If I remember correctly, on the DVD commentary, they said that Old Kid was inspired by a security guard for their building or something like that, so he's a parody of a real person
That’s one of those lines that’s been cemented in my head every since I heard it as a kid
i always remember how gross the show was and how I would casually eat my tombstone cheese pizza wondering why my cheese didn’t stretch like theirs.
Oh, you didn't include the episode that scared me for life, "Bestest Friends." That's the one where a boy wants to be Zim's BFF, so Zim removes his eyeballs and makes him think every squirrel is actually Zim. Freaked me out as a kid. XD great analysis, regardless.
19:56 Also, better the devil you know, than the devil you don't.
Matt Invader Zim was the true OG episode Siri and movie I can't believe Zim still never been able to conquer the world
Tbf if he got a normal robot he could've, gir stopped him a lot
My wife painted me the whole main characters and it's the best thing I've ever received.
My cousin loved this show and got a gir tattoo. I think it has a speech bubble as well that says “I’m a duck moo” which kinda fits for the character.
I miss invader zim only thing i watched close to this type of show was ahh real monsters
Jesus dude that just took me wayyy back.
You forgot the movie
He did mention that there was an existence of movie at the beginning.
1:05
@@StreetUrchin4Life thank you
And the comics
@@jameswebb1978and the unaired episodes that fans salvaged at invader con
58:13 are we not going to talk about how that gu didn't try to move or run but embraced death with literally open arms ?
This channel is packed with so much nostalgia. God I loved invader zim lol
From what I remember Vasquez said Nickelodeon was unhappy about his other projects (like JTHM) and told him it was one or the other. So he told Nickelodeon to suck it.
JTHM was hilarious
Invader Zim, man. Talk about a pop culture phenomena and icon. Holy shit! And for GREAT reason too. It’s the perfect time capsule of early-2000’s animated shows. It was DARK as hell, morbidly hilarious, and so original. It absolutely still holds up today. It’s just as good now as an adult as it was when I was a kid.
There’s never been anything like it before or since it aired. While there obviously were MANY great animated shows at that time, they pale in comparison to Invader Zim. It out shown everything. It’s a true testament to how even animated shoes CAN/SHOULD be smartly written and to trust that the kids watching it don’t need their hands held watching it, or every thing explained to them as if the character’s on screen are talking directly to the audience through the TV, rather than actually having a cohesive show full of cohesive episodes.
Invader Zim is one of the all time greatest animated shows ever aired/created. It was almost immediately an instant classic for the 11-14 year old demographic. I loved(still do obviously) Invader Zim so much that when I found out the creator had actually wrote a comic called Johnny the Homicidal Maniac before ever creating Invader Zim; that had a 7 issue run I had to try and snag some. It’s similar in style to Invader Zim, but cranked to 12. Same type of humor but just VASTLY darker. If you have read it do yourself a favor and read it. It’s a one of kind comic run that if you’re into comics, you absolutely MUST read it.
you skipped a whole bunch of episodes 😝
Career Day, Rise of the Zitboy, Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain, A Room with a Moose, Door to Door, FBI Warning of Doom, Bolognius Maximus, Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom, Mysterious Mysterie, Future Dib, Megadoomer, Lice, Abducted, The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot, Mortos der Soulstealer, The Girl Who Cried Gnome, Vindicated!, The Voting of the Doomed and Gaz, Taster of Pork
I legit thought I was going crazy and something was missing lmao
There are just too many. This show was a masterpiece
@@usonly101 True... but he did say "The ENTIRE Story of Invader Zim" so I felt a need to bring up that he missed a bunch 😅
And when Zim died he was reborn in the Greed Ring to a rich Mafia imp family.
i see what you did there.
YES ANOTHER HB AND HH FAN! MOXXIE
LOVED this! great memories watching this show as a kid, glad it still one of the gems that holds up
Even though I've only watched 1 episode of this show before, I still watched this synopsis.
I've concluded that this show was made for psychopaths.
Its a mirror of our own world and the stupid yet "advanced" masses
Ooh I was waiting for this! I still love this show to this day, even tho it's pretty dark at times. One of the best cartoons I have ever seen 💚
Wow I never watched this but the merch was everywhere and it seemed like everyone I knew was loved it I'm surprised it got such a short run
Old kid was probably an undercover cop
Gaz taught me that when people disrespect you, get even but get even with a sprinkle of REVENGE
At 8:42 that hall pass is a bomb that is triggered by the student attempting to leave the school. If said kid is hauled off in an ambulance due to the emergency of lacking a stomach or liver, then that hall pass bomb will detonate, filling his heart and lungs with casing shrapnel. Even if it were a weak explosive, the fluid sacs around the heart could still risk getting ruptured which would be very bad since said sacs prevent the hearts movements from causing friction heat.
This is so weird.. I was a huge Zim fan growing up, like I not only remember every episode he has talked about plus some aspects he didn't talk about. However for the absolute life or me I have 0 memory of "Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars"... I have binge watched the show probably around 3-4 times as an adult also so I don't know why I have no memory of that specific episode... Its so odd..
I never watched this show but I remember in middle and highschool (probably 2006-2012) seeing a bunch of kids wearing invader Zim shirts and hats and bags and stuff. I'm really surprised to find out it was on way back in the early 00s. I assumed it was still on when I saw people wearing all the merch but it must have already been long cancelled by then.
Been waiting on this one for a long time . Something Zim would know about 😂
It suck’s we only got 1 season, the show was amazing, and very unique for the time. I remember it being popular in school to sing the doom song.
God this show was the whole reason i binged Saturday morning cartoons 🤗
Hey guys what if the furons (destroy all humans) were like the urkins
26:52 omg proper use of the word temper!
NGL some of the food that was shown in "The frycook what came from all that space" looked weirdly appetizing.
9:10 that organs episode made me really uncomfortable as a kid
Should have all episodes if ya ask me
That has to be my favorite cartoon of all time
XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN!!!!!!
I heard a rumor the creator of invader Zim said things at a company party that pissed off management so they fired the whole invader Zim team over night 👀
I watched this show when I was way too young and absolutely loved it still do, it definitely influenced my sense of humor along with courage the cowardly dog and Mr meaty. 😂
7:08 i feel like this scene was a nod to Fairy Oddparents
As a NRB BotC fan the music change at 24:29 REALLY threw me for a second
Invader Zim
Yes
Some suggestions:
1. Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
2. Camp lakebottom
3. Space goof
4. Beetleborgs
5. Rekkit rabbit
6. super robot monkey team
This are my childhood memories, if you can please make video's on it😊😊
SRMT was great
I really want someone to re-acquire this and make it into a more dark Adult reboot
Something as metal as Primal
our savior grr
One of the best shows ever created
Did this not cover all episodes or did they forget the vote for president episode?
I got to the end of the video and I can't remember if you covered the Halloween episode
that's forgetting "into the florpus" though, which is still official content thats far more recent (as well as the comics but hey i get it if we wanna keep to the animation) :p
I could have sworn there was an episode where dib’s sister turns into a pig
Fun fact the person who played zim also plays kaos in skylanders
nothing will ever unsettled me like career day when Zim had all those pimples on his skin, turned all slimy and gross. It literally made my flesh crawl. Nothing was worse than that for me not even dark harvest😭😭😭
had to double check it but i remembered the iggins episode was supposed to end with iggins death but nick forced the scene of him bursting from the elavator lol
I think you mean Keef.
@11:28 Makes a great escape with Zim *on the government pig. :3
One of my favorite episodes.
Dooooooom Doooom Da Doooom Dooom Dooooooom!
One of my favorite shows !!!
"SILENCEE !!!!!! " I LOVE ZIM AHAHAH
I love Gir!! ❤❤❤
Now there's one thing fun fact About Invader Zim. You thought the story was over? Well, not exactly. In 2016, they announced at Comic Con that they're bringing back two Nicktoons. Ohh, regional. But they wanna make like, not like a reboot series, like 2 Nicktoons movies. First it was returned.called moguls model life and then i was very shocked they brought back the Invite your SIM. So in 2017, they gave us a little bit of hint that both movies were coming to Netflix, and I never expected that. Actually, scratch that, I think there were three Nick Toons returns. First it was Hey Arnold the Jungle Movie, which was epic collusion, which a little fun fact to you. And then they also brought back Rocco's my life so which took place after the finale was left off.And now the affair Sam brought back. But this was the last one, and it was called Enter the Flips. It was the last one, but it was the first feature film movie, so yeah, you're welcome.
Enter the Florpus! not Flips, and its a comic adaptation
Is English your second language? Your whole comment reads like nonsense.
I remember there was a Halloween special episode.
Was it a fever dream or was there a lice episode where they put Zim in a gun to shoot his liquefied skin at the lice?
PEAK
Can't you watch the whole series in this amount of time?
Can you next video be about The Wild Thornberrys
Always saw the Merch as a kid but didn’t see the show until like 09
What happened to the scariest episode? A room with a moose 😮
Enter the florepus: am i a joke to you?
0:43 you said this with a straight face?😂😂
51:56 that who scene was hilarious, oh ive never seen that cuz i missed season 2, i was too old for the 06 nick toons revamp, well not too old, but i was heavy into football at the time, too much training not enough tv time
26:14 Caseoh that you?
Wasnt one of the reasons it got canceled was the Bloody Gir subliminal message?
author also did a crazy and dark comic called JTHM i enjoy it but it is not for kids
loll I have the comic book of this 🤣🤣🤣
Forgot the zit, and the Halloween episode
Dib is also an alien
YES
7:20 It's my favorite show 🎶
I felt kinda bad for Dib 😂
Fuck I love this show
A room, with a moose!
Man I hope you Recap The Teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012 Show.
I'd love to see a jthm cartoon
Me too!
This show wouldve did soooo much better on adult swim
Eh? Who are you?!!!
I'm
Who are you?!!!
I'm
Who are you?!!!
Hi! Im early and damn I miss this show
Fun fact it was made by a Mexican. There go forward meaning of the word illegal alien to a new stature
Wish the show had a real ending
"Until it is DVD release."
Fascinating 😮
The earth is not yours to Conquer
“RIDE THE PIG!!”
Hey jartoon I have some shows that you should talk about and the shows I'm talking about are wonder over yonder and cw flash and CW Legends of tomorrow and CW arrow and CW Supergirl and darkwing duck and TMNT 1989 and TMNT 2003 and TMNT 2012 and pokémon XY and pokémon black and white and pokémon Sun and Moon and pokémon journeys and power rangers Dino charge and Megaforce and Henry danger and danger Force and batman The brave and the bold and Batman The animated series and Superman the animated series and static shock so all of these shows could be in future videos so jar toon I hope you like these ideas for future videos and everyone else like this comment and leave a reply to say what you think and don't forget to like subscribe on jartoon.👍🌟😀
I watched this video with the hope youd explain the comics as well like you mentioned in the opening, and like your thumbnail has a picture of. This videos feels misleading