# most. awesome. cartoon. evar! \[Invader Zim\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-cartoon-evar-invader-zim/608239 "2012-01-03T07:06:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-cartoon-evar-invader-zim/608239/1 "2012-01-03T07:06:30Z")
Well, okay. Samurai Jack is the _mostest_ awesome. But let me back up just a bit, if you will. I was having a happy evening, filled with gumbo and elves. All was particularly well with the world. I was watching “The Addams Family” on YouTube, because that always makes me happy too. (I think they have the most perfect relationship of any couple on television. It gives me hope.) Anyway, I happened to glance down at the comments. And I saw that someone had written, “if it weren’t for The Addams Family and InvaderZIM, [some sad personal fate which I do not recall would have taken place.]” _ **InvaderZIM?** _ I could not resist. I looked it up on wikipedia, and after a paragraph or two, I abandoned that for YouTube, and there you have it. I honestly cannot imagine how I missed this one. It freakin’ rocks! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-cartoon-evar-invader-zim/608239/2 "2012-01-03T15:20:35Z")
_Invader Zim_ was indeed amazing, and it’s run was tragically short. If you go in a store like Hot Topic you’ll discover they’re still selling Invader Zim merch. My daughter has a couple of Gir tee-shirts! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-cartoon-evar-invader-zim/608239/3 "2012-01-03T18:21:59Z")
Edited the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-cartoon-evar-invader-zim/608239/4 "2012-01-03T19:06:14Z")
It’s perfectly subversive. I happen to have a Gir tattoo, myself. > [@](#): > > Zim: Once I have tainted the human’s meat supply with filth, the planet will be ripe for the taking. Soon the name of Invader Zim will be synonymous with… DOOKIE! GIR! Bring me cows. > GIR: [in duty mode] Yes sir! [out of duty mode] I like dookie! > Zim: [voiceover] Sometimes I’m scared to think of what goes on in that insane head of yours… > [In GIR’s mind, the cows on the field turn into hot dogs wearing tuxedos and top-hats] > Dapper Weenies: [in GIR’s mind] Dance with us, GIR! Dance with us into oblivion! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-cartoon-evar-invader-zim/608239/5 "2012-01-03T19:24:05Z")
GIR is all kinds of awesome, and highly quotable. “HI FLOOR! Make me a sammich!” “Aww, I wanted to explode…” “It’s me! I was the turkey all along!” “I love this show!” Zim: “Something’s broken and it’s not your fault?” GIR: “I know. I’m scared too.” “There’s WAFFLE in 'em!” There’s an SDMB member I haven’t seen in a while, whose handle comes from the “Tak: The Hideous New Girl” episode: **Filthy Beast of Meat and Hair**. I love that name. Gotta go. I have head pigeons. ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-cartoon-evar-invader-zim/608239/6 "2012-01-03T20:17:46Z")
I often catch myself responding to questions with Gir’s exaggerated “I… DOOOOOOOON’T knowwww.” Completely by reflex. And that damned Doom Song still gets stuck in my head all the time. Fortunately it’s one of those rare earworms I don’t mind. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-cartoon-evar-invader-zim/608239/7 "2012-01-03T20:33:27Z")
Zim: I put the fires out. Tallest: You made them WORSE! Zim: Worse … or BETTER? I’ll still occasionally throw “Worse … or BETTER?” into a conversation where appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-cartoon-evar-invader-zim/608239/8 "2012-01-03T20:51:28Z")
It’s no **Metalocalypse** or **Aqua Teen Hunger Force** , but it does indeed totally fuckin’ rock. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-cartoon-evar-invader-zim/608239/9 "2012-01-03T21:16:45Z")
Gir may have been my favorite cartoon character ever for a long while, either Gir or Gaz, I go back and forth. The episode where Gaz is fighting the random boy over the new gaming device is one of my favorites. The show was brilliant, funny and really out of place on Nickelodeon. Jhonen Vasquez is a cool guy, and if you like Zim [Johnny The Homicidal Maniac](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_the_Homicidal_Maniac) is well worth checking out as is the spin off [Squee](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squee!)! ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-cartoon-evar-invader-zim/608239/10 "2012-01-03T22:33:45Z")
“Oh what plentiful organs you have!” “Where’s my mouth?!?! Where’s my MOUTH!?!?!?!” ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-cartoon-evar-invader-zim/608239/11 "2012-01-03T23:36:40Z")
I went to bed last night after the OP thinking, alas, another one of my too-obscure delights, no one is with me! —And returned this afternoon to **BLIIIIISS**! I love how Zim is ALWAYS SHOUTING on RANDOM WORDS! Woooooow … a GIR tattoo … any chance of a picture? Pretty please? (P.S.: Thanks, **Marley23**.)