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I feel like if you were on the Invader Zim crew, you were liable to be roasted in the show.

- Gir’s voice actor got a green car that the crew thought was ugly. So they put in a whole skit in the show about a guy getting his ugly green car destroyed.

- the Tallests obsession with snacks is ripped from Jhonen Vasquez, who constantly brought in gas station snacks into the studio. The crew thought some of the snacks were gross.

- they got a guy who is scared of babies to write an episode about evil babies.

- Jhonen Vasquez and Rikki Simmons kept making cameos in the show, the first time it was as a possibility for Zim’s human disguise. He called them “Ugly” and “Stinky”.

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Zim got some words

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i am a huge fan of @bamsara​‘s IZ work, and was inspired to do a little scene from their fic Spacedust & Nightlights (this bit specifically is from chapter 2). it’s been about four billion years since i’ve done a comic of any sort, and i’m a little rusty, but this was fun to make. thank you bam!

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the other day I streamed and brainstormed a FNAF x Invader Zim AU

Basically: Dib gets a job at Bloaty's Pizzaplex to investigate rumored paranormal activities after a history of incidents and disapperences, including the one of a childhood friend/enemy/rival, Zim.

Pardon my chicken scratch writing lol

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Just Dib being an asshole

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Irken Dib, a good mission partner

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Hi have this silly little mini comic.

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Zim’s Use of His Name as a Replacement for First-Person Pronouns

I recently did a small project and went through every single Invader Zim episode script to discover just how much Zim actually replaces first-person (I/me/my/myself) pronouns with his name, and whether he ever replaces first-person pronouns with third-person pronouns (he/him/his).  The answers to these questions pretty much lined up with what I remembered about his canon use of his name as a pronoun-replacement, and I would now like to share my findings, and a list of every time Zim refers to himself in the third person, with all of you fine people here on the Tumblr dot coms.

Observations

1)  Zim uses I/me/my pronouns the vast majority of the time he refers to himself.  He uses his name in place of a pronoun to refer to himself in 18 out of 27 full episodes, or 21 out of 46 segments (but see #5 below).  He says his name in a couple more instances than that but not in place of a pronoun. Technically, ‘I am Zim!’ is not an instance where he is replacing an I/me/my pronoun with his name, any more than me saying, ‘Hi, I’m KidK’ is such an instance.  Really, when Zim says, ‘I am Zim!’ he is reinforcing the fact that he uses I/me/my pronouns regularly and the fact that he likes to say his own name, without suggesting he replaces pronouns with his name as often as, say, Elmo the Muppet.  I therefore didn’t count instances of ‘I am Zim!’ as pronoun replacements, but have made a separate list of them for the sake of interest.

2) Zim replaces ‘me’ with his name as the object of a sentence rather than replacing ‘I’ as the subject.  The only exceptions to this in the entire run of the show are 'Zim needs no vacation!’ from “The Frycook What Came From All That Space” and ‘Zim needs no meat!’ from “Tak: the Hideous New Girl.”  A more typical usage is lines like 'There is none so worthy as Zim!’ or 'Victory for Zim!’ Also, Zim only uses the possessive 'Zim’s’ once–'No one takes Zim’s mission!’ in “Tak.”  In all other lines when Zim wants to say something is his, he says 'the [thing] of Zim’–or, much more often, uses first-person pronouns 'my’ and 'mine.’

3)  Zim really really very does not speak like Elmo.  He tends to replace one first-person pronoun in a sentence with his name and leave the rest intact, rather than substituting 'Zim’ for every first-person pronoun in the line.  For example, in “The Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom,” he says, 'I break free and now I have to go back to rescue that little rat that left Zim to rot?’  Even this kind of sentence reinforces the fact that Zim uses I/me/my regularly and Zim-as-a-pronoun as a more infrequent thing to add emphasis or drama. 

4) The other way in which Zim is not like Elmo is that he never, ever replaces a first-person pronoun with a third-person pronoun.  Using the same example, notice he did not say, 'Zim breaks free and now he has to go back to rescue that little rat that left him to rot?'  (Zim did use ‘he/him’ for himself when he pretended to be a future version of Dib and thus needed to speak in third person about himself to keep up the ruse; these instances are not included in my count/list because that was playacting and not pronoun-replacement.  He also uses he/him and she/her to refer to other people, including other Irkens, but that’s a subject for a different kind of post.)

5)  Several of the times Zim refers to himself by name that I’ve included on the list are edge cases and may not be true pronoun replacements.  These are noted in the list.

6)  Zim starts referring to himself in third person more about halfway through the show’s run.  He does it a few notable times in episodes 1-15 but all the episodes where he does it a lot are from “Hobo 13″ on.  In fact, there are a few episodes where Zim does it a lot, and then in the others where he does it it’s only once, maybe twice.  The episode segments where Zim refers to himself by name in third person the most are “Hobo 13,” “The Voting of the Doomed,” and “The Frycook What Came From All That Space.”

7)  The first few instances of 'I am Zim’ aren’t just random exclamations, but places where Zim telling someone his name is a natural part of a conversation. It’s not until “Hobo 13″ and beyond that Zim starts yelling 'I am Zim!’ for no apparent reason other than to assert that he is, in fact, Zim I guess.

And now without further ado, below the cut is a list of Every. Single. Time. Zim refers to himself in third person in the series, broken down by episode, with a bonus list of every 'I am Zim!’ at the end.  In every other instance besides these listed times, when Zim refers to himself, he does it with a first-person I/me/my/myself pronoun. Yep.  He sure does know what those are, and uses them very frequently.  Use this information however you like.

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Zim makes a new best friend!

(source is ep. 81 of Rob Paulsen’s excellent “Talkin’ Toons” podcast, guest-starring the one and only Richard Horvitz.

I’ve had this audio saved on my end since 2014, so I’m glad I eventually got around to making this!)

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im gonna be real, im not sure what compelled me to stay up until 3:40 am making this

zadrs/irken x child shippers dni…

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Happy 1 Year Anniversary of Enter the Florpus!!

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Have some more shitposts. 

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zim is trans.jpg

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Misc Zim doodles

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not to be zadf on main but zim and dib in their later years of skool absolutely have stupid inside jokes they use to catch each other off guard. zim goes to dramatically press a button to, i dont know, shoot a cage full of rats at unsuspecting citizens or something when suddenly he hears “thats bologna”. zim immediately breaks down laughing, long enough for dib to stop him from launching the rats. earth is saved. thanks bologna

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I haven't been on this blog in forever but my title + description still bugs me bc it looks like I cut off "Invader Zim, evil alien soldier of the Irken empire" when in reality it was pronounced like "Invader Zim. Evil. Alien soldier of the Irken empire"

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and that’s that on that!!!!!!!