Invader ZIM (2001–2006)

Richard Steven Horvitz: Zim, ZIM, Invader Zim, Old Man, Actor, Animatronic Horrors, Baby, Boy, Business Man, Crowd Choir, Delivery Man, Driver, Hugh Monstro, Invader ZIM, Irken, Off Screen Voice, Puppets, Radio, SIR Walla, Scientist, Security Guard #2, Slaves, TV Voice #4, Video Kids

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Quotes 

• Dib : You're just jealous...

  Zim : This has nothing to do with jelly!

• Zim : Ha! Watch Dib! Watch as I bring a royal audience to the downfall of the human race!

  Dib : I don't wanna watch that.

  Zim : Oh. Ok... WAIT! THAT'S TOO BAD!

• Zim : Oh, such tacos will I give!

• Zim : You dare agree with me? Prepare to meet your horrible doom!

• Zim : The Planet Jackers home world orbits a dying star. They throw planets into it like firewood to keep it burning. And now they have the Earth.

  Gir : YAY!

  Zim : No, Gir. That's bad.

  Zim : Do you know what this means?

  Gir : Yes!

  Zim : You don't really do you?

  Gir : [whimpers] 

  Zim : It means we won't get to destroy it! Our mission will be a total failure! Imagine the Irken armada showing up and the entire planet is missing!

• Zim : WHY WAS THERE BACON IN THE SOAP?

  Gir : I made it myself!

• Zim : Gir come to the observatory!

  Gir : [peaks his head in]  yesss?...

  Zim : What have you done to the telescope?

  Gir : Nothing.

  Zim : Nothing? You haven't touched it? Something is broken and it's not your fault?

  Gir : I know I'm scared too!

• Zim : Good question. I don't care!

• Zim : You expect me to pay to ride this filthy contraption? Have you the brain worms?

• Zim : They locked down their fortress - with locks!

• [Zim has sent GIR to attack Dib. GIR is poking at his controls making him spin in circles. An alarm that sounds like a car alarm] 

  Zim : [to self]  Hmm, maybe he's not such a bad evil minion after all.

  Dib : [to gir]  Hey! Go away!

  GIR : Okey dokey!

  [flies away] 

• Hall Monitor : Hey, where's your hall pass?

  Zim : [ignores the question and gets an idea]  Say, you're full of organs aren't you?

  Hall Monitor : Why yes, yes I am.

  Zim : And you wouldn't notice if you were, say, missing a few?

  Hall Monitor : [ponders this for a second]  Probably not.

• Zim : I put the fires out.

  Almighty Tallest Red : You made them worse!

  Zim : Worse... or better?

• Dib : You can't make me look! I'll just shut my eyes!

  Zim : Oh, you'll open them. You have to breathe sometime.

  Dib : No I - Wait a minute, what do my eyes have to do with breathing?

• Zim : You're nothing Earth boy! Go home and shave your giant head of smell with your bad self!

  Dib : ...Ok... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said...

• Control Brain : Irken Invader Zim singlehandedly ruined Operation Impending Doom!

  Zim : RUINED? I BLEW UP MORE THAN ANY OTHER INVADER!

  Almighty Tallest Red : YOU BLEW UP ALL THE OTHER INVADERS!

  Zim : [waves his hand in dismissal] 

  Control Brain : You will be re-encoded. No longer an Invader, you will forever be banished to the Irken snacking planet of Foodcourtia.

  Zim : Zim needs no vacation!

• Zim : Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants! The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!

• Zim : [looking over the town for a telescope he can use]  There's one, but it belongs to the Dib human.

  Gir : So? He seems nice!

  Zim : We want to destroy these people! Not ask them for help! The very thought of it makes me... make little... sicky noises...

• Zim : I thought the Tallest killed you?

  Invader Skoodge : Yeah, but I'm ok now.

• Zim : At the end of this wormhole lies... A ROOM WITH A MOOSE!

  Dib : NOOOO!... wait a minute, did you say a room with a moose?

  Zim : Yes. Your fear is overwhelming, no?

  Dib : ...Um no... What's so scary about a room with a stupid moose in it? I mean, yeah that's a big moose, but really?

  Zim : Oh, I will show you! Prepare your bladder for emanate release!

• Zim : THEY BOOBYTRAPPED THEIR SUN SOMEHOW!

• Krazy Taco Employee : Here's the tacos you ordered. Have a nice day.

  Zim : [throws a wad of cash at Krazy Taco Employee]  Shut your noise tube taco human!

• Zim : We cannot fail Gir. For even as a small Irken smeet my dream has been to pass probing day like a Slorbees passes her young - jiggly and full of juice!

• Zim : Ms. Bitters, I have a MIGHTY NEED to use the restroom once again.

  Ms. Bitters : Ok, but that's your last restroom break for the rest of the school year!

• Dib : That's it Zim! This has to stop!

  Zim : I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about.

  Dib : Look at you! You've gone too far! You're a hideous blob of stolen organs!

  Zim : I've been working out.

  Zim : [hacks up a child's intestine and slurps it back up, then opens his mouth to reveal the stolen organs in his throat] 

  Dib : You think you can fool a trained medical professional?

  Zim : Yes.

  Dib : I suppose you've got a heart in there?

  Zim : Six of them.

  Dib : Intestines?

  Zim : Large or small?

  Dib : Spleen?

  Zim : In three different colors.

  Dib : What about lungs?

  Zim : [pauses for a second, then uses his robotic spider legs to lift himself into the ceiling to go find lungs] 

  Dib : You won't find lungs on my watch Zim!

• Zim : Don't worry officer, everything is fine! There's a squid's brain in your head!

• Zim : Gir, remember with your brains, you must behave like a human dog monster. Do you understand?

  Gir : I really don't!

  Zim : Gir! Human dogs don't speak!

  Gir : Ohhhhh

  Zim : Now go answer the door!

  Gir : [runs away screaming] 

• [Zim is piloting a giant robot mech and absentmindedly destroying Irk's surface] 

  Soldier : But Sir, we're still on our home planet!

  Zim : SILENCE!

  [points to another solider] 

  Zim : TWIST THOSE NOBS! TWIST THOSE NOBS!

  [points to a different soldier] 

  Zim : YOU! PULL SOME LEVERS! PULL SOME LEVERS!

  [laughs evilly] 

• Zim : YOU DARE TELL ME WHAT I ALREADY KNOW!

  Gir : Did you know that?

  Zim : OF COURSE I... YOUR LEGS ARE STUPID!

• Zim : On Monday we settle this like children!

• Zim : THE EARTH IS SAVED! I DID IT GIR! Now let's go destroy it!

• Zim : As soon as we defeat Tak I'm going to feed your brains to my robot!

  Dib : Deal!

  Gir : YAY BRAINS!

• [after Zim has harvested organs from children to appear more human] 

  Dib : Your stupid plan won't work Zim, you'll never pull this off...

  Zim : You speak craziness Earth boy! More organs means more human! It will work!

• [aliens have mistaken Zim for a Human and abducted him] 

  Zim : But I'm not Human!

  [Zim takes off his disguise] 

  Zim : See! Not Human! I can see how you could be fooled but...

  Alien 1 : You are Human! We have proof!

  [plays a video of Zim and Dib in school] 

  Dib : I know what you are Zim!

  Zim : Yup! I'm Human! Human! Human! Human! Just look at my neck!

  [video ends] 

  Zim : ...I was lying! Surely you've heard of the mighty Irken race?

  Alien 2 : Nope! We don't get that TV no more!

• Zim : We've been seen out of our disguises!

  Gir : But Dib sees us all the time and he knows where we live.

  Zim : Heh. Dib. No, this is different. This is serious!

• Zim : GIR stop that singing!

• Zim : OBEY THE FIST!

• Zim : Clean, lemony fresh victory is mine!

• Zim : ONWARD TO VENGEANCE!

• Zim : If I am elected, Dib's head will be removed and filled with salted nuts!

• Zim : What is wrong with these people? This planet is just begging to be destroyed!

• Dib : I don't know what you're up to Zim, but I'm going to stop you!

  Zim : I'm infecting the city with genetically enhanced vermin, but you'll never know!

  Dib : You just told me...

  Zim : YOU'RE LYING!

• Zim : WHO DID THIS? Who dares to soil my normal boy head with this... PORK COW?

• Zim : Ahhh! The hideous mutant squid has escaped again and has created an army of cyborg zombie soldiers to do its evil bidding!

• Zim : Whoever they were they left no sign of what wiped them out. I hate them! And I hope they die!

• Zim : THE STUPID! IT BURNS!

• Zim : MORE POWER! GIVE ME MORE POWER!

• Zim : FEAR ME!

• Zim : Hey, what are you?

  Blob : I don't even know anymore. They fused me so many times. Everyone else they kidnap escapes, but I'm so ugly now, so DISGUSTING... What's that thing?

  [points to Minimoose glued to his forehead] 

  Zim : How did they escape?

  Blob : That air duct leads to the emergency escape pod. If only I had a arm or a leg or... YES, someone to help me escape... Would you please help me?... Hello? Hello?

  [Realizes Zim has already left through the air duct and starts silently sobbing as sad music plays] 

• Zim : Get off of me! You smell like human!

• Zim : I will ensure that all of mankind has their legs sawed off!

• Zim : Your explanations bore me!

• Zim : It's been nice working with you Gir, now self destruct.

  Gir : Finally!

  [explodes] 

• Zim : VICTORY!

  Dib : What do you mean victory? Your robot exploded and you didn't destroy me!

  Zim : It was a trick! Yes, my plan was to um, steal this camera from you, so that you couldn't show these pictures! Ha!

• Zim : Now to unleash stupidity on your entire brain!

• Zim : Gir get away from that power amplifier!

  Gir : But...

  Zim : I should worry less about what a baby can do and worry more about the damage you can do! Stay away from the power amplifier, it's sending out deadly waves of stupidness!

• Zim : Dib you've really sunk low if you think your little sister can help you! I made that containment chamber myself and I would destroy you right now if I didn't get so much amusement from watching you try to get him out.

  [Gaz gently taps the containment chamber and it cracks and breaks open] 

• Zim : If those levels go critical, even slightly, the brain parasite will escape into the base and bring about a pain unlike any known form of pain!

• Zim : Well, my evil plan was a success.

  Gir : No it wasn't!

  Zim : Silence!

• Zim : You can't escape by teleporter little Gaz. I cut the power! Your pitiful rescue attempt is nothing but a pitiful failure! Stupid stinkin' humans!

  Gaz : Doesn't this station have escape pods?

  Zim : Of course, they're right over there.

  [Gaz proceeds to walk to the escape pods] 

  Zim : Stupid, stupid - wait ahhhgghh!

• Zim : Merry platypus one and all.

• Zim : Ha! That's a good one! Help you? Why should I help you?

  Dib : Hey I helped you when we were transforming into giant bolognas!

  Zim : YOUR'RE MAKING IT UP!

  Dib : Look it's my sister...

  Zim : Forgot it Dib! Gnomes, away with him!

  [the Gnomes remove Dib from Zim's lawn] 

• Zim : I'm not here because I like you Dib! I'm here for your filthy gargantuan head!

  Dib : Oh, now it's gargantuan!

• Zim : Make silence now human!