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Season 1
1 :01x01 - The Nightmare Begins (Mar/30/2001)
The Almighty Tallest are holding a grand event where they are selecting the most recent batch of Irken Invaders, the elite force that is selected to conquer and destroy planets in order to ensure the success of the Irken Empire. However, when an incompetent Irken soldier named ZIM arrives at the event and demands to become an Invader, he is sent to a planer that wasn’t thought to even exist. Complete with a malfunctioning SIR robot named GIR, ZIM heads off to the unknown planet with dreams of gaining the Almighty Tallest’s praise, though he soon discovers that this unknown planet is the most vile and disgusting thing he’s ever seen.
Guest Stars: Wally Wingert as Invader Larb's SIR Unit, Mo Collins as Zita
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
2 :01x02 - Parent Teacher Night (Apr/06/2001)
Things are going well for ZIM, though when his skool hosts a parent teacher night conference, ZIM realizes that he needs to have his robotic parents perform normally or risk having his disguise blown. Unfortunately, his robotic parents don’t act like humans at all, so he formulates a plan to teach them proper earth etiquette in order to make it through the event. Though when GIR interferes with ZIM’s plan, will his robotic parents still behave normally enough to deceive the humans at the conference?
Guest Stars: Dwight Schultz as Ted Slunchy, S. Scott Bullock as Mr. Elliot
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
3 :01x03 - Walk of Doom (Apr/06/2001)
ZIM has been upset over how incompetent GIR is, as GIR hasn’t been performing as well as typical SIR units should. In hopes of fixing GIR, ZIM installs a new computer chip inside of GIR and he takes him to the middle of the city in order to see if GIR can use his new abilities to find his way home. However, when ZIM realizes that GIR didn’t bring the computer chip with him, the two must try to find their own way home, all the while dealing with the disgusting and gross nature of a human city.
Guest Stars: S. Scott Bullock as Maurice Morgan / Policeman
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
4 :01x04 - Bestest Friend (Apr/13/2001)
When ZIM is insulted because he doesn’t have any friends, he attempts to find a friend so that his disguise will be more complete. He eventually manages to find a friend, a boy named Keef, though Keef soon turns out to be more of a friend than he had hoped. Now ZIM must figure out a way to get the horrible boy from following him around, though will he be able to succeed in that task before Keef jeopardizes the secrecy of his mission?
Guest Stars: Danny Cooksey as Keef, Melvin, Dirge, Richard Steven Horvitz as Purple-Goggled Scientist
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel, Roman Dirge
 
5 :01x05 - NanoZIM (Apr/13/2001)
When Dib manages to obtain a picture of ZIM without his disguise, ZIM must get the photo and destroy it at all costs. However, Dib has hidden the picture and ZIM is clueless as to where the picture may be, so he decides to use one of his inventions to shrink down and go inside of Dib’s body. ZIM plans on attacking Dib’s brain in order to cause him to forget where he hid the picture, though when Dib realizes ZIM’s presence, Dib takes one of his father’s inventions and tries to force ZIM to leave his body alone.
Guest Stars: John Garry (1) as Mysterious Mysteries Anchor
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
6 :01x06 - Germs (Apr/20/2001)
When GIR watches a movie that shows aliens being destroyed by germs, ZIM starts to panic because he realizes that germs exist all across the world. After purchasing a pair of germ-seeing goggles from an Irken network, ZIM sets off on his quest to rid the world of germs, though he soon discovers that germs are a bigger problem than he could have ever imagined.
Guest Stars: Wally Wingert as Scientist #2, Philece Sampler as Scientist #4
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
7 :01x07 - Dark Harvest (Apr/20/2001)
When ZIM discovers that typical humans have plenty of organs inside of them, he becomes worried since the school’s nurse may realize he doesn’t have organs when she checks him for any illnesses. ZIM decides to steal as many organs as possible from the rest of the children at skool, though when Dib discovers what’s going on, he vows to stop ZIM at any cost.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel, Eric Trueheart
 
8 :01x08 - Attack of the Saucer Morons (Apr/27/2001)
After his ship is taken down after crashing into a bee, ZIM decides to leave his ship in the park in order to come back the next day and take it back to his headquarters. However, when he later discovers that the ship has been found by a cult known as the Children of the Bright and Sunny Saucer, he must try to get past them in order to gain access to his ship. Though when the group realizes he’s an alien, he contacts GIR in hopes of being rescued before they can unleash their unspeakable horrors upon him.
Guest Stars: Richard Steven Horvitz as Police Dispatcher
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
 
9 :01x09 - The Wettening (Apr/27/2001)
When it starts to rain while ZIM is at skool, Dib notices that ZIM is reluctant to step out in the rain. When Dib coaxes him into actually doing such, he realizes that water makes him burn and that all Irkens must actually have a natural weakness to water. In an attempt to make ZIM suffer, Dib exploits his weakness and gets him wet on several occasions, though it all leads up to the final water battle between Dib and ZIM to see who the supreme race actually is.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart, Roman Dirge, Rob Hummel
 
10 :01x10 - Career Day (May/04/2001)
It’s Career Day at the skool and students must take a test in order to see which career they’re most suited for. ZIM is hoping to become the lord of all humans, though when he merely is assigned to work in the fast food industry, he reluctantly agrees to take the position in hopes of working his way up and becoming lord of all humans. Meanwhile, Dib gets assigned with a professional paranormal investigator, in which he discovers that ZIM is about to undergo some serious alien transformations and he makes an effort to convince his new partner to head towards ZIM’s restaurant in order to expose him in the middle of his transformation.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
11 :01x11 - Battle-Dib (May/04/2001)
The Swollen Eyeball Network reluctantly agrees to permit Dib to reveal his findings on ZIM, though he must get a permission slip signed by his father in order to attend the event. However, when Professor Membrane is too busy in his studio, Dib must pass rigorous mental and physical challenges in order to get a chance to meet his father, though Gaz decides to make things difficult for Dib after he eats the last slice of pizza that she was getting ready to consume.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
 
12 :01x12 - A Room with a Moose (Aug/17/2001)
In hopes of getting rid of the disgusting children in his class, including Dib, ZIM decides to put a plan of his into motion. He has prepared a school bus with a robotic driver in order to take the children on a field trip into another dimension, in which he plans to seal the gate in order to prevent them from ever escaping. However, when Dib realizes ZIM’s plan, he must attempt to convince the other students that they need to do something in order to stay in this world, though his immense unpopularity soon proves to be a bigger obstacle than ZIM could ever be.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
13 :01x13 - Hamstergeddon (Aug/17/2001)
When Ms. Bitters’ class gets a new hamster as a pet, ZIM is amazed to discover how the hamster leaves the humans vulnerable due to its irresistible charm. ZIM decides to kidnap the hamster and genetically mutate it into a massive super hamster, in hopes of using it to destroy and conquer the world. However, when the hamster starts to behave against ZIM’s will, ZIM and Dib must reluctantly work together in order to prevent them from suffering too many losses.
Guest Stars: Danny Cooksey as Melvin, Small Child, Screaming Guy
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
 
14 :01x14 - Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain (Aug/24/2001)
While trying to repair something that broke in his house, ZIM accidentally causes GIR’s AI to be uploaded into the central component of the house. In hopes of getting GIR back into his body before he does anything stupid, ZIM tries to coax GIR into obeying him as he is his master, though GIR refuses to listen to him and he causes the entire house to gain legs as it marches towards the nearest Krazy Taco restaurant in hopes of getting some tacos to eat. ZIM becomes concerned since GIR’s behavior is seriously jeopardizing the secrecy of his mission, though will he be able to convince GIR to return to his real body?
Guest Stars: Wally Wingert as Krazy Taco Employee / Police Dispatcher
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
15 :01x15 - Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy (Aug/24/2001)
ZIM creates a complex portal capable of sending things into the past in order to change the future, though when the robot he had planned to use in order to destroy a younger Dib proves to be incompatible with the portal, he angrily throws GIR’s rubber pig into the portal instead. However, upon doing such, he realizes that it has effectively caused Dib quite a lot of pain and it has caused the way he looks in the present, so ZIM decides to send as many rubber pigs into the portal in hopes of causing Dib to be removed from his pitiful existence once and for all.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
 
16 :01x16 - Planet Jackers (Aug/31/2001)
When ZIM realizes that planet Earth is being planetjacked, he attempts to warn Dib in hopes of working together in order to save the planet that he wishes to destroy. However, when Dib refuses to believe him, ZIM heads out in his ship, along with GIR, in hopes of stopping the aliens from throwing Earth into a dying sun. However, despite his claims that the planet is under protection by the treaty they signed with the Irken Empire, the two aliens refuse to believe him and they merely toss him aside, which causes ZIM to contemplate using force as a means to persuade them.
Guest Stars: Rob Izenberg as Nik, Sherman Howard as Oog-Ah
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
17 :01x17 - Rise of the Zitboy (Aug/31/2001)
After ZIM discovers that he has a pimple, he decides to do what he can to cover it up, as he’s seen commercials where people with pimples are instantly labeled as abnormal. However, when the acne removing cream he uses causes the pimple to grow in size, GIR decides to draw a little face on the pimple in order to make it look like a little man. ZIM is upset with this, though when the pimple suddenly gains the ability to hypnotize those who look at it, ZIM decides to use his pimple as a means to discover the flaw in his base’s security that Dib has recently been bragging about discovering.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Roman Dirge, Frank Conniff
 
18 :01x18 - Plague of Babies (Sep/07/2001)
After being seen by a human baby without his disguise, ZIM decides to try to see if there’s anything he can do to wipe the baby’s memory in order to prevent him from ever speaking about what he saw. However, he discovers that many of the babies in the buildings near where his base is aren’t what they appear to be, his entire mission is soon put in jeopardy and he must do everything he can to stop the babies.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
19 :01x19 - Bloaty's Pizza Hog (Sep/07/2001)
It’s the one day of the year where Professor Membrane has time to bond with his children and Gaz is extremely happy about that fact, though when Dib goes missing during a raid at ZIM’s house, Professor Membrane expresses that he can’t leave without him. Gaz isn’t about to let her one day with her father be ruined because of Dib’s stupid belief, so she decides to head over to ZIM’s place and head into outer space in order to get her brother back in order to permit her to enjoy her time with her father at Bloaty’s Pizza Hog.
Guest Stars: John Garry (1) as Mysterious Mysteries Anchor / Animatronic Pig
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
20 :01x20 - Bolognius Maximus (Sep/21/2001)
After being attacked with meat, ZIM decides to get his ultimate revenge on Dib, though Dib just thinks his ultimate revenge is nothing more than being tricked into sitting on a tack. However, when Dib begins to mutate into a living piece of bologna, he realizes that ZIM’s tack must have altered his DNA, though he formulates a plan to stick ZIM with the same tack in order to force him into finding a cure for the both of them.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
21 :01x21 - Game Slave 2 (Sep/21/2001)
When an annoying boy takes the last Game Slave 2 video game system due to Dib’s actions, Gaz throws Dib into the underground parking lot and she takes extreme measures in order to convince the annoying boy to hand over the game to her. Meanwhile, Dib must try to find his way out of the underground parking lot, which turns out to be full of mysterious individuals who claim that the darkness turned them into mole-people.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
 
22 :01x22 - Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom (Oct/26/2001)
When Dib gets locked away in an insane asylum due to the fact that he’s been behaving more insane than usual, he manages to escape by entering a world that exists inside of his own mind, though he realizes that he may not be able to escape from the world that he entered. In an attempt to find a method to escape, Dib opens another portal which drags ZIM inside of the mysterious world, though will he actually be able to convince ZIM to work with him in order to get back to the real world?
Guest Stars: Kevin Michael Richardson (2) as Monster Henchman / Scientist, Mo Collins as Zita
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
23 :01x23 - Mysterious Mysteries (Mar/22/2002)
Dib finally manages to get onto Mysterious Mysteries and he attempts to reveal the truth about ZIM, but ZIM decides to turn the tables on Dib by using the opportunity to make Dib seem like a bully. In order to help him out, ZIM gets GIR to disguise himself as a woman to confirm his story, though GIR’s story proves to be too bizarre to actually mean anything. It’s up to the host of Mysterious Mysteries to determine who is telling the truth in this bizarre case, though he isn’t even certain if any of the three are actually sane.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel, Courtney Lilly
 
24 :01x24 - Future Dib (Mar/22/2002)
When Dib meets a version of himself who claims to be from the future, he takes the information he was told about and he rushes off in hopes of preventing ZIM’s latest and greatest scheme. However, when Dib arrives on the location, he discovers that he has actually fallen into one of ZIM’s traps and that ZIM is attempting to sabotage his father’s latest invention in hopes of destroying the world. Will Dib be able to escape from his prison in time to warn his father, or will the fate of the world need to be placed in another’s hands?
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
25 :01x25 - Door to Door (Mar/29/2002)
In hopes of gaining a mystery prize, ZIM decides to try to sell as many chocolate bars as possible in order to prove that he’s the best. Dib decides to sell chocolate bars as well, as he doesn’t want ZIM to succeed in his mission. However, ZIM discovers that he can’t sell any of the chocolate that he’s received, so he decides to employ Irken technology and old-fashioned fear mongering in order to try to turn the tides in his favor.
Guest Stars: Richard Steven Horvitz as Actor / Businessman
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart, Courtney Lilly
 
26 :01x26 - FBI Warning of Doom (Mar/29/2002)
When ZIM sees an FBI warning at the beginning of a movie that GIR is watching, he takes the message too literally and he becomes paranoid. When he asks his computer about what the FBI is, it makes up information that claims it’s an alien hunting organization, so ZIM decides to take the video tape back to the mall in hopes of meeting with the FBI and putting an end to their existence once and for all. However, when he arrives at the mall, he discovers that his mission is going to go differently than he had anticipated.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Frank Conniff
 
27 :01x27 - Battle of the Planets (Apr/05/2002)
ZIM heads to Mars in order to see what killed off their population, as he feels that he may be able to apply similar techniques to kill off Earth. However, when he discovers that Mars is actually a giant spacecraft, he decides to use it in order to squish all the being living on Earth. He reports his findings to the Almighty Tallest and they become quite ecstatic of the lunacy behind the idea, though when Dib discovers what ZIM is doing, he heads to Mercury in order to turn it into a spacecraft and stop ZIM from squishing all the life on Earth.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
 
28 :01x28 - Abducted (Apr/12/2002)
When ZIM and GIR get abducted by strange aliens who think they’re fine Earth specimens, ZIM attempts to reveal to them that he is actually an Irken. However, they refuse to believe him and they prepare to perform many pointless experiments on him in order to see what makes him tick, though he exploits their stupidity and he decides to try to escape from their ship. However, the two aliens aren’t about to repeat the same mistakes that they’ve made before, so they try to do everything in their power to keep ZIM and GIR from getting back down to the Earth’s surface.
Guest Stars: Wally Wingert as Imprisoned Blob
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
29 :01x29 - The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot (Apr/12/2002)
When Dib is mocked for his study of paranormal investigation when Mysterious Mysteries hosts a story on Chicken Foot, he decides to find Chicken Foot in order to prove to the world that he doesn’t exist. However, he discovers that not too many people are willing to openly discuss Chicken Foot, though he manages to receive some information that reveals Chicken Foot lives in an apartment down the street. He prepares to speak with him and to get him to take his costume off, though will Chicken Foot be willing to acknowledge the fact that his life since he put on the costume was a lie?
Guest Stars: John Garry (1) as Mysterious Mysteries Anchor / Reporter #2, Dwight Schultz as Eric / Japanese Leader
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
 
30 :01x30 - Megadoomer (Apr/26/2002)
The Almighty Tallest decide to send ZIM a box full of malfunctioning SIR units in order to cause him as many problems as possible, though when a rebel slave decides to switch two packages with one another, ZIM receives a Megadoomer Destruction Machine which is capable of annihilating entire planets, though he discovers that there’s no valid way of powering the machine. He decides to adapt the technology with Earth electricity and he manages to get the machine to work, in which he decides to immediately head to Dib’s home in order to destroy his archenemy once and for all.
Guest Stars: Wally Wingert as Megadoomer’s Computer, Richard Steven Horvitz as Malfunctioning SIR Units
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
 
31 :01x31 - Lice (Apr/26/2002)
When the skool suddenly gets hit with a lice infestation, Ms. Bitters calls in the lice authorities and they declare martial law over the entire skool zone. However, when it turns out that neither ZIM nor Ms. Bitters suffered from the lice, they decides to use ZIM as an experiment in order to try to find a cure that would instantly kill all the lice on a victim’s head. Meanwhile, Dib tries to escape from the skool since he doesn’t believe that they have any right to actually keep them there, though what he discovers about the lice startles him.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rob Hummel
 
32 :01x32 - TAK: The Hideous New Girl (May/10/2002)
When a mysterious new girl arrives at the skool on Valentine’s Day, she gives all the students meat, except for ZIM, in which she decides to read him a love poem she wrote. ZIM decides to do what he can in order to fully gain the new girl’s affection in order to study Earth love, though he eventually decides that it’s nothing but trouble. However, when the new girl arrives at ZIM’s house and reveals herself to be another Irken, she destroys ZIM’s base and tells him that she’s taking over his job as Invader. Now, ZIM must convince Dib to help him defeat TAK if he ever wishes to be able to destroy planet Earth on his own.
Guest Stars: Olivia d'Abo as TAK
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Jhonen Vasquez, Eric Trueheart
 
33 :01x33 - GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff (May/24/2002)
ZIM is extremely disappointed in how GIR constantly misbehaves, so he finally repairs GIR’s broken components, which causes him to become a fully functional SIR unit. However, when GIR starts to consider ZIM’s ignorance to be a threat to the mission, he betrays his master and charges into the local library in order to absorb as much knowledge about the human race as he can, as he wishes to complete the objective on his own. Now, it’s up to ZIM and a police officer who has the mind of a squid to try to stop GIR and convince him to go back to his foolish old ways.
Guest Stars: Richard Steven Horvitz as Man on Television
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
 
34 :01x34 - Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom (May/24/2002)
When Dib meets a pair of aliens who grant him supernatural abilities, he manages to defeat ZIM once and for all and he decides to use his abilities for the greater good of mankind. After Dib continuously proves himself after each extraordinary event, he realizes that the Irken Armada is on their way and he gets ready to destroy them in order to save the Earth and the universe. However, something about Dib’s life seems a bit too wonderful, in which ZIM soon proves to have more control over his destiny than he had originally thought.
Guest Stars: Greg Ellis as Meekrob, Jeffery Jones (1) as President Man
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Jhonen Vasquez, Eric Trueheart
 
35 :01x35 - Hobo 13 (Jul/12/2002)
In order to get his weaponry requests fulfilled by the Almighty Tallest, ZIM agrees to undergo military training at Hobo 13. However, the Almighty Tallest don’t expect ZIM to live and they begin to take wagers on how he’ll go about dying, though they force a waiter to bet a ludicrous amount of money on ZIM’s survival, in order to ensure that all the betters will actually win something. However, ZIM’s unique style of leadership soon proves to be more successful than the Almighty Tallest had hoped, so it’s up to Sergeant Hobo 678 to prevent ZIM from actually completing the gauntlet.
Guest Stars: R. Lee Ermey as Sergeant Hobo 678
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart, Danielle Koenig
 
36 :01x36 - Walk for Your Lives (Sep/28/2002)
While trying to perform an experiment on Dib in order to appease the Almighty Tallest, an explosion occurs that causes Dib to break free. However, when ZIM realizes that there is actually a piece of explosion that is expanding at a very slow pace, he decides to go put it in the center of town in order to have the world gradually be destroyed as time progresses. Now, it’s up to a very slow moving Dib to warn the world of ZIM’s plans, though when ZIM becomes impatient over how slowly things are going, he decides to try to speed things up.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
 
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