Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Invader Zim merchandise, Jhonen Vasquez, List of Invader Zim characters, List of Invader Zim episodes, The Nightmare Begins. Excerpt: Invader Zim is an American animated television series that was produced by, and subsequently aired on Nickelodeon. The series revolves around an extraterrestrial named Zim from the planet Irk and his ongoing mission to conquer and/or destroy a dark and satirical version of the Earth. His various attempts to subjugate and destroy the human race are invariably undermined by some combination of his own ineptitude, his malfunctioning robot servant GIR, and his arch-nemesis Dib, one of very few humans not oblivious enough to be unaware of Zim's identity. Invader Zim was first broadcast on March 30, 2001. The show was targeted at children in their early teens, and met with critical acclaim. However, after the first season the show's ratings began to suffer. Before the second season was completed, Nickelodeon cancelled the series, leaving at least sixteen episodes and a planned television movie series finale unfinished. Because of its continued fan base and above average DVD sales since cancellation, Invader Zim has been called a cult hit The series consists of a pilot episode, forty-six canon episodes, and at least seventeen episodes that were in production at the time of the series' cancellation. As of August 19, 2006, all forty-six canon episodes have aired on television and been released on DVD. On December 24, 2011 the pilot episode finally aired on television. Thirty-eight episodes were originally broadcast in pairs, each twelve-minute episode debuting in the same half-hour. There are eight double length episodes. This list is ordered by the episode order in the DVD releases, with broadcast dates noted for proper viewing. Almost every episode was directed by Steve Ressel; the only...