a show that i've yet to really speak about on the channel but one that holds an odd love in
my heart is invader zim for sure i will cover it properly down the line but for the love of fringe
miss i figured that we would cover the christmas special of the show the most horrible x-mas ever
what better way to celebrate the holiday season i try to include some fun ones from the show not
everyone was expecting and the ones that i distinctly remember so today let's take a
look at this episode of invader zim and see why it's such a fun weird and interesting take on a
christmas themed special so welcome back or hello for the first time to the 25 days of fringe miss
where i cover something interesting nostalgic or holiday related every day from the 1st of december
to the 25th in order to find that holiday spirit i lost nearly a decade ago so if you want to
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we open up on a special santa cameo in the intro of the show you can never go wrong with impressing
me on a little opening intro detail we enter earth 2 million years into the future where
kids have cybernetics built into them and robots are sentient like frosty here who is telling the
kids christmas tales the kids though ask for the tale of the most horrible xmas ever reluctant at
first but quickly changing his mind to do so he begins the tale now we head back two million years
into the past where zim is dressed as a human trying to earn money donations from actual humans
for gur who is dressed like a dog eating snow kerr also eats the floating dialogue bubble that the
snowman is telling the tale in a very invader zim type of thing to do frustrated with not receiving
any money he notices one of the guys dressed up as santa taking donations something you would
see outside of a grocery store during the holiday season he goes and tackles him as he sees him as
competition but then notices that it's not just him they're everywhere on every block doing the
same thing ringing that bell so now when at the mall where you can meet santa gir in disguise
starts asking for santa for so just so much stuff and starts driving santa insane zim calls out to
gerda now spring the trap as they capture them all santa and sneak him out of the mall and into their
home lab fake santa starts telling a different tale of santa where everyone is awaiting his
return as if santa in general has disappeared and was once a real thing also just the movement of
his eyeballs not matching is a detail that makes me feel as equally uncomfortable as anything in
invader zim as a series in general i don't know why but the eye stuff just makes me feel a bit
uneasy and i've had lasik so in order to start the process of learning about the holiday season and
everything about santa he needs to drain this santa's brain in order to enact his evil plan
clear the way for more invaders in coming up next here on nicktube it's time for nicktoons
as we start looking through the information inside of fake
santa we see a bunch of different things pop up like oh no eggnog
it's back
an o call s c o what's s skull wha what's a skull
anyway sorry about that weird stuff has been happening if you've seen any of the content
over the past few weeks you already know that where were we ah yes zim continues on to torture
him for a long time but at the same time dib is working on his alien spaceship but hasn't gotten
it to work yet at one point shutting down all the power on earth because of it but it's okay
his dad professor membrane has the master power switch of the whole planet and turns it back on so
that was easy gaz however is transfixed on the neighbor's dog who three years ago ate the head
off her doll and she wants it back this will be important later for now it's just gas things
now it is shown thanks to the news that zim is wearing a santa outfit flying around pretending
to be him as the citizens of the world are excited over the fact that santa has returned even the
president steps aside to give santa here full power dib notices right away that something is
off and that it's another one of zim's tricks as far as professor membrane he's not too excited for
santa's return in fact he hates the holly jolly red outfitted man for dipping him over a christmas
present back in the day hmm sounds familiar back on the news santa zim invites everyone
to some massive gatherings he's hosting around the world and at the main event itself he takes
to his massive throne on his massive stage for his massive gathering if i say massive one more time
i may just stop the video right then and there so back to the gathering which by the way is massive
well that one's on me sorry about that but we back don't worry his robot elves start singing
a song and a holiday tune about obeying santa and the implications that follow if you don't
follow so zim then invents a new tradition one where everyone has to go to the north pole and
help build a massive almost got me there a giant teleporter one that would send them to their doom
and the humans well they're easily convinced but before ending the event a bunch of kids want to
see santa and give them their wants for christmas so when they start jumping all over him which
almost seems like they're attacking him his suit starts to malfunction from its protocol where it
gives him some of that holiday spirit to listen to the kids and start giving them stuff for christmas
but only for a moment as zim breaks out of the trance and gets all the children off of him dib
comes running out onto the stage to confront sim and explain to the crowd that this is all just a
trick and how foolish they are for falling for this being the real santa but the crowd
doesn't believe him in the slightest so they start chucking things at him like a whole car
hmm seems like it had good crash test ratings zim then captures him and puts him in jingle
jail as he then precedes his reign of holiday terror what in the dictatorship is going on
back in the future we see the children critique the story being told as frosty is like bro let
me finish so now we continue the story being told where zim is now gearing up and flying out to the
north pole to enact his overall plan dib however breaks out a jingle jail as the bars were just
candy canes he steals an outfit from one of the robot elves and just
shoves him aside zim none the wiser and for the sake of exposition dumps that villains like to do
thinks that dib is one of the robot elves where he reveals how the suit was made and what is
going to happen we learned that the suit has a mind of its own and it begins getting jolly at
anything christmas related changing zim's whole personality like we saw earlier and well again now
thanks to gur in this moment dib tries attacking him with a candy cane but the suit just absorbs it
giving the suit more power in general zim breaks free once again from the hole it had on him
and then tosses dib into a tougher jingle jail and then drops him off somewhere in the arctic and his
problem is quickly resolved as he calls gaz and admits to her that the neighbor dog will didn't
really eat the head of her doll but he used the head for an experiment which causes her to show
up immediately to not only save him but to beat him up now at the north pole zim invented device
that should hold back the suit's power when around anything christmas related and at first seems like
everything is working out great so hey good for him dib overall is excited that he got his ship
to work but really it was gazz the real hero here but dib calls into his dad professor membrane who
usually would never give him the time of day but once he mentions santa he actually does give him
some attention and allows him to use some of his personal gadgets to get the job done invader zim
is coming up next right here on nicktoons invaders in only on nicktoons network not just cartoons
the teleporter is now ready and zim convinces the humans to give it a shot and thanks to this guy
tripping we see the stuffed animal he was holding get transported right to the ship of the almighty
tallest purple and the almighty tallest red who are just as confused as we are as to what the heck
just happened his suit however is fighting back against the device which fully pushes it out
turning him back into the holly jolly zim once again but now it's so powerful that it completely
consumes him trapping him in the liquid void of the inside of santa i guess dib shows up decked
out with a powerful mech to attack him but santa doesn't like that one bit it became personal with
me he now starts consuming all the christmas stuff around him turning him into this christmas spider
water noose looking monstrosity to take out the mech ah nice the holiday-based kaiju fight i've
been waiting for at one point santa expels some of the liquid inside of him releasing zim back out
into the world and big old spider santa here gets launched into space dib takes all the credit for
this which causes everyone to get angry for what he did to santa he then gives a compelling speech
about that not being santa and what christmas is all about but zim became the easter platypus and
offers all the human shrimp if they attack dib which they do hey who can resist some goodies to
shrimp in december am i right so everything ends in a big failure for everyone involved nothing
is really learned and we all enjoyed ourselves back in the future robot jack frost tells them
that santa now lives in space getting stronger so that every year he can come back to earth and
attack once more but that's why they've built in a protective dome to stop him now as he's become
a giant beast the end a very weird episode but i am not surprised when it comes to invader zim
that show made weird cool and fun for so many its weirdness works because it's baked into
every aspect of the show from the art to the voice acting to whatever happens in an episode remember
hate all the other kids organs at one point yeah this show either stuck with you because of its
surreal nature or scarred you for life because of it i like this christmas special because it oozes
that weirdness for the holiday that shouldn't or primarily doesn't have you don't take away any big
lessons no one really saves the day but they stop santa and he's now in space yeah but two million
years from now he's still coming back to earth and attacking them all so who who really saved
the day here no one and speaking of that even the future it looks even more bleak to live in
than back in the modern day of zim it's dark but it's fun a nice look into a creative mind of ideas
that in most any cases would never work here for the holiday spirit but at least for me really do
will it get you into any sort of holiday spirit watching it maybe if you were like i am because
of how contrasting this show and the episode are to what the holiday season is usually like and how
other shows and cartoons portray it to be for that alone it belongs on my yearly watch list for the
season something that offsets the other stuff i'm watching and stands out so much more because of it
by no means is this the best episode from invader zim but stacking it up against other christmas and
holiday specials it definitely deserves a spot on the list but what about you what are your thoughts
on this episode of invader zim and would you watch this every year as part of your holiday watching
traditions let me know in the comments thanks so much for hanging out with me today make sure
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