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INVADER ZIM Fact #1

The original motion capture suit for the ZIM character

The original motion capture suit for the ZIM character

To this day when my head is as elsewhere as it can be, fans still write to me or come up to me at conventions or toilet stalls to ask this or that about INVADER ZIM, and equally as impressive as the show’s staying power is the seeming toxicity of the incorrect information surrounding the show.  Even looking up the IMDB or Wikipedia info comes up with stuff that I don’t recognize as being entirely accurate, so I can see how people can be a bit off when recounting “the truth” about the show and its production.

What’s more bothersome, though, is the manner in which the information gets spread, passed on from person to person, spreading like a virus that doesn’t have any room for anything but absolutes.  This particular virus is a stupid, ignorant virus, however, seemingly proud to pass along ANY bit of information about a thing it is obsessed with no matter how painfully wrong it is.

So here I am to relate the first of many facts throughout the month of March!  I do this because I am fucking awesome.
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INVADER ZIM and McRib, separated at birth?

Weirdly enough, this was an actual promotional poster for the show

People keep telling me that INVADER ZIM is going to be airing on Nicktoons for the month of March, and only for the month of March, as part of national cancelled show awareness month or something.  Apparently it’s true, and that’ll be good news to some people, so that’s cool – people need stuff to watch and ZIM is definitely capable of making televisions display images emit sounds.  The whole one-month-only thing is funny to me, though, and reminds me of how McDonalds would, every couple of years or so, thaw out their subterranean warehouse where they store their McRib slug, a creature whose sole purpose is to use its great ovipositor to shit out McRib patties, and sell the sandwiches for a limited time only.  I’m not sure if that’s still the case with McRibs, but that’s how I remember the situation.
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