Dear Die-ary...

Made a random discovery today. Jhonen's favorite IZ episode is "Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars", which is, oddly enough, my favorite episode too. And don't think I just decided that it would be that, because it's been my favorite episode since I first saw it, so theeeeeeere. Speaking of Jhonen, he never replied to my email. *sigh* Oh well.

In case you weren't wondering, the episode is about... oh boy, it's quite complicated. If you've seen it already, or just can't be bothered to read my review on it, skip to the next paragraph now. Anyway, OK, Zim has a random monster thing in a container-thing. The monster sucks out brains. In a painful way. He has to monitor the monster, so it doesn't wake up (he wants to release it on the humans). OK, so he put GIR in charge of that task (big mistake). Anyway, so Zim decides that the Tallest, the Irken leaders, should witness him taking over the planet with his brain-sucking monster. And since he just happened to notice that the Massive, the Tallest's spaceship thing, was nearer to Earth than ever before ("Creepy, eh?" "Hey! That's pretty creepy! You're creepy, Zim!"), he suggested they come down to earth and see it all. But, the Tallest made excuses (they hate his guts, really). So Zim decides to get some random technology from a Vortian, another alien, to fly the Massive from his own base. Back at the Massive, a resisting party comes face-to-face with the Massive, wanting to stop Operation Impending Doom 2 (taking over the universe. By the way, Zim ruined OID1 by destroying his own planet ... by accident ... which is why the Tallest hate him). They call themselves... THE RESISTY. But, y'know, Tallest Purple says how that's a stupid name, and Lard Nar, the leader of the Resisty, says, "See, I told you it was stupid! Why do I keep listening to you!?!" That bit wasn't really needed, was it? Whatever. Anyway, the Tallest tell the crew of the Massive to blow them up, to which all of the Resisty members start screaming 'n' stuff. But just as the Massive was about to fire the laser, they suddenly lose control of the ship, and start jerking around in all different directions. The reason? Zim's got hold of it. He's controlling the ship from his base. So, at this point, the Resisty finds this the perfect opportunity to blast at them and, "Get those snacks!!" Back at Zim's base, he finds that he's also losing control of the ship, and finds Dib's also controlling it! (I love the way they display this with, "New player... START" like in a game... but not many people really notice this.) So blah blah blah, Zim and Dib are both trying to control the Massive, the Resisity's blasting at the Massive... Soon, the containment levels of the parasite-monster thing are going critical, so Zim has to go back and deal with that. Meanwhile, a little kid is at the door of Zim's house, where the RoboParents answer it. Then they start playing catch with the kid. Sounds innocent? The kid is the one they're throwing around. Then they go outside and announce to the neighbors outside, "Come on over everyone and help us eat this little boy!" So Zim declares, "WE'RE NORMAL!! WE'RE NORMAL!!" and does a little dance, then grabs the kid from the RoboParents (and throw him). At this point the RoboParents say that was bad manners, and so they're after him, to teach him a lesson (and to play in the toilet). He runs back to his base, and blocks the RoboParents from coming down, where GIR has taken Zim's place on flying the Massive, and Dib's getting annoyed that, "It's my turn!!" So, Zim takes over, after telling a hyped-up GIR to monitor the monster. GIR runs off a little, then falls asleep. Soon, Zim's computer has located Dib's 'spy bug'. Zim finds out that Dib is piloting the Massive via Tak's ship (another episode, don't worry. Unless if you want me to explain that episode as well...). So Zim 'reminds' Tak's ship that it's Irken technology, and so the ship throws Dib out, and turns on him. Meanwhile, the Tallest have figured out the problem on how they can't fly the Massive. So, they beam the transmission Zim had on the Massive's power core onto the Resisty's power core. So now they can't fly their ship. Their only way to get out of this situation is to abandon ship, and activate the 'shrinking self-destruct'. Back on Earth... "Hah! Watch, Dib! Watch as I bring a royal audience to the downfall of the human race!" "I don't wanna watch that!" "Oh, okay. ...WAIT! that's too bad!" Then Dib runs out screaming because Zim called his head big. Aw. Dib's also scared because the Massive's coming, and he can't stop it (NOOOOO). He then looks at the sky, and sees the Resisty's ship, which he thinks is the Massive, coming down to Earth. It then shrinks and shrinks... until it explodes. In a very small way. Dib just stares. Theeeeen, Zim get's a warning from his computer that the monster is awake. Meeeeeeeeanwhile, the Tallest send a transmission to Zim's base. The Tallest just stare, in a shocky-way. Purple throws up at the sight of Zim's base. Here's what they see.

Hey, I told you it was complicated. That's a half-hour episode I've just explained there. Personally, my favorite quote is this:

Zim: You're nothing, Earth boy! Go home and shave your giant head of smell with your bad self!
Dib: Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

As you can tell, not much has happened today. I don't actually know WHY I just spent all this time explaining it all, when you could've just gone here to get the transcript. I have filled you with Zimmy knowledge!! Isn't that neat?? Now I need something to say. Non-Zim related. Is there such a topic????

Hmm.

Nope, nothing. But I've been trying all day to find somewhere that sells a GIR toy. I've tried everywhere, eBay, Dealtime, Google, Froogle, Ask, Amazon... it seems that no one is supplying them anymore. I have a Zim toy, of course, but a GIR toy seems impossible to get. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA etc. Please scream at me if you find a GIR toy, especially if it's a doggy-suit GIR toy!! ...What? It's called a doggy-suit. Plus I want it. NOOOOOOOW. Yeah. GIR is awesome...

Ooh, here's something non-Zim related, but cartoon-related. Today was filled with Fairly Odd Parents goodness. They aired the original pilot episodes, and new ones too. How fuuuuuuun. Plus there was the airing of a new SpongeBob episode!! Cartoons are the way of life, my child. No I did not give birth to you.

I... I really need something to do for the remaining... 6 days of holiday.

# Bobbin slithered back into the shadows at 11:27 PM