"The show was being projected around the place, but it was too loud to really pay attention, but I do recall thinking how strange and surreal it was to see this thing from my imagination on actual television finally. "I don’t remember much from the night besides Rikki Simons, the voice actor for Gir, having his foot crushed by someone and ending up in a cast," Vasquez tells SYFY WIRE about the night. On that epic evening back in 2001, Nickelodeon held a premiere release party at a club in swanky Glendale, California. In the years that followed, despite a lack of actual new Invader Zim episodes, there have been action figures, two major conventions, comic books, and a plethora of merch. The show sunk its hooks into the culture’s mind shortly thereafter and paved the way for what has definitely become a cult classic. Indeed, the pilot episode expertly set up the series, with Zim (voiced by Richard Horvitz alternating between insecure and demonic) and hapless robot Gir (Rikki Simons) infiltrating a suburban neighborhood and then a ‘Skool,’ only to be discovered by Andy Berman’s Dib, whom no one believes. Video of " Invader Zim" Theme Song (HQ) | Episode Opening Credits | Nick Animation A few days after the premiere episode aired, Steven Oxman of Variety gave it a relatively favorable review, claiming, “The cartoon captures a nice blend of the innocent and the satirical and should appeal to Nick’s core audience of youngsters and early teenagers.”
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Invader Zim was the brainchild of comic book creator Jhonen Vasquez, and Nickelodeon took a chance on this bizarre but lovable series by commissioning 13 episodes for a first season, which eventually totaled 2 seasons, 27 episodes, and a Netflix movie by the show’s end. So let’s take a moment to look back at Invader Zim, 20 years after the first invasion. He was thwarted occasionally by conspiracy-loving Dib Membrane and his sister Gaz, but most often by his own incompetence and the weirdness of our world itself. And it went quite badly, as he understood very little of our society. Tomorrow marks the 20th Anniversary since the poorly-disguised alien - with help from his equally poorly-disguised and possibly insane robot sidekick Gir - attempted to conquer our planet. Specifically, a bug-eyed, antenna sporting, green-skinned, over-emphasizing invader named Zim. Well… the crosshairs of the most overconfident and least-skilled of Irken invaders. On March 30, 2001, humanity learned we were not alone in the universe… and that we were in the crosshairs of the ruthless, relentless Irken Invaders.