Jhonen Vasquez is the mind behind the creation of the American animated television series Invader Zim. On March30,2001, the show made its debut on Nickelodeon for the first time. The plot of the series centers on an alien being known as Zim, who hails from a planet known as Irk, and his never-ending quest to subjugate and destroy Earth. His numerous attempts to subjugate and destroy the human race are invariably thwarted by some combination of his own ineptitude, the malfunctioning of his robot servant GIR, and a young paranormal investigator by the name of Dib, who is one of the very few people attentive enough to be aware of Zim's identity. Although the show Invader Zim was aimed towards children in their early teens and received positive reviews, the show's ratings started to drop after the first season and have continued to do so ever since. As a result of Nickelodeon's decision to discontinue the show prior to the completion of the second season, at least twenty-three episodes and a planned television movie intended as the series finale were never produced. With a pilot, forty-six televised episodes, and about seventeen episodes that were in production at the time the series was cancelled, the show has maintained a cult following since the series was canceled. On August19,2006, all forty-six of the show's episodes were shown on television for the first time. Nineteen of the episodes are broken up into their own standalone storylines, with each one lasting approximately twelve minutes. There are a total of eight episodes that are twice as long. Steve Ressel was the director of each and every episode, with the exception of the pilot, which Jordan Reichek was in charge of directing.
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Jhonen Vasquez is the mind behind the creation of the American animated television series Invader Zim. On March30,2001, the show made its debut on Nickelodeon for the first time. The plot of the series centers on an alien being known as Zim, who hails from a planet known as Irk, and his never-ending quest to subjugate and destroy Earth. His numerous attempts to subjugate and destroy the human race are invariably thwarted by some combination of his own ineptitude, the malfunctioning of his robot servant GIR, and a young paranormal investigator by the name of Dib, who is one of the very few people attentive enough to be aware of Zim's identity. Although the show Invader Zim was aimed towards children in their early teens and received positive reviews, the show's ratings started to drop after the first season and have continued to do so ever since. As a result of Nickelodeon's decision to discontinue the show prior to the completion of the second season, at least twenty-three episodes and a planned television movie intended as the series finale were never produced. With a pilot, forty-six televised episodes, and about seventeen episodes that were in production at the time the series was cancelled, the show has maintained a cult following since the series was canceled. On August19,2006, all forty-six of the show's episodes were shown on television for the first time. Nineteen of the episodes are broken up into their own standalone storylines, with each one lasting approximately twelve minutes. There are a total of eight episodes that are twice as long. Steve Ressel was the director of each and every episode, with the exception of the pilot, which Jordan Reichek was in charge of directing.
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