Another Thing To Love About Tak, The Hideous New Girl Was

Another thing to love about “Tak, the Hideous New Girl” was

Every one of the core main characters playing an equally necessary and coordinated role in saving the Earth,

Zim leading Tak and Mimi away from the magma pump as a diversion,

allowing Dib (who would have been bodied had he tried to square with them head-on) to single handedly shut down the building before the planet was irreversibly cleaned out.

Meanwhile Gaz remains at the base in order to utilize GIR (who if left alone is not able to keep himself on task or come up with a smart way to help) as a way to remotely sabotage Tak,

Which allowed Zim (who was almost certainly going to lose that aerial fight otherwise, not up for debate) to deal the finishing blow and give Tak the boot.

If any one of them had stood by or failed in what part they decided to play, this entire thing would have been a bust, and Tak’s plan would have succeeded. It elevates the episode by involving the whole main character group successfully working together to accomplish something AND it demonstrates just how much of a threat Tak herself was that this was what was needed to take her down. Absolutely season finale worthy.

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Muggshot coming to end the Cooper bloodline

If I were Dib honestly I wouldn’t be doing TikTok prank antics with Zim like throwing lunch meats and cheese slices at his head when he’s not looking I’d be pelting that bastard with commercial pesticides based off whatever hunch about his biology entered my mind. There’s so much room for REAL investigative science here, like learning what happens when Irken skin comes into contact with DDT or triadimefon.

Knowing from “The Trial” about how far back the history between these two goes makes this scene so much funnier to me

[oc] Father