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THE TALLESTS FACES ARE ON THE PENNIES
So I finally did my rewatch of the episode the other day and good lord…
I’m honestly just as baffled as her by this point.
Speaking of blissful morons, an extra compilation of Dib being strung along for a fool
Tak during that call she made to the Tallest, I’m sure:
Getting around finally to my rewatch of Tak: The Hideous New Girl, and something’s snagged a wrinkle in my head.
When I was younger, I really could not understand what was up with the first half or so of Tak’s introduction, and I honestly chalked up that entire “dating” montage between her and Zim as filler to pad a few laughs and minutes over until the big reveal. Like, she already had about all of the preparations together that she needed to get started on her revenge planet-stuffing plot.
She’d even been on Earth for a good while already, setting up and maintaining that weenie stand front, gathering resources, investing in a solid disguise, etc. if all she needed to do left was get Zim out of the way, and she had managed to track him down… I didn’t see the sense it made in her going the extra mile to enroll in the Skool rather than confront him at his base directly. I especially did not see the sense in her stalling her big master plan in order or read poetry or blow off an entire day humoring his deluded assumptions.
Well, I literally just realized- She had never actually met Zim face to face before the events of this episode. And the guy himself is probably something of a terrifying legend to the rest of his kind, for the context of his mission and banishment. This is the pipsqueak who single handedly ruined Operation Impending Doom I’s take off and recklessly massacred the previous batch of elite Invaders in the process. Said pipsqueak was also capable of knocking half the entire power grid of a planet out over some fun dip, had the balls to reject his own banishment, and still successfully convinced the Tallest somehow to return his job title.
Tak would obviously be aware of every bit of this. That’s why she went to the Skool first, and not alone straight into the lair of the most destructive and unpredictable Irken to currently exist. She was sizing up her opponent on neutral grounds, where neither of them would be able to break into an all-out, cover blowing fight yet.
The poem she read was as thinly veiled a threat/challenge as she could pass off in front of humans, but Zim was still supposed to get the intended message… if only he did not miss the painfully obvious reference to the Armada’s logo she made a part of her disguise.
And the next immediate thing she’s caught doing after pelting Zim with a set of bbq ribs?
I can vividly imagine how easy the lead up to that conversation probably was, too. Dib’s desperately liable to spill everything to the first soul that seems remotely interested in a single word he has to say when it comes to Zim. So, between that and Zim reacting to her first blow so obliviously, she already learned everything she needed to know- mostly, what an absolute fucking joke her potential rival turned out to be. From there really, it looks like it turned into a game of screwing around with him while she still had time to kill- maybe just out of amused curiosity to see how long Zim would try to keep the valentines antics up, maybe just for the sick kicks of inflicting more petty cruelty on him,
Maybe a little mix of both, actually.
today in “IZ realizations I’m surprised didn’t hit me years ago”:
THE RESISTY MADE A STOP OR TWO AT SCHLOOGORGH’S FLAVOR MONSTER
You might know about that one Vortian who shows up a couple times on screen in “The Frycook that Came From all that Space” yeah? This one
Now I remembered them all this time too, but in my head, I just said to myself that this was just another Vortian. After all, we’ve seen so few of them, it would be kind of a stretch to assume any grey member of the species on screen has to be a Lard cameo, right?
Except the longer I looked at this guy the more I noticed they had Nar’s look copied down to the outfit.
Well, it’s not too out of line for animators to reuse models a bit for quick background extras, either, that’s still no concrete-
oh hi, Spleenk
Oh hi Shloonktapooxis
OH HI THREE HEADED GUY WHO WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE CLUB
Well hot shit on a stick, now my tune has giddily changed to “the Resisty freaking cameo’d chilling around together on Foodcourtia” and i wish I could relay how absolutely funny it is now to know I’ve seen what Lard Nar looks like without his goggles since I was a kid,
And it’s just as ridiculous as I have always dreamed it would be
Obsessed with this little gag in “Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars” when, as the Resisty approach The Massive, the Tallest drop the donuts they were excitedly mowing though beforehand.
And then after like one second of pause, all of the navigators on the bridge (who, mind you, are almost always portrayed as some of the most mature and rational irkens of the whole species) all freaking swarm forward and start fighting each other for those pastries like a pack of starving rats.
The way they all begin the shot not even doing their jobs, too. Just gathered up to watch Red and Purple eat those donuts and quietly pray for scraps like this lmfao. I assume away from post just because the Massive was parked for a break. AND the fact that not one of them hesitates for even a second before basically stealing food from their distracted, but still almighty leaders. Either those were just some particularly good donuts, or Irkens act like greedy cat/dogs whenever they get the chance around someone who currently has food they don’t.
Obsessed with how Membrane picks up his kids and how unbothered they are by it
They sure have a love for puppets :)
can mew guys do me a biiig favor and reblog this with/send me ur favorite tallest screenshots purretty please? 🥺
@verm1c1de I originally wanted to go for sentimental slideshow format but forgot that tumblr won’t let you put videos on rblgs. Not letting this humor and effort go to waste
The funny part is that once you’ve noticed him making that expression you’ll never unsee it again upon future rewatches of that scene/episode
Oh my goodness
he
this feels illegal
She’s fine.
No issues at all.
Like I mean literally even the non-maniacal ones can’t help but laugh like utter supervillains
Fun side fact: I happened to pause on this one frame while editing and it legit startled me
Golden rule of Invader Zim character design: no one who’s anyone is allowed to have a laugh that is anything short of iconic
I… forgot about that. Somehow.
And also this.
One Zim quote per episode per day.
S02E06: The Frycook What Came From All That Space
He’s literally one of the most enjoyable characters to watch absolutely eat shit in a tumble ever designed. Total rubber ball of a person. The human incarnation of watching a slinky descending down a flight of stairs.
Florpus successor:
crispy (dib) quality of these wonderful frames