Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom

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Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom is an Invader Zim episode originally produced as episode 16 but aired as episode 12 on October 26, 2001. It was written by Rob Hummel and guest starred Kevin Michael Richardson as Monster #1.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Dib shows up late for class on Halloween, blaming his lateness on periodically sliding between dimensions where aliens and ghosts roam. The rest of the class deems him crazy and he is placed in a mental asylum. There he is sent back to the nightmare world and is taken out of his cell to be taken to the horrible leader of the Halloween world. Presently he slips back into reality. After escaping, he tracks down Zim (who is convinced trick or treaters are real monsters after his 'blood candy') and drags him into the alternate universe. It turns out that the horrible nightmare world exists within Dib's very own gargantuan head where grotesque, horrifying Nightmare versions of Gaz, Membrane, Ms. Bitters and even Johnny The Homicidal Maniac stalk about. Having already conquered her world, Nightmare Bitters plots to leave Dib's head with the other monsters and conquer his world. Meanwhile, GIR has been instructed to stop the trick or treating kids from coming to the base, which he does... in a fashion.

Eventually, Dib and Zim escape from Dib's head, but Zim is thrown into his fence and gets injured. The aftermath of GIR's servitude is revealed: little kids are all lying about, injured, while GIR, having eaten all of their candy, is a bloated mass. Nightmare Bitters' head pops out of Dib, ready to conquer, but recoiles when she sees the hideous mangled children in costume, and a very bloated and grotesque GIR in his dog suit. She returns to the world inside Dib's head. Dib starts to walk off, but returns for a lollipop nearby.

[edit] Miscellanea

  • Rodger Bumpass provides the voice of "Nightmare" Bitters. [1]
  • Keef is seen with the other monsters, unchanged from his regular form, and was described as scary enough by Jhonen on the commentary.
  • The motion detector that Zim is using when the kids in halloween costumes draw closer to his house is very much like the motion sensors in the Alien movies, and has the same signature sound.
  • The "Nightmare" world's quest for "The Boy with the Blinking Neck" recalls the Downworld's search for "The Wrecker" in the TV series The Odyssey.
  • The Skoolroom in the "Nightmare" dimension resembles Queen Beryl's throne room in Sailor Moon; "Nightmare" Bitters wears an outfit similar to Beryl's. The Nightmare Creature's punishment of "Eternal Screaming... and... umm... Restlessness!" recalls Jedite's sentence of "Restless Eternal Sleep".
  • Jhonen's comicbook character Johnny the Homicidal Maniac makes a cameo in this episode. He is a silhouette with purple eyes that is with the Nightmare Creatures in the Nightmare Skool. He is visible in the top right of the screen at roughly 18:25 into the episode. This extra spooky version of Johnny has been fan-dubbed 'Nightmare Nny'.


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Season One Episodes Pilot • The Nightmare Begins • Parent Teacher Night • Walk of Doom • Bestest Friend • NanoZIM • Germs • Dark Harvest • Attack of the Saucer Morons • The Wettening • Career Day • Battle-Dib • A Room with a Moose • Hamstergeddon • Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain • Planet Jackers • Rise of the Zitboy • Plague of Babies • Bloaty's Pizza Hog • Bolognius Maximus • Game Slave 2 • Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom • Mysterious Mysteries • Future Dib • Door to Door • FBI Warning of Doom • Battle of the Planets • Abducted • The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot • Megadoomer • Lice • Tak: The Hideous New Girl • GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff • Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom • Hobo 13 •

Walk for Your Lives
Season Two Episodes The Most Horrible X-mas Ever • Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars • Mortos Der Soulstealer • Zim Eats Waffles • The Girl Who Cried Gnome • Dibship Rising • Vindicated • The Voting of the Doomed • Gaz, Taster of Pork • The Frycook What Came from All That Space • unfinished episodes
Main Characters Zim • GIR • Dib • Gaz • Almighty Tallest
Planets Callnowia • Conventia • Foodcourtia • Irk • Meekrob
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