Lice (Invader Zim)

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Lice is an Invader Zim episode, staring Dib and a one-off character Countess Von Verminstrasser. Originally produced as episode 18A, "Lice" aired as episode 17B on April 26, 2002.

[edit] Plot

Dib is in front of class, talking about Galileo Galilei and how everyone thought that he was crazy, but he turned out to be right. Melvin arrives in class late, with lice in his hair, which quickly spreads to all the children except Zim. Miss Bitters presses a large red button on her desk, activating a teleportation device summoning Countess Von Verminstrasser, the delouser, and her henchmen. They seal off the building and give a large presentation in front of the school about how they are to remove the lice, and draw attention to the fact that Zim and Miss Bitters have no lice at all, and will be taken for immunity research. Verminstrasser has a theory that there is a lice queen that spreads the lice everywhere. Dib thinks she is crazy, which is rather hypocritical seeing on how crazy all of the Skool kids think he is. After escaping the delousing, Dib and Melvin (both handcuffed together) attempt to escape and end up confronting the countess. The floor caves in, revealing a large tunnel with the 'Queen louse'. Having found out that Zim's skin kills lice, the countess places him in a blender-gun hybrid that rips off his skin and fires it at the louse, killing it, saving the school and heavily damaging Zim's lower body.

[edit] Trivia

  • This is one of the two episodes set entirely in the school, the other being Dark Harvest
  • The episode was originally going to be called 'Lice Nazis', but was considered inappropriate. They suggested the name 'Lice of Doom', but as the episode was to be paired with Megadoomer, it was changed to simply Lice.
  • The Queen Louse is a homage to Alien, which Jhonen is a huge fan of. Countess Von Verminstrasser even says "Close your eyes, baby" as she aims the blender gun at the Queen Louse; a line used by Ellen Ripley in Aliens.
  • The character Countess Von Verminstrasser The Delouser was voiced by Mindy Sterling.


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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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