Talk:List of Invader Zim episodes

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Contents 1 List of unfinished episodes 2 Other stuff 3 Tables 4 Order 5 School vs. Skool

[edit] List of unfinished episodes

With the exception of 10 minutes to doom, Nubs of Doom, Day of da spookies and The trial, the unfinished episodes are not inportant enough to have sections of their own and deletions have been threatened. I have combined most of it into one large article, but left everything as it is, incase it doesn't work out (The list is kinda big) what does everyone propose we do? Devilmaycare 10:37, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Cite your sources. CovenantD 15:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Has been done Devilmaycare 16:47, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other stuff

There is supposably an alternate version of the pilot with (poor) cgi effects in the food fight. Images of this episode are in the room with a moose screenshot gallery, but there seems to be no way of califying whether this exists or is simply a hoax. Can someone clarify? Devilmaycare 11:33, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tables

A couple of notes after I put all the episodes into tables. I chose purple and green because those 2 colours appear loads in Invader Zim. The descriptions are crap so someone please change them lol. I don't have the DVD yet so I can't take screenshots without having the toonami logo in the corner. I put the episodes into production order, if that's too much of a problem for too many people then I'll fiddle the table around. My source dates are TV.com, if they're wrong then fix accordingly. umm, I think that's all. BillPP 01:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

One more thing, I removed information about episode animation and stuff as it didn't aline well with the tables. It could go back in if someone puts the production numbers with the info, I would but I dont know which episodes were the ones described. BillPP 01:46, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for doing all that work on the episode list. I've been doing a lot of work on the episodes themselves. I'm still experimenting with exactly what format each episode description needs but I'll get it all synced sooner or later (I work in an editorial office and do this sort of thing every day. I can only do so much at a time). What I'm mostly writing about is the color scheme you chose. I like it but the purple you chose is a little too light and makes the blue text, "List of Invader Zim episodes," on the episode pages nearly invisible. Maybe another shade of purple or even red, since that color figures so prominently in the show. Whichever you like will work, just as long as you can easily read the text underneath. Thanks. Philiplore 01:30, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I chose the purple as it's another colour that's used a lot in episodes. The navigator template was originally in Zim's skin colour green, there was a very brief discussion on the main Invader Zim talk page and the purple was requested. I agree with you and I've now changed the colour to Gir dogsuit-green. which shows up the text much better. BillPP 05:38, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Order

This should be listed in the production order, not the broadcasting order, as this was the order chosen by Vasquez himself for the DVDs. +Hexagon1 ^(t) 04:58, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

However, that isn't the way things are typically done here. --InShaneee 17:55, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Pardon me? So what if they aren't, well change that. This is a wiki, not Microsoft. And what exactly do you refer to by "here". If you mean Wikipedia in general, look here, for instance. The order chosen for DVDs in usually regarded as the final order in the industry. If Vasquez and his team chose one order to be the final one, why is this listed in another order used by a single channel in a single country? Nick almost always broadcasts everything wildly out of order. +Hexagon1 ^(t) 01:44, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] School vs. Skool

In Invader Zim, school is always spelled "skool." I notice this humorous spelling is used in the articles for the actual episodes. Should it not be used in this list as well? Another annoying question -- since the Skool in Invader Zim is a very specific school, should it not also be capitalized everywhere it is used? -- Tckma 19:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

It seems to me that it could be changed in this list. The first occurrence will need to be in quotations, making it clear to someone unfamiliar with the show that it's not just a typo. If it doesn't look right, it can be changed back or fine tuned as needed. I think there are still several articles that need to be changed as well. I just don't have enough time on my hands for this lately, especially with the holidaze here.

Unfortunately, we don't know enough about the Zim universe to make a definitive grammatical decision on the capitalization. If the word, "school" is commonly spelled as "skool" in that universe, and the 'skool' is one of many 'skools,' then it should be lowercase. If their "Skool" is the only one spelled that way, or the only one that exists, then it should be uppercase. We've never been given any indication that there are or aren't other schools, so there's no way to know for sure. The school is never given a proper name (maybe it just has a number) but there must be other schools and some way to differentiate between them. A logical universe would dicate lowercase, but this show doesn't exactly hold to logic, so... It could also be argued that it's a unique artistic creation and therefore should be capped. It might look really weird being capped everywhere though. So who knows? --Philiplore 16:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I believe that it should be spelled 'skool', however, there is no way, as I see, to tell about upper or lower case. On the first usage of 'skool', we should add (sic), to ensure it is not interpreted as an error. Devilmaycare 17:04, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

How about this: Have the first instance of the term appear as " 'skool' (sic)", and afterwards refer to it as "school". --InShaneee 20:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Works for me—"'skool' (sic)" on the first instance and "school" after. Philiplore 17:05, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Seems like a good idea Devilmaycare 17:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)