The Frycook What Came from All That Space
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The Frycook What Came from All That Space is an episode of the popular animated television series Invader Zim, originally produced as Episode 23. While not airing on Nickelodeon in the US, it aired on the Nicktoons Network in the US on August 19, 2006. It is the last episode that has aired on Invader ZIM.
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[edit] Plot details
The episode begins with Dib trying, yet again, to persuade the class that Zim is an alien. After Dib snaps and loses his mind for a brief moment, the ceiling of the classroom is destroyed and a large alien descends into the room. The alien grabs Zim and blasts off back into outer space. Once on the large alien's ship, Zim realizes that the ship is an Irken vessel, and the alien is an Irken. The alien reveals that he is Sizz-Lorr, the owner of the Foodcourtia restaurant, Shloogorgh's, to which Zim was banished after ruining Operation Impending Doom I.
Sizz-Lorr explains that, after Zim left for the Great Assigning, The Foodening began. The Foodening is Foodcourtia's most disgusting event, when so many snackers come that their combined gravitational pull is so great that nothing can leave for 20 years, even though only 1 year passes outside. Since Zim was Sizz-Lorr's only employee at that time, Sizz-Lorr was left alone without help. After the Foodening, Sizz-Lorr tracked Zim down to Earth.
Sizz-Lorr locks Zim in a cage and flies the ship to Foodcourtia. On the way to Foodcourtia, Zim calls GIR and tells him to call The Tallest and explain what happened. Sizz-Lorr catches him in the act, and wrestles him away from the transmitter. The ship reaches Foodcourtia, and Zim is brought back into Shloogorgh's and forced into the uniform. Sizz-Lorr explains that the restaurant is equipped with a security system that will make Zim explode if he tries to leave and makes Zim clean the whole restaurant.
GIR is watching TV in Zim's house when Dib visits, wondering where Zim is. GIR finally remembers that he was supposed to call the Tallest for him. Dib asks if he could watch, and GIR agrees. GIR calls the Tallest, and says a bunch of nonsense, such as "and then my master flew to the moon on a rocket made of flamin' cheese!" Dib interrupts and asks the Tallest their weaknesses, the coordinates of their planet, etc.
Back in Foodcourtia, Zim freaks out about his mission and how he won't be able to fulfill it, but Sizz-Lorr doesn't care. Zim laments his situation with Eric the Blob, a regular customer to Shloogorgh's. Zim says he'd escape, but the security system would make him explode. Eric reveals that he is a galactic repairman and knows a lot about the security system. He says that it was used in a Vortian prison, but was discontinued because prisoners were escaping by hiding in trash bins (it turns out that the scanner can't detect life signatures if they're surrounded with enough material). Eric leaves the restaurant, and Zim makes a plan to escape.
The next day, Zim asks to be put in the kitchen instead of on the cash register. Sizz-Lorr agrees, thinking that Zim's pain would be even worse in the kitchen. When Eric the Blob comes in again, Zim makes his order, and buries himself in Eric's food. Eric unknowingly eats Zim, and walks out the door. Once outside, Zim jumps out of Eric and begins to run. Sizz-Lorr sees Zim and chases after him.
Zim steals a taxi from the cab service and tries to fly away, but Sizz-Lorr grabs onto the taxi and tries to capture Zim. Zim eventually succeeds in losing Sizz-Lorr, and barely escapes the Foodening, leaving Sizz-Lorr on Foodcourtia without help yet again. Zim flies back to Earth where he finds Dib and GIR dancing around his house, while the Tallest are still watching (probably because they have nothing better to do). Zim chases Dib around the house while screaming, and the Tallest cut the transmission.
[edit] Trivia
- The aliens from planet jackers are seen when ZIM is taking orders.
- When Zim jumps out of Eric, a hole appears in Eric's shirt, but no hole appears in Eric, only his belly button.
- The episode was aired in the USA, on Nicktoons Network on 19 August 2006 as a 'new episode', but was erroneously listed as Frycook of Doom
- When Zim is in the classroom and Dib says "Look at him!" You can see him doing tests on a girl. She appears to have no pants on.
- Oddly enough, Tallest Red makes various appearances in Foodcourtia: First, only his hand is recognizable (it's shady) just seconds after Zim jumps to the register and a crowd mounds up. Second, when Zim is asking for a Snacky Cab Red is standing among a crowd of an upper level in the background (notice that he is more visible when the explosion of the Snacky Cab Zim forces to crash illuminates the crowd). And third, in the crowd that mounds up making its way into the Shloogorgh restaurant at the beginning of the Foodening (seconds before Sizz-Lorr lands on it); there is an Irken face, but it could be a bad drawn version of Red.
- Sizz-Lorr is taller than the Tallest.
[edit] Continuity Problems
- On Foodcourtia, there are aliens shown that are the same species as some of the Resisty members. However, no Resisty members officially appear in the episode.
- When Zim crash lands on Earth, he is thrown out of the ship. Due to this he is out cold, when the neighbor lady sprays him with the water hose, Zim wakes up and feels no pain at all, even though his skin is highly allergic to water. In the commentary for the episode this is attributed to the fact that Zim is now covered in paste 24/7.
[edit] Cultural References
- While wearing his mask, Sizz-Lorr bears a strong resemblance to a Mondoshawan from the movie, The Fifth Element.
- When Sizz-Lorr takes off his mask, he does it in the same way Predator does.
