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#in his goop #the slop zone

You understand exactly. My people. Also the longer I listen to this song the dumber it gets in my head and I’m just laughing to myself at this point because of what a stupid video-game cutscene ass idea this is.

Skoodge: WoOAw, you know…? They were right, you are uglier than I am.

Dib: ???You’re not Zim.

Skoodge: Huh? Nah, nah… why, you looking for him?

Dib (increasingly weirded out): Yeah, well, originally. Are you- is this another Tak situation?

[He ignores Dib for a moment to ruffle around in the empty chip bag.]

Dib: Ahem ?

Skoodge: No, no everything’s fine. I don’t think anyone even knows I’m here. He’ll be back uhhhh-

Skoodge: sometime. Yah. I’m not worried about it.

[Dib takes a step back.]

Dib: O-kay, well, I’m just gonna- yeah.

[He gestures to his camera, stopping suddenly when he spots a comically conspicuous raygun-looking object he somehow didn’t before notice on the end table.]

[Fascinated, he takes a couple snapshots, then leaps in a panicked duck for cover when Skoodge reaches out and picks it up.

[Skoodge takes phat rips off of it.]

[It takes about 5 seconds for Dib to process the awkward disappointment of the entire situation. Spitefully, he makes sure he’s still recording, at least. Side-eyeing the preoccupied Irken, he continues prying around the room and interacting with random objects. Turning a knob on a nearby door reveals the roboparents. They activate.]

Dib: Oh no.

[Chaos ensues]

Zim and Gir have to go off world for a while. Important A-plot business. Eats up quite a few days of Earth time.

Naturally, Dib notices their absence and takes this as the perfect opportunity to make another break-in attempt at Zim’s base. Gets past the gnomes with one of his magazine doohickeys or science gizmos. Stops cold in his tracks after landing in the living room. There’s a heavy, colorful fog lining the ceiling in ghostly wisps. A foul, akrid odor clings to the air.

Sitting on the couch, covered in cheesy crumbs, open bag of space-Doritos beside him, is Invader Skoodge. Dib has never heard of or seen Skoodge. The guy is open mouthed and staring blankly at the Monty Python sequence playing out on the TV screen. He doesn’t seem to notice the new presence until Dib gives a confused “Um….”

The line of drool that was threatening to reach Skoodge’s shirt retreats back into his mouth. He turns slowly and stares hard at the intruder for a second of focusing. “Oh…” He smiles and greets with a “hey guy” and a half-hearted wave, and then he sinks a bit deeper into the sofa with a complacent expression.

“Bloopin” is playing in the background during this whole thing.

Actual question, what on earth was Skoodge even doing in Zim’s basement this entire time?

Canonically he reveals himself in a lost episode when he finally got bored hiding out down there and overheard there were shenanigans about to happen that he could join in on.

But he’s explicitly been there since Hobo 13.

…..

That was Season One. There’s been like 18 episodes between that and the series end. Valentines Day, Halloween, Minimoose’s birth, AND Christmas has passed in the meantime. Wtf has he been up to down there while also being undetected by Zim and Gir. Earth Tv? Space Tv? Stealing out of the pantry like a little mousey boy? Crawling through the walls looking for cheese and eavesdropping on Earth drama????

Not a week goes by where I don’t imagine how funny it would have been if Zim and Gir were out of house for a while and Dib just catches Skoodge casually wandering around on one of his spy cameras. Just

“Holy smokes Zim really let himself go” and then watched the round bastard do fuckall for like 3 days

I already know that height is most of the reason no one likes Skoodge back home, but kept wondering why Irkens think he’s also incredibly ugly on top of the short thing. Like, Jhonen knows how to draw/design hideous characters. Skoodge isn’t disfigured, or blemished, he’s… cute. A goofy silly little blorbo. He looks like a squishmellow??? He’s adorable to us, he’s a beloved fan fave. But he’s so darned ugly to them. Didn’t add up until it hit me.

He’s built like the Irken equivalent of a damn pug.

Harsh truth, Invader Skoodge is a nastyass little dude

for over ten years I have pretty consistently been defending him and for the most part still will, but actually, I’m cringing and recoiling back from him just as much as the Tallests are in this scene, now that I’m paying better attention to the sound effects. Honestly, I feel like they would be a little justified in their opinion of him even if he wasn’t short if this is his state of being.

- The already unkept way he presents himself during such an important moment

- The sound of flies buzzing around him, which is virtually the auditory equivalent of stink lines in cartoons

- why is he constantly farding in front of the supreme leaders

- WHY ARE HIS FOOTSTEPS SO MOIST AND JUICY SOUNDING

Anyone else losing it because of how long his legs are in this one frame? Dude has like no body under that uniform it’s like

It's Launch His Ass Thursday LET'S FUCKIN GO

more invader zim stuff (i swear i’ll post like an actual piece eventually)