GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff
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Gir Goes Crazy and Stuff is an episode of the Nickelodeon cartoon series Invader Zim where Zim attempts to lock GIR into duty mode, only to have GIR rebel against Zim. Originally produced as episode 17B, "Gir Goes Crazy and Stuff" aired as episode 19A on May 24, 2002.
The episode opens with Zim executing his latest plan for destroying the humans: infecting their meat supply (cows) with dookie. Zim decends from his Voot Cruiser, suspended in mid air by a tractor beam, and tells GIR to lift a cow to him using a second tractor beam. GIR starts the task, but quickly loses focus. A brief glimpse of GIR's point of view is then shown, with GIR seeing the cows turn into weenies dressed as a barbershop quartet and singing to him. Amused by his vision, he presses buttons crazily, making the second tractor beam toss cows around wildly. One of them hits Zim and slams him into the bottom of the Voot, covering him in the dookie he planned to inject into the cows. Zim flies home, furious at GIR.
Zim realizes that if the mission is to be a success, GIR's behavioral problems must be solved. Zim decides to use a behavioral modulator chip to lock GIR into his more efficient duty mode. Zim is impressed by GIR's new personality and decides to test him by sending GIR to investigate a police siren. GIR tries to explain that it's only a passing police car and no threat to the mission but Zim insists he do so anyway. GIR leaves and returns a moment later with the police car, having crashed it through the wall into the house halfway into the living room. He loudly declares he's captured the policeman for "meat testing" and demands praise. The policeman then sees Zim out of disguise and begins to panic. Zim decides to replace his brain with that of a squid to make him forget all he's seen and chastises GIR for bringing a human into the base. He then sends GIR to monitor Earth TV while he works on the policeman. GIR sees this order as counter-productive and begins to question Zim's abilities as an Invader as he watches the broadcasts.
Having convinced himself of Zim's incompetence, GIR decides to show his master how information gathering is done. He takes an information storage device to the public library and begins draining the brains of the patrons. As Zim finishes the brain transplant on the policeman (now referred to as Squidman) he hears of what GIR is doing at himself as a policeman and goes to the library, along with Officer Squidman—who is extremely distressed over being out of water and unable to shoot ink.
At the library, Zim confronts GIR, who attacks him, snatching the behavioral modulator chip controller. Zim tells Officer Squidman to help him, but Squidman only tries to squirt ink to no avail ("you don't wanna know what comes out"). GIR then destroys the floor under Zim, sending him to the lower levels of the library. GIR chases after Zim and Squidman follows. GIR corners Zim in a snack machine room and is about to destroy him when Officer Squidman somehow succeeds in squirting 'ink' and covers GIR's eyes with black goop. (He doesn't have a pen in his pocket.) Zim uses this distraction to steal the behavioral chip controller and revert GIR back to his old self. GIR, Zim, and Officer Squidman then go to the ocean where Squidman runs into the surf, going "home". He is immediately eaten by a shark though, at least according to GIR.
[edit] Easter Egg
It is rumored not only that bloody gir originated from this episode, but a single frame within the show displays a transparent picture of a monkey riding a donkey.
[edit] Trivia
- The music played when GIR is in a competent mode and his behavior is something of a reference to The Terminator.
- This episode, along with Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain, marks GIR's largest role in Invader Zim. The two are most important in understanding GIR's personality. This episode also shows that The Tallest may have unwittingly saved Zim's life by giving him GIR instead of a working SIR unit, because some SIR units eventually rebelled, or could've alternatively killed Zim, seeing him as a threat to the mission(as GIR did when functioning as he should). On the other hand, it could have been Zim's own fault by him altering GIR's behaviour and turning the robot's intelligence up to "dangerously high levels". Normally, however, GIR doesn't care about Zim's competency, or lack thereof.
- The music when GIR is wearing a sombrero is, as Jhonen puts it, 'distinctly non-Mexican' and is the same music they used at the end of Walk of Doom when Zim and GIR ended up in Mexico.
- People believe that Bloody GIR originated from this episode, when GIR may have been splattered with blood during the main fight sequence. If so, this episode is the origin of Bloody GIR.
- On the TV guide, this episode is mistakenly called "Gir's Gone Crazy".
[edit] Quotes
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