Rise
of the Zitboy
Zim
presses some buttons on a control panel in his lab. Two tubes next to him
contain a chicken in each one. Zim rotates some levers on the control panel.
Inside the first tube, the platform the chicken sits on rotates around so that
the chicken faces forward. As the chicken rotates, its eyes widen. Zim pulls
on the levers and the platform the chicken is on starts to spin at high
speeds. The chicken in the other tube looks at Zim questioningly. Zim taps his
finger on a monitor screen. The monitor screen shows an image of the Earth at
a distance. Zim presses a button on the control panel and rubber tubing lowers
from the ceiling and attaches to the top of the tube that the spinning chicken
is in. The other chicken looks around nervously. Zim presses a button on the
control panel and the spinning chicken is shot up the tubing. Zim and the
chicken look at the monitor and it shows a green dot (representing the
chicken) leaving the Earth.
Zim:
Hmmm...
Chicken! Mmm hmmm! Hmmm... hmmmm.
The
other chicken flaps its wings nervously as the rubber tubing attaches to the
top of its tube. The chicken's mouth hangs slightly agape as Zim moves his
finer towards the button on the control panel. Suddenly, a red alarm on the
ceiling of the lab blares.
Computer:
Security
breach, unknown intruder!
Zim:
Ha!
Zim
walks away. The green dot on the monitor screen goes into the sun. Zim walks
out into his front lawn, in his disguise. A giant stone squirrel with a crack
in its head and an eyehole in its chest scoots along the walkway of Zim's
house. The eyes peering through the eyehole blink.
Zim:
Hmmmm....
Mmm, hmmm! Hmmmm.... Gnomes! Capture the squirrel!
The
gnomes on either side of the squirrel turn their heads and lift up their arms.
They close in on the squirrel and lift it up into the air and then drop it.
Dib
(from inside the squirrel): Hey!
Hey!
It
shatters, revealing Dib inside. The stone squirrel tail sticks on Dib's
behind.
Zim:
Ha!
Nice try, squirrel-Dib! I laugh at your pitiful attempt at spying! Here I go.
Zim
laughs.
Dib:
Go on, laugh!
Zim
abruptly stops laughing. Dib stands up and the squirrel tail falls off and
shatters.
Dib:
But
one day, you'll be sitting in your house feeling all safe and secure, and then
you'll look over and I'll be there! Doin' stuff!
Zim:
Stuff?
In my home!?! Never! You'd have to find some kind of flaw in my security net!
Since that could never possibly happen, you'll have to do your stuff
elsewhere! You haven't discovered some kind of a flaw, have you?
Dib:
Let's
just say your home defenses could use some tightening.
Dib
starts walking away.
Zim:
You're
lying!
A
delivery truck for Bloaty's Pizza Hog pulls up. A pimply delivery man wearing
a Bloaty hat and Bloaty clothing holding a pizza walks past Zim and up to the
front door.
Zim:
Nothing
breaches my defenses, nothing! You hear me, squirrel boy? Nothing!
Delivery
man:
Hey!
The
delivery man rings the door bell.
Delivery
Man: Hey!
GIR,
who is out of disguise answers the door.
Delivery
man:
Here's the pizza you ordered.
GIR's
eyes start to water.
GIR:
Thank you....
Zim:
Hey!
GIR:
I... I love you....
GIR
takes the pizza. The delivery man gets in the truck and drives off.
Zim:
GIR! We fend humans away from our home, not invite them over!
GIR:
I
had a coupon!
Zim:
Maybe there is some kind of flaw! But what?
Zim
walks into the house and shuts the door behind him. GIR sits down on the
couch. He rips the pizza box open with his mouth and then dumps the pizza onto
his lap. He breaks the pizza in half and then throws one half of it into the
air. It lands on his face. GIR slurps the pizza into his mouth, leaving his
face covered in grease. GIR chews and then swallows the pizza. He lifts up the
other half and takes large bites out of it. Zim puts a hand to his mouth as
his cheeks bulge out like he is about to throw up. Zim gags.
Zim:
The
smell... all that cheese!
GIR:
I
like it!
GIR
takes some more bites.
Zim:
It's
sickening! And your lippy... smacky noises... aren't helping.
Zim's
cheeks bulge out again. GIR finishes off the pizza, grease dripping down from
his face. GIR leaps from the couch and latches onto Zim's head. Zim groans.
GIR:
Don't
worry, I like you too!
Zim:
Get
off of me! Get off of me, GIR!
Zim
backs into the TV, which falls backwards into the wall.
Zim:
Get
off of me!
Zim
backs into the shelf. It topples over and a piggy toy falls off of it. Zim
continues screaming. He walks over to the closet door and it opens, knocking
him over and knocking GIR off of his head. The Father Decoy pops out and then
goes back in, the door shutting behind him.
Zim:
Your
horrible!
Zim,
who is now all greasy, gets up.
Zim:
GIR! Get me cleansing chalk! Quickly!
GIR
walks over, holding a bar of soap, a mirror, and a towel. Zim snatches the bar
of soap and bites off the wrapper. He rubs the soap on his face, while
groaning. GIR tosses the mirror and towel into the air and leaps over to the
empty pizza box. GIR sticks it on his head. Zim picks up the mirror and gasps.
He shakes the soap and it unfolds, revealing that it was just a strip of bacon
that was curled up.
Zim:
Why
was there bacon in the soap!?!
GIR
sits inside the pizza box.
GIR:
I made it myself!
Zim's
eye twitches. He flings the bacon to the ground. He lifts up the mirror and
notices a pimple is growing on his right cheek. He pokes it.
GIR:
You
got a pimple!
Zim:
Pim-pol?
GIR:
Just
like on TV!
GIR
walks over to the TV and turns a knob. The TV turns on to show a commercial
with a highskool student in the hallways.
Kid:
Yesterday,
I was just like everyone else. I fit in. But when I woke up this morning I
had-
The
student turns his head so the viewers can see a hideously large pimple on his
face.
Student:-A
pimple!
The
student walks over to a group of highskoolers, They gasp at the sight of his
pimple.
Highskoolers:
Eeew!
The
highskoolers walk away. One of the girls in the group kicks him as she walks
away.
Girl:
Freak!
Student:
Now
my life is a hideous montage of humiliation and shame!
Zim
gasps. In the commercial, a flash of lightning occurs and then a super hero
who is a tube of Acne Blast appears. The student gasps. Acne Blast Man flies
over to the student.
Student:
Acne
Blast Man!
Acne
Blast Man: Yes,
it is I, here to restore your social life to its former... glory!
Acne
Blast Man shoots electricity out of his hands, causing the pimple to explode
in a geyser of pus. The kid falls to the ground, screaming. As soon as he
stops screaming, he gets up and feels his now pimple-free face. He pokes wear
it was to make sure it is gone, and then he smiles. Two girls (who happen to
be Britney Spears and Christina Agullera) walk over to
either side of him.
Student:
Thanks,
Acne Blast Man!
Acne
Blast Man winks, gives a thumbs up, and lifts up a tube of Acne Blast.
Zim:
I must obtain Acne Blast!
GIR:
I got some right here!
GIR
opens his chest plate and pulls out a tube of Acne Blast. GIR sticks the tube
into his mouth and starts slurping from it. Zim snatches it from him.
Zim:
Give
me that!
Zim
looks into the mirror and starts dabbing the acne blast onto his pimple. The
pimple suddenly swells up to the size of a small child's head. The pimple is
now clear. The Acne Blast tube gets sucked into the pimple and floats around
in the pus. Zim moans.
Zim:
That
made it worse! GIR, how could you?
Zim
looks around, but GIR is nowhere in sight.
Zim:
GIR?
Zim
lifts up the mirror and gasps. GIR floats around in Zim's pimple.
Zim:
GIR,
get out of there!
GIR
pops out with the tube of Acne Blast. He sucks on it as he walks away.
Zim:
This is so not right! It's jeopardizing everything I've worked for! How can I
study this planet if the entire population is starring at my freakishly
deformed head?
GIR
giggles as he uses a black marker to draw a face on the pimple.
Zim:
Stop!
Stop! Get away!
Zim
hopes off the couch. The pimple bobs up and down, the pus inside it swishing
around. GIR bobs his head with the pimple and suddenly becomes hypnotized.
His voice goes monotone and his eyes turn swirly.
GIR:
Yes,
I will stop. I will obey.
Zim:
You?
Obey? Okay, GIR. Roll over.
GIR
jumps onto the floor and rolls over.
GIR:
I
obey.
GIR
rolls back over to Zim and stands up.
Zim:
Hmmm...
Zim
turns his head away from GIR. GIR breaks away from the trance and dances
across the room.
GIR:
I'm
dancin' like a monkey!
Zim
turns around so that his pimple faces GIR again. GIR falls into the trance
again. Zim turns his head away and GIR breaks away from the trance. GIR starts
dancing again.
GIR:
Monkey
dance.
Zim
faces GIR again. GIR falls into the trance, an image of the pimple bobbing up
and down in both of his eyes.
GIR:
Obey.
Zim
looks into the mirror.
Zim:
This hideous blemish appears to have hypnotic powers.
GIR:
Hypnotic powers.
Zim
watches the pimple bob up and down in the mirror. He goes into a trance and
then shakes his head to get out of the trance. GIR goes in and out of the
trance as Zim continues to turn his head.
Zim:
If it works on humans as well, I may be able to use it to hypnotize Dib into
telling me what he knows about my security system. But first, I must disguise
it.
Zim
enters a storage room of the lab. The lights turn on and Zim walks over to a
box labled 'GEARS CIRCUITS HEADLESS BODIES.' Zim grabs the box and pulls out a
headless dummy body and attaches it to the pimple. Along with the face that
GIR drew on the pimple, the pimple looks like a person attached to Zim's face.
Zim:
I
will call you... Pustulio! Together we can hypnotize the enemy and bend them
to my will!
Zim
sniggers. Cut to the skool playground. Students play on the playground
equipment and others play basketball. Mary jump-ropes as Peeyoopi plays hopscotch.
Zim hides behind a tree. Zim walks out from behind the tree and goes in front
of Peeyoopi. She picks up a rock on the hopscotch court and then hops in place
on the hopscotch square.
Zim:
Have you met my friend Pustulio? He is visiting from... another place.
Peeyoopi:
Ew, he's-
Peeyoopi
falls into a trance from looking at Pustulio.
Peeyoopi:
-Beautiful. I love him.
Zim
walks over to where Mary jump-ropes.
Zim:
You,
frolicking dirt child. Meet Pustulio.
Mary:
Get away from me you-
Mary
falls under a trance from looking at Pustulio.
Mary:
-Object of my unsurpassed worship.
Zim
walks towards the monkey bars. Peeyoopi and Mary follow behind him, Peeyoopi
still hopping and Mary still jump-roping as they walk.
Zim:
Pustulio demands your attention!
The
kids hanging from the monkey bar look at Zim. He turns around to face them,
then he flicks Pustulio so he wobbles around. The kids become hypnotized. Zim,
Peeyoopi, and Mary start to leave as all the kids on the monkey bars and
playground equipment plummet to the ground in a huge pile, hypnotized.
Lizard
Boy: I'm
in pain!
Snarl:
It is as Pustulio wishes.
Ploopti:
Does Pustulio wish for me to pop my spine back into place?
Zim:
Yes,
very well.
Dib
watches from behind a table as Zim leads a long line of hypnotized children
towards the skool entrance. Dib runs by and crouches behind the walkway ledge.
Gaz sits on the skool steps, reading a book called 'Punch Club.' Dib waves a
hand in front of Gaz, but she doesn't respond. Dib goes back behind the ledge
as Zim walks up to the skool entrance, standing right next to Gaz. The
children gather around. Peeyoopi stops hopping and Mary stops jump-roping.
Zim:
You
will tell Pustulio everything that Pustulio wants to know! I am Pustulio's
official spokesman. Whatever information you give to me will please Pustulio.
Zim
looks at Gaz and makes wavy arm gestures.
Zim:
Stare
deeply into Pustulio, he is your master, he is-
Gaz:
Go away.
Zim:
Are
you sure you don't want to look at Pustulio?
Gaz
groans and turns around.
Zim:
Come, my filthy stink children. You shall reveal your secrets to Pustulio in
the privacy of the classroom.
Zim
walks into the skool. The children follow behind him.
Dib:
What's
going on, Gaz? What's he up to?
Gaz
groans.
Dib:
Huh? Huh? Huh? Some sort of hypnosis. It might have something to do with that
thing on his head.
Gaz
groans and turns away from Dib.
Dib:
Someone
has to stop Zim before it's too late!
Dib
runs into the skool entrance. Gaz groans again. Dib screams as he bursts
through the door of Ms. Bitters' classroom. Dib rolls across the floor and
hops onto Ms. Bitters' desk.
Dib:
Don't
look at that thing on his face! He's using it to control you!
Smolga's
voice: Pustulio
rocks!
Dib:
There
is no Pustulio! It's just a pimple! A hypnotic pimple!
Zim:
Look at Pustulio.
Dib:
Never! I'll never surrender my free will!
Zim:
Smacky,
hold him!
Dib
screams as Torque Smacky leaps into the air and knocks him off of the desk.
Torque pins Dib. Dib tries to pull free.
Dib:
No,
Torque, can't you see it's just-
Torque
Smacky:
I see only my love for Pustulio.
Torque
lifts Dib up and holds him in his grip and brings him over to where Zim is.
Dib:
You
can't make me look! I'll just shut my eyes.
Dib
closes his eyes tightly.
Zim:
Oh, you'll open them. You have to breath sometime.
Dib:
No I- Wait...
Dib
opens his eyes.
Dib:
What
do eyes have to do with breathing?
Dib
accidentally glances at Pustulio and screams. He falls under the trance.
Dib:
I will tell Pustulio everything.
Dib
closes his eyes and groans, breaking away from the trance.
Dib:
No,
must keep control!
Dib
falls back under the trance.
Dib:
Pustulio
is my friend.
Dib
closes his eyes and breaks away from the trance.
Dib:
He's a pimple! Nothing more than a-
Dib
groans and opens one eye.
Dib:
I...
Dib
goes back into the trance.
Dib:
I... I love Pustulio.
Zim:
And Pustulio loves you too. Release him, Smacky. He is part of the collective
now.
Torque
Smacky lets go of Dib.
Zim:
Now,
tell me. Tell me the flaw in my house's defenses.
Dib:
But...
I can't... must infiltrate.
Zim:
It would make Pustulio happy to know this thing. Don't you want (Zim flicks
Pustulio and he wobbles around) to make Pustulio happy?
Dib:
Yes...
no!
Zim:
If you tell me, I'll let you hold Pustulio's little hand.
Zim
wiggles Pustulio's hand. In Dib's mind, the classroom breaks apart and disappears,
leaving on Zim and Dib standing on the chunks of ground underneath them
against a black background. A hypnotic spiral spins behind Zim.
Dib:
The
weakness is simple. A blind spot...in your gnome field.
The
classroom goes back to normal.
Dib:
Nothing
to stop me from simply tunneling under... house and attaching a spy monitoring
system.
Zim
laughs evilly.
Zim:
Success!
Huh?
The
pimple suddenly swells up to enormous size, taking up most of the classroom.
Zim groans and stumbles around, trying to hold up its weight. It pops, and a
tidal wave of pus shoots out. Pus breaks through the window and sweeps across
the playground washing away children such as Billy Slunchy. In the hallways,
Mathew P. Mathers III walks towards the door to Ms. Bitters' class when the
pus pushes the door off its hinges and into Mathew, forcing him up against the
wall. Pus sweeps through
the hallway and knocks over kids, including Chunk and Letty. Pus pours out of the skool
entrance. The pus finally stops pouring out. Zim stands in Ms. Bitters
classroom which is now wrecked. Lizard Boy sits near an overturned desk,
covered in pus. Melvin is stuck to the ceiling because of the pus. Other
children lie on the pus-covered ground. Dib floats in the pus on his back. He
spits some pus from his mouth.
Zim:
Bye
Dib, and thanks for the information! I've got a few more lawn gnomes to plant!
Zim
walks away.
Peeyoopi:
What happened?
Dib
stands near a wall. His shadow creeps up the wall and becomes a silhouette of
Ms. Bitters. Ms. Bitters emerges from the shadow and walks up to Dib.
Ms.
Bitters:
Dib, you will not leave skool grounds until all this mess has been cleaned up.
Dib:
Me!?! But-
Ms.
Bitters:
Silence!
Ms.
Bitters opens up her hand revealing a tiny bit of sponge. She hands it to Dib.
Dib glances over at a full sponge floating next to him in the pus.
Dib:
Can't
I use that sponge?
Ms.
Bitters: No!
Ms.
Bitters leaves. Dib stares at the pus filled classroom.