'90s Kids, Rejoice: 'Invader Zim,' A Cult-Classic Nicktoon, Returns
Ask people which episode of Invader Zim they most remember, and it won't take long before someone brings up "Dark Harvest." In it, Zim — a green alien intent on destroying the human race — sets out to harvest his classmates' organs.
His reason is straightforward: He believes that the more organs he harbors in his body, the more human he'll appear to his classmates. So he begins swapping his classmate's internal organs with inanimate objects and absorbing their hearts, spleens, kidneys etc. At the episode's conclusion, Zim has grown huge on the various anatomical bits of his classmates. The school nurse, removing a thermometer from Zim's mouth, proclaims, "Why, you're one of the healthiest children I've ever seen. And such plentiful organs!"
a one-hour special popped up on Netflix just last week, in fact.) But none of those shows were as weird, obtuse — and as controversial — as
