the popularity of GIR always kind of bugged me because while he is entertaining as fuck, he’s also largely a reactive character so there is a limit to what you can have him do. if theres no one else around he’ll most likely just sit and watch tv and eat snacks, which is cute but not necessarily funny
meanwhile, you can put ZIM into literally any situation and it’d be goddamn hilarious. consider:
ZIM accidentally sends the tallest a letter bomb
ZIM tells a random stranger about his day
ZIM builds and launches a missle at the white house, except due to a misunderstanding, he ends up sending it to a random house that is white
I wonder if Shane gets harassed on the regular by fakey psychics trying to call him a demon because he cuts through the usual dramatiques of your average ghost show like a hot butter patty.
what if demons and ghosts dont mess with them because they find them fun whereas most other ghost hunters just come off as pretentious assholes