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
ZIM goes to the dmv
the possibilities are endless
zim goes to the DMV is a one shot kill of a sentence
remember that one episode about zim eating waffles?
there’s a story in aesop’s fables, i think it is, about a human talking to a satyr or something. The satyr asks why the human is blowing on his hands during a snow storm and he says “to warm up” later inside the satyr asks the human why he’s blowing on the soup and the human says “to cool it down”
and the satyr has had enough and says “well I won’t have a guest that breaths cold air one moment and hot air the next” and tells the human to leave his house
- Haa is hot because your breath is warm from your lungblood
- Hoo is cold because, while the air is still warm, you’re blowing it at a greater pressure by blowing it through a smaller hole, and the effect of the windchill is greater than the effect of the slight warmth in the air
That story always pissed me off, because while people generally interpret it as “don’t be double-tongued” or “avoid those who are inconstant”, my interpretation was “satyrs are FUCKING STUPID”.
