This is the best scene in the entirety of IZ imo it’s literally perfect
according to the staff commentary for this episode, the script actually called for heavy traffic to be rushing past Dib and Zim in this scene, which is why they’re shouting at each other, and you can even still sort of hear the sound effects
but then, for whatever reason, in the finished episode they just
forgot the cars
The lack of cars is because of a miscommunication with the animation studio, but since it was too late to fix, they just leaned into the absurdity of keeping all of the car sound effects instead.
They talk about a similar thing that happened in the commentary for “Walk Of Doom”, where a two-second animation of a police officer walking through the bank was accidentally drawn too big for the shot, so they sent it back overseas to get it revised.
But when they got the new animation back, he was even bigger.
They didn’t have the time or money to get a second revision done, so instead they just added these giant clomping boot sounds and a deep booming laugh as he walks by.
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