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After another day at the Earthskool, Ms. Bitters reminds the children that it’s Parent Teacher Night and that all the parents must come to the skool at the end of the day. Zim is confronted with the fact that he doesn't have any parents ([[Irkens|Ir
kens]] are cloned from a gene bank). Zim becomes worried because his robotic parents aren’t programmed for such a task yet and he cannot permit them to blow his cover, so he attempts to help them become the parents they should be, but GIR’s carefree nature puts his plans in jeopardy. Dib, who brings his dad's communication device, tries to prove that Zim is an alien. The robotic parents malfunction
and wreak havoc during the meeting, but nobody, besides Dib, discovers that they aren't human or that Zim is an extraterrestrial due to the show's characters' stupidity. So Zim's plan to fool everybody (except Dib) worked. In the end, Zim and the Roboparents fly off while Dib gets in trouble for throwing punch on the floor out of furstration.
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Facts of Doom
In this episode, Zim says "You speak lies! LIES!" This is a reference to Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. When Nny first meets Squee, he says the exact same thing.
Ms. Bitters has a security camera in her classroom.
The title was in the squiggly font instead of the Invader Zim font.
The parent teacher night happened in the afternoon, but at the very end when Ms. Bitters is mad at Dib and the whole room turns red, there is a clock in the background that says "12:16"
When Zim turns on the video to teach his Robo-Parents normal human behavior, the child in the video looks similar Timmy Turner from the Fairly Odd Parents.
Ms. Bitters' shirt changes from purple to black sporadically throughout the episode and early episodes.
Like The Nightmare Begins this episode was originally rated TV-Y but was later changed to TV-Y7-FV.
This is the first time Zim is shown as an infant . If you listen closely you can hear him say, " I love you cold, unfeeling, robot arm!"
List of old-fashioned cartoons broadcasted in the base:
Clay animated show
Hunter's dog
Heckle and Jeckle's first cartoon
Dancing scarecrow
Beaver eating corn
Cat licking the stripy candy poles
When the robot parents were looking at the tv systm, you can see a classic Tom & Jerry chrismas episode that came out in the 1940's.
The Trial would reveal that after Zim's birth he caused a horrible occasion called "Horrible Painful Overload Day"
As Gir is running after the Makeup Lady he doesn't run all the way out of frame. He dissapears a few millaseconds before he goes out of the frame.
The man in the video that breaks his spine looks alot like Keef or Keef's dad would.
The man in the parenting video looks like Old Man Kid.
When Zim gets wet with the punch in this episode he does not feel the pain.
Ms. Bitters: Yes, you did. Zim: No! You lie! (swings arms wildly in the air) YOU LIIIIIIIIIE!
(Ms. Bitters scoffs and puts a disc into the computer, and the chalkboard slides down to reveal a screen; on it is a recording of Zim, looking very bored and balancing a pencil on his lip) Ms. Bitters: (on-screen) Zim, are you going to bring your parents to Parent Teacher Night? Zim: (on-screen) Yeah, sure, whatever. Zim: ...Why would you tape that?
: Welcome to life, Irken child. Report for duty. Zim as a smeet: (jumps onto the arm to hug it) I love you, cold, unfeeling robot arm!
Dib: I'll see you and your parents tonight, Zim. By the way, it's not called Parent Teacher Night. It's called Zim doom parent... Zim doom Zimmy... doom... night. (laughs) Watch out for that puppy.
