Invader Zim Marathon Tomorrow On Nicktoons!

No, this is not an April Fools' Day thing. It's for real.

Tomorrow, April 2, Nicktoons will be showing an Invader Zim marathon for 9 hours! It starts 12 noon pacific time. That would be 3 p.m. east coast.

I've heard a rumor, mind you a RUMOR... that last month's showing of Invader Zim on Nicktoons was a test of sorts. It's been almost a decade since it was cancelled, and popularity of the show has increased as well as the opinion by many that it was brilliantly original. The scuttlebutt is that if the one-month only broadcasting of Zim brings in enough viewers, the show will get resurrected!

Now the deal last month was to bring back Zim for one month only which inspired Jhonen Vasquez to compare Zim to the one month only, once a year McRib sandwich thing, has been broken. They've decided to show a bunch of episodes, out of order mind you, and it isn't March anymore.

So I'm hoping that it's a good sign. Maybe they're re-thinking the choice they made so long ago to kill a show because it didn't remind them of stuff they've already done, and already seen. Perhaps they are paying attention to the throngs of faithful fans who have loved the show since its debut and were horribly disappointed at its cancellation as well as the fans the show has attracted since then.

And perhaps they are paying attention to the dismally low number of viewers that they have for so many of their current shows (re-runs of older, better and more popular animation excepted).

So I will watch the Zimmathon. And even if I can't, I will turn the tube onto Nicktoons and leave it on while I do other stuff that I have to do. I would love to see IZ back on the air. If Jhonen Vasquez, Steve Ressel, and Frank Conniff do not return with it, then I hope whoever they get to work on the show are talented, clever, and have respect for the style of the original as well as stay true to the characters.

It would be horrible indeed if it were to turn into SpongeBob Zimpants.




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