Ha! The FBI... Nothing but amateurs! I'm afraid you've tangled with someone much worse than the FBI. You've just crossed... mall security. — Sergeant Slab Rankle

Invader Zim Episode
FBI Warning of Doom
Chronology
Previous:	Door to Door
Next:	Bolognius Maximus
Information
Episode No:	Episode 11b
Production No:	11b
Airdate:	Planned airdate: September 14, 2001 Delayed airdate: March 29, 2002
Credits
Writer(s):	Frank Conniff

Contents 1 Plot Summary 2 Facts of Doom 2.1 Cultural References 2.2 Trivia of Doom 2.3 Things You Might Have Missed 2.4 Changes and Cuts 2.5 Inconsistencies and Animation Errors 3 See also

Plot SummaryEdit

GIR has recently been watching a movie he rented from the local mall for the hundredth time. 

Upon entering the room, Zim expresses his irritation regarding GIR's movie-rewatching habits, but irritation instantly turns to cold fear as the Irken notices the FBI Warning across the screen.

Zim panics and thinks that the FBI is after him. His fears are only exacerbated when his computer makes false assumptions, and he gets an untimely call from the mall demanding the video back. Zim takes the DVD away from GIR and breaks into the mall, desperate to return it before the next day. However, this proves easier said than done, since the mall is guarded by an obsessively gung-ho security guard named Sergeant Slab Rankle. Zim makes

a run for the DVD return slot, but is captured by the Sergeant's security booby traps, has the DVD confiscated, and subsequently dumped into a holding cell for rule-breakers. With a rousing speech, Zim rallies his fellow inmates to make a bid for escape by climbing on top of each other, forming a human staircase leading up to the chute in the cell's ceiling. Not missing a beat, Zim hops up them and escapes through the hole, leaving the other inmates trapped as they were before. Once free, the Irken dodges the cameras and runs into Rankle's security office. Zim steals back the DVD, and makes a break for the video store, Video Outhouse.

Rankle realizes the DVD is missing, and releases his army of zombie soldiers. Zim fears them at first, but when he realizes the zombies are completely brainless, he merely pushes his way through them and deposits the DVD in the return slot. Rankle is impressed that Zim was able to defeat his zombies, and offers him joint ruling over the mall, but Zim declines and goes home, leaving Rankle alone with his hordes of zombies.

Facts of Doom Edit

Cultural ReferencesEdit

• The scenes with the zombies rampaging through the mall is a reference to Dawn of the Dead, a George Romero film.
• Slab Rankle's attempts to win Zim over and let him rule alongside him are a reference to Darth Vader's attempt to lure Luke over to the Dark Side in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back".

Trivia of DoomEdit

• The bottom of the FBI Warning on the movie GIR is watching contains the words 'Show 11B', which happens to be this episode's production code.
• This episode was originally planned to be called 'FBI Warning', but it was changed to "FBI Warning of Doom".
• According to Zim, GIR's watched the movie one hundred times, more or less.
• The Deelishus Weenie restaurant is seen again in the episode Tak: The Hideous New Girl where Tak claims that her father owns Deelishus Weenie and uses a giant Deelishus Weenie building for her plans.
• It says Zimpact on the FBI Warning. "Prepare for Zimpact" was an old ad campaign for Invader Zim when it first came out, but was later dropped.
• Some of the zombies are old mall guards.

Things You Might Have MissedEdit

• During the credits of the film that GIR watches, an "actor" that shows up is Steve Ressel. The one after that is "Ress Stevel".
• The warning on the screen says: Warning of doom: Federal law provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized reproduction, distribution, exhibition of copyrighted motion pictures in altymedium (Title 17, United States Code, Section 501 and 506). The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigates allegations of criminal copyright infringement. They will hunt you down like the dirty monkey you are and force you to wear a moose skin and ride a greased piggy while singing folk tunes. They're forcing me to ride the piggy as I write this. The piggy is smelly! Show 11B PRINTED IN USA Zimpact Inc. All Rights Reserved"
• When Sgt. Rankle realizes the disk is gone and both of his eyes open, in the eye that's normally closed you can see a little unhappy face.
• When Zim leaves the mall, the exit door closes on a zombie woman's arm.

Changes and CutsEdit

While no general changes about the episode were made, it's paired episode the cause for a change;

• This episode along with its paired episode Door to Door was supposed to première on September 14, 2001. Though, the airdate was delayed until March 29, 2002, due to the paired episode, Door to Door having New York in flames during the Virtual Reality scene in the Grouch family's house. It is unknown why FBI Warning of Doom was delayed because Hobo 13 aired without its paired episode Walk for Your Lives from July until almost the entire September when Walk for Your Lives finally aired.

Inconsistencies and Animation ErrorsEdit

• The Deelishus Weenie restaurant inside the mall is spelled Delicious Weenie in the episode, the correct spelling in terms of proper English grammar.

See alsoEdit

• FBI Warning of Doom (Transcript)
• FBI Warning of Doom Screenshots

Episodes of Invader Zim
Season One
The Nightmare Begins • Bestest Friend • NanoZIM • Parent Teacher Night • Walk of Doom • Germs • Dark Harvest • Attack of the Saucer Morons • The Wettening • Career Day • Battle-Dib • Planet Jackers • Rise of the Zitboy • Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain • Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy • A Room with a Moose • Hamstergeddon • Plague of Babies • Bloaty's Pizza Hog • Door to Door • FBI Warning of Doom • Bolognius Maximus • Game Slave 2 • Battle of the Planets • Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom • Mysterious Mysteries • Future Dib • Hobo 13 • Walk for Your Lives • Megadoomer • Lice • Abducted • The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot • GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff • Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom • Tak: The Hideous New Girl
Season Two
Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars • The Girl Who Cried Gnome • Dibship Rising • Vindicated! • The Voting of the Doomed • Mortos der Soulstealer • Zim Eats Waffles • Gaz, Taster of Pork • The Frycook What Came from All that Space • The Most Horrible X-mas Ever
Canceled/Unfinished
Simon Says "Doom" • Invader Poonchy• Return of Keef• GIR's Big Day• When Pants Ruled! • Mopiness of Doom • Nubs of Doom• The Trial• Top of the Line • Ten Minutes to Doom • Roboparents Gone Wild • Squishy: Hugger of Worlds • It Feeds on Noodles • Day of da Spookies • Those! • Invader Dib