How “Invader Zim” Introduced Children to their Impending Doom

K. Albasi
9 min readAug 16, 2019
GIR sings the “doom song” in the premiere episode, “The Nightmare Begins

Note: Does not contain any spoilers for Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, streaming now on Netflix.

“Doom” is the single most commonly used word in the early 2000s television show Invader Zim. I didn’t do any sort of analysis to come to that conclusion — I just know it to be true. Now, you may be thinking, “That can’t possibly be it. It’s gotta be like ‘the’ or…

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K. Albasi

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