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Zim transplants and steals the Skoolchildrens organs into his body to be "more human".

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Zim transplants and steals the Skoolchildrens organs and transplants them into his body to be "more human".
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* WholePlotReference: To ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers''.

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* WholePlotReference: To ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers''.Snatchers''.
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* OrganTheft: Knowing full well his Irken biology will expose him as an alien, Zim steal the organs of everyone else in the skool.

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* OrganTheft: Knowing full well his Irken biology will expose him as an alien, Zim steal steals the organs of everyone else in the skool.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Zim outright admits to Dib's face that stealing everyone else's organs and stuffing them into his own body will help him fool a trained medical professional, even when it's obvious Zim knows nothing about human biology. [[TheBadGuyWins He's right.]]
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* OrganTheft: Knowing full well his Irken biology will expose him as an alien, Zim steal the organs of everyone else in the skool.
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Zim transplants the other students' organs into his body to appear more human.

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Zim transplants and steals the other students' Skoolchildrens organs into his body to appear more human.
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* ShooOutTheClowns: This is the first episode where [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} GIR]] does not make an appearance, establishing this episode as one of the darker ones.
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* TeamRocketWins: One of the rare instances of a clear-cut victory for Zim.

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* TeamRocketWins: One of the rare instances of a clear-cut victory for Zim.



* ThrowTheDogABone: One of the rare instances of a clear-cut victory for Zim.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: One of the rare instances of a clear-cut victory for Zim.
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* DownerEnding: Zim's plot to steal the kids' organs goes off with nary a hitch, and to top it off Dib gets mistakenly outed as a freak of nature.
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* ShoutOut: This episode is a spoof on ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers''.
* TemporaryBulkChange: Zim becomes morbidly obese from transplanting all of the other students' organs into his own body.

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* ShoutOut: This episode is a spoof on ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers''.
* TemporaryBulkChange: Zim becomes morbidly obese from transplanting all of the other students' organs into his own body.body.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers''.
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* NutritionalNightmare: The school cafeteria food is ridiculously awful such as mayonnaise and corn or ketchup and rice.
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* ShoutOut: This episode is a spoof on ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers''.
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* BrainTheft: One of the organs Zim steals is a brain that he swaps with a can.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Easily one of the darkest episodes, if not ''the'' darkest, of the whole show. It's light on jokes and full of BodyHorror.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Easily one of the darkest episodes, if not ''the'' darkest, of the whole show. It's light on jokes and jokes, full of BodyHorror.BodyHorror, and plays out more like a horror film than a cartoon.


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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Zim gets the idea to steal everyone's organs because Dib thought it would be a good idea to taunt him and get him thinking that a routine trip to the nurse's office would out the Irken as an alien.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Zim steals various organs from the kids, including Dib, and convinces the nurse that he is a normal healthy boy. Dib is also mistaken for a "Mooing Cyborg Boy" because of Zim replacing one of his organs with a mooing can.

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* TheBadGuyWins: Zim steals various organs from the kids, including Dib, and convinces the nurse that he is a normal healthy boy. Dib is also mistaken for a "Mooing Cyborg Boy" because of Zim replacing one of his organs lungs with a mooing can.
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* BigNo: Dib lets one out when he realizes that he is the only kid left that has all his organs and Zim is after him next. He lets out another when Zim corners him and lowers the device to steal one of his organs.

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* BigNo: Dib lets one out when he realizes that he is the only kid left that has all his organs and Zim is after him next. He lets out another when Zim corners him and lowers the device to steal one of his organs.lungs.



* KarmaHoudini: Zim gets no consequences for stealing organs from the kids.

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* KarmaHoudini: Zim gets faces no consequences for stealing organs from the kids.



* MadeOfExplodium: The hall pass. If one leaves school grounds without it, [[DisproportionateRetribution it explodes]].

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* MadeOfExplodium: The hall pass. If one leaves school grounds without with it, [[DisproportionateRetribution it explodes]].
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* TheBadGuyWins: Zim steals various organs from the kids, including Dib, and convinces the nurse that he is a normal healthy boy. Dib is also mistaken for a "Mooing Cyborg Boy" because of Zim replacing one of his organs with a mooing can.
* BigNo: Dib lets one out when he realizes that he is the only kid left that has all his organs and Zim is after him next. He lets out another when Zim corners him and lowers the device to steal one of his organs.


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* KarmaHoudini: Zim gets no consequences for stealing organs from the kids.
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* LyricalDissonance: Discussed. Miss Bitters teaches the children that "Ring Around The Rosie" is actually about a horrible disease. Considering that she's later heard talking about how "the rats came," the disease in question is most likely the Black Plague.

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* LyricalDissonance: Discussed. Miss Bitters teaches the children that class about how "Ring Around The Rosie" is actually allegedly about a horrible disease. Considering that she's later heard talking about how "the rats came," the disease in question is most likely the The Black Plague.Plague ([[ArtisticLicense It isn't really. This is just a rumor]]).
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* CrazyPrepared: Dib planned for his x-ray vision goggles to be delivered to the skool at the exact moment he needed them to look at Zim's insides.
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Zim transplants the other students' organs into his body to appear more human.

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* BodyHorror: Zim stealing and consuming other people's organs, then replacing them with various objects.
* TheCameo: Fillerbunny, the title character from one of Creator/JhonenVasquez's comic books, can be seen in floating in a jar in the skool science lab at the beginning.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Easily one of the darkest episodes, if not ''the'' darkest, of the whole show. It's light on jokes and full of BodyHorror.
* LyricalDissonance: Discussed. Miss Bitters teaches the children that "Ring Around The Rosie" is actually about a horrible disease. Considering that she's later heard talking about how "the rats came," the disease in question is most likely the Black Plague.
* MadeOfExplodium: The hall pass. If one leaves school grounds without it, [[DisproportionateRetribution it explodes]].
* OwMyBodyPart: Zim hurts his "squeedilyspooch" while playing dodgeball.
* TemporaryBulkChange: Zim becomes morbidly obese from transplanting all of the other students' organs into his own body.

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