Dibship Rising

Dibship Rising is an episode of the television series Invader Zim, originally produced as episode 25B. Although this episode did not air on Nickelodeon in the US, this episode aired on the Nicktoons Network on July 15, 2006.

Plot

Dib attempts to control Tak's ship (see "Tak, the Hideous New Girl"), but it is fruitless, as her personality is very well-ingrained into her ship. Dib then transfers his personality into the ship, which works. However, the ship believes it is the actual Dib, as it has Dib's memories. So he puts it in sleep mode while he goes to bed to figure out the mess in the morning.

Soon, the ship wreaks havoc, and Zim catches on to its identity crisis, and then takes control of its hapless personality, steering it to ensnare Dib, which works. Dib is taken prisoner and Zim and GIR force Tak's ship to run about skyscrapers, sealing Dib's fate.

Dib attempts to get the robot to remember himself, and the ship struggles with the conflicting forces. Soon, the ship comes to the edge of the city cesspool, where Dib is to be drowned in the sewage. But in a well-timed plot notion, the ship remembers, and saves Dib, settling his identity problems.

Trivia/Goofs

• Olivia D'Abo guest stars again as Tak (or more accurately, Tak's personality); the previous time was in Backseat Drivers.

• The episode title could be a reference to the book Dark Force Rising, a Star Wars book by Timothy Zahn, as both refer to spaceships, or a book named Esperanza Rising. [1]

• Dib claiming having saved a schoolbus full of children from a nut-eating moose is a reference to the episode A Room with a Moose

• When Gaz calls Dib inside to "give the recording his acceptance code", The green button is on the left, and the red on the right. Yet when dib presses the button, the green button is now on the right.

• This episode was mistakenly named "The Dib-Ship" in a few airs on Nicktoons.

• When Gir fishes in the cesspool at the end, he has a human nose instead of his dog nose.

• Dibship mentions that Zim has already made a fake Dib-double. This is a reference to the episode Future Dib.

• We learn that Gir loves corn.

Quotes

• Gir: I like corn. I do.
• Gaz: Hey, you're getting pieces of wall in the food!