8.0/101 votes#1 - Dark Harvest
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/20/2001
When Dib finds out that Zim has no human organs, he attempts to exploit Zim’s ailment of head pigeons to get the skool’s nurse to examine Zim in hopes she will see the truth. However, when Dib blurts his plan out to Zim, Zim develops a device that will permit him to switch objects for organs, in which he begins to steal the organs of his fellow classmates in order to appear more human in time for his appointment at the nurse’s office.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
7.5/102 votes#2 - Attack of the Saucer Morons
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/27/2001
Zim attempts to test some of the defenses that Earth has by taking his Voot out for a drive to monitor local police units. However, when a bumble bee crashes into his vehicle, Zim comes crashing down in the park, in which he heads home because he will be unable to recover it the next day. However, when a space cult known as the Saucer Morons discover the Voot first, Zim must find a way to get his vehicle back without causing him to lose his cover.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
7.4/107 votes#3 - The Nightmare Begins
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/30/2001
Dedicated Irken soldier Zim is sent on a secret mission to Earth, where he disguises himself as an elementary-school student and gathers information about human beings. His plan is moving smoothly until an extraterrestrial-obsessed classmate named Dib takes notice of Zim's green skin and missing ears.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Jhonen Vasquez
7.0/101 votes#4 - Bestest Friend
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/13/2001
When Zim makes a huge scene over his inability to eat lunch food, he overhears one of the girls at school talking about how inhuman he seems to be and how he has no friends. In an attempt to appear more normal, Zim decides to spend time with a student named Keef, though Zim soon finishes his plan and he considers himself normal, so he tries to get Keef to leave him alone. Much to Zim’s chagrin, however, Keef continues to follow Zim around, so Zim decides to take unorthodox measures to ensure Keef leaves him alone.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Jhonen Vasquez
- 7.0/101 votes
#5 - NanoZim
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/13/2001
When Dib finally manages to get a picture of Zim without him in his disguise, Zim formulates a plan to shrink himself down into a microscopic size to get into Dib’s body and perform a brain wipe to prevent him from remembering where he located the picture. Fortunately for Dib, his father has been working on some technology that may just help Dib stop Zim before it’s too late, though he’ll been to be careful because he’s extremely vulnerable due to the fact that Zim is inside of him.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Jhonen Vasquez
- 7.0/101 votes
#6 - Germs
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2001
After Zim watches an old movie where some invading aliens are defeated by some bacteria, he begins to study germs more. However, when he discovers that such germs truthfully are everywhere, he begins a crusade to kill every germ in his headquarters so that he can be safe, which is helped by the fact that Gir had some cleaning spray handy in the house; though when the cleaning bottle runes dry, Zim must attempt to go to the store and get some more, despite the fact that he knows just how many germs are out there.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Jhonen Vasquez
- 7.0/101 votes
#7 - The Wettening
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/27/2001
When it begins to rain one day, Zim becomes worried because he’s never experienced rain before. Dib takes notice of his fear and he coaxes Zim into stepping into the rain, only to discover that the Irken race has an innate weakness to water, which causes a burning sensation upon impact. Dib decides to exploit this new fact to create the ultimate weapon to stop Zim once and for all, but Zim himself attempts to find a way to protect himself from this new found weakness, which all leads up to a confrontation that neither of them would have expected.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
7.0/101 votes#8 - The Big Showdown
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 11/20/1999
Drew plays a practical joke on Stu, where he unwittingly hurt Grandpa with his newest invention, a robotic bee. This inspires Angelica to play a practical joke of her own on the Rugrats, setting it up so that they would think that Dil pulled these jokes. All this goes on while the Rugrats play a King Arthur adventure.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Scott Gray
- 7.0/101 votes
#9 - Cavebabies
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/2000
After Didi has hided the cookie jar from Angelica, Angelica has threatened the Rugrats with her starvation if they don't find the cookies in time. Their mission becomes a prehistoric fantasy, where the Rugrats, now ""cavebabies"", find Dil, the ""Wise Cave Baby"", so he can point them in the direction of the cookie jar, or, ""Cookiesaurus"".
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Rick Gitelson
6.0/102 votes#10 - Parent-Teacher Night
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/6/2001
After another day at the Earth skool, Ms. Bitters reminds the children that it’s Parent Teacher Night and that all the parents must come to the skool at the end of the day. Zim becomes worried because his robotic parents aren’t programmed for such a task yet and he cannot permit them to blow his cover, so he attempts to help them become the parents they should be, but Gir’s carefree nature soon puts his plans in jeopardy.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Jhonen Vasquez
- 6.0/101 votes
#11 - Walk of Doom
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/6/2001
Zim goes on an outing to the downtown area in order to test a new guidance chip he installed in GIR, but when GIR removes the chip before leaving in order to store a cupcake, Zim and GIR are left lost and have to resort to public transport to find their way back. Their journey home is complicated further by Zim temporarily losing his vision by looking at the sun, his disguise being mistaken for that of a bank robber, and his escape from the police being wrecked by GIR replacing his extra rocket fuel with tuna fish.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Jhonen Vasquez
N/A/101 votes#12 - Hamstergeddon
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 8/17/2001
While at skool one day, Ms. Bitters tells the class that they need a new pet hamster due to the orders of the skool’s board of directors. When the hamster arrives, all the children love the hamster because of how adorable it is, in which Zim decides to exploit that fact since the hamster could help make the humans too weak to resist him. Zim plants an Irken device on the hamster that will permit it to grow larger and be controlled by Zim, but when the hamster grows rampant and breaks free, Zim must attempt to stop the huge hamster from destroying his headquarters, all the while worrying about the growing military presence that may have no choice but to attack the hamster, which would ruin all of his efforts.
Director: Steve Ressel
Writer: Eric Trueheart
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"Dark Harvest" is the best rated episode directed by Steve Ressel. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Eric Trueheart. It aired on 4/20/2001 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Attack of the Saucer Morons".