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| - Foodcourtia is actually a major part of Zim's past prior to the point in time where the series starts and is referred to throughout the series, and is even re-visited in "The Frycook What Came from All That Space". In that episode, the viewer can see footage of Zim prior to "The Nightmare Begins"; he has been banished to said Irken snacking world as punishment for rampaging across Irk in a robotic assault walker and destroying Operation Impending Doom I, and almost all members of the Irken civilization, but Zim retorts in by claiming he "blew up more than any other invader" as means of saying he blew up more than anything the other invaders, but Almighty Tallest Red interprets that saying he "blew up all the other invaders". Consequently, his PAK was re-encoded from Invader status to Food Service Drone, and was forced to serve in Sizz-Lorr's restaurant, Shloogorgh's Flavor Monster, without pay or leave. Additionally, Sizz-Lorr made it his mission to give Zim every humiliating task he could think of, and the Irken was forced to endure abuse by customers to boot. Zim, nevertheless, thought this was a vacation and simply left - or as he considers it, he "quit" when he found out about Operation Impending Doom II, and when he did, Foodcourtia's most horrible food rush, the Foodening, which lasts twenty years, began immediately.
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