- Zim is worried his robotic parents aren't ready for Parent Teacher Night and Zim and Gir get lost.
- Parent Teacher Night:
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 is confronted with a dilemma: he doesn't have any true parents or family (Irkens are created from some kind of gene bank and have all their information given to them in PAKs).
Zim becomes worried because his robotic parents aren't programmed for such a task yet, and he cannot permit them to blow his cover. He attempts to help them become more like the parents they should be by strapping them into chairs and forcing them to watch a Proper Earth Parenting program that demonstrates how normal human parents should behave. However, GIR's carefree nature puts his plans in jeopardy when he changes the channel on the TV to violent, senseless programming.
At the meeting in the cafeteria, Dib, who brings his dad's communication device due to being busy in his own lab, tries to prove that Zim is an alien, but Professor Membrane misinterprets what his son means by "alien", and asks the Irken what country he's from instead. Meanwhile, the Roboparents seem to behave well at first, but abruptly begin behaving erratically, malfunctioning and wreaking havoc during the meeting.
However, nobody besides Dib notices they aren't human, or that Zim is an alien. So, Zim's plan to fool everybody (except Dib) actually works even despite GIR's interference. In the end, Zim and the Roboparents fly off without everyone noticing, while Dib gets in trouble for throwing punch on the floor in frustration.
Walk of Doom:
When Zim gets annoyed by GIR's inept nature for the last time, he upgrades GIR's guidance technology, and decides to test its capability. The initial tests look good, so Zim takes GIR into the city to test if GIR can get them safely back to the base.
However, when GIR purposely leaves the new guidance chip at home to make room for a cupcake, Zim and GIR must find an alternative way to get home, despite having very little understanding (at this time anyway) of the way the city functions.
Zim tries several plans of his own, including using a makeshift compass, getting on a bus only to be kicked off, as neither of them have any money.
Attempting to stare at the sun, thinking that knowing where West is will get them home, only for Zim's contacts to begin to bubble up and fry, temporarily blinding him, though after a few hours Zim gets his sight back.
After a guy tells him to get a job thinking he's a hobo, Zim and GIR earned some cash by dancing in the park; even getting money from a robber that is wearing the exact same clothes as Zim, by the time they get more than enough money they get on the bus, however, Zim finds he can't stand it and they get off before the bus can go anywhere.
By this point Zim is frustrated, but not willing to give up. His latest attempt to get home is to look from a tall building, claiming that his ocular implants will be enough to aid them in spotting their neighborhood.
As they approach a bank that was recently robbed and as a result of mistaken identity, a bank teller and the police believe Zim to be the robber and go after him, after a short chase they end on the roof. Zim rides on GIR narrowly escaping the police.
Unfortunately GIR runs out of fuel too quickly because he emptied it out to make room for tuna, having had enough, Zim relents on asking a human for help and decides to take a taxi home, only ending up more lost than before... in Mexico.
How Zim and GIR got home is unknown.
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