I had a dream that an actual alien saw Invader Zim in the early-2000s and made a TV show to set the record straight, and it was complete shit because this species was too cognitively different to understand what humans enjoy in storytelling.
It began with a podcast in the future, namely one about "pre-contact" as in pre-first-contact society - it was implied this was about how people perceived space aliens before actually meeting them, and it was very similar to The Dollop. Not!Dave Anthony started by describing how many conspiracy theories and rumors about aliens influencing culture and technology existed but only a very few of them were real, and not!Gareth Reynolds said "oh my god, that actually happened? Okay, okay, go on." One such TV show of alien origin aired on Earth in the early 2000s. The director / animator / writer was an alien who saw Invader Zim and wanted to improve the perception of aliens people had, so they set out to set the record straight.
The podcast went on to describe how some episodes of the show were actually quite interesting, in an outsider-art way, and some of the jokes were even funny, so the show would go on to be a cult classic. However, the animation quality was often sketchy and inconsistent to the point of being incomprehensible, and lots of the plots and jokes were weird and boring (because they were made by an alien).
There was also this legendary bad episode, the one that put an end to people's beliefs this show could be good, where the animation was so incomprehensible that, the podcaster joked, "it must have been made by pissing on the animation cells." From the start, also, this show was given a time slot that was after 8:15 AM and most of the kids would be at school, damning it to irrelevance and if it was going to be remembered at all it'd have to be a cult hit at most, and it was almost lost media.
One part of the show I remember is that not!Zim found a [bird? dog? it's one of these in my memory] they wanted to take in as a pet, but they disguised them as an alien feathered velociraptor thing in order to remind them of home. But then they realized they had to blend in, and they put a dog disguise over the alien feathered raptor thing disguise, making a sort of russian nesting doll of disguises. This was the Gir of this series.
There was a time the alien and the dog were outside on the sloped side of a road where cars were breezing by quickly. The alien put their disguise back on and said "whoops, right, we're trying to be under cover" and immediately afterwards discarded an alien candy bar wrapper that very obviously had a sci-fi glowing hologram on it. Their host mom called (the human family thought this was an exchange student they were hosting), and said "Are you done out there yet?" And a car crashed down the side of this slope for no reason and the alien nonchalantly said "in a minute!"
Then there was this false wake-up, or potentially an actual alarm clock that I then fell back asleep from, and back in the dream I thought "oh this is such a fun idea, I should actually make this." So we scrounged together a team to write, voiceact, and animate this - complete with the Dollop-like podcast as framing device, as well as full episodes of the alien show. I tried to think of a good false name for the alien who was directing this show, the silliest pseudonym possible I could adopt for this purpose, and after trying a few I thought of "Mick Cool" and cracked up laughing.