|ProdCode_1=001
|ProdCode_1=001
|ProdCode_2=104c
|ProdCode_2=104c
|ShortSummary=Dexter and Dee Dee test the former’s latest invention: a device that turns people into animals, which yields crazy results, with Dexter turning into a [[rabbit]] and later the twins switching bodies at the end.
|ShortSummary=Dexter and Dee Dee test the former’s latest invention: a device that turns people into animals, which yields crazy results.
|LineColor=FB6464
|LineColor=FB6464
}}
}}
|Aux2=Rob Renzetti
|Aux2=Rob Renzetti
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|4|27}} ([[TNT (American TV network)|TNT]])<ref name=”TNTcommercials” /> <br>{{Start date|1996|4|28}} (Cartoon Network)
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|4|27}} ([[TNT (American TV network)|TNT]])<ref name=”TNTcommercials” /> <br>{{Start date|1996|4|28}} (Cartoon Network)
|ShortSummary=Dexter falls victim to one of his own inventions and sends Dee Dee back in time to warn his past self about the consequences, but the past Dexter proves hard to convince than usual.
|ShortSummary=Dexter falls victim to one of his own inventions and sends Dee Dee back in time to warn his past self about the consequences, but the past Dexter proves hard to convince.
|LineColor=FFA500
|LineColor=FFA500
|ProdCode=102a
|ProdCode=102a
|Aux2=Butch Hartman & [[Conrad Vernon]]
|Aux2=Butch Hartman & [[Conrad Vernon]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|5|25}} (TNT)<br>{{Start date|1996|5|26}} (Cartoon Network)
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|5|25}} (TNT)<br>{{Start date|1996|5|26}} (Cartoon Network)
|ShortSummary=In order to clone a dinosaur (identified by Genndy as a [[Tyrannosaurus rex]]) with an incomplete [[DNA]] sequence, Dexter uses his [[Chihuahua (dog breed)|chihuahua]] dog’s genetic code to fill in the gaps. The experiment appears to be a success, but because Dexter filled the gaps with his dog’s brain, the cloned dinosaur now behaves like a dog.
|ShortSummary=In order to clone a dinosaur with an incomplete [[DNA]] sequence, Dexter uses his dog’s genetic code to fill in the gaps. The experiment appears to be a success, but because Dexter filled the gaps with his dog’s brain, the cloned dinosaur now behaves like a dog.
|LineColor=FFA500
|LineColor=FFA500
|ProdCode=106a
|ProdCode=106a
|Aux2=Ricky Nierva
|Aux2=Ricky Nierva
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|12|18}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|12|18}}
|ShortSummary=To prevent himself from being abducted by aliens, Dexter tricks Dee Dee into going instead, but he regrets his decision after realizing how much he cares for her a lot.
|ShortSummary=To prevent himself from being abducted by aliens, Dexter tricks Dee Dee into going instead, but he regrets his decision after realizing how much he cares for her.
|LineColor=FFA500
|LineColor=FFA500
|ProdCode=109a
|ProdCode=109a
|Aux2=Butch Hartman & Craig McCracken
|Aux2=Butch Hartman & Craig McCracken
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|12|25}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|12|25}}
|ShortSummary=Major Glory, Krunk, and Valhallen try to rid their apartment of a honeybee.
|ShortSummary=Major Glory, Krunk, and Valhallen try to rid their apartment of a .
|LineColor=FFA500
|LineColor=FFA500
|ProdCode=112b
|ProdCode=112b
|Aux2=Butch Hartman
|Aux2=Butch Hartman
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|1|1}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|1|1}}
|ShortSummary=After fellow Justice Friend White Tiger helps Valhallen stop a super-villain called Mental Mouse, the latter invites him to spend the night in his apartment, forgetting that Major Glory is allergic to cats, especially housecats.
|ShortSummary=After fellow Justice Friend White Tiger helps Valhallen stop a super-villain called Mental Mouse, the latter invites him to spend the night in his apartment, forgetting that Major Glory is allergic to cats.
|LineColor=FFA500
|LineColor=FFA500
|ProdCode=113b
|ProdCode=113b
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|7|23}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|7|23}}
|ProdCode=201a
|ProdCode=201a
|ShortSummary=In a parody of ”[[Tom and Jerry]]”, Dexter accidentally swaps his brain with a mouse’s and must avoid his mother when she maliciously attacks him.
|ShortSummary=In a parody of ”[[Tom and Jerry]]”, Dexter accidentally swaps his brain with a mouse’s and must avoid his mother when she attacks him.
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|8|6}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|8|6}}
|ProdCode=205a
|ProdCode=205a
|ShortSummary=After his parents deny him dessert for not eating his vegetables, Dexter uses [[radiation therapy]] to enable himself to like vegetables, but a severe [[side effect]] turns him into an [[Hulk|Incredible Hulk]]-like character if he goes too long without them, and his voice also changes whenever he transforms.
|ShortSummary=After his parents deny him dessert for not eating his vegetables, Dexter uses [[radiation therapy]] to enable himself to like vegetables, but a severe [[side effect]] turns him into an [[Hulk|Incredible Hulk]]-like character if he goes too long without them.
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|8|20}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|8|20}}
|ProdCode=207c
|ProdCode=207c
|ShortSummary=Following a mishap in his lab, Dexter ends up in the old, long-abandoned part of the lab and discovers his early, long-neglected inventions.
|ShortSummary=Following a mishap in his lab, Dexter ends up in the old, long-abandoned part of the lab and discovers his early, neglected inventions.
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|8|27}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|8|27}}
|ProdCode=206c
|ProdCode=206c
|ShortSummary=When Dexter attempts to inject himself into an ill Dee Dee to find a [[cure]] for the [[common cold]], he inadvertently winds up inside his chihuahua, believing that Dee Dee is infected with a dog virus.
|ShortSummary=When Dexter attempts to inject himself into an ill Dee Dee to find a [[cure]] for the [[common cold]], he inadvertently winds up inside his , believing that Dee Dee is infected with a dog virus.
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|9|24}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|9|24}}
|ProdCode=210c
|ProdCode=210c
|ShortSummary=Dexter’s family goes to the beach, where Dexter tries to communicate with various types of [[whale]]s. He must rescue Dee Dee (dressed as a [[mermaid]]), when she is captured by manic pirates.
|ShortSummary=Dexter’s family goes to the beach, where Dexter tries to communicate with [[whale]]s. He must rescue Dee Dee (dressed as a [[mermaid]]), when she is captured by manic pirates.
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|10|22}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|10|22}}
|ProdCode=214c
|ProdCode=214c
|ShortSummary=When Dexter creates a robot to assist him, the robot starts controlling his lab and tries to destroy Dexter, thinking of him as a bad influence.
|ShortSummary=When Dexter creates a robot to assist him, the robot starts controlling his lab and tries to destroy Dexter.
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|10|29}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|10|29}}
|ProdCode=216a
|ProdCode=216a
|ShortSummary=When Dee Dee befriends a [[Hawksbill sea turtle|hawksbill sea turtle]] that gets severely injured, Dexter not only heals it, but gives it superpowers.
|ShortSummary=When Dee Dee befriends a turtle that gets severely injured, Dexter not only heals it, but gives it superpowers.
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|11|26}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|11|26}}
|ProdCode=221a
|ProdCode=221a
|ShortSummary=While trying to make himself and Dee Dee older to see a movie which is [[Motion Picture Association film rating system|R-rated]], Dexter accidentally makes everyone in the entire planet [[Infant|babies]] instead.
|ShortSummary=While trying to make himself and Dee Dee older to see [[Motion Picture Association film rating system|R-rated]], Dexter accidentally makes everyone in the entire planet [[Infant|babies]] instead.
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|1|14}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|1|14}}
|ProdCode=220b
|ProdCode=220b
|ShortSummary=After she expresses her desire to become a Pony Puff Princess, Dexter transforms Dee Dee into an [[American Quarter Horse]].
|ShortSummary=After she expresses her desire to become a Pony Puff Princess, Dexter transforms Dee Dee into [[]].
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|1|28}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|1|28}}
|ProdCode=224a
|ProdCode=224a
|ShortSummary=After Dexter finds a lost [[Labrador Retriever]], he teaches the dog to speak English and make it talk as well.
|ShortSummary=After Dexter finds a lost [[Labrador Retriever]], he teaches the dog to speak English.
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|2|11}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|2|11}}
|ProdCode=223b
|ProdCode=223b
|ShortSummary=When Dexter neglects his metal-eating pet bug, it begins eating his lab after it faces the neglection.
|ShortSummary=When Dexter neglects his metal-eating pet bug, it begins eating his lab.
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|2|25}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|2|25}}
|ProdCode=229a
|ProdCode=229a
|ShortSummary=When Dexter brings the [[caveman]] who first discovered fire back from the past, the caveman acts like Dee Dee and starts smashing the lab extremely hard.
|ShortSummary=When Dexter brings the [[caveman]] who first discovered fire back from the past, the caveman acts like Dee Dee and starts smashing the lab.
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|02|21}} {{small|(World Animation Celebration)}}<br />{{Start date|2013|01|22}} {{small|(online)}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|02|21}} {{small|(World Animation Celebration)}}<br />{{Start date|2013|01|22}} {{small|(online)}}
|ShortSummary=Dexter plans to remove Dee Dee’s rudeness with his latest invention, the “Rude Removal System”. The siblings inadvertently end up inside the device, which splits the pair into two copies, one well-behaved and the other rude. The episode then ends with the pair getting back to normal, encountering their now-angry mother with a bar of soup poised to wash the filthy stuff from their mouths. Before they can run away from her rage, the screen cuts to black.
|ShortSummary=Dexter plans to remove Dee Dee’s rudeness with his latest invention, the “Rude Removal System”. The siblings inadvertently end up inside the device, which splits the pair into two copies, one well-behaved and the other rude.
|LineColor=CCCC52
|LineColor=CCCC52
}}
}}
| Aux2=Dave Smith, Chris Savino,<br />Paul Rudish, & Genndy Tartakovsky
| Aux2=Dave Smith, Chris Savino,<br />Paul Rudish, & Genndy Tartakovsky
| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|12|10}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=DeMott |first=Rick |date=December 1, 1999 |title=Cartoon Network to Air Dexter’s Lab Special |url=https://www.awn.com/news/cartoon-network-air-dexters-lab-special |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604023954/https://www.awn.com/news/cartoon-network-air-dexters-lab-special |archive-date=June 4, 2020 |access-date=January 23, 2013 |website=[[Animation World Network]]}}</ref>
| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|12|10}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=DeMott |first=Rick |date=December 1, 1999 |title=Cartoon Network to Air Dexter’s Lab Special |url=https://www.awn.com/news/cartoon-network-air-dexters-lab-special |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604023954/https://www.awn.com/news/cartoon-network-air-dexters-lab-special |archive-date=June 4, 2020 |access-date=January 23, 2013 |website=[[Animation World Network]]}}</ref>
| ShortSummary=After Dexter battles an army of robots who enter his laboratory through his time machine, he travels forward in time in search of the moment when his older self will save the future forever.
| ShortSummary=After Dexter battles an army of robots who enter his laboratory through his time machine, he travels forward in time in search of the moment when his older self will save the future.
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Dexter’s Laboratory is an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network. Initially debuting on February 26, 1995, as a seven-minute World Premiere Toons pilot, it was expanded into a full series after gaining network approval. The first season, which consists of 13 episodes divided into three segments each, premiered on TNT on April 27, 1996,[1] and on TBS and Cartoon Network the following day.[2] A second season that consists of 39 episodes premiered in 1997. In this season, Allison Moore, the voice actor for Dee Dee during the first season, was replaced by Kat Cressida, save for a few episodes. “Last But Not Beast”, the second-season finale, was originally supposed to conclude the series in 1998. However, Tartakovsky directed a television movie titled Dexter’s Laboratory: Ego Trip which aired on Cartoon Network on December 10, 1999. He left the series after the movie, focusing on his other projects, Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars.
Production on a third season began in 2000 with Chris Savino taking over as creative director and later producer. The third season, consisting of 13 episodes, premiered worldwide on November 18, 2001, during Cartoon Network’s “Dexter Goes Global” marathon.[3] The third-season episode “Poppa Wheely/A Mom Cartoon/The Mock Side of the Moon” is the first to feature Christine Cavanaugh‘s replacement Candi Milo as the voice of Dexter. Milo would voice the character from the next episode onward, with the exception of “Tele Trauma”. A fourth and final season consisting of 13 episodes aired from November 22, 2002, to November 20, 2003. In total, there are 78 episodes and a television movie across 4 seasons.
A previously unaired episode called “Rude Removal” was originally shown only at certain comic conventions that Tartakovsky attended beginning in 1998. The segment, originally produced for season two, was released online by Adult Swim on January 22, 2013.[4]
Season 1 (1996–97)
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The first half of the season aired on TNT a day before Cartoon Network and had “Dial M for Monkey” as the middle segment, while the second half aired exclusively on Cartoon Network and had “The Justice Friends” as the middle segment.
The series also switched animation houses from Fil-Cartoons to Rough Draft Korea halfway through the season. Rough Draft would provide animation for the rest of the series.
Season 2 (1997–98)
[edit]
This season mostly did away with the “Dial M for Monkey” and “Justice Friends” segments, with most episodes consisting of three “Dexter’s Laboratory” stories. Some episodes contained two 11-minute stories instead of three 7-minute ones.
This season is three times the length of the other seasons at 39 half-hour episodes, making it the longest season of a Cartoon Network series and one of the longest seasons of any animated series.
An episode segment from the second season was produced yet never aired on television, but was ultimately released to the public in January 2013 on the official YouTube page of Adult Swim.
A television movie titled Dexter’s Laboratory: Ego Trip premiered on Cartoon Network in 1999. It was the final televised Dexter’s Laboratory media in which creator Genndy Tartakovsky was directly involved. Ego Trip was also the last project made by Cartoon Network Studios as division of Hanna-Barbera before the studio branched off as a separate facility when Hanna-Barbera was folded into Warner Bros. Animation.
Season 3 (2001–02)
[edit]
Candi Milo replaced Christine Cavanaugh as the voice of Dexter after six episodes due to Cavanaugh’s retirement from voice acting.
This is the first season to feature the new character designs and the UPA-influenced backgrounds, the latter of which was exclusive to this season.
It is also the first season to use digital ink and paint, and the first season that Chris Savino takes over as the director.
The third season adopted a different episode format from the other seasons, with most of its episodes being two 9-minute shorts with a 3-minute short sandwiched in between, rather than the original format of three 7-minute shorts.
Season 4 (2002–03)
[edit]
The fourth season returned to the first two seasons’ format of three 7-minute stories, and similar backgrounds to the first two seasons, dropping the UPA aesthetic from the third season.
- ^ Also known as “Siblings and Sorcery”.[9]
- ^ “Chicken Scratch” originally premiered theatrically in July 2002 in front of The Powerpuff Girls Movie, during Season 3’s run. It later officially premiered on Cartoon Network on November 4, 2003.
- ^ This episode is dedicated to Nelda Ridley, a final checker who died before the episode aired.
- ^ a b “TNT commercials ca. April 1996 part 6-8”. Archived from the original on December 19, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2018 – via YouTube.
- ^ Beller, Miles (April 25, 1996). “TV Review; ‘Dexter’s Laboratory’“. The Hollywood Reporter. BPI Entertainment News Wire.
- ^ Godfrey, Leigh (November 6, 2001). “Dexter Goes Global in Worldwide Marathon”. Animation World Network. Archived from the original on October 21, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- ^ “Dexter’s Lab: Dexter’s Rude Removal”. Video.AdultSwim.com. Adult Swim. January 22, 2013. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
- ^ Moore, Scott (February 26, 1995). “Creative ‘World Premiere Toons’“. The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved May 14, 2011 – via Highbeam Research.
- ^ Lacey, Gord (October 29, 2010). “Dexter’s Laboratory — Season 1 Review”. TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
- ^ a b c d “Dexter’s Laboratory – Copyright Catalog”. United States Copyright Office. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
- ^ a b c Boedecker, Hal (July 14, 1997). “Cartoon Network Zany Relief”. Orlando Sentinel. Tribune Company. Archived from the original on March 1, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
- ^ “Cartoon Network: Schedule”. CartoonNetwork.com. April 4, 2001. Archived from the original on April 4, 2001. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
- ^ Klein-Häss, Michelle (March 1998). “Thinking About the World Animation Celebration ’98”. Animation World Magazine. 2 (12). Archived from the original on October 12, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
- ^ Parks, Steve (April 28, 1998). “A Kid Calls the ‘Toon / Only 7, LI Boy’s Carton Idea Makes It to TV”. Newsday. Long Island, New York. Archived from the original on July 17, 2013. Retrieved May 14, 2011 – via PQArchiver.
- ^ DeMott, Rick (December 1, 1999). “Cartoon Network to Air Dexter’s Lab Special”. Animation World Network. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
