Dexter's Laboratory

TV Series
1996–2003
TV-G
23m

IMDb RATING

7.9/10

55K

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POPULARITY

2,356

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Hand-Drawn Animation Urban Adventure Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Sci-Fi

The misadventures of a boy genius and his annoying sister.The misadventures of a boy genius and his annoying sister.The misadventures of a boy genius and his annoying sister.

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IMDb RATING

7.9/10

55K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,356

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys
- 2 wins & 19 nominations total

Episodes80

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Trivia
The first of the "Cartoon Cartoons" for Cartoon Network, it initially debuted on February 26, 1995, as a seven-minute What a Cartoon! (1995) pilot.

Quotes
[repeated line]
Dee Dee: Oooh! What does THAT button do?

Crazy credits
After the end credits of season one they show the Cartoon Network logo and Dee-dee is dancing but then Dexter in a robot suit busts through the logo and looks to his left and right.

Alternate versions
The episode D & DD, an episode parodying the famous role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, was changed to Sibling and Sorcery to avoid legal troubles.

Connections
Featured in The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo (2002)

Perhaps cartoons are futile in two respects. The first being that the level of detail often overwhelms the target audience--think of how the Simpsons remained popular after almost 15 years. The second is that the remaining public ignores them as "childish" despite this semi-sophistication.

Dexter's Lab, at one time the best thing on CTNW, is one of those shows, perhaps the best one since Rocky and Bullwinkle. Even the crude art styles are radically similar. Sadly, it is falling out of the inventive mode and into formula.

Overall, if you taped the earlier episodes...keep them. Animation sophistication might soon become a reality.