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Necessary Necessary. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Outside the US the filler shows were sometimes dropped and the Dexter cartoons shown in a different order. In spite of this, two more seasons were made without Genndy Tartakovsky's involvement and without Dial M for Monkey or The Justice Friends , replacing them with segments focused on Dexter's supporting cast.
Do NOT confuse with that other Dexter ; much tragedy will come of it. There's a Wiki per The Wiki Rule. Dexter's Mom is taken prisoner by Mandark and traps her in a suspended animation tank, where she is in a blissful slumber, oblivious to her predicament. She later wakes up and escapes when she hears her husband say that there is a dirty spot. Example of: People Jars. Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes.
You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. Abusive Parents : Mandark's parents. While they're not the worst examples of the trope, they aren't very supportive of Mandark's love for science, and they gave him a name Susan that would subject him to a lot of ridicule from other kids.
And then there's Mandark's laugh. While Dexter fails at traditional sports he demonstrates great athleticism at the end of the episode when fighting a giant monster outside his Dad's field of view. Actor Allusion : Kath Soucie voices another intelligent AI who assists the main character frequently.
Thankfully, they didn't include the substance abuse. Adult Fear : "Misplaced in Space" has Dexter trapped in an alien prison where nobody speaks his language and he has no idea how to get home.
Affectionate Parody : A lot of episodes and characters are loving parodies of well-known works of fiction. Action Hank serves as an affectionate parody of G. Dexter: The horror Did you say Dexter : Buzzsaw! Dexter : Tail Whip! Dee Dee : Squid Attack! Dexter : Monkey Mouth! Dee Dee : Octo-Bash! Dexter's Dad. We're well aware of your current situation. This is your last warning. Legal action will be taken".
Gag Haircut : Dee Dee attempts to cut a stray strand of hair and ends up chopping off one of her pigtails. Dexter gives her a serum to grow the hair back but she uses too much and her hair ends up taking over the house. Gainax Ending : Some of the cartoons just stop as soon as the writers ran out of jokes Luckily, Status Quo Is God.
The ending of the already strange episode "Dexter and Computress Get Mandark" aka. The episode ends with Mandark's re-sized head suddenly exploding , resulting in the planet being showered in millions of disembodied Mandark heads as Dexter chews out Computress.
Gender-Blender Name : Mandark's hippie parents named him Susan. This drove him to villainy in the later episodes in his retconned backstory. Generation Xerox : Just For that matter, Dexter's grandpa and old Dexter himself from the movie and one of the What A Cartoon!
Show pilots look nearly identical. Genius Ditz : Dee Dee, for all of her goofiness, can break through any security measure Dexter comes up with. Also, when she's not wrecking them, can use Dexter's inventions with instant mastery, like a hovercraft Dexter himself crashed or an incredibly complicated giant mech. Genki Girl : Dee Dee. Later, the other animal spirits hold Dee Dee hostage until the fish and its soul is properly flushed.
Girls Have Cooties : The so-called cooties Dexter encounters are in the form of butterflies which inhabit Dee Dee's bedroom. Glasses Curiosity : In "Framed," Dee Dee steals Dexter's glasses and mocks him with them while the two kids are on the bus to school.
Later on, after he retrieves his broken specs from the floor of the bus, he lets another girl try them on when she compliments him on them. Gone Horribly Right : In "Dexter's Assistant," Dexter needed an assistant to help him in his newest invention for a science fair. So he took Dee Dee and replaced her brain which was the size of chewing gum and replaced it with a new one that made her smarter.
Now Dee Dee is much smarter than Dexter was, and knew more about his invention than he did, later when she left Dexter, she won the science fair with her own invention. In "The Way of the Dee Dee," Dee Dee spends the entire episode teaching Dexter to loosen up and have fun, which ends with him going on a destructive rampage in his own lab with psychotic glee.
Accomplished voice actress Christine Cavanaugh provided the perfect voice for both Chuckie Finster on Rugrats and the titular Babe in the movie. She stopped portraying Dexter during the show's third season, in , when she retired from the voice acting business.
She was replaced by Candi Milo. Sadly, Cavanaugh passed away on December 22, When Moore tired of voice acting and left to pursue a career on Broadway, Kat Cressida took over. However, for adults coming back to watch Dexter's Laboratory years later, Dee Dee's joke is very clearly spelled out. The episode "Nuclear Confusion" features some pretty high stakes. Dee Dee steals the power source to Dexter's lab which, unknown to her, will result in the destruction of the Earth. Dexter must save the world by returning the power source, but to do this, he has to play into one of Dee Dee's childish games.
She won't willfully hand over the power source. Instead, she leaves a series of clues for Dexter to follow that lead to the next clue. The clues themselves are mostly innocent, such as one of their mom's pies. However, one clue, in particular, is a bit After finding the second clue, Dexter is sent to the neighbor's house, where he is greeted by the neighbor lady.
At first, Dexter isn't exactly sure where in the house to look, but when the neighbor bends over, the clue reveals itself. Written on the back of her pants in frantically drawn sharpie are the words, "Dad's Trophy. This is Dee Dee's hint to check their dad's literal trophy, but the subtext is that the neighbor lady is their dad's trophy.
In other words, their dad has the hots for the neighbor lady and likely creeps on her. While that is creepy in and of itself, there is another question that just begs to be answered: How did Dee Dee manage to write the clue on the neighbor without being noticed? Dexter's babysitter Lisa only appears in the episode "Babysitter Blues," so she's an easy enough character to forget. However, when rewatching the series, careful viewers may realize that Lisa has a bit of a juicy conversation that they have overlooked when they were younger.
After Dexter's parents leave, Lisa calls her boyfriend Jeff on the phone. Though we can only hear Lisa's side of the conversation, it's pretty clear that something interesting is going on in their teenage circle of friends.
Lisa says, "She didn't? She did? But they're not in love like us. It sounds like one of their friends has started fooling around with their significant other, and they aren't the only ones. Indeed, Lisa and Jeff appear to be doing much the same thing.
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