Dexter's Laboratory

Season 1 1996 - 1997
TV-G

  • 1996-04-28T17:00:00Z on Cartoon Network
  • 7m
  • 4h 26m (38 episodes)
  • United States
  • English, Spanish; Castilian
  • Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Dexter, a boy-genius with a secret laboratory, constantly battles his sister Dee Dee, who always gains access despite his best efforts to keep her out, as well as his arch-rival and neighbor, Mandark.

38 episodes

Series Premiere

1996-04-28T17:00:00Z

1x01 DeeDeemensional

Series Premiere

1x01 DeeDeemensional

  • 1996-04-28T17:00:00Z7m

In "Deedeemensional", Dee Dee time-travels to save Dexter from a monster. In "Magmanamus", Monkey goes up against a lava being that dislikes human-caused noise. In "Maternal Combat", when his mother falls, Dexter creates a robot mom to substitute for her.

Monkey must defend the city from a giant underground lava monster, Magmanamus, who cannot sleep because of the noise created by its residents.

1996-04-28T17:00:00Z

1x03 Maternal Combat

1x03 Maternal Combat

  • 1996-04-28T17:00:00Z7m

When his mother falls ill, Dexter creates a robot to do her chores. Dee Dee gets hold of its remote control and wreaks havoc, forcing Dexter to create a second robot to counter Dee Dee's.

1996-05-05T17:00:00Z

1x04 Dexter Dodgeball

1x04 Dexter Dodgeball

  • 1996-05-05T17:00:00Z7m

Dexter is forced to play dodgeball by his P. E. teacher. Constantly failing, Dexter builds a robotic exoskeleton to defend himself.

Intergalactic wrestling champion Rasslor challenges Earth's superheroes, including Monkey, with the planet's fate at stake.

1996-05-05T17:00:00Z

1x06 Dexter's Assistant

In need of an assistant to operate his latest invention, Dexter performs a brain transplant on Dee Dee to make her smart enough to fulfill the role. With her new brain, Dee Dee proves to be more intelligent than Dexter.

1996-05-12T17:00:00Z

1x07 Dexter's Rival

1x07 Dexter's Rival

  • 1996-05-12T17:00:00Z7m

Mandark Astronomanov, a new student at Dexter's school, seems to be superior to Dexter academically. Mandark forces Dexter to shut down his lab so that Mandark's lab can gain more power. However, with the help of Dee Dee, Dexter manages to destroy Mandark's lab.

1996-05-12T17:00:00Z

1x08 Dial M for Monkey: Simion

Monkey encounters Simion, an intelligent anthropomorphic chimpanzee who seeks vengeance on humans for turning him into his current state.

1996-05-12T17:00:00Z

1x09 Old Man Dexter

1x09 Old Man Dexter

  • 1996-05-12T17:00:00Z7m

Banned from watching a late-night movie due to his young age, Dexter uses his technology to artificially grow into adulthood, but Dee Dee tampers with his machine, causing Dexter to turn into an old man.

1996-05-19T17:00:00Z

1x10 Double Trouble

1x10 Double Trouble

  • 1996-05-19T17:00:00Z7m

Dee Dee and her friends, Lee Lee and Mee Mee, enter Dexter's lab and wreak havoc. Dexter clones himself to stop them, but the girls too make clones of themselves.

Monkey's birthday party is interrupted by Barbequor an intergalactic villain who plans to eat the planets, and his sidekick, the Silver Spooner.

1996-05-19T17:00:00Z

1x12 Changes

1x12 Changes

  • 1996-05-19T17:00:00Z7m

Rerun of "Dexter's Laboratory", the first "What a Cartoon!" pilot.

1996-05-26T17:00:00Z

1x13 Jurassic Pooch

1x13 Jurassic Pooch

  • 1996-05-26T17:00:00Z7m

To clone a dinosaur with an incomplete DNA sequence, Dexter uses his dog's genetic code to fill in the gaps.

While on a date with Agent Honeydew, Monkey gets hypnotized by the music of the Organ Grindor who commands him to rob Fort Knox.

1996-05-26T17:00:00Z

1x15 Dimwit Dexter

1x15 Dimwit Dexter

  • 1996-05-26T17:00:00Z7m

Due to overworking his brain, Dexter's mind shuts down, making him act idiotic.

1996-06-02T17:00:00Z

1x16 Dee Dee's Room

1x16 Dee Dee's Room

  • 1996-06-02T17:00:00Z7m

After Dee Dee steals his critical invention, Dexter ventures into her room to find it.

1996-06-02T17:00:00Z

1x17 Dial M For Monkey: Huntor

Monkey encounters an alien hunter named Huntor and must fight him to save Agent Honeydew and Commander Chief.

1996-06-02T17:00:00Z

1x18 The Big Sister

1x18 The Big Sister

  • 1996-06-02T17:00:00Z7m

Rerun of the second "What a Cartoon!" pilot.

1996-11-20T18:00:00Z

1x19 Star Spangled Sidekicks

Dexter and Dee Dee enter tryouts to become Major Glory's sidekick. When Dee Dee wins, Dexter realizes that fancy costumes are not the only criterion to become a superhero.

With only one television in their apartment, Major Glory, Krunk, and Valhallen disagree on what to watch: Major Glory's televised capture of the Disgruntled Postman, TV Puppet Pals, or the monster truck pull.

1996-11-20T18:00:00Z

1x21 Game Over

1x21 Game Over

  • 1996-11-20T18:00:00Z7m

Dexter and Dee Dee's father buys a video game for them to play, but the game sucks Dexter inside when he plugs in the cartridge, and it is up to Dee Dee to bring him out.

1996-11-27T18:00:00Z

1x22 Babysitter Blues

1x22 Babysitter Blues

  • 1996-11-27T18:00:00Z7m

Dexter has a crush on his teenage babysitter Lisa. When he finds out that she has a boyfriend, he sabotages their relationship and accelerates his age by ten years in an attempt to win her heart.

Valhallen loses his magic ax and starts turning into a nerd, forcing Major Glory and Krunk to enter his room to find it.

1996-11-27T18:00:00Z

1x24 Dream Machine

1x24 Dream Machine

  • 1996-11-27T18:00:00Z7m

When Dexter's nightmares become frequent and problematic, he invents a machine that allows him to have nice dreams, as long as Dee Dee can operate it properly while she is awake.

1996-12-04T18:00:00Z

1x25 Dollhouse Drama

1x25 Dollhouse Drama

  • 1996-12-04T18:00:00Z7m

Suspicious that Dee Dee has not entered his lab even once on a particular day, Dexter shrinks himself and enters her room to spy on her. He soon becomes an unwilling character in Dee Dee's doll story, but he believes the story to be real.

While fighting Comrade Red and his gang, Krunk falls in love with his equivalent in their gang, She-Thing.

1996-12-04T18:00:00Z

1x27 The Big Cheese

1x27 The Big Cheese

  • 1996-12-04T18:00:00Z7m

Dexter's new device allows him to study for the next day's French test while sleeping. It malfunctions, causing a single phrase -omelette du fromage- to repeat throughout the night, causing Dexter to wake up the next morning speaking nothing else except "omelette du fromage".

1996-12-11T18:00:00Z

1x28 Way of the Dee Dee

1x28 Way of the Dee Dee

  • 1996-12-11T18:00:00Z7m

Dee Dee teaches Dexter how to live life her way instead of being lonely and purely focused on science.

Major Glory forces Krunk and Valhallen to tidy up their apartment for his Uncle Sam, who is coming over for a visit.

1996-12-11T18:00:00Z

1x30 Tribe Called Girl

1x30 Tribe Called Girl

  • 1996-12-11T18:00:00Z7m

To learn more about girls, Dexter camouflages himself and enters Dee Dee's room, where she is having a sleepover with her friends Lee Lee and Mee Mee. He gets caught by the girls, who force him to take part in their activities.

1996-12-18T18:00:00Z

1x31 Spacecase

1x31 Spacecase

  • 1996-12-18T18:00:00Z7m

To prevent himself from being taken away by aliens for experimentation, Dexter tricks Dee Dee into going instead, but he regrets his decision after realizing how much he cares for her.

To fix their apartment's plumbing, Krunk and Valhallen go to the basement, where they meet Ratman, a diminutive vigilante raised by rats (a parody of Batman).

1996-12-18T18:00:00Z

1x33 Dexter's Debt

1x33 Dexter's Debt

  • 1996-12-18T18:00:00Z7m

Dexter's lab is threatened with repossession unless he can repay his debt to NASA. When Dee Dee wins the same amount in a lottery, he decides to steal her money out of desperation.

Major Glory, Krunk, and Valhallen try to rid their apartment of a bee.

1996-12-25T18:00:00Z

1x35 Mandarker

1x35 Mandarker

  • 1996-12-25T18:00:00Z7m

Following the destruction of his lab by Dexter and Dee Dee (in the episode Dexter's Rival), Mandark turns to magic to beat Dexter at the science fair.

1997-01-01T18:00:00Z

1x36 Inflata Dee Dee

1x36 Inflata Dee Dee

  • 1997-01-01T18:00:00Z7m

Dee Dee inflates Dexter's hydro-plasmatic suit and constantly floats in the air, prompting Dexter to bring her down.

After fellow Justice Friend White Tiger helps Valhallen stop a super-villain, the latter invites him to spend the night in his apartment, forgetting that Major Glory is allergic to cats.

Season Finale

1997-01-01T18:00:00Z

1x38 Monstory

Season Finale

1x38 Monstory

  • 1997-01-01T18:00:00Z7m

Not interested in hearing Dee Dee's long-winded story, Dexter gives her a silencing formula to keep her quiet, but it instead turns her into a giant monster still bent on telling her story. When he realizes that nothing can make her quiet, he becomes a giant monster himself.

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