Dexter's Laboratory

This is one of the cartoons that laid some impact and foundation in the cartoon industry. You see Jimmy Neutron? That cartoon is a little based on this one, but doesn't ripping it off. The plots, jokes, concept, characters are exciting! Including the outcomes of Dexter's inventions! The side cartoons in this show are also great. The Justice Friends, Dial M for Monkey. Watch this if you can. cause of remembrance of the past memories for me.

For my first review I will review the first Cartoon Cartoon, Dexter's Laboratory! This cartoon involves Dexter, a boy genius with a secret laboratory that he is trying to protect from his sister Dee Dee (who ends up destroying it all the time) and Mandark, Dexter's arch enemy. This series is funny overall creative, and cool.

Before 2005, this was my favorite show on Cartoon Network. I really enjoyed watching it when I was younger. I still watch it on Boomerang. Before 2010, I can't remember when the last time I saw this show until last year...but it was around 2004/2005 when Cartoon Network airs this show for the last time (and returns in late 2010) I don't get why season 3 and 4 aren't that good. In my opinion, they are great, not as enjoyable as season 1 and 2. I don't know which is my favorite character, but I'm going with Dexter and his dad. Dexter's dad is very funny and often gives me laughs. I don't hate any characters. However, I kinda find Dee Dee a little annoying which she is around Dexter. It is just a pre-SpongeBob show (character annoying someone). In my opinion, all the characters are likeable. I don't think I never seen an awful episode of this show before. Overall, this is my one favorite childhood shows and luckily I still watch it when I go to Boomerang (occasionally). 10/10

Dexter's Laboratory is the story of a young boy prodigy. Born with an extraordinary mind, Dexter has built his very own extremely high-tech and expansive laboratory in his room that NASA could only dream of. But Dexter has to keep his lab a secret for fear others will exploit it. Through out the… More years, Dexter has had to hide his lab from his parents and others but it is no easy task.

I have always liked this show as a kid, I would be excited when new episodes came on, and I always played the Cartoon Network games of it. Dexter's Labortatory is a perfect, and original Cartoon Network gem that should have never been canceled.

10 out of 10

As much as I love Ed,Edd and Eddy,there was another masterpiece made by CN made by them too. Dexter's Lab is about a little kid named Dexter who is a young scientist and builds inventions. But it usually fails from either his sister,Dee Dee,or his rival,Mandark. What I love about this show are the character's themselves. Dexter is like the Jimmy Neutron from the past. He is smart,but is a loser at school,and I love how he says "stupid". Mandark is a hilrailous villain,who has a funny laugh And I love his reactions when he sees Dee Dee. Dee Dee was the best character of the show. She may have been annoying,but she is hilrailous,and I love how she easily bothers Dexter by wrecking his inventions or going into his lab when told not to.But the episodes are not just from the show,there are also sketches that are hilrailous and creative. There's Dial M for Monkey,where when Dexter's is not testing his monkey,he is a superhero defending the world. The other one was The Justice Friends,a funny spoof of The Avengers and the Super Friends,where three heroes that spoof Captain America,Thor and Hulk save the world and go on adventures,and has hilrailous plots like getting a chip out of Crunk's tooth. My only complaint was the fact that the newer seasons has lighter animation than usual. Seriously,what was wrong with it's normal animation? It's just like what happened to Ed,Edd and Eddy and PowerPuff Girls. But this is basically one of CN's best shows. Forget Chowder and The Amazing World of Gumball,Dexter's Lab is wayy better.

i am really happy of this show because dee dee, mee mee, and lee lee are my only favorite characters in the world. i did not like dexter because he torments dee dee, and her friends because dexter turned dee dee into a pony, and i am really depressed. this show is extremely awesome for kids.

This show was about Dexter, a mad boy genius who invented many marvelous things, only for them to be destroyed by his sister, Dee Dee. This show was hilarious when I was younger, and it's still hilarious to watch today. Many of the plot lines were silly, but that was the point, and all the characters had great personalities. The only things I didn't really lie were some of the justice friends segements and the occasional laugh track moments, something that should never exist in cartoons. Overall, this is one of the best CN shows ever, well worth watching on Boomerang (where it still airs daily.) 10/10 A+

I adored this show-positively adored it...until Chris Savino came along and butchered it along with another well-known classic, the Powerpuff Girls. It seems he just had to get his grimy paws on that one too. The plot originally was amazingly detailed, but after the last leg seasons, it fell to crappy animation and most plots didn't even take place in the laboratory anymore. The coloring is incredibly irritating to look at, and--



...oh, I can't bear to type anymore of this, the sheer memory of the Chris Savino-directed episodes have left me speechless. Just watch the old episodes already and leave the new ones in the dust.

With Cartoon Network in the Dark Ages, I just think that if this show was back on TV, along with The Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, and Hamtaro Cartoon Network would in my mind would be free from the Dark Ages. This was definetely one of the funniest, and action packed shows on Cartoon Network back in the day. The humor in this show is hilarious! Most of the jokes are really funny, and will keep you laughing all day. My favorite episode was the one when Dexter claimed that Santa was fake, and he thought Santa was his Dad in a suit. He shaves him, and it was not his Dad. That episode I thought was really funny!!! The music in this show is ok. It does get boring overtime, because it is the same music over, and over again. Overall, great show, hilarious humor, ok, but does get boring overtime music, memorable characters. Cartoon Network has got to put this show back on the air, because this was a masterpiece, and a very popular show. PLEASE, ressurrect this show!!!

This show's about this young inventor with a lab named Dexter and her annoying sister named Dedee do stuff.This show is a pretty good show.Well,it's not better than The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron.That show and this one is a lot like this show.Well,it's better than Courage The Cowardly Dog because it's pretty classic than a stupid dog.I mean,who would watch that than this show.I give this show a C because it's pretty good at being a classic cartoon,but it's not one of my favorite shows.It's a pretty good classic show and it's better than Johnny Bravo,but not better than The Powerpuff Girls.

This cartoon was a BLAST!!!!!! It was created by Gendy Tartovsky who later created Summer Jack, and was inspired by his pilot in 1991 and his What A Cartoon! episodes. This cartoon had writers like Craig McCraken (creator of Powerpuff Girls and Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends), Butch Hartman (the Fairly Odds and Danny Phantom creator), Seth McFarlane (Family Guy, American Dad!, and Cleveland Show! creator), and others. This show was a legend of cartoon network, then in 2001, Gendy Tartovsky abandoned the show and Dexter's Lab went downhill soooooo fast with it's new writers, bad plots, and sh*tty animation! Dexter even sounds sort of different in the season 4+ episodes! I think it's a different voice actor *cough* Chuckie Finster's voice sounds like him in the old ones....and the season 4+ ones kind of! *cough*. It was still an okay show, but it sorta got downhill. I also believe Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius (both movie and show) ripped off this show from shot from shot! Overall, this show's one of my favorite classics! Also, Dexter's my homeboy!

"Dexter's Laboratory" is Cartoon Network's 3rd original series. It premiered in 1996, though the original "What A Cartoon!" shorts were in '95. This show follows the lives of boy genius Dexter, his older sister Dee Dee, and his mom and dad who are simply named Mom and Dad. But there's also Dexter's rival Mandark, who's lab is even bigger and more impressive than Dexter's. But Dexter has to keep his lab secret from his parents. If they found out about his laboratory he'd be grounded for life! It was a simple formula that worked out great and always was very funny and very entertaining. This was one of my favorite childhood cartoons. I've loved it for as long as I can remember, and with reruns on Boomerang I can still enjoy it like I used to. And even though I was dissapointed to see it end in 1998. At least the 1999 TV movie "Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip" served as a good climax to the series. Then in 2001 Cartoon Network revived Dexter. Now I know that seems like a good thing, but remember that "Ego Trip" completely ended the series, so how could they do new ones? And worst of all, they continued without the creator Genndy Tartakovsky, because he was busy with his new masterpiece "Samurai Jack". The new episodes were absolutely horrid!!! Luckily in 2003 Dexter's Lab was put out of it's misery. YES! Seeing how bad it became I was relived to see it end. And I'd say the greatness of Genndy's original 51 episodes ovutweighs the awfulness of Savino' crappy 26.



Rating: 89% "Great"



Was once a classic, but then a piece of trash! Still overall a great cartoon though. And there was more episodes of the good version, than there was of the crappy version. But still, having two bad seasons in a row takes a few points away from the rating.



-Cartoon King

Dexter's Laboratory is a legend, or atleast it is now considering Cartoon Network rarely air it. It was a brilliant show created by 2 great minds, Genndy Tartakovsky and Craig McCracken.



The series is about a boy genius named Dexter who has a secret laboratory secluded in his bedroom, noone knows of this except his sister Dee Dee who frequently intrudes and tresppasses causing all sorts of problems for Dexter and his Inventions. Dexter's mom and dad are somewhat "normal" if you can say that...



The villain of the show is none other than Mandark who's always trying to destroy Dexter while at the same time trying to fall in love with Dexter's sister which creates an ever tangling bond of madness!



This show rocks and it'll NEVER be forgotten! :)

I can't believe they got rid of this.This was one of the great Cartoon Network classics.This is only on Boomerang and I don't have that!Anyway,I loved this show.It used to be on Fridays all the time.Now they replaced it with all that useless junk they call cartoons.I liked this show because I liked to see Dexter invent things in every sitution.I also liked DeeDee for her famous line,'what does that button do?'So I want Cartoon Network get a life and bring this show back.

A short little boy genius named Dexter and his Manhattan city sized top secret laboratory behind a bookshelf in his room. His happy girlish half-dumb sister named Dee Dee who just can't resist somehow getting into his lab and playing with his objects no matter how many times Dexter tells her to get out. Also his nemesis Mandark who loves science just as much as Dexter, has a lab, and always competes with Dexter to prove he is a lot smarter. Oh and has a crush on Dee Dee. They are a few other characters in this show.



Not much to say but this was a good show for Cartoon Network. It was so funny and awesome and had classic art and character design. I don't see why they can't bring back the show, no no at least they can put it on that lazy broken Boomerang channel that's not even available on IO digital cable. Yes, Dexter's Laboratory was that good. The only thing I found bad about this show is most of the episodes of it's last season were corny and were not good and was also losing it's charm and wacky-style episode after episode. Season 3 had the same kind of problem but mostly because of the background and character design. Basically seasons 1 & 2 were great.



That's all for now.

Dexter's Laboratory is the stuff that we as kids craved. Kids who have adult like qualities and surpass anything that an adult has done. In Dexter's case, he's perhaps the smartest and most intelligent kid to have ever walked the earth, and he has the sophisticated vocabulary to go with it. If things were left with this, it would have already been a solid show, though the creators took it a step up and create Dexter's evil sister, Dee Dee, bent on making Dex's life miserable by always destroying his lab. Now where the true charm of Dexter's Laboratory comes from is not just in Dee Dee causing havoc in Dexter's lab, but moreso in how a kid like Dexter lives out his life 50 years ahead of his age socially awkward amongst his peers.



There's an episode where Dexter accidentally switches places with his doppelganger whose parents happen to be geniuses themselves, and although it seems like a dream come true, he finds out how much he misses his "normal" life. And another where he got accepted to college and was unable to keep up with the party hardy lifestyle. Almost every episode contains character development in some form or another mainly with Dexter. There is also two mini shows, Dial M for Monkey and The Justice Friends. The first is about Dexter's lab monkey who secretly possesses superpowers and goes around saving the world. The second show is about three heroes, parodies of The Avengers, who get caught up in their own shenanigans, and just make things worse for themselves. Both these mini shows were really a change of pace from Dexter's Laboratory itself and just provided more depth to the show.



Overall even though I'm 12 years older than when I first enjoyed it in its prime, I can still go back and watch an episode and find myself still entertained. Each episode offered something new and doesn't try to oversell its main concept of Dee Dee being a destructive menace--although there is plenty of machine bashing to go around--and makes a great effort to get us in touch with everyone in the cast. Although nostalgia often makes the past makes things better than they really are, Dexter's Laboratory, no matter what era or age you are, is a quality show all around.

This and the original Cartoon, Cartoon shows on Cartoon Network really made me interested in these kinds of cartoons, because I preferred cartoons with animal characters in them, but this show was great growing up as a kid to watch. Dexter is of course to nobody's surprise a boy genius with his own laboratory. His sister Deedee is happy and full of energy but sometimes gets in the way of Dexter's experiments, so Deedee gets the impression of being careless and silly instead of happy and excited to Dexter. Mandark (sp) is also a genius and rivals Dexter, but he loves Deedee and would love to date her. Basically, the misadventures of a genius boy living the ordinary life is what this show details. Dexter most of the times comes up with scientific ways to change the world. The Monkey and Justice Friends mini shows were ok. I preferred the Justice Friends a bit more.

I loved watching Dexter's Lab when I was a kid it was one of the best it is so damned funny it's about a boy name dexter and he was a sercet lab in his room and that is awesome man I wish i had a sercet lab in my room and dexter is annoy by his older sister dee dee and wants to battle Dexter and that Dexter might be super smart but they are some episodes that dexter did not know what to do or was dumb and I wish this show still aired on cartoon network what if they made it in to a real life movie

Dexter was great. Even the crappy newer episodes were good compared to Cartoon Network's new shows (Class of 3000, Squirrel Boy, Robot Boy, etc.) The original animation style was waaayyy better that the new style. Dex went downhill as soon as he got his new voice. At least, that's what it sounds like. Before, his accent was perfectly believable; now it sounds forced and cheesy.I'm a massive Dexter fan, but I was really disappointed with the new episodes. The loss of Craig McCracken's brilliant art direction shows all too well. I thought the show was perfect with those episodes, but the recent ones don't really look right at all. No wonder they're not on regular rotation on Cartoon Network. Don't get me wrong, I love Dex, but I want new episodes with the classic artwork.

This was one of those classic funny Saturday morning cartoons you could wait to wake up to watch. When I was a kid this used to be one of my favorite shows to watch, and one of my favorite shows. This show is about Dexter a boy genius, who creates robots and invents many other crazy technologically advanced devices, and Deedee Dexter's dimwitted, hyper active older sister who is always wearing a ballerinas tutu and destroying Dexter's machines and inventions. The show also had Dial M for Murder which stared a superhero monkey, and The Justice Friends, which showed three superheroes in the normal day to day home life. One of the best cartoons Saturday morning had to offer.

It's not one of the best shows around. In fact, I bores me to death. When I first watchedit it was great. But now it's got boring. Especially with the new animation. Dexter's head turns round, he's voice turns high and squeaky, and his glasses are a little different. Dee Dee just looks dumber. That's all fo her. Mom and Dad's clothes have changed slightly too. As for Mandark, well, he's not changed. Phew.



Also, the neighbourhood looks a lot different with the murkey green house and sky. The sky is grey for heaven's sake. And all the floors are flat, and there aren't any slopes or bumps.



This show is going far too downhill. But sometimes i watch this when there's nothing else good on.

Since Gennedy, the creator of the show, stopped working on the show to work on Samurai Jack, this show has gone completely downhill. It still follows the life of young Dexter, with a completely different voice. I liked the original Dexter, the one in the same animation style ORIGINALLY intended for the show. I cannot emphasize how much that was better than the second style.

When I was young(er) I would watch this show all the time. I use to love it! I sorta still do. My favorite Charater is Dee-dee. I use to always want to be like her. I loved her room. I also loved the show because the parents were clueless, and Dexter always made weird and cool things happen. He also talks weird.

hehe, I remember some of the theme tune from the end=P



aaaaaaaanyways, right, a review about Dextor. There's a kid in my french and german class called that, not that it's important, but hey.



This shows half-decent I guess, but with most cartoons, for me, I grow out of some of them, like this one, but it's still quite cool, I'd LOVE to have a big labratory to blow stuff up in, and I already have the annoying sister =D too bad I'm a girl who's not called Dextor, but still, maybe I could be the girl version =) heh, he wears funny purple gloves.

Dexter's Laboratory is an okay show. I mean if you watch it once in a while ( a loooooong while) its okay but if you watch it every day you can get really sick of it. I am soooooooo sick of it now. I have watched the same episodes atleat a 100 times. I'm tired of it so I don't think it is such a great show. I mean it can be funny if you watched it after such a long time but if not it is just downright boring. I find it boring now so I don't like this show anymore. People can watch it if they want but i sure aren't. Not after a loooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg time. Welll I don't have a favourite episode. I mean Coos is funny. Watching him is fun sometimes.

I've always known myself to attract the dumbest shows and wonder what exactly I see in them. I could never understand this one despite its place on my Favorites list. All it's about is Dexter trying to invent something to make his life easier, and then his retarded sister Dee Dee comes and ruins everything. If she really loved him, she'd learn to lay off. But no, all she's good for is making his life a living nightmare.

Too many episodes were painful to watch. Why exactly did that moron Genndy Tartakovsky create this? Why does he hate his own creation so much? WHY???!!!! I just don't understand. Why did this show win so many awards? How come there are so few viewers like me that actually understand the misery Dexter must endure? How come mine is the only fanfic so far to address it? Again, I just don't understand.

Still, I gotta hand it to Genndy for influencing my thoughts on a <u>few</u> things (although I think Butch Hartman did a better job with Fairly OddParents). My favorite episodes consisted mostly of Dee Dee getting her comeuppance <u>without</u> Dexter paying the price (Sister Mom and Sdrawkcab, to name two). Too bad he had to throw away possible improvements to the whole thing. And that's my take.

If he is so smart,why in one episode he does not know what dirt is and he thought the word flour was pernounse flower and it was poison. His stupid sister that has a attention span of a molocule bugs Dexter a lot for no reason. Dexter`s dad just got plastic surgery from the new episodes. Dexter`s mom is a complete clean geek cause she does not take off her gloves till bed time. Mandark has some peaceful parents that came from who knows where. Dexter been inside his lab for so long he has forgotten reality. Wake up and smell the coffee Dexter!!!

I don't remember a lot of this show, but I do know I used to watch it a lot when I was younger and I used to like it. Some of the episodes had very dumb plots, but IMO, that is what made them funny. I used to think this show was funny. I liked Dexter and I liked Deedee, as well as the parents. Overall, this show, from what I remember, is quite decent, and a great show for the whole family. My overall grade for this show will be an A-, or so. Very funny and great show

My 42nd review after "Disney's doug"



Ok, It's about a smart 10-year old genius Boy named Dexter, he has his own secret Laboratory in his bookcase and in his room, with help for the NASA company. He can't show his parents his secret Laboratory Because It's a secret!!! He his an annoying 10-year old Sister, Dee Dee, She Screws around with his Lab, and Dexter yells: Dee Dee!!! Get out of my Laboratory!!!! *she gets out* That's a Classic ha! ha! I'm gonna give this cartoon an A+! Here the results:



Voice-acting: A++ 10.0/10.0 Perfectly well-done.



Animation: C 6.0/10.0 The 1996-2000 seasons had good animation while the 2001-2003 seasons stunk! Graphics: B 7.0/10.0 There are some frame-rate color glitches in some epiosdes.



Sound: A-- 8.0/10.0 DAH! dah, dah, DAH!!! That's an impressive part!



Dialouge: A+ 9.5/10.0 "oooh! What does this button do"? ha! ha! ha!



Lasting Appeal: A++ 9.7/10.0 Awesome and Enjoyable science

Fun! Overall: A+ 8.9/10.0 This is Amazing. I loved this cartoon so much as a kid. I watch re-runs of it on boomerang Airs each night @ 9:30pm. Catch it if you're a Fan!

dexters lab areally good cartoon and i think it reprents the word classic very well. it is about a young boy that has a extroynary mind and a sister that is really stupid. and a father and mother that are clueless that there is a huge lab bhide a bookcase. but anyway this show takes you through alot of cool adventures and alot of cool inventions that dexter makes and dee dee that is always want to press buttons and usully mess things up for dexter and ther is a secondary show in this cartoon that features the super friends van hallen like the legendary guitar player and krunk who looks like the hulkand majory glory who is like captain america anywahy the show is really good and i gave a 8.5