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List of <i>Dexter's Laboratory</i> episodes

List of Dexter's Laboratory episodes

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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.

Poster for the Dexter's Laboratory pilot on World Premiere Toons.

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]

Series overview

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Episodes

Pilots (1995–96)

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Season 1 (1996–97)

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Season 2 (1997–98)

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"Rude Removal"

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.

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TV movie (1999)

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.

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Season 3 (2001–02)

Candi Milo replaced Christine Cavanaugh as the voice of Dexter after the first 6 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.

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Season 4 (2002–03)

The fourth and final season of the series reverted back to the original episode format of three 7-minute shorts. Additionally, while the new modern character designs are the same, the background art style is now fully decorated, although just as modernized, compared to how hardly finished it looked in Season 3 and the original art style in the first two seasons of the series.

The short "Chicken Scratch" was produced as a standalone short in between seasons 3 and 4, and was shown as a theatrical short before The Powerpuff Girls Movie on July 3, 2002. The short later aired as a part of the fourth season in-between "The Lab of Tomorrow" and "Garage Sale".

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Notes

  1. Also known as "Siblings and Sorcery".[9]
  2. "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.

References

  1. "TNT commercials ca. April 1996 part 6-8". Archived from the original on December 19, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2018 via YouTube.
  2. Beller, Miles (April 25, 1996). "TV Review; 'Dexter's Laboratory'". The Hollywood Reporter. BPI Entertainment News Wire.
  3. 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.
  4. "Dexter's Lab: Dexter's Rude Removal". Adult Swim. January 22, 2013. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  5. 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.
  6. Moore, Scott (February 26, 1995). "Creative 'World Premiere Toons'". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  7. 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.
  8. "Cartoon Network: Schedule". CartoonNetwork.com. April 4, 2001. Archived from the original on April 4, 2001. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
  9. 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.
  10. Parks, Steve (April 28, 1998). "A Kid Calls the 'Toon / Only 7, LI Boy's Carton Idea Makes It to TV". Newsday – Long Island, NY. Archived from the original on July 17, 2013. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  11. 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.

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