8.1/10200 votesLoading...#1 - Ice Cream Scream
Season 2 Episode 39 - Aired 10/15/1997
Dexter will do anything to make the ice cream vendor stop to get some ice cream.
Director: Robert Alvarez
Writer: N/A
8.0/108 votesLoading...#2 - Decode of Honor
Season 2 Episode 40 - Aired 10/22/1997
Dexter and Dee Dee get their Action Hank and Pony Puff Secret Codes mixed up.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Robert Alvarez
Writer: N/A
7.8/10250 votesLoading...#3 - Maternal Combat
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/28/1996
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.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Rob Renzetti
Writer: N/A
7.8/10241 votesLoading...#4 - Old Man Dexter
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/12/1996
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.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken
Writer: N/A
7.7/10182 votesLoading...#5 - Beard To Be Feared
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/16/1997
After a fright from Dee Dee, Dexter lays down in the beard growing machine and tries to grow a beard like his hero, Action Hank. Unfortunately, everyone thinks he's a hero.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Writer: N/A
7.7/10176 votesLoading...#6 - Labels
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 8/27/1997
Dexter and Dee Dee label everything in the house. When their parents get home, they mistake Dexter for Dee Dee (he had a Dee Dee label on his forehead), but he already blamed Dee Dee for the chaos.
Director: Rob Renzetti
Writer: N/A
7.6/10254 votesLoading...#7 - Dial M for Monkey: Magmanamus
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/28/1996
Monkey must defend the city from a giant underground lava monster, Magmanamus, who cannot sleep because of the noise created by its residents.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Paul Rudish
Writer: N/A
7.6/10178 votesLoading...#8 - Hunger Strikes
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 8/6/1997
Dexter uses radiation therapy so he can like vegetables, it actually causes him to only eat vegetables, also, the therapy has consequences if Dexter goes too long without them. He turns into a Parody of The Incredible Hulk without vegetables.
Director: Rob Renzetti
Writer: N/A
7.5/10289 votesLoading...#9 - DeeDeemensional
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/28/1996
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.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Rob Renzetti
Writer: N/A
7.5/10222 votesLoading...#10 - Dexter's Rival
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/12/1996
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.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Writer: N/A
7.5/10183 votesLoading...#11 - Changes
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/19/1996
Rerun of "Dexter's Laboratory", the first "What a Cartoon!" pilot.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Writer: Genndy Tartakovsky
7.5/10159 votesLoading...#12 - Dexter is Dirty
Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 10/15/1997
To avoid the bath, Dexter decides to laminate himself.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Writer: N/A
7.4/10199 votesLoading...#13 - Dexter's Assistant
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/5/1996
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.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Rob Renzetti
Writer: N/A
7.4/10187 votesLoading...#14 - Double Trouble
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/19/1996
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.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Rob Renzetti
Writer: N/A
7.4/10165 votesLoading...#15 - Ant Pants
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/16/1997
Dexter prevents Dee Dee from destroying some ants. In order to teach her about ants, Dexter and Dee enter Dexter's ant farm. The ants think Dexter is a criminal and has him fight to the death with a stronger ant.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Writer: N/A
7.4/10166 votesLoading...#16 - Hamhocks and Armlocks
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 7/30/1997
Dexter's father gets challenged to an arm wrestling match against a local champion at a truck stop, when he causes the champion to lose for the first time, but refuses to do so even when he trashes the family car. He finally accepts the challenge when he slams the door in Mom's face. Dee Dee knows he'll get creamed, so Dexter builds him a robotic arm to help him win the match.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Rob Renzetti
Writer: N/A
7.4/10151 votesLoading...#17 - The Bus Boy
Season 2 Episode 32 - Aired 10/1/1997
Dexter must go to the back of the school bus to retrieve his pencil, where another kid got lost years ago.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Rob Renzetti
Writer: N/A
7.4/10156 votesLoading...#18 - Photo Finish
Season 2 Episode 36 - Aired 10/8/1997
Dee Dee photographs Dexter's secret lab.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Robert Alvarez
Writer: N/A
7.3/10200 votesLoading...#19 - Dexter Dodgeball
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/5/1996
Dexter is forced to play dodgeball by his P. E. teacher. Constantly failing, Dexter builds a robotic exoskeleton to defend himself.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken
Writer: N/A
7.3/10193 votesLoading...#20 - Dial M for Monkey: Simion
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/12/1996
Monkey encounters Simion, an intelligent anthropomorphic chimpanzee who seeks vengeance on humans for turning him into his current state.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Paul Rudish
Writer: N/A
7.3/10179 votesLoading...#21 - Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/19/1996
Monkey's birthday party is interrupted by Barbequor an intergalactic villain who plans to eat the planets, and his sidekick, the Silver Spooner.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Paul Rudish
Writer: N/A
7.3/10145 votesLoading...#22 - D & DD
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 7/30/1997
When Dexter's friends tire of the complicated traps he sets up as Dungeon Master (he has their character's killed every time), they put Dee Dee in charge for a change of pace.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Writer: N/A
7.3/10151 votesLoading...#23 - Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 8/13/1997
Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster—Dexter's mother forces Dexter to read to Dee Dee when she's sick, but she makes up her own story after being bored by Dexter's story (which was actually a science article). The story is completely mixed up and makes no sense. Dexter ends up catching Dee Dee's illness.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Robert Alvarez
Writer: N/A
7.3/10148 votesLoading...#24 - Backfire
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 8/13/1997
Dexter fuses Dee Dee with the family car by accident, causing mayhem. A Parody of Herbie the Love Bug.
Director: Rob Renzetti
Writer: N/A
7.3/10195 votesLoading...#25 - Star Check Unconventional
Season 2 Episode 37 - Aired 10/15/1997
Dexter and two friends go to the Star Check Convention, but certain confusion might send them to a different one.
Director: Rob Renzetti
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Dexter's Laboratory
Every episode of Dexter's Laboratory ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Dexter's Laboratory!
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,...
Genres:AnimationComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Cartoon Network
Best Episodes Summary
"Ice Cream Scream" is the best rated episode of "Dexter's Laboratory". It scored 8.1/10 based on 200 votes. Directed by Robert Alvarez and written by N/A, it aired on 10/15/1997. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Decode of Honor".