The Best Episodes of Dexter's Laboratory Season 1

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

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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

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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

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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

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

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Paul Rudish

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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

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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

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

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Paul Rudish

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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

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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

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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

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

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

Writer: Genndy Tartakovsky

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

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken

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

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Paul Rudish

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

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

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

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

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

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Paul Rudish

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

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

Writer: Genndy Tartakovsky

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.

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

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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.

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken

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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.

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken

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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.

Director: Craig McCracken, Rob Renzetti

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

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

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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.

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Rob Renzetti

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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.

Director: Rob Renzetti

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