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The Best Episodes of Dexter's Laboratory Season 2

Every episode of Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dexter's Laboratory Season 2!

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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 1 - Beard to be Feared
    7.8/10(199 votes)

    #1 - Beard to be Feared

    S2:E1

    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:Unknown

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  2. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 2 - Quackor the Fowl
    6.9/10(182 votes)

    #2 - Quackor the Fowl

    S2:E2

    Mandark doesn't know that his pet duck is really Quackor the Fowl, Monkey's rival. Quackor overhears Mandark talking in his sleep about destroying Dexter's lab and tries to do it, unaware that Monkey is Dexter's pet.

    Director:Genndy Tartakovsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 3 - Ant Pants
    7.5/10(183 votes)

    #3 - Ant Pants

    S2:E3

    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:Unknown

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  4. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 4 - Mom and Jerry
    7.3/10(171 votes)

    #4 - Mom and Jerry

    S2:E4

    Dexter switches his brain with a mouse, and must avoid his mother when she decides to exterminate him. A Parody of Tom and Jerry.

    Director:Robert Alvarez
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 5 - Chubby Cheese
    7.0/10(158 votes)

    #5 - Chubby Cheese

    S2:E5

    At the Chubby Cheese pizza restaurant, Dexter wears a Chubby Cheese hat and tries to slow down the Whack The Weasel machine to win a stuffed Monkey doll before Dee Dee does.

    Director:Rob Renzetti
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 6 - That Crazy Robot
    7.1/10(159 votes)

    #6 - That Crazy Robot

    S2:E6

    One of Dexter's robots becomes Dee Dee's servant when she removes a wrench that froze him up, but the robot is willing to destroy anyone who is mean to her or scolds her, including Dexter.

    Director:Rob Renzetti
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 7 - D & DD
    7.3/10(157 votes)

    #7 - D & DD

    S2:E7

    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:Unknown

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  8. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 8 - Hamhocks and Armlocks
    7.5/10(179 votes)

    #8 - Hamhocks and Armlocks

    S2:E8

    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.

    Directors:Genndy Tartakovsky, Rob Renzetti
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 9 - Hunger Strikes
    7.8/10(193 votes)

    #9 - Hunger Strikes

    S2:E9

    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:Unknown

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  10. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 10 - The Koos is Loose
    7.1/10(155 votes)

    #10 - The Koos is Loose

    S2:E10

    Dee Dee's imaginary friend comes to life and annoys Dexter. Dexter ends up wishing him away, then he realizes he made a terrible mistake.

    Director:Robert Alvarez
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 11 - Morning Stretch
    7.0/10(167 votes)

    #11 - Morning Stretch

    S2:E11

    Dexter oversleeps and still has to finish his homework along with getting ready for school and eating breakfast, so he creates a helmet that expands thirty seconds into thirty minutes, but realizes that slowing down time is more detrimental than helpful. When he gets everything done, the helmet shuts off. But Dee Dee blocks his door causing him to miss the bus. When Dexter asks Dee Dee why, she replies "Snow Day, school's canceled!". Dexter realizes he did all that rushing around for nothing!

    Director:Rob Renzetti
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 12 - Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster
    7.4/10(163 votes)

    #12 - Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster

    S2:E12

    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.

    Directors:Genndy Tartakovsky, Robert Alvarez
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 13 - Backfire
    7.3/10(160 votes)

    #13 - Backfire

    S2:E13

    Dexter fuses Dee Dee with the family car by accident, causing mayhem. A Parody of Herbie the Love Bug.

    Director:Rob Renzetti
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 14 - Book 'Em
    7.3/10(169 votes)

    #14 - Book 'Em

    S2:E14

    Dexter accidentally takes a library book without checking it out, so he and Dee Dee try to put it back without being caught.

    Director:Robert Alvarez
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 15 - Sister's Got a Brand New Bag
    7.3/10(160 votes)

    #15 - Sister's Got a Brand New Bag

    S2:E15

    Dee Dee's new dance annoys Dexter to no end.

    Director:Genndy Tartakovsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 16 - Shoo, Shoe Gnomes
    7.1/10(159 votes)

    #16 - Shoo, Shoe Gnomes

    S2:E16

    Dexter calls upon the "shoe gnomes" to repair his boots, but can't rid himself of them afterwards. The only way to get rid of them, according to Dee Dee, is to kick them in the butt. Dexter gets rid of the last one with his boot, but it's damaged again.

    Director:Rob Renzetti
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 17 - Lab of The Lost
    7.0/10(155 votes)

    #17 - Lab of The Lost

    S2:E17

    Dexter ends up in the "old part of the lab" where his earliest inventions, long since forgotten, are not too happy to see him. They are mad at him for saying they were his greatest inventions, then moved on to another great invention.

    Director:Genndy Tartakovsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 18 - Labels
    7.8/10(193 votes)

    #18 - Labels

    S2:E18

    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:Unknown

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  19. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 19 - Game Show
    7.1/10(159 votes)

    #19 - Game Show

    S2:E19

    Dexter and Dee Dee compete against each other on a game show. Where Dexter can't seem to win.

    Director:Robert Alvarez
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 20 - Fantastic Boyage
    7.0/10(157 votes)

    #20 - Fantastic Boyage

    S2:E20

    Dexter tries to inject himself into Dee Dee to find a cure to the common cold, but ends up inside his dog. He believes Dee Dee has been infected with a dog virus. He is then mistaken for the first human virus to infect a dog by the vet.

    Director:Robert Alvarez
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 21 - Filet of Soul
    6.9/10(160 votes)

    #21 - Filet of Soul

    S2:E21

    When Dee Dee refuses to flush their gold fish down the toilet, the ghost of the fish haunts them.

    Director:Genndy Tartakovsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 22 - Golden Diskette
    6.9/10(158 votes)

    #22 - Golden Diskette

    S2:E22

    Dee Dee and Dexter win a free pass to Professor Hawk's magic factory after finding the golden diskette.

    Director:Genndy Tartakovsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 23 - Snowdown
    7.0/10(164 votes)

    #23 - Snowdown

    S2:E23

    Dad encourages Dexter to become the king of snow, as he was in his early days, until someone beated him.

    Directors:Genndy Tartakovsky, Robert Alvarez
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 24 - *Figure Not Included
    7.2/10(166 votes)

    #24 - *Figure Not Included

    S2:E24

    In an attempt to be popular with his ""friends"", Dexter makes his own Mayor Glory Action Figure.

    Director:Rob Renzetti
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Dexter's Laboratory Season 2 Episode 25 - Mock 5
    6.9/10(151 votes)

    #25 - Mock 5

    S2:E25

    In a whole parody of ""Speed Racer"", Dexter and Mandark compete on a race.

    Directors:Genndy Tartakovsky, Rob Renzetti
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Beard to be Feared" is the best rated episode of "Dexter's Laboratory" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 199 votes. Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/16/1997. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "Quackor the Fowl".