7.8/10184 votes#1 - 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
6.9/10166 votes#2 - Quackor The Fowl
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/16/1997
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: N/A
7.4/10166 votes#3 - 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
7.2/10157 votes#4 - Mom and Jerry
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 7/23/1997
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: N/A
7.0/10147 votes#5 - Chubby Cheese
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 7/23/1997
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: N/A
7.0/10146 votes#6 - That Crazy Robot
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 7/23/1997
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: N/A
7.3/10146 votes#7 - 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
7.4/10167 votes#8 - 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
7.6/10179 votes#9 - 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
7.0/10142 votes#10 - The Koos is Loose
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 8/6/1997
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: N/A
6.9/10155 votes#11 - Morning Stretch
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 8/6/1997
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: N/A
7.3/10152 votes#12 - 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
7.3/10149 votes#13 - 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
7.2/10159 votes#14 - Book 'Em
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 8/13/1997
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: N/A
7.2/10149 votes#15 - Sister's Got a Brand New Bag
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 8/20/1997
Dee Dee's new dance annoys Dexter to no end.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Writer: N/A
7.1/10148 votes#16 - Shoo, Shoe Gnomes
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 8/20/1997
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: N/A
7.0/10144 votes#17 - Lab of The Lost
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 8/20/1997
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: N/A
7.7/10177 votes#18 - 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
7.1/10148 votes#19 - Game Show
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 8/27/1997
Dexter and Dee Dee compete against each other on a game show. Where Dexter can't seem to win.
Director: Robert Alvarez
Writer: N/A
7.0/10146 votes#20 - Fantastic Boyage
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 8/27/1997
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: N/A
6.9/10149 votes#21 - Filet of Soul
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 9/3/1997
When Dee Dee refuses to flush their gold fish down the toilet, the ghost of the fish haunts them.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Writer: N/A
6.8/10145 votes#22 - Golden Diskette
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 9/3/1997
Dee Dee and Dexter win a free pass to Professor Hawk's magic factory after finding the golden diskette.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Writer: N/A
6.9/10152 votes#23 - Snowdown
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 9/10/1997
Dad encourages Dexter to become the king of snow, as he was in his early days, until someone beated him.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Robert Alvarez
Writer: N/A
7.1/10154 votes#24 - *Figure Not Included
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 9/10/1997
In an attempt to be popular with his ""friends"", Dexter makes his own Mayor Glory Action Figure.
Director: Rob Renzetti
Writer: N/A
6.8/10140 votes#25 - Mock 5
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 9/10/1997
In a whole parody of ""Speed Racer"", Dexter and Mandark compete on a race.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky, Rob Renzetti
Writer: N/A
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!
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
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 184 votes. Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and written by N/A, it aired on 7/16/1997. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "Quackor The Fowl".