Dexter's Laboratory: Difference between revisions

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That the world's never seen before!'' }}

* [[Bald of Awesome]]: Dexter in the [[Bad Future]].

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: You '''do not''' want to see Dexter's father angry. Same with his mother.

** And God help you if you make ''Dee Dee'' seriously angry.

* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: Dexter has a humongous lab so big that there are some parts of it Dexter has forgotten about, yet it is somehow able to fit in the closed-off space of his relatively small house. Sometimes this is [[Handwaved]] as the lab being underground, but this doesn't make a whole lot of sense either, since Dexter often walks directly into it from his second-floor bedroom.

* [[Hypocrite]]: Dee Dee once got on Dexter's case for experimenting on one of her dolls. Ignoring her own frequent(ly destructive) visits to his lab.

** Pretty much anytime Dee Dee meets someone of her own clingy and destructive level she finds them intolerable and inconsiderate. Ironically subverted one time Dexter loses it and ''completely destroys her room and all her personal belongings''. Her response?

** Dexter himself occasionally shows [[No Sense of Personal Space]] and can be equally intrusive and annoying. His father has to trick him into leaving when his badgering interupts a golf game for example.

* [[I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That]]: A variation occurs in "The Old Switcharooms": Dexter tries to sneak into his lab from Dee Dee's room to ensure that she isn't trashing it. Dexter's dad, who is somehow aware that Dexter is doing this even without looking at him, casually mentions (in a very stern tone) that if he were to catch anyone trying to escape their punishment, that person would find themselves suffering an even greater punishment.

* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: Used when Dexter suits up and boards his [[Humongous Mecha]].

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Hilariously parodied in "The Muffin King".

* [[Man On Fire]]: "My hair is on fire! My hair is on fire!"

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Dexter's dad is this when he wants to be in "The Muffin King" and "Snowdown".

* [[Negative Continuity]]: Used, but not consistently. Dexter's Lab is destroyed in every other episode, but when Mandark's is destroyed in his first appearance, it actually stays that way until the next time we see the character.

* [[Never Say That Again]]: Dexter about Mandark.

'''Dexter''': ''hisses'' }}

* [[Never Trust a Hair Tonic]]: Dexter makes a hair tonic for Dee-dee after she accidentally cuts off one of her pigtails. Despite repeated warnings to use only one drop, Dee-Dee uses the entire bottle. Three guesses what happens next.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: This happens a few times to Dexter. One episode memorably had him thinking he was a "little piggy" and reverted to babyhood.

** What about his dad? When he's insane, he's really insane.

** Mom too for that matter, on the occasions when her cleaning obsession and fear of germs come to the front. Most notable is one episode where Dad takes her trademark dish gloves while she's asleep, and then wont let her clean the house next day, since its Mothers Day, and the family will take care of the housework for the day. Unfortunatly, its such a messy disaster, that Mom basically has a nervous breakdown and begins to have disturbing hallucinations. It ends well though, as her Mothers Day gift is a brand new pair of gloves.

* [[Satellite Character]]: Dexter's friend Douglas.

* [[The Faceless]]: Earl in "Hamhocks And Armlocks".

* [[The Fundamentalist]]: Let's just say that both the ''Darbie'' doll fans and ''Star Check'' fans in episode "Star Check Unconventional" are really, REALLY into their hobby. And what every you do, do NOT remove a classic figure from its box.

* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]

* [[Three Shorts]]

* [[Time Stands Still]]: "Morning Stretch".

* [[Toilet Humor]]: When Dee-Dee and Dexter get their hands on labeling devices to mark their property, Dexter marks a gallon of apple juice as his own and drinks it all... then gets to the bathroom, only to find Dee-Dee's marked it for herself.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Dexter's dad goes from average middle class guy and sports enthusiast to daredevil stuntman in one episode of the later seasons.

** We see it happen to Dexter in ''Ego Trip''.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Val Hallen fittingly used a guitar (or as he referred to it, his "Mighty Axe") as his weapon, and it was also the source of his powers; without it he becomes physically ill and reverts from a Viking-esque god of Rock to a scrawny, short-haired nerdy-looking guy, presumably his true form.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Ratman's backstory don't seem to add up.

'''Ratman:''' What do you mean? [[Comically Missing the Point|I got the costume, and the belt! What's not to get?]] }}

* [[Laugh Track]]: Used to resemble the sitcoms it parodies.

* "When I say '[[Secret Identity]]', I ''mean'' '[[Secret Identity]]'!" (Major Glory after having his mask removed eight times, each one revealing another copy of the same mask)

* [[Shout-Out]]: In "Can't Nap", after Major Glory gets locked out of the apartment by White Tiger...

** And two seconds later, Krunk walks out [[Crowning Moment of Funny|dressed as Wilma]]. With the Flinstones theme playing in the background.

* [[So Unfunny It's Funny]]: TV Puppet Pals