Dexter's Laboratory: Difference between revisions

 

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One of [[Cartoon Network]]'s earliest original series, ''Dexter's Laboratory'' originated as one of the [[What a Cartoon Show|World Premiere Toons]], a series of short cartoons solicited through a contest for nonprofessional animators. (''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' was also brought in through this contest, and note that the two shows seem to take place in the same [[The Verse|universe]], and seem to share similar styles. [[Craig McCracken]] and [[Genndy Tartakovsky]] collaborated on both shows.)

 

This show follows a fairly standard "[[Three Shorts]]" format, with a ''Dexter'' cartoon at the start and end, and another series in between. Throughout its run, this slot was filled by spinoff series ''Dial M for Monkey'' and ''Justice Friends'', both of these [[Superhero]] parodies. ''Dial M For Monkey'' followed Dexter's eponymous pet monkey, who fought aliens and monsters behind Dexter's back. ''The Justice Friends'' provided a domestic sitcom take on ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'', exploring the apartment life shared by three superheroes. Outside the US the filler shows were sometimes dropped and the ''Dexter'' cartoons shown in a different order.

 

* [[Absentee Actor]]: Dexter doesn't appear in "Paper Route Bout", which instead focused on Dee Dee.

** He also doesn't appear in "Surf, Sun, and Science" which is a [[Day in The Limelight]] for Mandark.