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Dexter is a very young scientist with a Central European accent, thick-rimmed glasses and a gigantic laboratory in his bedroom. For all his genius, Dexter is never able to keep his sister, Dee Dee, out of his lab.
Do '''NOT''' confuse with that other ''[[Dexter]]''; [[What Do You Mean
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.
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* [[Attack Pattern Alpha]]: In the ''Dial M for Monkey" episode "Last But Not Beast".
* [[Author Appeal]]: Tartakovsky seems to have a thing for classic [[Super Robot]] anime.
* [[Badass Beard]]: Action Hank. Noted in one episode where Dexter creates a synthetic beard to make himself look more "rugged", and is confused for Action Hank (despite looking nothing like him) because of the beard. They later [[Back
** [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|"It's not the beard on the outside that counts, but the beard on the INSIDE."]]
** And in "Ego Trip" [[Future Badass]] Dexter has one.
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** "DEE DEE! GET OUT OF MY LAB'''O'''RATORY!"
** "AT LAST! MY ''GREATEST CREATION'' IS COM''PLE''TED!"
* [[Charlie and The Chocolate Parody]]: A machine factory, complete with Golden Diskettes in order to enter and singing, and owned by [[Lawyer
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Dexter, sometimes. Though he has nothing on the ice-cream man in "Ice Cream". Turns out ever since Dexter bought ice cream from him, and paid him in ''pennies'', a series of unfortunate events had happened to him since, including chipping his tooth trying to put them in the safe but tripping on his laces after counting them, dumped by his girlfriend, having his car towed away, getting kicked out of his apartment and being forced to live under a highway because of this one act.
** And to add insult to injury, once the Ice Cream Man forgives Dexter and allows him to purchase ice cream, Dexter pays the Ice Cream Man with a 100 dollar bill.
* [[Child Prodigy]]: Dexter and Mandark. Dexter could even be called a baby prodigy; he was making [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|scientific-sounding]] obvservations about his family and his house [[Up to Eleven|when they got back from the hospital then night he was born]]. And DeeDee, for all her [[Cloudcuckoolander|kookiness]], is a ''really'' good dancer. She can [[Frickin' Laser Beams|dodge lasers]] while doing ballet!
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Mandark's sister Olga (Lalavava) appears in one episode as a rival to Dee Dee and is never seen again.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Dee Dee.
* [[Cluster F
** The episode does exist but was only ever shown at a handful of animation conventions. It has not been aired or released on DVD to date and may become a [[Missing Episode]].
*** That episode in question was actually made as a joke, and as such was never intended to be publicly shown on TV.
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** In Mexican Spanish, German, and Danish; Dexter is voiced by a man.
* [[Crossover]]: Dexter, Justice Friends and Monkey with each other, but also one episode with ''[[Dynomutt Dog Wonder]]''.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Dexter's dad.
* [[Cryptid Episode]]: There's both a Bigfoot episode and a Chupacabra episode.
* [[Curious As a Monkey]]
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** Mandark can either be a hammy and morally ambiguous rival to Dexter, or genuinely villainous.
** Dexter can go from being woobie to an [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]], sometimes even within the same episode.
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?|DIDIJUSTSAYTHATOUTLOUD!?]]
* [[The Ditz]]: Dee Dee.
** [[Genius Ditz]]: There are rare moments when Dee Dee shows a surprising level of insight.
* [[Ditzy Genius]]: Dexter, while a phenomenal genius, has moments where he misses obvious insights. Though it could be attributed to his lack of common sense that sometimes goes with intelligence, it seems to be more related to the fact that he's still very much a boy, considering his personality.
* [[Do Not Call Me Paul]]: <s> Susan</s> Mandark.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The Muffin Episode. Drug addiction or sex (muff-a-holic?) addiction, take your pick.
* [[Downer Ending]]: In one episode Dexter and Mandark {{spoiler|fail to stop an asteroid from destroying the world}} due their refusal to work together. The two fail to notice this, still bickering inside their mechs in outer space. Thankfully, [[Negative Continuity|that doesn't mean much here.]]
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Episode 32: "Dexter Detention".
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* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Dee Dee... though she has her moments.
* [[Dumb Is Good]]: Dee Dee is generally more laid back and cheerful than her brother.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]
* [[Dysfunctional Family]]: Dexter's.
* [[Eggshell Clothing]]: Dee Dee really spoofed this.
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* [[Fetish Fuel Future]]: "Ego Trip" shows a world where a CEO has a harem in his office and strips his employees to their underwear for a whipping when they're not productive.
* [[Flanderization]]: Mandark in the post-finale seasons was pretty much ''defined'' by his hamminess and crush on Dee-Dee.
* [[For Science!]]: Much of Dexter's motivation.
* [[Foot Focus]]: For Dee Dee. In ''two'' episodes, and it was plot-relevant.
* [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]: A story Dee Dee tells in "Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster", starring [[Mary Sue|Dee Dee Locks]], [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|sentient bagpipes]], [[Three Little Pigs|a brick pig]], the Big Bad Wolf as [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]], a foppish fish, and The Three Evil Blind Mice!!
* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: Played with in "The Old Switcheroo", where Dad forces Dexter and Dee Dee to switch places.
* [[Funny Foreigner]]: In the episode "The Bus Boy" there's a German boy in lederhosen. His story involved him dancing around eating food and commenting how good it was.
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* [[Gross Out Show]]: At times, particularly when people/animals get diseases.
* [[Gross Up Close Up]]
* [[Hanna
* [[Hartman Hips]]: Dexter's mom and the Touchy-Feely Neighbor Lady from "Nuclear Confusion" have the biggest butts in the whole series.
** Thus beginning many forays into [[Perverse Sexual Lust]]...
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* [[Herr Doktor]]: Dexter has the obligatory German accent required by the Mad Scientist Code.
** It's more of a Russian accent, as the creator himself is Russian. It can even be argued that Dexter is a cartoon version of [[Author Avatar|Tartakovsky himself]]
* [[Hey
** One episode featured none other than [[Paul Williams]], performing an uplifting song about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0wfawLYjjQ the glorious union of music and science]!
** Martin Mull and Fred Willard are two of Dexter's robots that are [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc8hzAp11bg ridin' that hog!!]
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{{quote| '''Dee Dee:''' Dexter! [[Comically Missing the Point|You're naked!!!]]}}
** 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.
* [[
* [[Inconvenient Itch]]: Dexter at one point gets the chicken pox and is told not to scratch the pox, or he'll turn into a chicken. He tries ways of keeping from scratching, even restraining himself completely, but nothing works and he eventually goes on a scratching spree... after which he indeed turns into a chicken.
* [[Incredibly Lame Fun]]: At an Amish community, when Dexter tries to explain "fun," [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|the closest thing they can think of is churning butter.]]
* [[Innocently Insensitive]]: Dee is usually just a playful Keet who wants to play with her little brother. However her notions of fun include playing around with his pretty looking (and somewhat delicate) toys, and no amount of ranting at her to leave him alone ever seems to faze her.
* [[Instant Awesome Just Add Mecha]]: Dexter's default response to almost any physical threat is to build a mech and go shoot the danger to bits. Eventually he ends up with a hangar full of mecha, which he walks through, pondering which one to use for playing dodgeball.
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** Likewise, his father acts much the same as Dee Dee does when disturbing Mom in the kitchen. She even ends up shouting at him in much the same way.
* [[It Runs On Nonsensoleum]]: Maybe to the same level as ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' but your mileage may vary as to how much...
* [[
* [[Kaiju]]: Several. More memorable ones involve an extra-dimensional horror with many eyes and tentacles (that's start of a stable time loop) and iconic Dexter "oops". Another episode involved Dexter and Dee Dee becoming giant monsters by drinking a mutation-causing formula and having an all out battle (complete with [[Calling Your Attacks]]). Finally, there's Badaxtra, the monster of the original Finale who nearly destroyed the world.
* [[Kiddie Kid]]: Dee-Dee
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* [[Literal Genie]]: One episode ended with Dexter telling Computer to make him a sandwich. And she did.
* [[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".
{{quote| '''Dexter:''' [gasps] That is not possible! No, wait, no, you're right.}}
* [[Man On Fire]]: "My hair is on fire! My hair is on fire!"
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** Though to be fair, talking about meat to a group of people who suspect you of poaching, is not a very good idea.
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]
* [[
* [[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.
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'''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.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Dexter is the cause of a lot of bad stuff that happens. However, bonus points go to ''Last But Not Beast''. Dexter got one when he accidentally awakens the incredibly powerful Badaxtra trying to impress his new friends. Then Mandark gets it later when he actually tries to stop Bedaxtra as well and instead makes him grow.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: [[Stephen Hawking|Professor Hawk]], anyone?
* [[No Knees]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|"Hello, knees!"]]
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* [[Not a Morning Person]]: Dexter's parents, again.
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: Pretty much the defining premise of Dee Dee's character.
* [[Not
* [[One
** Lalavava.
* [[One Sided Arm Wrestling]]: Dad vs. a Trucker... before the arm gets upgraded from truck parts.
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* [[Overly Long Gag]]
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Dexter's VA went from Christine Cavanaugh to Candi Milo when the former retired from voice acting early on in the last two seasons.
* [[Paper
* [[Parental Bonus]]: In addition to everything listed under [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] above, the show takes delight in constantly implying that Dexter's parents are not only very much still in love, but have a ''very'' healthy [[Good People Have Good Sex|sex life]].
* [[Perspective Reversal]]: Dee Dee crushes a bunch of ants, because she thinks they're filthy. Dexter, who find ants interesting, shrinks them both down to ant size so Dee Dee can get a better idea of their society. After some adventures, they return to normal size, at which point Dee Dee happily thanks Dexter show showing her just how cool ants really are - while Dexter is squashing them.
* [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]]: So much so that they did an [[Whole
* [[Ping Pong Naivete]]: Dexter, having gas cramps isn't going to make you ''explode''. [[Like You Were Dying|You can calm down now.]]
** He ran a test to see what the cramps would do to him. [[No Control Group|On a balloon]].
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* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: In 'Mock 5' Dexter's dad mentions Dexter's sister, 'Racer D' dying in a tragic soap box derby racing accident...when she's sitting right next to him, alive and well, trying to get his attention.
* [[Series Continuity Error]]: While [[Negative Continuity]] is in full effect, a couple of examples are still pretty egregious:
** In "Sports a Poppin'" Dad was trying to teach Dexter how to golf, but in the later episode "Tee Party" Dad is a [[Small Name, Big Ego]] who acts like he's a pro but doesn't even know the basics. He insisted on a do-over because "the ball almost fell into this little hole".
** Also, in the episode "Figure Not Included", Dexter asks for a Major Glory action figure from his mom. She tells him he she'll get him one for his birthday. However, in the episode "Surprise", when a Major Glory "somehow" manages to make it's way into Dexter's mom's cart when she goes birthday shopping for him, she takes it out, claiming that "Dexter doesn't need this junk". Though that may have just been neglect.
* [[Serious Business]]: Dodgeball, snowball, and others.
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* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: With at least half attributed to Dee Dee.
** It's in the outtro: "... In Dexter's Laboratory, lives the smartest boy you've ever seen, but Dee Dee blows his experiments to smithereens! There is gloom and doom while things go boom, in Dexter's lab!!!!"
* [[Suck E.
* [[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.
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* [[Voice Changeling]]: Dexter adopted this ability. Some kind of machine enabled him to copy the exact voices of others. This was in the babysitting episode, where he used the voices of the babysitter and her boyfriend to sever their relationship, so that he could move in himself.
* [[Wacky Racing]]: "Dexter's Wacky Races."
* [[What Does This Button Do?]]: [[Trope Namer]], because Dee Dee made this into an art form.
* [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?]]: Dexter can acquire whatever parts he needs to build whatever he wants without even having any suspicious shipments of mail arrive at his house. Sometimes he gets robots to assemble everything for him.
** Except when [[Rule of Funny]] dictates he get a bill from NASA.
* [[Whole
*** "Kid-friendly" in that it takes place in a school and feature no shooting. It's still about [[Nightmare Fuel|a psychotic man trapping a small child in his school late at night an torturing him.]]
** Professor Hawk's episode was a [[Whole
* [[Wig, Dress, Accent]]: Mandark, when he kidnaps and impersonates Dexter's mother in "Momdark".
* [[Wildlife Commentary Spoof]]
* [[William Telling]]: Subverted when Dexter and Dee Dee go on a sibling vs. sibling game show. Dexter's just there for the prize, and starts one of the challenges before the host finishes explaining the rules, knocking an apple off of Dee Dee's head with a cream puff. He loses, as the host reveals that the challenge was to hit your sibling without making the apple fall.
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* [[Cat Fight]]: Agent Honeydew and Peltra (both were even meowing and sticking out their hands in clawing motion, and Peltra was wearing a literal catsuit)
* [[Cruella to Animals]]: Peltra.
* [[
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Quackor the Fowl.
** [[Samus Is a Girl]]
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* [[Hartman Hips]]: Agent Honeydew. The bodysuit helps!
* [[Heroic Spirit]]: Even though Monkey can't beat Rasslor, he never gives up, and that convinces Rasslor he has finally found a worthy opponent.
** [[Whole
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]: The ''[[Predator]]''-esque episode "Huntor".
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Monkey and Agent Honeydew
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** Oddly, it comes up in the rotation on Cartoon Network Video.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Honeydew again.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Simian, when he realized [[He Who Fights Monsters|he's become just like]] [[Humans Are Bastards|those he hated]].
** Monkey after breaking free of being [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] in "Organ Grindor"
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Monkey both in and out of costume.
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* [[Delicious Fruit Pies]]: Major Glory's weapon of choice when [[Ad Bumpers|saving Dexter and Dee Dee from the Mathmagician]].
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: Krunk's dream, which includes (among other things), a multi-eyed roller-skating zebra in a trenchcoat.
* [[
* [[Expy]]: Of [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]
** Major Glory - [[Captain America]] combined with [[Superman]]
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*** And many others!
* [[Frank Welker]]: Krunk.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Major Glory says this word for word to Val Hallen in one episode.
* [[Hulk Speak]]: Krunk.
* [[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.
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{{quote| '''Major Glory:''' ''[[The Flintstones|Wiiiiiiiilllmaaaaaaa!!!]]'' I mean, ''KRUUUUUUNK!!!''}}
** And two seconds later, Krunk walks out [[Crowning Moment of Funny|dressed as Wilma]]. With the Flinstones theme playing in the background.
* [[So Unfunny
** ...[[Hilarious in Hindsight|BO]][[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|NK]]!
* [[Superhero]]
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* [[The Tooth Hurts]]: One episode of the ''Justice Friends'' has them trying to avoid the dentist from fear of this. It's subverted: Krunk, the Hulk Captain Ersatz, only got a tortilla chip in his tooth -- which just needed a simple, painless extraction -- compared to all the idiotic stuff Major Glory tries to do to his tooth. The [[Aesop]]: Go to the dentist, or it'll hurt MORE.
* [[Wearing a Flag On Your Head]]: Major Glory's cape.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Bees]]
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