The BEST episodes of Dexter's Laboratory season 1
Every episode of Dexter's Laboratory season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dexter's Laboratory season 1!
Sleep tight, America! Your fate lies safely in the hands of Dexter, a child genius who whips up dazzling, world-saving inventions in his secret laboratory. Big sister Dee Dee frequently wrecks his experiments, but his bigger nemesis is Mandark, his brilliant rival at Huber Elementary School. Mom and Dad, of course, have no idea what their little angel is up to.
#1 - Dollhouse Drama
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 12/4/1996
After Dexter shrinks himself to doll size, he becomes an unwilling character in Dee Dee's doll story. Due to a side effect of shrinking, he starts to confuse fantasy with reality, and starts to believe the story is real.
#2 - Old Man Dexter
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/12/1996
After Dexter is banned from watching The Late Early Movie due to his age, he decides to accelerate his age so that he can see the movie, but Dee Dee tampers with the age acceleration process, causing him to turn into a 95-year old man.
#3 - Dial M for Monkey: Magmanamus
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/28/1996
Due to all the noise being made by all the citizens of the city on a daily basis, the monster Magmanamus is awakened. However, when he goes to the surface to try and get the people to be quiet, he ends up causing even more noise since the people are frightened of him. Now, Monkey prepares to fight him, unaware that Magmanamus only wants peace and quiet, so he can sleep.
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#4 - Changes
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/19/1996
Dexter and Dee Dee test his latest invention: a device that turns people into animals, which yields crazy results.
#5 - Maternal Combat
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/28/1996
Dexter creates a "Mom-Droid" robot to have it do all of his mother's duties when she falls ill. But a little carelessness makes the control of the "Mom-Droid" fall into the hands of his sister, DeeDee. Now, the "Mom-Droid" is causing all sorts of havoc around the house, so Dexter builds a "Super Mom-Droid" to combat the original one he made.
#6 - Dee Dee's Room
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/2/1996
To find his missing invention, Dexter heads into the one place he fears to go: Dee Dee's room, where cooties run rampant.
#7 - Deedeemensional
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/28/1996
When Dexter falls victim to a terrifying creature brought forth by his latest invention, Dee Dee goes back in time to warn him. The events only end the episode with a permanent time loop.
#8 - Dial M For Monkey: Orgon Grindor
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/26/1996
Orgon Grindor uses his hypnotic powers to make Monkey abandon his night with Agent Honeydew and steal the gold from Fort Knox.
#9 - Dimwit Dexter
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/26/1996
After working himself to hard, Dexter's brain snaps and he turns into, well, a dimwit. Dee Dee seizes the chance and has the now mind dead Dexter do some crazy things for the neighborhood to see.
#10 - Dexter Dodgeball
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/5/1996
Dexter had tried to excuse himself out of P.E. (with a fake note), but the new coach does not buy it, so Dexter is forced to play dodgeball, fed up with losing, Dexter builds an exo suit to help him win, but is ironically hit with a dodgeball by Dee Dee. This episode is clearly inspired by the film Aliens, as the exo suit that Dexter wears is almost identical to the loader Ripley uses against the Queen.
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#11 - Dial M for Monkey: Simion
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/12/1996
The result of a space experiment, Simion, a super intelligent chimpanzee, plans to get revenge on humans for the way he is now. However, he teleports Monkey onto his ship in order to convince him to join him in his plan for revenge. After almost being convinced, Monkey attempts to show Simion that revenge isn't the answer.
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#12 - Dial M for Monkey: Rasslor
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/5/1996
Tired of never having a worthy opponent, intergalactic wrestling champion Rasslor arrives on Earth hoping to find someone who can actually prove to be a match for him. So, he challenges all of Earth's superheroes to wrestling matches aboard his ship, which they anxiously accept. However, Rasslor refuses to wrestle Monkey due to his size, even though Monkey is the most eager to wrestle him.
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#13 - The Big Cheese
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 12/4/1996
Dexter decides to study french with an old record, but when the record repeats constantly "Omellete du fromage", it becomes everything Dexter can say.
#14 - The Justice Friends: Say Uncle Sam
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 12/11/1996
Mayor Glory has one week to teach Valhallen and Krunk some manners before his Uncle Sam arrives.
#15 - Tribe Called Girl
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 12/11/1996
Dee Dee, LeeLee and MeeMee are having a pajama party, which Dexter decides to explore to learn the behavior of other "species".
#16 - Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/19/1996
Monkey's birthday is interrupted by Barbequor, a villain who wants to roast Earth for his next meal.
#17 - The Justice Friends: Ratman
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 12/18/1996
While searching the basement, the Justice Friends discover a new hero with the special ability of repairing.
#18 - Dexter's Debt
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 12/18/1996
Somehow Dexter got a debt of 200 million dollars with the NASA, so he must find a way to get the money.
#19 - The Justice Friends: Bee Where?
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 12/25/1996
Major Glory goes crazy trying to get a bee out of the apartment.
#20 - Mandarker
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 12/25/1996
Dexter and Mandark participate in a science fair competition, but Mandark finds himself completely without resources, desperate, he turns to the dark magics...
#21 - The Justice Friends: Can't Nap
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 1/1/1997
Major Glory tries to keep White Tiger out of his property with Krunk to help him.
#22 - Monstory
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 1/1/1997
Dexter accidentally turns Dee Dee into a monster, so he has to turn into one himself to stop her.
#23 - Dexter's Rival
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/12/1996
Mandark enrolls at Dexter's school, quickly overshadowing Dexter and forces Dexter to shut down his lab to add more power to his own lab. When Mandark falls in love with Dee Dee, Dexter sets up a date between the two (only because he knew Dee Dee would destroy Mandark's lab).
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#24 - The Big Sister
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/2/1996
When Dee Dee eats an experimental cookie of Dexter's design, she grows extremely tall and makes the city her dollhouse, leaving it up to Dexter to don his giant Robo-Dexo suit and bring her back.
#25 - Dexter's Assistant
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/5/1996
When Dexter's new invention for the science fair proves to hard for him to handle on his own, he is forced to find a new assistant. When no suitable assistant can be found, he takes on DeeDee, but only after giving her some new brains.
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