Directors & writers on the series involved Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken, Seth MacFarlane, Butch Hartman, and Rob Renzetti.

Premise
the premiss of the series involves a 10-month old genius named Dexter (originally voiced by Christine Cavanaugh, later Candi Milo), who has the secret laboratory filled with extremely advanced devices & machines underneath his chamber. He is just about universally withinside conflict by having his ditzy, objectionable older sister, Dee Dee, world health organization delights in invading her brother's laboratory & shattering his creations good for fun.

Dexter too has an arch-nemesis around Mandark (soft by Eddie Deezen), another baby genius using an unusual evil laugh ("A-ha-ha! A-ha-ha-ha-ha!"). Typically Mandark, across fraud or even even (seldom) by coincidence, gets or tries to choose credit for Dexter's accomplishment. Mandark is too secretly(??) gaga by having Dee Dee.

A indicate's humour derives around section from either Dexter's au fond 1-colored & acute rivaly using his sister, & from either exaggerated stereotyping of his high intelligence & social awkwardness.

An hour-long favorite, Ego Trip, aired on the Cartoon Network in 2000, in which Dexter travels across instance & meets many of his new selves. Self-aggrandizement was originally supposed to conclude a series, however 2 extra seasons followed.

Characters

Dexter - a central protagonist, developer & creator of the laboratory; red-haired. He speaks using an Eastern European or German accent which is not explained; none of the more members of his personal develop distinctive accents, except for his Uncle O' Riley. He considers his sister Dee Dee to exist as dazed & inferior, let alone clumsy. Dee Dee - Dexter's blond-haired older sister. Loves ballet, dolls, ponies, unicorns and messing around within Dexter's laboratory. She is two to three days taller than Dexter & has peculiar immune system proportions; the minuscular body sustaining the big head & gangly limbs. Dexter another time equated her to the stick and subsequently threw her to email the dog. Dee Dee's hair is universally around bunches, which last upwards inside the gravity defying manner. Her right friends in the series come Mee Mee & Lee Lee. Her catchphrase is "Ooooooo. What does this button do?". Mom - Dexter & Dee Dee's red-haired mother; a mysophobe who has trouble existence as much as a rest of the personal forgoing her no-good gloves. Although the stereotypical housewife, a few episodes indicate virtually all of Dexter's personality comes from either her, including their perfectionist streaks. Dad - Dexter & Dee Dee's blond-haired father. Is the stereotypical husband and head of the household, falling directly above his wife in authority. Loves bowling, golf game, camping, & has an grotesque affinity for his wife's gem (when 1 episode suggests). Mandark - Dexter's mind-reading arch-nemesis. Even equal around intelligence to Dexter, he as well possesses his have laboratory. He has the crush in Dee Dee. He has the characteristic evil laugh "Haa-haha, Haa-haha-haha!". He was originally known as 'Astronomonov' (even his family name) though his "true" title was revealed to exist as 'Susan' (due to his parents existence hippies) after becoming the revenant character. Around a single episode known as ''Dee Dee's Contender, these are revealed that he has the sister known as Olga Astronomonov, however prefers to exist as known as "La-la Vava". Despite it to exist as her just appearance in the indicate, it likewise reveals that she could exert control all over her older brother in case require become. Mr. Levinsky'' - Dexter's schoolteacher whom Dexter is great to impress. Douglas Mordechai - Even Dexter's merely friend apart from either his computer. He attends school sustaining Dexter & is likewise geeky. Quadraplex T-3000 computer - Dexter's computer that oversees the running off of the research lab & has a personality of its have. Dexter refers to his computer when "my love" or even "my dear", given that a computer's voice & personality is female. Robots - A total of mostly nameless golem help Dexter in the laboratory. A virtually all systematically appearing is the Robotron, likewise referred to as a Robo-Dexo 2000. These are the many stories tall combat automaton utilized for combat Mandark, aliens & natural disasters, & its appearance mimics Dexter's somewhat around build. Entrance is across one of a feet, & its arms includes optical maser, missiles & its rocket-powered detachable clenched fist. Lee Lee & Mee Mee - Dee Dee's right friends. About monovular to Dee Dee, except that Mee Mee is African-American, and Lee Lee is Asian. Pony Puff Princess - Dee Dee's idol (The horse or even the unicorn, parody of My Little Pony). Koosalagoopagoop - The multi-piebald dinosaur-like animal (soft by Dom DeLuise) that originates from Dee Dee's imagination. Among imagined friends, just Dee Dee & Bubbles from either The Powerpuff Girls actually like him. A character occurs as conjunct parody of H.R. Pufnstuf and Barney the Dinosaur. Monkey - Dexter's caged monkey which secretly has great power, unbeknown to Dexter. He stars in the back-higher Dial M for Monkey cartoons. Windbear & Oceanbird - Mandark's hippy parents, who don't realize Mandark's love for evil and science, not to mention his affectionateness for Dee Dee. Action Hank - The television action hero; essentially the concerted parody of Mr. T, G.I. Joe, and Shaft. the title can be a paronomasia in Action Man, a doll/character super similar to G.We. Joe. Along by having Major Glory & Albert Einstein, he is idolised by Dexter. Major Glory - The caped superhero with overaffected American patriotic costume and mannerisms, Dexter's private hero. Appears within back-higher segments when leader of the Justice Friends (watch beneath). Major Glory as well appears within many ''Dexter's Laboratory episodes, by himself & using a more Justice Friends. Essentially, he occurs as conjunctive parody of Captain America and Superman.

Back-up segments
Dial "M" for Monkey
Early seasons of Dexter's Laboratory featured the back-higher section entitled Dial "M" For Monkey. A Dial "M" for Monkey'' shorts feature Dexter's research lab monkey, Monkey, world health organization (unknown to his master) secretly has superpowers, fights evil, & has individual partners; the Commander (world health organization seems to just survive in display monitors), and Professional Honeydew, a character divine by The Avengers' Emma Peel. She as well seems to become romantically exposed by owning Monkey. Monkey seems to exist as in call for to save human race at anytime, & has battled enemies Quackor A Funky (a duck belonging to Dexter's nemesis, Mandark), Rasslor (voiced by Randy "Macho Man" Savage), Huntor (a character inspired by Predator), Simion, Magmanamus, Barbequor, Orgon Grindor, and Peltra among others. A character has too appeared in the What-The-Cartoon! short "Dial "M" For Monkey."

The Justice Pals
Late seasons featured A Justice Pals as a back-higher section. These shorts featured a comic mischance of a superheroes Major Glory, Val Hallen, & the Infraggable Krunk, when it attempted to survive together peacefully when roomie.

This section occurs as clever burlesque of the superhero and sitcom genres. A title Justice Friends recalls a Justice League and Super Friends. Major Glory, the semieffective caped stars-and-stripes hero given to overdramatic patriotic dialogue, is an perceptible united parody of Captain America and Superman. Val Hallen (Valhalla + Van Halen), an axe(guitar)-wielding Viking rock star by using Southern Californian mannerisms, is a melding of the Mighty Thor and rock and roll guitarist Eddie Van Halen. A Infraggable Krunk (Krunk for short), an overgrown muscle-human sustaining in remission mental development, caricatures a Incredible Hulk. He wears green shorts & has purple skin -- the parody in Hulk's purple shorts & green skin.

the Justice Friends come a share of a big superhero organization, which includes more parodic superheroes like White Tiger (parody of Black Panther), Sam R I (Samurai from either Super Friends, name can be the play in Sam-I-am or Toys R Us), Living Bullet (even a survive-action picture show hero Rocketman), Phan Tone (The Phantom), Silver Spooner (Silver Surfer), Ratman (Batman), Tiki Torch (The Human Torch) and others, when well as Monkey (from either Dial "M" for Monkey, watch above). This organization another time battles equally parodic enemies, like Comrade Red (Omega Red), She-Thing (She-Hulk), Rasslor, Heckhound (Hellhound), Barbequor and others.

A Justice Friends produce an appearance in the "Members Only" episode of The Powerpuff Girls, with Major Glory when head of the "Association of World Super Men," which includes the different placed of superheroes caricaturing national stereotypes.

Krunk's special indicate is the Sesame Street-like Puppet Pals indicate; "Puppet Pal Mitch" & "Puppet Pal Clem" appeared irregularly in their have vignette segments when you took a latter section of ''Dexter's Laboratory's'' original redo. A segments consisted of simply a single going gag that Krunk, & at least one more kid, discovered delightfully funny. It required any kind of questions or even even jokes Puppet Pal Mitch would pose to Puppet Pal Clem, however there are no matter what a wonder or guide, it would universally require a word "bonk" & Clem generating hit on the head by having the no-good mallet by Mitch.

"The Justice Friends" is known to exist as the parody of Friends and Justice League/Super Friends, since it's the mixture of a sitcom & silly superhero action. For each one character has it's have unknown personality prefer Friends and added with the laugh track.

Trivia
''Dexter's Laboratory ended its initial dog around 1998, but re-entered production within 2001. a recently episodes which run deuce sir thomas more seasons, got a different production team than the originals, & were criticized for sporting altered character designs, ever-changing character list & personalities, & for plot holes in the stories. Tartakovsky got super little to clean sustaining a freshly series, when he was occupy doing Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars. In 1 Dexter's Laboratory'' episode, Betty Rubble is shown to be one of Dexter's mother's close friends. Her hubby Barney is Dexter's dad's friend. Cartoon Network refused to air a episode "Dexter's Rude Removal" because it contained harsh language. It has exclusively been shown inside animation conventions. It has been rumored that a episode may air in Adult Swim. Nevertheless, this is simply speculation.

''Dexter's Laboratory'' in other languages
Chinese 德克斯特的實驗室; dé kè sī tè ·de shí yàn shì; literally: "Dékèsītè's Lab" (inside Taiwan) German: Dexters Labor French: Le Laboratoire de Dexter Hebrew: המעבדה של דקסטר; Hama'abada Shel Dexter Hungarian: Dexter laboratóriuma Italian: Il Laboratorio di Dexter Portuguese: O Laboratório de Dexter Spanish: Similar to English (inside Latin America) El Laboratorio first state Dexter (around Spain) Polish: Laboratorium Dextera Japanese: Dexutaa no Raaboratorii Russian: ЛабораториÑ? ДекÑ?тера (Laboratoriya Dekstera)

Voice cast
Frank Welker - Monkey, Krunk, Mr. Levinski Christine Cavanaugh - Dexter (Seasons 1 & 2) Kath Soucie - Dexter's Mom, Computer Voice, Professional Honeydew, Lee Lee, Oceanbird Tom Kenny - Valhallen Candi Milo - Dexter (Seasons 3 & 4) Kathryn Cressida - Dee Dee (Seasons 2 & 4) Michael Armstrong - Action Hank Rob Paulsen - Major Glory Kimberly Brooks - Mee Mee Jeff Bennett - Dexter's Dad, Windbear Eddie Deezen - Mandark Allison Moore - Dee Dee (Seasons 1 & 3)