History Funny / DextersLaboratory

--> '''Dexter:''' Hey, what do '''''I''''' look like, a ''chair?''
--> '''Dee-Dee:''' No, ''I'' looks like ''this!'' ''(Holds up paper with "I" on it)''
--> ''([[LamePunReaction Dexter, dumbfounded, faceplants off-camera]])''

* One episode revolves around Dexter trying to avoid being shoved into in the swimming pool by his dad. By the end of the episode he finally jumps in... only to [[SlipperySwimsuit lose something]] on the way out.
* The Christmas episode. Dexter vs Santa Claus!

-->WORD! Hoooo!\\

** In the Mexican dub, Dexter says that, while Santa doesn't exist, The Three Wise Men (who are the ones bringing toys to mexican children in january 6) [[PingPongNaivete are the ones that DO exist]].

---> '''Dad:''' [[LukeIAmYourFather Dexter,]] [[CaptainObvious I am your father.]]
---> '''Dexter:''' ''(gasp)'' No, that is not possible! Oh, wait, no, you're right.
---> '''Dad:''' So join me! Come to the muffin side! Don't resist, Dexter! ''(begins trying to hypnotize Dexter)'' [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack It is your destiny.]]
---> '''Dexter:''' [[BigNever NEVER!]]
---> '''Dad:''' You will get the muffins for me!
---> '''Dexter:''' ''(hypnotized)'' I will get the muffins for you. ''(walks over to get the muffins)'' Will get the muffins for you. ''(begins bringing them to Dad)''
---> '''Dad:''' Yes! Yes! Yes!
---> '''Dee Dee:''' Dexter, no! [[JediMindTrick It's a mind trick!]] Snap out of it! ''(smacks Dexter)''
** The bizarre fantasy sequence where Dad imagines himself in a land of anthromorphic muffins, who chooses him as the "Muffin King".

--> '''Woman''': Did you hear something, dear?
--> '''Man''': Probably just them crazy kids upstairs again.

-->'''Koos:''' Feel better?
-->'''Dexter:''' No, because I just ate a tub of meat!

--> "(''gasp'') Dee Dee!" *Dee Dee flips reverse lever* "!eeD eeD (''psag'')".

-->"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-Ooof'a! *switch* a'fooO-aaaaaaaaaaaaA!" [[OverlyLongGag Repeat]].

* Towards the end of the episode, "The Continuum of Cartoon Fools", Dexter tries various ways to find out how Dee Dee got into his lab, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkztG4vxPjE in this scene]], Dexter pretty much goes bonkers and holds up a watermelon, screaming, "This is it, I know it!" and smashes it with a mallet a'la Creator/{{Gallagher}}.

-->"Uh. Oh, my dear. In my overwhelming zeal to banish my sister from the lab, I have indeed locked myself out. Too blinded was I not to foresee the most piteous of fates. I have thus performed the ultimate tragic irony. ''[the scene cuts to "The End" title card and Dexter comes out]'' Surely I am the fool of fools on the par of no other. I am no better than [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner that stupid coyote]] or [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck that crazy duck.]] Look at me! Look at me! I am locked in a [[TitleDrop continuum of cartoon fools!]] I am doomed to a life of comic mishap adventures and social indignations. And now, here I stand before you, beaten, defeated, and alone."

-->'''Dexter:''' I'd like to see you dance, please.\\

-->'''Major Glory:''' Krunk, you've been watching that TV Puppet Pals Marathon for the past four days! Aren't you the least bit tired?
-->'''Krunk:''' (GrossUpCloseUp of Kronk's baggy, bloodshot eyes) No.

-->'''Puppet Pal Mitch:''' Puppet Pal Clem! There's a spider in your bed!
-->*Puppet Pal Clem sits up and hits his head on the top bunk bed*
-->'''Puppet Pal Mitch:''' BONK!

-->'''Monkey''': Ack ack!
-->'''Silver Spooner''': ''(His eyes turn into stars)'' Creator/JudyGarland!? [[LookBehindYou Where!?]] *Monkey grabs his spoon from under his feet and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hits him over the head with it]]*

-->'''Otto:''' No, is true! ''(Munches into food)'' I tell you just what happen.
-->''(Cue sepia-tone flashback of Billy Bloomberg dancing in the bus aisle around with food in his hands)''
-->'''Otto:''' Little Billy Bloomberg was just hosing about, und eating cookies. Mmmmmm. Ze bus hit a bump, and Bill shpill his hot cocoa. Mmmmmm.
-->''(The spilled hot cocoa lands on the bus drivers lap, and she screams)''
-->'''Otto:''' Driver panic, und almost hit ice cream truck. Mmmmmm.

--->'''Billy:''' Pencil?
--->'''Dexter:''' You know, you raked it in right before I found you.
--->'''Billy:''' Oh, uh...that wasn't a licorice stick?
--->'''Otto:''' Licorice. Mmmmmm.

-->'''Dexter:''' Intruders? Who could it be?
-->'''Computer:''' Hello! ''Unidentified'' intruders. As in, I don't know!

-->'''Alien:''' My favorite color is orange? I like my soda pop without ice? My sister Dee Dee is a certified stupidhead?! This isn't the information I need!

-->'''Alien:''' Shut up. Shut up! Stop that laughing! That's it! You're all fired!

-->'''Dad:''' The Dee Dee's knocked over, the Dexter's off the hook, and did anyone walk the Dexter?!

** The bizarre animatronic floor show ends with the audience suddenly flying away. Apparently there was a miscommunication between the storyboarders (who had the audience "take off", as in "leave" after the show) and the animation department (who interpreted "take off" as in "fly away"), and the creators though it was so funny that they just [[ThrowItIn left it in and added an appropriate sound effect]].

** And what was it that Dexter gets in trouble for? The thing he's so ashamed of and what his principal himself has trouble saying out loud? He [[TheBGrade got an A-minus on a test]]. [[AntiClimax Dee Dee is not amused]].

** The ending, where Dexter attempts to remind the family that there's more to Christmas than the presents, only for Dexter and Santa to shoot him down.

--->'''Dad''': Who's sneaking up on me?\\

'''Robo-parrot''': I'm gonna bop you one!\\
'''Dad''': Now, that is no way to speak to your-\\
'''Robo-parrot''': You are a stupid girl! Get out, get out, get out! Yup, yup, yup... Don't touch anything! (''Dexter's Dad crawls off, shivering with fear'')\\

'''Major Glory:''' Krunk! You are a Justice Friend! [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And Teddy doesn't pay one-third of the rent]].

--->'''Major Glory:''' Uncle Sam should be here any minute. Justice Friends, assemble! Viking god of rock, and future baseball Hall of Famer, Valhallen!\\

'''Krunk:''' (''on phone'') Have report on Krunk's desk by nine o'clock tomorrow, or Krunk smash!\\

'''Major Glory:''' Something wrong? Perhaps, I've pushed you too hard--\\

--> '''Woman''': What was that?
--> '''Man''': Must be them crazy kids upstairs again.

** "Your club is for big [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar I-D-K-S-Cs]]!" "I... D... K... hey! I'm gonna tell mom!"

-->'''Major Glory:''' You've been watching that TV Puppet Pals Marathon for the past four days! Aren't you the least bit tired?

** Dexters Inflatable Portable Lab ends up being a disaster, as it is too bouncy and rubbery to actually perform any functions, it's essentially just a giant balloon.

--> '''Dexter''': *is sticking headfirst into a machine he's working on. When he pulls out, we see that he now has long, girlish hair. He gives Dee Dee an accusatory glance*
--> '''Dee Dee''': *blinks innocently*
--> '''Dexter''': *gives an AsideGlance to the viewer*

-->'''Dee Dee''': Dexter, look at what you've done!
-->'''Dexter''': ''(stammering)''
-->'''Dee Dee''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint You've ruined Mom's clock!]]
-->'''Dexter''': [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe The clock? What about the baby turtle?!]]
-->'''Dee Dee''': [[TooDumbToLive Birdie? He's okay.]] [[BlackComedy His shell is cracking cause he's hatching!]]

---> '''Mom''' (calling up to Dad, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight seemingly unfazed]]): Honey! [[PrankCall The refrigerator's running]]!
---> '''Dad''' (from bathroom): And Prince Albert's in the can!
---> (Cue a certain monarch cheerily [[VisualPun popping out of the toilet]])

-->'''Computer''': Password identification.
-->'''Dexter''': Omelette du fromage.
-->'''Computer''': Access denied.
-->'''Dexter''': [[FlatWhat Omelette duuu!]]
-->'''Computer''': Access denied.
-->'''Dexter''': [[AngryFistShake OMELETTE DU FROMAGE!]]
-->'''Computer''': Access denied. Be advised: Complete computer memory core meltdown engaged. All active experiments will be terminated and demolecularized. Laboratory will self-destruct in ten seconds and counting.
-->'''Dexter''': [[OhCrap OMELETTE DU FROMAGE!]] *Starts bawling*
-->'''Dee Dee''': [[BlackComedy That's all you can say~ That's all you can say~ That's all you can say~]]
-->'''Computer''': 3...2...1...[[StuffBlowingUp *Laboratory self-destructs*]]

-->'''Dexter:''' [frantically] OMELETTE DU FROMAGE! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Omelette! Du! Fromage!]]\\

-->'''Dexter''': [[TemptingFate This is the greatest day of my entire li-!]]
-->[[GoryDiscretionShot *POW*]]
-->''[[NoEnding The End]]''

-->'''Dad''': We still had coffee after all. (worried) [[OhCrap But what if we didn't?]]

* At one point in the episode "Streaky Clean", a naked Dexter shouts with glee that he's home free. A hippie couple see Dexter running naked and shouting "free" and they cheer him on due to assuming he's embracing nature.

-->'''Dad''': How's about one for the road??\\

''(Takes a sip. Dad magically appears inside his car and drives off. [[RuleOfFunny From out of the kitchen]].)

** Dad's [[FauxHorrific horrified reaction]] to learning they're all out of coffee, and his melodramatic rant about [[MundaneMadeAwesome how important coffee is to grown-ups]]. Not to mention that he catapults awake in a cold sweat just from Dee Dee, who is well out of his ear shot, [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling mentioning that they're out of coffee]].

** ...then, before he can say a word, he uncorks '''''the fart heard 'round the world'''''. When we cut back to the living room, Mom and Dad have utterly shell-shocked expressions on their faces, and Dexter's gas was so powerful that ''the TV behind him is now embedded in the wall''.

** The FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that follows, as a TakeThat against [[TrueMeaningOfChristmas the typical Aesop]] many animated {{Christmas Special}}s have.

'''Santa:''' [[SuddenlyVoiced The presents]]. ([[AsideGlance Winks at the audience]]) Ho-ho-ho!

--> '''Dad''': Okay Dexter, [[TemptingFate let 'er rip!]]

* The entirety of "The Parrot Trap" where Dexter makes a robot parrot for the sole purpose of having a YesMan around. Then it overhears him yelling at Dee-Dee, and HilarityEnsues. Here's a highlight:

'''Dexter''': (suave) 'Cause, [[CasanovaWannabe when you love Dex, you love the best]]!\\

'''Dexter''': (sheepishly) Ehehe, what was you idea, again?

* Dad's chipper suburban father attitude is completely at odds with the gritty truck stop environment in "Ham Hocks and Armlocks." The scene of him changing the country western music on the jukebox to '50s-style bossa nova, followed by his ridiculously dorky dance, just emphasized just how out of place he is there.

** The end, where Dexter ends up locking himself out of his lab and realizes that in locking Dee Dee out, he locked himself out as well and begins hamming it up.
-->"Uh. Oh, my dear. In my overwhelming zeal to banish my sister from the lab, I have indeed locked myself out. Too blinded was I not to foresee the most piteous of fates. I have thus performed the ultimate tragic irony. ''(The scene cuts to "The End" title card and Dexter comes out)'' Surely I am the fool of fools on the par of no other. I am no better than [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes that stupid coyote]] or [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck that crazy duck.]] Look at me! Look at me! I am locked in a [[TitleDrop continuum of cartoon fools!]] I am doomed to a life of comic mishap adventures and social indignations. And now, here I stand before you, beaten, defeated, and alone."

* From "Dad is Disturbed", Dad convincing Dexter that the golf game he's watching has a violent scene coming up and laughing like a maniac when it works.

** When Mom comes in talking loudly on the phone with a neighbor, it later cuts to said neighbor, who just happens to be [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Betty Rubble]], tied up and gagged with Dad pretending to be her on the phone and hanging up. He then cheerfully rips the phone out of the wall and says "See you around the holidays, Betty!" before leaving.

* "Way of the Dee-Dee", in which Dee-Dee tries to encourage Dexter to break out of his cold, scientific self, tries to leap out of her swing to start the self-discovery quest, [[RealityEnsues only for the swing to snap back on her, tying her up in the set.]]

** Dexter's rap number on what really happens on Christmas Eve, complete with a forced 90s sound and PainfulRhyme lyrics...

* "Aye Aye, Eye":

--> '''Dexter''': Absolutely not!\\

** Dexter's response once the girl ''does'' fall in love with another, similar-looking boy? "[[SmallNameBigEgo She's too good for him]]."

* One episode revolves around Dexter trying to avoid being shoved into in the swimming pool by his dad. By the end of the episode he finally jumps in... [[spoiler:only to [[SlipperySwimsuit lose something]] on the way out.]]

** In the end, [[spoiler:the rest of the family steals the TV from him when a PottyEmergency kicks in, forcing him to watch the game with a pissed-off looking Barney Rubble.]]

-->'''Dee Dee''': Now you'll listen! So the boy told the girl in the park on the pony...[[spoiler:[[BrickJoke Knock]] [[ILied Knock]]]]!
-->'''Dexter''':(eyes open in shock and horror) [[BigNo NNOOOOO!]]
** The fact that the potion Dexter gives to Dee Dee is ''specifically labeled'' "[[WhatAnIdiot DO NOT DRINK THIS, You will turn into a monster]]." A FreezeFrameBonus reveals that it was also the only beaker in his lab coat that ''didn't'' have the potion he wanted.

** And what was it that Dexter gets in trouble for? The thing he's so ashamed of and what his principal himself has trouble saying out loud? [[spoiler:He [[AntiClimax got an A-minus on a test]]]]. Dee Dee is not amused.

* All of "The Lab of Tomorrow", in particular Dexter accidentally annoying an alien watching television and the revelation that [[spoiler:Monkey was the narrator]].

** Dexter's response once the girl ''does'' fall in love with another, similar-looking boy? [[spoiler:"[[SmallNameBigEgo She's too good for him]]."]]

* Dad's chipper suburban father attitude is completely at odds with the gritty truck stop environment in "Ham Hawks and Arm Locks." The scene of him changing the country western music on the jukebox to '50s-style bosso-nova, followed by his ridiculously dorky dance, just emphasized just how out of place he is there.

'''Robo-parrot''': You are a stupid girl! Get out, get out, get out! Yup, yup, yup... Don't touch anything! (''Dexter's Dad crawls off, shaking'')\\

'''Robo-parrot:''' You're a cookie!

'''Dee Dee''': Smooth move, Dexter! Now you'll have to erase Mom and Dad's memories... ''[[NoodleIncident again.]]''\\

[[caption-width-right:350:Dexter has no words.]]

'''Dad''': I-I'm sorry...

** The part where Dexter apologizes for ruining Christmas, "[[NoodleIncident again]]."

** After all the ridiculous humiliation Dexter is put through, it turns out that, yes, he IS a genius, there was a mixup with the tests.

* The Justice Friends sketches, which consist of [[TheCape Major Glory]], [[PowerOfRock Val Hallen]], and the [[BoisterousBruiser Infraggable Krunk]] facing the challenge of everyday lives as they share an apartment. for example, "Val Hallen's Room";

** Ratman, a mere child of thirty.

* Finding out just why the ice cream man refuses to stop for Dexter in "Ice Cream Scream". Actually, that's just the icing on one of the funniest episodes of the series.
-->'''Ice Cream Man:''' I can't even eat ice cream anymore, because of ''the pain!'' All because of your '''''stupid pennies!''''' (''[[{{Angrish}} incoherent scream of rage]]'')

* The entirety of "sdrawkcaB", in which Dexter invents a belt that allows him to go in reverse. It leads to him talking backwards, un-eating a sandwich, running up and down the stairs, and then discovering that Dee Dee has been messing with the forward/reverse switch: "(''gasp'') Dee Dee!" *switch* "!eeD eeD (''psag'')". He finally one-ups her when she puts on the belt, letting her fall to the floor from a great height, then flipping it into reverse several times.
* Towards the end of the episode, "The Continuum of Cartoon Fools", Dexter tries various ways to find out how Dee Dee got into his lab, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkztG4vxPjE in this scene]], Dexter pretty much goes bonkers and holds up a watermelon, screaming, "This is it, I know it!" and smashes it with a mallet.

-->'''Krunk:''' (while we see a close-up of his face with his eyes wide open and having bags under them) No.

** The OverlyLongGag of Dexter and Dee Dee daring each other to try coffee, which apparently lasts from morning to the middle of the night. At which point the coffee is ''still hot''.

** When they finally try coffee, much of the rest of the cartoon is spent on Dee Dee jumping on the bed and Dexter working in his lab, both of them on a serious caffeine buzz.
** Dad's [[FauxHorrific horrified reaction]] to learning they're all out of coffee, and his melodramatic rant about [[MundaneMadeAwesome how important coffee is to grown-ups]]. Not to mention that he catapults awake in a cold sweat just from Dee Dee mentioning that they're out of coffee, even though she was downstairs and he couldnt possibly have heard her.

** In general, the fact that coffee is depicted as magically solving all of Mom and Dad's problems in addition to making them feel more awake, like when they're immediately dressed after they first sip some coffee and Dad gets ready for work and is suddenly in the car after two more sips.

-->'''Dad''': We still had coffee after all. (makes a worried expression) But what if we didn't?

** Dexter drinking an entire jug of apple juice to keep Dee Dee from labeling it, then running into a serious PottyEmergency, only to find that Dee Dee has marked the bathroom. [[ToiletHumor The ending implies that he just took a massive leak on the hallway rug.]]

*** Dee Dee is hilariously devastated when she realizes there's no magic involved.

--->'''Dexter''': Listen here, girl. I'm not gonna be your boyfriend! Even if... even if you tell whole world about my top secret laboratory! ([[OhCrap slaps his mouth shut]], see the girl grinning)\\

** The bizarre animatronic floor show ends with the audience suddenly flying away. Apparently there was a miscommunication between the storyboarders (who had the audience "take off", as in "leave" after the show) and the animation department (who interpreted "take off" as in "fly away").
** The sheer fact that a SuckECheeses is apparently a front for some NebulousEvilOrganization, who tries to pressure Dexter into working with them.

** Even funnier is when Dexter is finally able to read Dad's mind, only to find out that his so-called "birthday gift" [[AllforNothing was just a crummy pair of socks]]. As he walks away, he tells the audience they don't have to tell him, he knows (it is implied we're all thinking "What an idiot!")

--->'''Dexter''': Listen here, girl. I'm not gonna be your boyfriend! Even if... even if you tell whole world about my secret laboratory! ([[OhCrap slaps his mouth shut]], see the girl grinning)\\

** Dexter attempts to smoke out the Bigfoot by setting a fire, only to run afoul of Smokey the Bear.