History Trivia / DextersLaboratory

** Creator/KathSoucie voices Dexter's mother, Agent Honeydew and the Quadraplex T-3000 Computer, in addition to some supporting and background characters.

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** Hungary holds a reunion for the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' cast: Dexter's first voice was Melvin; Dee Dee is Chibiusa; Dexter's first mom was Sailor Neptune; Mandark's first voice was Alan's second voice; and Dexter's second mom was Berthier, Karonite, Eugeal, Mimet, Telulu, [=PallaPalla=], and Fisheye. Mandark's second voice is not Chad.
** In Spain, Dexter and Dee Dee are the same [=VAs=] who played [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart and Lisa]], respectively.
** Sweden features a few of the same actors as in their dub of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''; Dexter is Kevin, Nazz and Lee Kanker, Dee Dee is Sarah and May Kanker, and Dexter's dad is Jimmy.

* RoleReprise: "Dyno-Might", the episode crossing over with ''WesternAnimation/DynomuttDogWonder'', had Creator/GaryOwens and Creator/FrankWelker reprise their respective roles as Blue Falcon and Dynomutt.

* ThrowItIn: The reason for the audience randomly flying away at the end of the BigLippedAlligatorMoment song in the [[SuckECheeses Chubby Cheese's]] episode is because the storyboard script had a note saying "audience takes off". [[Creator/RoughDraftStudios The Korean animation studio]] [[LiteralMinded took this literally]] and had the audience "take off" into the air. The editors thought it was hilarious and added in a magical sound effect to accompany it.

* TalkingToHimself:
** Creator/FrankWelker does this whenever both Monkey and Quackor face off.
** Eddie Deezen voiced Mandark and his sister Lalavava.
** Creator/JeffBennett voices both Dexter's dad and Mandark's dad, who have a fight in one episode.

** Originally, the backup segment in the first season of ''Dexter's Laboratory'' was to be Rob Renzetti's ''WesternAnimation/MinaAndTheCount'', which already had a pilot short produced and aired on the ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow''. It was passed over in favor of ''Dial M for Monkey'' and ''The Justice Friends'', both of which were part of the main show's continuity.

** Dexter was voiced by two voice actresses in the English version (Christine Cavanaugh during the original episodes and Candi Milo for all later episodes and whenever Dexter appears on a Cartoon Network video game or in a crossover cameo, as seen on the ''Time Squad'' series finale "Orphan Substitute" where one of the kids Larry and Tuddrussel abduct to help them with fixing history is Dexter himself)

** Dexter's VA went from Creator/ChristineCavanaugh to Creator/CandiMilo (who now voices her whenever Dexter is included in a video game or a crossover appearance) when the former retired from voice acting early in the last two seasons. She did, however, reprise her role in the first three episodes of the third season (as well as the third segment of the season's fifth episode), which were likely recorded before her retirement, before Milo took over for the remainder of the series.
** Dee Dee's VA continuously alternated between [[TheOriginalDarrin Allison Moore]] and Kat Cressida.

** "Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor" was immediately pulled from syndication for the scenes of Krunk getting drunk and the [[CampGay flaming homosexual]] villain, Silver Spooner. Presently, the only place in which the episode can be seen is on the Amazon Creator/{{PrimeVideo}} streaming service. However, the real reason why this episode was banned wasn't due to the Spooner being a gay stereotype but due to the estate of Creator/MarvelComics creator Creator/JackKirby, seeing the character as a misuse of one of his creations, the ComicBook/SilverSurfer and threatened to sue Cartoon Network for copyright infringement.

** "Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor" was immediately pulled from syndication for the scenes of Krunk getting drunk and the [[CampGay flaming homosexual]] villain, Silver Spooner. Presently, the only place in which the episode can be seen is on the Amazon Prime Video streaming service. However, the real reason why this episode was banned wasn't due to the Spooner being a gay stereotype but due to the estate of Creator/MarvelComics creator Creator/JackKirby, seeing the character as a misuse of one of his creations, the ComicBook/SilverSurfer and threatened to sue Cartoon Network for copyright infringement.

** "Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor" was immediately pulled from syndication for the scenes of Krunk getting drunk and the [[CampGay flaming homosexual]] villain, Silver Spooner. This includes the Hulu and Netflix releases, as well as the show's lone [=DVD=] release of the first season (barring region 4, which includes the episode), and, as of May 2020, being streamed on HBO Max. The episode has since been replaced with "Dexter's Lab: A Story" on Hulu, Netflix, and HBO Max. However, the real reason why this episode was banned wasn't due to the Spooner being a gay stereotype but due to the estate of Creator/MarvelComics creator Creator/JackKirby, seeing the character as a misuse of one of his creations, the ComicBook/SilverSurfer and threatened to sue Cartoon Network for copyright infringement.

** ''Barbequor'' will likely never see any sort of release since its banning, not even on streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and (now) HBO Max.

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* [[ReferencedBy/TheIncredibleHulk Referenced by....Incredible Hulk]]

* FanNickname:
** For some unknown reason, fans assume Dexter's unspoken last name to be "[=McPherson=]".
** Some fans have given the name of Dexter's parents as "Craig" and "Suzanne".
** Fans have given the name of Val Halen's nemesis (featured in "Krunk in Love") as "Von Hellen".

* ReferencedBy: [[ReferencedBy/DextersLaboratory Has its own page.]]

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' parody's Golden Ticket analogue is a golden Floppy Disk (referred to as a Golden Diskette in the episode, since it sounds more like "golden ticket").
** Despite the science theme of the series, you rarely if ever see mentions to the internet. While the internet did exist in the late 1990s, it wouldn't become mainstream until the TurnOfTheMillennium a few years later and wouldn't be ubiquitous until the mid-to-late 2000s.
** One episode had Dexter scoffing at an old early 1980s video game in comparison to his more modern game. Said video game is a parody of the then-recent ''VideoGame/PrimalRage''.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' parody's Golden Ticket analogue is a golden Floppy Disk (referred to as a Golden Diskette in the episode, since it sounds more like "golden ticket").
** Despite the science theme of the series, you rarely if ever see mentions to the internet. While the internet did exist in the late 1990s, it wouldn't become mainstream until the TurnOfTheMillennium a few years later and wouldn't be ubiquitous until the mid-to-late 2000s.
** One episode had Dexter scoffing at an old early 1980s video game in comparison to his more modern game. Said video game is a parody of the then-recent ''VideoGame/PrimalRage''.

** Paul Williams himself guest stars in the episode "Just an Old Fashioned Lab Song" as Dexter's piano instructor.... Prof. Williams, who is drawn [[InkSuitActor roughly the same height as Dexter]].

** "Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor" was immediately pulled from syndication for the scenes of Krunk getting drunk and the the [[CampGay flaming homosexual]] villain, Silver Spooner. This includes the Hulu and Netflix releases, as well as the show's lone [=DVD=] release of the first season (barring region 4, which includes the episode), and, as of May 2020, being streamed on HBO Max. The episode has since been replaced with "Dexter's Lab: A Story" on Hulu, Netflix, and HBO Max. However, the real reason why this episode was banned wasn't due to the Spooner being a gay stereotype but due to the estate of Creator/MarvelComics creator Creator/JackKirby, seeing the character as a misuse of one of his creations, the ComicBook/SilverSurfer and threatened to sue Cartoon Network for copyright infringement.

** "Rude Removal" was this for a number of years (to the point that it was thought to be an urban legend) before a one-off airing on Creator/AdultSwim in [[TheNewTens the 20-teens]].

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** ''Ego Trip'' hasn’t seen any official release since its VHS release back in 2000. It is on the quite rare Region 4 "Collected Experiments" release, but good luck getting it.

* CastIncest: In the French dub, Dexter and his mom were voiced a married couple (Marc Saez and Véronique Picciotto).

* AdoredByTheNetwork: [[JustifiedTrope Well not surprising considering it was one of Cartoon Network's first successful original animated series]]. But from 1998-2001, it, along with ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' (and, to a lesser extent, ''Johnny Bravo'', ''Cow and Chicken'', and ''Ed, Edd, and Eddy'') were the flagship shows of the network that were original programming (as opposed to the acquired and syndicated shorts and shows Cartoon Network had since the channel's start in 1992).
* BannedEpisode: A handful of episodes were pulled from syndication for going a bit too far [[EveryoneHasStandards even by Cartoon Network's already selective standards]].

** "Rude Removal" was this for a number of years (and thought to be an urban legend due to how rare it is and how much of anything said online should be taken with a grain of salt) before a one-off airing on Creator/AdultSwim in [[TheNewTens the 20-teens]].

** Dexter was voiced by two voice actresses in the English dub (Christine Cavanaugh during the original episodes and Candi Milo for all later episodes and whenever Dexter appears on a Cartoon Network video game or in a crossover cameo, as seen on the ''Time Squad'' series finale "Orphan Substitute" where one of the kids Larry and Tuddrussel abduct to help them with fixing history is Dexter himself)

** Dexter's VA went from Creator/ChristineCavanaugh to Candi Milo (who now voices her whenever Dexter is included in a video game or a crossover appearance) when the former retired from voice acting early in the last two seasons. She did, however, reprise her role in the first three episodes of the third season (as well as the third segment of the season's fifth episode), which were likely recorded before her retirement, before Milo took over for the remainder of the series.

** Dexter's VA went from Creator/ChristineCavanaugh to Candi Milo (who now voices her whenever Dexter is included in a video game or a crossover appearance) when the former retired from voice acting early in the last two seasons. She did, however, reprise her role in the first three episodes of the third season (as well as the third segment of the season's fifth episode) before Milo took over for the remainder of the series.

** Zig-zagged with "Rushmore Rumble." There is a close up of a penny with 1997 printed very clearly on it, but one could argue that it's simply an old penny now.