1 | '''Babysitter Blues / Valhallen's Room / Dream Machine''' |
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3 | !!Production code: |
4 | 111 |
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6 | !!Air date |
7 | * November 27, 1996 (USA/Canada) |
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10 | !!Babysitter Blues Synopsis: |
11 | Dexter develops a one-sided crush on his babysitter Lisa. |
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13 | !!Valhallen's Room Synopsis: |
14 | Valhallen loses his magic axe and his powers with it. It's up to Major Glory and Krunk to find the axe in Valhallens's room. |
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16 | !!Dream Machine Synopsis: |
17 | Dexter creates a machine to help him deal with a reoccurring nightmare that Dee Dee is smarter than him. |
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20 | !!Babysitter Blues contains examples of: |
21 | * CallBack: Dexter's aging machine from "Old Man Dexter" is used again, to make him old enough to date Lisa. |
22 | * EvilLaugh: Dexter lets one out as he hatches a plan to separate Lisa and her boyfriend. |
23 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Dexter convinces Lisa's boyfriend that she broke up with him because "[she] loves Dexter". [[spoiler:At the end of the segment, the boyfriend shows up to beat up Dexter... who aged himself up to a teenager, so he doesn't even have the defense of WouldntHurtAChild.]] |
24 | * PrecociousCrush: Dexter has a crush on Lisa, his teenage babysitter. |
25 | * RunningGag: Dexter distract Dee Dee by pointing and asking "What is that?". Dee Dee is shown looking for "that" throughout the rest of the episode. |
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27 | !!Valhallen's Room contains examples of: |
28 | * BiggerOnTheInside: Valhallen's room. Krunk even {{Lampshades}} how it's bigger than his. |
29 | --> '''Major Glory:''' That's why he pays extra. |
30 | * ExtremeOmniGoat: [[spoiler:As it turns out, Valhallen's axe has been eaten by his goat.]] |
31 | * StereotypicalNerd: Without his guitar, Valhallen gradually transforms into a stereotypical nerd, complete with NerdyNasalness, NerdGlasses, and GeekPhysique making him utterly useless in a fight and is in opposition to his typical cool, rock star, ladies man persona. |
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33 | !!Dream Machine contains examples of: |
34 | * BrickJoke: Elements from Dexter's initial nightmare re-appear in his machine-induced "good dream": |
35 | ** In his nightmare, Dexter did not know how much 2 + 2 make. In the dream, the last piece of knowledge he learns (pumped in his head by a supercomputer, no less) is "2 + 2 = 4". |
36 | ** On a more serious note, Dee Dee easily answered "What is the purpose of meaning?" in the original nightmare. [[spoiler: Dexter realizing he doesn't know the answer to that is where his good dream turns into another nightmare.]] |
37 | * DerangedAnimation: Some of the imagery in what Dexter considers his good dream, such as him drinking Einstein's brain with a straw, or his head turning into a mouth that eats equations. |
38 | * EatBrainForMemories: Implied in a blink-and-you-will-miss-it scene in Dexter's dream where he ''drinks Einstein's brain''. |
39 | * TheMeaningOfLife: Spoofed. The tough question that Dee Dee easily answers in Dexter's nightmare is "What is the purpose of meaning?" |
40 | * MyBrainIsBig: In Dexter's "good dream", he gets this as his intelligence is enhanced. |
41 | * NightmareSequence: The episode begins with Dexter's recurring nightmare that Dee Dee's smarter than him, and ends with a very disturbing sequence when his Dream Machine malfunctions. |
42 | * NotWearingPantsDream: [[spoiler: When Dexter's "good dream" turns into another nightmare, not only does he lose his enlarged-with-knowledge brain, but his clothes fly off, leaving him naked in front of a laughing crowd.]] |
43 | * {{Omniglot}}: Among other things, Dexter understands "the root of all languages" in his dream. |
44 | * TheOmniscient: Dexter's dream culminates with him absorbing ''all'' knowledge [[spoiler:except for the purpose of meaning]]. |
45 | ** The mysterious "Grandfather of all Knowledge" is also implied to be this. |
46 | * WhamShot and WhamLine: [[spoiler:Dee Dee is the Grandfather of all Knowledge. This reveal is where Dexter realizes he's in another nightmare.]] |
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