Dexter Dodgeball / Rasslor / Dexter's Assistant
Production code: 103
Original air date: 5/4/1996 (TNT); 5/5/1996 (TBS/Cartoon Network)
Dexter Dodgeball: Dexter is forced to play dodgeball by his substitute P. E. teacher (Michael Pataki). Constantly failing at the hands of three school bullies, Dexter builds a robotic exoskeleton to defend himself.
Rasslor: Intergalactic wrestling champion Rasslor ("Macho Man" Randy Savage) challenges Earth's superheroes, including Monkey, with the planet's fate at stake.
Dexter's Assistant: In need of an assistant to operate his latest invention, Dexter performs a brain transplant on Dee Dee to make her smart enough to fulfill the role. With her new brain, Dee Dee proves to be more intelligent than Dexter.
'Dexter Dodgeball contains examples of:
- Be the Ball: Dexter dribbles the short bully like a basketball, including dunking him through a net.
- Bittersweet Ending: Dexter gets revenge on his three bullies, but the episode ends with Dee Dee throwing a dodgeball at him and declaring him out.
- Blowing a Raspberry: The fat bully blows one at Dexter when he thinks he is safe inside the jungle gym. It doesn't last long.
- Bullying a Dragon: It turns out bullying a boy genius with powerful inventions is a bad idea, as Dexter uses one of them to get revenge on the three bullies that tortured him with dodgeball the entire previous week.
- Dirty Coward: The three bullies run away screaming in terror from Dexter's exoskeleton. While this might be a case of Know When to Fold 'Em since they obviously know they are no match for a weapon like that on their own, they still clearly relished in picking on those weaker than them like Dexter and the rest of the students the previous week, but still run scared as soon as their victim can fight back.
- Fascinating Eyebrow: The bullies do this in response to Dexter declaring Now It's My Turn against them.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The entire climax is Dexter getting revenge on the three bullies at dodgeball in an over the top fashion after all they put him through last week.
- Now It's My Turn: Dexter says this word for word when he confronts the bullies on Monday right before revealing the Dexo-Transformer, after all three of them throw dodgeballs at him and miss.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: After Dexter reveals the Dexo-Transformer to the bullies, he asks "Who wants some?" menacingly. They respond by screaming in terror and trying to run for it.
- Rule of Three: The scene of the thin bully running away screaming before getting hit in the back by a dodgeball is repeated three times, with the screen zooming in each time.
Rasslor contains examples of:
- Worthy Opponent: Rasslor has been searching the galaxy for one, someone who can defeat him in combat. He recognizes Monkey as one when he refuses to stay down against him.
Dexter's Assistant contains examples of:
- Gone Horribly Right: Dexter's intention was to increase Dee Dee's intelligence. He succeeded, but she became even smarter than him.
