Dos Boot / A Dee Dee Cartoon / Would You Like That in the Can?
Production code: 307
Original air date: 6/7/2002 (produced in 2001)
Mandark enters Dexter's computer through cyberspace, so Dexter enters cyberspace himself to defeat him. / Dee Dee plays in her own "lab". / Dexter and his friend Douglas sneak into the girl's bathroom to retrieve Dexter's lunchbox after another student picked it up by mistake.
Dos Boot contains examples of:
- Bittersweet Ending: Although Dexter gets Mandark out of his Computer and saves his lab, both end up trapped in girly pictures Dee Dee made of them.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: It's never explained how Dexter and Mandark got out of their predicament at the end the episode.
A Dee Dee Cartoon contains examples of:
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Dee Dee uses Dexter's catchphrase at the end of the cartoon when she tells herself to get out of her laboratory.
- Fantasy Sequence: The whole episode is Dee Dee pretending she has her own lab and saves the Earth from a meteor.
Would You Like That in the Can? contains examples of:
- Becoming the Mask: Douglas gets a little too into pretending to a girl, he does some skipping and starts playing with a doll.
- Bittersweet Ending: Dexter and Douglas get back Dexter's lunchbox and manage to leave the girls bathroom without getting a beating from the girls after being discovered, but they get humiliated by jocks when they leave the bathroom, still wearing their girl disguises.
- Broken Record: Due to Dexter breaking the string when he was playing with the Miss Empowering Penny Doll, it keeps saying "I Love You".
- Chekhov's Gun: The Miss Empowering Penny Doll that Douglas brought with him as he and Dexter were preparing exit to the girls' bathroom. He uses it to stop the girls from beating him and Douglas up when they discover they're boys and allow them to leave the bathroom in peace by threatening to break it.
- Crossdresser: Dexter and Douglas both dress up as girls to sneak into the girl's bathroom and get Dexter's lunchbox back.
- Disguised in Drag: In order to get Dexter's lunchbox back he and Douglas disguise themselves as girls to get in the girls bathroom.
- Eyelash Fluttering: Dexter does this when we get the first close up of him dressed as a girl.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: When Dexter and Douglas are discovered, Dexter keeps the girls from beating them up by threatening to break the Miss Empowering Penny Doll. One girl believes that Dexter is bluffing, but he proves her wrong by breaking the arm off the doll.
- Iris Out: The iris closes on Dexter’s face as he and Douglas get laughed at by jocks.
- Irony:
- While looking for his lunchbox Dexter comes across a couple of girls making fun of him, when Dexter tries to convince them that he is cool, they tease him because they believe Dexter likes himself.
- At the end of the episode when Dexter and Douglas end the girl's room and Dexter says wouldn't let the girls make fool out of them, they get made fun of by jocks since they are wearing their girl disguises.
- Not So Above It All: While Dexter gets annoyed with Douglas playing with the Miss Empowering Penny Doll when they are leaving the Girls' bathroom, he decides to play with the doll as Douglas uses the bathroom.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Dexter and Douglas get this reaction once the girls figure out who they are after Douglas leaves the toilet seat up when he needs to use the bathroom.
- The Girls after they see that Dexter has a beloved doll of theirs, Miss Empowering Penny, and threatens to break unless the girls let him and Douglas just leave the bathroom.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Dexter and Douglas's girl disguises aren't really that good since the girls could easily recognize their faces and their voices but it still works. Averted at the end of the episode however, when they leaves the bathroom still in their disguises when some Jocks recognize him and Douglas, and make fun of them.
- Potty Emergency: Before leaving the girls bathroom, Douglas needs to use the toilet. Unfortunately, this leads to him and Dexter being found out, due him forgetting to put the toilet seat down.
- Sexophone: It plays after we get the first glimpse of Dexter and Douglas in their girl disguises.
- Tempting Fate: After narrowly avoiding a beating from the girls and exiting the girls bathroom, Dexter declares he wasn’t going to let the girls make him and Mordecai look like fools, but then some jocks laugh at them.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Just as Dexter and Douglas triumphantly walk out of the girl's bathroom still in their girl disguises, after Dexter saves them from getting beaten up the girls, and states he wasn't going to let a bunch of girls make a fool out of them, three jocks humiliate them for dressing as girls.Douglas: Way to go, Dexter!
Dexter: Yes. Thanks Mordecai. I wasn't going to let a bunch of girls make a fool out of us. [Three jocks start laughing]
Jock: Looking Good Dexter! Whoo! [Iris closes on a humiliated Dexter's face]]
