History Fridge / DextersLaboratory

* Dee Dee seems to have a thing for rap music and hip hop culture. In one episode she wants Dexter to see a dance she learned on SoulTrain, but what made me realize it was in the SeriesFauxnale "Last But Not Beast" she sings a line from Music/QueenLatifah's song U.N.I.T.Y.

** This is actually confirmed if one pays close attention. When Mandark asks Dexter to set him up on a date with Dee Dee, Dexter agrees only after he realizes that Dee Dee will likely wreck Mandark's lab. We, the viewers, see this represented as several smaller Dexters speaking to the main one, but it's clear that it was supposed to represent Dexter's thoughts. If Mandark was truly able to read Dexter's mind, he would’ve known Dexter had an ulterior motive for agreeing to his request. The fact that Mandark acts completely surprised when Dee Dee ''does'' (unwittingly) wreck his lab shows that he had no idea it was going to happen.
* From the same episode, [[CharacterisationMarchesOn Mandark appears to surpass Dexter in every way]], though his dorky, easily duped self quickly appears by the end of the episode. From that point on, Mandark is either an equal or inferior to Dexter. Remember however, this wasn’t Mandark's first meeting with Dexter: it actually took place several months before, when Mandark and his parents moved into Dexter’s neighborhood. After Dexter brushed him off and laughed at his first name (this is likely a retcon, but [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Dexter not even remembering some seemingly inferior intellectual]] [[SmallNameBigEgo is]] ''[[ItsAllAboutMe completely]]'' [[SmallNameBigEgo in-character for him]]), Mandark reinvented himself, changed his name, and swore to ruin Dexter where it hurt: his science. This explains why Dexter didn’t remember him and why Mandark, even at that early point, took perverse pleasure shutting down Dexter's lab, and why his mystique collapsed so quickly. While he was able to put up an impressive facade for a short while [[ThePowerOfHate to spite Dexter]], ultimately his insecurities betrayed him.
* Mandark having a disdain towards his HippieParents may not be just because they neglect his love of science. Given his [[DarknessVonGothickname nickname]] and the look of his lab, Mandark can strike one as something of a {{Goth}}. An obscure but occasionally seen stereotype is that goths aren't too fond of hippies (what with the bright colors and lack of edginess). Therefore, part of this conflict could derive from difference between Mandark's interests and aesthetic and that of his parents.

* In "Picture Day", Dexter added extra lighting fixtures to help show off his new handsome face. Only for the heat of extra lights to melt his face off. You maybe asking why Dexter's face was back to normal by the end of the episode so easily? That's because it was a synthetic face. Just like the synthetic beard Dexter had on in "Beard to be Feared". So after the face melted, Dexter just wiped it off his original face.

* In "Don't Be A Hero", Dexter went through several attempts to become a super hero. However, he already has an alter ego in "Dexstar: Boy of Wonder" (First established in "Star Spangled Sidekicks"). That is until you realize that "Dexstar" mainly uses high tech gadgetry for his super heroics. Dexter just wants to have actual super powers.

** This is actually confirmed if one pays close attention. When Mandark asks Dexter to set him up on a date with Dee Dee, Dexter agrees only after he realizes that Dee Dee will likely wreck Mandark's lab. We, the viewers, see this represented as several smaller Dexters speaking to the main one, but it's clear that it was supposed to represent Dexter's thoughts. If Mandark was truly able to read Dexter's mind, he would’ve known Dexter’s ulterior motive in agreeing to his request. The fact that Mandark acts completely surprised when Dee Dee ''does'' (unwittingly) wreck his lab shows that he had no idea it was going to happen.
* From the same episode, [[CharacterisationMarchesOn Mandark appears to surpass Dexter in every way]], though his dorky, easily duped self quickly appears by the end of the episode. From that point on, Mandark is either an equal or inferior to Dexter. Remember however, this was not Mandark's true first meeting with Dexter, this was revealed to be earlier where Dexter brushed him off and laughed at his first name (this is likely a retcon, but [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Dexter not even remembering some inferior intellectual]] [[SmallNameBigEgo is COMPLETELY in-character for him]]). From that point on, Mandark swore to ruin Dexter where it hurt; his science. This explains why Mandark, even at that early point, took perverse pleasure shutting down Dexter's lab, and why his mystique collapsed so quickly. While he was able to put up an impressive facade for a short while [[ThePowerOfHate to spite Dexter]], ultimately his insecurities betrayed him.

* The pilot episode ends with Dexter and [=DeeDee=] in a FreakyFridayFlip scenario despite them using the Animal Swapping Remote to turn back to normal. This is because both of the used the remote at the exact same time. Dexter never thought of the possibility of that happening.

** It also implies that she's crazy. In one episode (the episode with Dexter having to read to her), we see what goes on in her head. Not to mention suffering from eye problems (she once mistook a box for Dexter).

* "Momdark": While the episode itself is rather comedic, there are very dark implications regarding the part where Mandark kidnaps Dexter's mother. What makes this frightening is that we fade to black when Mandark was approaching and oblivious Mom from behind and we cut to Mandark's lab where it shows Mom is in a deep blissful sleep while imprisoned in a suspended animation tank filled with green water, so it is left to the imagination on how Mandark, a skinny child, is able to knock out a grown woman; [[NothingIsScarier either with chloroform, choking her until she passes out, or any other way]]. Plus, Mom smiling blissfully while unconscious could be because Mandark must have programed his suspended animation tank to give her happy memories and [[AngstWhatAngst based on how she seems to be unaware that she was kidnapped by a deranged child]], it's likely that he also programmed her to not remember being kidnapped. In other words, Mandark committed MindRape against Mom.

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** While one ''could'' argue that Dee Dee's exclusion from the future events might have something to do with the fact she hopped in the time machine at the beginning, it’s also likely Dee Dee became as broken as Dexter did after Mandark became the cxecutive of the Corporation. While Mandark wouldn’t do anything to harm Dee Dee (she’s the object of his obsession, after all), it wouldn't change the fact that he’s still the sadistic, slave-driving boss that regularly torments her brother via public torture. For all their jerkass moments to each other, Dexter and Dee Dee do care for each other in some way, so what's to say that Dee Dee wasn't emotionally broken by watching her brother getting tortured, and couldn't do anything about it out of fear for Dexter's safety?

* In the musical episode, one of the things Dexter makes is a helmet which Dee Dee destroys WHILE HE'S WEARING IT, by THROWING IT (and her brother who at this point is apparently still in diapers by the way) on the floor with enough force to shatter it. what would their parents think if they found out about THAT little "accident"?

** It also implies that she's crazy. In one episode ( the episode with Dexter having to read to her) we see what goes on in her head. Not to mention suffering from eye problems (she once mistook a box for Dexter).