Dexter's Laboratory (commonly abbreviated as Dexter's Lab) is an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky and produced by Cartoon Network Studios (also co-produced with Hanna-Barbera from 1996–2001). The show is about a boy named Dexter who has an enormous secret laboratory filled with an endless collection of his inventions. The series premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network on April 27, 1996. As of 2006, Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang has also been airing the series.
The series initially debuted on the What A Cartoon! show as a cartoon short and later became the first of said program to be adapted into its own series. Each 22-minute episode consists of two to three segments (with the exception of the initial series finale). Dexter's Laboratory originally ended in 1998 after 52 episodes, but it was later revived for a TV movie, and, even later, a second line of episodes under a different production team.
Dexter's Laboratory is notable for helping launch the careers of several cartoon creators such as Craig McCracken, Seth MacFarlane, Butch Hartman, Bob Boyle, Scott Fellows, and Rob Renzetti.
As of March 30, 2012, the series has
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The central protagonist, creator and owner of the laboratory, and a junior mad scientist; red-haired, 8 years old. He speaks with an Eastern European or German accent which is not explained; none of the other members of his family have distinctive accents, except for his Uncle O' Riley. Some believe that his accent is a play on Albert Einstein while others consider his accent to be an homage to the "mad scientists" of cinema from about 1930 to 1960, many of which had vaguely Eastern European or German accents. He considers his sister Dee Dee to be stupid and inferior, not to mention clumsy. He also makes up a superhero alter-ego for himself to gain Major Glory's respect: Dexstar.He has a peculiar quirk of wrenching a nut into a piece of metal for no apparent reason. This tends to begin an episode- Dexter is "working", wrenching the nut, when his sister comes in and ruins everything. This motion is adressed as what could be a "genetic defect" in the Blackfoot episode.{animation stubs}
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