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"You Vegetabelieve It!" | Premiere Order "Aye Aye Eyes" |
"Dee Dee and the Man" | 
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"Better Off Wet" | Production Order "Aye Aye Eyes" |
"Dee Dee and the Man" |
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| Season 2, Episode 27a | |
| Episode name reference to/pun on: The phrase "Aye-yai-yai", indicating surprise. | |
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| Air date | February 18, 1998 |
| Production number | 225a |
| Written by | Craig McCracken |
| Storyboard by | Craig McCracken |
| Directed by | Genndy Tartakovsky Craig McCracken (art direction) |
Aye Aye Eyes is the first segment of the twenty-seventh episode in season 2 of Dexter's Laboratory. It first aired on February 18, 1998.
In this episode, Dexter meets a girl with big eyes who, after he returned his stuffed bunny to her, falls in love with him. Dexter, however, feels creeped out by the girl constantly staring at him and doesn't reciprocate her feelings.
Plot[]
A little girl with big eyes is walking down the sidewalk dragging her stuffed bunny with her until it gets caught by a small thorn, causing her to lose her grip on it. Dexter, who was walking to school with his head in his science textbook, trips over the stuffed bunny then ran to return it to the girl. She turns around to see Dexter and the two look at each other, causing Dexter to hurry off to Huber Elementary.
At school, Dexter finishes his test early and gets to relax, earning him annoyed looks from his classmates. Dexter then looks out the window to see the big-eyed girl staring at him, causing him to freak out and his teacher sending him to time-out. After class, while Dexter was in his locker getting his textbooks to take home, he sees the big-eyed girl standing behind him then ran home in fear.
At home, Dexter tells Dee Dee about the girl he saw and describes her eyes in more detail. Dee Dee tells Dexter that someone came to visit him, which, to Dexter's dismay, turns out to be the big-eyed girl. Dexter then raced to his laboratory and prepared a ray gun to protect himself from the big-eyed girl, only for her to surprise him by being in his lab. She returns Dexter's science textbook to him, and while responding with nods, the girl thinks Dexter is her boyfriend after he returned her stuffed bunny, though Dexter doesn't reciprocate her feelings.
Later, Dee Dee sees Dexter with the ray gun and slaps Dexter, telling him that he can't just blast the big-eyed girl in retaliation to her blackmailing him. She then comes up with the idea of having the big-eyed girl fall in love with someone else. When they see the big-eyed girl waiting outside Dexter's house, Dexter uses a teleporting device to bring a little boy with big eyes to meet up with the big-eyed girl just as Dee Dee shoots the girl's stuffed bunny with a heart arrow. The boy and girl both touch the bunny and promptly fall in love with each other then run off into the sunset.
Dee Dee sighs at the sight of true love while Dexter jealously remarks that the girl is too good for him.
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Trivia[]
Goofs/Errors[]
- After class Dexter retrieves his red science book from the locker, yet in another frame before he closed it, the Science book is seen still leaning against his English book.
- While the locker is open, one of Dexter's conical flasks from his lab is seen at the top.
- An unused "History of the World" book is seen in the locker while it's open, but disappears when the locker is viewed from the inside.
- In some scenes, The Creepy eyed girl has missing eyelashes or does not have them at all. Said scenes include: the time when she visited Dexter in the hallway and the scene when she was returning Dexter's book in his laboratory just before thinking of blackmailing him.
Notes[]
- When Dexter freaked out in his lab and the little girl said she loves him, his science book disappears.
- At the start, Dexter drops his book when he goes to return the creepy girl's bunny, but the next day, after the test, he has it back in his locker.
- The cute eyed girl and boy are references to chibi (miniature-cute eyed) style anime/manga that was popular among teens.
- They could also be a reference to a trend from the 60s/70s (which the song for this episode takes big inspiration from in musical style and visuals) of portraits depicting little children with big eyes and sad expressions staring directly at the viewer, particularly those made by the artists known as Eve and Lee.
- During the Dexter's Laboratory Top 10 event that aired during Cartoon Network's weekly block Cartoon Cartoon Fridays on August 16, 2002, this episode was number 7.
Cultural References[]
- The song "Aye Aye Eyes" is a parody of pop songs found in 1960s-1970s cartoons, namely Cattanooga Cats.
- The title card for the episode, which shows the Big-Eyed Girl's eyes reflected on Dexter, is a reference to the poster for the 1993 psychological thriller film The Crush, which depicts a girl wearing her sunglasses that is reflected on the main character, whom she too has a crush on and won't leave alone.
Production Notes[]
- This episode along with "Dee Dee and the Man" was aired on February 18, 1998, it was actually made in 1997 according to the credits.