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"Dimwit Dexter" | Premiere Order "DeeDeemensional" |
"Dial M for Monkey: Magmanamus" | 
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"Dial M for Monkey: Simion" | Production Order "DeeDeemensional" |
"Dial M for Monkey: Magmanamus" |
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| Season 1, Episode 1a | |
| Episode name reference to/pun on: The character Dee Dee and the word "Dimensional" | |
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| Air date | April 27, 1996 (TNT) April 28, 1996 (TBS/Cartoon Network) |
| Production number | 102a |
| Written by | Todd Fredericksen (Background Design) Martin Ansolabehere (Background color stylist) |
| Storyboard by | Rob Renzetti & Genndy Tartakovsky |
| Directed by | John McIntyre & Genndy Tartakovsky |
DeeDeemensional is the first segment of the first episode in season one of Dexter's Laboratory. It first aired on April 28, 1996.
In this episode, Dexter orders Dee Dee to go back in time to warn him about one of his inventions. However, in that period, Dexter is hard to convince, forcing Dee Dee to team up with her past self to make sure he gets it.
Plot[]
In Dexter's laboratory, he and Dee Dee are dealing with a monster from another time period. Dexter uses lasers and a bomb to attack it, but is unsuccessful. He then asks Dee Dee to go back in time and give himself a message to stop the calamity from happening, to which Dee Dee steps inside the time machine and goes back to an hour earlier.
At 3:00 PM in Dexter's Laboratory, Dee Dee forewarns him about the inter-dimensional monster, but he is hard to convince and he dismisses her pleas, telling her to go outside and hug a tree. Hurt by his actions, Dee Dee runs out of the laboratory crying. In the backyard, Dee Dee tells her past self about how Dexter's past self was mean to her. Dexter, realizing how dire the situation was, rushes outside to get the message from Dee Dee's future self. As she prepares to give him the note, Past Dee Dee reminds her of how mean Dexter was to her.
Dexter pleads he'll do anything for the letter, to which the Dee Dees force him to participate in a ballet or he won't get the letter. With no choice, Dexter reluctantly joins them in a ballet, where the Dee Dees kick and slap, then shower him in flowers. After they perform The Nutcracker, in which one of them places a chestnut on Dexter's head and the other smashes it with a small mallet, Dexter has had enough.
He introduces them to the Inter-Dimensional Doorway where he activates it and asks the Dee Dees to step in. They don't, but as Dexter tries to coerce them, the Inter-Dimensional Monster makes its way into Dexter's laboratory, repeating what happened around 4 PM that same day. One of the Dee Dees find the situation familiar and Dexter again asks her to go back in time to give him the message, to which the future Dee Dee gives him the exact message he wrote. He calls out to the Dee Dees, but is too late as they had already entered the time machine and went back an hour.
At 3 PM again, the future Dee Dee reminds Dexter of his future calamity, to which he tells her he is annoyed by them interrupting his "delicate populations".
Characters[]
- Dexter
- Dee Dee
- Inter-Dimensional Monster (First appearance)
Trivia[]
Cultural References[]
- The inter-dimensional doorway is a parody on the Stargate from the television series "Stargate SG-1."
Goofs/Errors[]
- The words on the note did not match what Dexter was reading.
Production Notes[]
- According to the credits, this episode along with "Dial M for Monkey: Magmanamus" and "Maternal Combat" were produced in the same year of 1996.
Airing[]
- Despite "DeeDeemensional" being the first episode to air following the What A Cartoon! pilots, "Dexter's Rival" was actually the first episode to be produced.