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"The Muffin King" | Premiere Order "Picture Day" |
"Now That's A Stretch" | 
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"Down in the Dumps" | Production Order "Picture Day" |
"Now That's A Stretch" |
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| Season 2, Episode 19a | |
| Episode name reference to/pun on: The school event of the same name. | |
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| Air date | November 19, 1997 |
| Production number | 219a |
| Storyboard by | Dave Smith |
| Directed by | Genndy Tartakovsky Craig McCracken (Art Direction) |
Picture Day is the first segment of the nineteenth episode in season 2 of Dexter's Laboratory. It first aired on November 19, 1997.
In this episode, Dexter becomes upset at how ugly he looks in several school photos of himself and takes drastic measures to look more handsome.
Plot[]
The family is looking at photos of Dee Dee in their photo album. When Mom asks about the school photos, Dee Dee remarks about how beautiful she looks while Dexter has bad memories of his school photos. he realizes he is bad at taking photos and runs away. He then went to stand in front of two large mirrors holding a blue and brown suit. When nothing works, Dexter realizes he is ugly and breaks down crying. Angrily, he threw the two suits at the large mirrors, breaking both of them.
Dee Dee sees Dexter in melancholy and helps him out by taking him to her room to dress him up like one of the boys she saw in Eleventeen magazine. She gives Dexter a wardrobe makeover, which displeases Dexter as it's just not him. However, Dexter gets an idea. He takes Dee Dee's Eleventeen magazine with him to his laboratory where he, after scanning several pictures of boys and young men in the magazine, uses the test transformer module to drastically alter his look.
At Huber Elementary the next day, Dexter, now having the face of a handsome young man, goes to get his photo taken. Inside the room where school pictures are held, Dexter gets impatient when Miss Liebowitz, the photographer, doesn't snap his photo. He then takes it upon himself to add more lights and reflector cards to his photo, then kicks Miss Liebowitz out. Dexter then prepares to snap his photo, but the heat from the lights causes his face to melt as he snaps the photo.
Back at the Dexter family house, Dee Dee runs inside with her and Dexter's school photos inside an envelope. Dee Dee's photo shows her smiling, but Dexter's photo shows that he, according to Mom, "closed his eyes". Dad tells her it isn't that bad, but Dexter remarks that he was trying to be someone who he's not and knows now that it's best to be himself, with Dee Dee telling him; "Not if you want to be popular."
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- None known
Episode connections[]
- The Eleventeen magazine, which first appeared in the episode "Tribe Called Girl", reappears in this episode, but with a man on the cover instead of a woman.
Production Notes[]
- This episode along with "Now That's a Stretch" and "Dexter Detention" were produced in the same year of 1997 according to the credits.