Scare Tactics is the first segment of the twelfth episode in season 3 of Dexter's Laboratory. It first aired on September 20, 2002.
In this episode, Dad and Dexter stay up late and watch a horror movie it. After they watch it, however, they become increasingly paranoid of what's going on around them.
Although this episode was released after the theatrical short Chicken Scratch, it was actually produced beforehand, as production wrapped on season 3 in October 2001 and Chicken Scratch in December 2001.