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"Sdrawkcab" | Premiere Order "The Continuum of Cartoon Fools" |
"Sun, Surf, and Science" | 
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"Sdrawkcab" | Production Order "The Continuum of Cartoon Fools" |
"Sun, Surf, and Science" |
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| The Continuum of Cartoon Fools | |
| Season 2, Episode 33b | |
| Episode name reference to/pun on: None | |
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| Air date | April 1, 1998 |
| Production number | 236b |
| Written by | Don Shank |
| Storyboard by | Don Shank |
| Directed by | Rumen Petrov Genndy Tartakovsky Craig McCracken (Art Direction) |
The Continuum of Cartoon Fools is the second segment of the thirty-third episode in season 2 of Dexter's Laboratory. It first aired on April 1, 1998.
In this episode, Dexter tries to figure out how Dee Dee keeps getting into his laboratory without his knowledge.
Plot[]
Dexter is inside his room writing on a test paper and testing how he is distracted. Dee Dee enters his room with a dynamite pack and enters Dexter's lab. This distracts Dexter and he looks around and sees if he pressed a button. He shakes it off and goes back to writing. Dee Dee opens the lab again, and Dexter looks under his desk. Dexter then watches as Dee Dee passes a laser eye check. He then goes after Dee Dee. Inside the lab, Dexter pushes Dee Dee out from the rug entrance and he shoots it shut. Back inside the lab, Dexter finds Dee Dee screwing in a bolt and yells at her. Dee Dee shows him how she got in. She pushes the button on a remote and it sends Dexter to a mountain range where a man is yodeling into an alphorn. Dexter uses his transporter remote to bring Dee Dee into the mountain range. He grabs the remote out of her hands and smashes it into the ground, and teleports back home using his remote. There, Dexter destroys his remote, and sees Dee Dee walking into his lab.
Dexter, for the third time, asks Dee Dee how she got in. She whispers her answer to him and sends her into a fridge. Dexter then orders Computer to close a series of doors, and has her hang a small sign that says "Think thin!". Later, Dexter is working on an experiment and Dee Dee is helping him. Dexter passes her his atomizer and they both scream. Fed up, Dexter starts asking Dee Dee how she got into his lab, and with every failed attempt, she keeps reappearing. Dee Dee tells Dexter how she really got into her lab, so she is not doing anything fun today, she was only making some minor adjustments in Dexter's secret lab, and Dexter locks the lab and swallows the key. Dee Dee tells him the truth, and Dexter realizes what he has done.
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Notes[]
- In most other episodes, Dexter is seen entering his lab via the bookcase in his room. This episode shows various other ways that may have been used more than once.
Production Notes[]
- This episode along with "Sdrawkcab" and "Sun, Surf, and Science" were produced in the same year of 1998 according to the credits.
Cultural References[]
- The episode is a reference to the endless cycle of slapstick shenanigans and failures that occur within cartoons that ensures that the "fool" of said toons will never be able to succeed at getting the best of their counterpart.
- The episode's title card is reminiscent to the flat and simplistic style title cards used in various early Hanna-Barbera cartoons such as Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound.
- Dexter mentions that he is no better than that "stupid coyote" and "that crazy duck", referencing to Wile E. Coyote and Daffy Duck, both of whom are characters from Looney Tunes.