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"Say Uncle Sam" | Premiere Order "Tribe Called Girl" |
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"Say Uncle Sam" | Production Order "Tribe Called Girl" |
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| Season 1, Episode 10c | |
| Episode name reference to/pun on: The rap group Tribe Called Quest | |
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| Air date | December 11, 1996 |
| Production number | 110c |
| Episode no. overall | 10c |
| Written by | Mr. Lawrence |
| Storyboard by | Don Shank (Background Design) Andy Clark (Background Color) Jane Nussbaum (Background Color) |
| Directed by | Rob Renzetti Genndy Tartakovsky Paul Rudish (Art Director) |
Tribe Called Girl is the third segment of the tenth episode in season one of Dexter's Laboratory. It first aired on December 11, 1996.
In this episode, Dexter performs a study on Dee Dee and her friends while they have a slumber party. While doing so, the girls notice Dexter hiding underneath a stack of plush animals and have him join in on their activities.
Plot[]
In Dexter's laboratory, he is watching a nature documentary on monkeys. At the same time, Dee Dee and her friends Lee Lee and Mee Mee all have a slumber party. Curiously, Dexter has Computer run a research on "Girl", then dresses in a black bodysuit and heads to Dee Dee's room disguised as a stack of stuffed animals.
In Dee Dee's room, Dexter sidles over to the wall and observes the girls while they listen to a Youth Beat Tribe record that Mee Mee brought over. They then fight over where to roll out their sleeping bags, then playfully laugh as they have a pillow fight. Later, the girls apply nail polish and perfume to themselves. Lee Lee takes one of Dee Dee's perfume bottles and coats herself with it, with the scent flying over to Dexter.
Realizing they've been spied on, Dee Dee, Mee Mee, and Lee Lee all head toward Dexter's disguise and lift it off of him. Dexter tries to escape, but ends up running into a wall. Dee Dee lures him out of her stuffed animal pile by taking out a cupcake from her Queasy Bake Oven and placing the tray on the floor. He slowly inches toward the cupcake and eats it. The girls then ask Dexter questions from Eleventeen magazine. When Dexter admits that his favorite animal is "girl", they start to tease him.
The girls then give Dexter a makeover by having him try on various styles. After they change him into a dress, they throw Dexter into a swivel chair and give him nail polish, some makeup, then some toenail polish. Dee Dee then pulls out a hand mirror to show Dexter what he looks like, and after seeing that his hairdo needed to be changed, Dexter ran out of Dee Dee's room screaming.
Mee Mee tells Dee Dee that Dexter is "weird", but Lee Lee admits that she thinks Dexter is cute. Dee Dee and Mee Mee then start singing "K-I-S-S-I-N-G", much to Lee Lee's annoyance.
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Trivia[]
The digitally animated shot
- The scene where Dexter changes into various outfits was reused for Cartoon Network's "Screwy, Ain't It?" bumpers.
- This is Kimberly Brooks' first performance as Mee Mee.
- This is one of four episodes with an animated title card.
- This is one of the very few episodes in the first two seasons to have a digitally animated scene. The glow effect seen when Dexter starts up Computer was done digitally.
- Strangely, PAL prints of the episode don’t have the digital scene, and instead have a generic black screen. Because of the film artifacts, the digital glow effect was likely done after the episode was shot.
Episode Connections[]
- The Eleventeen magazines that Dee Dee, Lee Lee, and Mee Mee owned later appeared in the episode “Picture Day.”
Cultural References[]
- Dee Dee mentions her doll Darbie, referencing Mattel's Barbie.
- The Berry Patch Sweeties are a parody of the Cabbage Patch Kids.
- My Little Unicorn is a parody of My Little Pony.
- Eleventeen Magazine is a parody reference to real life teen magazine Seventeen Magazine, which dates back to 1944 and has grown popular among teenagers, especially during the 1990s.
- One of the outfits for Dexter includes a hat that resembles the Cat's trademark hat from Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat.
- After being caught by the girls, Dexter jumps into another pile of stuffed animals. One of them resembles the highly-popular Japanese icon Hello Kitty.
- Dee Dee, Mee Mee, and Lee Lee say "If you don't look good, we don't look good.", referencing the slogan used in the 1980s Vidal Sassoon commercials.
Goofs/Errors[]
- Mom opens the front door for the girls, yet there is no window next to it. The fireplace is in correct position of the living room, but from the outside view of the house there is suppose to be a window next to the door. Yet we see no window implying that the mistake was either overlooked, the episode was rushed, or cartoon logic was implemented.
- There are several instances in the episode where the eyes on Lee Lee’s bunny slippers disappear, possibly due to her pajamas not having a model sheet. This possibly applies to Dee Dee and Mee Mee as well (most likely the latter, since the former wears the same pajamas in “Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster”), since the purple teddy bear emblem on the latter’s pajamas alternates between having eyes and having no eyes.
- Following Dexter's makeover, Dee Dee is seen holding a mirror, but in the next shot, she is still holding the mirror, but her skin color is the same as Dexter's.