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    Dexter's Laboratory is a cartoon series made by Genndy Tartakovsky which was, at first, a project for the Cartoon Network channel, but it was later adopted into the network as a regular series which aired in 1996 but was halted in 2003. It showed 4 seasons of two segments of short stories for each episode, making each story fast and actually very enjoyable. The first time I saw Dexter’s Lab as a kid, I was amazed at how it had a different kind of art compared to other cartoons that I used to watch. The colors were bold and vibrant which made me tune into it even more. Over the years, it made game adaptations and various artists like will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas and Prince Paul helped build its first music CD entitled “The Hip-Hop Experiment”.

             

    The story of Dexter’s Laboratory (or Dexter’s Lab in short) revolved around an eight-year-old boy genius who has a secret laboratory in his room which only his sister and nemesis knew of. Despite so many odd happenings in the house, his parents were completely oblivious of their son’s doings and never had a clue about it. Due to his irritation of his ditzy older sister, Dee Dee, he made his lab a no Dee Dee zone. Even though Dexter had all the smarts to make his lab have high security, his sister still gains access to the lab with some stroke of luck and prances around destroying most of what Dexter builds. At one point, he met his arch-enemy at school, who prefered to be called Mandark, who exceeded his intelligence and made him insecure and low in confidence. Mandark falls for Dee Dee and Dexter plotted a plan that would transfer her to Mandark’s secret lab in order for her to wreak havoc and destroy his creations. Although the story didn’t revolve around just them, it also had cameos of Dexter’s pet monkey who’s a secret agent and his favorite superheroes, The Justice Friends (which was parody of the characters from Marvel comics).

    Thinking about the cartoon series now makes me remember and relive childhood memories of how I would stay up at night just to be able to watch the show. I am not surprised that it gained the title of being one of Cartoon Network’s greatest classics because it is definitely one for the books in my generation.

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Vieo

Sources:

3298.jpg, retrieved October 6, images.tvrage.com, http://images.tvrage.com/shows/4/3298.jpg
753.jpg, retrieved October 6, http://www.tv.com/shows/dexters-laboratory/