List of Dexter's Laboratory episodes

Dexter's Laboratory is an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network. Initially debuting on February 26, 1995 as a seven-minute World Premiere Toons pilot, it was expanded into a full series after gaining network approval. The first season, which consists of 13 episodes divided into three segments each, premiered on TNT on April 27, 1996, and on TBS and Cartoon Network the following day. A second season that consists of 39 episodes premiered in 1997. In this season, Allison Moore, the voice actor for Dee Dee during the first season, was replaced by Kat Cressida, save for a few episodes. "Last But Not Beast", the second-season finale, was originally supposed to conclude the series in 1998. However, Tartakovsky directed a television movie titled Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip which aired on Cartoon Network on December 10, 1999. He left the series after the movie, focusing on his other projects, Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars.

Production on a third season began in 2000 with Chris Savino taking over as creative director and later producer. The third season, consisting of 13 episodes, premiered worldwide on November 18, 2001, during Cartoon Network's "Dexter Goes Global" marathon. The third-season episode "Poppa Wheely/A Mom Cartoon/The Mock Side of the Moon" is the first to feature Christine Cavanaugh's replacement Candi Milo as the voice of Dexter. Milo would voice the character from the next episode onward, with the exception of "Tele Trauma". A fourth and final season consisting of 13 episodes aired from November 22, 2002, to November 20, 2003. In total, there are 78 episodes and a television movie across 4 seasons.

A previously unaired episode called "Rude Removal" was originally shown only at certain comic conventions that Tartakovsky attended beginning in 1998. The segment, originally produced for season two, was released online by Adult Swim on January 22, 2013.

Series overview

Episodes

Pilots (1995–96)

Season 1 (1996–97)

Production of the first season lasted from 1995 to August 1996. 

In total, there were 34 segments over 13 half-hour episodes.

Season 2 (1997–98)

Production of season 2 lasted from late 1996 to April 1998. In total, there were 108 segments produced over 39 half-hours. The season finale "Last But Not Beast" aired on June 15, 1998, which was the final episode to use traditional cel animation.

One short, Dexter's Rude Removal, was produced in 1997 but banned from airing on Cartoon Network. It was screened at a film festival in February of 1998, and eventually aired on Adult Swim in 2013.

"Rude Removal"
An episode segment from the second season was produced yet never aired on television, but was ultimately released to the public in January 2013 on the official YouTube page of Adult Swim.

TV movie (1999)
A television movie titled Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip premiered on Cartoon Network in 1999. It was the final televised Dexter's Laboratory media in which creator Genndy Tartakovsky was directly involved. Ego Trip was also the last project made by Cartoon Network Studios as division of Hanna-Barbera before the studio branched off as a separate facility when Hanna-Barbera was folded into Warner Bros. Animation.

Season 3 (2001–02)
Candi Milo replaced Christine Cavanaugh as the voice of Dexter after the first 6 episodes due to Cavanaugh's retirement from voice acting.

This is the first season to feature the new character designs and the UPA-influenced backgrounds, the latter of which was exclusive to this season. 

It is also the first season to use digital ink and paint, and the first season that Chris Savino takes over as the director.

The third season adopted a different episode format from the other seasons, with most of its episodes being two 9-minute shorts with a 3-minute short sandwiched in between, rather than the original format of three 7-minute shorts. 

36 segments were produced over a span of 13 half-hours.

Production of the third season lasted from September 2000 to October 2001.

Season 4 (2002–03)

The fourth and final season of the series reverted back to the original episode format of three 7-minute shorts. Additionally, while the new modern character designs are the same, the background art style is now fully decorated, although just as modernized, compared to how hardly finished it looked in Season 3 and the original art style in the first two seasons of the show.

The short "Chicken Scratch" was produced as a standalone short in between seasons 3 and 4, being completed in December 2001 and shown as a theatrical short before The Powerpuff Girls Movie on July 3, 2002. The short later aired as a part of the fourth season in-between "The Lab of Tomorrow" and "Garage Sale".

37 segments were produced over 13 half-hours. Production lasted from January 2002 to March 2003.

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References

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