18 Facts About Dexter's Laboratory

1.

Dexter's Laboratory is an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network and distributed by Warner Bros.

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2.

Dexter's Laboratory won three Annie Awards, with nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Reel Awards, and nine other Annie Awards.

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3.

Dexter's Laboratory inventions are objectively better than his, and Mandark tries to compensate for this by stealing Dexter's Laboratory plans.

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4.

Dial M for Monkey shorts feature Dexter's pet laboratory monkey named Monkey, whom Dexter believes is an ordinary monkey and nothing more.

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5.

Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of Dexter's Laboratory, was born in Moscow, where his father, a dentist, served in the government of the Soviet Union.

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6.

Dexter's Laboratory went on to reminisce that, in those days, he was simply having fun working on short films with his friends.

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7.

Dexter's Laboratory originated with one of Genndy Tartakovsky's designs of a ballet dancer.

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8.

The title Dexter's Laboratory was not settled on until around midway through production of the series' pilot episode, "Changes".

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9.

Sibling dynamic in Dexter's Laboratory was partially modeled on Tartakovsky's relationship with his older brother, Alex.

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10.

Dexter's Laboratory explained that, like Dexter, he had a "very thick accent" as a child—and even though he lived in a diverse neighborhood, children would tease him for this.

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11.

Simensky noted though, that in contrast to those cartoons, Dexter's Laboratory is "staged cinematically, rather than flat and close to the screen, to leave space and depth for the action and gags in the lab".

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12.

From 2005 to 2008, Dexter's Laboratory was rerun in segments on The Cartoon Cartoon Show with other Cartoon Cartoons from that era.

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13.

Dexter's Laboratory was one of Cartoon Network's highest-rated original series for years.

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14.

Dexter's Laboratory was one of the network's highest-rated original series of 2002.

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15.

Shortly after the premiere of its first season, Dexter's Laboratory was hailed as one of the best new series on Cartoon Network by Ted Cox of the Daily Herald.

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16.

Dexter's Laboratory considered the series to be a groundbreaking work of pop art, likening its visual style to both street art and the designs of Takashi Murakami.

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17.

Dexter's Laboratory first appeared in home media on three VHS tapes in the early 2000s.

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18.

Dexter's Laboratory characters are featured in Cartoon Network Racing and Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion.

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