Dexter's Laboratory
Dexter's Rival - Dial M For Monkey: Simion - Old Man Dexter
TV Flash files “Dexter's Rival - Dial M For Monkey: Simion - Old Man Dexter” as a desk essential hour — Dexter's Laboratory (1996–2003) on Cartoon Network, season 1, episode 3, aired 1996-05-12, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E03: listed hour 3 of 78 in the Dexter's Laboratory guide, hour 3 of 13 in season 1. It aired 1996-05-12 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Dexter Dodgeball - Dial M For Monkey: Rasslor - Dexter's Assistant” (S01E02). Next is “Double Trouble - Dial M For Monkey: Barbequor - Dexter's Laboratory(Changes)” (S01E04).
Essential hour: “Dexter's Rival - Dial M For Monkey: Simion - Old Man Dexter”. Dexter's Rival: tiny scientist, huge ego, omnilingual babble still the punchline the shorts were built on.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The new kid in school, Mandark, steals Dexter's spotlight and bruises his ego by having a bigger and better laboratory. Seeking revenge on mankind, a super space chimp tries to get Monkey to help him destroy the human race.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Dexter's Rival - Dial M For Monkey: Simion - Old Man Dexter sit in the Dexter's Laboratory guide?
S01E03 is listed hour 3 of 78 — hour 3 of 13 in season 1, season 1 episode 3.
When did Dexter's Laboratory S01E03 air?
Dexter's Rival - Dial M For Monkey: Simion - Old Man Dexter aired 1996-05-12 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where did it come from?
Cartoon Network from 1996 after What a Cartoon! shorts — creator-driven shorts as the network's original-hit model.
In the series
Why this series still plays
A boy genius, a secret lab, and a sister who treats every experiment like a dance floor. Genndy Tartakovsky’s early Cartoon Network voice: tiny scientist, huge ego, omnilingual babble, and slapstick that moves like storyboards on espresso. Creator-driven shorts as brand-building — late-nineties CN comedy before the lab door ever stayed locked.
The work, first: a boy genius, a secret lab, a sister who treats every experiment like a dance floor, slapstick that moves like storyboards on espresso. Genndy Tartakovsky's Cartoon Network series arrived in 1996 out of *What a Cartoon!* shorts and became a key early original hit: tiny scientist, huge ego, omnilingual babble. Christine Cavanaugh's Dexter; Allison Moore, later Kathryn Cressida, as Dee Dee. Jeff Bennett as Dad. Creator-driven shorts as brand-building before the lab door ever stayed locked.
Filed against
- Christine Cavanaugh as Dexter
Christine Cavanaugh’s Chuckie Finster made Rugrats a nervous narrator of the backyard jungle — 1990s catalog Nicktoons invention, then Dexter’s Laboratory asking the same throat for a boy genius with a dance-floor sister. TV Flash files…
- Allison Moore as Dee Dee
Allison Moore voiced Dee Dee on Dexter’s Laboratory — the sister who treats every boy-genius experiment like a dance floor and every secret lab like an unlocked door. Genndy Tartakovsky’s Cartoon Network shorts needed that chaos. TV Flash…
- Kathryn Cressida as Dee Dee (later)
Kathryn Cressida voiced Dee Dee later on Dexter's Laboratory — Cartoon Network sister energy as a dance-floor wrecking ball aimed at a boy-genius lab. Genndy Tartakovsky slapstick, omnilingual babble, shorts that moved like espresso…
- Jeff Bennett as Dad
Jeff Bennett voices Dad on Dexter’s Laboratory — boy genius, secret lab, a sister who treats every experiment like a dance floor. Genndy Tartakovsky’s early Cartoon Network voice: tiny scientist, huge ego, slapstick on espresso. TV Flash…
- Kath Soucie as Mom
Kath Soucie made baby twins sound like a whole suburb on Rugrats — Phil and Lil DeVille as pickle-jar mythology — then slipped into Dexter’s Laboratory’s Cartoon Network lab noise. Nicktoons invention with a second register. TV Flash…
Also in season 1
- S01E01 Dee Deemensional - Dial M For Monkey: Magmanamus - Maternal Combat
- S01E02 Dexter Dodgeball - Dial M For Monkey: Rasslor - Dexter's Assistant
- S01E04 Double Trouble - Dial M For Monkey: Barbequor - Dexter's Laboratory(Changes)
- S01E05 Jurassic Pooch - Dial M For Monkey: Orgon Grindor - Dimwit Dexter
- S01E06 Dee Dee's Room - Dial M For Monkey: Huntor - The Big Sister
- S01E07 Star Spangled Sidekicks - The Justice Friends: TV Super Pals - Game Over