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All episodes Season 2 S02E01 1997-07-16 30 min 1990s Cartoon Network

Dexter's Laboratory

Beard to Be Feared/Quackor the Fowl/Ant Pants

TV Flash files “Beard to Be Feared/Quackor the Fowl/Ant Pants” as a desk essential hour — Dexter's Laboratory (1996–2003) on Cartoon Network, season 2, episode 1, aired 1997-07-16, 30 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 14 of 78 in the Dexter's Laboratory guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 1997-07-16 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Inflata Dee Dee - The Justice Friends: Can't Nap - Monstory” (S01E13). Next is “Mom and Jerry/Chubby Cheese/That Crazy Robot” (S02E02).

Essential hour

Essential hour: “Beard to Be Feared/Quackor the Fowl/Ant Pants”. Beard to Be Feared / Quackor / Ant Pants: creator-driven shorts as brand-building, slapstick still espresso-fast.

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Catalog log

Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.

Beard to Be Feared: After watching an Action Hank movie on television, Dexter grows a beard like him to try to be cool, but is soon mistaken by the police for Action Hank himself. Quackor the Fowl: Mandark decides to bring his lab duck Quackor for show and tell to counter Dexter and his lab monkey. Despite the fact that neither creature displays anything remarkable at school, Quackor is actually a supervillain going by the name of Quackor the Fowl, a fact not known to Mandark, similar to how Dexter is unaware that his lab monkey is a superhero. Ant Pants: When Dexter catches Dee Dee killing some ants, he shrinks themselves to ant-size to take her inside an ant colony so that she can learn how organized the ants are. However, he eventu

Viewer FAQ

Where does Beard to Be Feared/Quackor the Fowl/Ant Pants sit in the Dexter's Laboratory guide?

S02E01 is listed hour 14 of 78 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.

When did Dexter's Laboratory S02E01 air?

Beard to Be Feared/Quackor the Fowl/Ant Pants aired 1997-07-16 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.

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Why this series still plays

Filed by Julian Hart · The Binge Brief · Show package

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.

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