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All episodes Season 2 S02E02 1997-07-23 30 min 1990s Cartoon Network

Dexter's Laboratory

Mom and Jerry/Chubby Cheese/That Crazy Robot

TV Flash files “Mom and Jerry/Chubby Cheese/That Crazy Robot” as hour 15 of 78 in the TV Flash guide — Dexter's Laboratory (1996–2003) on Cartoon Network, season 2, episode 2, aired 1997-07-23, 30 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S02E02: listed hour 15 of 78 in the Dexter's Laboratory guide, hour 2 of 39 in season 2. It aired 1997-07-23 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Beard to Be Feared/Quackor the Fowl/Ant Pants” (S02E01). Next is “D & DD/Hamhocks and Armlocks” (S02E03).

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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.

Mom and Jerry: Dexter accidentally switches his brain with that of a mouse's and must avoid his mother when she decides to exterminate him. Chubby Cheese: While out for dinner at the Chubby Cheese pizza restaurant, Dexter tries to slow down the "Whack the Weasel" machine to win a stuffed Monkey doll before Dee Dee does. When he gets captured by security for tampering with the machine, he falls into the hands of a mad scientist who seeks to use him as his assistant. DeeDee wins the monkey doll and realizes that Dexter is missing. She tries to tell her Mom, but she doesn't understand. Since it was time to go, DeeDee somehow sees that Dexter was in trouble, so she goes into the employee office. When she sees that the security has captured Dexter,the employees try to destroy her. Luckily, Dexter breaks free and grabs DeeDee. When the security catches DeeDee, Dexter jumps into the air, and took DeeDee. They fly out of the restaurant and crash through the back window of their own car, as it leaves the restaurant. That Crazy Robot: One of Dexter's robots becomes Dee Dee's servant when she removes a wrench that froze him up and tries to destroy anyone who is mean to Dee Dee, including her friends, her mother and Dexter himself.

Viewer FAQ

Where does Mom and Jerry/Chubby Cheese/That Crazy Robot sit in the Dexter's Laboratory guide?

S02E02 is listed hour 15 of 78 — hour 2 of 39 in season 2, season 2 episode 2.

When did Dexter's Laboratory S02E02 air?

Mom and Jerry/Chubby Cheese/That Crazy Robot aired 1997-07-23 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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