Dexter's Laboratory
Hunger Strikes/The Koos is Loose/Morning Stretch
TV Flash files “Hunger Strikes/The Koos is Loose/Morning Stretch” as hour 17 of 78 in the TV Flash guide — Dexter's Laboratory (1996–2003) on Cartoon Network, season 2, episode 4, aired 1997-08-06, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E04: listed hour 17 of 78 in the Dexter's Laboratory guide, hour 4 of 39 in season 2. It aired 1997-08-06 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “D & DD/Hamhocks and Armlocks” (S02E03). Next is “Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster/Backfire/Book 'Em” (S02E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Hunger Strikes: After being denied dessert by his parents for not eating his vegetables, Dexter uses radiation therapy so that he can like them, but it causes a severe side effect that turns him into an Incredible Hulk-like character if he goes too long without them. The Koos Is Loose: Dee Dee's imaginary friend Koosalagoopagoop (Dom DeLuise) suddenly comes to life and starts annoying Dexter. Morning Stretch: After staying up late at his lab, Dexter oversleeps and wakes up one minute before the school bus arrives. With no time to do his morning chores and homework, he pulls out a secret prototype device, which will convert his last 30 seconds into 30 minutes. unaware that the school has been closed due to a snowdown.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Hunger Strikes/The Koos is Loose/Morning Stretch sit in the Dexter's Laboratory guide?
S02E04 is listed hour 17 of 78 — hour 4 of 39 in season 2, season 2 episode 4.
When did Dexter's Laboratory S02E04 air?
Hunger Strikes/The Koos is Loose/Morning Stretch aired 1997-08-06 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 2
- S02E01 Beard to Be Feared/Quackor the Fowl/Ant Pants
- S02E02 Mom and Jerry/Chubby Cheese/That Crazy Robot
- S02E03 D & DD/Hamhocks and Armlocks
- S02E05 Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster/Backfire/Book 'Em
- S02E06 Sister's Got a Brand New Bag/Shoo, Shoe Gnomes/Lab of the Lost
- S02E07 Labels/Game Show/Fantastic Boyage