Dexter's Laboratory
Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster/Backfire/Book 'Em
TV Flash files “Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster/Backfire/Book 'Em” as hour 18 of 78 in the TV Flash guide — Dexter's Laboratory (1996–2003) on Cartoon Network, season 2, episode 5, aired 1997-08-13, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E05: listed hour 18 of 78 in the Dexter's Laboratory guide, hour 5 of 39 in season 2. It aired 1997-08-13 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Hunger Strikes/The Koos is Loose/Morning Stretch” (S02E04). Next is “Sister's Got a Brand New Bag/Shoo, Shoe Gnomes/Lab of the Lost” (S02E06).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster: Dexter's mother asks him to read a story to Dee Dee, who is sick. However, Dee Dee becomes bored of Dexter's story and invents her own story, Dee Dee Locks and the Loch Ness Monster, which is a spoof of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Backfire: Dexter tries to supe up the family car with anti-matter in an attempt to shorten road trips with his family due to Dee Dee's annoying nature, but ends up accidentally fusing Dee Dee with the car, causing mayhem. Book 'Em: When Dee Dee causes Dexter to take a book from the library without checking it out by mistake, they sneak into the library at night to put it back without getting caught, but when Dee Dee's antics cause Dexter to scream at her to keep quiet, they get caught anyway.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster/Backfire/Book 'Em sit in the Dexter's Laboratory guide?
S02E05 is listed hour 18 of 78 — hour 5 of 39 in season 2, season 2 episode 5.
When did Dexter's Laboratory S02E05 air?
Dee Dee Locks and the Ness Monster/Backfire/Book 'Em aired 1997-08-13 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
- S02E04 Hunger Strikes/The Koos is Loose/Morning Stretch
- S02E06 Sister's Got a Brand New Bag/Shoo, Shoe Gnomes/Lab of the Lost
- S02E07 Labels/Game Show/Fantastic Boyage