Dexter's Laboratory
Rushmore Rumble/A Boy and His Bug/You Vegetabelieve It!
TV Flash files “Rushmore Rumble/A Boy and His Bug/You Vegetabelieve It!” as hour 39 of 78 in the TV Flash guide — Dexter's Laboratory (1996–2003) on Cartoon Network, season 2, episode 26, aired 1998-02-11, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E26: listed hour 39 of 78 in the Dexter's Laboratory guide, hour 26 of 39 in season 2. It aired 1998-02-11 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Critical Gas/Let's Save the World You Jerk!/Average Joe” (S02E25). Next is “Aye Aye Eyes/Dee Dee and the Man” (S02E27).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Rushmore Rumble/A Boy and His Bug/You Vegetabelieve It! sit in the Dexter's Laboratory guide?
S02E26 is listed hour 39 of 78 — hour 26 of 39 in season 2, season 2 episode 26.
When did Dexter's Laboratory S02E26 air?
Rushmore Rumble/A Boy and His Bug/You Vegetabelieve It! aired 1998-02-11 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
- 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