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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: While Mee Mee and Lee Lee and wore identical outfits to Dee Dee in their first appearances, they wear green and purple versions of Dee Dee's outfit in later episodes.

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: While Mee Mee and Lee Lee and wore identical outfits to Dee Dee in their first appearances, they wear green and purple versions of Dee Dee's outfit in later episodes.
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* BellyDancer:
** One is seen in the episode "Sister's Got a Brand New Bag".
** Another appears near the end of "D & DD".
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* ComicBookAdaptation: Creator/DCComics put out 34 issues from 1999 to 2003. There were also ''Dexter's Laboratory'' stories featured in ''Cartoon Cartoons'', ''Cartoon Network Presents'', and ''Cartoon Network Block Party'', which were also from DC. Creator/IDWPublishing launched a new series in 2014.

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* ComicBookAdaptation: Creator/DCComics put out 34 issues from 1999 to 2003. There were also ''Dexter's Laboratory'' stories featured in ''Cartoon Cartoons'', ''Cartoon Network Presents'', ''ComicBook/CartoonCartoons'', ''ComicBook/CartoonNetworkPresents'', and ''Cartoon Network Block Party'', ''ComicBook/CartoonNetworkBlockParty'', which were also from DC. Creator/IDWPublishing launched a new series in 2014.
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* BaffledByOwnBiology: In "Chicken Scratch", Dexter wakes up with [[ChickenpoxEpisode chicken pox]] for the first time. Being an InnocentProdigy, he wonders what these "strange protrusions" are until Dee Dee explains what chicken pox is (albeit in her [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} own unique way]]).
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Dee Dee may be the bane of Dexter's existence in most episodes, but it's simply because she's always causing chaos and destruction to his lab directly. Outside of the lab, the two actually get along pretty well... as much as [[SiblingRivalry a brother and sister typically do, anyway]]. Neither will shy away from helping the other when they're in trouble, and they do have fun together. Dee Dee being in actual peril gives Dexter a good excuse to enthusiastically use his technology to save the day, and Dee Dee is always looking out for her baby brother anyway.

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* CatchPhrase:CaughtUpInARobbery: In "Super Mom", Dexter's mom is waiting in line at the bank when a large robber bursts in to rob the place. Thanks to Dexter's latest invention accidently zapping his mom, she has super powers so she casually tosses him aside so she can continue waiting in line, then eventually flings him at the wall by his ear and knocks him out when he gets mad.
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* CaughtUpInARobbery: In "Super Mom", Dexter's mom is waiting in line at the bank when a large robber bursts in to rob the place. Thanks to Dexter's latest invention accidently zapping his mom, she has super powers so she casually tosses him aside so she can continue waiting in line, then eventually flings him at the wall by his ear and knocks him out when he gets mad.
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** Koosie making a pepé wrap is an allusion to Creator/DomDeLuise's second career as a cook.

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** [[Recap/DextersLaboratoryS2EP4 "The Koos is Loose"]]: Koosie making a pepé wrap is an allusion to Creator/DomDeLuise's second career as a cook.



* AdamWesting: Koosalagoopagoop is voiced by Creator/DomDeLuise and is a parody of the increasingly saccharine Creator/DonBluth movies [=DeLuise=] had been in, like ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark''.

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* AdamWesting: Koosalagoopagoop Koosalagoopagoop, from [[Recap/DextersLaboratoryS2EP4 "The Koos is Loose"]], is voiced by Creator/DomDeLuise and is a parody of the increasingly saccharine Creator/DonBluth movies [=DeLuise=] had been in, like ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark''.
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* AnnoyinglyRepetitiveChild: In "Jeepers Creepers, Where is Peepers?", Dee Dee (Dexter's ChildishOlderSibling) asks Dexter to help her save Peepers. She tells him, "You gotta!" four times in a row.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This happened to Dexter in the episode "The Old Switcharooms", where he and Dee Dee are sent to each others' rooms as punishment for destroying Dad's bowling trophy. Dexter, paranoid that Dee Dee will take advantage of the punishment and wreck his lab, eventually loses it and smashes up Dee Dee's room to construct a disguise and sneak his way out of Dee Dee's room --only to discover she never even opened his lab. When they later return to her destroyed room, Dee Dee points at Dexter, destroying the trophy again. Dexter calls Dee Dee a "clumsy fool", but Dad remains angry at him for destroying his sister's things. The cartoon ends with the boy genius literally in the doghouse.

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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This happened to Dexter in the episode "The Old Switcharooms", where he and Dee Dee are sent to each others' other's rooms as punishment for destroying Dad's bowling trophy. Dexter, paranoid that Dee Dee will take advantage of the punishment and wreck his lab, eventually loses it and smashes up Dee Dee's room to construct a disguise and sneak his way out of Dee Dee's room --only to discover she never even opened his lab. When they later return to her destroyed room, Dee Dee points at Dexter, destroying the trophy again. Dexter calls Dee Dee a "clumsy fool", but Dad remains angry at him for destroying his sister's things. The cartoon ends with the boy genius literally in the doghouse.
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* CrisisCrossover: ''Last But Not Beast'' had the Dexter and Monkey segments connected via the giant monster destroying Japan. The Monkey segment even skips its usual opening credits to continue the story.

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* CrisisCrossover: ''Last But Not Beast'' had the Dexter and Dexter, Monkey and Justice Friends segments connected via the giant monster destroying Japan. The Monkey segment even skips its usual opening credits to continue the story.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This happened to Dexter in the episode "The Old Switcharooms", where he and Dee Dee are sent to each others' rooms as punishment for destroying Dad's bowling trophy. Dexter, paranoid that Dee Dee will take advantage of the punishment and wreck his lab, eventually loses it and smashes up Dee Dee's room to construct a disguise and sneak his way out of Dee Dee's room - only to discover she never even opened his lab. When they later return to her destroyed room, Dee Dee points at Dexter, destroying the trophy again. Dexter calls Dee Dee a "clumsy fool", but Dad remains angry at him for destroying his sister's things. The cartoon ends with the boy genius literally in the doghouse.

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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This happened to Dexter in the episode "The Old Switcharooms", where he and Dee Dee are sent to each others' rooms as punishment for destroying Dad's bowling trophy. Dexter, paranoid that Dee Dee will take advantage of the punishment and wreck his lab, eventually loses it and smashes up Dee Dee's room to construct a disguise and sneak his way out of Dee Dee's room - only --only to discover she never even opened his lab. When they later return to her destroyed room, Dee Dee points at Dexter, destroying the trophy again. Dexter calls Dee Dee a "clumsy fool", but Dad remains angry at him for destroying his sister's things. The cartoon ends with the boy genius literally in the doghouse.
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** In "Dexter's Lab: A Story", Dad comes into Dexter's room and sternly summons him up about a "lab" he saw; Dexter panics, thinking he saw his laboratory, but Dad was actually talking about the dog he found -- a Labrador retriever -- which he allows to keep, much to his relief.

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** In "Dexter's Lab: A Story", Dad comes into Dexter's room and sternly summons him up about a "lab" he saw; Dexter panics, thinking he saw his secret laboratory, but Dad was actually talking about the dog he found -- a Labrador retriever -- which he allows to keep, much to his relief.l

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: You '''do not''' want to see Dexter's father angry. Same with his mother.
--> ''Did you say... [[SeriousBusiness snowballs?]]''

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: BewareTheNiceOnes:
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You '''do not''' want to see Dexter's father angry. Same with his mother.
--> ---> ''Did you say... [[SeriousBusiness snowballs?]]''
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* {{Clownification}}: Dexter becomes a "were-clown" after being bitten by a party clown, forcing Dee Dee to save him by turning into a mime.
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** Played with with Dexter and Dee Dee (respectively All Work and All Play), where there would be episodes where Dexter would be more relaxed like [=Dee Dee=], or [=Dee Dee=] more work-minded like Dexter only to turn back at the end. StatusQuoIsGod or an {{Aesop}} of being yourself?

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** Played with with Dexter and Dee Dee (respectively All Work and All Play), where there would be episodes where Dexter would be more relaxed like than [=Dee Dee=], or [=Dee Dee=] more work-minded like than Dexter only to turn back at the end. StatusQuoIsGod or an {{Aesop}} of being yourself?
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* ChildProdigy: Dexter and Mandark. Dexter could even be called a baby prodigy; he was making [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness scientific-sounding]] observations about his family and his house [[UpToEleven when they got back from the hospital the night he was born]]. And [=DeeDee=], for all her [[CloudCuckoolander kookiness]], is a ''really'' good dancer. She can [[SlowLaser dodge lasers]] while doing ballet!

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* ChildProdigy: Dexter and Mandark. Dexter could even be called a baby prodigy; he was making [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness scientific-sounding]] observations about his family and his house [[UpToEleven when they got back from the hospital the night he was born]].born. And [=DeeDee=], for all her [[CloudCuckoolander kookiness]], is a ''really'' good dancer. She can [[SlowLaser dodge lasers]] while doing ballet!

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