Double Trouble / Barbequor / Dexter's Laboratory (Changes)
Production code: 104
Original air date: 5/18/1996 (TNT); 5/19/1996 (TBS/Cartoon Network)
Double Trouble: Dee Dee and her friends, Lee Lee and Mee Mee, enter Dexter's lab and wreak havoc. When Dexter clones himself to stop them, the girls too make clones of themselves.
Barbequor: Monkey's birthday party is interrupted by Barbequor (Robert Ridgely), an intergalactic villain who plans to eat the planets, and his sidekick, the Silver Spooner.
Dexter's Laboratory (Changes): Dexter and Dee Dee test the former's latest invention: a device that turns people into animals, which yields crazy results.
Double Trouble contains examples of:
- Clown Car: Dexter is surprised to find that all the clones have disappeared. Dee Dee then arrives in a small van and Dexter demands to know where the other clones are. They then all come out of the van, trampling poor Dexter.
- Me's a Crowd: Dexter uses his cloning machine to make two clones of himself to go after Dee Dee, Mee Mee and Lee Lee. Unfortunately, the girls then use the machine to clone themselves. Dexter's clones then clone themselves to even the odds... until the girls clone themselves again, resulting in dozens of clones running amok in the lab.
- Running Gag: Rabbits keep popping out of Dexter's lab coat.
Barbequor contains examples of:
- Captain Ersatz: Barbequor and the Silver Spooner are parodies of Galactus and The Silver Surfer.
Dexter's Laboratory (Changes) contains examples of:
- Animation Bump: Being the pilot episode, "Changes" has more fluid animation than the rest of the series.
- Animorphism: Dexter's newest invention turns anyone into an animal.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Here, Dexter's room simply transitions into the laboratory, visible to any who would enter the room. In all other episodes, the lab is hidden and only accessible through a secret entrance.
- Hypocritical Humor: Dee Dee delights in playing in Dexter's laboratory, yet she becomes livid when she discovers one of her dolls in an operation table.Dee Dee: I can't believe you would go into my room, take one of my dolls, and put her in one of your stinky, slimy machines!
- Not Quite Back to Normal: At the end, it appears that Dexter and Dee Dee are back to normal, but when they speak it's revealed that they actually turned into each other.
- Written Sound Effect:
- When Dee Dee startles Dexter with a loud "HI!", the word appears in the background.
- Every zap of the transformation ray is accompanied by the word "KZZT".
