Episodes
Dexter's Laboratory broadcast 78 half-hour episodes over four seasons during its seven-year run. Three pilot shorts were produced for World Premiere Toons that aired in 1995 and 1996 and were subsequently fused into the series' first season. 52 episodes were produced over the original run from 1996 to 1998, which was followed by the television movie "Ego Trip" in 1999. An additional 26 episodes were produced and broadcast from 2001 to 2003. The short "Chicken Scratch" debuted theatrically with The Powerpuff Girls Movie in 2002 and was later broadcast as a segment in the series' fourth and final season.
The segment "Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor", aired during the first season, was banned by Cartoon Network shortly after its first broadcast in the United States, because it featured a character called the Silver Spooner (a parody of the Silver Surfer) that stereotyped gay men. It was replaced in subsequent airings and the DVD release with the second season segment "Dexter's Lab: A Story".
In addition, a segment was produced titled "Dexter's Rude Removal", which involves Dexter creating a "rude removal system" to diminish Dee Dee's rudeness (it instead creates highly rude clones of both siblings). The short contains excessive use of profane language (albeit censored) and was played at animation festivals in the late 1990s, but has never been officially released. Tartakovsky commented that "standards didn't like it." Linda Simensky, then-vice president of original programming for Cartoon Network, said "I still think it's very funny. It probably would air better late at night." Fred Seibert, president of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons from 1992 to 1996, has attested to the existence of the short.
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