Dexter's Laboratory: What Went Wrong

[@vegetafan9922]

"Dede is not a genius." That's arguable considering she knows how to pick locks and dodge though her little brother's advanced security systems.

[@Burning_Typhoon]

I'd say she's not a genius, however, also not stupid, either as Dexter would want you to believe.

[@johngablesmith4671]

Idiot Savant

[@robertwallen1582]

Vegeta Briefs Not genius But very talented!

[@QuietChaos1996]

By ballet dancing.

[@alphacritter5398]

Isnt it obvious, shes a chaotic neutral rogue

[@letrat7021]

“Gentleman.. we’re about to make a lot of bread” 😂

[@ashh666-]

And a whole lot of 'dough'

[@Kortlandt]

Avery Rose ....lol oh you 😏

[@professr9343]

Narcos style lol

[@davorax570]

You funny 😂

[@jak6247]

cancer

[@NNKDude]

It’s so cruel that networks can just take a creator’s work and give it to another animator to “revive” it. I wonder how the creator who originally thought of ideas for the show and created it from bottoms up feel about watching a copied version of his work that’s lower in quality and is just used for nothing more than gaining profit (tsk tsk Powerpuff Girls).

[@lewardsanford1070]

(Tsk Tsk Teen Titans).

[@seanstark4312]

It didn't help that the guy who ruined it was accused of sexual harassment

[@Skippz2282]

(TSK TSK TMNT)

[@devguy5698]

Sean Stark and the same guy who made the loud house ( pretty ironic the same thing happened to him )

[@seanstark4312]

@@devguy5698 I always thought loud house was really overrated, I knew it wasn't good when I watched the very first short before it became a show

[@NoStreetLightsPlus]

I won’t lie, that Mandark episode with the repeat of his laugh cadence, has stuck in my head for almost 2 decades now. Call it lazy, but it has been mad effective at reminding me of this show.

[@michellemwangi1749]

I feel the same. I loved how he always did things I threes and every episode with him.

[@Genichi__]

I got a flashback of that episode when I saw the "brushing his teeth" part. I remember that I did not get the joke at all when I was younger.

[@afroshinobii]

Think think think Think think think think think

[@okjeffy6581]

It sounded like a beat

[@gabsy_ferreira]

Omg yes

[@AltimaNEO]

What really killed the show for me was how they changed Dexter from being infallable (his creations always did what they were supposed to do, till Dede mucked with them) and instead made it so he was an asshole whose creations never worked right and always blew up in his face. That was the very core of what Dexter's lab was, and they totally changed all that.

[@JThom529]

Altima NEO yeah I mean if I wanted to watch a kid scientist fuck up shit with his damn inventions, I’d watch Jimmy Neutron HEEEYOOOOOOO

[@brickpictureproductions3077]

Tobisaru Oof to true lol

[@amccombs42]

I never noticed that myself but you are completely right. Regardless, I failed to notice any of these changes as a kid and continued to love and watch every episode until it was canceled. I still cherish it as one of my all-time favorite cartoons.

[@kingandrewcecil348]

Regarding about the idea of Dexter being infallable (his creations always did what they were supposed to do, till DeeDee mucked with them), this is even reflected in the first few lines of the lyrics of the show's ending theme song. This said change in the Chris Savino series (Seasons 3 & 4) clearly contradicts the show's theme song, especially the first few lines of the song's lyrics.

[@Fairygirl-q6g]

Tobisaru Makes me feel sorry for Jimmy. Everytime he invent something, it goes haywire.

[@Slurrrrrpy]

Wow I feel completely clueless, as a kid I never noticed the huge change in budgeting and art style. Now it is like a slap in the face on how obvious it was.

[@sikkableeat5614]

I didn't like the new episodes but I didn't know why I didn't like them.

[@formex326]

me2

[@dareisaya]

I remember thinking “huh Dexter’s dad looks weird now.” but the obvious change in the backgrounds were lost on me.

[@armandomontero2423]

Me either... I did notice something diferent, but wasnt able to know what was... i guess theres a reason why they can do it that kinda thing to kids show. because they dont notice those changes

[@ven0mspark]

I remember disliking the new episode but I never knew why xD

[@zz-ef4lg]

The old cartoon network was so good and stacked. It was good growing up in the 90's!

[@razkable]

1996-2007 golden age of cartoon network....from dexter to bravo to powerpuff to ed edd and eddy to courage to justice league to jack to grim and evil to knd to teen titans to fosters....

[@advancedhell42069]

@@razkable tbh, I believe after foster everything was sorta meh. I mean Clarence and wabbit was good but I can't see CN doing anything good now.

[@IAm-zo1bo]

@@advancedhell42069 2010 had regular show, adventure time and gumball

[@bismarsyauqie7885]

In 2010s, CN had Regular Show, Gumball, Adventure Time, Steven Universe, OK. KO, Thundercats 2011, We Bare Bears, Craig at the Creek,Summer Camp Island, Over The Garden Wall, and Infinity Train wich all of them are good cartoon from 2010s that can rivall the quality of good cartoon from the 90's In other words, the real reason CN suck now, is not because their new cartoon are bad, is just they didn't care anymore about their cartoon and always aired TTG everyday, cause TTG made a lot of money for them

[@Mark-Wilson]

cartoon night work existed tha t far back???/ O_o

[@DisapprovingShinji]

So basically you're telling me MY WHOLE CHILDHOOD was born from What A Cartoon one-offs? God bless Hannah Barbera.

[@mikosoft]

I actually remember CN before those shorts, they showed the old cartoons which I really liked (especially Tom&Jerry). Then the "what a cartoon" came and although I didn't like most of it Dexter's Lab grew on me.

[@okjeffy6581]

DON’T READ MY USERNAME Haha just kidding. This show was awesome.

[@ZippingLake]

Yeah, I remember those days where you could call in and get prizes, similar to a radio show. Cartoons, like this one, cow and chicken, and courage the cowardly dog was from “What-A-Cartoon” shows.

[@tijuanatacotoker]

your whole childhood was predicated on a cartoon? how pathetic!

[@LilDiabloRob]

YYEESSS!!

[@Mudig]

i didn't realize dexter's lab was that old. I always thought it starting airing in the 2000s

[@jerkie_]

I was born in the early 2000s meaning I still saw it on Boomerang years after wow

[@notveryrea1]

@@jerkie_ samee

[@GaMeOvEr12454]

I thought it was older. When I watched 90s dexter I thought it was in the same era as top cat with the style of animation and humor. When I compared it to 2000s cartoons creativity went down horrifically

[@justiny2215]

Yeah i didnt know the characters had changed

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

Right?!

[@alejosky]

Omelette du fromage.

[@uzunami810]

_Ah, say it again~_

[@crisisboy5822]

DANIELLA SIFUENTES Omelette Du Fromage~

[@Cringinator4000]

Same.

[@PhillipLemmon]

When I heard him say that I pissed my pants every time

[@IamCoalfoot]

Thank you.

[@Sharyf]

When I first saw this cartoon being a 12 year old 6th grader..22 years ago(!).. I barely spoke English and my grades on exams were awful. Never cared about grades. By the end of 6th grade I was one of best in school simply because I literally watched Dexters lab and other CN cartoons literally with English-Ukrainian dictionary on my knees. Didn't learn grammar too, I simply "knew" what to say or write naturally at least good enough. It kept me going through life, got a nice job given that i was good in English, Im 34 now, working with multinational team in an international company, pretty decent as for this country at least, all thanks to a.. cartoon, I saw 20 something years ago. Thanks Gendy and all who made this series, you've changed my life. If I will ever have kids they will be learning english by same old cartoon, hope they will love it as I did in their age.

[@igorvaryvoda5752]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one, lol.

[@zitools]

I bet cartoon have taught English to many esl children in america. many adults as well

[@intel386DX]

hehe we also learned English thanks to the cartoon network in 90's and early 2000's! before cartoon network become Bulgarian dubbed in about 2008 greetings from Bulgaria :) one funny think for you in Bulgarian they translated Mandark in the last 2 seasons to "Мракобес" hahaha

[@philipyeoh3775]

Same here.

[@tas9079]

Same thing for me I came to england when i was 10, i use to barely know how to say hello 4 years ago but i got really into anime and some cartoons and boom am getting higher grades than natives in english

[@andrewvanhalen1984]

I don't hate this era of Dexter's Laboratory because there were still some good episodes but I totally agree that the show really dropped in quality after Genndy Tartakovsky left.

[@BinglesP]

Me neither, I kind of prefer Candi Milo as Dexter's VA mainly

[@Xerrand]

I'm not being a jerk, but the remake wasn't intended for you and me. We're adults. It was intended for children, who never saw the original Dexter.

[@dr.alexander7039]

@@Xerrand Don’t start with that new generation excuse because I was born in 1996 which was nearly 40 years after the original Tom and Jerry run ended and that’s one of my favorite cartoons. Everything about the original run was timeless that you don’t have to change anything about it. Just because you have a new generation of fans exposed to a product doesn’t mean you have to dumb it down for them.

[@Xerrand]

@@dr.alexander7039 That's not my point. I'm saying the best people to judge if the show is good are it's target audience, kids. Not adults who watched the og show years ago.

[@Xerrand]

@Fundachi What? The original Dexter ended about 20 years ago, what are you talking about?

[@NourSelim0]

Who remembers when "Evil Con Carne" and "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" was actually one show called "Grim & Evil" and the episodes alternated between the two different shows? :D

[@GG_Booboo]

Oh yes! And that is when it was better and they hadn't changed the design of the carttoon!

[@ThePhantomTomo]

I remember that as well. Cartoonnetwork did that with half of their original shows. Two Stupid Dogs always had Secret Squirrel fill up the last 15 minutes of the timeblock, and Cow and Chicken always had I Am Weasel to wrap up their timeslot.

[@tammycheyne]

Yeah but Billy and mandy was good enough to be a stand alone show so it split. Just like cow and chicken or pinky and the brain. What they did with it after the split is another story

[@stevedonahue7956]

grim adventures is so god damn underrated

[@emanx222]

I loved it!!!!

[@destroyernoah]

"Continues show because of high marketability." "Lowers the reboot's budget." *Tim Allen noise*

[@chicgeek6728]

Lol I heard it as soon as I read it

[@JimJimmieson]

@Crystal Rowley no, he meant "your honor, I swear that cocaine wasn't mine!"

[@LuciferSpiro1993]

That episode about Mandark's laugh could have been brilliant, if the footage was split up and scattered through out the series as a bunch of blink and you will miss it moments. And the golf shot? Several seconds in, Dexter and DeeDee sneak off screen, both arrive at home and begin a 1000 piece jigsaw, cut to dad for 20 seconds, back to almost finished jigsaw, back to dad. Cut to Dexter in a mech fight, back to golf, Dexter and Mom watching DeeDee on stage for ballet, back to dad, Dexter and DeeDee return to Dad... cue rain.

[@Syntherios]

I actually chuckled just imagining that. Would've made the episode a lot funnier while still maintaining the "Dad takes too long preparing to swing the club" gag.

[@JSTama]

the golf short would be more... streamlined, if it was as you say. its fine as it is, it was meant to fuck with people

[@korikakumei]

That's hilarious! Dam I would hire you instantly.

[@Robciomixxnfs]

I like it how I just realised a completely random person in the comment section came up with a really good and hilarious idea, but CN that knows what cudding-edge stuff kids want didn't...

[@jadevenator5659]

This is so brilliant that I'm mad it wasn't the episode.

[@chrisgangsta]

Even as a 10 year old kid I knew something was off with the new Dexter Seasons.

[@member-berry-bonbons1124]

I first discovered _Dexter's Laboratory_ at my Nana's house and unfortunately, one of the first episodes I saw was that horrible "Sore Eyes" episode where Dexter gives himself laser eye surgery and he sees all of his family's grotesque imperfections 😰

[@okjeffy6581]

I also noticed some things were off when I first saw an Uncle Grandpa episode where UG gets lost in his RV. The animation goes off model.

[@mechajay3358]

The show was too popular for it's own good and CN milked it dry for all it's worth.

[@NikhchansGaming]

And they Dropped the ball!

[@uno-fe5jl]

just like powerpuff girls

[@robertwallen1582]

BandanaBomber -starry exactly Like PPG. That one is the most disapointing

[@uno-fe5jl]

speaking of,steve made a video about the "rise and fall of the ppg",but i know you already saw that

[@flgryog705]

Most cartoons die of dehydration the moment they hit CN

[@dramaticScar]

That episode about Mandarks laughter is traumitazing... I watched it with my dad when I was 8 and for the next 3 years he pratically did that laughter everyday

[@NicolasDahm]

Your dad is awesome. Can he be my dad too ?

[@dramaticScar]

@@NicolasDahm ahahah No. My dad!!!!!! What good thing does your father has???

[@VERVAINMAGICIAN]

if my dad heard that laughter, he'd recreate it too.

[@KanishQQuotes]

Evil dad I like it

[@azeeminator]

The maker of this video perhaps forgot the most notorious episode: Rude Removal which was eventually banned. You can watch it on KZbin by the way.

[@KeishenLloyd]

Tartakovsky's humor always involved long, silent takes, but God damn, CN really pushed it sometimes. That golf scene is a sin.

[@JarthenGreenmeadow]

9:35 Mandark is underrated for this reason. He's simply a rival not truly a bad person. His motives are selfish sure but he wants to do good.

[@155chipmunkz]

He literally calls himself evil.

[@zigzoinks5493]

@@155chipmunkz He was also literally flanderised to be evil instead of being just a rival.

[@member-berry-bonbons1124]

True that. He would actually team up with Dexter on some occasions.

[@tobbs5410]

I wouldn't really say that intimidating and bullying somebody into giving up on their entire pride and joy and life's work is exactly a good thing, though.

[@VundabarGAWKfan]

I notice in the early episodes he wasn’t completely evil. It’s weird. In the revival he was meaner in some ways but nicer in other ways. Something about him seemed softer, but at the same time worse because he actually hated Dexter. He didn’t hate Dexter originally.

[@PACHIC]

I still remember the golf episode. It used to make me so angry I had to turn off the TV

[@pudding3387]

I liked it.

[@Pan-lv7vv]

Ahh, I remember that.

[@SilverFan8]

I remember it. I remember it being very calm and relaxing to watch. Now I look at it as something funny as well, especially if it pisses people off.

[@doctortehe]

I remember this despite not remembering anything else about those two series wtf

[@TayoEXE]

Largle Blugger!

[@Sithedd]

Mandarks parents being hippies I always thought was pretty funny. The rest of the stuff sucks.

[@zeltzintlachinolli2806]

Well too bad

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@zeltzintlachinolli2806 Johnny Test is a throwback of Dexter's Laboratory.

[@jenneacubero1036]

Sean Barett Come to think of it, didn't Mandark's mom appear in the episode with his sister?

[@thomaspantone2250]

I hated season 3 & 4, I believe that it occurs on an alternate time line caused by DeeDee using Dexter's Time Machine to wreck everything

[@adamk-paxlogan7330Sucks]

there's 0 evidence of that

[@thomaspantone2250]

@@adamk-paxlogan7330Sucks At the end of Ego trip DeeDee appears from the time machine saves the future and kicks off the movie. Then she goes back in the time machine, seasons 3 and 4 occur in a time line that DeeDee has tampered with. At least that's a more fun explanation that corporate stooges wanted more money

[@Xegethra]

@@thomaspantone2250 Yeah alternate timeline/universe is much more fun. Plus some of the retconning could be explained as taking place in another version too.

[@JavierFernandez01]

Fuckin dee dee. >:/

[@patricklauer4452]

Javier Fernandez NO DEE DEES!

[@hudsonk1racer]

I never had an issue with mandark having hippy parents, but the fact they forgot his sister existed made it more clearly a retcon when it still could've worked without retconning anything.

[@bugsisland3061]

I think the hippy parents were a good idea because it showed off another contrast between Dexter (Dexter’s suburbanite parents vs Mandark’s hippy parents)

[@powerist209]

In honesty, the worst part is raising him as a daughter despite being a male feel like something that is written by transphobic parody on "grooming" and transphobia due to not accepting his true gender at the same time.

[@kennyl4699]

Yeah, it would've been interesting to see Olga's interactions with their hippie parents. (EDIT: Made the sentence less redundant)

[@jojomayard7233]

@@kennyl4699 You can't blame the character designers and background painters for season 3, Their trying to save money and their still trying their best to make it look good, The only person you can blame is Chris Savino, The reason why is because he's a sexual harasser, And he made the show's writing very terrible, And it makes people want to kill themselves

[@kennyl4699]

@@jojomayard7233 Girl what. I was talking about a missed opportunity regarding character interactions, I didn't even say a word about the post-revival show's writing or art style. I think you replied to the wrong comment thread.

[@Lars_E_Mou]

There is one important detail I like to add in. Season 1 and 2: Extreme perspectives Season 3 and 4: …. Flat

[@ElBribri]

explain it to me better

[@Lars_E_Mou]

@@ElBribri There's more depth in the backgrounds in Season 1 and 2 then in Season 3 and 4. You can see it here 7:08

[@1ochotnik]

Yup. I think it has to do with the broader change of the animation style occuring during the late 90’s/early 00’s

[@KylerWulff]

@@1ochotnik Yes, possibly. This is when animators started using digital ink and paint.

[@tirvine9102]

Nothing wrong with simplifying the designs to better communicate the action. The initial show was inspired by flat graphic UPA and Hanna Barbara cartoons.

[@undeny]

That golf episode was probably a protest against the budget cuts lol

[@TheO416]

right? i see alot of points hes making towards the show, but eventually its alot about what gets handed to you and the restrictions being made against you. i think that after 2000 the general concensus of people was dont make it too heavy keep it light. whilst all we wanted was a good solid thruthly based cartoon, wich seized to exist after the first major change

[@tomokokuroki3085]

Nya, I believe it too and in addition to that it is possibly a reference to the classic orange gag too, in which slowly and without saying a word a dude peels an orange, clears his throat, looks at the audience with a frown, every minimal gesture is so exagggerated and ridiculous that It causes laughter in the public and just when it seems that he will finally eat the orange, he turns, throws it away and leaves the audience surprised.

[@jdavis.]

There's even a penis cloud in the sky for the whole scene - perhaps as another act of rebellion

[@johnboy3307]

Is it just me, or is it that Hannah Barbara was always good, and Cartoon Network just drive's their ideas off a cliff by giving new artists the wheel. I'm not that old, I mean I'm a 2003 kid, but I still saw these shows and I cry at the new recreations that take advantage of modern ideas with little creativity.

[@Jsoanzhsi8]

I think that’s the point of the whole video...

[@TheO416]

i feel you, imagine being a 1992 kid and seeing all your cartoons be turned to shit year after year because the general amount of people cant take a hit 'A FUCKING CARTOON MAKES' thats way sadder imo

[@theacquisitor307]

Cartoon Network is better at making their own shows tbh

[@TheGoldenDunsparce]

Power Puff Girls got it worse in that it had a HORRIBLE redesign akin to Dexter's, and then after it was laid to rest, it was forced into the 2006 reboot that looked like everyone in the staff was forced to share $20 per episode between them and spent it all on Starbucks coffees instead

[@Danbo22987]

Yeah the only series that managed to hold onto it’s ideals was Ed Edd n Eddy because it was Danny Antonucci’s baby. Might explain why Cartoon Network treated it like crap towards the end

[@mynameismmandimheretosay7979]

Dexter’s Lab seasons 3 and 4 may be bad but, LORD, they’re meme material. Especially because of how cursed frames of it are when they’re out of context.

[@harveywilliams6576]

There not bad season I think season 3 and 4 are good seasons

[@carrot7911]

@Jamison Davie it’s been a month, out of class yet?

[@TheONE-kq3mm]

@Jamison Davie its in the video but I missed it, I was driving. Listening through CarPlay

[@BinglesP]

@@harveywilliams6576 (This is OP btw, this is my new account) I think they're good too, I think I just said "may be bad" when I was younger because I was embarrassed to admit that I liked it

[@harveywilliams6576]

@@BinglesP well ok..

[@kjw21411]

Astronomonov is Mandark's last name. His first name would still be Susan

[@jakeianmartinez9902]

Kristopher Walker I thoughts his name was mandork because he is a dork

[@Michael-cg5qn]

Jakeian Martinez that comment was gay

[@katiekatie6289]

Michael Hurtado His comment wasn't good at all, what are you talking about?

[@generalchaos6]

Kristopher Walker haha! Susan astronomonov fucking hilarious :) ...also did anyone else think the idea of mandarks parents insisting mandark was actually called Susan to be quite creepy? Like mandarks parents are almost disappointed in mandark for being born a boy so they made mandark dress like a girl and made mandark answer to Susan?

[@shoutuckerdidnothingwrong]

@@generalchaos6 It's probably a reference to that song "A Boy named Sue"

[@slinky6481]

The close parallels between Dexter's family and my immediate family were always uncanny beyond belief. I was a redheaded child that was huge into science, my older sister a tall, pretty but dumb blonde, my mom a dainty, red-haired housewife, and my dad a white-collar suburbanite. Even their family dog matched our golden retriever. We honestly always felt like the TV show was somehow based on us. It was also my favorite show growing up.

[@CaptainCFalcon]

Did your mother have an absolute *_dump truck_* of an ass? Asking for the sake of science.

[@medium393]

Huh, neat.

[@serioussilliness2064]

.,. XD

[@tindekappa9047]

I'm sure your sister would be trilled to know you called her dumb in front of hundreds of strangers.

[@mw9688]

Yeah……but you didn’t have a lab and were not a super genius. So how did things turn out for each character?

[@wellguesswhatIthink]

3:04 Oh my god, now I'm remembering how all these shows had really weird-looking, busy and overworked first episodes. It never occurred to me they were competing pilots

[@Onimirare]

Animes are still like this, movie budget for the first episode and the rest of the episodes are made by monkeys. If the anime is still able to make money, they invest more into the fighting episodes and that's it.

[@expendableindigo9639]

@@Onimirare Comic books do this too.

[@WigWoo1]

Am I the only one that loves the episode dedicated to Mandark's laugh? I was it was a hilarious fever dream just hearing that the entire time

[@naloburns9222]

No i thought it was funny

[@wesleychan7575]

Same here. I have to beg to differ on this episode. I found it quite enjoyable and creative. It's not like something Tartakovsky would make but it's definitely something he overlooked.

[@terminatora1249]

enjoyable and funny yes but creative nah

[@HomeroTV95]

I enjoyed it but it definitely wasn’t original or creative.

[@powergannon]

It was one of my favorite episodes

[@fryfry377]

It should be mentioned that Dexter's original voice actor retired from voice acting in 2001 because she wanted to spend time with her family. (Sadly, Christine Cavanaugh suffered for many years from an undisclosed illness, which was later learned to be leukemia when she died in 2014.) While it was noticeable that the actresses changed, I don't think the replacement did a bad job with him. The lines she had to say, though... yeesh.

[@BinglesP]

Agreed, I liked the voice for him a little more than Cristine's

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

What i disliked the most about the new VA was how they gave Dexter a weird accent. It's ironic, because the original series actually had an episode where a bully came to Dex's school and haunted him and his friends for their funny accents, despite Dexter not actually having one. Maybe the new series' accent was CN's idea of a retcon?

[@member-berry-bonbons1124]

While Christine left for spending time with her family, I like to think that she also left because she wasn't enjoying the third season. I personally cannot stand Candi Milo's voice for Dexter. She's usually a good voice actor, but her performance as Dexter is really annoying IMO and it lacked the charm that Christine Cavanaugh's adorable voice had.

[@Writh811]

One of my favorite episode of Dexter was when his Dad was obsessed with eating the muffins the mom had made. The whole episode was about him being an obsessed lunatic and Dexter and Deedee are charged with stopping him. The payoff with the squirrel always killed me.

[@tanishambrowne1137]

Bruh that episode made me laugh how much he was obsessed with the muffins.

[@dr.alexander7039]

I NEED THEM NOW !!!!!!!

[@gmont28]

That one was brilliant

[@BloodnightStudios]

Bahahaha

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

Same here, i think it was also one of the first Dexter's Lab episodes that i ever saw 🤔

[@jordan-the-hound2323]

You know, a lot of Seasons 3 and 4 barely ever involved Dexter's lab. A lot of S3 and S4 episodes include: Dexter imagining himself as a barbarian Dexter going to college Dexter using poetry to impress another girl Dee Dee bullying Dexter with her Judo skills Dee Dee dying Dexter's hair blonde Dee Dee babysitting Mandark Mom embarrassing Dexter during a Chess tournament They've even dedicated an episode explaining the day Mom and Dad first met. EDIT: I was not expecting this to get over 150 likes. Holy crap...

[@mynameismmandimheretosay7979]

Great, now I feel bad for liking most of those episodes you mentioned..

[@voridori2863]

@@mynameismmandimheretosay7979 No need to feel bad. Most of the 'revival' episodes are still good. It's just a different brand of comedy.

[@brianbethea3069]

@@mynameismmandimheretosay7979 I liked them too. I disagreed with most of this video, it's fine to have your own opinion about the subject. I watched both the older and newer episodes as a kid, and I liked the newer ones better, personally. It's all personal taste and opinion anyways.

[@jordan-the-hound2323]

@@mynameismmandimheretosay7979 Sorry. Didn't mean to make you feel bad.

[@mynameismmandimheretosay7979]

It is fine.

[@akganimationstudioproducti3779]

To be fair, some of the changes are understandable For instance, the big reason why they replaced Dexter’s voice was because his original actress, Christine Cavanaugh retired from voice acting to focus on her health Which was also the reason why she was replaced on Rugrats

[@Leafyyylol]

The mom was dummy thicc

[@miam6214]

@@slycooper9395 how does one respond to this?

[@nileporter1553]

Word!!!! When I was young I thought she had a fat ass

[@chanbear2005]

Uuuuuuuuh

[@randuhmyze]

Sly Cooper Something was severely wrong with you as a child

[@aqimjulayhi8798]

Sly Cooper I find her mom pretty, but as a child it never even crossed my mind about fucking..

[@evasketches]

I'm sorry but I thought the episode where everything mimics Mandarks laughing was iconic

[@user-gp5yz5yz4x]

same

[@a.l.michael6240]

Me and my siblings absolutely loved that episode lol 😂

[@TheGoldenDunsparce]

Woulda been okay as an in-between-commercials short rather than an actual episode

[@nicolascarrizo7279]

No.

[@JebusMatoi]

It's honestly one of the more quotable episodes. CHEW CHECHEW CHEW CHECHEW CHECHEW

[@YODAMAN305]

Who remembers cartoons cartoon Fridays

[@gamertoon8230]

I do!! It was a big reason why I always looked forward to fridays as a kid

[@StayAwayFromMyCat]

Yeah I'm pretty sure Cow and Chicken as well as Codename KND were both created as a result of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, not What a Cartoon. Unless my childhood memories are failing me. I'm 95% sure What a Cartoon was no longer a thing by the time KND was released, though.

[@zibane6246]

Followed by Toonami on Saturday and Adult Swim on Sunday. Damn it was good to be a kid during that time.

[@GhazMazMSM]

I wish but I wasn’t alive yet.

[@YODAMAN305]

ghazt master now why you gotta come on here and remind us all that we old and shit lol

[@alicebthegachaweirdo8378]

Did anyone else remember the episode when they’re at the grocery store and they meet a family that is like the opposite of them? Like the parents and the sister where scientists and the son wasn’t.

[@BinglesP]

Yes, the episode was "Coupon for Craziness" from Season 2 by the way

[@tintinfan007]

Yes....and dexter and the kid get swapped for each other

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

The other family didn't even have a daughter.

[@alicebthegachaweirdo8378]

@georgeoldsterd8994 oh yea

[@member-berry-bonbons1124]

YES. I felt sorry for Dexter in that episode 🥺 (but then again, I feel sorry for him in nearly every episode)

[@gnbman]

You should do this with Fairly OddParents and SpongeBob.

[@Basketballgod333]

Spongebob for sure

[@alimations5226]

I feel like spongebob has it's moments, but FOP definitely needs an episode.

[@limpnoodle5516]

Omg spongebob used to be so greattt

[@_sleepy_head11]

@@limpnoodle5516 Yep, then they rebooted it and now its just boring

[@melenacholy9170]

@@_sleepy_head11 ikr, rip stephen hillenburg :(

[@Foxstab]

Genndy Tartakovsky. You know, just the guy who made Samurai Jack, Clone Wars, Korgoth of Barbaria, and some others...nothing of note.

[@chileanguyfleegman]

This comment! Agree with you Mr Ori.

[@alex.pvsz1727]

Samurai jack season 5 is good and when back to the past kill original aku that part is sucks, past his change it's worst.

[@MrSuperbeast92]

... He said it right after that. It was just a joke about his name being hard to pronounce. Whether funny or not, it was a joke.

[@rohansampat1995]

Clone wars 2003 u have to make sure people dont confuse it for the superior 2008 series

[@alex.pvsz1727]

@@rohansampat1995 actually clone wars 2003 ventress fell down, Then 2008 ventress return in clone wars 3D.

[@dannigro8794]

Omelette du Fromage

[@duckface81]

favourite episode

[@brokensmile43]

LMFAOO

[@chrisgiles9139]

That's all you can say, that's all you can say!

[@kumasama2449]

Français ou juste une blague ? x)

[@dannigro8794]

Jonah Da Silva juste une blague. référence à un épisode précédent où dexter apprenait le français alors qu’il dormait et qu’il était bloqué sur omelette du fromage.

[@Izak_Klark]

I find the idea of Mandark's laugh pattern being incorporated into everything he does pretty funny

[@bugsisland3061]

It’s a really cool character detail but there shouldn’t be an episode based on one joke.

[@Stuart_Dooley]

It’s a common trend for a show to decline when the original creator leaves, unfortunately the creators can’t do anything about it because they have all the show rights to the company so instead of ending positively, the company continues to make the show, fucking it up and then dropping it like nothing happened

[@member-berry-bonbons1124]

Wow that's just awful :(

[@itsmewillempy]

Omelet du fromage!

[@kevinmorgan7085]

He made girls came with that line...

[@starsiegeplayer]

That's all you can say!

[@satokoratrillbeest8405]

Omelette du fromage?

[@dudest.v.g.5881]

Yeah and this too kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIHMZZiKqZaMqtk

[@doomslayer5191]

Its free real estate (whisper,whisper)

[@soumyabhattacharjee6442]

Today I am a neuroscientist all thanks to the show. I was ten when this show started my fascination with science and my desire to have a great laboratory in my room. This show put in me the first seeds of ambition that I ever had and I was just 10 years old. My English improved a lot because I used to watch the show. It helped me develop an interest in science. It helped me develop scepticism and nurture the image that a thinking, scientific mind is an absolutely cool thing to have. Thank you gendry!

[@figs-oliomedley]

late reply but that's freaking awesome, dude!

[@soumyabhattacharjee6442]

@@figs-oliomedley the right influences can do wonders :)

[@KingKirby24]

It's always great to see the good influences that TV can have on people. Glad to hear this show inspired you to achieve such an occupation!

[@corvimaystorm5723]

I can totally relate! I too wanted to create a lab in my room when I was a child. I loved taking things apart and trying to figure out how they worked. I even had a science book that I would constantly read. The seed was definitely planted in me, but unfortunately it never grew, due to my parents always constantly fighting until they divorced, throwing both my sister's life and I into a spiral. It makes me happy to know that there were other children like myself who were inspired by Dexter's lab, and who are able to carry on the torch in the name of science.

[@soumyabhattacharjee6442]

@@corvimaystorm5723 on one hand it's great to find a kindred spirit but it's sad to hear how it unfolded for you. Infact lately this is the very thought that I've been consumed by. That families should stay together and for the sake of the children the two adults should conduct themselves accordingly. Though the number of scientists are growing, the number of happy homes are reducing.

[@arendvandermerwe3309]

Hands down. Someone at CN didn't like the idea to revive the show, so they killed it manually.

[@warioland523]

I think the show was meant to end with the movie because it detailed Mandark's rise into power as well as his downfall and it was interesting seeing all the Dexters fight their respective Mandarks for their timelines. If you don't want to include the movie the episode Last But Not Beast did provide the series good closure as various characters from various episodes banded together to fight a greater threat thus ending with an epic fight scene between the episodes main villain Badaxtra and Dexter's family. Dexter's Laboratory is an example of a show that was supposed to end but executives insisted to keep it going past it's intended ending leading to a rather average season that ended the series. Rather then ending with a bang like it's supposed to it just ended.

[@iamjohnporter67]

Yeah this is the same thing that happened with the more popular shows like Spongebob, The Simpsons, and Family Guy. Its like the writers wanted to end the show but they kept forcing new ideas to try and see how long they will last until people will stop watching so they can cancel it. To me that is a bad way to end off the series.

[@clayhorton9366]

Thankfully we were blessed with Ed, Edd, N Eddy's series finale. The movie was and still is one of my favorite ways to end a show, whether it be a cartoon or not.

[@katietaylor8314]

Gravity Falls is a fantastic example of a show that ended when it was ready to end. If only that happened with more shows.

[@SrogaPoziomka]

It's funny to hear that one can't say "Tartakovsky". :)

[@OM19_MO79]

Savino's Dexter was another thing, was more of a reboot than a continuation. Dexter was done with that final episode with the giant robots, the movie was like an epilogue.

[@ExtremeWreck]

True dude.

[@SnowyWolborg]

Very good point. It's like a different show with the same characters.

[@backtopumpkins8574]

LOL

[@GeteMachine]

Hard not to appreciate how detailed the backgrounds and technology was in the original series.

[@okjeffy6581]

Blicc Thicc 💀

[@Diwasho]

Seriously? Genndy is the weird part of his name, not the Tartakovsky one.

[@davidbarth80]

Sho was probably Gennady

[@NikhchansGaming]

I STILL haven't read that fully.

[@twistedrazor4730]

Nikhchan's Gaming just pronounce it gen-de tar-tar-cough-ski

[@robertharris6092]

Every time i see a person that reviews or talks about his works iv never seen someone be able to pronounce it correctly and usually require a few trys.

[@Diwasho]

@Layne Krusz Yep, small world huh.

[@MatiasMishel96]

I always called the later seasons "the new episodes". Even if they aired reruns of those episodes as late as 2008 for me they were still "new".

[@MeltingMellons]

💩

[@michaelpisciarino5348]

0:15 History 0:45 What went right? 2:56 Where it began 4:06 Creativity. 5:05 Movie: Ego Trip 5:55 Series Revived. Art detail lost. Yucky color scheme. 7:40 Personality Changes 8:25 Mandark

[@Freshy10]

7:55 this entire segment

[@xenonnati]

Genndy Tartakovsky, his work is just amazing all round, rarely do you hear him mentioned yet he created some of the most influential ( and arguably best) shows of recent history

[@member-berry-bonbons1124]

Did you know he's working on an animated movie aimed at adults?

[@sapphiresupernova]

What's even more disappointing is that his original voice actress retired around the time they made the newer episodes and as good as his newer one was (she also did the voice for Coco and Cheese on Foster's), she just couldn't quite do the odd accent for Dexter. Oh, god, the yiffbait episode with Quackor and Monkey. That episode made me so uncomfortable as a kid. Thanks for bringing that repressed memory up. And honestly, I could have seen the Mandark laugh episode as fitting in with the original episodes, if they hadn't had his parents there or his villain suit on him. That kind of fits in with the unexpected humor from the era Dexter's Lab started in.

[@mynameismmandimheretosay7979]

I actually prefer Dexter’s replacement voice.. But the original is okay too

[@mynameismmandimheretosay7979]

You’re everywhere

[@justinmiddleton8818]

+Sapphire Supernova Christine Cavanaugh actually did reprise her role as Dexter for the first few episodes of the Savino run after the show was picked back up again, but then she retired shortly thereafter and Candi Milo became his new voice for the rest of the run and Dexter's subsequent appearances. This also lead to Chuckie being recast in Rugrats around the same time to the voice of Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright. The last bit of material that Cavanaugh did there was the All Growed Up special done for the show's tenth anniversary.

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@justinmiddleton8818 Dexter's Laboratory: 1996 Johnny Test: 2005

[@danabee3775]

Without Gendy Tartakovsky, forget it ... The new series were lame lame lame ... How could THOSE even air???? I looooooved the original series ... I still watch them on DVD ... :-)

[@raidenstark315]

And he moved to work in samurai jack

[@steve5123456789]

I liked it. But wasn't anywhere near as good as the original.

[@pedrosiqueira1898]

The question is who watches DVD nowadays??

[@steve5123456789]

@@pedrosiqueira1898 It's only on DVD.

[@YuKheThai]

Unfortunately they did essentially the same thing to the Power Puff Girls too once McCracken left. It still managed to be better than the shitty reboot though.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

Oh, come on, Tartakovsky isn't that difficult to pronounce. Just run it out phonetically. Compare that to most Welsh names.

[@futuregohan4837]

Dexter: Meh It's Hard To Pronounce

[@WannaLearnMath]

It's hard to take 30 seconds of your time to show respect for anything when you've got a KZbin video to make and you need to figure out how to incorporate humor.

[@jacplac97]

It's not hard to pronounce, if you are familiar with Slavic languages. I mean, it's literally just one additiona; "ta", in "Tarkovsky".

[@JeremyMedina]

Yeeaah, the video lost me with this joke.

[@salamisumo2]

It’s such an annoying gag that’s been around way too long that some people curiously think is still funny.

[@SpicyWah]

The "gentlemen, were back to making alot of bread" scene made me laugh hard

[@FictionFactoryGames]

To be fair it’s not like the first two seasons didn’t have these extended singular joke episodes. Don’t forget the episode about changing a lightbulb which has only two lines of dialogue and drags out the tension for an entire show. But you’re right that the art quality drop off and writing drop off in general did herald the end. Dexter as a character just wasn’t likable anymore.

[@BassRacerx]

yeah i see lots of these videos on youtube and its just shitting on the newer seasons because the original was better. As a kid when these shows aired dexter was my favorite show and I loved every second of it.

[@JossCard42]

True, but there was a lot more visual storytelling in that episode that actually, weirdly, makes it one of my favorite episodes. Without a word you get a feel for how Dexter sees his machines and even something as small as a light bulb can throw off his entire day. The dad episode was just lazy writers trying to fill up four minutes of air time that they had no good plan for.

[@gotoveritlmao8202]

I cannot stand Cartoon Network anymore. There is not a single good cartoon on there. *Not. A. Single. One.* all the good cartoons are gone. :(

[@richhahl1340]

I cannot agree more. Cartoon Network is a shadow of its former self. Now they think they have their south park killer with Rick and Morty it's only going to get worse.

[@dagalactic2650]

Wait but what about steven universe?

[@spicyratking4335]

Da Galactic they ended Steve Universe I’m pretty sure

[@Buukiki]

TheInkNinja gumball and S.U are still there

[@theluigifan1]

Even Steven Universe is struggling thanks to its inconsistent ass scheduling. Yeah, that’s not really the show itself’s fault but it does hinder people’s interest in it a lot. OK K.O. too. There are some interesting new cartoons coming to the channel that’ll more than likely take up the mantle left by shows like Adventure Time and Regular Show. But whether or not they can hack it remains to be seen.

[@Dang_Ol_Username]

The 1st season was great. I still watch it from time to time. Action Hank was a really friggin funny episode, and the Justice Friends shorts that were in most episodes were some of my favorites growing up. You know i didn't remember the atrocious 3rd and 4th seasons until you showed off that incredibly uncomfortable Monkey and Ducky romance scene. I think i repressed that memory until now... Then there's that Mandark laugh episode... Didn't he also chew his cereal to that pattern too? I vaguely remember him saying "chew chew chew, chew chew chew chew chew" repeatedly to that pattern as he ate. What horrible writing.

[@jordanwright2072]

Action Hank didn't appear until the 2nd season.

[@moonraven6145]

Yeah he did chew to his laugh as well... thrilling

[@zimonzieclown1633]

Yeah, he did say "chew chew chew" and then he chokes in the same pattern as well.

[@Abedeuss]

It's not the beard on the outside that counts... but the beard on the inside.

[@beta511ee4]

I thought the Mandark one was funny.

[@Beenbarian]

The episode where Dexter finds the old part of his lab from when he was a baby was by far my favourite.

[@mitchm7563]

dexters mom was THHIIICCCCC

[@Quimper111]

Dumbass

[@transsexual_computer_faery]

@@tobydude7462 WHAT

[@Mjflight98]

Kay Mutua she was lmao 🤣 so was Merrill lmao 😂 someone had a boner from the golden age of Cartoon network

[@mitchm7563]

@@voifont yea she aight,,, but dexter knew thiccc from his neighbour (dads trophy, ) his baby sitter, his hired dee-dee .... gendy put big booty white women on the map

[@christopherbanks1648]

ルイジ スマッシュDX used to think ( USED) it was weird when I seen those moms. ☁️ ☁️ milfs 😊

[@fmc291]

I missed when Cartoon Network was Cartoon Network and not this overly simplistic crap. With shows like “What A Cartoon” and a few others it gave power to the audience by having them call in and vote for which cartoon they wanted to see more of. It made you feel like you have control and a voice for what was broadcast on tv. That is now gone as Cartoon Network is shoving Teen Titans Go down everyone’s throats.

[@Daigon95]

actually its bc they abandoned their ideal of showing both modern and classic tv shows, once the new CEO came into power. (no other network did this) So they got rid of all the classic shows and put them off somewhere else.

[@reanahardman266]

Well I mean we got Steven Universe too...

[@ElBribri]

@@reanahardman266 I hate steven Universe, adventure time and all that generic garbage, those cartoons are nothing but Family Guy "jokes" with sped up lazy ass digital animations + generic nonsensical gags thrown one after the other, again too fast, in hopes one of those hits with the audience, its just a mish-mash of generic nonsensical random stuff happening all at once, nothing matters, nothing is funny, nothing is relevant, animation SUCKS

[@reanahardman266]

@@ElBribri Why are you telling me this?

[@ElBribri]

@@reanahardman266 I need to take it out of my chest

[@ssonicdeafmonkey]

Oh cool, new episodes of Dexter. Wait...what happened to the animation, why is dexter's voice weird?

[@andrewalbright4529]

This about sums up my experience.

[@patricklauer4452]

Andrew Albright same

[@Loopyboy447]

Fun fact: Dexter’s original actress Christine Cavanaugh(R.I.P.) had retired from voice acting in 2001, resulting in both Dexter, and her other ginger headed glasses wearing cartoon character Chuckie to be recast in the later seasons of the respective shows.

[@PrincessOtaku77]

ssonicdeafmonkey Dexter’s old voice actor was recasted because christine retired from voice acting. I think candi milo replaced her.

[@patricklauer4452]

AthenaStarlight that’s definitely what happened

[@EzComEzG0]

When you LOVED this show.. But realize now how much children don't see all the flaws or changes... They just love what they love.

[@kobbybold9814]

i thought Mandark's laugh episode was funny.

[@strawberry.sunshine]

kobby bold I didn’t see it but from this summary I actually thought it seemed like a good concept 🤷‍♀️ And maybe I was a weird kid but when I was 9 I enjoyed the monkey/duck episode and even the golf episode 😂 maybe 9 year olds just aren’t that fussy

[@viviemorton14]

Nah that duck episode bothered me as a child. Jesus Christ I was so uncomfortable. 😭😂

[@zitools]

yeah it was funny. the golf shot is funny too. jokes on all the adults who watched it all the way through. joke was on dad for having his game ruined. seems like steve doesn't know shit. i'll try a few more videos on this channel before i sub.

[@AliciaNyblade]

Me, too. I haven't seen the full episode, but just from the clips in this video, I thought it was funny.

[@Platina_]

Same, I found it really funny XD

[@josephnajarian2038]

Basically what happened to SpongeBob from Seasons 5-8 happened here. Stephen Hillenberg (May he Rest In Peace) had less of an influence on that show around that time, which resulted in a massive nosedive in quality. Same thing happened with Dexter years before, but in this case Genndy Tartakovsky was completely gone and Chris Savino let an entirely new staff of writers. The first two seasons had Craig McCracken, Butch Hartman, and even Seth MacFarlane writing and storyboarding episodes, but they all moved on to make their own shows. Seasons 3 and 4 had very few of the original writers and felt like a totally different show, and I seriously disliked it. It’s a real shame because Dexter’s first two seasons are on par with SpongeBob’s first three seasons as my favorite cartoon of all time.

[@Phantom914]

Except Spongebob's audience never declined despite it turning god awful.

[@flashdawnx]

Phantom914 The newer episodes are way better than what they were back in S6-8

[@Phantom914]

@@flashdawnx I watched season 10 but ehhh idk. I didn't really feel the same way. Episode 1 was Squidward torture porn off the bat, but some of them were ok.

[@christinabearden2563]

Dude thank you! I've been saying this since I watched season 5 for the first time 100yrs ago! I refuse to watch those despicable seasons 5-8! Spongebob was NO longer funny, just annoying af, cried constantly and was just a pussy about everything! Worst change of all was Patrick! He was no longer a kind of cute, silly, funny kind of stupid. He was just sickening, OMG STFU kind of cringey-STOOPID! Oh and in every episode he was MEAN, i.e. the episode where Patrick was a king! Squidward was no longer a funny, grouchy asshole, he was just mean & blahh. Oh and Gary's sweet little "MOWW" that always matched his expression and you could just tell what he was saying. It completely changed and was just a blahh, monotoned, "Mow." && the show was no longer funny, the animation was AWFUL, and ya I could go on and on! Lmao

[@voridori2863]

@@christinabearden2563 Squidward has every right to be mean when Spongebob's a fucking sociopath actively ruining his life.

[@StarrChild.]

I think the naming of Mandark and dressing him in feminine clothes was a reference to a hippie wave that misunderstood the idea of raising your child genderless. Instead of letting the kid choose and grow into what they wanted a lot of parents pushed an opposite effect for their child. They encouraged or pushed their girls to like boys stuff and boys to like girl stuff. The idea behind it was the child would become more neutral by the counteracting interests but majority of what happens was kids growing up unhappy because they weren't allowed to choose their own toys/style. It could have just been something done for comedy, but I think there's a similarity there.

[@yokoyakamori6589]

Even today, it still happens.

[@mynameismmandimheretosay7979]

Huh. Pretty interesting. I have always been very tomboyish(though I have tried to be more girly), but I didn’t know hippies would actually try to make their children that way.

[@buhbo3250]

My cousins, 3 and 4, are mostly raised gender neutral. Not intentionally, its just that occasionally the boy will play with the dollhouse and the girl will turn on Power Rangers and no one bothers to stop them, cuz they're finally being quiet, who's gonna try?

[@aqwkingchampion13]

I recall hearing about a study that said boys who play with dolls (from what I heard, it specifically said dolls) grow up into better parents, so heck no I ain’t stopping my future son from playing with dolls. As for power rangers, I don’t know, my mom hated the show so I never watched it.

[@DELTARYZ]

@@aqwkingchampion13 I'm not familiar with Power Rangers but (and someone else correct me if this is wrong) I understand it to be one of those long-running franchises with a bunch of different series, each produced by wildly different studios and greatly varying in quality. One show could be the golden standard of action-animation, and the other could be the most shameless 1980s toy commercial in the world. Depends on which one you end up with.

[@Tres_Nueve]

We need something like What a Cartoon for the gaming industry. Bring control back to those that have passion.

[@stevenhiggins3055]

That's basically what indy's are. Small budget, simple concept, bit with the potential to be a jumping off point for something bigger.

[@TheSektorz]

FINALLY! I meet a soul that can relate. When I was a child I was so bothered at the horrid redesign of Dad and since I was too young to understand the show was under a new studio all I knew was some episodes were good and some were god awful (as you described) - with bad writing, garbage backgrounds and much less fluid animation - for no clear reason whatsoever. I actually assumed that seeing the gross Dad was a sign that this is an older episode or something, before the showrunners got the hang of it. How ironic. This was a nice blast from the past + explanation of something I've forgotten to research myself but was interested in the early 2000's. I gotta back up everyone else tho, the Mandark laugh episode as annoying as it might be now was kinda funny and original back then. If anything it was worth it for the hilarious "chew chew chew!" part.

[@darkmaniac11]

It's funny you should mention that mandark episode. As I was watching this dudes video and his discussion about seasons 3-4. my kind kept on referring back to that Mandark episode and how it was probably the only good/funny episode I've seen for seasons 3/4.

[@BRZandaz]

I agree with this, I started watching Dexter in like 1997 and I definitely noticed when they switched everything up... I stopped watching when I heard his voice was different

[@sunspotmill1291]

In short: Chris Savino took helm of the latter seasons happened (the same goes for the original PPG to a lesser extent). I've never liked the new changes of the show when I was a kid after Ego Trip.

[@Geion]

I don't even remember season three and four

[@wiiviewsnumba1fan]

I think Johnny bravo had the same thing happen as well

[@torgersontravis]

I forgot about that golfing episode! Genndy and his team were really the heart and soul of Dexter, and their lack of involvement in those later seasons is really felt.

[@segundovargas]

13:55 That's interspecies romance, not bestiality.

[@babbaglabba2912]

@@spikeshepard1897 *that's* bestiality

[@BoyToonWonder]

@@spikeshepard1897 They forgot quite a few things from the original episodes. They forgot about Dee Dee's two friends. They forgot that Mandark had a sister. Hell, they even retconned how Dexter and Mandark first met!

[@_Tzer]

humans evolved from monkeys and everything evolved from bacteria so is it bestiality

[@Dylaz97]

Interspecies romance is beastiality...

[@theberrby6836]

@@johnjohnston1117 Isn't bestiality just human and animals?? Not animal and another animal?

[@oneandonlysound99]

I don't even think they wanted to acknowledge seasons 3-4. All the re-airings show pretty much none of those episodes. The ducky and monkey thing could've actually been cute, but instead removing the dial m for monkey thing which literally went full circle within the original show crossover, we got something totally random, when an alleged villainous creature easily just could've turned good. Also, Mandark was honestly never that great of a character to begin with. His sister added in story, the hippie parents didn't. They also took Dexter from "I'm so smart, I think I'm better than everybody but keep to myself" to "Hey everybody look at me I'm a total jerk." Lastly, Mandark's stupid "redrawn" lair also looks like they ripped off samurai jack, which i doubt is a coincidence. It was the best animated thing there and should've been used for something way better.

[@chileanguyfleegman]

Lesson to keep in mind : when something is successful, never replace any part of it. Replacing a part means changing the final result.

[@SovereignStatesman]

Another lesson, is that the last sequel is the one that loses money.

[@user-hk8yp7cw1v]

Toda la razón compatriota

[@JoshuaKnight]

Kudos for the Galaxy Quest profile pic.

[@davidkyo1985]

If you've got a slashed budget, stricter deadlines and no competent writers on board, it is inevitable that the result will change. That is, suffer.

[@hairypancake]

Depends on how you measure success, if you're talking show quality then don't drag it out...have a planned ending and go out on a high note before you suffer quality-decay like so many long running shows.

[@tobbs5410]

To be fair, it was always at least hinted at that Mandark wasn't exactly a good person. He basically gaslighted Dexter into permanently shutting down his lab and then expected him to set him up on a date. In the movie even before the nuclear core thing fucks with his head, he plagiarises Dexter's work, murders the CEO of a company by pushing him out of a building and publicly tortures Dexter for almost being late to work, forcing him to live in a work cubicle for the rest of his life. Even the name Mandark is pretty edgy sounding and can't be a good sign when the mere mention of it causes dogs to go nuts and lightning to strike.

[@PaperBanjo64]

Mandark...dark, as in evil.

[@NightfallShadow]

I liked the mandark laugh episode.

[@MrREAPERsz]

Chew chew chew chewchewchewchewchew

[@christopher6600]

Yeah, I agree with most of the video but that episode did legit crack me up as a kid (and seeing clips of it for the first time in years still makes me giggle). Like it's a joke that went on too long for sure, but it was a decent joke.

[@AmeshaSpentaArmaiti]

i liked the dad cartoon.

[@Carewolf]

@@AmeshaSpentaArmaiti Yeah, those where awesome, and in the original style of the original seasons... It was creative and cool.

[@ferreroman2913]

I didn't, I hated that episode, idk why there were multiple reruns of that stupid episode in South America

[@jpfoland01]

You bring up a lot of good points about the quality drop in the show that I hadn’t noticed as a kid. That said, for better or worse, I really liked the “Mandark’s laugh” episode, I thought it was a good bit

[@CreativeWM_Personal]

Same here as stupid as it is I still like it.

[@mmik9683]

I thought there was something they did that took the life out of his laugh in the later seasons. I could be wrong, but in earlier episodes his laugh sounded more natural and realistic, despite being corny as hell.

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@mmik9683 Johnny Test's animation and design is the same as Dexter's Laboratory Seasons 3 and 4.

[@itsjemmabond]

It's not uncommon for animators to change their art style from traditional to abstract, particularly when it comes to the background. It happened with the original Road Runner cartoons. A duck and a monkey falling in love is the least weird storyline I've ever witnessed - there's another cartoon where a human gave birth to a cow and a chicken. Her husband was so proud, he didn't care how. And hippies have been known to live in the suburbs, trust me, it's the inside of their houses that counts.

[@Michael-bn1oi]

Animators didn't change their styles, totally different animators worked on the new season with a slashed budget.

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

Wasn't there an episode in Cow and Chicken where it was revealed that Mom and Dad weren't their biological parents? I remember it was a flashback to when Cow was born, Dad was walking nervously in the waiting room then Mom suddenly came up to him and they had a casual conversation about something, and the overall idea was that they were both waiting for Cow to be born, and that it wasn't Mom who was pregnant in the first place.

[@DovydasRybakas]

Getting rid of a show's original creator is like trying to user a diesel car with petrol, won't run for long and will die faster than you think.

[@AndrewNorman94]

I have to agree with you about the drop in quality after the first two seasons. I remember I used to absolutely love seasons 1/2, but I distinctly remember my younger self actually groaning with boredom whenever an episode from series 3 or 4 was on. I just never found the later seasons as appealing as the first two. Great video!

[@feliznavidad4846]

Cute

[@analanus3131]

@@feliznavidad4846 e ...

[@FrogsForBreakfast]

Me too! I remember knowing to change the channel whenever a "bad art" episode came on. So nice of them to change up the style to make it easy for kids to tell when it's one of the crappy seasons.

[@QuikVidGuy]

Making the golf joke a whole episode kind of turns it into a shaggy dog joke. The frustration is the point, but you risk people just hating it because it's not their sense of humor and they can see how many corners you're able to cut. And it really stands out as not being an exercise in tension when you see all the other episodes alongside it that just pull the same stunt. Actually, as a kid I liked the Mandark episode. I can't explain it well, but the concept of "He has this weird laugh for some reason; what if his whole life revolves around that instead of something more natural" just really worked and I wanted to see how many things they could apply it to. That's not a defense, it's just something that happened.

[@omikronweapon]

I have to admit, I found the clips of the Mandark laugh episode immediately funny. Never saw any of the new style episodes apparently... It's actually quite original in all it's weirdness.

[@clevelandbrown5709]

The Mandark rhythm episode was genius. It was just a way of showing you the supervillain rival's day by using a cheeky motif. Especially for a kids cartoon, I thought it was really clever actually and loved learning more about Mandark. Though i agree with the rest of your points

[@gilbertotabares8196]

The relationship between Monkey and Quackor, by definition, is not bestiality. The relationship between Monkey and Agent Honeydew however, *IS* bestiality. Learn the difference lad.

[@pep8495]

extremely wrong because of all the discussion in the comments but go off

[@pep8495]

@Christian Chavarria whether something matters or not is extremely subjective and by my mere response to your original comment you automatically were proven wrong (i do give an apparent fuck), not even regarding the fact that that comment in it of itself served no purpose other than to propagate dickish behaviour (behaviour similar than that of a dick) but go off nonce

[@meltyboys946]

I n t e r s p e c i e s E r o t i c a

[@gilbertotabares8196]

@@meltyboys946 Ha! Clerks reference.

[@noiJadisCailleach]

OMG! I just remembered and realized that just now. Yes! Childhood ruined! Haha...hahaha...hahahahaha!

[@SilverWolf442]

I never noticed this when I was a kid. But I actually don't know if I saw the revival seasons. Sadly, this is what TvTropes calls Flamderization. Where things get more exaggerated. Mandark was an antagonist rival early on. Then a complete villain later. Plus Dexter getting more obnoxious. It seems almost no show goes without it happening in general, or to a character. Like The Powerpuff Girls. Him was supposed to be the GOAT of villains early on. When he called Mojo in Telephonies, Mojo jumps from his seat and addresses Him as "sir." Then later Him lost all his edge to being the "King of Darkness" and just become a Flamboyant goof. Seen perfectly when Mojo argues with him over who gets custody of the Rowdy Ruff Boyz.

[@christabelk16]

VC26 let's not forget the Simpsons - the show where flanderization is most obvious

[@thewiseoldfox]

@@christabelk16 I believe that's what Flanderization was named after. Ned Flanders becomes an unlikable jerk after one incident, and keeps that personality change throughout.

[@christabelk16]

@@thewiseoldfox stuff like that to me is why i think long running series like the Simpsons should end. Thankfully even if the flanderization wasn't as bad in futurama (my fave groening cartoon) it knew when to end

[@Claytone-Records]

It goes with the whole nobody likes anyone else here ever after, amen.

[@missbrown8205]

Ohhhh so that’s what it’s called. I’ve noticed that in ALOT of shows not just cartoons. I thought I was the only one who noticed.

[@TrillBill]

Man, I loved that beard episode 😂

[@SocksFCGameArchives]

It's a shame that cartoons like this don't exist anymore

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

Mostly I blame the rise of Flash Animation. It made cartoons way to cheap and easy and lead to some seriously lazy work. You don't need amazingly detailed animation with lovingly crafted backgrounds to tell a good and fun story. But the effort required does tend to put more weight into the "should we do this" over "can we do this". I don't know if the later seasons of Dexter's Lab used Flash, but it kind of looks like it. The rushed production time seemed to have led to far less per-screening of scripts and plot. There is a huge difference between an episode that might take a month to make vs one that is done in a week.

[@analanus3131]

black people

[@salj.5459]

i can't believe it's not everything Ha ha XD 😂

[@1010otep]

to be honest we can't blame Flash. Note that Spongebob went from traditional to digital in Season 2 yet is still considered the best season in the show.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Well, not all Flash animations are bad. Some of them like Foster's Home Imaginary Friends, MLP (not my favorite show but my love-hate pleasure), Archer, etc. It could've done better if Flash will be used correctly and not to shoddy and poorly animated. Even animation errors, it's a thing. For Dexters, I'm still afraid that CN will going to reboot it and become one of the -Nazis- Animation Altrocities of Cartoon Network.

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

@@1010otep By and large the medium isn't the problem, it just doesn't help an already bad script. I was just saying flash made it far to easy to put garbage up on the screen, not that some people haven't done amazing things with the program. Here on KZbin alone there are thousands of nice little shorts with great idea's that wouldn't exist without Flash. Just in the case of a lot of shows from the late 90's and early 2000's they chose flash because it was the easiest, cheapest and fastest way to get things done. It meant they had no respect for the product they were creating and the rest of the production was done just as poorly.

[@davorianware1382]

R.I.P Christine Cavanaugh 😔

[@darkstarmoonshadow]

Amen 😞

[@Sarkkoth]

Yeah I really wasn't a fan of Dexter's lab post season 2. At one point though it was amazing to watch as a kid.

[@Sarkkoth]

@@Muffin-777 Lol. Well, I was a 90's kid. I grew up on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.

[@Sarkkoth]

@@Muffin-777 Yeah but I definitely noticed the background change. I remember wondering if they'd moved to a desert between seasons or something.

[@Paraplegicoctopus-jh3mn]

Thank you! The change in animation and voice was the FIRST thing I noticed, even at a very young age, and, for me, t'was around that time that I realized it had started going to shit really fast, same with the PPG. Plus not having Gendy Smith's name at the start of every episode, you knew that wouldn't end well.

[@LordDiscord]

Ah good old Genndy Smith.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

That's Genndy Tartavoksy

[@i.eatlittlebabies]

that reply would be funnier if you ended it with something like you cold corndog

[@Kingatje]

Do you guys remember the episode where Deedee gets turned into a unicorn? The ending made me so sad as a child. I think it kind of made me stop wanting to become & elope as a unicorn. Glad D's L helped me dodge that bullet.

[@LucasMiddleNameandLastname22]

what happened at the ending??

[@BroomPusher2024]

The Kinkshaming Episode

[@Nay089]

Deedee’s friends took advantage of having a unicorn friend and kept wanting to ride her so she ran away lol. Classic

[@Maspets]

@@Nay089 She was just a horse.

[@PatJakobsen]

I kinda respect the episode based on ManDark´s laugh. We have never seen anything like it before

[@ElBribri]

ive never seen it, but I think its a neat idea

[@frogerzard6606]

I did think it was funny when he was eating

[@stlouie88]

I saw it as a kid, I liked that episode. Not the whole season tho since it wasn’t the same as seasons 1 & 2 but it was still the only thing creative.

[@andrewrabon]

I always have as well. And I always did like the idea of Mandark coming from hippies. The rest of 3 and 4 was trash though.

[@tirvine9102]

Yeah, the criticisms in this video don't hold much water to me. Showing the teeth brushing, etc out of context ignores the rhythm of that episode. It's great that the show could still be experimental after the creator left.

[@PeterGriffin11]

I think there were a few good episodes in the later seasons of Dexter's Lab but I still agree the overall quality went down.