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"Tee Party" | Premiere Order "Dexter's Wacky Races" |
"The Lab of Tomorrow" |
"Tee Party" | Production Order "Dexter's Wacky Races" |
"The Lab of Tomorrow" |
Dexter's Wacky Races | |
Season 4, Episode 11b | |
Episode name reference to/pun on: A combination of the TV shows Dexter's Laboratory and Wacky Races | |
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Air date | September 26, 2003 |
Production number | 410b |
Written by | Chris Reccardi |
Storyboard by | Chris Reccardi |
Directed by | Don Judge Chris Savino Paul Stec (art direction) |
Dexter's Wacky Races is the second segment of the 11th episode in season 4 of Dexter's Laboratory. It first aired on September 26, 2003.
In this episode, the major and recurring characters of Dexter's Laboratory, The Justice Friends, and Dial M for Monkey all participate in a cross-country race.
Synopsis[]
Dexter, Dee Dee, Mandark, Mom, Dad, Koosy, Monkey, Oceanbird, Windbear, Agent Honeydew, Major Glory, Valhallen, and Krunk are all going up against each other in a race which is a parody and tribute to the Wacky Races.
Plot[]
The Narrator starts announcing Dexter's (Dexter and Freinds') Wacky Races.
- Car #1 is Dexter, who's driving a super scientific car called "The Laboratory Rat."
- Car #2 is Mandark, who's riding on a super evil car called "The Dark Man Special."
- Car #3 is Dexter's parents, who're driving their station wagon.
- Car #4 is Mandark's parents, Oceanbird and Windbear, who're driving their hippie van "The Merry Prankster."
- Car #5 is Dee Dee and Koosalagoopagoop, who're going by "Dee Dee and Koosy."
- Car #6 is Monkey and Agent Honeydew, who're driving a banana-like car "The Banana Barge".
- Car #7 (the final car) is Major Glory, Valhallen, and Kronk in the justice-mobile "The Glory Lorry."
They all start racing to Burbank, California. Where Mom and Dad take the lead. Dee-Dee gets into the lead by making Koosy jump over all of the cars. They get into the lead but soon after, Koosy gets his head stuck in a tree. Mandark uses a magnet on Dexter to try and get Dexter's car but when he uses it, he picks up a moose instead because he had it set to moose and not car. Mom asks Dad how he is going so far ahead of everyone else, and he tells her about how he removed all of the extra weight from the car, unfortunately they soon find out that he removed the gas too.
Oceanbird and Windbear blow right on ahead of them and take the lead. After a bunch of hippie talk, they get pulled over by the police for speeding and the policeman gets into the car but he turns the valve on the gas tank they have which sending him flying and driving him nuts making him want to get off of the crazy thing. Oceanbird and Windbear take the Policeman's motorcycle and use that in the race. The rest of the remaining racers start to get ahead to the tunnel and Mandark has an evil plan. He creates a conveyer belt in the tunnel with a screen showing a moving canyon past them. Dexter, Dee-Dee, Koosy, Monkey, Agent Honeydew, and The Justice Friends all get trapped in there and Dee-Dee and Koosy notice it. Then Dexter uses his tracker to see what's going on and Computer uses her radar to figure it out. They find out it's a conveyor belt and they get off of the conveyor belt.
They all catch up to Mandark and so does Oceanbird and Windbear who at first seem to be the police, so Dexter, Dee-Dee, Mandark, Monkey, Agent Honeydew, Koosy, and The Justice Frinds all pull over and they take the lead. Then they all go up after them except for The Justice Friends, because the car is broken down. Major Glory makes Valhallen and Kronk get behind the car and push him. They are almost to the finish line (including Monkey and Agent Honeydew) and (Excluding Mom and Dad), it is a very close race and everyone is neck and neck and it is unknown who will win until the Policeman that got into Oceanbird and Windberar's car quickly comes up and goes across before everyone else.
The Narrator wants to have a few words with the Policeman and he says he does have a few, which are "get", "me", "out", "of"; "here", then the Policeman goes out into the sunset screaming and not stopping as the episode ends.
Characters[]
Major Roles[]
- Dexter
- Dee Dee
- Mandark
- Mom
- Dad
- Oceanbird
- Windbear
- Koosalagoopagoop (Final Appearance)
- Monkey
- Agent Honeydew (Non-Speaking; Final Appearance)
- Major Glory (Final Appearance)
- Valhallen (Final Appearance)
- Krunk (Final Appearance)
- Policeman
- Quadraplex T-3000 Computer
- Narrator
Trivia[]
- This is the first and only episode where both the Justice Friends and Agent Honeydew are shown with new designs.
- This episode is also known as "Bug-a-Loo to Burbank"
- Koosy broke the fourth wall and made a reference to repeat pans, even mentioning William Hanna and Joseph Barbera by name (as Cartoon Network Studios started out as a subsidiary of Hanna-Barbera.)
- Dexter was having an invention from his lab exposed to his parents and Dee-Dee has Koosalagoopagoop exposed to them too.
- In one Cartoon Network commercial shorts in the Philippines, both Dexter and Dee Dee are arguing each other which Wacky Races character cars such as Professor Pat Pending's Converter Car and Penelope Pitstop's Compact Pussycat are the best. This eventually leads to create the episode, Dexter's Wacky Races as part of their tribute.
- Interestingly, the argument of Dexter and Dee Dee in the same shorts are shared from Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble from The Flintstones who are also arguing about who is the best car from the Wacky Races characters which is both Bouldermobile and Creepy Coop.
Episode Connections[]
- Krunk mentions that he is afraid of the dark, which was first mentioned in the Justice Friends episode Ratman.
Cultural References[]
- The episode is a reference to the classic Hanna-Barbera series Wacky Races. It even uses Hoyt Curtin's actual music score from the original series, including the theme song.
- A few music cues from The Cattanooga Cats and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, the latter being a spinoff of Wacky Races, are also utilized.
- When the Merry Prankster takes off with the Policeman in it, the Policeman calls out "Stop this crazy thing!", ala George Jetson in the original closing credit sequence to The Jetsons.
- The Policeman calls Windbear Mr. Wavy Gravy, referencing peace activist Wavy Gravy, whose real name is Hugh Nanton Romney Jr.
- When the Glory Lory fails to start, Krunk comments "Major Glory, car go..." and mimics the sound of a car engine sputtering, as a reference to the character Klunk from the Wacky Races spinoff Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines, whom would often mimic sound effects when talking.
Goofs/Errors[]
- Monkey and Agent Honeydew did not do anything or even talk during the race unlike all of the other racers.
- When Windbear says "I have an idea" his mouth doesn't move.
- When The Astronomonov Family Van starts flying through the air on the helium jet boosters while Windbear is talking, his mouth doesn't move.
Production Notes[]
- Although this episode premiered in the United States on September 26, 2003, it was produced the same year according to the credits.
- This episode was finished on January 31, 2003.[1]
- This is the last 11-minute episode along with "Tee Party".
- Final appearances of Koosie, Agent Honeydew and Justice Friends in this episode in production.