We've all imagined about having a secret place in the house when we were young. A small corner where we can create a world of own Full of things that we find interesting. A sanctum....sacred space to pursue our fascinations to our hearts content. Most children build tents from their bed sheets and pillows. Some have the privilege a closet. Few reach to the point of having the entire garage to themselves, by which point, they are confined to a monotonous life of a responsible adult.
But once in a blue moon, a exceptional genius comes along. A mind so powerfully intelligent that the wait for a lifetime is impossible. And the space of a tent or a closet or a room or a garage even an entire house is too tiny for their exploding brilliance!!
Dexter built his first machine before he learned to talk....or even Walk. A ringer with a light bulb.
He is now seven years old. He has his own laboratory underground beneath his home (May be his entire hometown!). His empire of technological wonders extends so far and so wide that even machines are unable to cope with the maintenance of his facilities. He builds particle accelerators, inter-dimensional portals, Time Machines and robots. He has solved problems in science that scientists have been worried about for decades, and he has saved the world with technology he developed.
But to every crest, there is a trough. To every mountain, there is a valley. And to the genius of dexters level, there is his profoundly ignorant and unconditionally blissful sister. Dee Dee.
Dee Dee is the antithesis of everything dexter is. Se is a girl. Dexter is short, She is tall. Dexter likes electric blue and black, She like pink. Where dexter likes his lab, Dee Dee likes nature. Where dexter shows a lack of social sense, Dee Dee is quick to make friends. Where dexter is constantly pondering some problem or the other, DiDi is entertaining herself with fairytales and unicorns.
They are siblings, but Dee Dee is an year older. They fight like blood thirsty enemies. But love each other to the core. His mother and father are very loving parents. His mother is almost perfect homemaker. Perfect in cooking, perfect in keeping the house in top condition. Perfect in managing the finances and very loving to her husband.
His father is the just like any other working class man. When he is home, he is mostly engrossed in the news paper or the television.
Dexter is always top in his class. Always favorited by teachers. Of course, having a brilliant mind often means having little or no familiarity with the mundane. Dexter also has an archenemy, the child of his new neighbors, Mandark.
Mandark is just as intelligent. Even more. He is socially adept. And physically too, he is better than dexter. But he has a touch of evil to him.
Most often dexter is being troubled by DiDi in his lab, as she makes a mess of his lab with dexter unable to do anything, because his lab is a secret that the parents don't know about.
The concept, in Essenes, is only the manifestation of the desire of children to have a secret, sacred space.
Dexter's Laboratory series was created by Genndy Tartakovsky and aired 78 episodes over 4 seasons during its 7-year run. Fifty-two episodes were produced over the original run from 1996 to 1998, which was followed by the TV movie Ego Trip in 1999. An additional 26 episodes were produced and broadcast from 2001 to 2003. The short film d"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. Reruns of the show still continue on Cartoon Network and boomerang.
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