Dexter's Laboratory - "Rude Removal"

In 1998, there was word that there was an episode of Dexter's Lab that had Dexter and Dee-Dee create evil versions of themselves, the kicker, this episode had a lot of Bob Saget levels! For years, the reason for it's creation has been sketchy. Some say it was made as a joke and never intended to air, others said it was meant to air and Cartoon Network banned it for its harshness, however, the main rumor is that it was made only for select people to see, as it have been may have been shown at Genndy Tartakovsky's home for cocktail parties and whatnot. But that's just a hypothesis. For years, we were all curious about the episode and hope we would find some answers soon, and we did in 2013, thanks to Adult Swim. They once uploaded on YouTube on their channel to widespread appeal, but then they switched it to private, forcing fans to find other sources to be the only way to see it. But after all the wait, was it worth it? Let's find out.

So, we see the basic norm of the show, Dexter working on his latest creation and Dee-Dee coming in to wreck it all. Dexter tells Dee-Dee that he invented the Rude Removal System, a device made to take the rudeness out of one person, during the discussion they argue over who's the rude one, which quickly results in a sibling fight which causes them to accidentally work the Rude Removal System. On the upside, it works! On the downside, the rudeness has to go somewhere. At least all the curse words are censored in this one, I assume Adult Swim censored it themselves So anyways, Dexter and Dee-Dee have to deal with evil clones of themselves who shout their mouths off faster than the comedy sty-lings of Andrew Dice Clay.

Before these guys could mess up the now nicer duo, they hear their mother call them up for lunch, and that was where things get interesting. You just have to watch and see how it turns out for yourself. Anyway, before the now nicer duo can clean-up their mess, they hear their rude duplicates messing around in their laboratory But the weirdest part of this episode is Dexter and Dee-Dee having British mannerisms, that's just weird! Anyways, they go down to the lab to stop them once and for all in something I would like to call, "reverse psychology." Bugs Bunny-isms, works every time. Well, all's well that ends well.

Well, it's great to see something like this existed, Rude Removal feels like a typical episode. I can understand the reason for the ban, but if Rugrats, SpongeBob, The Powerpuff Girls, and Arthur can get away with teaching the moral of swearing, I can see this is getting by.


Well, except for the title card, but there's a nice nostalgic vibe that makes it worth seeing.

Just don't be that hyped.

Besides, if they had change the title card and made it a bit more kid friendly, then it would've been a cartoon to put on the show itself. Maybe it could've replaced the banned Dial M for Monkey cartoon "Barbequor," which actually HAD an excuse for removing it.

I rest my case.

That's all for now.

Dexter's Laboratory - "911"

Huh, I really don't have much to say about this episode. Except, it's a pretty cute episode. All right, all right, I'll give you the basic premise, my opinions, and my final thoughts. afterwards, this will be my last review until this Thursday night. So,, let's uh, let's begin.

While watching an episode of Action Hank, Dexter gets interrupted by the Emergency Broadcast System. This results into Dexter solving emergency after emergency, but the signal doesn't stop going off. By the end of the episode, it was revealed that it was just a test, and if it was an ACTUAL emergency, the signal you would have heard would've been followed by information. The test took so long, it skipped over to the end of the Action Hank episode. Poor Dexter, okay, enough with that. Let's talk about my opinions.

What I do like about this episode is that it's cute, very cute. I especially like Dee-Dee's appearance here, She has quite an overactive imagination. For example, laughing for no reason at the TV as if it were a comedy, Dee-Dee becoming scared as if she was watching a horror movie, and even getting up to the point to where Dee-Dee is offended by someone named Jeffrey doing something to Marsha. Even Dexter thinks this is just crazy. Heck, she even thinks the ending of the test of the Emergency Broadcast System was a sad ending. She's not stupid, she's just energetic and quite ditsy, for Dexter's taste at least.

Okay, let's wrap things up with my final thoughts. Even though the beeping on the Emergency Broadcast System got annoying at times, I must say, it is pretty much a good episode. The comedy is cute, especially Dexter mistaking boy babies for girls, as well as Dee-Dee's overactive imagination. It's pretty much just a cute, cute episode.

Not much else to say except, join me Thursday night when I'll review the Johnny Bravo episode, "Cookie Crisis."

Magic Trixie Review

No, I don't mean the Great and Powerful Trixie from MLP: Friendship is Magic, but that was a good guess. No, I'm talking about this 1998 short from Oh Yeah! Cartoons. The plot of this story is that a young girl while trying to practice magic, she comes across Migmar Magma, voiced by Bob Joles, and eventually, she outshines him like a real magician would.

This is a pretty interesting short. It doesn't have much dialogue,minus Migmar's lines, but, this short taught me that it didn't need a lot of talking to make it look interesting, it just had to be VISUALLY interesting, it felt like a short from the Disney films Fantasia and Fantasia 2000. I like the clerk, who was voiced by Gregg Berger, who has a deadpanned sounding voice in his system, but the highlight of the short has to go with Migmar Magma, now, he is one magical bad guy, he will stop at nothing to be better than Trixie, but, since it's a magic-related short, fat chance.

This short was a stroke a genius. It was visually interesting, it had humor, it had minimal dialogue, but it didn't bother me much, all it taught me was that sometimes, silence is golden, Samurai Jack and a few Nelvana shows have done that as well, it also taught us that magic doesn't come from a store, but from the heart, all you need is some natural talent, and Trixie had to learn that the hard way. If you haven't seen or heard of this short yet, check it out, in my opinion, it's six minutes of talent you won't soon be forgetting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3XJiqxCdTg

Ask Edward: All About Babies

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you put Tom Kenny and Tara Strong as a comedy duo featuring to kid dogs? Well, this is the short for you, "Ask Edward: All About Babies.

The plot of the short is that Emo plays baby with his toy figures, which annoys his big brother, Edward. Emo explains the reason is because their mom and dad were talking about having another baby. since this short is Ask Edward, this episode does what the title predicts. Edward answers the question simply to say that storks bring in their babies, not too dissimilar to Dumbo. After Edward explains, Emo finds an egg outside, and he and Edward mistake it as an egg for a baby brother. And Edward teases Emo that the "baby" could be a problem for him. And Emo tries his best to make sure nothing terrible happens to him, simply by trying to put the egg into the dark, and tries to put the egg in the freezer, but it just falls and cracks. Their mom overhears this and decides to cook them scrambled eggs. When Edward refuses, they confess to their mother what's been happening, and their mom tells them it's just a complete misunderstanding. And Edward gives out a much better explanation. You see, after the stork lays the egg, the bee has to pollinate it, otherwise, there's no baby inside, leaving Emo quite confused, but stung by a bee on the nose in the process.

The short is quite cute. The characters are cute, the animation is cute, heck, the voices are cute, heck, even the plot is cute, almost as cute as Nermal from Garfield and Friends, but don't tell Garfield that. I should of course mention that Emo was voiced the lovable Tara Strong, using a voice that's sort of like a precursor to Timmy Turner whom she also does. She's just one of the best voice actresses out there. But she's not the only star of this cartoon, there;s also Tom Kenny as the voice of Edward (AKA: Eddy), using a voice that is pretty much as precursor to Carl from Johnny Bravo, in which whom Tom Kenny also did about a year later. Enjoy all the cuteness of the cartoon while you still can.

If you wanna see this cute cartoon for yourself, here's the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9p7tISqFdY

Olly and Frank

From the people who brought you Wow! Wow! Wubbzy, and Why Do I Love Y? comes a Bob Boyle cartoon from 1998 that was directed by Rob Renzetti for Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

What I like about this cartoon is that it's a simple "kid falls in love with a girl" story with a Frankenstein twist. What I also admire is the fact that Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker wrote all the musical score for this show, these people were famous for The Powerpuff Girls, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Dexter's Laboratory, and Codename: Kids Next Door among others. Also, this story has a lot of puns. And I'm not gonna lie here. The puns include "The bubble in my gum," "the pop in my sicle," and "the ham in my burger." What was "the pop in my corn" not good enough of a pun to take. I don't know what else to say really, it's a story that just works. Here's the link to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jiclW7CwGA