Dexter's Laboratory: Season 1 (Cartoon Network Hall of Fame)

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We love Dexter and enjoy the option of viewing when we want. No extra payment just enjoy it when you want. Great season delivered promptly.

This era of cartoons is gold

My favorite

This is a prime example of Cartoon Network when it was still 'cutting edge'. Dexter is a secret genius but no one knows it except his sister DeeDee, who doesn't care...and his rival Mandark, who does. The volume also includes the wonderful superhero parody The Justice Friends, and by itself is worth the price of admission! Christine Cavanaugh (Dexter's voice) passed away a few years ago, so we'll never see anything exactly like this again. But the show was a CN mainstay for seven years, and this demonstrates exactly why. If you have fond memories of the show, get it. If you somehow missed ever seeing it, get it!

Creative, fun, hilarious, and definitely well animated with a unique style. Just stop watching once the voice of Dexter changes. After that it's no where near as good.

O.K., so there are no special features (unless you consider English subtitles a special feature) and the artwork on the packaging and the discs is in the "later Dexter" style ... but these are not problems, at least not for me. I have to admit that, unlike most if not all of the other reviewers, I am a "new" Dexter fan. Back when the show itself was new (and when it wasn't quite so new), I rarely watched it; in fact, I don't know if I ever watched an entire short! When Cartoon Network recently started showing the cartoons again, I found out what I'd been missing (and I'm still finding out)! And when I saw Season One on DVD, I knew I had to have it! Of course, Dexter is the main attraction of the shows (and deservedly so), but the shorts featuring the Justice Friends are pretty darn funny, too! I'm not particularly impressed with the Dial M For Monkey shorts (the best thing about those, or most of them, is getting to see the lovely Agent Honeydew --- growl-growl!), but they're all right. There are only a couple of Dexter shorts here that I don't particularly like. Although I really like the Justice Friends shorts, I think that it was a wise decision to ax the Justice Friends and Dial M For Monkey, and feature Dexter's Lab episodes exclusively in the later seasons' shows. I hope Cartoon Network puts out Season Two --- and the other seasons --- before TOO many more years pass!! (And I hope they also put out more Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy and Billy & Mandy!)

This was definitely popular enough for them to release the full series and charge about $35, guess they'll $20 a season (with 5 seasons, how does that make sense)it to get as much money as they can on streaming sites