#Dexters laboratory series#

cartoon, and its uniquely stylized animation encouraged Tartakovsky to work in a similar way. The Dover Boys at Pimento University is a classic Warner Bros. DEXTER’S BURRITO PALACE IS BASED ON AN ACTUAL PLACE.ĭexter's beloved Burrito Palace is based on an eatery that Tartakovsky frequented growing up in Chicago. When asked in 2001 if any project of his-which at that point also included Samurai Jack-didn’t live up to expectations, Tartakovsky replied that Justice Friends 'could have been funnier and the characters could have been fleshed out more.' 9. TARTAKOVSKY THOUGHT THE JUSTICE FRIENDS CARTOONS COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER. Kenny played Valhallen in the Justice Friends shorts, while Welker played both his roommate, Infraggable Krunk, and Dexter’s Monkey, who starred in the Dial M for Monkey installments. Tom Kenny, who voiced SpongeBob SquarePants, and Frank Welker, who provides the voice of Scooby-Doo and Scooby's friend Fred, also worked on Dexter's Laboratory. SPONGEBOB AND SCOOBY DOO WERE TWO OF THE JUSTICE FRIENDS. cartoons and reading Marvel Comics helped the budding animator learn English. His father left behind a career as a dentist whose clients included the Soviet National hockey team. Tartakovsky left Russia with his parents and emigrated to Chicago at the age of seven.

THE JUSTICE FRIENDS WERE INSPIRED BY THE MARVEL COMICS TARTAKOVSKY READ AS A CHILD. Gradually, Dexter came into being, with Tartakovsky’s computer engineer brother Alex as another inspiration. It led to him thinking up a polar opposite: a short little brother with a love of science. Tartakovsky drew a tall, blonde ballerina one day for a college animation assignment. THE IDEA FOR DEXTER BEGAN WITH A DRAWING OF A BALLERINA. In an interview with The Washington Post, Cavanaugh described the diminutive scientist’s voice partly as “a small Peter Lorre.” Director-storyboard artist-animation director-Tartakovsky roommate at California Institute of the Arts Rob Renzetti may have also prank-called Tartakovsky with a similar voice during their school days. DEXTER HAS AN ACCENT BECAUSE ALL WELL-KNOWN SCIENTISTS HAVE ACCENTS.Īt least that’s how Tartakovsky once reasoned it to The New York Times. Then Cartoon Network stepped in before the fourth and final year and brought Cressida back, believing the show’s viewers were more used to her voice.

#Dexters laboratory series#

When the series came back for a third season, Moore actually took the role back. When Moore tired of voice acting and left to pursue a career on Broadway, Kat Cressida took over. DEE DEE WAS ALSO VOICED BY TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN.Ĭreator Genndy Tartakovsky recruited his college friend Allison Moore to voice Dee Dee in the first season. Sadly, Cavanaugh passed away on December 22, 2014. She stopped portraying Dexter during the show's third season, in 2001, when she retired from the voice acting business. DEXTER WAS VOICED BY TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN.Īccomplished voice actress Christine Cavanaugh provided the perfect voice for both Chuckie Finster on Rugrats and the titular Babe in the 1995 movie.

Not only was the show the first original animated series in Cartoon Network history (the first original, sort of live-action show was Space Ghost Coast to Coast), it was the highest-rated series on the Turner-owned network in both 19. Initially running old Warner Bros., MGM, and Hanna-Barbera cartoons 24 hours a day, the new cable channel started to air original animated shorts in 1995 during the showcase series What a Cartoon! One of those was Dexter’s Laboratory, which won a most popular short series vote, and was subsequently picked up as a series. Such relatability is one of the reasons why Dexter's Laboratory was loved by viewers of all ages ever since its 1995 debut. While most of us didn’t have a secret laboratory growing up, many of us endured a childhood with an annoying sibling who thought he or she knew better and/or a counterpart whose intelligence made us feel inferior (possibly due to his or her own secret laboratory).