Episode
Dexter's Laboratory: Maternal Combat
Overview
When his mother falls ill, Dexter creates a robot to do her chores. Dee Dee gets hold of its remote control and wreaks havoc, forcing Dexter to create a second robot to counter Dee Dee's.
Details
- Series
- Dexter's Laboratory
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1996-04-28
- Runtime
- 7 min
Episode context
Maternal Combat is Episode 3 in Season 1 of Dexter's Laboratory. It aired on 1996-04-28. The runtime is 7 min.
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Episode 2: Dial M for Monkey: Magmanamus
Monkey must defend the city from a giant underground lava monster, Magmanamus, who cannot sleep because of the noise created by its residents.
Episode 4: Dexter Dodgeball
Dexter is forced to play dodgeball by his P. E. teacher. Constantly failing, Dexter builds a robotic exoskeleton to defend himself.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: DeeDeemensional
In "Deedeemensional", Dee Dee time-travels to save Dexter from a monster. In "Magmanamus", Monkey goes up against a lava being that dislikes human-caused noise. In "Maternal Combat", when his mother falls, Dexter creates a robot mom to substitute for her.
Episode 5: Dial M for Monkey: Rasslor
Intergalactic wrestling champion Rasslor challenges Earth's superheroes, including Monkey, with the planet's fate at stake.
Episode 6: Dexter's Assistant
In need of an assistant to operate his latest invention, Dexter performs a brain transplant on Dee Dee to make her smart enough to fulfill the role. With her new brain, Dee Dee proves to be more intelligent than Dexter.
Episode 7: Dexter's Rival
Mandark Astronomanov, a new student at Dexter's school, seems to be superior to Dexter academically. Mandark forces Dexter to shut down his lab so that Mandark's lab can gain more power. However, with the help of Dee Dee, Dexter manages to destroy Mandark's lab.
Episode 8: Dial M for Monkey: Simion
Monkey encounters Simion, an intelligent anthropomorphic chimpanzee who seeks vengeance on humans for turning him into his current state.
Episode 9: Old Man Dexter
Banned from watching a late-night movie due to his young age, Dexter uses his technology to artificially grow into adulthood, but Dee Dee tampers with his machine, causing Dexter to turn into an old man.
Episode 10: Double Trouble
Dee Dee and her friends, Lee Lee and Mee Mee, enter Dexter's lab and wreak havoc. Dexter clones himself to stop them, but the girls too make clones of themselves.
Episode 11: Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor
Monkey's birthday party is interrupted by Barbequor an intergalactic villain who plans to eat the planets, and his sidekick, the Silver Spooner.
Episode 12: Changes
Rerun of "Dexter's Laboratory", the first "What a Cartoon!" pilot.
Episode 13: Jurassic Pooch
To clone a dinosaur with an incomplete DNA sequence, Dexter uses his dog's genetic code to fill in the gaps.