Shark Bytes

The original run (1996-1999) was great.
It was a very intelligent cartoon, and then it vanished...However, it came back in late November 2001, it came back, and it was horrible. The animation was made so much cheaper, the intelligence had vanished, and the excessive amount of Dexter's butt in the first couple new episodes that aired that night was enough for me (at age 8) to stop watching the show (I still watched, and will watch the older ones, but I never see it on anymore).
I tried watching it one more time, and Mandark had hippy parents and sh*t.
To sum it up in a sentence, it became ridiculously assanine.

I loved this show and I felt that this was made specially for my generation. There were a lot of jokes on pop-culture that I grew up with, from Star Wars to Tron to anime.... Not only that, Tartakovsky was able to make a funhouse mirror-image of a kid's grievances in life (from nosy sisters to frustrations in Dodge Ball....) and bring up the out-of-this-world solutions that come up in the kid's head (various anti-Deedee inventions, Dodge Ball launchers....).
Those who voted Day One simply didn't have the taste for Dexter's Lab. It's like criticizing Bugs Bunny for his big ears.
I voted for the new episodes to be its downfall. Tartakovsky's Dexter's Lab had its distinct style and flavor, and had depth. But after he left, the plots became pointless and the jokes were just plain tasteless.

I sometimes saw this show when I sat near the big screen television at a CiCi's pizza chain restaurant. Im a big fan of animation, but I usually wasn't interested when television was tuned to the Cartoon Network. Most of the Cartoon Network productions annoy me, and this show is no exception. On the positive side, Dexter's Laboratory isn't as annoying as the Powder Puff girls, which I consider the most stupid animated show.

I never liked, this show. It had it's moments, (superhero parodys, Mandark (best laugh ever (Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha-hahahaha!) but the show itself was pretty much predictable (Dexter has a problem, he solves it with his 'Latest Invention', everything goes fine, but either something bad just happens to him, or the bratty DeeDee butts in and screws him up END) (she almost seemed like dead weight, and the plot device to end an episode, with no real purpose (sometimes Dexter's 'Damsel in distress' but that's it.) Still, couldn't have Dex won at least ONCE? Come to think of it, I think everyone in the show was against him! (maybe not his Father, but that's it).

Dexter jumped again when the New writers stepped in (Making Mandark's Parent's Hippys (why?), and chaning everything about the show). One episodes plot was Dexter getting chicken pox and turning into a chicken himself.. Wow, if that's not scraping the bottom of the barrel, I don't know what is.

I did not like this cartoon much, but my children did when they were little, so I watched with them. The one episode I really liked was the "Lab-A-Story" one. That was exactly how my two dogs think. ("Food for me", "That's the man from before", etc.)

"The New Episodes" and "The Third Season" are the same (and both when it jumped the shark)

I never cared for Dexter, but I watched it for the adventures of Monkey and the Justice Friends.

"DD, do not touch that button DD, DD!" BOOM. Jumped DAY ONE. It's the same episode all the time 9 of 10 episodes are the same formula. Dexter creates something, it goes wrong, he fixes it. Then somewhere in between, DD makes something blow up. Boring.

This show was very good, and a nice start for CN. Seasons 3&4 pissed me off; Mandark was pretty cool, though. He made me laugh. I had no idea he was only in 3&4, I thought I saw him here and there in 1&2, which makes me sad because such a funny character was wasted on such a Bull$#*+ revival instead of being their from the start.

Dexter's Lab is a definite fave and beloved cartoon. The final 2 seasons wern't quite the same after Christine Cavanaugh retired from VAing. Candi Milo was good, but she is not like Christine.

This show definately jumped. The new episodes are garbage. The animation style changed, the drawing style changed, the voices changed, and all for the worst. The older episodes of DL were hilarious like nobody's business(Like "Sdrawkcab", "Sassy Come Home", and "Trapped with a Vengance"). The whole "Mandark is an evil genius and has hippie parents" in the new episodes was just stupid. Then there was the retarded episode about those robots who go out onto the town. Stick to the older episodes, and just leave the new trash alone.

After hearing the new voice and looking at this crappy animation....

Dexter was great. Even the crappy newer episodes were good compared to Cartoon Network's new shows (Class of 3000, Squirrel Boy, Robot Boy, etc.)

day one. gives me HEADACHES! such an annoying show.

The first episodes of Dexter were great. I love DeeDee, but she wouldn't have been as much fun without Dex-tor. And at the time it was something really different. Two siblings in their house mainly, and the idiot big sister driving the brilliant little brother crazy, and the crazy experiments and the things that happened to her and she'd still just prance around and wander right back into the lab. Haha, great. I'm the only one I know who liked this show, oh well. People don't recognize brilliance when they see it. Or I'm an easily amused moron? Anyway, we met this guy in Atlanta who was drawing for the show (well, Cartoon Network in general) and I was all like, ooooh, I love Dex-tor and I particularly love DeeDee and I always used to watch it and I wish I still watched it and blahblahblah-- like to at the time a complete stranger-- and anybody who knows me would tell you I don't "love" much and I just don't get excited over things like that. I am not a "fan", like I don't usually have a favorite or a preference. So, that's how much I liked Dexter when it first came on. If it had continued as it was, I think it would have been my favorite cartoon-- and that'd be one of few favorites for me.
I stopped watching, and I can't remember when, but I just stopped liking the show where I really really liked it at first. Must've been the above mentioned problems, voice changes, animation changes...