While out for dinner at a pizza restaurant, Dexter tries to slow down the “Whack the Weasel” machine to win a stuffed Monkey doll before Dee Dee does. Security captures him for tampering with the machine, and he falls into the hands of a mad scientist.
When Dexter’s nightmares become frequent and problematic, he invents a machine that allows him to have nice dreams, as long as Dee Dee can operate it properly while she is awake.
Monkey’s birthday party is interrupted by Barbequor (Robert Ridgely), an intergalactic villain who plans to eat the planets, and his sidekick, the Silver Spooner (Rob Paulsen).
Dee Dee accidentally shuts down Dexter’s lab, and he has to power it back. In the process, Dee Dee attempts to keep Dexter from finding out what she really did.
Monkey must defend the city from a giant underground lava monster, Magmanamus (Brad Garrett), who cannot sleep because of the noise created by its residents.
Dee Dee gets a song stuck in her head, which is actually a virus. Dexter and Mom soon catch it, and Dexter has to reverse the effects of this. He succeeds at the end, not knowing that Dad also caught it.
When his television show is interrupted by the Emergency Broadcast System, Dexter sets about fixing any emergencies in the neighborhood to make the signal go away.
With only one television in their apartment, Major Glory, Krunk, and Valhallen disagree on what to watch: Major Glory’s televised capture of the Disgruntled Postman, TV Puppet Pals, or the monster truck pull.
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.
Not interested in hearing Dee Dee’s long-winded story, Dexter gives her a silencing formula to keep her quiet, but it instead turns her into a giant monster still bent on telling her story. When he realizes that nothing can make her quiet, he becomes a giant monster himself.
Dexter finds the exact opposite of his family, a hyperactive boy who is like Dee Dee and has scientist parents who are like Dexter. Sensing to fit in, he switches places with the boy.
Monkey encounters Simion (Maurice LaMarche), an intelligent anthropomorphic chimpanzee who seeks vengeance on humans for turning him into his current state.
Dexter catches the chicken pox, and Dee Dee tells him a ridiculous tale that if he keeps scratching them, he will turn into an evil chicken. Dexter completely restrains himself so that he will not have to scratch it; unfortunately, he is unable to resist and his nonstop scratching eventually does just that.
Dexter, Monkey, Agent Honeydew, the Justice Friends, Dee Dee, her imaginary friend Koosalagoopagoop, Mandark, his parents, and Dexter’s parents participate in a cross-country race a la Wacky Races.
Created and narrated by a six-and-a-half-year-old boy named Tyler Samuel Lee, who sent a tape containing the episode’s audio to Cartoon Network,[9] the story follows Dexter and Mandark’s robot “brother” Computress teaming up to make Mandark’s head shrink.
