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.
Dexter tries to prove to Dee Dee that Santa Claus is not real and is in fact their father in disguise. He ends up paying for his mistake when he has captured the real Santa Claus.
Dexter creates a new type of ink that lets him command people to do whatever he wants. However, when Mandark gets his hands on it, Dexter is the one that becomes commanded.
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.
Dad decides to give the car a retouch, but keeps breaking things and saying he will fix it later. After having enough, he pushes the car over a cliff, and below it are other crushed cars, meaning this was not the first time.
Since his studying is interrupting his favorite TV shows, Dexter creates a helmet to absorb the shows directly. However, the plan backfires when he randomly snaps into television-based outrages.
Dexter and Koos must save Peepers to keep the land of Kooz from disappearing. However, they must contend with a villain who is determined to make the land of Kooz disappear forever.
When Dexter is asked to bring his mother to school, he disguises Dee Dee as her so that she can take her place, but Dee Dee does not behave like their mother.
Dee Dee’s stuffed animals come to life and roam the house when Dee Dee uses a formula that brings inanimate objects to life, which delights Dee Dee, much to his dismay.
After Dexter’s pencil rolls to the back of the school bus, Dexter goes to retrieve it, but legend says that no one has ever returned from the back of the bus.
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.
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.
After Dexter orders and eats a giant burrito, he suffers severe stomach pains. Believing a test the computer gave him, he assumes that he has only 30 minutes to live.
After staying up late at his lab, Dexter oversleeps, waking up one minute before his school bus arrives. With no time to do his morning chores and homework, he pulls out a secret prototype device, which converts his last 30 seconds into 30 minutes.