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About
Dexter’s Rude Removal was a rumored lost episode created during the original run of Dexter’s Laboratory. Much speculation was made to what the supposed episode contained before producers of the show confirmed the said episode’s existence. The episode was later released and made public on the internet.
Origin
During the run of the original television series, rumor came about of a ‘Lost Episode’ that was only shown at conventions and private events. Genndy Tartakovsky, who created, produced (and held multiple other production roles in the show) did confirm the existence of the episode. In an interview with an individual from the Deseret News, Tratakovsky described the synopsis of the supposed episode,
“Dexter’s trying to get the rudeness out of Dee Dee and so he creates the rude removal system. But they kind of get stuck in it together, and they create clones of themselves, which are rude. And we had them swear, but we had beeps over the swearing. So I think that’s one that you can only catch at some festivals and stuff. But not on the air.”[1]
Episode Details Leaked
On May 22, 2007, The Big Cartoon Forum user TyphoidTimmy made a post claiming he had seen a presentation of an episode at the Comic Con convention.[2] In it, he revealed a general summary of the episode.
I was in attendance at the only showing of ’Dexter’s Rude Removal’ at the first showing at Comic Con (I have been told it was shown censored at other places but this was the only showing with the gloves off uncensored) and was asked to register here just to post and explain the plot.
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The panel for Dexter was with a special guest being Genndy who delighted us with some oncoming specials and such. He then hinted that he also wanted to show us something ‘truly special’ at the end.
Nearing the end, a girl from CN stood up and announced that everyone under 18 needed to stand up and would be given something special but had to leave. The kids filed out as the adults kind of looked at each other with a big ? over our heads. Genndy kept grinning.
After all the kids were shooed, Genndy looked at the remaining 20-30 of us and said “We made something special as an inhouse project to show only at CN parties and the like…I loved it soo much you guys are gonna get a treat…Dexter’s Rude Removal”
The girl then stood in front of us and warned us with bodily harm if she caught any of us taping anything or even remembering hard. She was pretty much imagining it getting out there and torpedoeing CN with lawsuits. “I want you people to know this will NEVER be made public…so count yourself extremely lucky”. Finally Genndy shooed her away.
Title screen: Dexter’s Rude Removal. Dexter is mooning us and Dee Dee is flipping us the bird. Oh boy!
Plot: Dexter has decided that rudeness is preventing him from becoming the perfect child and has constructed a ‘Rude Extractor’ to separate his bad mojo. Dee Dee of course shows up at the wrong possible time and wreaks havoc. Dexter manages to tackle her, directly into the Rude Beam…
Dee Dee and Dexter separate from each other, spawning a evil twin of themselves and knocking out their good halves. Both look at their good selves and immediately begin to curse each other, their surroundings and trash the place. *k this *k that…you are a *king idiot…who the *k you calling a *king idiot, you *king idiot?
Mom calls "Dexter…Dee Dee….LUNCH!
“AW *t…I AM *kING STARVED!” They tear out of the lab and blunder their way through the house, wrecking stuff and cursing up a blue streak.
Just within earshot of mom, they stop cursing as they drop into their seat, and start shoveling food noisily with belches and farts. Mom pauses and turns asking how their food is. Dexter belches and exclaims
“Aw *king hell mom, this *t is ***kin great!”
to which Dee Dee counters
“Shut the *k up you *thead…you can’t *king curse in front of *king Mom!”
and they both begin to literally curse the *t out of each other. This exchange manages to make Mom faint and they really go at it (Seriously, Dee Dee called Dexter a Skull*king Douchebag one time).
Eventually, Dexter and DeeDee wake up and manage to trap the cursing twins back in the lab and eradicate them (To the scream of *k OFF, YOU *kIN NERD from the evil sides). They leave the lab as Dexter declares that ‘Lucky we got them in time…ah well no harm done’.
Rounding the corner, they find Mom standing there menancingly with a big bar of soap as she screams “DEXTERANDDEEDEE…GETOVERHERE”. The black circle closes over Dexter as he looks at the audience and goes “Oh ***k!”
The End
Needless to say, all of us were in complete hysterics. Both my friend and I were tearing up from laughing so hard. Just hearing Dee Dee’s high pitched voice sailor talking makes it proabably the most wanted cartoon to see.
Will it ever make it out there? I dunno, they have really kept it sealed away. In this day and age of Youtube, that says something…
That’s it…I will check back to answer any questions. Thanks for reading!
Announcement
On December 2nd, 2012, AdultSwim announced that they had obtained the un-aired episode and prepared to air it. They encouraged viewers to use the hashtag, #telljeff to remind them to upload the episode online. Similar videos sprung up encouraging viewers to do the same, but no result came from it as was promised.
Official Release and Spread
On January 22nd, 2013 a YouTube video posted by AdultSwim began circulating around the internet purporting to be the official episode of Dexter’s Rude Removal. It bore many similarities to TyphoidTimmy’s account, validating the legitimacy of the episode. In less than 9 hours, the video has already acclimated over 40 000 views, and has been shared on multiple social media websites such as Tumblr, Reddit[3] and 4Chan. There was some disappointment as many had expected the episode to be much more raunchier than it was, but nevertheless the episode was well recieved.
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External Links
[1]Legends Revealed – TV Legend Revealed #37
[2]Big Cartoon Forum – I have seen ’Dexter’s Rude Removal’ / Posted on 5-22-2007
[3]Reddit – Dexter’s Lab: Dexter’s Rude Removal – YouTube /Posted on 1-22-2013