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 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.
To fix their apartment’s plumbing, Krunk and Valhallen go to the basement, where they meet Ratman (Maurice LaMarche), a diminutive vigilante raised by rats (a parody of Batman).
Dexter makes his own Major Glory action figures so that he can join the neighborhood’s Major Glory gang, but gets into serious trouble when the rest of the gang finds out that none of his action figures are original.
Dexter’s new device allows him to study for the next day’s French test while sleeping. It malfunctions, causing a single phrase (omelette du fromage) to repeat throughout the night, causing Dexter to wake up the next morning speaking nothing else except omelette du fromage.
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.
On his birthday, Dexter makes himself invisible so that he can find out whether his parents have bought him the Major Glory action figure he always wanted.
Dexter is forced to take Dee Dee to the zoo. There, she ends up trying to save an ostrich with disastrous results. Dee Dee and the ostrich switches their places.