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.
When an electrician comes to Dexter’s house to repair a blown-out fuse, he accidentally stumbles onto his laboratory, and Dexter enlists him to repair the lab.
Dexter decides to work with Mandark, but finds himself doing all of the work. In the end, Mandark tries to press the button when Dexter connects the plug in the outlet to bring his show title back.
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.
After a crime prevention talk at school, Dee Dee, Lee Lee, and Mee Mee become crime fighters, but they unintentionally end up being neighborhood criminals.
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.
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).
It is Career Day, and because Dexter is ashamed of his father, he creates a better father for himself. However, he soon discovers that his real father is much cooler.
Dexter creates a satellite to clean stains off of his clothes, but it goes horribly wrong when Mir space station hits the satellite that Dexter created and the satellite becomes damaged, causing the fabric beneath each stain to be eliminated as well.
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.
Banned from watching a late-night movie due to his young age, Dexter uses his technology to artificially grow into adulthood, but Dee Dee tampers with his machine, causing Dexter to turn into an old man.
Mandark gets inside Dexter’s computer system and creates a computer virus, so Dexter must follow him inside and kick him out from cyberspace. However, Dee Dee has other plans in mind.
In a fit of rage, Dexter dumps Dee Dee’s favorite teddy bear into the garbage. An upset Dee Dee begins to behave oddly, prompting Dexter to go to the garbage dump and get it back.
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.