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.
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).
When Dexter tries to inject himself into an ill Dee Dee to find a cure to the common cold, he accidentally ends up inside his dog, believing that Dee Dee is infected with a dog virus.
On Mother’s Day, Dexter’s mother has her gloves taken by the family so that she can relax and not do housework, but she is unable to adjust to a life where she cannot keep the house clean.
Dexter’s father sleepwalks into Dexter’s lab. Dexter discovers this, and now has to escort him out of the lab without waking him up, which proves more difficult than thought.
Dexter finds a lost Labrador Retriever, but when he teaches the dog to speak human language, he turns out to be very annoying, prompting Dexter to find the dog’s owner.
After Dee Dee declares that she can beat Dexter in any game, Dexter challenges her to a series of games in his lab, though he prefers to win by cheating.
The U.S. army invades Dexter’s lab under the mistaken impression that aliens are using it as a base of operations on Earth, and Dexter must convince them that this is actually his lab, and also has to keep this a secret from Dee Dee.
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.
Mandark brings his lab duck Ducky for show and tell to counter Dexter and his lab monkey. Though neither creature displays remarkable characteristics at school, Ducky, unbeknownst to Mandark, is the alter ego of supervillain Quackor the Fowl.