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 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.
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 his family is suffering from the flu, Dexter tries his best to not acquire the illness, but his efforts are thwarted by a sick Dee Dee’s presence in his lab.
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 fellow Justice Friend White Tiger helps Valhallen stop a super-villain, the latter invites him to spend the night in his apartment, forgetting that Major Glory is allergic to cats.
After being denied dessert by his parents for not eating his vegetables, Dexter uses radiation therapy so that he can like vegetables, but it causes a severe side effect that turns him into an Incredible Hulk-like character if he goes too long without them.
Dexter’s family goes to the beach, where Dexter tries to communicate with whales. He must rescue Dee Dee (dressed as a mermaid), when she is captured by manic pirates.
Suspicious that Dee Dee has not entered his lab even once on a particular day, Dexter shrinks himself and enters her room to spy on her. He soon becomes an unwilling character in Dee Dee’s doll story, but he believes the story to be real.
Dexter accidentally gives himself telepathy that he cannot shut off when trying to overhear his father’s thoughts to figure out what he got for his birthday, causing everyone to accidentally read his own mind.