Dexter travels to Mars to find intelligent life, unaware that Dee Dee has stowed away in his space capsule. After Dee Dee gets covered in red dirt, Dexter thinks she is a real-life Martian.
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.
After watching an Action Hank movie on television, Dexter grows a synthetic beard to try to be cool, but the police mistake him for Action Hank himself.
Created and narrated by a six-and-a-half-year-old boy named Tyler Samuel Lee, who sent a tape containing the episode’s audio to Cartoon Network,[9] the story follows Dexter and Mandark’s robot “brother” Computress teaming up to make Mandark’s head shrink.
Dexter’s parents discover that he is making false excuses to get out of physical education and now Dexter must pass a physical exam if he wants to pass P.E. and move up a few grades.
Dexter’s lab is threatened with repossession unless he can repay his debt to NASA. When Dee Dee wins the same amount in a lottery, he decides to steal her money out of desperation.
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.
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.