Dexter falls victim to one of his own inventions and sends Dee Dee back in time to warn his past self about the consequences, but the past Dexter proves hard to convince.
Dexter has a crush on his teenage babysitter Lisa (Kath Soucie). When he finds out that she has a boyfriend, he sabotages their relationship and accelerates his age by ten years in an attempt to win her heart.
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.
Dexter and Dee Dee listen in on their parents’ conversation; they are playing Scrabble, but the way they talk makes it sound like Dad was cheating on Mom
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.
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 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.
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.