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’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 travels to the moon and finds that aliens are planning an invasion on Earth, and he uses his Robo-Dexo 2000 to stop them. It turns out that they only were interested in purchasing sweaters for the winter.
In need of an assistant to operate his latest invention, Dexter performs a brain transplant on Dee Dee to make her smart enough to fulfill the role. With her new brain, Dee Dee proves to be more intelligent than Dexter.
Dexter’s school and parents decide to send him to college. He ignores his fellow students, who prefer to “party now, study later”, until his mind finally snaps from the workload.
When Dexter’s new device, made to help him see through solid objects, fails to work as expected, he ends up seeing through people’s clothes, which puts him in an uncomfortable situation.
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.
Dexter thinks that a crazy homeless person balancing electronic devices on his head and muttering gibberish is a genius trying to contact aliens, so he takes him home.
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.
Dexter and Dee Dee enter tryouts to become Major Glory’s sidekick. When Dee Dee wins, Dexter realizes that fancy costumes are not the only criterion to become a superhero.