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Game Over
Season 1, Episode 7c
Episode name reference to/pun on: The video game term of the same name
Air date	November 20, 1996
Production number	107c
Episode no. overall	7c
Written by	Craig McCracken
Storyboard by	Craig McCracken
Directed by	Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken

Game Over is the third segment of the seventh episode in season one of Dexter's Laboratory. It first aired on November 20, 1996.

In this episode, Dad buys a video game for Dexter called "Master Computer", which the latter finds "old and useless". Despite doing so, Dexter tries the game out and, after losing, gets pulled into it. It is up to Dee Dee to rescue him from his predicament.

Plot

To be added.

Characters

• Dexter
• Dee Dee
• Dad
• Master Computer
• Computer
• Mom (Mentioned)

Trivia

Episode Connections

• The metal suit Dexter wore to defeat Master Computer is reused in the episode Dos Boot.

Cultural References

• "Primal Fighter" is a parody of Atari's Primal Rage.
• The controllers Dexter and Dee Dee use to play "Primal Fighter" bear a resemblance to the Atari 2600 controllers. When Dee Dee plays Master Computer in Dexter's lab, she is instead using a Sega Genesis/Sega Mega Drive controller.
• The episode is a parody of the 1982 Disney film Tron.
• Master Computer makes references to Tetris, Pac-Man, and the Master Control Program from Tron.
• When Dexter sends Rover to give Dee Dee a message, he tells her "she is his only hope." Rover references the Star Wars character R2-D2 while Dexter's quote references Princess Leia.
• Sony's PlayStation appears in the episode.
• The Cartoon Network logo at the end of this episode has Dexter in his robot suit crashing though it.
• An episode of Ben 10 shares the same episode title.
• Master Computer looks like Swayzak from Toonami, who'd debut 6 years later.

Goofs/Errors

• When Dee Dee inserts a game cartridge into the game system, it's read "Primal Fighter", but in the next scene, it's "Master Computer" with a missing A.
• Dexter mentions Master Computer doesn't have multiplayer, yet he and Dee Dee end up playing simultaneously.

Production Notes

• This episode along with "Star Spangled Sidekicks" and "The Justice Friends: TV Super Pals" were produced in the same year of 1996 according to the credits.
• Twenty-three years later, Tartakovsky would create a new, adult orientated, animated series called Primal, which subsequently also features a battle between a giant gorilla and a Tyrannosaurus Rex in one of its episodes.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Arabic	نهاية اللعبة	The End of the Game
Japanese	ゲームオーバー	Game Over

Season 1

DeeDeemensional • Dial M for Monkey: Magmanamus • Maternal Combat • Dexter Dodgeball • Dial M for Monkey: Rasslor • Dexter's Assistant • Dexter's Rival • Dial M for Monkey: Simion • Double Trouble • Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor • Jurassic Pooch • Dial M for Monkey: Orgon Grindor • Dee Dee's Room • Dial M for Monkey: Huntor • Star Spangled Sidekicks • The Justice Friends: TV Super Pals • Game Over • Babysitter Blues • The Justice Friends: Valhallen's Room • Dream Machine • Dollhouse Drama • The Justice Friends: Krunk's Date • The Big Cheese • Way of the Dee Dee • The Justice Friends: Say Uncle Sam • Tribe Called Girl • Spacecase • The Justice Friends: Ratman • Dexter's Debt • The Justice Friends: Bee Where? • Mandarker • Inflata Dee Dee • The Justice Friends: Can't Nap • Monstory