Dexter’s Laboratory creator Genndy Tartakovsky says he has no plans to bring back the classic Cartoon Network show, unless his career takes a nosedive.
Speaking to Nexus Point News (via ComicBook.com), Tartakovsky joked, “When my career dies, and I can’t sell a project or do anything else, that’s when [Dexter’s Laboratory] will return to save me and help pay my mortgage and everything.”
Tartakovsky explained that the situation is different from Samurai Jack, which returned in 2017 for a fifth season. That revival, he said, felt natural because the story was unfinished.
By contrast, he finds it harder to imagine revisiting Dexter’s Laboratory after the death of Dexter’s original voice actor, Christine Cavanaugh. “I feel like her voice was the soul of the show, so it’s very hard for me to do an imitation. Unless we reimagine it in some other way.”
Still, Tartakovsky acknowledged the fan demand for a revival, even as he looks back fondly on the first four seasons. “They’re precious,” he said, adding that they launched his career and he wants to keep them intact.
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That said, he left the door slightly open, noting that he’s busy with other projects and “maybe there’s room” for something in the future.
Dexter’s Laboratory first premiered in 1996 on Cartoon Network and ran for four seasons until 2003. The show followed Dexter, a boy genius with a secret lab hidden in his room, constantly disrupted by his energetic sister Dee Dee. Alongside other shorts like Dial M for Monkey and The Justice Friends, it became one of the first original series that defined Cartoon Network’s programming
Most recently, Tartakovsky directed the adult animated comedy Fixed, which released on Netflix.
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