This was around the time the last blog went kaput. Fortunately, we've been stable the whole time, thank goodness. It's time for us to take a look at how a show used its characters for nudity and ask How Do We Do It? to a girl.
Today we're covering Dexter's Laboratory, and since I already introduced it, we're only gonna be focusing on two characters, one who got nude, one who didn't.
The one who did is Dexter. Dexter's role was as the main character, a know-nothing know-it-all who had a mastery of the scientific world, but couldn't handle the day to day life of being a kid. He would do things like hit himself up with gamma radiation to become more able to eat vegetables, or invent a machine that would reverse one's actions. These always backfired in amusing ways; the gamma radiation turned him into a Hulk-like monster if he didn't get vegetables, and the reverse machine was hijacked by his sister and used to reverse everything he did. And sometimes his failures would often result, at the very end of the short, in him losing his clothes for humor's sake, like some kind of cherry on top of a sundae of suffering.
The one who didn't was Dee Dee. She, in contrast to Dexter, was more street savvy, more in with society. She was kinda stupid at times, very giddy, and always messed with Dexter's experiments. Funnily enough, an episode focusing on her problems in her day-to-day life could have her go through the same difficulties Dexter had, only with a more active threat, and could probably end the same way. Alternatively, she could get caught in the blast of one of Dexter's devices exploding and share in his humiliation. One thing I do whenever I depict a nude Dee Dee is, in addition to the leaf Dexter gets, give her a pair of daisies over her chest, just to make her seem more the Eve to Dexter's Adam.
Short episode, but not much to talk about. Maybe next time will be longer.