By 1999, 52 episodes and a television movie had been produced, and Tartakovsky then left the series to begin work on his other projects, Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars. A pilot aired on Cartoon Network in February 1995, and in August viewer approval ratings convinced the network to order a half-hour series, which premiered on April 28, 1996. Tartakovsky first pitched the series to Hanna-Barbera’s animated shorts showcase World Premiere Toons, basing it on student films he produced while attending the California Institute of the Arts. The series’ first two seasons contain additional segments: Dial M for Monkey, which focuses on Dexter’s pet lab-monkey-turned-superhero, and The Justice Friends, about a trio of superheroes who share an apartment. He constantly battles his sister Dee Dee, who always gains access despite his best efforts to keep her out, as well as his arch-rival and neighbor, Mandark. The series follows Dexter, a boy-genius with a secret laboratory filled with his inventions. The second season of Dexter premiered on September 30, 2007, and ended on December 16, 2007. ' It's Alive', the season premiere, attracted 1.09 million viewers in the United States, making Dexter the first Showtime series to attract more than a million viewers with a season premiere. The season finale, ' The British Invasion', attracted 1.4 million viewers, making it the program's most-watched episode until the airing of the season three finale, 'Do You Take Dexter Morgan?'. Including digital video recorder (DVR) usage, season two was watched by an average of 2.4 million viewers on a weekly basis through 11 full weeks, outperforming season one by 21%. The season received universal acclaim from critics, and was praised as 'one of the best shows on TV this decade' by the Chicago Sun-Times, while Variety considers Hall's portrayal of the title character as a 'towering achievement, one that eclipses the show's other shortcomings and rough patches' the aggregate site Metacritic scored the season at 85 out of 100 based on 11 reviews.Dexter’s Laboratory (commonly abbreviated as Dexter’s Lab) is an American comic science fiction animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network.

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