Cartoons That Made Us Gay: Dexter’s Laboratory (Patreon)

“Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor” (May 18, 1996) and “Sun, Surf and Science” (April 1, 1998)

More often than not, our Cartoons That Made Us Gay episode have us reading against the grain to find LGBTQ representation on a show that wasn’t intended to have anything. That’s not always the case, however, an the first ever Cartoon Network cartoon, Dexter’s Laboratory, features two different segments in which the gayness is right there. In the first, a parody of the Silver Surfer, the Silver Spooner, is inexplicably queeny and femme. And in the second, the final moments hint that Mandark might get over his crush on Deedee by falling for a cute surfer boy.