10 Shows You Didn’t Realize Were By Seth MacFarlane
6. Dexter’s Laboratory
Unlike the failed Zoomates! experiment during Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! Cartoons, Dexter’s Laboratory ended up landing a prominent time slot on Cartoon Network and becoming a tremendous success due to a short vignette that aired on the station's anthology series entitled What a Cartoon!
While it had the occasional moments of toilet humor (far from the likes of his other shows), Dexter’s Lab didn’t have the same feel as many other cartoons by Seth MacFarlane. Nevertheless, he did a bulk of the writing for the children's show early on. In fact, the soaring popularity of the show at the time was what helped the future creator of Family Guy further his career as an animator, writer, and producer.
The show ended nearly 80 episodes in - with a series finale - after Genndy Tartakovsky, the show’s creator, left Cartoon Network to begin a new endeavour that would come to be known as Samurai Jack. Similarly, MacFarlane and his longtime animation partner Butch Hartman split from the channel to begin their work on projects that would surprisingly become even more fruitful, such as Family Guy and The Fairly Odd Parents.