DIAL M FOR MONKEY SEGMENT

'"Dial M for Monkey"' is a back-up segment featured in early seasons of the animated series, ''Dexter's Laboratory'', on Cartoon Network. The "Dial M for monkey" shorts feature Dexter's lab monkey, Monkey Frank Welker, who (unknown to his master) secretly has superpowers and fights evil with his partners. Monkey revealed his secret to Dexter in the all-star episode Last But Not Beast, only to erase his memories afterwards.
In March 1996, the first season of ''Dexter's Lab'' sparked off. The episodes of the first half of Season 1 of the show included the "Dial M for Monkey" segment in between two Dexter shorts. The last half of Season 1 included a "Justice Friends" segment in between the two Dexter shorts. Monkey often appeared in the Justice Friends segment as well, teaming with his fellow superheroes.
Monkey has two human partners: the Commander (who seems to exist only inside display monitors) and Agent Honeydew (a parody of The Avengers' Emma Peel voiced by Kath Soucie). Agent Honeydew also seems to be romanticly involved with Monkey.
Monkey seems to be on call to save mankind at any time and has battled enemies like Quackor the Foul (a duck who turns out to be female) belonging to Mandark, Dexter's nemesis, and who makes a cameo in the ''Powerpuff Girls'' episode "Bought and Scoled" and also played by Frank Welker, Rasslor (inspired by Champion of the Universe and voiced by wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage), Huntor (also appears in the ''Samurai Jack'' episode "Jack versus Mad Jack"), Simian (a highly evolved chimpanzee voiced by Maurice LaMarche), Barbequor (a parody of Galactus) and his herald The Silver Spooner (a parody of The Silver Surfer) voiced by Rob Paulsen, Magmananus (a huge lava monster voiced by Brad Garret), Organ Grindor Jim Cummings, and Peltra (an evil female alien who wants to skin Monkey because she thinks that she will look good wearing monkey fur). The segment's title derives from Alfred Hitchcock "Dial M for Murder."
Part of the "Simian" segment was used as the opening to "U Don't Know Me" by Armand Van Helden:

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In June 2003 a British electronic music act Bonobo (of the Ninja Tune fame) released the album entitled ''Dial 'M' For Monkey.
The Dutch band Placemat has a song named ''Dial 'M' For Monkey