# Dexter and Debra got married! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607 "2009-01-09T23:16:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/21 "2009-01-10T16:48:51Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I hope to God since that’s what my parents were! (Adoptive sibs.) > > Unfortunately, they didn’t have the same consideration for my brother & I to adopt wives for us! LOL! Out of curiosity, how old were they when they were adopted? Dexter/Debra - somewhere, there’s a very happy, slightly twisted little fangirl. Best of luck to them. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/22 "2009-01-10T16:52:29Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > Out of curiosity, how old were they when they were adopted? > > Dexter/Debra - somewhere, there’s a very happy, slightly twisted little fangirl. Best of luck to them. Mom was the one adopted. Dad’s parents adopted her. I think she was 9 or 10. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/23 "2009-01-10T16:59:09Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > Of course, the characters on the show aren’t biologically siblings, since Dexter was adopted. I’ll spoiler box this for people who haven’t seen the whole series – it’s a question about Dexter’s mom. Didn’t Harry and Dexter’s mom have an affair? When did it start? Is it possible Dexter’s really Harry’s son? Could that be why Harry adopted Dexter but not his brother? ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/24 "2009-01-10T17:04:58Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I’ll spoiler box this for people who haven’t seen the whole series – it’s a question about Dexter’s mom. > > Didn’t Harry and Dexter’s mom have an affair? When did it start? Is it possible Dexter’s really Harry’s son? Could that be why Harry adopted Dexter but not his brother? That doesn’t make any sense. Dexter had a paternity test done between him and Driscoll in Season 1 and it came back positive. Dexter is Driscoll’s son. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/25 "2009-01-10T17:06:34Z")
Far out. Great! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/26 "2009-01-10T17:18:02Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > No kidding! I never thought my gaydar was worth a hill of beans anyway, but I thought Dex was a “gimme”. I thought Deb was. Maybe it’s one of those Holywood sham marriages they talked about in _The Simpsons_ and they both have a thing for fish. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/27 "2009-01-10T17:19:17Z")
**Xan** , thanks – I’d forgotten that. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/28 "2009-01-10T17:35:20Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **Xan** , thanks – I’d forgotten that. Who’s Driscoll? I don’t remember that at all. Oh, wait, it was that guy that died and left him all his belongings wasn’t it, well I’m sure Deb will turn up some interesting stuff digging in Harry’s ancient CI files ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/29 "2009-01-10T18:12:35Z")
> [@Ataraxy](#): > > He only played gay on Six Feet Under. I thought he was already married. Did Debra break up his first marriage? > > I think it would be awkward as an actor, to play opposite your wife and pretend she’s your sister, but it would be better than to play opposite your sister and pretend she’s you wife! _Six Feet Under_ got deliberately and dangerously close to this when Justine Bateman guest-starred, to comic effect. Semi-related, I always thought it was kind of amusing that on _Deep Space Nine_, Doctor Bashir treated a pregnant Major Kira, who was the surrogate parent for Miles and Keiko O’Brien, when the reality is that Alexander Siddig was the father of Nana Visitor’s baby, thus he had to pretend to treat his own wife and child. ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/30 "2009-01-10T18:30:54Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Who’s Driscoll? I don’t remember that at all. Oh, wait, it was that guy that died and left him all his belongings wasn’t it, well I’m sure Deb will turn up some interesting stuff digging in Harry’s ancient CI files There’s absolutely no way that Harry is Dexter’s biological father. Dexter had the blood test done as soon as he got the morgue where Driscoll was. He took the blood from Driscoll’s body himself. The only way is if Masuka (who did the blood test for Dexter) screwed up. Which I highly doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/31 "2009-01-10T18:35:48Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Deb is sex on wheels. I loved the introduction to her character in the show. MMMMMMMM Yeah, me too. I can’t find any pics of her in the whore outfit though, strangely. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/32 "2009-01-10T20:13:36Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > _Six Feet Under_ got deliberately and dangerously close to this when Justine Bateman guest-starred, to comic effect. I watched SFU but don’t know who you’re referring to or why that’s funny (just looked the actress up and she wasn’t listed as being in SFU either). > [@](#): > > Semi-related, I always thought it was kind of amusing that on _Deep Space Nine_, Doctor Bashir treated a pregnant Major Kira, who was the surrogate parent for Miles and Keiko O’Brien, when the reality is that Alexander Siddig was the father of Nana Visitor’s baby, thus he had to pretend to treat his own wife and child. Hmmmmm, didn’t know that. You learn something new every day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/33 "2009-01-10T20:36:26Z")
> [@Xan](#): > > There’s absolutely no way that Harry is Dexter’s biological father. Dexter had the blood test done as soon as he got the morgue where Driscoll was. He took the blood from Driscoll’s body himself. The only way is if Masuka (who did the blood test for Dexter) screwed up. Which I highly doubt. Beyond that, in the same episode we learned that when Dexter was young, he needed blood to survive some accident, and Harry had to go “get it” - Harry’s blood was not the right type. Dexter sent a thank you card to the “mystery donor” that he then found in Driscoll’s stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/34 "2009-01-10T20:38:13Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Beyond that, in the same episode we learned that when Dexter was young, he needed blood to survive some accident, and Harry had to go “get it” - Harry’s blood was not the right type. > > Dexter sent a thank you card to the “mystery donor” that he then found in Driscoll’s stuff. Exactly ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/35 "2009-01-10T23:22:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > _Six Feet Under_ got deliberately and dangerously close to this when Justine Bateman guest-starred, to comic effect. Replace SFU with \*Arrested Development \*and it’ll make more sense. And it was pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/36 "2009-01-11T00:14:01Z")
Regarding buying wedding gifts, I think Dexter would appreciate some nice, very sharp cutlery, and I am sure Deb would love a new holster for her gun. They will make such a nice couple, and their red-headed kids will probably learn to play the banjo quite well. Not quite sure I want them as neighbors though… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/37 "2009-01-11T01:07:30Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > I watched SFU but don’t know who you’re referring to or why that’s funny (just looked the actress up and she wasn’t listed as being in SFU either). Clearly a moment of bizarre confusion for me - I mean _Arrested Development_, in which Justine Bateman briefly had a vague flirtation with the lead character, played by her brother Justin. Whenever things started to go in that direction, they would instantly and mutually declare that it felt wrong, somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/38 "2009-01-11T03:20:15Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Clearly a moment of bizarre confusion for me - I mean _Arrested Development_, in which Justine Bateman briefly had a vague flirtation with the lead character, played by her brother Justin. Whenever things started to go in that direction, they would instantly and mutually declare that it felt wrong, somehow. _Jason_ Bateman ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/39 "2009-01-11T04:08:03Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > _Jason_ Bateman About 3-4 years ago, Jason Bateman was hosting SNL & Amy Poehler comes out to harangue him about making sure AR stayed on the air because of the money her husband made on the show. And she kept calling him “Bateman”. Finally, he said “Amy, my first name is Jason.” She replied “Yes, but I’m afraid if I don’t call you Bateman, I’ll call you Justine by mistake.” The great part was his look of wounded dignity as he muttered “Fair enough.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-and-debra-got-married/480607/40 "2009-01-11T08:21:21Z")
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