Wad Dexter’s accent made up or was it an actual accent?
I am 99% certain that it was made up.
Henry Kissinger.
Pottsylvanian
I think it was supposed to be vaguely German/Slavic mad scientist.
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Like I said: Henry Kissinger. The two of ‘em even LOOK alike.
Kissinger was a redhead?
There also seemed to be a bit of French too.
Yup. He had his Sun in Gemini, too. Figures, right?
I always thought he was pretty obviously taking after Albert Einstein. Y’know, with him being a genius scientist and all. Why would Cartoon Network ever make a Henry Kissinger reference?
In a Q&A with Genndy Tartakovsky, he addresses it.
Q: Dexter speaks with a Russian accent.
GT: He considers himself a very serious scientist, and all well-known scientists have accents.
Q: Come on. He’s an outsider who speaks Russian-inflected English with a Russian accent. Your family emigrated from Moscow when you were 9. Isn’t Dexter your Mini-Me?
GT:Definitely that was a big part of my childhood: wanting to fit. As an immigrant, you talk funny, you look funny, you smell funny. I wanted to do nothing but fit in and talk English and sit with everybody else. The one thing about Dexter, if he doesn’t fit in, he’ll start his own club. He’s not afraid to be an outsider. He’s much more confident.
https://www.webcitation.org/6cSQC0GVL?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-questions-for-genndy-tartakovsky-the-big-draw.html