# Probably dumb question about "Dexter's Lab"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 27, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594 "2018-01-27T19:08:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594/1 "2018-01-27T19:08:18Z")
Wad Dexter’s accent made up or was it an actual accent?
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594/2 "2018-01-27T19:28:29Z")
I am 99% certain that it was made up.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594/3 "2018-01-27T20:02:17Z")
Henry Kissinger.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594/4 "2018-01-27T20:43:35Z")
Pottsylvanian
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594/5 "2018-01-27T21:30:26Z")
I think it was supposed to be vaguely German/Slavic mad scientist.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594/6 "2018-01-27T23:25:42Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#):
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> I think it was supposed to be vaguely German/Slavic mad scientist.
Like I said: Henry Kissinger. The two of ‘em even LOOK alike.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594/7 "2018-01-27T23:45:07Z")
Kissinger was a redhead?
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### Author:  [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594/8 "2018-01-28T00:01:34Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#):
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> I think it was supposed to be vaguely German/Slavic mad scientist.
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> Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
There also seemed to be a bit of French too.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594/9 "2018-01-28T01:49:12Z")
> [@Biggirl](#):
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> Kissinger was a redhead?
Yup. He had his Sun in Gemini, too. Figures, right?
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### Author:  [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594/10 "2018-01-28T03:14:38Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-dumb-question-about-dexters-lab/807594/11 "2018-01-28T05:09:08Z")
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](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)