20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Dexter

By Tom Baker /

15. Deb Said "F*ck" Almost A Thousand Times

Sure, Dexter murders a lot of people, but at least he's civil about it. His sister, meanwhile, the adopted Debra Morgan, is a fairly straight-down-the-line cop who has a filthier vocabulary than a sailor raised on Tarantino films. Somebody actually did the maths, and Jennifer Carpenter's character said €œf*ck€ 996 times during the show's run. That's 996 f-bombs over the course of eight seasons. Eight seasons equals 96 episodes. Which means that Deb averaged something like ten €œf*cks€ per episode. That's a whole lot of f*cking. Apparently the character uses more expletives overall in any given episode than all of her male colleagues in the police force combined. Debra's ability to appear like €œjust one of the guys€ was usually facilitated by her dirty mouth, and masked an internal loneliness. That and her pure moral code also put her in stark contrast to her brother, who was mild-mannered and found it difficult getting on with his colleagues (whilst also moonlighting as the sort of murderer his sister chased).