Revisiting "EPIC DEXTER PARODY"

Añadido: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]We're going to play um nostalgic 20th anniversary bingo alongside Epic Dexter parody, a sketch I made many moons ago. Go ahead and mark that free space. I haven't seen this in a very long time. Epic Dexter parody.

[00:00:20]Yes.

[00:00:23]15 years ago. I didn't realize my Epic Dexter parody, it's so epic, was that old. a decade and a half. Holy [ __ ] Well, right off the bat, I can give you two spaces here for your bingo cards.

[00:00:35]Right. By the way, before we continue, this video below me, Dexter in 60 seconds. This one, I remember at the time, this video really pissed me off because it is a much better, well-produced and more concise Dexter parody. And it came out around the same time. And I watched this and I went I was so jealous. I'm like, damn it, these guys are really good. So, if you want like a good Dexter parody, watch the landlines Dexter in 60 seconds from 15 15 years ago. Let's go back to Epic Dexter parody from this [ __ ] ass YouTuber Jack Film from 15 years ago.

[00:01:04]Also, please note the thumbnail. That's not really a thumbnail, but more like a still from the video, one could say.

[00:01:10]That's two spaces right there. Go to your bingo cards right now. I'm taking good care of you tonight, guys. Come on.

[00:01:14]I'm always thinking about you bingo players. Go ahead and mark thumbnail is just a frame from the video. And also, video is over 10 years old. I don't have it on my bingo card, but hopefully you do. We're doing Epic Dexter parody because Dexter is kind of back in the um public uh lexicon. He's kind of back in the cultural zeitgeist after kind of a failed reboot. There's a not so failed reboot of the reboot that's done so much better. It's called Dexter Resurrection and everyone's like, "This is it. This is the Dexter we know and love. He's back, baby." I'm like halfway through that season and I'm loving it. I'm loving it. I'm loving it. It's great.

[00:01:51]McDonald's. I'm loving it. Right. So, I figured what better time uh than right now to bust out ye old epic Dexter parody. So, this came out well before the first eight seasons of Dexter were out. Well before. Let's observe. So, this came out February 1st of 2011.

[00:02:07]What's the top comment? This sucks.

[00:02:08]Eight months ago. For context, this is made right after season 5 ended. Oh my god. I'm going to heart that. That's wild. I was I was actually about to ask like where is this in the Dexter cannon?

[00:02:18]So like the the the high point of Dexter had already um occurred for those who are familiar with the show. OH MY GOD, THIS AH this aged like fine wine. I will be the final, you know, judge on that.

[00:02:30]Previously on Dexter. So I tried really hard to actually match >> previously. Oh my god, I sound so young.

[00:02:37]I sound so young and tiny. So, for this opening title card, I tried really hard to match the Showtime like back in the day in um 2011, you know, and before and a little after. Like, this is one second.

[00:02:57]Oh, got it. Okay. Sorry. There was motion at my front door and I'm like, am I getting sniper wolfed again? No, it's just [ __ ] Postmates.

[00:03:11]She's back.

[00:03:16]So, uh, I tried to match very hard the, um, opening titles. This is how Dexter I was a I was a hardcore fan of Dexter, especially in this era, the 2011 era.

[00:03:26]That's why I made the parody of it. So, I tried really hard to recreate that whole like they they would open with this previous previously on Dexter. Why am I telling you this? You don't care.

[00:03:34]It's not even a [ __ ] bingo space. I'm just like, I tried to match the text and titles. Like, cool. Sick. And there's no and I'm sorry, guys. Be honest. How many hours on DeFont did you spend? Uh, a lot. Like, I was a perfectionist. Like, I really like I took my time on these parodies. And if I'm being honest, I would have adjusted the kerning on these letters cuz like look how the E and the X are touching. Ew. And the T and the E are touching. Ew. I would have done um individual kerning adjustments to these pairs of letters. If only that were a bingo spot. Oh, wait. It is. Go ahead, Mark. Would have done that differently.

[00:04:07]>> Previously on Dexter.

[00:04:09]>> I know you're up to something.

[00:04:11]>> Sorry. This whole Wow. First off, the color grading is so bland. It's not, but it looks like it was filmed with like a Blackmagic camera, but they forgot to color grade it. But like, no, it was filmed with a shitty Well, not shitty.

[00:04:21]It was filmed It was filmed with a DSLR that I had, like a Canon 60D, I assume, at this time. But I did not know how to like increase saturation, so it just looks blah and gray. But this is this is the pool at my um apartment complex in Korea Town, Los Angeles, California.

[00:04:39]This is a guy named Rich Rich Rotella.

[00:04:42]He was an actor friend I would work with occasionally in my old old videos, old sketches when I first moved to Los Angeles. For a point of reference, I moved to Los Angeles in 2010. So, this is 2011. Uh I'm still kind of like fresh. I'm fresh blood. I'm new blood in LA, man. I don't know [ __ ] I don't know anyone in LA. And Rich was one of donation's friends. Joe Nation was the guy. He was a big YouTuber YouTuber when I moved in 2010 at the time. He introduced me to like Old K and Exotic Jess and a lot of people. Um, and I stayed in that circle of that little click for a while. But one of Joe's good friends and I think college friends was this guy named Rich who was a very good actor. He was a very act he was a very intense person and a very um accomplished and capable actor. So, I'm like, I kind of want you to play like the Quinn to Dexter Morgan. Why am I wearing [ __ ] socks and burks? Wait, what the [ __ ] am I doing? Everything else is perfect. Like, Dexter would wear this button-down shirt and the khakis.

[00:05:41]It's Miami, after all. He would not wear socks and burks. He's a serial killer, but even he has enough fashion sense to not wear socks and burks. What the [ __ ] is wrong with me? White. Yeah, people are saying white like a slur. White.

[00:05:56]It's true. I'm happy with the cinematography here because I have the big wide shot. I have this like big wide like establishing shot and I'm proud of that. And the framing is pretty good. I follow the 180 rule. You'll find out.

[00:06:06]>> Just something, Morgan. Running around doing all your little side errands.

[00:06:09]Think nobody notices. Well, I do.

[00:06:12]And I swear I'll do everything in my power to take you out, even if it cost me my career. Trust me, Quinn. I'm not some puzzle you want to solve.

[00:06:22]I'm not a bad Dexter, right? Like, I kind of pulled it off, right? A little bit. A little. A little bit. Also, I'm going to give you a space. I'm going to give you a space. That music, the little piano plinks like I did write and perform that. So, go ahead and mark uh I wrote the music in this. Scoot Scout says, "How'd you get Michael Seh Hall in this video?" Look, I know a guy who knows a guy. All right.

[00:06:45]No, I'm not I don't hate my um my Michael Se Hall impression. My Dexter impression. Trust me, Quinn. I'm not some puzzle you want to solve. That's how he would talk in the show. I don't hate that. It's the eyes not expressing what you're saying. That's so specific, Ryan Massie. That's so specific. The eyes not expressing what you're saying.

[00:07:01]I never I'm not that good of an actor to control my eyes when I'm like, you know, acting and saying lines. I'm not. Let's go back. Rich does a great job here. He was always a really [ __ ] solid actor.

[00:07:11]>> And I swear I'll do everything in my power to take you out, even if it cost me my career. Trust me, Quinn. I'm not some puzzle you want to solve. Cut this [ __ ] Morgan. You're all cut.

[00:07:21]>> Why did I bleep out [ __ ] [ __ ] noballs.

[00:07:24]I'm mad at myself for bleeping out the [ __ ] Showtime would never. I was probably worried about demonetizing. I was probably worried about like the powers that be demonetizing my, you know, masterpiece of a Dexter parody.

[00:07:36]So, I'm like, I'll bleep it out.

[00:07:39]Disappointing.

[00:07:40]>> Cut this [ __ ] Morgan. I'll cut you down.

[00:07:45]>> Yeah, he's great. Very choice words.

[00:07:50]Because I'm a serial killer who kills people.

[00:07:54]>> CREEPER FACE. WE HAVE creeper face. Go to your bingo cards, gamers. Oh, yeah.

[00:07:59]All right. Here you go. This took some time. I had to recreate the Dexter theme, but I had to rewrite the music, you know, from scratch. So, it sounds like the Dexter theme, but it's not the Dexter theme. Then, I also had to like film it in such a way that's reminiscent of the visuals of the Dexter intro, which was then iconic at the time. Maybe it's Lost from Luster, you know, in present day in 2026, but circa 2011, the Dexter theme was iconic. So, this is my parody of said intro for this television series.

[00:08:32]Oh my god. This would have been Showtime Presents. It was just like this. The Showtime was bull presents was not. Yep.

[00:08:37]Oh my god, I spent so much time on this [ __ ] That's probably like an Jack in the Box or Iner In-N-Out order.

[00:08:49]Yes.

[00:08:51]Hell yeah. Oh, my shitty little desk and chair setup. Look how barebones this is.

[00:08:56]I look like a serial killer. This is my first LA apartment. So, I'm in a studio apartment. It's about 100 square ft.

[00:09:03]It's tiny. I have the shittiest IKEA ass chair here. Oh my god, dude. The music took a while. The music, it's all in Garage Band. I had to like find and approximate all the instruments like I had to find all the instruments in Garage Band. And I'm work like I made everything on my little MacBook laptop.

[00:09:24]Didn't have the budget for a mouse or a monitor. Just a little laptop. I had a nice little laptop. Little Mactop. A MacBook laptop in Garage Band. And I I spent hours on this little theme song here. I'm proud of this like blurring effect. I'm surprised I I knew how to do Gaussian blurs, you know, in motion like this in uh Premiere.

[00:09:52]My god, I think I filmed that in slow motion or I slowed it down. Oh.

[00:10:04]OH MY GOD, DUDE. The [ __ ] intro to Dexter was this beautiful stylized thing. So, I tried so hard to mimic that because it was all slow motion of like Dexter starting his day. It was these intense close-ups to make everything look more sinister. It was filmed to look like him tying shoelaces looks like he was look like he was strangling a victim. Him slicing through an orange.

[00:10:25]It was filmed to make it look like he was cutting through human skin, right?

[00:10:28]It was it was all very macob. So, I had to do the same thing but with like a [ __ ] you know, burger, a fast food order. Like the ketchup is blood, etc., etc. I'm proud of that sequence if nothing else. I'm very excited for this.

[00:10:40]Very excited indeed.

[00:10:44]>> Tonight's the night.

[00:10:45]>> Tonight's the night.

[00:10:46]>> The night when I perform my most sacred ritual.

[00:10:50]Fulfill my primal urge. This is me like driving around Korea Town. Like this is like, you know, right outside my little apartment complex. I'm like in the [ __ ] I'm in Korea Town in LA. Tonight's the night.

[00:11:02]And by the way, if you're if you're wondering like why does the music sound like that? That's what the soundtrack to the Dexter show sounded like. It was a lot of like >> tonight's the night.

[00:11:13]>> Tonight's the night.

[00:11:14]>> The night when I perform my most sacred ritual.

[00:11:18]Fulfill my primal urge.

[00:11:21]>> All these camera passenger >> with the [ __ ] rear view mirror shot.

[00:11:26]That's Look at me. It's blurry as hell and I would have like made that in focus, but like whatever.

[00:11:32]>> My need beckons. Demands that I >> Jesus Morgan. What the [ __ ] are you talking about? Wait, did I just say that or think it?

[00:11:39]>> You You said it out loud.

[00:11:40]>> I need to work on that.

[00:11:42]>> Yes. Yes, you do.

[00:11:44]>> I'm getting tired of these road trips with Quinn. Ever since Lua paired us up, I haven't had a moment's rest. It's like doses all over again. We got shots in the car. We got an external shot out the car. Like, damn. I really wanted to cover all my bases for my [ __ ] Dexter parody. And I will say like when you're shooting a sketch like this, more is good. Like overshoot more than undersshoot. You always want to have too much footage than too little. Go nuts with the angles so that you always have B-roll to cut to. We're supposed to hunt down some local drug pin, but I've got bigger fish to fry. The only reason I >> By the way, I'm sorry. This folder that Rich has here. This little Manila envelope folder, whatever. I think it also has a script in it. So whenever we're like, "Wait, what are the lines?"

[00:12:28]We just open this guy up and it's like, "Ah, okay. You say Jesus, Morgan." Okay, got it. The only reason I've let Quinn live this long is so I >> letting me live this long. I did it again. What is wrong with you?

[00:12:39]>> Nothing. Let's pull into the shady garage over here.

[00:12:43]>> Yeah, sounds good.

[00:12:44]>> Cute.

[00:12:44]>> Got to figure out a way to distract Quinn.

[00:12:47]>> I forgot the piano. Da da da. Like, yeah, that this was the [ __ ] Dexter soundtrack circa 15 plus years ago. Oh my god. I went I went all out with this parody. I really Jesus. I can't [ __ ] believe the music here. I spent I' I probably spent more effort and time in the music than the actual shots and editing here. Got to figure out a way to distract Quinn and move on to my next target. But how? How?

[00:13:12]>> Come on, Dexter. Think. What would Harry say?

[00:13:15]>> You need to think, Dexter.

[00:13:17]>> Okay, Dad. That doesn't help.

[00:13:18]>> You need to stop and think about what you're doing.

[00:13:20]>> That's not advice, Dad. I Forget it.

[00:13:24]>> Think about it.

[00:13:24]>> Shut up.

[00:13:27]But yeah, man. Hey, his dad's back. They got uh they got Harry back. They got Harry Morgan uh back for uh Dexter Resurrection. It's kind of sick. I do like that actor.

[00:13:42]>> Now, according to Lord's report, our drug lord comes down here every Thursday in order to hunt down.

[00:13:47]>> Hey, look. Someone who gives a where?

[00:13:50]>> So many camera shots. Sorry. I'm like look, that was four shots right there.

[00:13:54]So, I had to put the camera on sticks in four different locations. Like once when we were pulling in. No. Five. Cuz like the car pulls in with my full license plate on display. Hell yeah.

[00:14:04]>> That's not advice, Dad. Like, forget it.

[00:14:08]>> Think about it.

[00:14:08]>> Shut up.

[00:14:09]>> So, we pull in and then here's another shot. For some reason, getting out here >> now.

[00:14:16]>> And then another shot here, you know, and the car when the camera's in front.

[00:14:19]>> Comes down here every Thursday in order to >> another shot of me meeting. So, we have to meet on Mark's here for this hunt down.

[00:14:25]>> Hey, look. Someone who gives a where?

[00:14:28]And then another shot here for the action shot. Jesus Christ. You know, the film student at me is proud of this.

[00:14:35]Wow. What is that called? M um um cutting on the action. Great technique to convey action. To convey a sharp piece of action here.

[00:14:44]>> Where I've been waiting to do that for three seasons. Cute.

[00:14:53]Really was exactly like dogs.

[00:14:57]writers aren't even trying.

[00:15:00]>> Oh, wow. Make one.

[00:15:01]>> LOOK AT THIS DUTCH ANGLE.

[00:15:04]Look at that. I'm like, we're gonna be we're gonna be sexy. We're gonna we're going to have we're going to film on a tilt here at a Dutch angle. I wish I did a little slow rotation. That would have been [ __ ] sick. Like, if it was just Dutch and it just like slowly rotated or vice versa. Quick stop in my apartment to grab my kill tools.

[00:15:21]>> Ooh, with a cross.

[00:15:22]>> Bye-bye. Dexter's next victim.

[00:15:28]victim. So, this is like this is my apartment. This is where I live. This is Korea Town, LA. Like, this is where I spent my first year in LA.

[00:15:36]>> Hey, Deb.

[00:15:37]>> Hey, Dad.

[00:15:40]>> I'm looking for my hunting knife. Have you uh seen it anywhere?

[00:15:44]>> Should be in the left drawer down there.

[00:15:47]>> Why? You going on a hunting trip?

[00:15:49]>> You could say that.

[00:15:50]>> A deadly hunting trip.

[00:15:52]>> What are you doing?

[00:15:54]>> What? She even looks like Deb, you know, like she kind of has that Deb aesthetic if you if you've watched Dexter, right?

[00:16:01]This I don't know what. Like, did I take protein? I don't this tub of [ __ ] whatever pro. I don't remember making little protein drinks back in my [ __ ] twink days. Like, oh my god, look at me.

[00:16:12]I'm like 140 soaking wet. Like, I I don't know what that is. All right, let's take it back a little bit. Hold on. Oh my god. My little keyboard, which I still have. I'm looking at it right now. It's gone through a lot. This little keyboard. Our tiny little studio apartment. Our teeny Oh my god, my little iPod speaker. Holy [ __ ] I plug in my little iPod Nano in here for music sometimes. Jeez Louise, man. I think that's my laptop. That's what I edited everything on. Oh my god. I'm sorry. I just I just realized I said still have that out loud. Go to your bingo cards right now, please. That's right. Go ahead, Mark. I still have that cuz I'm talking about my old piano keyboard.

[00:16:53]>> What are you doing?

[00:16:55]>> What?

[00:16:55]>> It looks like you're making a bad pun in your head.

[00:16:58]>> No, just >> Oh, there's the thumbnail.

[00:17:02]Found the thumbnail, y'all.

[00:17:03]>> Thinking to myself.

[00:17:04]>> Deadly thoughts.

[00:17:06]>> And you're doing it again. What the >> De I don't have time for this.

[00:17:10]>> Dexter, wait.

[00:17:11]>> Oh god.

[00:17:16]So, it's it's funny because in the show they were brother and sister. So, I included this to be like a little [ __ ] up just a little [ __ ] up part in the video. It's like, wouldn't it be [ __ ] up if they made out cuz obviously this is me filming with my then girlfriend at the time. So, I'm like, "Oh, let's get a shot where we're making out because it'll be really [ __ ] up." What's weird is later in the show, in the Dexter show, Deborah liked Dexter.

[00:17:44]uh you know, like a soulmate and like had feelings for him even though they were it was really [ __ ] up and and like came out of like left field, no field, just terrible.

[00:17:57]>> Bye, sis.

[00:17:58]>> Bye, bro.

[00:17:58]>> Yeah, there you go. And that's the joke.

[00:18:00]Bye, sis. Bye, bro. Yeah. By the way, I'm a serial killer.

[00:18:08]>> Oh my god. But I actually am.

[00:18:13][ __ ] Christ.

[00:18:14]>> Finally. I've waited for this kill for years out of all the sons of [ __ ] I've butchered.

[00:18:21]>> So now I'm wear I'm wearing the Dexter shirt. I got the Dexter gloves. I dressed up as Dexter um for a couple of Halloweens cuz I'm like lazy and it's just a very easy costume. I could pull off the Dexter Morgan look, you know, 10 years ago. The sons of [ __ ] I butchered. This crazy bastard deserves it the most.

[00:18:51]Dexter, get out of my laboratory.

[00:18:53]>> Got you now, you sick, twisted son of >> Oh my god. What?

[00:18:59]>> So, the joke here, if you're not aware, it's it's it's this is it's two Dexters.

[00:19:04]one from the Dexter show from Showtime and then the other from Cartoon Network, Dexter's Laboratory, hence the cringe accent and the uh orange red hair that I tried doing in the lab coat. I just want to make that abundantly clear. I'm playing two Dexters cuz I thought that's an appropriate punchline for this sketch, right? Why not? Dated reference.

[00:19:24][ __ ] you. Dexters forever. Both Dexters.

[00:19:27]You're dated. [ __ ] you.

[00:19:28]>> Oh my god. What? My son. My baby son Harrison.

[00:19:33]left him alone at the house.

[00:19:35]>> So, how long's he been there?

[00:19:37]>> Uh, week and a half.

[00:19:40]>> So, he's dead, right?

[00:19:41]>> Yeah, I got a dead baby on my hands.

[00:19:42]>> You monster. Well, [ __ ] What am I going to tell Rita?

[00:19:48]>> And the joke is Rita's dead.

[00:19:51]Uh, for those who don't know, like Rita is the the mother of the dead child, and they're both dead. So, that's that's the that's the joke. You said cringe. Why did I say cringe? Oh, the accent is cringe.

[00:20:05]Oh, and I'm like the cringe accent. I mean, it's the Dexter. It's Dexter's Laboratory. It I You know what? I'll be nice. If I said if I said cringe when I said like that's hence the cringe accent, I will give you that. Go ahead and mark cringe for uh Dexter. Get in my laboratory. I don't know how to do a a a Dexter accent from the Cartoon Network television show, which is really showing my age, by the way. But I think there's more to this video. There might be a little more. And I'm actually terrified at what's more here. There's a minute more. We're at 4:46 and the video goes till 5:43. So, there's like a full minute here that I do not know what I filmed and edited here. Rut row. Let's find out together, shall we? Here we go.

[00:20:59]>> Jack Films.

[00:21:05]>> Oh, that Dexter. Hi, I'm Jack Douglas and you just watched my 100th video. NO [ __ ] WAY. This is the hundth video I've made. Holy [ __ ] YO, ALSO, WHAT IS THIS chroma key? Go ahead and mark bad chroma key. Look how like covered the this second zero is. It's terrible chroma key. And that happens to be a space on our bingo cards. I don't have it, but go ahead and mark bad chroma key. Oh, and you know what? I don't remember what I say here. So, go ahead and mark don't remember. All right. My 100th. Wow. I can't believe it. My 100th video ever on YouTube, which is wild, by the way. [ __ ] wild to think of that kind of rules. and you just watched my 100th video.

[00:21:54]So to celebrate, I wrote a very special song for you entitled From My Heart to You in Eflat Major.

[00:22:14]Wow.

[00:22:16]Oh, there's a blooper reel. Oh my god, there's a bloopers reel.

[00:22:23]Or not bloopers, but just like credits.

[00:22:28]What? Oh, the creeper face contest. I did do that. Oh my god, that was a [ __ ] terrifying walk through memory lane. We'll have to watch this next.

[00:22:39]Also from 14 years ago, Tob Jaxus. I definitely want to watch the Tobuscus parody. Time for bingo, [ __ ] All right, we have thumbnail just a frame.

[00:22:48]Wrote the music free space. Uh would have done that differently. Videos at least 10 years old, which unfortunately it is.

[00:22:55]>> That's a disgusting.

[00:22:58]>> If you guys want more, we also watched an old video of mine called We Broke Up.

[00:23:03]And then we watched a video titled Happy Birthday Tobascus.

[00:23:07]Link in the description below if you want that. Here's a clip. We broke up semi recently. Uh nothing happened. It was >> That's so sad. Reactbot got anything TO SAY? WAMPMP WAMP. LET'S watch happy birthday tobuscus. Don't remember this one.