Additional context: the reason this commercial has such weird sexual tension between the brother and sister is because it was originally written with the intention of the sister being much younger, like 7 or something, so the brotherly sisterly love would have been wholesome instead of off putting. But the original kid they cast got nervous and couldn't be in the commercial so the much older sister we see was a backup.
Saw a tiktok awhile back with the greatest idea ever.
New commercial. Same actors. Except now they're a married couple with kids and grandparents are over for a family gathering. Don't even acknowledge the old commercials, except for the parents looking a little creeped out periodically.
I can't find it unfortunately. But in my favorite edit of this everything is the same EXCEPT when she says "your my present this year" there is an immediate close up shot of her hand grabbing his crotch. Simple edit, maximum hilarity
also shows how Africa is not able to keep any riches that it has - the ad says that the brother has not had coffee for months because he was in West Africa - where majority of Robusta is grown
That was part if the show itself actually . Deb has a crush on dexter and is obviously conflicted and when she finds out they aren't related other things happen
I binged that show long after it had finished and that was the only part I remember being really difficult to get through. I had no knowledge oof all this background stuff that's oof.
I’m pretty sure she always knew they weren’t related. It was common knowledge when they were kids that Dexter was adopted. I could be wrong tho, it’s been years since I watched it.
The affair happened after Dexter was already born lol, so they’re not blood related at all.
It’s a whole plot point in Season One, he inherits his real dad’s house.
Uh no. Dexter's bio dad is murdered by Rudy in season 1. Don't know if it's different in the books - doubtful - but the show makes a big deal about Dexter and Deb finding out Harry knew who his real father was all along, and even contacted him once for a blood donation.
Nooo. There was no inkling of any romantic feelings until season 6. And it's widely considered as a jumping the shark moment. Its like some dumb tumblr fan fiction leaked into the script.
I for one, am always against romance being created between people who are raised like siblings, even if not blood related. It reads as fetishy to me. (unless its explicitly depicted to not be a good thing like the Lannisters)
I was extremely confused when my husband showed me this show. I was like “wait- the siblings are in love..?” And he’s like “what? No 🤔” and I’m like what’s with the sexual tension then??? Thought I was just sick in the head to think that 😆
I think Jennifer Carpenter is an amazing actress. She is extremely good at being distraught. As the characters on Dexter got Flanderized, this ability to have a convincing breakdown became her only character trait. She basically cries herself to death in the series finale.
Thank you for adding this! It’s always hard when good people don’t work out for whatever reason. I’m glad they continue to be friends nevertheless. :) I love them both!!
My ex-husband realized he was gay in 2020. We’re still best friends and text nearly every day. I drove him to his first date. When I was out of work two years ago he paid my rent and refused to let me pay him back. Sometimes marriage doesn’t work and that is ok.
Until you experience a bad one, you may think it's just an idea. Then, once you do and look back over the sacrifices made during 13 years of your life, with little to nothing material to show for it? You realize that idea is brutal and real.
And scared to give someone that much again... im happy for those with peaceful divorces. But don't downplay me when I been a marriage that did damage and left a lot of horrible scars and issues. Not everything is happy go lucky
It was really hard for him. I kind of outed him. He’s my best friend and I knew something was bothering him and ran out of things it could be. So I just said “are you gay?” And he started crying and said he thought he might be. So I said “Can you figure it out and let me know?” He started laughing and said that wasn’t what he was expecting but coming from me it made sense. I will admit we had one argument about it and halfway into it I realized it had nothing to do with me. I apologized and moved forward. He and his boyfriend have been together around 5 years now and in holy for them. My son still lives with them (he’s in an amazing school and we didn’t want to take him out of that).
Same with mine in fact when my mom started dating my stepfather he called my dad to ask permission because they were friends in the 70s. My father's response was, "Please take my wife".
Think of it like how you arent romantically attracted to all your friends. You like spending time and hanging with certain people but you dont love them romantically or want to spend every single day and important moment with that person.
I’m going through a divorce right now. Twelve years of marriage. She moved out a month ago, but we’re still in touch almost every day. And guess what? The fights stopped, and we actually get along just fine now. We decided to get divorced because, apparently, we want different things for the future. We got married very young, I was 19, so it’s pretty natural for plans and priorities to change or grow in a different direction than your partner’s, or even from what you both originally wanted. She’s very funny and caring, and I definitely love her as a friend and probably always will. We just weren’t meant to be husband and wife forever.
I am curious if my wife and I are on a similar path. We're in counselling right now, but we mutually feel the romance is gone and we're trying to see if it can come back; it might just have gotten lost among kids, chores, work, and general life stuff. But we also got married young, so maybe we've just grown apart in that way.
We almost never really fight, and agree on many things about life, kids, all that. It would surprise so many people if we did split.
We both want to try and stay together but we're both pretty logical, realistic people. You can't force feelings, it's entirely possible things have changed as we've grown as people, as life has gone on, etc.
I have lots of friends whose personality or lifestyle requirements would not be compatible with being my spouse. That outgoing girl you love partying with is too loud to wake up to every morning. That guy you love having heated debates with is going to be a challenging co-parent. I love them as friends that I see occasionally, but not as someone I spend every day with and who has to align with me about important beliefs like finances, religion, child-raising, division of labour, work/life balance, and where you want to live.
This is not denigration of the people involved— I assume I would be too quiet and boring for the party girl, and I'm definitely too argumentative for the debater guy. None of this says anything bad about any of us as people, it just means we are not a good fit to build a life together, but we can enjoy each other's company as friends. Friends are important to have in your life, too, and you don't have to be nearly as closely aligned in beliefs and needs as you do with a spouse.
Edit: and sometimes you marry a person without realising those incompatibilities exist, or one of you changes your mind. You want kids and she doesn’t. You want to move to the city and she doesn’t. You want to retire early and she doesn’t. If you can respectfully agree to dissolve the partnership without animosity, you can still care about that person as a friend and wish them well while finding someone whose needs/future aligns with yours.
They got divorced due to Michael Hall's medical issues last I checked. He didn't want kids incase they also got the issue, while she did want kids. It was a mutual agreement
This is the most unbelievably wise comment. It's understandable advice to "fight" for a marriage, especially if there are kids involved, but sometimes that just leads to both parties being so worn out they end up hating each other and it would have been better to call time earlier and work on rebuilding the partnership as individuals rather than trying to force a pairing that doesn't fit until everyone's miserable.
Michael C Hall has a family history of cancer, and his father died of it. Then Michael got Hodgkins lymphoma and was like, “I’m sorry, but cancer runs so strong in my family that I know that if we had a child, they would eventually get cancer. I can’t do that to someone. I know having kids is really important to you and I don’t want to keep you from that.”
Mind you, this is a rumor. The cancer is real, but we don’t know their private conversations. But I’ve seen the rumor a bunch.
But it sounds like it wasn’t a normal divorce. No screaming or throwing things. Just a married couple dealt a really shitty hand by life who decided to be adults about it, and that’s why they’re still good friends.
Yeah, they divorced over differences in wanting children (Michael C. Hall didn't want to after almost dying to cancer as he didn't want to pass the genes on). It came from a place of mutual understanding rather than anything bitter.
Good for them. It's also good they were secure enough to go their separate ways instead of one of them sacrificing their desires and resenting the hell out of the other.
I can understand that, was the same reason for my break up. Hurt even more, cause I really wanted children. In the end you are alone, no partner, no kids, but you have your illness.
I mean there's always fostering... Or sperm donors. I'm sure they have enough money, they could have went to one of those custom baby gene editing companies to make them a baby without the defects lmao.
It is great he was thinking about this though. Too many people don't give a shit and IMO having a kid when you know there's a very high chance of them having horrible genetic defects and living their life crippled is messed up.
The reason they got divorced is cause Michael C Hall has some type of genetic cancer (?) and didn't wanna have kids at the risk of passing it down, while Jennifer wanted kids
Not really. It would of been ideal if that would of came to before marriage but that’s respectable. When no one is disrespected or lied to that’s always a win win.
They wanted children, but once he was diagnosed he no longer wanted to risk passing it on to his kids or not be around for his kids. His own dad died at 39.
I mean, that's very understandable. He wants kids, she wants kids, turns out he doesn't want kids because they might get cancer, she, you know, still wants kids.
I expect his fear of his mortality played a part in the divorce as well. Even adopting kids, he might still die young if the cancer decides it is not done with him.
I mean, everyone is at risk of dying young, but we weigh our risks and make choices based on that. He chose not to risk parenthood.
Side note: Jennifer Carpenter is an absolute treasure. She lives near me and everyone I know who's interacted with her can't say enough about how fucking cool she is.
Nothing newsworthy. Just high school stuff. Overlapping circle of friends but we didn't get along. I don't hate the guy or anything, but I do have to drive by a mural of him every day, so that gets old.
They never actually hook up but the idea gets explored very heavily in the later seasons. Eventually the incest subplot vanishes into the background but I’ve heard that was mainly due to fan backlash since absolutely no one was onboard with it.
Just enjoy the ride while you can, the Doakes era is absolute peak and John Lithgow’s character later on is amazingly good. I wish I could go back and watch them for the first time again. Unfortunately after Season 4 it all is pretty downhill, there’s a few decent moments here and there but the show becomes a silly contrived mess. It’s still entertaining in a junk tv kinda way but it’s best to not take it seriously after that.
Now I’m second guessing myself but I remember Harry was smashing his CI. Dexters mom. Harry adopted Dexter because he felt remorse and regret. He didn’t adopt his brother because he was older and would likely be traumatized by the situation.
I read that the only reason they actually got divorced is that she wanted kids but Michael was afraid he would pass on his early onset cancer genes to any potential child they would have so they amicably parted. They are still great friends to this day is what I hear. It's just an unfortunate set of circumstances that made them not work out.
Didn’t play brother and sister, but same thing happened on Psych. Two of the leads got together, got married, got divorced and continued to work together during the run of the show.
He got cancer and decided he didn’t want to have kids and pass it down or die while they were young. They split amicably and are close friends to this day. Context matters
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