Stumptown

Season 1

Forget It Dex, It's Stumptown.

1. Dex says "But, um" once. This is a legendary phrase Cobie Smulders' character used on How I Met Your Mother.
2. Songs on the mix tape stuck in Dex's car: Sweet Caroline; Heart of Glass; Don't Go Breaking My Heart; I Think We're Alone Now: Hold Me Tight;

Missed Connections

1. Songs on the mix-tape stuck in Dex's car: The Heat of the Moment; Love Will Keep Us Together; Brass In Pocket; Private Eyes.
2. There are a couple of allusions to Cobie Smulders's former series How I Met Your Mother (2005). In the flashback scenes after a night of drinking, she says "But, um" several times. In How I Met Your Mother: Jenkins (2010), her character saying that phrase was the subject of a drinking game. Also, her client is given a false phone number by a girl at a bar. In How I Met Your Mother: How I Met Everyone Else (2007), one of the other characters when first introduced got a fake phone number from a girl at a bar.

Rip City Dicks

1. Both Dex and Artie drive Ford Mustangs. His is a 1973 and hers is a 1991.
2. Dex's full first name is Dexedrine.
3. Songs on the cassette stuck in Dex's Mustang: Power, and I'm Every Woman.
4. The dog who followed his master was called Hachiko, and he would meet his master, Professor (Doctor) Eisaburo Ueno, at the Shibuya Scramble Crossing in Tokyo. When the Tokyo University Professor died in 1925, Hachicko would still wait at the train station for nine more years till he died in March 1934. The story was dramatized in the film Hachi-ko (1987), and it was followed by an American adaptation, Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), starring Richard Gere, and Joan Allen.
5. Dex says "But, um" once. This is a legendary phrase Cobie Smulders's character used on How I Met Your Mother (2005).
6. While Hoffman is interrogating Grey, he tells him that he doesn't have an alibi. Coincidentally, Grey's bar is called "Bad Alibi".
7. Interestingly, Donal Logue played a character named Dex in The Tao of Steve (2000).

Family Ties

1. Song on the cassette stuck in Dex's Mustang: I'm All Out Of Love.
2. Dex says "But, um" once. This is a legendary phrase Cobie Smulders's character used on How I Met Your Mother (2005).

Bad Alibis

1. CSIS and RCMP is short for Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Royal Canadian Mounted Police respectively. CSIS is a civilian agency dedicated to domestic and foreign intelligence. The RCMP is a Civilian Federal Law Enforcement Agency. At one time, the RCMP had the role currently held by CSIS.
2. Dex says "But, um" once. This is a legendary phrase Cobie Smulders's character used on How I Met Your Mother (2005).

Dex, Drugs and Rock & Roll

1. Dex's ex-girlfriend Fiona X, a famous singer, is played by real-life singer Ioanna Gika.
2. Dex says "But, um" once. This is a legendary phrase Cobie Smulders's character used on How I Met Your Mother (2005).
3. Dex & Miles are at the bowling alley at the end of the show. Dex has a bottle of beer in her hand and when Miles hands Dex the bowling ball, it first appears the bottle of beer disappears from her hands. But if you look closely you'll notice that Miles takes the bottle from Dex as he hands her the ball. You can see the bottle in his hand as Dex approaches the line.

November Surprise

1. While talking to Dan at the fair, Dex says "But, um". This is a legendary phrase Cobie Smulders's character used on How I Met Your Mother (2005).
2. Grey tells Ansel that Dex has "gone to the University of Northern Oregon." While Oregon has several state and private universities, there are no schools by that name.

The Other Woman

1. In the United States, tribal disenrollment is a process by which a Native American individual loses citizenship or the right to belong within a Native American tribe; The purpose of which is to amend the tribe's roll (count of population who are entitled to tribal resources) .The issue associated with this procedure, is that may be politically or financially motivated and the criteria for which is indiscriminately determined or applied (it is entirely up to the tribes to determine the criteria and procedures that an individual must meet and undergo to be considered for tribal membership). Moreover, there is a lack of due process, if a person is subjected to the adverse determination.
2. Gregory Zaragoza (Hollis Green) and Román Zaragoza (Leigh Green) play uncle and nephew in this show. In real life, they are father and son.
3. Song playing on the cassette stuck in Dex's Mustang: We Belong by Pat Benatar.

Dex Education

1. Unlike many shows set in high school, this episode uses age appropriate actors. Abby Donnelly, who plays Jennifer, is 17; Peyton Elizabeth Lee, who plays Alyssa, is 15.
2. Camryn Manheim (Lieutenant Cosgrove) & Carole Gutierrez (Deputy Principal Stella Markham) were both in the same episode of Harry's Law.

Reality Checks Don't Bounce

1. Song heard on Dex's "stuck" tape deck: "Baby, Come Back" by Player.

The Past and the Furious

1. Dex says "but, um" once. This is a legendary phrase Cobie Smulders's character used on How I Met Your Mother (2005).

Dirty Dexy Money

The Dex Factor

1. Grey's line, "She don't look like much, but she got it where it counts, kid," is what Han says to Luke about the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars.
2. Song added to the play list from the cassette tape stuck in Dex's car; Girls Just Want To Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper.
3. Tookie talking to the lined up bar staff is based on the ROTC lineup screen from Animal House.
4. Dex tells Grey that Max has him "on the hook" a term that was coined on Cobie Smulders old show How I Met Your Mother in episode 16 of season 5 Hooked

Til Dex Do Us Part

1. Troian Bellisario plays a character named Jenna Marshall, the same name of a character played by Tammin Sursok in the series Pretty Little Liars in which Troian starred in.

At All Costs: The Conrad Costas Chronicles

1. Alex Carter, who plays Freddie, previously starred in Veritas: The Quest with Cobie Smulders.

All Quiet on the Dextern Front

1. Episode title is a variation of the World War I novel which took place on the French- German border , and from the German perspective, "All's Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque.
2. Another song on Dex's mix tape "stuck" in her car: Dear God, by XTC.
3. "World Famous Extra" Jesse Heiman makes an appearance; he unexpectedly gets the stolen food delivery handed to him by the lead character Dex.

The Dex Files

1. First appearance of Benjamin 'Benny' Blackbird

All Hands on Dex

1. Final episode of the series since it was canceled due to Covid-19