Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer is a recurring character and antagonist on F Is for Family.
Biography Jeffrey Dahmer is a 9-year-old boy with a police officer father. He was first seen in "Heavy Sledding" where he asks Frank if he's a pervert, and why he isn't at work. Frank asks him why he isn't "leaving [him] the fuck alone", to which Jeffrey threatens to tell his dad that Frank swore at him. Later he asks Sue if everyone in her family is a loser, and she throws a cigarette at his head.
In this scene, he is clearly scared of Sue when she threatens him, but exhibits an extreme amount of confidence when it comes to hurling insults at adults. This is proven by how he is a rotten brat that takes advantage of his father's occupation to harass people mainly adults.
This confidence has clearly grown in his next appearance, "Are You Ready For The Summer?. He attempts to graffiti an American flag, Frank yells at him to stop and he retaliates with "fuck you, old man!" Frank throws a beer at him, he catches it and flips off Frank for "giving [him] a free beer."
Later, he attempts to steal Frank's lawn chair and has no problem getting into a physical fight with the man.
When Dahmer's father breaks it up, we see that Jeffrey has also learned how to manipulate his father. Telling him in a frightened tone that Frank; "gave [him] a beer and then tried to touch [him]."
In "The Stinger", Jeffrey was briefly seen at the pool, making fun of Bill for having an erection. He says “And he’s playing with it” (referring to his penis). In the next scene, he teases Bill and runs away, scared, after Bridget Fitzsimmons tells him “Go shit in your fist fuckface”.
In "Bill Murphy's Night Off", Jeffrey Dahmer was shown on the video, when The Murphy Family was reminiscing about the Memorial Day parade, during the aforementioned events of "Are You Ready for the Summer?". Frank and Sue laughed about how Frank nearly killed the kid and called him a "cunt" which describes him perfectly.
In "The Rustland Massacre", Jeffrey was one of Dr. Erwin Goldman's patients. He claimed that he was about to make a breakthrough but it was ruined when Dr. Goldman left mid-session. Jeffrey told Erwin that anything he did in the future was on him. Kevin told Jeffrey to "Eat [him]" and Jeffrey said that he just might.
Appearance[]
Jeffrey Dahmer's appearance is modeled after the high school yearbook photo of the real Jeffrey Dahmer. He is a short little boy with shoulder-length, shaggy blond hair and white skin. He wears yellow-tinted glasses, a sky blue jacket, an orange shirt, navy blue pants, and black shoes.
Personality[]
Jeffrey Dahmer is a malicious, impudent, little devil child, with hobby of harassing adults for personal amusement. Jeffrey is a juvenile delinquent, who commits crimes such as vandalism and underage drinking and gets away with all of it because his father is a cop, who he has the power to manipulate into doing his bidding for him. This also gives him protection from any adult who would try to fight back against him, as all he needs to do is accuse them of kidnapping, assault, pedophilia, etc. and summon his dad to falsely arrest them.
Episode Appearances[]
- Heavy Sledding
- Are You Ready For The Summer?
- The Stinger
- Bill Murphy's Night Off (On Video)
- Nothing is Impossible (Cameo)
- Land, Ho! (Non-Speaking)
- Baby, Baby, Baby
- The Rustland Massacre
Trivia[]
- He is named after real the American serial killer of the same name. His design is also very reminiscent of photos of the real Dahmer as a teenager.
- There are some key differences between him and the real Jeffrey Dahmer that prove they aren't the same person.
- In a show set in 1973, Jeffrey Dahmer is established to be 9. The real Jeffrey Dahmer would have been 13 this year.
- The show is set in the fictional town of Rustvale, Pennsylvania, where Jeffrey is clearly a citizen. The real Jeffrey Dahmer grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Jeffrey's father is a police officer in the show. In reality, his father, Lionel Dahmer, was a chemist.
- In "The Rustland Massacre", Jeffrey told Dr. Goldman that anything he does as an adult is going to be his fault and also told Kevin that he might eat him, suggesting that like the real Jeffrey Dahmer, he's going to grow up to be a serial killer cannibal.
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