Post by: smurfboy on May 24, 2006, 04:08:04 pm
This show deserves a thread. It's hilarious. 'Now Sheriff, I think I know who killed Paul Waltham, but I'll have to go and confront the killer alone, and I'll need your entire force to be there as back-up and appear just after he confesses and tries to finish me off too'.
Even better, today's episode is set in the Australian outback - clearly a field in Texas, and full of people with the worst Aussie accents you've ever heard. And to top it off, the victim's name is Cathcart. I keep expecting Su Pollard to pop up and say 'not Miss Cathcart!' and run off in a panic to change the sheets in the professor's chalet! 
Post by: oldspice on May 24, 2006, 04:11:31 pm
The Americans cannot get it right can they?
Post by: smurfboy on May 24, 2006, 04:20:56 pm
Post by: oldspice on May 24, 2006, 04:22:28 pm
Her father was the labour politician George Lansbury
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on May 24, 2006, 04:57:19 pm
she couldn't do an English accent! Even though she's English!
When making shows for the Americans, Brits are made to put on weird accents. Have you heard Daphne (Jane Leeves) from Frasier? When Richard E Grant played her brother in Frasier, he had a weird accent as well. Americans must think we really talk like that!
Post by: smurfboy on May 24, 2006, 05:17:56 pm
Apparently they asked Jane Leeves to do a regional accent because Americans think all English people are cockneys or cut-glass Hugh Grant types. Undoubtedly the worst accent in that show was Antony La Paglia playing Daphne's oafish brother Simon. I don't know where he was meant to be from but it wasn't England! And Millicent Martin suffered from Angela Lansbury syndrome when she was playing Daphne's mother.
Post by: Forth Bridges on May 25, 2006, 11:03:40 am
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on May 25, 2006, 01:26:41 pm
Undoubtedly the worst accent in that show was Antony La Paglia playing Daphne's oafish brother Simon.
I disagree. Clive, Daphne's former boyfriend in the episode "The Two Mrs Cranes" has a far worse British accent than Simon.
Post by: oldspice on May 25, 2006, 07:23:06 pm
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Post by: loulou on June 02, 2006, 03:07:40 pm
English accents are strange things aren't they Lou?
You say I sound like someone from Byker Grove.
Post by: goldencup on June 02, 2006, 07:04:44 pm
Quote from: goldencupEnglish accents are strange things aren't they Lou?You say I sound like someone from Byker Grove.
And you say I sound posh!
Post by: loulou on June 02, 2006, 08:20:47 pm
Just like the queen.
Post by: EasterBunny on June 04, 2006, 05:01:04 pm
Did you ever see the episode of MSW where she teamed up with Magnum? Or it could have been an episode of Magnum PI where he met up with Jessica Fletcher or it could all have been a dream!
Post by: oldspice on June 04, 2006, 05:31:40 pm
Post by: EasterBunny on June 04, 2006, 06:32:40 pm
I don't remember that happening, but maybe we should commission it, a bit like late night Hollyoaks, but late night Murder She Wrote/Magnum.
Come to think of it that might liven up all those dull Sunday night dramas, just imagine it Late Night Last of the Summer Wine, or Late Night Rosemary and Thyme. What a thought! Enough to put me off my roast beef!!!