Author Topic: Murder She Wrote (Read 2936 times)

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!

oldspice · « **Reply #1 on:** May 24, 2006, 04:11:31 pm »

The Americans cannot get it right can they?

smurfboy · « **Reply #2 on:** May 24, 2006, 04:20:56 pm »

The thing that really made me laugh in one episode set in England was Angela Lansbury playing her identical English cousin (yes, really) - and she couldn't do an English accent! Even though she's English!

oldspice · « **Reply #3 on:** May 24, 2006, 04:22:28 pm »

Her father was the labour politician George Lansbury

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #4 on:** May 24, 2006, 04:57:19 pm »

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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!

smurfboy · « **Reply #5 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.

Forth Bridges · « **Reply #6 on:** May 25, 2006, 11:03:40 am »

this is one of th4e my favoirtes show , althourgh some shows where done by here ( you can tell there far better than the rest)

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #7 on:** May 25, 2006, 01:26:41 pm »

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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.

oldspice · « **Reply #8 on:** May 25, 2006, 07:23:06 pm »

goldencup · « **Reply #9 on:** May 31, 2006, 03:39:01 pm »

English accents are strange things aren't they Lou?

oldspice · « **Reply #10 on:** May 31, 2006, 07:05:31 pm »

Aye they are like.

loulou · « **Reply #11 on:** June 02, 2006, 03:07:40 pm »

Quote from: goldencup

English accents are strange things aren't they Lou?

You say I sound like someone from Byker Grove.

goldencup · « **Reply #12 on:** June 02, 2006, 07:04:44 pm »

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English accents are strange things aren't they Lou?

You say I sound like someone from Byker Grove.

And you say I sound posh!

loulou · « **Reply #13 on:** June 02, 2006, 08:20:47 pm »

Just like the queen.

EasterBunny · « **Reply #14 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!

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Author Topic: Murder She Wrote (Read 2936 times)