Current Events > Do British shows have an occasional American character that shits on them?

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Seems weird how US shows will usually have a British guy or someone from a foreign country to go "silly Americans" and dog all over the US

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lol as if


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Wonder why we shove that trope in so often then

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0Renegade posted...

Wonder why we shove that trope in so often then

It might be that American shows actually keep making new episodes. They have to come up with a lot of ideas so lots of different things happen. British shows have like 6 episodes in a season that comes out once every 3 years for 3 seasons. And that's a long running british show.
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the only time i ever saw an american character in an english show/movie was green street elite.

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but i think its also to do with selling the show internationally since it helps having relatable characters from other places

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Only Fools and Horses had a feature length episode in Florida ('Miami Twice'), with the 'limeys' being insulted constantly.

When I was young and didnt understood the punk culture, I thought that Vyvyan in The Young Ones was American.

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luigi13579 posted...

Only Fools and Horses had a feature length episode in Florida ('Miami Twice'), with the 'limeys' being insulted constantly.

interesting, what were they saying about the British in that episode?


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vphj_fZ3Ew

Red Dwarf sort of did this.

Captain Hollister was American and somewhat competent among British idiots.

Then the actor got really fat so they turned him into a fat useless chief wiggum joke later on.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Then the actor got really fat so they turned him into a fat useless chief wiggum joke later on.

I don't think Mac McDonald was ever really skinny.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen had the American who occasionally poked fun at the way they did things. That's a movie, though.

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We make fun of ourselves already, so don't really need others to do it.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

I don't think Mac McDonald was ever really skinny.

He was never skinny but he went from taking up 1 seat on the bus to taking 2
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Funkydog posted...

We make fun of ourselves already, so don't really need others to do it.

I think this is a factor too.

Half of British humor is self-deprecating.

If we include Irish then the last episode of Father Ted is a sane American among insane Irishmen although he's too polite to react to how idiotic they all are.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

He was never skinny but he went from taking up 1 seat on the bus to taking 2

I guess we can also include Kryten, who is supposed to be a Canadian robot or something.
Definitely so for Cat.

For the brits in this thread, your fake american accents are bad, the ones in most movies are bad

Americans are way too charitable about it
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GoodOlJr posted...

For the brits in this thread, your fake american accents are bad, the ones in most movies are bad

Americans are way too charitable about it

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GoodOlJr posted...

For the brits in this thread, your fake american accents are bad

Hugh Laurie disagrees.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Hugh Laurie disagrees.

Check some house scenes where he has to yell

He sounds like a dying cat

Hes good when hes "in the pocket"
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MrNintendo1213 posted...

British shows have like 6 episodes in a season that comes out once every 3 years for 3 seasons. And that's a long running british show.

https://giphy.com/gifs/reaction-doctor-who-laughing-fYIv6u3l8xv3O

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For reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXpTXZ2vhPk

Questionmarktarius posted...

I guess we can also include Kryten, who is supposed to be a Canadian robot or something.
Definitely so for Cat.

There's a rumor that that when they made the US version of Red Dwarf they wanted Robert Llewellyn (the only British guy they kept) on the project because they thought he actually was Canadian and Americans accept him lol.

Robert Llewellyn says he doesn't believe this though.
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