American Tv Shows And Irish

JONJO THE MISER

Why oh why cant they protray the Irish with at least someone that comes from Ireland with the accent, on CSI on Network 2 now they go to a hurling game and the guy is supposed to be from Ireland but has a scottish accent:rolleyes:, do they not hire researchers for T.V in America because quiet frankly i could do a beter job myself researching.

BaconZombie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSeLKz9GnaY

Link to thread for when it first air over here.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=59605144

Whosbetter?

Top 'o de Mornin' to Ye! To be sure,to be sure :pac:

K4t

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

CSI

There's your answer.

Caco

Finn Wexford... what a great name!

foxinsox

His accent has morphed?

I wish I had Sky..............

bicardi19

just posted the exact same thing on my facebook status, thats mad!! god its annoying isnt it?

pablomakaveli

The worst offender was Heroes when they had a part of series two set in Cork. All the actors playing Irish people were a mix of English, Scottish and American accents.

It was brutal.

phasers

Murder she Wrote is/was (?) set in Ireland a few times.


Oh the laughs I had

HalloweenJack

In fairness to them, they did put in some Irish rap (Rírá - 25 O'Clock in the Morning) in the background.

Also, isn;t one of the guys in CSI Irish? The lab guy?

Caco

phasers wrote: »

Murder she Wrote is/was (?) set in Ireland a few times.


Oh the laughs I had

Weren't there (real) leprechauns?!!

No american show got our number better than that episode of Captain Planet set in Belfast! :pac:

BaconZombie

Relic Hunter was the worst:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9o2YfvjKc

Link to all 5 parts:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=839E5E2E4B211374&search_query=relic+hunter+Irish+Crown+Affair

Lo23

+1 for Murder She Wrote..that had me in stitches..think the murder took place in a pub on Harcourt Street!

Also that episode of Heroes was shockingly bad!

grenache

Lo23 wrote: »

+1 for Murder She Wrote..that had me in stitches..think the murder took place in a pub on Harcourt Street!

Those culchies up to no good in Copper Face Jacks again...

Handsome Bob

Ah the Americans, well known for pumping money into making a globally praised TV show, but also well known for their god awful research skills for portraying anything outside of their own country.:pac:

Seriously Heroes were having a laugh, everything from the accents to the police/garda was portrayed embarassingly bad.

ejmaztec

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Ah the Americans, well known for pumping money into making a globally praised TV show, but also well known for their god awful research skills for portraying anything outside of their own country.:pac:

Seriously Heroes were having a laugh, everything from the accents to the police/garda was portrayed embarassingly bad.

Real Irish crooks would never have lost their Ipods.

Mars Bar

HalloweenJack wrote: »

In fairness to them, they did put in some Irish rap (Rírá - 25 O'Clock in the Morning) in the background.

Also, isn;t one of the guys in CSI Irish? The lab guy?

Yeah A.J Buckley (Adam), moved from Dublin when he was 6 to Canada.
I couldn't stop laughing at it, how is it that Flack can speak in so many languages?! And that was the most choreographed game of hurling I have ever seen, made me cringe!

The way Adam kept saying "Camánn!" lol

markopantelic

I was told by a Canadian I talk like a person from Quebec speaking English. Lol.

Mars Bar

It's the third episode I have come across in CSI NY with phony Irish accents...

Skid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy2npXG4a2Q

Magnum had a go at it in the 80s, to be sure

Rsaeire

They can get away with it because a lot of people think that's how Irish people speak. There was another thread like this one a few months back and that Heroes episode was mentioned; it was shockingly bad how the Irish accent was butchered.

One of my personal favourite examples of an American take on Ireland was in an episode of Star Trek Voyager where the crew took part in a holodeck program set in an old-fashioned Irish village called Fair Haven. At least it was set it in an older Ireland, so it wasn't as if it was a direct comparison to the then present Ireland, but even still, the accents were comical.

Jesus Juice

BOFH_139 wrote: »

Relic Hunter was the worst:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9o2YfvjKc

Link to all 5 parts:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=839E5E2E4B211374&search_query=relic+hunter+Irish+Crown+Affair

Wow...just....wow.

jill_valentine

Jesus Juice wrote: »

Wow...just....wow.

It's also important to bear in mind is that Relic Hunter is set in the present day.

That's what they think Modern Ireland is like.

jumpguy

BOFH_139 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSeLKz9GnaY

Link to thread for when it first air over here.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=59605144

That's abit surreal. Since when is hurling a game they all play down in the ghetto in the US?

Jesus Juice

jill_valentine wrote: »

It's also important to bear in mind is that Relic Hunter is set in the present day.

That's what they think Modern Ireland is like.

The way they had the video of the Dart going through Pearse Street then back to them where the streets look suspiciously like an american TV set.

jill_valentine

There's a particular, very clearly Scottish, actor who keeps cropping up as Irish supporting characters, I'd love to know why.

Smallish dark haired dude with a spectacular scar down one of his jaws. He was in Sin City and Charlie's Angels and a few other things. I always keep an eye out for him whenever there's a mention of Irish gangs in a show.

Jesus Juice

BOFH_139 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSeLKz9GnaY

Link to thread for when it first air over here.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=59605144

Actually,is it a bit sad that all I could think about during that was,''What sh!t hurls they have!!''

Overheal

ejmaztec wrote: »

Real Irish crooks would never have lost their Ipods.

they werent iPods though, they were oyePahds.

Overheal

jill_valentine wrote: »

There's a particular, very clearly Scottish, actor who keeps cropping up as Irish supporting characters, I'd love to know why.

Smallish dark haired dude with a spectacular scar down one of his jaws. He was in Sin City and Charlie's Angels and a few other things. I always keep an eye out for him whenever there's a mention of Irish gangs in a show.

Tommy Flanagan. He was a supporting role in Gladiator as well. Good guy. Also played the would be assassin of William Wallace in Braveheart.

ironictoaster

I know it's not a TV show but Tom Cruise wins the award for worst accent ever by a mile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxi8wvUBNhU

Overheal

I think I categorically apologised for the entire United States in another thread regarding Far and Away.

ironictoaster

Your apology shall be never accepted :pac:

jill_valentine

That's a kind of hurt you just don't forget, Overheal. I'm sorry.

Ruu_Old

Overheal wrote: »

I think I categorically apologised for the entire United States in another thread regarding Far and Away.

Say ya like me hat! :mad::mad:

Karl Hungus

Does it ever make you think how terribly wrong they get other european accents, and half the time we wouldn't notice?

Tar.Aldarion

Relic hunter and csi links are hilarious, thank you.

Jesus Juice

creggy wrote: »

I know it's not a TV show but Tom Cruise wins the award for worst accent ever by a mile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxi8wvUBNhU

Fcuk that,Richard Gere wins hands down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKV6_hB6nV0

Tar.Aldarion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EZ_5fy7Ew

jill_valentine

I'm convinced that from now on, every thread on Boards will just be an inescapable march towards somebody posting a clip from Deadliest Warrior.

Tar.Aldarion

jill_valentine wrote: »

I'm convinced that from now on, every thread on Boards will just be an inescapable march towards somebody posting a clip from Deadliest Warrior.

/Slingshot


One of our greatest powers.

Karl Hungus

David Boreanaz does a pretty horrid Irish accent as well.

jill_valentine

Showin' yer age there, Hungus, me boyo, bejaysus.

Karl Hungus

jill_valentine wrote: »

Showin' yer age there, Hungus, me boyo, bejaysus.

Huh!? Buffy/Angel wasn't that long ago.

jill_valentine

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, After Hours, but Buffy the Vampire Slayer was first broadcast in 1997.

I know, I was shocked too. I'll give you all a moment to deal with the implications.

Karl Hungus

Buffy kept going until 2003, and Angel until 2004. I'm hardly some old fogey to be familiar with the shows.

Christ, wait till my grandkids get a read of this, they'll have a right laugh.

Indie18

Caco wrote: »

Weren't there (real) leprechauns?!!

No american show got our number better than that episode of Captain Planet set in Belfast! :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw

classic

thelordofcheese

pablomakaveli wrote: »

The worst offender was Heroes when they had a part of series two set in Cork. All the actors playing Irish people were a mix of English, Scottish and American accents.

It was comedy gold.

Season 2 was the best season of heroes just for the episodes in cork.

Wreck

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Does it ever make you think how terribly wrong they get other european accents, and half the time we wouldn't notice?

When they do other english-speaking accents it's really noticable, especially characters from England, they get it so wrong most of the time.

bullets

Overheal wrote: »

Tommy Flanagan. He was a supporting role in Gladiator as well. Good guy. Also played the would be assassin of William Wallace in Braveheart.

I thought he played the character who got Married where his newly wedded wife got taken away for a bit of primae noctis and he later came back for revenge and killed
the local lord.

I did like David O'Hara the guy who Played Stephen.
He did not do too badly being Scottish putting on an Irish accent.

~B

komodosp

Shor'n whoy would deh be carin' what koind a' accents we have? Shor isn't ish mehd fer de Mericans, fé dideal dí fheidilí?

The Lepreachán in the The Simpsons episode (the one with Pierce Brosnan) was the best!

Handsome Bob

jill_valentine wrote: »

There's a particular, very clearly Scottish, actor who keeps cropping up as Irish supporting characters, I'd love to know why.

Smallish dark haired dude with a spectacular scar down one of his jaws. He was in Sin City and Charlie's Angels and a few other things. I always keep an eye out for him whenever there's a mention of Irish gangs in a show.

Not the bloke you are talking about but David O'Hara, who is in Braveheart and The Departed, always has a scottish accent when he's meant to be Irish. But tha man is a legend so all is forgiven;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQx-h4nM8gE