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American Tv Shows And Irish

  • 15-07-2009 10:25PM
    #1
    JONJO THE MISER
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    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.


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  • #2
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,814 ✭✭✭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


  • #3
    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


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


  • #4
    K4t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    CSI
    There's your answer.


  • #5
    Caco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Caco


    Finn Wexford... what a great name!


  • #6
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,078 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    His accent has morphed? :confused:

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


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  • #7
    bicardi19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭bicardi19


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


  • #8
    pablomakaveli
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    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.


  • #9
    phasers
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    Murder she Wrote is/was (?) set in Ireland a few times.


    Oh the laughs I had


  • #10
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,574 ✭✭✭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?


  • #11
    Caco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 875 ✭✭✭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:


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  • #12
    BaconZombie
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    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


  • #13
    Lo23
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    +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!


  • #14
    grenache
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    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...


  • #15
    Handsome Bob
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    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.


  • #16
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,684 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #18
    markopantelic
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    I was told by a Canadian I talk like a person from Quebec speaking English. Lol.


  • #19
    Mars Bar
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    It's the third episode I have come across in CSI NY with phony Irish accents...


  • #20
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,872 ✭✭✭Skid


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

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


  • #21
    Rsaeire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #22
    Jesus Juice
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    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.


  • #23
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭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.


  • #24
    jumpguy
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    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?


  • #25
    Jesus Juice
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    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.


  • #26
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    Jesus Juice
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    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!!''


  • #28
    Overheal
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Real Irish crooks would never have lost their Ipods.
    they werent iPods though, they were oyePahds.


  • #29
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    ironictoaster
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    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


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  • #31
    Overheal
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    I think I categorically apologised for the entire United States in another thread regarding Far and Away.


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