Brief Accent Imitation: Difference between revisions

* Other characters on ''[[Babylon 5]]'' occasionally ape Londo Mollari's Hungarian-ish accent.

{{quote|'''Sheridan:''' As Londo would say, ''(puts on fake accent)'' The Narn are Barbarians...}}

** Jamie's lack of doing this was a source of humor in "Fish in a Barrel". He declared "it's alive" on the "reanimated fish" in his normal accent. Adam chided him for not doing the [[Mad Scientist]] accent and promptly did it, with the post-production crew darkening the sky and adding a lightning effect.

** Adam and the rest of the team also imitate Jamie's "accent" on occasion too, complete with using their fingers as "whiskers."

* Detective Jimmy McNulty trying to affect a British accent in a second-season episode of ''[[The Wire]]''... which is humorous, because while the ''character'' is from Baltimore, actor Dominic West is [[How's Your British Accent?|British]].

** Proposition Joe also pulls this off (and much more effectively) when he's calling around the Baltimore Police Department to try to find out information on Herc, using three different accents (one for each operator he speaks to).

{{quote|'''Scotty:''' Laddie, don't you think you should... ''rephrase'' that?

'''Korax:''' [faint Scottish accent] You're right. I should. [No accent] I didn't mean to say the Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say the Enterprise should be hauled away ''as'' garbage! }}

** And in a Season 3 episode ''Nurse Chapel'' also makes a comment to Scotty while imitating his accent.

* Michael Westen of ''[[Burn Notice]]'' will quickly jump into an accent necessary to perform his spy game. Sometimes to imitate a foreigner like South African, but usually to maintain a sort of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] by imitating Texan or deep Californian.

** And once ended up subverting the assumptions used in [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] by playing "Homer" as ''very clever'' Deep South white trash.

** Jeremy commonly does an American one whenever the US comes up (which succeeds in sounding like a mid-western American trying to imitate a southerner.)

* Supervillain Sylar on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' seems to have a knack for using fake accents to [[Paper-Thin Disguise|convince people he's someone that he's not]].

* Played with to hilarious effect on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' where Spike ([[Fake Brit|a British character played by an American actor]]) at one point put on a ''terrible'' American accent and claimed to be Xander's cousin.

** In season two, Buffy briefly imitates Kendra's Jamaican accent.

 

== Music ==

* Roger Miller sang about the fun of a trip to England in "England Swings" - "Try to mock/the way they talk/fun but all in vain"

 

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