Learnt English From Watching Television: Difference between revisions

 

May make the character into a bit of a [[Radio Mouth]]. It's also easier when [[Aliens Steal Cable]] which in turn makes it easier to handwave [[Aliens Speaking English]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In one episode of ''[[Seven of Seven]]'', Nana is tutored in English by [[Funny Foreigner]] Melody Honey, who speaks Japanese with a bad [[Kansai Regional Accent|kansai accent]]. At the end of the episode, Nana asks her how she learned Japanese, and she mentions watching videos of [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine|manzai comedy routines]].

 

 

* Madison from ''[[Splash]]'' speaks only...Mermaidese at the beginning, but just as Allen has gotten into the swing of making excuses for her not speaking English, she picks it up from watching TV at Radio Shack.

* At the beginning of ''[[The Fifth Element]]'', Leeloo speaks only the Divine Language of the priests ("bada-boom"), but her perfect, genetically engineered self, is able to pick up the basics from a massive dose of future Internet. This also leads her to unfortunately absorb human war and hatred (and presumably a lot of porn).

* [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]] learned some basic words (y'know:"phone" and "home") from ''[[Sesame Street]]'' in a fairly [[Justified Trope|well justified way]]: the show had basic words sounded out next to a picture of what it was talking about. It is a show directed at preschoolers, after all.

* In the live action ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' film, Optimus Prime tells Sam and Mikaela that they learned English from the Internet, with the exception of Bumblebee, who uses the radio to speak Junkion-style (and one of the soundbites he plays is the alien from ''[[Explorers]]'').

 

 

 

 

* In ''[[Skins]]'', Anwar tells the Russian girl he meets what he'd like to do to her and becomes embarrassed when she reveals she speaks English and learnt it from watching ''[[Friends]]''. Cue her saying "How you doin'?"

* In an episode of the TV show spinoff of ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV series)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'', a cat accelerated to human intelligence and body-swapped with a human learned English by watching television.