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** It sounded a bit like he was lapsing into [[Redwall|molespeak.]] "Oi'm just an owld frriend of Xanderrrrrr's . . . Oh, to hell with it, I'm your man."
* In the ''[[House MD]]'' episode "The Socratic Method", the British Hugh Laurie's American titular character fakes an English accent to account for the anti-social hour he is calling a doctor to get further medical history for a patient (and there's at least one piece of fan fiction that claims House was faking again to allow for a crossover with a ''Friends'' episode in which Laurie briefly appears, with his native accent).
** As a bonus for longtime fans, he uses the ''exact'' accent used for his previous [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit]] roles in ''[[Blackadder]]'' and ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Jeeves and Wooster]]''.
*** Though he does leave in one rhortic 'r'.
* Spoofed on ''[[Psych]]''. Shawn tries to convince a hotel clerk that he's with Interpol by affecting a British accent and then pretending that his natural American accent is faked as part of his cover.
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