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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 [[Upperclass Twit]] roles in ''[[
*** 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.
* In early 2007, Emily Mortimer had a recurring role on ''[[
* Irish Fiona from ''[[Burn Notice]]'', played by an English actress with a half-attempted American accent, reverts to her natural English accent to play a good-time girl.
** Also, a variant: Michael, despite having lived in Miami all his life, [[Not Even Bothering
** A hilarious lampshading in the same show: When Fiona's brother thinks Michael is a fellow Irishman, Michael has to go "undercover" as an American arms dealer. The brother is unconvinced Michael can pull it off, calling his American accent "a little dodgy."
*** This get even better because if you listen closely to Michael speaking "undercover" [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|Michael nearly slips into an Irish accent.]]
* In an episode of ''[[Six Feet Under]]'', Nate Fisher imagines his girlfriend as an Australian. [[Rachel Griffiths]], who played the girlfriend, is actually Australian.
* Irish actor Jason O'Mara got to use his native accent when an episode of the American adaptation of ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[Chuck]]'' Sarah has to pretend to be an Australian scientist, allowing Yvonne Strahovski to use her normal accent.
* In one episode of ''[[Dollhouse]]'', Sierra gets imprinted with the personality of an Australian fan, allowing [[Dichen Lachman]] to use the Australian accent she grew up with.
** Additionally, in season 2, {{spoiler|it turns out before Sierra became an Active, she was Australian, and has Lachman's accent when playing "herself".}}
* In one episode of ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'', the internationally ambiguous Julian Sark pretends to be American. Julian Sark is Russian-born but educated in Britain and spends a lot of time in Ireland. As a result, his character has an Irish-influenced British accent despite being neither Irish nor British. He's played by the American actor David Anders and the American accent the character faked was the actor's native accent.
* Chuck on ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' is played by English Ed Westwick. Chuck is obsessed with Blair, who brings back a guy from her summer vacation in Europe who turns out to be a fake-American, his true nationality being British (though the actor is American). So Chuck, being Chuck, fakes an English accent to pull a [[Bed Trick]] on Blair... and we have an English actor playing an American character who fakes an English accent as done rather poorly by an American actor.
* For ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
* Vicki Fowler arrives in ''[[Eastenders]]'' with an American twang, having been brought up in Florida by her British mother. The accent wasn't very convincing and after a few months the actress reverted to her native London speech pattern. This was handwaved as a deliberate effort by Vicki to fit in.
* A few episodes of ''[[Nip Tuck]]'' feature a British actor playing an American pretending to be British because he thought American women found it sexy. His "fake" British accent is, of course, flawless, but his American accent? Not so much.
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