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* There is no objective way to speak and every learns how to speak at all from the people they know. This means that most if not everyone has an accent, even in their native language, that will be imperceptible to them in spite of how obvious it would be to strangers. This is where regional accents become apparent.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehog'' episode "Hooked on Sonics", Antoine has to explain to Rotor what he means when he keeps calling Sonic a "Fuel". When Rotor figures out that Antoine means "Fool", Antoine replies "Zats what I said, a fuel!"

* On an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', Magica Despell used magic to disguise herself, but her odd accent gave her away. She even said "Vot Ocksent?" when questioned about it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehog'' episode "Hooked on Sonics", Antoine has to explain to Rotor what he means when he keeps calling Sonic a "Fuel". When Rotor figures out that Aintoine means "Fool", Antoine replies "Zats what I said, a fuel!"

* ''Film/LastActionHero'' has a boy entering an ArnoldSchwarzenegger movie. Trying to convince him that this world is actually a work of fiction, Danny points out that Arnie's character, Jack Slater, has a thick Austrian accent that's quite weird for a native Angeleno. Slater replies "Egghcent? Vaht egghcent?"

* A version where it's not even ''their'' accent: In ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'', when Impulse passes on a message from the very Brooklynite Doiby Dickles, he does a BriefAccentImitation , but when Robin calls him on it, Bart's response is a seemingly genuine "He's talkin' wit' an aksent?"

** In another episode of ''MontyPython'' we see a BBC presentation of "[[Series/ElizabethR Erizabeth L]]," which is done by [[JapaneseRanguage an Asian director]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehog''episode "Hooked on Sonics", Antoine has to explain to Rotor what he means when he keeps calling Sonic a "Fuel". When Rotor figures out that Aintoine means "Fool", Antoine replies "Zats what I said, a fuel!"

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse''. Arpine Lusene, a [[ImpossibleThief ridiculously skilled]] GentlemanThief from France who appears in some of Creator/DonRosa's ScroogeMcDuck comics. When he writes letters in English, he does it in a [[FunetikAksent French accent]], but seems completely unaware of that.

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* ''Film/ThePinkPanther Strikes Again''. Inspector Clouseau (who has a thick French accent) is in Bavaria and goes to a hotel.

* In one scene in ''BloodbathAtTheHouseOfDeath'', Dr Lukas Mandeville, who normally speaks English without any foreign accent, lapses into a strong German accent. When another character points this out, he replies "I am not speaking in zis German accent!"

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}} 2''

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse''. Arpine Lusene, a [[ImpossibleThief ridiculously skilled]] GentlemanThief from France who appears in some of DonRosa's ScroogeMcDuck comics. When he writes letters in English, he does it in a [[FunetikAksent French accent]], but seems completely unaware of that.

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* ''WebComic/OrderOfTheStick''. Roy proofreads Durkon's letter to a high priest, written in the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarfish]] Scottish-esque accent. When told he doesn't need to transcribe it, Durkon just asks "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0305.html my what now?]]"?

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* The "fis phenomenon": a toddler who says "fis" for "fish" will nonetheless expect adults to say "fish"; the child can hear the difference even if the ability to produce the sounds correctly is in the future.

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* A RunningGag on ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' was Trish's mom saying something incomprehensible ("Kissing My Cup"), Trish translating it for her friends ("Kiss and make up") and Trish's mom replying "Is what I say!"

-->"British Consul": We Blitish here in Smolensk velly intellested in clicket.
-->Mr. Pither: Oh, cricket?
-->"British Consul": No, no...you not speak English velly well. Not clicket - clicket...clicketty click...clicket.
** In another episode of ''MontyPython'' we see a BBC presentation of "[[ElizabethR Erizabeth L]]," which is done by [[JapaneseRanguage an Asian director]].

-->Smart: Well, if it isn't my old enemy the Craw.
-->Claw: Not Craw! '''Craw!'''

* StephenFry brings up two examples during [[http://youtu.be/-AQafwx3h7A?t=48s a discussion about Scottish accents]] in an episode of ''Series/{{QI}}''. The first is a story about Maggie Smith, who contacted a woman from Morningside hoping to study her accent in preparation for starring in ''Literature/ThePrimeOfMissJeanBrodie'', only to offend the woman because she was convinced she didn't have any kind of accent. The second was a Scot who believed his own accent was indistinguishable from an English one, but who sounded "more Scottish than a Glaswegian drunk in a Soho doorway."

* Creator/{{Hayk Manukyan}}

-->Doofenshmirtz: Did you just say, "'Swart' our plan"?
-->Red Skull: No. Swart! Sw- Vit a T-H! Swart!
-->Doofenshmirtz: Oh, "thwart"! Yeah, it makes more sense. [[HypocriticalHumor I think that maybe you should go see a speech pathologist or a-a-a dialect coach or someth—]]

* {{Hayk Manukyan}}

-->Lusene:Ze Mooney bean!
-->Reporter: Mooney bean? What's that?
-->Lusene: Not "Mooney bean", you dope! '''Mooney bean''!'

->Clouseau: Tell me, do you have a room?
->Desk Clerk: I do not know what a "reum" is.
->Inspector Clouseau: [looks up "room" in his phrase book] Zimmer (German for "room").
->Desk Clerk: Ah! A room!
->Clouseau: That is what I have been saying, you idiot.

->Kemp: I think before we go around killing people, we had better make damn sure of our evidence. Und we had better confirm the fact that young Frankenstein is indeed vollowing in his grandfather's vootstaps.
->Villagers: What?
->Kemp: Vollowing in his grandfather's vootstaps. Vootstaps! Vootstaps! [stamps feet]
->Villagers: Oh, footsteps.

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