History Woolseyism / WesternAnimation

* Similar to the ''KingOfTheHill'' examples above, The Québec dub of ''TheSimpsons'' replace many pop-culture references with local ones, and even implied the show was set in Québec, thought the later stopped with the increased politicization of the recent seasons.

* The Irish dub of Avatar:The last Airbender is peppered with Woolseyisms, (and excellent acting) but of particular note is Katara'a speech to the Earthbenders trapped on the iron prison ship. The entire speech stole bits out of Irish Colonial poetry (mostly Mo Ghile Mear) about how the Irish had hope of fighting back against the English because Bonny Prince Charlie is coming (If you're not that well up on Irish history, Charlie never did come), but the names were changed around to we have hope of defeating the Fire Nation because the Avatar is coming. This troper nearly cried. And she found the original to be quite narmish.

Also the actors all speak a different dialect of Irish depending on where in Ireland they came from. The Fire Nation have Connacht accents (western Ireland). Katara and Sokka have southern tendencies, and the Earth Kingdom have more standardised, school Irish. Aang seems to have a bit of everything, I suppose he travelled alot.

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** Yet that makes it more annoying as the show keeps throwing those local Québec references include including Burt Reynold and a Québecois celebrity talking to each other in a Québec-made awards ceremony!!! [[WallBanger Head meet wall.]]

** The Hungarian dub of that show went further than that: the dialog has been rewritten to rhymed prose by a writer/poet, József Romhányi. It gained a lot of puns and wordplay in the process. Even the Hungarian title (Frédi és Béni, a két kőkorszaki szaki) has a rhyme in it.

* ''DrawnTogether'', as translated into Russian by TNT (although it did have its share of flat-out AdaptationDecay). Most jokes specific to American culture that wouldn't make sense to a Russian audience were replaced with Russian-specific ones. In a particularly {{Anvilicious}} moment, Foxxy and Spanky recite the names of Russian reality show participants, like "This is for Olga!", in the first season finale.

* Polish dialoguist Dariusz Dunowski is generally a controversial figure in the dubbing industry, but his translations can be pretty damn clever. Not only does he include a lot of Polish slang, which makes the dialogue incredibly interesting to listen to - there's no stiff sentences or word-to-word translation. He also tends to put in references to Polish pop culture, even when there's no reference in the original. Almost always, it makes the dialogue sound funnier while still preserving the original thought. Some examples (all taken from the dubbed version of ''FanboyAndChumChum''):

* In the original English ''MickeysChristmasCarol'', the characters retain their names from the [[AChristmasCarol original story]], even though they are "played" by familiar Disney characters - Scrooge [=McDuck=] as Ebenezer Scrooge, or at least Ebenezer Scrooge looking like Scrooge [=McDuck=], etc. In the Finnish dub, their names switched back to the Disney characters, which makes perfect sense since Finnish children would presumably be at a loss with the odd English names they've never heard. This also necessitates a further change: Isabelle/Daisy in Scrooge's past is identified as Goldie O'Gilt, because it would be too odd for Scrooge to be dating her if she was actually named as Daisy Duck. (That all said, the translation also has some serious fumbles, such as "Ghost of Christmas Porridge" and, due to some dropped words of explanation and possibly the translators genuinely CompletelyMissingThePoint, Scrooge and his fiancée apparently having a financial contract to get married that involves her having to pay him.)

* In the original English ''MickeysChristmasCarol'', the characters retain their names from the [[AChristmasCarol original story]], even though they are "played" by familiar Disney characters - Scrooge [=McDuck=] as Ebenezer Scrooge, or at least Ebenezer Scrooge looking like Scrooge [=McDuck=], etc. In the Finnish dub, their names switched back to the Disney characters, which makes perfect sense since Finnish children would presumably be at a loss with the odd English names they've never heard. This also necessitates a further change: Isabelle/Daisy in Scrooge's past is identified as Goldie O'Gilt, because it would be too odd for Scrooge to be dating her if she was actually named as Daisy Duck. (That all said, the translation also has some serious fumbles, such as "Ghost of Christmas Porridge" and, due to some dropped words of explanation, Scrooge and his fiancée apparently having a financial contract to get married that involves her having to pay him.)

* In the original English ''MickeysChristmasCarol'', the characters retain their names from the [[AChristmasCarol original story]], even though they are "played" by familiar Disney characters - Scrooge [=McDuck=] as Ebenezer Scrooge, or at least Ebenezer Scrooge looking like Scrooge [=McDuck=], etc. In the Finnish dub, their names switched back to the Disney characters, which makes perfect sense since Finnish children would presumably be at a loss with the odd English names they've never heard. This also necessitates a further change: Isabelle/Daisy in Scrooge's past is called Goldie O'Gilt, because it would be too odd for Scrooge to be dating her if she was actually named as Daisy Duck. (That all said, the translation also has some serious fumbles, such as "Ghost of Christmas Porridge" and, due to some dropped words of explanation, Scrooge and his fiancée apparently having a financial contract to get married that involves her having to pay him.)

* In the original English ''MickeysChristmasCarol'', the characters retain their names from the [[AChristmasCarol original story]], even though they are "played" by familiar Disney characters - Scrooge [=McDuck=] as Ebenezer Scrooge, or at least Ebenezer Scrooge looking like Scrooge [=McDuck=], etc. In the Finnish dub, their names switched back to the Disney characters, which makes perfect sense since Finnish children would presumably be at a loss with the odd English names they've never heard. This also necessitates a further change: Isabelle/Daisy in Scrooge's past is called Goldie O'Gilt, because it would be too odd for Scrooge to be dating her if she was actually named as Daisy Duck.

* In the original English ''MickeysChristmasCarol'', the characters retain their names from the [[AChristmasCarol original story]], even though they are "played" by familiar Disney characters - Scrooge [=McDuck=] as Ebenezer Scrooge, or at least Ebenezer Scrooge looking like Scrooge [=McDuck=], etc. In the Finnish dub, their names switched back to the Disney characters, which makes perfect sense since Finnish children would presumably be at a loss with the odd English names they've never heard. This also necessitates a further change: Daisy in Scrooge's past is called Goldie O'Gilt, because it would be too odd for Scrooge to be dating her if she was actually named as Daisy Duck.

* The Brazilian dub of ''SouthPark'' tends to go to [[LostInTranslation the other side of the scale]], since it was made in an amateur studio with amateur actors. Nevertheless, one entire-episoded joke got a surprisingly creative treatment in the episode "Jared has Aidees". Since the portuguese word for "aidee" ("ajudante" or "assistente") doesn't sound at all like "AIDS" (or "SIDA"), the joke got a slight remake - Jared keeps telling everyone that he has "H & V". Which sounds exactly the same as "HIV", but he says that "H & V" stand for "Hector and Victor", his aidees. Sure, there were still some issues with grammar (especially verbal conjugation) due to the change, but still managed to get the joke across competently.

* In [[MeetTheRobinsons Meet the Robinsons]], Lewis says he's from Canada, and Tallulah points out that he must mean North Montana since it hasn't been called Canada for years. In Swedish, Lewis says he's from Denmark and Tallulah says that he must mean Southwest Skåne. (Skåne is a province in southern Sweden.)

** The scene where Farquaad interrogates Ginger turning both characters into {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s when the "Muffin Man" dialogue ends up with them quoting a popular Norwegian children's song about a baker ''for absolutely no reason,'' acting as if "he bakes big cakes, he bakes small cakes, he bakes cakes sprinkled with sugar" are huge, terrible secrets.
** Shrek, when asked by Fiona what kind of knight he is, alluding to his dub voice actor (children's show host Asgeir Borgermoen, who'd jokingly refer to himself as "boss over all bosses") and claiming to be "knight over all knights."

** In the Hungarian dub of the live-action film, Starscream became Üstökös ("Comet").
*** Though he has had a number of other names in different series. In ''Armada'', he is called Csillagsikoly (Starscream, literally), sometimes abbreviated to Csillag (Star); and his ''Energon'' (re-)incarnation was christened Surranó (Sneaker, which is what he does at his first appearance). Both dubs of the '86 movie refer to him as Starscream, however the delivery at times makes it sound like "Szarszkrím" (Shitscream).

** In Swedish, they got to keep their first names, but their last names was changed from Flintstone to "Flinta" (Flint) and from Rubble to "Granit" (Granite).

* The original Mexican dub of ''{{Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends}}'' left virtually no line of dialogue untouched, turning a stock-standard superhero action cartoon into a legendary, hilarious show that many [[TheEighties Children of the '80s]] (and even the [[ParentalBonus parents of those children]], for [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar various reasons]]) quote to this day. Sadly, this dub was replaced for a dead-literal one in post-2000 reruns, and [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the show lost most of its charm]].

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