Line #101 Main/JustAStupidAccent


1	->'''Madame [=LaFarge=]:''' We are so poor, we do not even have a language! Just a stupid accent!\
2	'''Frenchmen:''' She's right, she's right! We all talk like Creator/MauriceChevalier!
3	-->-- ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI''
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5	Occasionally, a film or TV show will be set in a foreign country, where another language is spoken. [[TranslationConvention Instead of having the actors speak normally]], or having them attempt to speak in their characters' actual language, the characters instead speak English - except in an accent to constantly remind viewers that these characters are foreign. A TranslationConvention that bats you over the head with the RuleOfPerception.
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7	Occasionally, their speech [[PoirotSpeak will be peppered with some words and phrases from the language they are attempting to emulate]], but these will be rare, and only the simplest ones that the audience is intended to know, such as "oui" or "hai" (and perhaps a ForeignCussWord or two, if only to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Get Crap Past The Radar]]).
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9	Sometimes dubbing/translation in news programs can seem like this, because often it is easier to find (for example) a Russian translator who speaks English with a heavy Russian accent than a native English speaker who can readily translate Russian.
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11	Not to be confused with PoirotSpeak, where a foreign character speaking English will pepper their speech with words and phrases from their native language. Although the effect is much the same, Just a Stupid Accent can grate a little more, as the viewer is left to surmise that [[HerrDoktor Doktor Von Evil]] speaks flawless English but somehow never learned the word for "yes". See also UnintelligibleAccent, where their accent is too thick to understand.
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13	This also occurs when two foreign characters who speak the same language meet up in another country. Instead of conversing in their native language, they still converse in their broken second language.
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15	Rarely used outside cartoons anymore, although once more prominent in live-action comedy films.
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17	For the written version, see ForeignLookingFont. Not to be confused with WhatTheHellIsThatAccent. See also ElSpanishO.
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19	!!Examples
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24	* The "Opulence" [=DirecTV=] ad, wherein a Russian Oligarch brags about saving big cash with [=DirecTV=].
25	-->"Opulence. I has it."\
26	"I also like savings ze mahhney."\
27	"Most premiums televisions peckidge... I jump in it."
28	* Since 2009, UK price-comparison website comparethemarket.com has been running the advertising campaign Advertising/CompareTheMeerkat starring Aleksandr Orlov, a Russian meerkat, and an ever increasing cast of similarly Russian characters. None of them ever speak actual Russian, only heavily-accented English.
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32	* ''Anime/SuperAtragon'': Lead female protagonist Annette has a British Accent in the English dub for no reason beyond the producers ensuring the lead female protagonist isn't mistaken for American.
33	* The ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' manga has a brief flashback to Pip Bernadotte's childhood, where we see his grandfather explain the family line of work to him. Both characters are French, but they speak to each other in English with a heavy French accent, at least in one translation.
34	* In the dub of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', whenever we see non-English speaking characters talking, they simply speak English with an exaggerated sterotypical accent. This is entirely deliberate as part of the GagDub status of ''Hetalia'''s dub, as Creator/ToddHaberkorn, the voice actor for Northern Italy, has [[WordOfGod mentioned]] that he originally attempted a more "realistic" sounding Italian accent before being told to "just go full ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Super Mario]]''".
35	* In the English dub of ''Anime/CodeGeassAkitoTheExiled'', the European characters all have French accents (since in the backstory of the ''Franchise/CodeGeass''-verse, Napoleon succeeded in conquering all of Europe).
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39	* The ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' comics do this with the ''font'' of the foreigner who was speaking. The Greeks would use angular letters, the Germans would speak in Fraktur, and the Normans would use Nordic-looking letters. Sometimes the differently-fonted speech can be understood by the Gaulish protagonists, but not always. The Egyptian hieroglyphics were often ''TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}'' but sometimes just random drawings or French visual puns, and they weren't understood by the Gauls. In one hilarious scene, when Gaulish sidekick Obelix asks an Egyptian to tell him to say "speak" in hieroglyphics, Obelix's speech is rendered as crude stick figures instead of hieroglyphics.
40	** The Vikings use diacritics (Ø and Å), which the Gauls can't understand. Astérix tries to speak it, but places the diacritics on the wrong letters. Later on, a Gaul slave to the Vikings places the diacritics on the correct letters, but the bar on the O is inverted and the ring on the A is a square. One Viking comments on his horrible accent.
41	** Played with in ''Asterix and the Picts'': the Pictish warrior [=MacAroon=] speaks in [[UsefulNotes/ScottishEnglish vaguely Scots gibberish]] in a Celtic-looking font. At first this seems like the usual ''Asterix'' style of depicting accents, but we soon realise that he's struggling with low confidence and a bad throat, and as a result, he's mumbling everything he says - when he's feeling more confident and healthier, he speaks in a normal font. The ForeignLookingFont here is a way of indicating that he can be understood by the other characters so long as he's speaking clearly, but if he mumbles or stammers at all, his thick accent makes it impossible for the Gaulish characters to understand him. (In RealLife, Pictish and Gaulish were probably mutually intelligible, in much the same way as British English and the Scots language are today, but, just as in the comics, understanding it if spoken badly would have been quite hard work.)
42	** In ''Asterix in Britain'', the Britons also speak a strange form of Gaulish. In the original, this is represented as French with English syntax. The English translation has them speaking in a frightfully stereotyped StiffUpperLip sort of way, don't you know.
43	* Whenever creator/artist Creator/SergioAragones addresses readers in [[ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer his comics]], he "speaks" with a heavily-accented English. This has occasionally caused him trouble in real life. Once when he was invited to be a speaker for a panel at a convention, the con organizers politely provided him with a translator... despite Aragonés knowing perfect English and only using the goofy accent as a gag. He politely pretended not to speak English so as not to waste the translator's time.
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47	* ''Fanfic/IAmRedacted'': An InUniverse, inverted, and intentionally invoked example with [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Midoriya Izuku]]. While in his hero identity Nimbus, he deliberately speaks with an American accent so the public will [[{{Fauxreigner}} mistake him as an American]], further distancing him from his SecretIdentity. It works because he wears a fully-concealing helmet and hero suit, which prevents anyone from seeing any of his discerning physical features.
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51	* ''[[Film/CaptainBlood Captain Blood]]'' has Basil Rathbone put on an atrocious French accent in case the viewers forget Levasseur is meant to be French. [[LargeHam He milks it to a hilarious extent.]]
52	* Creator/PeterSellers as Inspector Clouseau from ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther''. Clouseau goes on to avert it by speaking in an accent which not only bears little or no resemblance to any French accent real or imagined ("whit is zis minkey??") and [[{{Flanderization}} grew more exaggerated with each film]], but never actually speaking a single word of actual French, although Sellers himself spoke the language fluently.
53	* ''Film/{{Firefox}}'': This movie goes back and forth between this trope and TranslationConvention. The main character Grant (played by Creator/ClintEastwood) is stated in the film to be fluent in Russian due to him having a Russian mother. When he is in Russia speaking to Russians, it sounds just like Clint Eastwood speaking English, thus Translation Convention. When the Russians speak back to him (or are speaking to each other), they have over the top hammy Russian accents. The only scene in the film where the Russian accent is justified is when the Soviet premier contacts Grant aboard the Firefox - since he knows Grant is American he speaks to him in English with an accent.
54	* Creator/MelBrooks likes this trope.
55	** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'', when Madame [=DeFarge=] says "We are so poor, we do not even have a language! Just a stupid accent!".
56	** Also present in ''Film/YoungFrankenstein,'' where the (ostensibly Romanian) townsfolk speak English with bad German or Cockney accents. Inspector Kemp's is the worst - like Inspector Clouseau, his own countrymen can't understand him half the time.
57	--->'''Inspector Kemp''': Vee had better ''confeerm'' de fect dat Yunk Frankenshtein iss indeed... [[SuddenlyShouting VALLOWING EEN EES GANDFADDA'S VOOTSHTAPS]]\
58	'''Crowd''': ''What''?\
59	'''Kemp''': (''Calmly'') Vallowing in his grandfather's vootshtaps. (''Starts walking in place'') Vootshtaps, vootshtaps!\
60	'''Crowd''': Ohhhh!
61	* ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'': The first part of the movie, when the main characters are kids, has them speaking in subtitled Hindi. When they grow up, however, they're portrayed speaking English with Hindi accents.
62	* Also used in the ''Film/MiamiVice'' movie. The Colombian drug lords only speak English with an accent.
63	* [[Film/JamesBond Bond]] films used to do this quite often with Russian characters. See ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' or ''Film/GoldenEye'' for two particularly blatant examples. It was so pervasive in the Bond movies that apparently no one on the set noticed when Bond managed to convince a German military officer that he was German just by putting on an accent. There is a notable aversion in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''. Bond is set up as a Russian scientist, partnering him with Christmas Jones (American). For most of their introductory dialogue, he speaks with a thick Russian accent, making it almost this trope - until she comments, in Russian, that he speaks remarkably good English for a Russian. He responds that he went to Oxford in Russian that is apparently unaccented enough to pass without comment.
64	* The film version of ''Literature/GorkyPark'' takes this in an interesting direction: in a film mostly set in the Soviet Union, all the Russian characters speak with ''British'' accents.[[note]]This was rather to the annoyance of Creator/WilliamHurt, who had spent a great deal of time before shooting started perfecting his Russian accent only to be told right beforehand by Michael Apted that he wanted a British accent instead.[[/note]]
65	* Channel 4's documentary about the Hindenburg disaster, ''[[UsefulNotes/TheHindenburg Hindenburg]]'', was very powerful - apart from the awful German accents spoken by the passengers and pilots of the airship.
66	* The film version of ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' is extremely bad about this. Not only do the Japanese characters speak [[GratuitousEnglish Engrish]] with a bit of GratuitousJapanese thrown in, but they actually hold conversations with an [[{{Eagleland}} American]] ([[RaceLift who was Japanese in the book]]) with no explanation given as to how they can understand each other. Something of a necessity, given that the three lead actresses were Chinese and two of them didn't speak English when they were cast - Gong Li only learning her lines phonetically. Zhang Ziyi spoke about the difficulties of learning English for the role and learning to speak it with a Japanese accent, comparing it to a native English speaker having to learn Russian and speak it with a Chinese accent.
67	* Creator/DanielDayLewis in ''Film/TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing'' is an Englishman portraying a tragic Czech lothario by putting on an accent that is a mixture of TV-presenter British and cold-war-spy-movie Russian. The effect is less than suave, more like distractingly ridiculous.
68	* ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}''
69	** In ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'', almost all of the Spanish noblemen speak English in Spanish accents for the entire film, except for one whose accent is British, but there is a translation scene in which Catherine Zeta-Jones is addressed by a Mexican peasant woman who does NOT speak English. She speaks [[{{Mayincatec}} Nahuatl]] for a moment, and then her daughter translates into Spanish-accented English. It's a pretty good choice, in that no California Spanish noblewoman would be expected to speak an Indian language.
70	** Lampshaded in the [[Film/TheLegendOfZorro second movie]]. Zorro is annoyed when his horse refuses to obey his command until he speaks actual Spanish.
71	* In Creator/EdwardZwick's ''Film/{{Defiance}}'' all the main characters, who are Eastern European Jews, speak in heavily Slavic-accented English when speaking amongst themselves, presumably in Yiddish. However, they switch to Russian when conversing with Soviet partisans.
72	* ''Film/K19TheWidowmaker'' has Creator/HarrisonFord and Creator/LiamNeeson hilariously attempting Russian accents. However, they still manage to sound just like Creator/HarrisonFord and Creator/LiamNeeson.
73	* Used extensively in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''. None of the voice actors are actually French.
74	* This is especially glaring in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' where the Austrians (good guys, but definitely German-speaking) speak normal English and the Germans (bad guys, ALSO German-speaking) speak English with a German accent. Possibly justified on another level - German as spoken in Germany sounds quite distinct from Austrian German (especially to an Austrian), so representing that difference this way makes it an AccentAdaptation.
75	* The 2002 film ''Film/{{Amen}}'' also has Germans speaking English with a German accent, while the Americans speak normal American English.
76	* ''Film/CatalinaCaper'' as observed by Tom Servo in ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'': "Oh, what are you, Creepy Girl? Are you French, Italian, or one of those swarthy Gypsy types, heh heh? Your accent certainly implies a Romance language but I just can't be sure! But we can definitely rule out a Germanic language..."
77	** Amusingly, Tom is wrong. The actress (though not necessarily the character) was from Sweden, and thus her native language was indeed a Germanic one.
78	* ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'' has the Russians in the English export dub speaking this way, and the American ambassador's dubber [[HowsYourBritishAccent tries his best]] to hide his own mid-Atlantic accent.
79	* Especially perplexing in ''Film/TheKarateKidPartII'': Most of the film is set in Okinawa. There are quite a few scenes where Daniel is nowhere around, and every character on-screen is Okinawan. However, they ''persist'' in speaking in broken, heavily accented English rather than subtitled Japanese, the most notorious example being Miyagi-sensei and Sato. The few times anyone DOES speak Japanese, it's either translated for Daniel's benefit by someone else (the elder Miyagi-sensei's words upon waking to see his son sitting beside him), or not translated at all (Chozen's rant as he runs away during the storm).
80	* Parodied in ''Film/DuckSoup''. Chicolini (Chico) has disguised himself as Firefly (Groucho), and when Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont) asks why he's talking like that, he replies, "Well, I think maybe sometime I go to Italy, and I'm practicing the language." Impressed, Mrs. Teasdale gushes, "Your dialect is perfect."
81	* In ''Film/{{Congo}}'', Creator/TimCurry speaks the entire time in VampireVords.
82	* Completely invoked in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', which takes the style of a 40s war film. Nazis and members of [[StupidJetpackHitler eventual-Nazi-offshoot HYDRA]] never seem to speak in German ''at all'', whether they're speaking to each other or to Cap, whether they're healthy or taking their last, cyanide-laced breath. However, the Norwegians were briefly heard speaking in their native tongue.
83	* The [[Film/{{The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\|2011}} 2011 remake]] of ''[[Film/TheMillenniumTrilogy The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]'' has most of the cast speaking in a Swedish accent. Creator/DanielCraig is the only exception, speaking more or less in his natural British accent.
84	* The English dub of ''Film/NightWatch'' has almost all of the Russian characters speaking English with a Russian accent.
85	* In ''Film/TheEagleHasLanded'', Creator/MichaelCaine uses a thick German accent in the beginning of the film, but switches to his normal one later on to indicate he's speaking English.
86	* ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'': Ewan [=McGregor=] is the only actor putting on a French accent, despite the story being set in a specific part of France. He himself said he wanted to make it more authentic, but the higher-ups insisted he go for a more Hollywood style French accent. Stanley Tucci and Audra [=McDonald=] do likewise, even though all the other French characters speak with British accents.
87	* In ''Film/{{Exodus}}'' most characters speak with their actors' native accents (British or American). In two cases this doesn't happen. One works; David Opatoshu as Akiva speaks Yiddish accented English (Yiddish was the character's mother tongue, as it was the actor's, though David Opatoshu hailed from the United States as opposed to Eastern Europe). One...doesn't; American Jill Haworth, playing German-born and Danish raised Karen Hansen Clement, puts on a weird accent that can best be described as "vaguely Eurotrash."
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91	* In Creator/RudyardKipling's story ''In the Rukh'' (1893) Muller, a German forest ranger in India, speaks with a highly-exaggerated accent unless he's speaking the local Indian dialect. Observe:
92	-->If I only talk to my boys like a Dutch uncle, dey say, “It was only dot damned old Muller,” and dey do better next dime. But if my fat-head clerk he write and say dot Muller der Inspecdor-General fail to onderstand and is much annoyed, first dot does no goot because I am not dere, and, second, der fool dot comes after me he may say to my best boys: “Look here, you haf been wigged by my bredecessor.” I tell you der big brass-hat pizness does not make der trees grow.
93	** Not just the accent, but also the grammatical mistakes and occasional German words.
94	* Justified in ''Literature/{{Starplex}}''- the computer that handles the translations assigns alien languages an accent so listeners can tell what language is being spoken.
95	* Referenced in the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book "Elfangor's Secret", when the Animorphs have time-travelled to 15th-century France.
96	--> I helped the green knight get to his feet. "Sorry," I said. "How do you say 'sorry' in French?"
97	--> "Sorreeee?" Marco offered. "Ah em verreee sorreee."
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101	* ''{{Series/Charmed 1998}}'':
102	** Invoked in "I Dream of Phoebe". Jinny the innocent uses a generic 'Middle Eastern' accent when she first appears, and is later revealed to be a demon in disguise. After said reveal, she drops the accent and starts speaking in an American one.
103	** "Used Karma" has Phoebe being possessed by the spirit of UsefulNotes/MataHari, and putting on a slight French accent whenever she speaks. All the while reinforcing how she hates the French.
104	* Used all the time in ''Series/MissionImpossible,'' when the team traveled to a foreign country and had to speak extensively with the locals. To pick one example at random, "The Phoenix" is set in an unnamed Iron Curtain country, causing ''everyone'' to speak with thick psuedo-Slavic accents throughout.
105	* Also common in other spy shows of the 1960s.
106	* Played with in the British sitcom ''Series/AlloAllo'', set in France at the time of the Second World War. Everyone speaks English but the two British Air Force officers speak with a posh accent, which is meta-English, and can't understand the rest of the cast who speak meta-French. The British policeman also speaks with a posh accent when talking in "English" but when addressing the other characters in "French" (which was a second language) he has a deliberately distorted accent leading to some of the humor in the show such as saying "Good morning" as ''Good moaning'' and "passing by" as ''pissing by''. Surprisingly this wasn't censored by the strict regulations for pre-watershed BBC programming, and this joke was used almost every time his character was on screen. All of the German characters speak with German accents (strength varies between characters).
107	** Michelle of the Resistance, the only French character who speaks "English", does so by putting on the same posh accent as the RAF officers and the policeman, usually beginning the conversation with an RAF briefing-esque "All right, chaps".
108	** In one episode, the 'ghost' of Renee speaks actual French "J'accuse! J'accuse!"; when talking about it later, the accused guy wonders, 'who is this 'Jacques Hughes'?
109	** And another when ze Colonel and Hans are forced to pretend to be British, they try to speak English, but it comes out as "Wafflewafflewafflewaffle"
110	** In yet another episode, Renee and his wife accidentally get transported to England and can't communicate at all with the British, who all speak Meta-English or the same Meta-French as the Policeman (with one person remarking in English that the Police man is a good friend of his and speaks French like a native!). Throwing further fuel on the fire, it's implied that the French characters are speaking a rural dialect and most of the English speakers are doing a formal dialect.
111	* The cast of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' often make fun of their own difficulty at rendering realistic foreign accents.
112	* The BBC seems very fond of dubbing over Japanese speakers in Jonathan Ross's ''{{Japanorama}}'' with people speaking English, but with very pronounced Japanese accents.
113	* Used in ''Series/HogansHeroes'' for the Germans, bar the occasional use of well-known German phrases. This is averted with French, however, as [=LeBeau=] talks to himself and other Frenchmen in actual French. One reason for this may be that every character on the show (including the Allied prisoners) understands German, but only [=LeBeau=] understands French and so the audience is left in the dark like everyone else.
114	** Also, the (American, British, and French) prisoners seem to be able to pass themselves off as German when the situation calls for it simply by speaking English with a heavy German accent
115	* Shows up on ''{{Series/Lost}}'' with Iraqi characters, but entirely averted with the Korean characters (because their actors actually speak Korean.)
116	** Well, one of the actors speaks Korean. Creator/DanielDaeKim, whose character speaks nothing but Korean for the first 4 seasons, is a native English speaker who hadn't spoken Korean for years.
117	* While the original English indeed uses a foreign language, the Brazilian Portuguese dub of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has this exchange:
118	-->'''Ted:''' You can't even speak another language!\
119	'''Victoria:''' (Portuguese with a British accent) Yes, I can.
120	* Parodied in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' when it becomes apparent that Buster thinks you speak Spanish by putting on a Mexican accent.
121	* In ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': In "The Disappearing Act", Gordon claims to know French when answering a phone call before simply putting on a silly French accent.
122	* The short-lived, little-seen 1988 series adaptation of ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'' had a bizarre and memorable example. The squad was behind enemy lines in Italy, and it was an important plot point that some (but ''only'' some) of the Dozen could speak fluent Italian. Instead of actually having the actors speak Italian on screen, the use of Italian is indicated ''by having the American actors speak English with an absurdly exaggerated Italian accent''. It's not ''meant'' to be PlayedForLaughs.
123	* Invoked and lampshaded on ''Series/TheATeam'', "[[Recap/TheATeamS2E3TheOnlyChurchInTown The Only Church In Town]]", when they go on a mission in Ecuador and need to negotiate transportation with a villager. Hannibal can actually speak a little Spanish, but can't establish a dialogue with the man. Murdock, on the other hand, makes himself understood perfectly well... simply by speaking English with a ridiculous Spanish accent!
124	** In the Season 5 premiere, the A-Team goes against terrorists who have hijacked a plane in Spain. Though the terrorists demand a prisoner release from a Spanish jail, it is unclear if they are Spanish too because they speak nothing but accented English. Murdock later gains access to the plane by posing as a Spanish co-pilot, speaking nothing but English with a Spanish accent and some Spanish words thrown in.
125	* A ''Creator/MontyPython'' sketch features a United Nations meeting where everyone listens to translations of what is being said...which are all just English in different accents, except for a Nigerian representative who just hears drums.
126	* ''Series/JackOfAllTrades'' takes place on a French colony, but French characters inevitably just speak English with a silly accent. They could possible be speaking English for the benefit of the American and English leads, but they speak the same way even when every character present is French.
127	* ''Series/{{MacGyver\|1985}}'' tended to do this with Russian characters.
128	* Mocked in ''Series/MockTheWeek'' during a segment on "unlikely lines to hear in a war film":
129	-->'''Hugh Dennis:''' ''[[ThoseWackyNazis In heavy German accent]]'' ...Vy are we speaking English?
130	* Parodied in ''Series/DoctorWho''. The cast constantly find themselves in different parts of Time and Space, but blending in isn't really a problem, as the TranslatorMicrobes will handle the language. That won't stop the Doctor's companions repeatedly trying to use the stereotypical accent and mannerisms of wherever they land, just for the Doctor to tell them, deadpan, "No...no, don't do that." When Donna tried speaking real Latin to Romans, the translator got confused and they heard what they thought was Celtic.
131	* Season 2 of ''Series/TheWire'' is face-palmingly full of these. You've got Greek, Ukrainian and Israeli characters all speaking with the same heavy, vaguely-east-European accent - with an unmistakable American accent underneath. All three actors are, of course, Americans. As a bonus, the various Greek characters speak English with one another half the time (though, Greek the rest of the time). [[spoiler:But of course, they are not even Greek.]]
132	* The Showtime miniseries ''The Feast of All Saints'' (based on the Anne Rice novel of the same name) uses this to get the effect of French Creole characters living in antebellum Louisiana. Most of the cast speak English peppered with French using French accents, with the example of one character who is from Mississippi and uses a "standard" southern accent.
133	* Several episodes of ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' took place in a foreign nation (including East Germany, France and the Soviet Union). In all such episodes, natives of those countries spoke to one another in accented English even in private.
134	* Subverted on ''Series/TheAmericans''. The pilot is full of flashback scenes set in Russia, with people speaking English to each other. It looks like this trope is happening, but in fact they really are speaking English to each other -- part of the protagonists' spy training is that they speak only in English. Later in the show we see scenes involving Russians who aren't deep-cover agents, and they all speak subtitled Russian.
135	* Lampshaded in the ''Series/DangerForce'' episode "Mime Games" when the gang is in France and they are told French is just English with an outrageous accent.
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139	* Music/PinkFloyd:
140	** "A Spanish Piece" from ''More'' has the very-British David Gilmour attempting (and failing comically) to imitate a Spanish accent to tell us, that, yes, this piece is supposed to be taking place in Spain. Because there's no way we could have known that from the title, right?
141	** "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict]]" has Roger Waters attempting a Scottish accent as he tells a story a bunch of rodents about a battle [[UnreliableNarrator he apparently]] [[PosthumousNarration died in]]. His accent is stunningly modern for a ''pict,'' who were absorbed into the Gaels by the 11th century.
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145	* Done for comedy in ''Pinball/{{Diner}}'' with its [[FiveTokenBand multiethnic crowd of customers.]]
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149	* ''The Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany Radio Show'' adds a flashback scene to ''Romeo and Juliet'', performed in a ridiculous Italian accent ("don't-a mention the spaghett'").
150	* A ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'' skit about Voltaire has three lines in French before deciding to abandon that in favour of "Ou'''rraa''jous Frranch accen's". Simon Kane refuses to participate, and finishes the sketch with a ''proper'' French accent.
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154	* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Dylan Moran in Monster -- the bit where he's talking about the common view of the French:
155	--> "I 'ate my painteengs. I 'ate them! I 'ate your painteengs too!"\
156	"You ate my painteengs?!"\
157	"No, I ''hate'' zem; why do we have to talk fahkeeng Eenglish?"
158	** And again, when his accent begins to slip:
159	--> (laughing) "Where are you from, exactlee?"\
160	"Ah danno, I'm Eurotrash, shaddap!"
161	* And by Eddie Izzard on several occasions, when attempting a foreign accent and then realizing it's just not going to work. Hence sulky Soviets deciding 'we dahn't wunnuh ga tuther moohuhyun' and Pavlov (during his cat experiment) becoming Welsh.
162	** During a James Bond bit he lost control of the accent he was doing for a SMERSH goon. He ran with it and gave the goon an electronic voice disguise gizmo that was stuck in shop demonstration mode.
163	* Paul F. Tompkins' routine "Cherry Picking", where the joke quickly goes from [[RefugeInAudacity superstar migrant laborer Jesus Guerrero signing baskets at fruit-picking fantasy camp]], to how bad the voice Paul is using for him is ("it kinda just sounds like you're a vampire or something") -- and finally, to Jesus articulately commiserating that he knows "this bit has outworn its welcome", but he can't stop as long as the audience keeps laughing.
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167	* In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', Communists often speak English (well, "Clonish") with stereotypical Russian accents and broken grammar-- but the characters generally don't know what that is or what it means, and displaying such knowledge about Commies is a good way to get accused of being a Commie yourself.
168	** One mission involves ''everyone'' playing Commies in a Commie-dominated Alpha State. The book actually explains the stereotypical broken grammar in formal terms, followed by "If having trouble understanding, not to be worrying, merely to be imitating helpful examples given throughout book".
169	* ''TabletopGame/RedDwarf'': Evil characters can choose the language specialisation of "Churman", which is presumably just English with a bad German accent.
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173	* Used in the play ''Translations'' by Brian Friel. The characters seem to alternate between English and Irish accents. The audience eventually realizes that the accents represent the English and Gaelic languages. We can understand everyone, because it's Just A Stupid Accent, but the characters can't understand each other. This becomes especially devastating in a scene involving an English man and an Irish woman who have fallen in love and only wish they could communicate.
174	* Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/TheGrandDuke,'' which features a German theater troupe with an English lead actress, [[InvertedTrope inverts this trope]]: everyone speaks unaccented English, except for the English character, [[AccentAdaptation who is written with a thick German accent.]]
175	** An amusing subversion of RealLifeWritesThePlot: the role of Julia was originally played by Ilka Von Palmay, who had an impressive singing voice but a ''Hungarian'' accent.
176	* ''Theatre/TheCompleteWorksOfWilliamShakespeareAbridged'' does ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' in (deliberately) terrible Scottish accents.
177	* The musical version of ''Theatre/{{The Scarlet Pimpernel}}'' features Marguerite and Armand St Just, as well as the villains Chauvelain and Robbispierre (yes, that one) who are all, obviously, French. They all speak in thick French accents peppered with french phrases even when in France. With the exception of Chauvelain, who inexplicably dons a British dialect (though still opting to keep the random French words).
178	** Even Chauvelain gets the accent treatment about fifty percent of the time, depending on the production's director.
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182	* In ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans Path of the Furon'', in the map Belleville (a parody of Paris) one of the nameless [=NPCs=] found wandering the landscape will lampshade this trope in one of their readable thoughts.
183	* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' plays this straight for the Chinese people in Hong Kong, and also has it as a plot point: a supposedly French mechanic speaks with the wrong accent. It's a tip-off that he's an impostor... well, that, and the corpse of the real mechanic lying there in the open.
184	* If ''VideoGame/RomeTotalWar'' is an indication, the Greeks, Egyptians, Eastern peoples, Carthaginians, Numidians, and the various barbarian tribes, all spoke perfect English aside from their accents. ''VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar'' takes this one step further: Scots speak in a thick Scottish accents, The Holy Roman Empire and France speak in thick over-the-top German and French accents and throw in GratuitousGerman/[[GratuitousFrench French]] on a regular basis, the English speak in a posh [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents English accent]], the Moors, Turks and Egyptians speech is in an Arabic accent and is laced with Arabic terms, the Spanish, Portuguese, various Italians, and the Byzantines all speak in a generic Southern European accent, the Eastern European factions (and, for some reason, the Danes) speak in a generic Eastern European accent, and the Mongols, Timurids and Aztecs speak in an JustForFun/{{egregious}} East-Asian accent.
185	** The Kingdoms Expansion to ''VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar'' takes it one step further. The units all speak in English with an accent depending on their cultural type, e.g. when playing as the Vikings in the Britannia Campaign your Huscarl units will speak English with a vaguely Scandinavian accent, while any Bill Militia etc have a vaguely English Accent and so on.
186	** ''VideoGame/TotalWarShogun2'' featured an odd variation of this as well. The units and generals speak entirely in Japanese, but the campaign and battle advisors speak English in ridiculously overblown Japanese accents.
187	* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' examples:
188	** In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'', by some miracle of linguistics, everybody in a Russian coal mine/gulag can speak fluent, accented English. Mason, having already been CIA by the time he was imprisoned, probably spoke Russian from the start, and the English we hear could be TranslationConvention. However, the EnemyChatter (occasional phrases by the camp guards, but primarily the situation updates through the camp's PA system as the uprising progresses) is in entirely correct, unaccented and unsubtitled Russian, which seems to suggest that Mason does NOT speak/understand it: why would he understand the convicts but not the guards?
189	** This was also the case with the Russian soldiers in the earlier (that is, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII themed) ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' games, most likely because they were on the player's side, and having to read subtitles would probably have jarred with the game's generally fast-paced nature. This trope was also, however, completely averted with the German soldiers, who speak what is very definitely actual German.
190	* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' plays this painfully straight in the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII second game]] where Ezio has a thick Italian accent and people will occasionally speak [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Italian]] for no real reason.
191	** The explanation is actually that the Animus Desmond uses has translation software but it isn't perfect. In ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood Brotherhood]]'' this can be mentioned in an optional conversation.
192	*** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' averts this. When the Mohawk characters speak to one another, they speak in [[ShownTheirWork subtitled Kanien'kehá:ka.]]
193	** It's worth mentioning that many fans and critics complained that everyone but Altair had an "appropriate" accent in the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI first game]], with the general consensus that Altair should have had a matching accent, even though that makes no more sense than him speaking English in the first place (he gained one in later appearances). The accents in [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII the]] [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood Ezio]] [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations trilogy]] were generally well received for the same [[FridgeLogic "reason."]]
194	* The ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' series uses this a lot, though ''Pandora Tomorrow'' had a lot of NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent instead.
195	* Done cleverly in the English dubs of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPortableOps'', in which Snake is an excellent speaker of Russian. Russian characters speaking in Russian are [[TranslationConvention translated to English]] using an accent [[AccentAdaptation that analogizes to their Russian one]] (Volgin sounds American, Sokolov sounds British, etc), with the exception being Granin, who, when encountered, is drunk. Because his slurred speech is harder for Snake to understand, we hear him talking with a thick Russian accent.
196	* The English dub of the ''VideoGame/OperationFlashpoint'' series gives the locals a fairly stereotypical Slavic / Eastern European / [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent whatever]] accent. Oddly, Viktor Troska [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent speaks with a British accent]] (maybe [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since [[FridgeBrilliance he spent many years living outside of Nogova]] and working in various special forces, [[FanWank maybe even the British SAS]]). The Czech dub of the game features everybody speaking without accents, while the Soviet characters are mostly dubbed by Russian native speakers in all versions.
197	** The Soviets in ''Red Hammer'', including the new Soviet radio chatter pack that comes with it, are clearly voiced by English speakers putting on [[FakeRussian painfully stereotypical accents]]. [[{{Narm}} They sound like robots or mice at times]].
198	* About half of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' takes place in Orlais, the local FantasyCounterpartCulture to France, and most Orlesians speak English with French accents -- even in private among themselves, in conversations you can eavesdrop on. Occasionally they lapse into PardonMyKlingon ("Merde!").
199	** English appears to be the only human language in the setting, regional accents are all you get. Antivans speak it with a Spanish accent, Fereldan uses British accents, Tevinter used a different subset of British accents etc. Dwarfs also speak English, with a mix of North American accents this time (they occasionally mix in a few words of an old Dwarf language, but the common tongue apparently started as a Dwarf trading language). Dalish elfs speak mostly English with a Welsh accent, with a few Elven words mixed in (the Elven language being mostly lost). The Qunari actually do have their own language, but outside their own territory speak English in a very distinct, flat way with no identifiable accent (mainly because very few of them can speak the common tongue, and mastery is prized in the Qun, so they are silent and stoic with flat affect out of shame). When we do hear snatches of Qunlat from native speakers it's in the same non-accent.
200	* In ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'' you occasionally hear radio reports about your exploits. These are all in English with ridiculously over the top accents appropriate to the country, including for countries where English is the primary language.
201	* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
202	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': The GratuitousForeignLanguage use and PoirotSpeak are about all you're going to get that isn't from the language you're playing the game in.
203	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'':
204	*** Villagers of the small village called Hay speak with a very strong Cornish accent. Of course, even in the original, they had very thick rural accents.
205	*** In the English translation for the DS remake and ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesTheWorldTreesWoeAndTheBlightBelow'', Bianca speaks with a Cornish accent.
206	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'': All over the place. While most are variants of British accents, a few others are out there. After all, the game was localized in the UK to give it a medieval European theme used by the rest of the series.
207	*** Dominico's accent seems to be from Birmingham. (It's harder to tell, since he's also seems to be affecting a more exotic Eastern European accent that almost constantly decays).
208	*** American accents can be found in Baccarat and the Monster Arena announcer. Cash and Carrie take this one step further with Valspeak, like, what-EVER.
209	*** A French accent can be found in Baccarat, during the cut-scene in the Inn.
210	*** Also Morrie, who uses a lot of Gratuitous Italian.
211	*** Marta & Marek speak with a Russian accent. Marta's dog Boris even barks in Russian. ("Gav gav!")
212	*** Kalderasha and Valentina seem to have a Romanian-like accent(?)
213	* Zigzagged in ''VideoGame/JonssonliganJaktenPaMjolner''. One good example of this is the Spanish tourist in Berlin who first says "Qué?" if you pick the wrong dialogue options, but switches to heavily accented Swedish if you pick the dialogue choice written out in Spanish. Even the protagonists' actors only say their lines in foreign languages when the characters are ''failing badly'' at the language in question; when they are speaking the target language well enough to be understood by the locals, they start using similarly exaggerated accents.[[note]]This is especially odd as the film series the game is based on had pretty much the opposite approach, instead using a lot of BilingualBonus-type jokes with unsubtitled, usually grammatically correct German/English/Arabic et.c.[[/note]]
214	* The majority of [[FictionalCountry Kyrati]] characters in ''VideoGame/FarCry4'' speak English with South Asian accents, except for [[ReligiousBruiser Sabal]], who speaks with the English accent of Naveen Andrews. Then again, Kyrat ''is'' a fictional Himalayan country. Also played straight with Longinus the African priest, but then again, ''he's'' from a fictional African country.
215	* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', the universal language is Surense, which is portrayed in the visuals as French, but the characters are all voiced in English - often with French accents and with plenty of French loan words to add flavour (like "communard" and "binoclard"). However, characters who are also speaking Surense will often have various regional British or American accents, which also don't line up with the FantasyCounterpartCulture each character emigrated from in any understandable way (e.g. we're told the killed mercenary has an Oranjese accent, and he's portrayed with an American accent, but the Oranjese culture is Nordic and other characters have American accents while being native Vacholieres.)
216	* In ''VideoGame/APlagueTaleInnocence'', pretty much all the characters speak with a French accent, which while alright on its own, has a side effect of some awkwardly translated phrases (eg. Amicia's "Can you look after it?" instead of "Take care of it"). Heavily toned down in the sequel ''VideoGame/APlagueTaleRequiem'', to the point where it's barely noticeable.
217	* Everyone in ''VideoGame/WorldWarZ2019'' speaks English with an accent based on the country the campaign takes place in. For example, the campaign taking place in Japan has all the native Japanese characters speaking English with Japanese accents, even though there's no need for them to be speaking English since there's no non-Japanese people involved.
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221	* Discussed in ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', which calls Just a Stupid Accent [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18721_the-5-stupidest-ways-movies-deal-with-foreign-languages.html The 4th Stupidest Way Movies Deal with Foreign Languages]].
222	* Used as a gag in ''Webcomic/GorgeousPrincessCreamyBeamy'' with the natives of French West Stereotypia: ''"Eet eez a small nation, deevoted to upholding zee stereotypes of owair fairfazzers! Cheese, wine, love, berets, stripy shairts, a zense of cultural zuperioretee, and talkeeng like zis instead of speaking ze actual French!"''
223	** There's also a character from ''Russian'' East Stereotypia, who randomly uses {{Russian reversal}}s.
224	* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' uses this in comic no. [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2435.html 2435]], and (as expected) has a link back to this very trope.
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228	* Robert M. Price, host of [[http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/biblegeek.php The Bible Geek]] podcast likes to read questions submitted to him in fake accents of country of origin of people submitting questions.
229	* [[VideoGame/TheGrayGarden Emalf]] gets a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBHRkRL3RwA&index=7&list=PLSRV2j8i5ybbZjWWYFeQRczi5a_rUqC-u Latino accent]] on WebVideo/TheWithVoicesProject.
230	* [[TheParody Parodied]] in the [[http://fartago.blogspot.com/2009/02/chapter-3-fellowship-of-fartago.html blog novel]] ''{{Fartago}}''. In Chapter 3, the protagonists Farta and Tago meet Artiste, a member of their tribe whose dialogue is written in a bad French accent (saying "zis ees" instead of "this is," for instance). When Farta asks him about this, Artiste replies, "Since monolith come, I become French." Although, of course, it is unclear - in fact, doesn't seem to be the case - if the words Farta and Tago are "grunting" [[AliensSpeakingEnglish are even English]] in the first place. But if they're not, then how could Artiste speak English words with an accent? Given that the novel frequently engages in PlayingWithATrope of various forms, it's possible this could be one more example of that. It's also worth noting, given all the other often subtle references the author makes to evolutionary paleontology (even as he - apparently intentionally, according to comments he's made - incorrectly pluralizes "Homo habilis" as "Homo habilii") that Artiste's "transformation" into French is as much a reference to cave paintings - the oldest known human art, found in several famous sites throughout France - as it is a reference to the stereotype that the French are artists.
231	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': Captain Dmitri Arkadeyevich Strelnikov talks like your standard Russian movie bad guy. Goes even further in his masterpiece of BlackComedy, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/reddawn Killing The Enemies And His Family Too]].
232	--> So you are decides to join MTF-Epsilon 5, "Red Dawn"? Welcome! I am glads that you choose to be interest in this team. But I warns you, is not all fun and game. Being combat soldier is not for everyone, and hopesfully this guide is explain some of this to you to helps you make sure this is really what you want.
233	* It's become something of a meme as of late to pretend that speaking Japanese is just replacing certain words with the few Japanese words most people know (especially egregious is when they use "watashi" for "I/me" in all contexts when it's either typically used in formal situations or by women) but still using English grammar, using JapaneseRanguage, adding "desu" (always pronounced "de-soo" rather than "dess" like it usually is in Japanese) to the end of every sentence (it's actually the formal way of saying, among other things "it is" or "they are"), and adding "u"s after consonants (even when it's a t, as Japanese typically uses "to" rather than "tu," which isn't even a native sound). This is supposedly to mock annoying anime fangirls/fanboys, but it comes off as racist.
234	* In 2020, the Scots-language Website/{{Wikipedia}} discovered it had silently been undermined by a crisis that had been boiling away for seven years; a teenager from North Carolina had been working away at the site for all that time, starting when he was just 12 years old, and during that time he had written ''tens of thousands'' of articles in a malformed, mutilated amalgamation of Scots and English, [[UncertifiedExpert all while claiming he could speak the language perfectly]], which he may have somehow [[BelievingTheirOwnLies ended up duping even himself into believing]]. In reality, what he was actually doing amounted to writing articles in their butchered form by literally fingering through a dictionary, then picking the first words in Scots he could find, regardless of their grammatical context or presence in the language's modern vernacular, and when he couldn't find a word he was looking for, he'd instead resort to [[DeterioratesIntoGibberish completely making it up instead]]. In the end, over 10,000 articles were deleted, thousands more were updated with notices alerting users of the site that they had been written by someone who knew absolutely nothing about Scots, and at one point, the very future of the wiki was in doubt, as the damage was so severe and so thorough that some questioned whether it would be easier to just delete the whole thing and start over. As for the teenager, he was accused by numerous sources - including national and international newspapers - of committing [[https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia cultural vandalism]], became the laughing stock of the internet for quite some time, and eventually disappeared off the face of the Scots Wiki in disgrace after apologizing for his actions.
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238	* Speedy Gonzales and Pepe Le Pew shorts in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' are essentially always set in Mexico and France, but everyone speaks English with bad [[{{Spexico}} Spexican]]/French accents.
239	* {{Lampshaded}} by ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' in a retelling of Joan of Arc, where everyone is speaking in French accents, peppered with French words. Lou gets confused and calls Chief Wiggum on it.
240	--> '''Lou''': Well you keep switching back between French and English.
241	** While the trope was averted in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E11TheCrepesOfWrath The Crepes of Wrath]]", it was played ''awfully'' straight in the Latin American dub, with all the French substituted with French-accented Spanish. The gendarme couldn't understand Bart because of his ''accent'' rather than his speaking a different language. The Quebec French dub, obviously, kept the French and also had the gendarme unable to understand Bart's accent, but there it made more sense, with the gendarme's trouble with Bart's Quebec accent being more [[TruthInTelevision realistic]].
242	* This was standard practice on ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain.''
243	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'' featured an obvious parody of Jacques Cousteau in one episode, whose "French" was actually English, with a ridiculous accent, spoken very slowly. "Eet teaaars open ze huuuuul lahk ah teaaar oh-pen aa croissaaaaaaaant!" "What did he say?" "I don't know, it's in French!"
244	* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants." A group of Afghan children decide to help out Stan and the gang. When one of them points out that this decision makes no sense, another replies, "Dude, we're all speaking English right now! How much sense does ''that'' make?" The trope is also averted in the episode, as all the Afghan characters speak grammatically correct Farsi throughout the episode, albeit with Iranian (rather than Afghan) accents. Osama himself, however, just says "derka derka Mohammad jihad."
245	** Also used, straight, in "Ginger Cow". Kyle is called to the principle's office to "translate" for a group of men who came to South Park from Israel, despite the fact he does not speak Hebrew. The men can understand the others perfectly fine, but speak in a slightly stereotypical Jewish accent which of course makes it so the principal and Mr. Mackey cannot understand what they're saying at all.
246	* Skwisgaar Skwigelf and Toki Wartooth of ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' always speak broken English rather than Swedish or Norwegian, respectively. This makes sense around the other (American) band members. Even though Scandinavian languages are closely related, they probably communicate better using a shared second language than trying to decipher each others' native languages. While Toki does speak some Norwegian when dealing with his family, Skwisgaar continues speaking English when he goes back to Sweden and moves in with his mother and stepfather.
247	* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'':
248	--> '''Bloo:''' Luckily I speak French fluently and for a small fee plus gratuity I'll teach you phrases necessary for survival. Repeat after me: EXCUUUUSE ME MADAME, THERRRE IS PERRFUUUME IN THE HOUSE-PLAIT![[note]]or possibly "HAIRSPRAY"[[/note]]
249	* All the Italian characters in the ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' episode "The Duh-Vinci Code" speak English that comes straight out of the [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Chico Marx]] Accent School. Since the only Italian characters with speaking roles are [[spoiler:a robot built by Leonardo da Vinci, and Leonardo himself, who is actually [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy an alien]]]], this makes ''slightly'' more sense than it might...
250	* This is used throughout the "Peabody's Improbable Histories" segments of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''. The first segment implies that this is the result of some brand of TranslatorMicrobes embedded in the Wayback Machine: Peabody travels back in time to ancient Rome, hears everyone speaking Latin, and then makes an adjustment and they're all speaking English instead.
251	* Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''. Apart from a handful of words, all the native Americans speak English, and only the native American men have a sort of generic "Indian" accent. Pocahontas magically learns to speak English herself, but consistently speaks to her father in English, who maintains the accent even after addressing a crowd of English settlers ''in English''.
252	* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb,'' the Russian cosmonauts speak to each other in accented English.
253	* In the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Learning Lessons", Billy Buddy Bear interupts Garfield when he asks Odie if he wants his picture painted by saying that "he is not speaking Italian, but English with a bad Italian accent". They then proceed by telling the viewers how to say "Please let me have some pickles!" in Italian.
254	* This was played around with in the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' episode "Dave and the Giant Pickle." The French peas, [[AnimatedActor playing the role of the Philistines]] spoke in their normal English with a French accent, but their first few lines were subtitled as though they were actually speaking a foreign language.
255	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Grube's Fairytales" has Beast Boy and Cyborg reenact the story of ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'', and the other three (who play the role of the witch) speak with heavy German accents.
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