Basic Trope: When foreign country in fiction is written as more similar to the author's than it really is.
- Straight: The sitcom Alice and Bob is set in England, but they have a "President" and dollars instead of pounds, plus nobody does anything traditionally English and they all talk American slang.
- Exaggerated: They even have the same flag as in America, but insist it's England!
- Downplayed:
- The work is mostly accurate to English culture, but incorporates some American elements (i.e. accents, expressions).
- Alice and Bob is an import of a show from the UK, but the marketing team on the show's US network either makes advertisements tying the show to American holidays or traditions, or the advertising claims the characters celebrate American holidays like Independence Day and Thanksgiving.
- Justified: All the characters speak American English because they immigrated from America or are visiting from America.
- Inverted:
- The show is designed to educate viewers on the differences between American and British culture, resulting in the characters speaking in a stilted manner.
- The show tries to show British culture as different from American culture, but several examples are made up, with actual British culture being much closer to American culture in reality in these instances.
- Subverted: The first episode looks pretty American, but then it looks more English as the Early-Installment Weirdness was fixed.
- Double Subverted: The first episode seems American, the second seems English, and the third seems American.
- Parodied:
- It's a Running Gag that a character refers to "America" only to switch abruptly to "England".
- A side-by-side comparison of America and England is shown. Both scenes look like stereotypical Eagleland, except "Labor Day" as shown on a billboard in the American scene is spelled "Labour Day" in the English scene.
- Zig-Zagged: One episode seems American, the next seems English, etc.
- Averted: All countries are represented how they are supposed to be.
- Enforced:
- The writers don't know anything about English culture and later admit they aren't bothered to learn.
- The producers insisted on redubbing 'the show about those lovely chaps' for American audiences.
- Lampshaded:Bob: Are we in America or England?Alice: England.Bob: Then why are we using dollars, not pounds?Alice: Dunno ... it seems pretty American, doesn't it?
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The American characters, disconcerted by the English characters acting American when they aren't, convince them to act like English people.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why does this show seem like it's set in America when it's supposed to be England?"
- Implied: The American Eagle is seen on a cop's badge.
- Played for Laughs: The Americanisms are so obvious and over-the-top to clearly be intentionally bad, like singing "God Save the Queen" to the rhythm of the "Star Spangled Banner" and references to the "California Coast - of England".
See also Creator's Culture Carryover, and make sure to not put weasel words, and puffery in them next time you edit. Wait, what do you mean we're taking those phrases from The Other Wiki!?
