Adding to the intrigue, "Chekov" is a rather rare romanized spelling compared to "Chekhov", which itself is some old fuck-up turned into tradition, since the transliterated <kh> actually represents a hard H, such as the first sound in "whore".
Seems that someone Did Not Do The Research here, as "Чехов" in Russian does have a [hard H] sound, because that's the only [H] sound Russian actually have — there's no [soft H] in Russian.
NieuwsgierigHandle
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02:17:15 AM Mar 30th 2011
Someone needs to add Allo Allo. All Englishmen playing Austrians, Germans, Frenchmen, Italians, ... All while speaking English.
PaulA
12:54:04 AM Apr 11th 2011
Ah, now there's an interesting philosophical question. If everybody in the show is blatantly doing an unconvincing foreign impersonation for comic effect, is it still this trope?
Duckay
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12:18:08 AM Apr 11th 2011
If there are bad examples, then edit those, but there are plenty of legitimate examples, and disliking a few of them doesn't mean it's a stupid trope.