History Main / TheKidsAreAmerican

* Both film adaptations of ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' go with a WhereTheHellIsSpringfield approach to the location of Charlie Bucket's home and Wonka's Factory, and this trope winds up being invoked in one version and inverted in another. In the 1971 film Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', which was shot in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}, Charlie and his family are amongst the only people in town with American accents — while in the 2005 version ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', they're amongst the only ones with ''British'' accents.

* In "Film/Coneheads", Connie speaks and acts like an normal American teenager, because she was born and raised on Earth. She talks and act like her parents in the original sketches.

* Both film adaptations of ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' go with a WhereTheHellIsSpringfield approach to the location of Charlie Bucket's home and Wonka's Factory, and this trope winds up being invoked in one version and inverted in another. In the 1971 film ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', which was shot in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}, Charlie and his family are amongst the only people in town with American accents — while in the 2005 version ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', they're amongst the only ones with ''British'' accents.

** Played straight with the other child characters (e.g. Missy and Billy), who all have standard American / Californian accents, while most of the teenagers and adults have Texas accents.

* The titular ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' is voiced by American Auli'i Cravalho, while many of the adults are played by actors from Australia or New Zealand. However, all of the lead actors are of Pacific Islander descent. It's not that noticeable since she speaks with a Hawaiian Pidgin accent as opposed to the Midwestern/Californian accent these teenage characters tend to have.

* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet'': Zigzagged. The titular 101 Dalmatians are Doug, an American firefighter Dalmatian, having married Delilah, one of [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Pongo and Perdita's]] (British) descendants, both bringing in 15 pups each from previous marriages, then siring 15 pups together and adopting 54 more. All of the pups from Doug's litter are naturally American, while Dylan and Triple D, who are from Delilah's litter, are inexplicably American even though they're from the British Dalmatian's litter. The rest vary in accent.

** It's established in the family's first appearance that the family moved to the U.S. twenty years before the events of the show, so it's justified that Connie would have an American accident whereas her parents' accents would reflect their Laotian upbringings.

* Inverted with ''Series/QueerAsFolk'': The American series was set in Pittsburgh, but filmed in Canada -- the kid has a Canadian accent.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Dolph and his father on ''WebAnimation/CampCamp''. Dolph has a German accent ([[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to accent his similarities to a certain nefarious World War II leader]]), while his father Stuart is a lieutenant of the US Army. The episode explains it in this one line:
-->*Stuart: Oh! Why'd we have to raise you on that Germany Army base?

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Dolph and his father on ''WebAnimation/CampCamp''. Dolph has a German accent ([[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to accent his similarties to a certain nefarious World War II leader]]), while his father Stuart is a lieutenant of the US Army. The episode explains it in this one line:

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Stewie inverts this. His family speaks with accents one might find from Rhode Island, while he speaks with something of a British accent (it's there but it's subtle), playing into the EvilBrit trope he was from earlier seasons. In a segment from the second ''Viewer Mail'' episode, he plays this straight, where his British counterpart speaks with an exaggerated Texan accent, while the rest of the family speaks with British accents. In "Send in Stewie, Please", it is revealed [[spoiler:that Stewie had been faking his accent all along. When his therapist suggests that he speak in his normal voice and be like everyone else, Stewie reverts back to his British accent, since he does not want to be like everyone else.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'': Most of the adults have British accents, but all the kids have American ones.

** It's also worth noting that with a larger talent pool of adult actors the show is far more likely to cast Asians for the adult roles, even if they have American accents, like Creator/DanielDaeKim as general Fong or George Takei as the warden.

* ''WesternAnimation/Amphibia'' has this with the Boonchuy family. Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy [[ImmigrantParents immigrated to the U.S. from Thailand]] and speak English with a thick accent. On the other hand, Anne was raised in Los Angeles and speaks with an American accent.

* Both film adaptations of ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' go with a WhereTheHellIsSpringfield approach to the location of Charlie Bucket's home and Wonka's Factory, and this trope winds up being invoked in one version and inverted in another. In the 1971 film ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', which was shot in Munich, Charlie and his family are amongst the only people in town with American accents — while in the 2005 version ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', they're amongst the only ones with ''British'' accents.

* Some of the younger locomotives in ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' were given American accents in the later episodes, while some of the older locomotives were given British accents.

* In ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', John Hammond is Scottish while his grandchildren are American. However, his company is apparently U.S.-based, so it's easy to imagine Lex and Tim were raised in America. But then in ''The Lost World'', American actor Creator/ArlissHoward plays Hammond's adult nephew with an English accent...

* In ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', John Hammond is Scottish while his grandchildren are American. However, his company is apparently U.S.-based, so it's easy to imagine Lex and Tim were raised in America. But then in ''The Lost World'', American actor Arliss Howard plays Hammond's adult nephew with an English accent...

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has Kahn and Minh Souphanousinphone, the Hills' Laotian-American neighbors. They speak in thick accents but their American-born daughter Connie does not.

* ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'': Everyone has a British accent, except the youngest kids in the von Trapp family.

* Inverted in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': Everybody's American, but the one kid sounds British, and the film was made in Buckinghamshire in the United Kingdom. Justified, since she's unrelated to any of the adults that appear on-screen; the extended edition DVD shows Newt's family, and they all have mild British accents. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d: The [[DVDBonusContent DVD interviews]] note that the actress's natural English accent is noticeable in some scenes (such as "There's a short-cut across the roof") but it was [[ThrowItIn kept in the finished film]].

* In “The Little Vampire”, an American family moves to Scotland. Everyone there has Scottish accents— except for the English-accented vampires.

* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Rumpelstiltskin has a Scottish accent, his wife has an English accent, and their son Baelfire has an American accent. It's not so apparent since the kingdom is shown to have accents from all over the globe.