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* OopNorth (U.K.) / DeepSouth (U.S.) [[note]]Especially noteworthy because many of the settlers of the latter came from the former.

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* OopNorth (U.K.) / DeepSouth (U.S.) [[note]]Especially noteworthy because many of the settlers of the latter came from the former.
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* Music/FleetwoodMac (Started in the UK, but moved to the US) / {{Music/Abba}} (Sweden): Melodic '70s pop bands with two couples that broke up [[WorkingWithTheEx but still kept working together]].
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* ''Britain's Got Talent'' / ''America's Got Talent''/ ''Das Supertalent'' (Germany): Talent competition involving three judges who can buzz people off.
* ''GoldenGirls'' (US) / ''Brighton Belles'' (UK): Four older women share a house.
* ''MadAboutYou'' (US) / ''Loved By You'' (UK): Newlywed couple in the big city.
* ''HollywoodSquares'' (US) / ''Celebrity Squares'' (UK): Quiz show with celebrities in a giant tic-tac-toe/noughts-and-crosses board.
* ''KeepItInTheFamily'' (UK) / ''TooCloseForComfort'' (US)
* ''MindYourLanguage'' (UK) / ''WhatACountry'' (US)
* ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway?'': improvisational comedy (same format and similar games on both sides of ThePond)

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* ''Britain's Got Talent'' / ''America's Got Talent''/ ''Das Supertalent'' ''Series/BritainsGotTalent''/''Series/AmericasGotTalent''/''DasSupertalent'' (Germany): Talent competition involving three judges who can buzz people off.
* ''GoldenGirls'' ''Series/GoldenGirls'' (US) / ''Brighton Belles'' (UK): Four older women share a house.
* ''MadAboutYou'' ''Series/MadAboutYou'' (US) / ''Loved By You'' (UK): Newlywed couple in the big city.
* ''HollywoodSquares'' ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'' (US) / ''Celebrity Squares'' (UK): Quiz show with celebrities in a giant tic-tac-toe/noughts-and-crosses board.
* ''KeepItInTheFamily'' (UK) / ''TooCloseForComfort'' ''Series/TooCloseForComfort'' (US)
* ''MindYourLanguage'' ''Series/MindYourLanguage'' (UK) / ''WhatACountry'' (US)
* ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway?'': ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'': improvisational comedy (same format and similar games on both sides of ThePond)
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* ''Series/TheChase'' (UK) and ''Series/TheChase'' (US). A team of random strangers answers questions for money and have to get it away from the chaser. In both cases, the shows also star the same person; Mark Labbet. The only difference is that in the UK he's one of four chasers, and in the US he's only the one.
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* SJPerelman (U.S.) / Creator/PGWodehouse (U.K.): Short story writers.

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* SJPerelman Creator/SJPerelman (U.S.) / Creator/PGWodehouse (U.K.): Short story writers.
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* Taster's Choice (U.S.) / Nescafé Gold: Gourmet instant coffees made by Nestlé, both featuring long-running ad campaigns featuring Creator/AnthonyHead.

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* Taster's Choice (U.S.) (US) / Nescafé Gold: Gold (UK): Gourmet instant coffees made by Nestlé, both featuring long-running ad campaigns featuring Creator/AnthonyHead.
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* Taster's Choice (U.S.) / Nescafé Gold: Gourmet instant coffees made by Nestlé, both featuring long-running ad campaigns featuring AnthonyHead.

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* Taster's Choice (U.S.) / Nescafé Gold: Gourmet instant coffees made by Nestlé, both featuring long-running ad campaigns featuring AnthonyHead.
Creator/AnthonyHead.
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* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' (UK) / ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' (US): modern-day adaptations of SherlockHolmes.
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* Baseball (US) / Cricket (ENG, but not UK): Summer bat-and-ball games, with deep traditional roots that tend to invoke nostalgia.
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* Buick (U.S.) / Vauxhall (U.K.) / Opel (rest of Europe): motor vehicles

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* Buick (U.S.) / Vauxhall (U.K.) / Opel (rest of Europe): Europe) / Holden (Aus/NZ): motor vehicles
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** ''Series/GeorgeAndMildred'' (UK)/ ''TheRopers'' (US): The buffoon's former landlord and landlady try to get ahead in society.

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** ''Series/GeorgeAndMildred'' (UK)/ ''TheRopers'' ''Series/TheRopers'' (US): The buffoon's former landlord and landlady try to get ahead in society.

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Berkeley isn\'t really as elite as the others in the group. MIT is a better choice.


* {{Oxbridge}} (UK)/ IvyLeague, U.C. Berkeley, Stanford (US): Elite universities.

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* {{Oxbridge}} (UK)/ IvyLeague, U.C. Berkeley, M.I.T., Stanford (US): Elite universities.
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** Another level of transcontinentalism, Dunkin' Donuts is from the Northeast, Krispy Kreme is from the south.
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* ''TopGear'' (UK) / ''[[Series/TopGearUS Top Gear]]'' (US): Three hosts chat about cars and driving them. HilarityEnsues.

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* ''TopGear'' (UK) / ''[[Series/TopGearUS Top Gear]]'' (US): (US) / ''Top Gear'' (AUS): Three hosts chat about cars and driving them. HilarityEnsues.
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* TheFlamingLips (US) / Music/{{Radiohead}} or Music/{{Muse}} (UK): Indie-rock bands.

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* TheFlamingLips The Music/FlamingLips (US) / Music/{{Radiohead}} or Music/{{Muse}} (UK): Indie-rock bands.
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* Music/SnowPatrol (Ireland) / Music/TheFray (US): Soft rock bands heavily influenced by Music/{{U2}}'s stadium rock sound. Their most famous songs got massive boosts in popularity after being featured in Series/GreysAnatomy. Each band is [[AmericansHateTingle far more successful in their home country]] than across the ocean.

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* Music/SnowPatrol (Ireland) / Music/TheFray (US): Soft rock bands heavily influenced by Music/{{U2}}'s stadium rock sound. Their most famous songs got massive boosts in popularity after being featured in Series/GreysAnatomy. Each band is [[AmericansHateTingle far more successful in their home country]] than across the ocean.
ThePond.
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* Music/SnowPatrol (Ireland) / Music/TheFray (US): Soft rock bands heavily influenced by Music/{{U2}}'s stadium rock sound. Their most famous songs got massive boosts in popularity after being featured in Series/GreysAnatomy. Each band is [[AmericansHateTingle far more successful in their home country]] than across the ocean.
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* ''CardSharks'' (US) / ''Play Your Cards Right'' (UK): Players answer survey questions and then predict if the next in a line of cards is higher or lower than the previous card.
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* Taster's Choice (U.S.) / Nescafé Gold: Gourmet instant coffees made by Nestlé, both featuring long-running ad campaigns featuring AnthonyHead.
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* The Housemartins (UK)/Music/BarenakedLadies (Canada): Melodic acoustic pop laced with (often scathing) humo(u)r, and an [[BlackSheepHit atypical song]] as their biggest hit(the a capella "Caravan of Love" for The Housemartins, the rap-heavy "One Week" for BNL).

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* The Housemartins (UK)/Music/BarenakedLadies (Canada): Melodic acoustic pop laced with (often scathing) humo(u)r, and an [[BlackSheepHit atypical song]] as their biggest hit(the hit (the a capella "Caravan of Love" for The Housemartins, the rap-heavy "One Week" for BNL).
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* The Housemartins (UK)/Music/BarenakedLadies (Canada): Melodic acoustic pop laced with (often scathing) humo(u)r, with an [[BlackSheepHit atypical song]] as their biggest hit(the a capella "Caravan of Love" for The Housemartins, the rap-heavy "One Week" for BNL).

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* The Housemartins (UK)/Music/BarenakedLadies (Canada): Melodic acoustic pop laced with (often scathing) humo(u)r, with and an [[BlackSheepHit atypical song]] as their biggest hit(the a capella "Caravan of Love" for The Housemartins, the rap-heavy "One Week" for BNL).
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* The Housemartins (UK)/Music/BarenakedLadies (Canada): Melodic acoustic pop laced with (often scathing) humo(u)r, and their biggest hit being an [[BlackSheepHit atypical song]] (the a capella "Caravan of Love" for The Housemartins, the rap-heavy "One Week" for BNL).

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* The Housemartins (UK)/Music/BarenakedLadies (Canada): Melodic acoustic pop laced with (often scathing) humo(u)r, and their biggest hit being with an [[BlackSheepHit atypical song]] (the as their biggest hit(the a capella "Caravan of Love" for The Housemartins, the rap-heavy "One Week" for BNL).
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* The Housemartins (UK)/Music/BarenakedLadies (Canada): Melodic acoustic pop laced with (often scathing) humo(u)r, but their biggest hit is an exercise in GenreAdultery (the a capella "Caravan of Love" for The Housemartins, the rap-heavy "One Week" for BNL).

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* The Housemartins (UK)/Music/BarenakedLadies (Canada): Melodic acoustic pop laced with (often scathing) humo(u)r, but and their biggest hit is being an exercise in GenreAdultery [[BlackSheepHit atypical song]] (the a capella "Caravan of Love" for The Housemartins, the rap-heavy "One Week" for BNL).
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* The Housemartins (UK)/Music/BarenakedLadies (Canada): Melodic acoustic pop laced with (often scathing) humo(u)r.
* Music/LynyrdSkynyrd (US) / Music/ThinLizzy (Ireland): Rock bands known for their twin guitars and lyrics about town life rather than sex.

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* The Housemartins (UK)/Music/BarenakedLadies (Canada): Melodic acoustic pop laced with (often scathing) humo(u)r.
humo(u)r, but their biggest hit is an exercise in GenreAdultery (the a capella "Caravan of Love" for The Housemartins, the rap-heavy "One Week" for BNL).
* Music/LynyrdSkynyrd (US) / Music/ThinLizzy (Ireland): Rock bands known for their twin guitars and lyrics about town life rather than sex.
sex, with charismatic lead singers who died young.
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* Music/The SexPistols (UK) / Music/TheRamones (US): seminal PunkRock bands
* Music/DeepPurple (UK) / Vanilla Fudge (US) or Music/{{Boston}} (US)

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* Music/The SexPistols Music/SexPistols (UK) / Music/TheRamones (US): seminal PunkRock bands
* Music/DeepPurple (UK) / Vanilla Fudge (US) or Music/{{Boston}} (US)(US): Hard rock bands




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* Music/LynyrdSkynyrd (US) / Music/ThinLizzy (Ireland): Rock bands known for their twin guitars and lyrics about town life rather than sex.
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Grunge and Britpop are totally different styles; just because they happened around the same time doesn\'t make them examples of this trope


* {{Grunge}} (US) / BritPop (UK)

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* {{Grunge}} (US) / BritPop (UK)
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* Tim Horton's (Canada) / Dunkin' Donuts or Krispy Kreme (U.S.): Doughnut and coffee chains.

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* Another transcontinental variant: Tim Horton's (Canada) / Dunkin' Donuts or Krispy Kreme (U.S.): Doughnut and coffee chains.
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* Starbucks (U.S.)/ Costa Coffe (U.K.): Gourmet coffee chains.

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* Starbucks (U.S.)/ ) / Costa Coffe Coffee (U.K.): Gourmet coffee chains.
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* Starbucks (U.S.)/ Costa Coffe (U.K.): Gourmet coffee chains.
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* Music/TheSmiths (UK) / Music/{{REM}} (US): [[TheEighties 1980s]] Alternative bands

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* Music/TheSmiths (UK) / Music/{{REM}} (US): Pioneering [[TheEighties 1980s]] Alternative bandsbands known for their downbeat tone, featuring aloof, sexually ambiguous lead singers and snarky, shades-wearing guitarists who provided a distinctive Jangle Pop sound.

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