History Quotes / IAmVeryBritish

-->-- '''Niles''', ''Series/TheNanny''

->''"Astonishingly, Amanda Pays is from England, but you would never have thought so the way she delivers her dialogue. She sounds like an American trying to do an English accent whilst chewing on a caramel toffee – her inflection is all over the place and not one line sounds convincing."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/x-files-season-one.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Fire"

->''"''[='=]Some clever bloke has been giving the aristocracy a good scare![='=]'' Watching the USA trying to capture that essential Britishness is always worth a hearty laugh, but it is especially inept in Chris Carter’s hands who seems to think that English blokes leave their manor houses with their canes tucked under their arms, wave cheerio to their spouses and stroll amongst their staff like kings amongst men! Its such a deep misunderstanding of the modern British man (who is more likely to be swaggering away from a council flat with his jeans around his ankles) and so utterly stereotypical. Our Lord of the Manor is such a cardboard character he [[PlayingWithFire bursts into flames]]... The less said about the upper class ‘pip pip old chap’ Marsden family the better! I’m not sure if those two terribly posh kids could possibly be more annoying, and whilst I never like to see any harm befall children I might make an exception in this case."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/x-files-season-one.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/TheXFiles''