Look at this clip from Patriot Games. Jump to the 2min mark to hear a fully uniformed Coldstream Guard shout 'Army' to identify himself.
THe same film had London Police officers running around blowing their whistles.
Laughable.
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Quote: Tursiops @ September 3 2013, 12:20 PM BSTDon't think Gil is supposed to be English.
True, I have seen that the other characters believe Gil to be putting the English accent on, alongside their other beliefs about him... 
The actor, though, does have a somewhat mixed background, having grown up in England, attended RADA- but was born (at an early age 
) in New York, and eventually returned to the US for work.
On one of the late-night talk shows over here there's a character every so often called: Graham Fenwick-Jones. Here's a clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qJb3tBNbuM - in which he describes the royal baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X84VR2jRRM4 - he comments on a New York sex scandal
He is at times the Chief London Bureau correspondent, the Chief Political Correspondent, and I've even seen him be the Auxiliary-in-Chief North Atlantic Bureau Chief.
King Ralph?
Quote: Tim Azure @ September 7 2013, 9:36 AM BSTHow dare you kill off all the Royal family!
I see what you did there....
Friends. Tom Conti, Jennifer Saunders and Helen Baxendale should be ashamed of themselves although Branson was hilarious (not!)
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ June 19 2013, 9:57 AM BSTMuffins.
I thought the things we call muffins (e.g. chocolate muffins) are American muffins and English muffins are some kind of bread? I may have just made that up, though.
Quote: sglen @ 16th October 2013, 4:59 PM BSTI thought the things we call muffins (e.g. chocolate muffins) are American muffins and English muffins are some kind of bread? I may have just made that up, though.
The things we call muffins, they call English muffins. The things they call muffins are a cupcake-type thing.
Quote: Tursiops @ 3rd September 2013, 12:20 PM BSTDon't think Gil is supposed to be English.
We have a game in the US called "English or Gay?" because to an American they're considered interchangeable (that's what you get for knowing things and pronouncing words intelligibly).
I believe Gil is supposed to be gay. Meanwhile, the actors playing Niles and Bulldog are, uh, "not English".
Quote: Horseradish @ 16th October 2013, 5:52 PM BST
I love how he must have spent a fortune on a suit, cut to make him look like a naughty school boy in his brothers hand me downs.
Either he is wearing his riding jodphurs under his trousers or he has been filling his pockets at the buffet again.
Quote: Hansel Currywurst @ 11th December 2013, 4:42 AM GMTWe have a game in the US called "English or Gay?" because to an American they're considered interchangeable (that's what you get for knowing things and pronouncing words intelligibly).
Have to say I have NEVER heard of this game OR anyone here in the states claiming being Gay or British is "interchangeable"!
Quote: Raymond Terrific @ 1st June 2013, 6:58 PM BSTFamily Guy can be pretty bad for that, some of their jokes about Britain don't really ring true.
I think that's a wholly unfounded opinion. This clip from an early episode is an accurate portrayal of just about every pub I've been to and every red blooded sports loving drinker I've ever encountered in a pub: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gm8wIEhoRw
I thought the Wee Britain in Arrested Development was funny but a little OTT.