Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ June 19 2013, 10:18 AM BSTAnd... if they sell 'English breakfast tea'
Don't tell me that's just tea as well.
That's just tea as well.
Worst foreign portrayal of Britain Page 2
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ June 19 2013, 11:30 AM BSTThat's just tea as well.
He's right.
Quote: The ageless comic @ June 18 2013, 11:37 PM BST"Great yet another day ruined by British food."
From the country who gave us McDonald's, KFC and Pop Tarts.
The Columbo on holiday episode only had a few shots of Peter Falk in London and the rest seems to be filmed in California including a faux ye olde English mansion that looks like it was built for Hugh Hefner.
Brannigan seems to have be edited by the London Tourist Office. Some very odd geography indeed.
Quote: David Carmon @ June 20 2013, 1:29 PM BSTFrom the country who gave us McDonald's, KFC and Pop Tarts.
And spray on cheese
It's pretty rife in American comedy. Even a lot of the clever shows fall into the trap of defining British people by their teeth and bad food. Those fat fast food eating red necks sure do love to generalise.
Any more? Body of Lies had Baltimore's flat-roofed terraced housing double for Manchester,
The most cringing portrayal I have ever seen is an American reality show called '19 Kids and Counting' about a husband and wife who have decided to have a huge family because the Bible tells them to...
Anyways, they decide to take the whole family on holiday to Scotland and Northern Ireland. They fill a midsize coach with their brood and go about the countryside seemingly looking for the 'real Scotland.' The family is ultra religious, the girls wear skirts and the boys pants, and seemingly everything out of the ordinary to them is patronizingly sniggered at. The most awkward part came when the husband Jim Bob asked one of the Highland Games organizers if he was a Christian.
It's the typical stereotype of American tourists trooping about the countryside ooing and aahing at ruins, stopping off in small villages to watch traditional scotch culture. Remarks such as 'it's a beautiful land with a fascinating culture' are said over and over, and many minutes are devoted to kilts (which is a no-no for a man, obviously) and haggis. They attend a highland games and visit an old fashioned Irish farm.
My only question was, where were the chavs? In the whole episode there was not a single chav seen. Nor were there any people of colour. It was like watching a weird braveheart nightmare.
See what I mean: http://hollywoodlife.com/2011/11/14/19-kids-and-counting-recap-duggars-scotland-ireland/
Soccer Dog 2: European Cup is set in Scotland but filmed in the US. Worth watching because it's so crap. Co-stars Sting's son from Lock, Stock etc
Do you remember the Derek Jameson TV series from several years ago called "Do they mean us?"
Didn't Clive James take that over?
Good show either way.
Frasier has already been mentioned, but, for me, that great show occasionally jars because of the weirdness towards the English.
Daphne's family are all horrendous- brother is a lying, thieving drunk; the father a drunk; the mother, too (though nicely played by Brian Cox and Millicent Martin).
The brother, though, is a horrible cockney caricature from Anthony LaPaglia- and the only cockney in a Manchester family...
Gil, the radio restaurant critic, is over the top 'camp'.
Even when one of Daphne's old boyfriends isn't a bad sort, they have him played as a cockney by an American actor, ie, Dick Van Dyke nightmare...
Yep, watched too many of these on cable...!
Don't think Gil is supposed to be English.
Funniest was probably The Wire with Dominic West an English actor playing an American pretending to be English and affecting horrendously bad English accent.
Quote: BenS @ August 21 2013, 1:24 AM BSTNor were there any people of colour.
Impossible to say for certain without seeing the programme and the exact places they visit of course, but one wouldn't expect to see ethnic minorities in the kind of rural idyll sightseeing trip you describe.