I nominate this as the Funniest Line Seen on the SDMB 2004. 
Er… 2005. Like Jethro Tull, I’m living in the past.
(Malacandra, you might be hanging out with late members of The Who, but did you ever do the Mirror Teatime Crossword with Zammo off of Grange Hill? No? Thought not.)
I’ve never forgiven Disney for giving Winnie-The-Poo an American accent. Now they are going to turn Christopher Robin into a girl ! Why can’t they leave things alone ?
Maybe not Mickey Mouse, but there was a recent thread in which we conceded that the BBC was equally guilty. US children’s programmes like Clifford, the Big Red Dog are ‘dubbed’ into British English. I also wonder why they do this.
Malacandra, is the Buffalo Bob episode the one where they’re going line-dancing, and no matter what Wendy does, Bob completely fails to get the message? I suppose they couldn’t do the obvious and have him down several pints as would have had to happen in real life. Painful to watch.
Do you know, I’ve seen Clifford any number of times and I never even noticed this? :smack: (mostly because I’ve only ever seen it slotted in amongst a load of other shows that are British). Perhaps it’s in order to keep pre-schoolers from picking up accents from the wrong side of the Atlantic - in which case I can well see why Americans do the same.
That’s the one. I like the bit where Bob originally has another dance partner, but she has an accident on the day of the contest and sprains or breaks her ankle. I can just imagine Wendy planting the roller-skate halfway down the stairs.
Please don’t tell me that the Wiggles and Hi-5 are dubbed too.
Revenant Threshold writes:
> In America, him being fat is not enough to distinguish him from the
> crowd
Well, yes and no. Americans certainly are fat, but you’d never know that from the typical American TV shows and movies. No fat person is allowed to be a significant character in American TV shows and movies unless they are a comic character, and everyone else in the TV show or movie has to find them to be slightly ridiculous.
No, nor with anyone else, even single-handedly, even as an under-ten. It’s all of a piece with not perpetrating a solecism like “off of” ::barf::.
I never hung out with Uncle John, though I saw him (sat a pew or two in front, in fact) at his son’s wedding and quaffed the free champagne in a spirit of honouring the great man’s generosity, or freeloading like a true professional, I’m unsure which. I was never a fan of the man or the group when he was alive, and not one for celebrity-hunting for its own sake. A bit of a shame; those who know about these things tell me he was fucking good at what he did.
/hijack
Just an aside, but BtB is one odd show. There is something very Ken doll about Bob-I would prefer it if he were out or something, anything! He seems…deliberately asexual.
Wendy is pathetic–and just WHO was Bob’s original dance partner? Hmph-I’ll bet he never had one–and HE takes the trophy home! How clueless is that? You’re supposed to give the laurels to the lady, Bob the Git!
The machines are too weird for me-and I don’t get the scarecrow at all.
Now, Thomas I can wrap my head around–watched plenty of that when all the kids were little. The disbelief has to be worked at, but I can get to Sodor if need be–og knows we have the whole cadre of useful engines here with the Brio set.
I liked Ringo and then Carlin as the conductors–I think they enjoyed doing it. The woman at the station was the chick in Grease who wanted to be a hairdresser. She was good.
You all didn’t have John Ritter as the voice of Clifford? 