* Shows like Friends and Grey’s Anatomy are super famous, and thus their actors have become a part of popular culture. The voices of Monica and Chandlor, Merdith and Derek are consequently as recognizable as their faces. So when you come across the dubbed version on French TV and the voices are suddenly completely different, you are in for a jarring and entertaining experience.
* They do a great job at preserving the voices of the different Simpsons characters, but the voice of Marge is really especially grating in French.
* The beginning monologue with Law and Order is translated directly into French.
* There are significantly less commercial breaks in France, but when they do have one of the two through out the whole show, they last forever. So I guess it is almost the same…
* Talk shows here are staggeringly stupid. There is nothing on late night like Conan O’Brien, at least nothing that I could see. The two late night shows I saw there was a large table and 3 different people were promoting different things and they had breaks for some America’s Funniest Home Video’s things… It was very odd and very silly.
* The ads here are way more sexual, but we all knew that.
* They have marathons or something, seriously, The Simpsons (Les Simpsoms) was on all freaking night!
* Where are all the reality shows? Are you telling me there are no late night America’s Next Top Model (or France’s Next Top Model) no Rock of Love? What am I supposed to do when the kids I am babysitting go to bed without trashy reality tv?
*Battlestar Galactica in French is hilarious. I have a hard time believing a super posh Giaus when he speaks French, maybe it is just the voice actor though because Caprica Six is a little more sensual when she speaks French.
2 comments:
Nothing like tits in a yogurt commercial to highlight the differences between French and American TV
-c.
yep ads are sexual! and well there are reality tv shows.. i dont know.. " im a celebrity get me out of here " is hilarious i dont know...
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