American accents on Lazytown outrage!!!

[Lovecat]

Yes, I know I should go get a life, but am I the only one up in arms about the US accents for the puppet kids that have suddenly appeared on Lazytown?

Have the Beeb blown their entire budget on ITNG and Me Too so's they can't afford to dub it in English anymore? Do they think we won't notice?

And what a godawful whiny voice they've given Ziggy - like one of the muppets!!

nooooooooooooo ilove lazy toswn coz its decent englis i will cry

nothing wrong with american accents is there

Nothing intrinsically wrong with American accents, Hana, but when you've got used to them speaking in English ones it jars a little... and it seems to totally change their characters somehow, I don't know why...

Lol boobylicious I know, I know, when the most-repeated phrase on the show is 'Shomeonesh in traaable!' I shouldn't really be picky about anything else, should I?

So are we not allowed to hear accents from other countries now ? Why dub? Have to agree with you - go get a life.

I just tune it all out
none of my girls have my accent, not even a twang.
might get them watching more Lazy town....haha

i'm up in arms about lazy town dp just put it on for dd it must be the worst kids programme ever ever!

is fairly dire
but good strong messages about healthy eating

I think the argument is that cbeebies has up until now shown the UK version of Lazytown (an Icelandic production incidentally not US). I didn't see it, but I'm assuming that for the first time, a US dubbed version was shown on cbeebies?

A lot of the words have had to be changed for a UK audience too - like "soccer" for football and "candy" and "taffy" for sweets and toffee. It doesn't translate for a young audience although I can see that older kids would recognise that different cultures have different vocab. I think 2-6 yr olds are better off hearing familiar vocab in childrens' programming tbh.

Ds has an SE English accent because we lived in England til he was just turned 2. He's 4.5 and still has it and the more I listen to him , the more I wonder whether he's retained it from watching Cbeebies. He doesn't watch it that much, but he does talk like a Numberjack tbh.

An American Lazytown-esque twang would be far more acceptable

oh my, we can't be the only house that didn't notice this . But that's what we get with a "mixed" house of one American and one British parent.

DD (6) is usually quick to point out which words are American and which are England (as she calls it)

Bobsmum, thank you for being the one to get what I was saying!

NB - this was actually meant to be a light-hearted thread, I just found it really weird, having got one image of Ziggy, Stingy etc in my head from the UK-dubbed voiceovers, for them to suddenly seem to change personality with their US accents... oh well, they say humour doesn't translate via the keyboard...

I'm North-Western, OH is from Hampshire (very RP accent), we live in Essex, so far dd says bath/path/grass/dance with a short A because I'm her main influence at present, but words we don't tend to use (such as 'belly' - aargh!) she says in an Essex accent, because she's picked it up from nursery... so we're moving

lovecat, i had to check out how people in local shops sounded to make sure I understood them before we bought our house. I wanted to have some chance at understanding the DC

Slightly off topic , but i C'mind a little girl of 5 who always asks to bring her "pally packet" to my house. I hadn't a clue what she was on about until i realised she meant Polly Pocket, but because she had been used to hearing it on Tv being advertised with an "american-ish" accent, she thought that's what they were called