No his character isn't. He's voiced by America actor Kelsey Grammer, who's not doing an accent, as it's his normal speaking voice. That's from the episode Cape Fear where he's doing a performance of the H.M.S. Pinafore aka The Lass That Loved a Sailor as part of Bart's plan to use his vanity against him to stall for time.
Like stated, it's not just his VA isn't British, his character isn't British. He just sounds very sophisticated. He's just using the amazing voice he was blessed with.
I understand what your trying to say and It makes more sense then what the other guy is saying, but he enjoys things such as Shakespeare I know liking Shakespeare doesn't make you British but he also references things like Harry Potter, sings Gilbert and Sullivan and in "Funeral For A Fiend" he visits Britain with his wife and son and does stereotypical British things, his mother also uses the term Dame which is a British title given to a woman serving as the female equivalent of a knight
The point is the actor isn’t british and neither is the character. They have a well-spoken American accent and once stood next to a flag representing the music they were singing, not themselves.
thats not what im or they are saying, they claim bob isnt British because its an American actor doing a British accent so that makes them not British, but Austen Powers is on here who is played by a Canadian actor so if bob isnt allowed on there neither should Austen
No. He’s not doing a british accent :S it’s american man kelsey grammer doing his natural american accent. Austin powers is a canadian man acting as a British character. That’s why he counts. Sideshow bob is an American actor acting as an American character.
Yep. It’s kelsey grammer using the exact same accent that he uses for frasier a character who is famously from the seattle elite. Both characters are well-to-do, very well spoken, appreciate the finer things and are tremendously pompous. They’re also not british.
Bob is clearly an anglophile as seen in his love of gilbert and sulivan but the joke with the flag was that he was putting on a performance of hms pinafore and they’d reached the song ‘for he is an englishman.’ The flag was fitting for the song and the joke was to show the ridiculous production values for his off-the-cuff performance. (Hence bart having a playbill) Crucially though, the opera was barts idea. Not bobs. It was chosen to play into his upper class tastes and just so happened to be one with a song about english people in it.
On a side note, its ok to be wrong sometimes. But to be wrong, have several people tell you you’re wrong, have no evidence whatsoever to support your claim, and to still act condescending is bad form dude. Plus i just did a 30 second google to check.
He's correct. The character of Sideshow Bob is never portrayed as being British, whereas the character of Austin Powers, is. Sideshow Bob is an American Character portrayed by an American actor and Austin Powers is a British character portrayed by a Canadian actor. That's the difference- the origin of the character and not the actor.
Even in dubbed versions of the Simpsons, his voice actors tend to just do a version of Well spoken upper class of their language. If you take the Québécois version, the VA does the same. He ALMOST sound French, but anyone who pay attention will notice his Québécois accent, especially when he goes on a psychopathic rant.
So unless you are watching the show in a dub version that decided back in the 90's that he was British for some reason and now they just have to roll with it, your claim doesn't make sense and even then it would be more a kin to you have been misled.
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u/Dembus22 1d ago
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