MORE accents you hear all the time in US pop culture

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Published 2024-01-28
The media loves to use accents to give personality to characters. Let's look at 10 more popular accents used in pop culture characters in movies, TV shows, and video games, including the midatlantic accent, nerd accent, German accent, and more.

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All Comments (21)
  • @JJMcCullough
    A good one I forgot is this sort of sassy, slightly babyish New York babe, who pronounces words “service” as “soy-vus.” Do you know the kind I mean? I randomly heard the song “Lotta Locomotion” from the horrible musical “Starlight Express” the other day, and the floozy characters in that song speak this way and I immediately recognized it as a thing. I think the dopey Miss Springfield on the Simpsons speaks this way too. What are some other examples?
  • @moredac2881
    I’ll call this the “Wise Asian Old Man Accent.” The old master in almost every martial arts TV show or film almost always speaks in this generic “Asian” way. It’s generic because it doesn’t really sound like specifically Chinese or Japanese or any other accent, but just vaguely East Asian. I think Master Oogway from Kung Fu Panda and Sinsei Wu from Ninjago speak this way.
  • @SirGruff
    Parodies of Arnold Schwarzenegger's thick Styrian accent have been used for giant strong characters but that might just be to parody him specifically, like Rainier Wolfcastle from the Simpsons, Jorgen Von Strangle in Fairly Oddparents or Nils Niedhart in the new Animaniacs.
  • @simulatrix
    Patrick Warburton's vocal performance as Kronk has cemented that voice as the goto himbo voice. Usually played by a meathead who isn’t particularly bright.
  • @ravenlord4
    The "Gypsy" accent is usually a quick go-to for a fortune teller. The "Fast Talking Salesman" like from 1962s "The Money Man" and Phil Hartman's "monorail" episode from the Simpsons is also iconic and an easy tell :)
  • There is also a stereotypical lower class British accent in American media too which is some kind of bizarre mock-cockney concoction. Think Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins or several Simpsons episodes where it was used. It is used to convey a kind of simple minded but kind hearted servility.
  • @TheWolfman112
    The biggest sin of this video was JJ not realizing Mr. Krabs was SUPPOSED to be a sailor-type character.
  • @RomanG.1918
    As an Englishman, the whole pirate part is really interesting. What you mentioned about Hagrid and the West Country accent is stereotyped in Britain as a farmer's accent, very rural and (quite rudely) unsophisticated, but simultaneously not unintelligent and brutish like certain other lower-class accents are (also quite rudely) stereotyped to be, and Hagrid fits this stereotype to a T. Historically, many famous English pirates in the new world often came from the West Country, cities like Bristol or Plymouth in particular because of their large roles in trans-Atlantic voyages and trades. I assume this simply carried down the generations as part of the general pirate stereotype into the modern interpretations of pirates. I think Mr. Krabs as an example specifically also plays into the general 'sailor' stereotype (all the crusty sea-dogs like that one sea captain from the Simpsons), and not just pirates. Btw, really cool video, I really liked your first one.
  • @randycurry1570
    I find the accent that Daniel Craig uses in “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion” is a very specific southern accent. As someone who lives in the south, you will rarely find anyone that sounds like this. It’s a very old accent that is only really used in movies.
  • The Mobster accent is one I feel is worth mention. Tony Soprano and Joe Pesci are the biggest examples that come to mind
  • @BenFitter
    I think Schwarzenegger and Stallone definitely solidified their accents as the go-tos for bodybuilder and meathead types respectively. Schwazenegger is also propagated in Fairly Oddparents as Jorgen Von Strangle
  • @jbejaran
    I always thought it was interesting in How To Train Your Dragon how all of the adults had thick Scottish brogues (despite the characters actually being more Nordic in nature), and yet the children all sounded like American mall rats. I think this is reflective of how older immigrants come to the U.S. or Canada with their home country accent, but their kids grow up with general American accents. This vocal symbolism was used even though no immigration is depicted in the story at all.
  • My brother and I always assumed (jokingly) that Doofenshmirtz is based on our father. He was born in Austria and is a somewhat absent-minded genius inventor. He actually played a significant role in Canadian technology, working on the original Canadarm and inventing the idea of adding holograms to bills to stop counterfeiters.
  • @Noman1000
    Juandissimo saying "I even pitched a tent" is such a good blink and you miss it adult joke.
  • @StormeTheCat
    I also feel like a lot of people do impressions of Peter Lorre's voice because they remember the many times that Looney Tunes did parodies of the actor, rather than Peter Lorre himself.
  • @jamesabwilson
    The Kardashian cali girl vocal fry has become quite iconic
  • @Triniwn
    Vicent Price impressions I'd say are up there with Peter Lorre, as a sort of spooky, occult person, but with more class.
  • @tavelkyosoba
    Christian Bale's batman voice is definitely it's own accent now
  • @CathodeRayKobold
    The "Haity-Taity-Tay" happy-go-lucky Irish accent is a notable one in America, usually only seen in Leprechauns. Actual stereotypical Irishmen are more often portrayed as angry drunks. The "Mrs. Doubtfire" Scottish accent is another one, almost always seen in a worried old maid. I believe one of the good witches from Snow White had this.
  • @I_WANT_MY_SLAW
    I feel like with the passing of Gilbert Gottfried, his well known, iconic screaming voice will be portrayed for a long time. Hes best known for voicing the Aflac duck, Iago from Alladin, and Digit from Cyberchase. But his list of roles totals in the thousands. He did hundreds of episodes of Alladin and Cyberchase alone. I miss Gilbert. RIP