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English speaking but non-North American countries. Do animated films and TV shows from the states keep the original voice actors, or are they redone by that respective country's voice actors? Just been curious about this for awhile.

No, not that I've noticed whilst abroad. The American culture remains dominant.

Okay, just something I've been curious about.

The only real difference is that they change all the commercials to children's toys and fast food, because in most other countries cartoons are for children.

The thought has just occurred to me..do Americans dub foreign programmes with American English?

I watch US cartoons like Simpsons, Family Guy, etc in French because its funny to hear their voices in French even though I understand very little.

Then we have Acadieman who speaks chiac which is a local dialect mix of English and French

chang50 wrote:The thought has just occurred to me..do Americans dub foreign programmes with American English?

Yes. Even Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine.

notyou2 wrote:Then we have Acadieman who speaks chiac which is a local dialect mix of English and French

Mrsdwk @ 3:10? Asks about shipping to china in a poorly done fake Japanese accent.

Right after, "Twa infinity." ~Loses control laughing.~

Original american voice work in both New Zealand and Australian. Though most cartoons are also dubbed into maori, maori pokemon episodes are piss funny! Sometimes(and not often enough) there are subtitles especially if an american regional accent is being used. A lot of words differ between merican and english.
Aussie/kiwi
fanny = vagina
thongs or jandles = flip flops

won't bore you all with a more complete list

Me talking to a guy in Boston
ME: we pronounce "Oregano" Orry- Garno, no Orreg-anno.
LOCAL: Interesting.
ME: And we pronounce "Basil" Bah-zil, not Bay-zil.
LOCAL How do you pronounce "Cilantro"?
ME: "Coriander leaf".

muy_thaiguy wrote:English speaking but non-North American countries. Do animated films and TV shows from the states keep the original voice actors, or are they redone by that respective country's voice actors? Just been curious about this for awhile.

This is probably the funniest question I've read in a long time.

I know that there are lots of British sitcoms on in the US - they're not dubbed, so why do you think it would happen the other way round?

Vinyl-Taliban wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:English speaking but non-North American countries. Do animated films and TV shows from the states keep the original voice actors, or are they redone by that respective country's voice actors? Just been curious about this for awhile.

This is probably the funniest question I've read in a long time.

I know that there are lots of British sitcoms on in the US - they're not dubbed, so why do you think it would happen the other way round?

He's asking about animated stuff, and yes it does happen in the US.

jonesthecurl wrote:He's asking about animated stuff, and yes it does happen in the US.

It does?

Please don't tell me they dubbed Wallace and Gromit!

I haven't seen that here. But They dubbed over Ringo Starr for Thomas the Tank Engine, and Martin Clunes for Kipper the Dog. Hell, they dubbed over Attenborough for one of the BBC nature programs.

jonesthecurl wrote:I haven't seen that here. But They dubbed over Ringo Starr for Thomas the Tank Engine, and Martin Clunes for Kipper the Dog. Hell, they dubbed over Attenborough for one of the BBC nature programs.

Well I definitely object to dubbing over all three of these fine English Speakers.

I remember how silly it was once when they put English Subtitles under Jacques Cousteau's English.

jonesthecurl wrote:I haven't seen that here. But They dubbed over Ringo Starr for Thomas the Tank Engine, and Martin Clunes for Kipper the Dog. Hell, they dubbed over Attenborough for one of the BBC nature programs.

That makes no sense. Ringo Starr is for all intents and purposes an American now.

here in Australia its mostly the adds that have been redone.

Dukasaur wrote:That makes no sense. Ringo Starr is for all intents and purposes an American now.

It makes even less sense when you realize that British accents (from former British citizens) have been heard on both sides of the news channels these days. Besides, Ringo's voice and cadence is wonderful, and beloved by children everywhere.