Actually, we don't say that in Britain

[maninahat]

They call hookers in some parts of the US, "Chippys". A Chippy in the UK is a a fish and chip shop. This kind of mixup could have pretty awkward but hilarious results.

 

[Xshu]

OT: I Hate how most Americans think anyone from yorkshire is a farmer, Because we arn't!

You're seriously kidding yourself if you honestly think most Americans have ever heard the word "Yorkshire" except possibly when followed by the word "pudding".

I wish those stupid, greedy, bible thumping, fat, gun toting, over-patriotic, overly-conservative, lazy, backwards American hicks would stop resorting to offensive stereotypes. Thankfully, the British would never do something that crude. I'd like to think the British are above the stereotypes those ignorant Americans are always spouting.

 

[maninahat]

The family guy ones can vary with me. Sometimes I find them brilliant and can't stop laughing. Other times I just want to kill the writers by impaling them on a flag pole (with the glorious and wonderful Union Flag raised.)

Case in point - the one with Nigel, the pub owner - I hated it...until I saw the hilarious resemblance to the Anti-Christ, Tony Blair. Then, it became funny.
The American Football ep - where Peter moves to London though - not the best.

I think the best family guy Brit stereotype is a small bit clip, in passing reference. (I think its )in Big Fat Paulie, after a mob guy gets killed in a drive by, Peter suggests moving to England because;
"aaw, the worst they gotta put up with is drive-by arguments!" - que what is possibly my favourite clip, of said argument.

To be fair though, look at how most Brits label Americans - gun loving, bible waving, etc...

Dont forget being fat, lazy and stupid

Also don't forget Family Guy's British porn:
woman: "We could be having sex right about now."
man: "Yes, quite" *continues reading book by fire*.

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

Doesn't Family Guy always rip at British stereotypes that were true 50 or so years ago? I think it's part of the joke.

I'm not sure about the question, but I realised that idioms are pretty funny recently when I was told a french one, which I think is "the little cabbage" or something to that effect. "Le petit choux" I believe. I just wish I remembered what it meant.

"Ma petit choux fleur" - from "Meet the Spy" (from Team Fortress 2). "My little cauliflour".

And yes, I've seen every episode of "Murder She Wrote" as well. I WAS VERY ILL AND HAD NOTHING ELSE TO DO! HONEST!

(Ok... it's Angela Lansbury. Ever since she got an oscar nom for "The Manchurian Candidate" [one of the best films ever btw] I've been her secret love-slave.)

 

[maninahat]

We had Twin Day a while back at my school, and my British friend and another friend dressed up as schoolgirls together. I saw her in the hall in the morning and was all like, "why are you dressed like that?" and she tells me "I'm a schoolgirl!" and my response to this was, "Wow, that's kinky..." and then she suddenly gets all dark and stalks off and I'm kind of left with my hands in the air wondering what I said.

I found her at lunch and apologized and explained it was a joke, and she accepted it, but I could tell she was still really angry. I finally realized that "kinky" probably meant something else in British vernacular, and asked. "Oh, it means like, the lowest of the low, like, a complete whore," she explained. "OHHHH. Here, it just means 'That's hot.'" "Glad we cleared that up! ._. I thought you were really insulting me..."

In my twenty years of life in Britain I have honestly NEVER heard of the word "kinky" meaning anything other than what *you* thought it meant. How odd...

Yeah, maybe you just came off as kind of creepy or crass.

 

[Skinny Razor]

OT: I Hate how most Americans think anyone from yorkshire is a farmer, Because we arn't!

You're seriously kidding yourself if you honestly think most Americans have ever heard the word "Yorkshire" except possibly when followed by the word "pudding".

I thought are Yorkshire men were abrasive and sarcastic.

 

[UberMore]

In an episode of Murder She Wrote, there is a timeless quotation. "I want you on that like fog on tower bridge!" Makes me giggle every single time I hear it!

In my defence it's the wife that watches it!

Don't worry, your secret is safe with us.

Well, I'm a bit miffed at the stereotype that we all have bad teeth. Where the hell did it even come from?

The unhealthy/ unappealing food one is true though, fish and chips and kebabs? I'll take the american equivalent any day.

You'd take a burger over a Kebab?!

Good lord man!

 

[SnakeF]

i gotta jump in and say what about us Scot's? we get loads of crap about we all eat haggis (though some people do like the taste of it. myself included), we are all ginger, we all wear kilts (well i have to time to time cos i'm in a pipe band, but that and weddings are the only time i've seen any other Scot wear a kilt)and that we all live in castles in the highland with thick Scottish accents that no one understands and we have no electronic equipment (i've heard that from Americans on Xbox live before thats the only reason i brought it up)and just to throw it in there it was Scot's that 1.harnessed electricity 2. invented the T.V. and 3. invented the telephone. just though i'd throw a word in for the scot's

You know, It's funny that the Americans think of Kilts as a Scottish thing when the first clans that used them were actually Border Reavers i.e. Northern English. I suppose everyone just thinks to the Jacobite rebellion or something and think of Kilts, but the Kilts is definately not limited to the Scots; heck, my family has it's own Tartan.

 

[Caligulove]

'Cos, you know... the English don't have any stereotypes for Americans...

 

[Snotnarok]

I don't have any favorites against the English but I do enjoy their comedy far too much. Even amateur ones on youtube. The one would be Dr Ashen, reviews Chinese knockoffs, very funny.

 

[maninahat]

The worst British stereotype is drinking tea. I hate tea.

Also, a lot of British actors end up staring in American T.V series/films, which shows that they lose there accents well.

Americans being British on the other hand...

But the english do drink a fuck load of tea all the same. Tea is interesting because it is the one drink that will be drunk by anyone regardless of class or status or locale or wealth in the UK.

 

[UberMore]

In an episode of Murder She Wrote, there is a timeless quotation. "I want you on that like fog on tower bridge!" Makes me giggle every single time I hear it!

In my defence it's the wife that watches it!

they had an english woman listening to a gramophone on there the other day...seriously, when it supposed to be set!?

There was a 'drive by' in Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle.....except it was performed with a sword......

i...i would complain but that honestly sounds awesome.

My thoughts exactly...I'd love to see this scene!

 

[Pokedude1013]

Dude, it's family guy. What you expect

 

[Omegatronacles]

Spoiler

I felt this was appropriate.

Nah, this is wrong. The British get mighty offended by the phrase "Bloody Hell".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_where_the_bloody_hell_are_you%3F

 

[KnowYourOnion]

In an episode of Murder She Wrote, there is a timeless quotation. "I want you on that like fog on tower bridge!" Makes me giggle every single time I hear it!

In my defence it's the wife that watches it!

Don't worry, your secret is safe with us.

Well, I'm a bit miffed at the stereotype that we all have bad teeth. Where the hell did it even come from?

The unhealthy/ unappealing food one is true though, fish and chips and kebabs? I'll take the american equivalent any day.

Apparently British teeth are the best in the entire world.....ahhh I love the smell of irony in the morning....smells like.....bacon

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Apparently British teeth are the best in the entire world.....ahhh I love the smell of irony in the morning....smells like.....bacon

Healthiest*, not necessarily the 'best'.

*according to some OECD report.

Nah, this is wrong. The British get mighty offended by the phrase "Bloody Hell".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_where_the_bloody_hell_are_you%3F

No we don't. It might be considered very, very mild swearing, but why it was banned and then only allowed on after the 9pm watershed is beyond me. It's not unusual to hear that phrase and much worse during the day. It comes across as kind of an odd thing to say, but hardly offensive.

 

[UberMore]

Furthermore:
I'm English and have excellent teeth.
I do speak with a posh accent - expensive education will do that to you.
I do not know H.M. the Queen personally;I would like to though.

In my area, we kill Toffs like you!
Haha, I jest.

Some of the stereotypes for the UK are wildly wrong.
The one that most people do get right is that most of us in the UK have a strong innate dislike of every other country, and a lot of people their own, even if we don't like to admit it.

 

[KnowYourOnion]

Apparently British teeth are the best in the entire world.....ahhh I love the smell of irony in the morning....smells like.....bacon

Healthiest*, not necessarily the 'best'.

*according to some OECD report.

Surely those words are interchangeable in this case??
I don't care if my teeth look perfect as long as they aren't rotting away.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I nearly always laugh as Family Guys British sterotypes.

In the words of nude Clinton after having an egg thrown at him "hahaha well if you can't laugh at yourself..."

 

[UberMore]

But seriously, ALL THE BRITS doing horrible, ridiculous, borderline offensive American accents in movies over here, and the OT is getting upset about a FAMILY GUY EPISODE? News flash, every British actor ever: Your American accent sucks balls, and your Southern accent sucks underage animal balls, and we CAN tell. So stop it.

At least the Family Guy stereotypes are supposed to be offensively amusing. These ass-hats do their schpiel with a straight face and expect us to take it seriously. (I'm looking at you, almost every single member of the cast of Battlestar Galactica).

Well, I've confused many an-American with my fake accents, both Southern, Central and Northern stereotype accents.
I got asked if I was from Georgia by several Yanks ffs!