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 My favorite thing about France (okay, just one of them...as there are many) is all of the dubbed TV shows. A few examples of the gems one can find in spectacularly dubbed French:
  • The Simpsons (Les Simpsons) - Hugely popular with my host brothers, who are 9 and 14.
  • 8 Simple Rules (Touche pas à mes filles)
  • Next
  • Baywatch (Alerte à Malibu) - My host mom was curious if everyone is actually beautiful like that in Malibu. I took that moment to explain botox and collagen and plastic surgery.
  • Fresh Prince of BelAire (Le Prince de Bel-Aire)
  • Friends
  • Spin City
  • ER (Urgences)
  • Sister Sister
  • For Your Love (Pour le Meilleur) - Have never seen this in English, but has some girl from 'Hanging with Mister Cooper,' clearly making it a winner.
  • Wheel of Fortune (La Roue de la fortune) - Actually filmed in France, so all of the phrases are French and the Vanna White is this youngish woman with huge boobs.
  • 1 vs. 100 (Un Contre 100) - Also filmed here. Don't understand the premise in English, and so it's just that much more fantastic here.
  • Random shows with David Hasselhoff... disturbing

And, of course, there is pretty much every American movie ever...dubbed. Hilarious. I love you, France. I cannot communicate with your inhabitants terribly well, but at least I can watch shows on TV and pretend I know what's going on!

posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:13 AM