on the point of actors with accents

hi, you're obviously new or new-ish to this country, but for some reason, tv producers have thought you would play a U.S. character better than, well, an actor that is from the U.S.

but the truth is you and i both know they probably hired you more for sex appeal than your ability to sound like you were born and raised in this country.

but ... the least you can do is try. or hire a voice coach or something.

right now, i'm looking straight at you, tammin sursok. the execs over at the young and the restless thought you would make a great replacement for the lovely (and U.S. resident) adrienne leon in the role of colleen carlton (a character of U.S. origin and residence). but you know what you could do? you could've tried to conceal your frakking australian accent for more than a couple of episodes. YOU'RE NOT EVEN TRYING ANYMORE! colleen is a genoa city abbott, for bill bell's sake. ok, sure, writers just recently revealed (cough*retcon*cough) that her father has been secretly jewish since he hit genoa city and banged jill foster abbott back in the mid-'80s, but that would only give reason to make colleen sound like fran fricking drescher!

and while we're at it, let me take a look at you, laura vandervoort. unless i missed something, kryptonians are NOT canadian! you think i miss you slipping into your canadian accent? you think that wasn't a reason i stopped watching smallville this season? well? DO YOU??? look, i already have enough qualms with the show's writers portraying you more like the most recent kara zor-el (who's a pompous little bitch) and not the much beloved pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths kara zor-el (hell, i would've preferred you being portrayed as the linda danvers/earth angel supergirl), but you just make it worse with your slips. ok, i get it, you're "hot". whatever. just keep "eh" and "aboot" north of the border.

on another note, shame on you, doogie howser! i'm a recent convert to how i met your mother, and i'm just catching up on the third (and recent) season. i have no problems with barney being an opportunistic horn dog. in fact, it's one of the reasons i love the character. but if you're going to make up this whole cockamamie plan to pretend to be an out-of-towner (episode 3.2) so you and ted can score some remorseless NYC poontang, at least keep your fake midwestern accent throughout the episode and not drop it halfway through! sure, the girls you and ted were trying to hook up with ended up being from jersey, but that's no reason for your voice to have suited down! for shame, fictional barney.

for.

shame.

all of you.