One of my favourite things on German dubbings of TV shows

(Actually the only thing I like because the synchronisations are almost always lazy and badly made.)

Accents usually get ignored completely which is a shame because I would’ve loved it if Hagrid spoke, I don’t know, Saxonian German. If the accent is part of the conversation, they have to build it in somehow and then they sometimes use Austrian accents to signify that a person has a regional accent. I’m currently watching an old episode of Criminal Minds and I think I remember this victim being from the South of the US and in the German version he’s speaking with a (really bad, supposedly) Viennese accent. When Liz Lemon speaks German in 30 Rock, she too, speaks in a (really bad*) Viennese accent.

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* Seriously, what up with that, Germany? You’re full of Austrian actors.