Everything sounds better in French

[sombrefan]

Well except the Buffy musical but it comes darn close.

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[letloverule42.livejournal.com]

that just may be the funniest thing i've seen all morning. good on ya, Simon. thanks for posting.

[gossi.livejournal.com]

Oh, this one is doing my email rounds now.. Thanks Simon!

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Ooh, it's been a long time since I've seen Buffy in French (and this one I never saw because I missed it at the time or something or other).

frenchani does think it's horrendous though (the person dubbing Tara hasn't got as good a singing voice). Maybe I should watch it a time in French overdub (which I can because the Belgian dvds come bilingual).

[simonf.livejournal.com]

actually have the German OMWF DVD but sadly it doesn't have the singing in German just the ordinary dialogue.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's the German version of dubbing: they don't do the music in musicals. (At least when it's just dubbed for tv.) So you get strange switches with the voices.

I did catch the odd Buffy-episode in German, but the religiously watching of Buffy didn't happen until LaDeux came with the daily episodes around dinner time. (And then I finaly got the dvds and got new daily episodes around dinner time, but with appropriate Dutch subtitles.)

I'm just rambling on, aren't I?

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in Germany they kept the songs in the original and dubbed the dialogue. Badly most of the time. I just cannot watch Buffy or Angel in German - the voices seem so wrong and the quality of the writing mostly disappears.

[athenamuze.livejournal.com]

This was so entertaining! Thanks Simon!

[iidoru.livejournal.com]

The translation isn't half bad, either.

It always makes me laugh, though, because they mostly use the same three people to dub tv shows into French, so I recognize the voices. It's like, hey, the guy doing Xander also does Jack Bauer on 24!