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- Oh yeah, new camera, new
lights, things are about
to get crispiness on a whole new level.
But the camera's here,
gotta get used to that.
Okay think about what
your favorite show is.
Barney the Dinosaur?
No that's been canceled
for a long time, try again.
Well assuming that you have
a current favorite show,
it might surprise you to
learn that that program
does not air the same all over the world.
In fact, everything about it
has probably been changed,
including the main character,
by the time that it hits
a country outside of America.
(upbeat music)
Here are 10 American TV characters remade
in foreign countries.
Number 10 is Jack Bauer.
The TV show 24 was a watershed
moment in the early 2000s
when television began to
compete with big budget films
but it was also so
successful that it spawned
a foreign remake.
In the original U.S.
show, Kiefir Sutherland
played Jack Bauer, a
counter terrorist agent
who had 24 hours to stop terrorist group.
However, in the Hindi version
in India, set in Mumbai,
Jack Bauer was remade
for an Indian audience
as Jai Singh Rathod, a military agent
who is caught between
the love of his family
and his sworn oath to protect his country
from terrorist attacks.
Airing in 2013, this
incarnation of Jack Bauer
was so successful that he
came back to save the day
once again in a second season in 2016.
And if you really want a mind
F, now all we need is Jack
to go to Mumbai and cross paths
with his Indian alter ego.
Yep, shared universes are
definitely a thing now.
Number nine is Michael Kelso.
Ashton Kutcher shot to
fame in the late 1990s
with his portrayal of
Michael Kelso in the sitcom
That 70s Show but few
people are aware that Kelso
and all of his buddies
from that show were recast
and remade for a UK television show.
The show was called Days
like These and the setting
was changed from America to England.
Ashton Kutcher's character
was renamed to Michael McGuire
and played by English
actor, James Carlton.
The character did maintain
many of the same quirks
from the original series
such as being the male bimbo
of the group but British
audiences didn't take
to this local reimagining of the series.
With the American version of
the show proving more popular,
Days like These was canceled
after just 10 episodes
without even airing a further three
which had been completed.
See you can never discount
that Kutcher magic.
Number eight is Al Bundy.
Oh yeah, this was one of my
favorite shows growing up.
Hey, Peg.
Married with Children was a hit U.S. show
from 1987 to 1997.
It actually remains the longest
lasting live action sitcom
on Fox and was so popular that it spawned
a number of remakes.
But definitely one of the
most out there remakes
has to be the German
version and excuse my German
when I say this.
(clears throat)
(speaking German)
Which translates to Help, my
family is crazy in German.
Like Married with
Children, the show followed
a middle aged father trying
to negotiate his life
and deal with the
ever-growing disappointments
of his career and family.
And of course with most foreign remakes,
the main character's name was changed.
Instead of Al Bundy, the German
audience watched Tim Strunk.
I guess Tim Strunk isn't
much worse than Al Bundy.
The show lasted for 26
episodes which is actually
pretty long, although perhaps
it would have lasted longer
if they used the original
cast but used German accents.
Hey, Al, (speaks German).
Number seven is Sam Malone.
Cheers spawned the popular
spinoff show Frasier
but it also produced an
official Spanish remake
which gave a different
spin to the lead character,
Sam Malone.
Just like the U.S. show, this
version was set in a bar,
this time an Irish themed bar in Spain.
That's just a really weird
concept but let's continue.
In the U.S. version,
Sam Malone owned a bar
and was a recovering alcoholic
and once famous baseball star.
The Spanish version
changed Sam's name to Nico
and made him a former soccer player.
But was he still an alcoholic?
Did he like the sauce?
Well just like Sam, Nico
actually had another addiction,
women, he was actually
a notorious womanizer
who can't help but hit on every woman
who comes into the bar.
The Spanish production
used the famous theme
where everybody knows
your name but the show
was canceled quickly.
Hm, sounds like the theme
song should have been
where absolutely nobody knows your name.
(vocalizing)
Number six is Ray Romano.
Does anybody else get
annoyed by this guy's face?
Actually I shouldn't
talk, I get those comments
all the time.
The original U.S. run of
Everybody Loves Raymond
starred Ray Romano as the main character.
The show, which followed
Ray as a family man
torn between his wife and
his parents who lived across
the street was extremely popular.
Not with me, I wanted
to gouge my eyes out.
Well a lot of people did
like it and it was so popular
in fact that Poland actually
made their own version
of Ray Romano himself.
Instead of being called Ray, they changed
the lead character's name
to Roman, no doubt as a nod
to the original actor and
creator of the original show.
And just like the original
series, Roman was a sportswriter
who is continually stuck between his wife
and his overbearing mother.
However, unlike the U.S. series,
the show as not a success.
It only lasted four episodes
before being canceled
and poor Polish Ray was
left on the trash sheet
by Polish television once and for all.
Poor Polish Ray.
Number five is Sheldon Cooper.
Sheldon Cooper and his
scientist friends star
in the hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
But in 2010, the country
of Belaruse made a show
which was eerily similar.
It followed a group of
scientists who were terrible
with women and lived across the
hall from a blonde waitress.
And hilarity ensued.
One of the character's names was Sheldon,
a brilliant scientist with
almost no social skills.
Soon after the show aired, the creator
of The Big Bang Theory,
Chuck Lorre, commented on
the similarities between these shows.
Basically accusing the
Belarus show of using
the character of Sheldon Cooper and others
without permission.
When the similarities were
pointed out to the Belarus cast,
the actor who played their
version of Leonard walked out
on the show not wanting to be associated
with the plagiarism.
Good for you, fake Leonard,
although in Russia,
TV show walk out on you.
Number four is David Brent.
David Brent is the iconic
cringe inducing boss
of the original The Office as played
by series co-creator, Ricky Gervais.
Now if you live in North
America, you already know
that the show was later
adapted into a hit U.S. show
of the same name but we're
going to disregard that
as a full remake as Gervais
Brent actually guest starred
on that show so it's technically a spinoff
but the same cannot be said
for the German show Stromberg
which took the David Brent
character, renamed him
and hoped that no one would notice.
Side note, this doesn't just happen on TV,
there's literally a
guy in France who takes
all of my videos and just translates them
and reads them on camera.
Yeah, so, anyway.
After the BBC threatened to
sue the makers of the show,
they agreed to give
credit to Ricky Gervais
and Steven Mershont who
created the original series.
In the end, this version
of Brent was very popular
and even resulted in a feature film.
I absolutely blame the
U.S. version of that show,
which I really love,
for me saying for years,
"That's what she said."
It's played out now but I still say it.
It's kind of like a tick.
Anyway, moving on.
Number three is Joel Hodgson.
Joel Hodgson played a
character of the same name
in the classic show Mystery
Science Theater 3000
but while the original show
was off air for some time
until the recent reboot,
a Russian company decided
to make their own version of the show.
Dear Russia and Germany,
y'all gotta smarten up,
you're gonna get a slap.
It was uncreatively called Project Popcorn
and included their own Joel
or Steven as he was called.
And it gets really weird.
In Project Popcorn, Steven
is trapped by an evil doctor,
in this case, Dr. Hitler, who forces Joel,
I mean Steven, to watch terrible movies.
Unlike the original show,
Steven isn't accompanied
by two wisecracking
robots but instead watches
the terrible movies
with two bizarre puppets
called Fidel the penguin
and Ketchup the dog.
You know owning a penguin in
the first place would be weird
but calling it Fidel would
just be par for the course.
Come here, little Fidel,
you want some ice cubes?
Number two is James T. Kirk.
Turkey is responsible for some
of the most hilarious remakes
of all time but in one
instance they actually remade
an iconic television series
to a pretty high standard.
It was an episode of Star
Trek called The Man Trap
complete with their own interpretation
of the famous Star Fleet
captain, James T. Kirk.
The Turkish version
contains all the same crew
of the star ship enterprise
with an added character
for comic effect but
what sets this rendition
of Kirk and the crew apart is
that unlike the U.S. originals
which often shot on a sound
stage, the Turkish version
used outdoor locations which
in some ways gave their version
more production value as
Kirk explored the remnants
of a destroyed city on an alien world.
Man if they wanted to do
that thy could have just come
to downtown L.A., it would
have been way cheaper.
Ha, boom L.A., roasted.
And number one is Walter White.
Hey Jesse, it's time to cook.
Brian Cranson's portrayal of
Walter White in the TV show
Breaking Bad has to go down as one of
the greatest characters of all time.
Seriously, if you haven't seen the show,
what are you doing with your life?
But there is another Walter White.
In 2014, the Spanish
language version of the show
was released.
Called Metastasis, the
show mostly followed
the original Breaking Bad scene for scene.
Does that include the
bathtub and acid scene?
(gags)
Just thinking about is
entrails everywhere.
Now there were a few minor alterations
to the character of Walter
White whose Spanish name
was Walter Blanco but Sony
Entertainment Television
who funded the production,
ensured that the series
would retread most of the storylines
of the original U.S. version.
The show was actually
nominated for a number
of words in Colombia during
its run and the actor
who had to fill Brian Cranston's shoes
was widely received well
though most English speaking
countries aren't even aware
that this alternate version exists.
Until now, the knowledge whale's
just packing your mind full
of (screams) goodness.
In all seriousness though,
there is a guy from France
that reuploads all my videos,
he just rips the script
and reshoots it, that's not a joke.
I'm not gonna give you his
channel but it's out there
and I see you, French man.
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