- Oh yeah, new camera, new
lights, things are about
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to get crispiness on a whole new level.
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But the camera's here,
gotta get used to that.
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Okay think about what
your favorite show is.
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Barney the Dinosaur?
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No that's been canceled
for a long time, try again.
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Well assuming that you have
a current favorite show,
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it might surprise you to
learn that that program
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does not air the same all over the world.
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In fact, everything about it
has probably been changed,
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including the main character,
by the time that it hits
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a country outside of America.
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Here are 10 American TV characters remade
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in foreign countries.
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Number 10 is Jack Bauer.
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The TV show 24 was a watershed
moment in the early 2000s
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when television began to
compete with big budget films
00:52
but it was also so
successful that it spawned
00:55
In the original U.S.
show, Kiefir Sutherland
01:00
played Jack Bauer, a
counter terrorist agent
01:03
who had 24 hours to stop terrorist group.
01:05
However, in the Hindi version
in India, set in Mumbai,
01:08
Jack Bauer was remade
for an Indian audience
01:12
as Jai Singh Rathod, a military agent
01:15
who is caught between
the love of his family
01:18
and his sworn oath to protect his country
01:21
from terrorist attacks.
01:24
Airing in 2013, this
incarnation of Jack Bauer
01:25
was so successful that he
came back to save the day
01:28
once again in a second season in 2016.
01:31
And if you really want a mind
F, now all we need is Jack
01:35
to go to Mumbai and cross paths
with his Indian alter ego.
01:37
Yep, shared universes are
definitely a thing now.
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Number nine is Michael Kelso.
01:46
Ashton Kutcher shot to
fame in the late 1990s
01:52
with his portrayal of
Michael Kelso in the sitcom
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That 70s Show but few
people are aware that Kelso
01:58
and all of his buddies
from that show were recast
02:01
and remade for a UK television show.
02:05
The show was called Days
like These and the setting
02:07
was changed from America to England.
02:10
Ashton Kutcher's character
was renamed to Michael McGuire
02:13
and played by English
actor, James Carlton.
02:16
The character did maintain
many of the same quirks
02:19
from the original series
such as being the male bimbo
02:21
of the group but British
audiences didn't take
02:24
to this local reimagining of the series.
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With the American version of
the show proving more popular,
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Days like These was canceled
after just 10 episodes
02:33
without even airing a further three
02:36
which had been completed.
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See you can never discount
that Kutcher magic.
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Number eight is Al Bundy.
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Oh yeah, this was one of my
favorite shows growing up.
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Married with Children was a hit U.S. show
02:54
It actually remains the longest
lasting live action sitcom
02:57
on Fox and was so popular that it spawned
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a number of remakes.
03:04
But definitely one of the
most out there remakes
03:05
has to be the German
version and excuse my German
03:07
(clears throat)
(speaking German)
03:11
Which translates to Help, my
family is crazy in German.
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Like Married with
Children, the show followed
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a middle aged father trying
to negotiate his life
03:19
and deal with the
ever-growing disappointments
03:22
of his career and family.
03:25
And of course with most foreign remakes,
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the main character's name was changed.
03:28
Instead of Al Bundy, the German
audience watched Tim Strunk.
03:31
I guess Tim Strunk isn't
much worse than Al Bundy.
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The show lasted for 26
episodes which is actually
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pretty long, although perhaps
it would have lasted longer
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if they used the original
cast but used German accents.
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Hey, Al, (speaks German).
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Number seven is Sam Malone.
03:49
Cheers spawned the popular
spinoff show Frasier
03:55
but it also produced an
official Spanish remake
03:57
which gave a different
spin to the lead character,
04:00
Just like the U.S. show, this
version was set in a bar,
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this time an Irish themed bar in Spain.
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That's just a really weird
concept but let's continue.
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In the U.S. version,
Sam Malone owned a bar
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and was a recovering alcoholic
04:15
and once famous baseball star.
04:17
The Spanish version
changed Sam's name to Nico
04:19
and made him a former soccer player.
04:22
But was he still an alcoholic?
04:24
Did he like the sauce?
04:26
Well just like Sam, Nico
actually had another addiction,
04:28
women, he was actually
a notorious womanizer
04:31
who can't help but hit on every woman
04:34
who comes into the bar.
04:37
The Spanish production
used the famous theme
04:38
where everybody knows
your name but the show
04:41
was canceled quickly.
04:43
Hm, sounds like the theme
song should have been
04:45
where absolutely nobody knows your name.
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Number six is Ray Romano.
04:53
Does anybody else get
annoyed by this guy's face?
04:59
Actually I shouldn't
talk, I get those comments
05:02
The original U.S. run of
Everybody Loves Raymond
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starred Ray Romano as the main character.
05:07
The show, which followed
Ray as a family man
05:10
torn between his wife and
his parents who lived across
05:12
the street was extremely popular.
05:15
Not with me, I wanted
to gouge my eyes out.
05:18
Well a lot of people did
like it and it was so popular
05:20
in fact that Poland actually
made their own version
05:23
of Ray Romano himself.
05:26
Instead of being called Ray, they changed
05:27
the lead character's name
to Roman, no doubt as a nod
05:30
to the original actor and
creator of the original show.
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And just like the original
series, Roman was a sportswriter
05:35
who is continually stuck between his wife
05:38
and his overbearing mother.
05:41
However, unlike the U.S. series,
the show as not a success.
05:42
It only lasted four episodes
before being canceled
05:46
and poor Polish Ray was
left on the trash sheet
05:49
by Polish television once and for all.
05:52
Number five is Sheldon Cooper.
05:58
Sheldon Cooper and his
scientist friends star
06:03
in the hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
06:06
But in 2010, the country
of Belaruse made a show
06:09
which was eerily similar.
06:13
It followed a group of
scientists who were terrible
06:15
with women and lived across the
hall from a blonde waitress.
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And hilarity ensued.
06:21
One of the character's names was Sheldon,
06:24
a brilliant scientist with
almost no social skills.
06:26
Soon after the show aired, the creator
06:28
of The Big Bang Theory,
Chuck Lorre, commented on
06:30
the similarities between these shows.
06:33
Basically accusing the
Belarus show of using
06:35
the character of Sheldon Cooper and others
06:38
without permission.
06:40
When the similarities were
pointed out to the Belarus cast,
06:41
the actor who played their
version of Leonard walked out
06:44
on the show not wanting to be associated
06:48
with the plagiarism.
06:51
Good for you, fake Leonard,
although in Russia,
06:52
TV show walk out on you.
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Number four is David Brent.
06:58
David Brent is the iconic
cringe inducing boss
07:04
of the original The Office as played
07:07
by series co-creator, Ricky Gervais.
07:09
Now if you live in North
America, you already know
07:12
that the show was later
adapted into a hit U.S. show
07:14
of the same name but we're
going to disregard that
07:18
as a full remake as Gervais
Brent actually guest starred
07:20
on that show so it's technically a spinoff
07:25
but the same cannot be said
for the German show Stromberg
07:28
which took the David Brent
character, renamed him
07:31
and hoped that no one would notice.
07:34
Side note, this doesn't just happen on TV,
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there's literally a
guy in France who takes
07:38
all of my videos and just translates them
07:40
and reads them on camera.
07:43
After the BBC threatened to
sue the makers of the show,
07:47
they agreed to give
credit to Ricky Gervais
07:50
and Steven Mershont who
created the original series.
07:53
In the end, this version
of Brent was very popular
07:56
and even resulted in a feature film.
07:59
I absolutely blame the
U.S. version of that show,
08:01
which I really love,
for me saying for years,
08:04
"That's what she said."
08:07
It's played out now but I still say it.
08:08
It's kind of like a tick.
08:10
Number three is Joel Hodgson.
08:15
Joel Hodgson played a
character of the same name
08:20
in the classic show Mystery
Science Theater 3000
08:24
but while the original show
was off air for some time
08:28
until the recent reboot,
a Russian company decided
08:31
to make their own version of the show.
08:34
Dear Russia and Germany,
y'all gotta smarten up,
08:36
you're gonna get a slap.
08:39
It was uncreatively called Project Popcorn
08:40
and included their own Joel
or Steven as he was called.
08:43
And it gets really weird.
08:47
In Project Popcorn, Steven
is trapped by an evil doctor,
08:48
in this case, Dr. Hitler, who forces Joel,
08:51
I mean Steven, to watch terrible movies.
08:54
Unlike the original show,
Steven isn't accompanied
08:58
by two wisecracking
robots but instead watches
09:01
the terrible movies
with two bizarre puppets
09:04
called Fidel the penguin
and Ketchup the dog.
09:07
You know owning a penguin in
the first place would be weird
09:10
but calling it Fidel would
just be par for the course.
09:12
Come here, little Fidel,
you want some ice cubes?
09:15
Number two is James T. Kirk.
09:21
Turkey is responsible for some
of the most hilarious remakes
09:25
of all time but in one
instance they actually remade
09:28
an iconic television series
to a pretty high standard.
09:32
It was an episode of Star
Trek called The Man Trap
09:36
complete with their own interpretation
09:39
of the famous Star Fleet
captain, James T. Kirk.
09:41
The Turkish version
contains all the same crew
09:44
of the star ship enterprise
with an added character
09:47
for comic effect but
what sets this rendition
09:50
of Kirk and the crew apart is
that unlike the U.S. originals
09:52
which often shot on a sound
stage, the Turkish version
09:56
used outdoor locations which
in some ways gave their version
10:00
more production value as
Kirk explored the remnants
10:04
of a destroyed city on an alien world.
10:07
Man if they wanted to do
that thy could have just come
10:10
to downtown L.A., it would
have been way cheaper.
10:12
Ha, boom L.A., roasted.
10:14
And number one is Walter White.
10:19
Hey Jesse, it's time to cook.
10:22
Brian Cranson's portrayal of
Walter White in the TV show
10:25
Breaking Bad has to go down as one of
10:28
the greatest characters of all time.
10:30
Seriously, if you haven't seen the show,
10:32
what are you doing with your life?
10:34
But there is another Walter White.
10:35
In 2014, the Spanish
language version of the show
10:38
Called Metastasis, the
show mostly followed
10:42
the original Breaking Bad scene for scene.
10:44
Does that include the
bathtub and acid scene?
10:47
Just thinking about is
entrails everywhere.
10:51
Now there were a few minor alterations
10:52
to the character of Walter
White whose Spanish name
10:54
was Walter Blanco but Sony
Entertainment Television
10:57
who funded the production,
ensured that the series
11:00
would retread most of the storylines
11:04
of the original U.S. version.
11:06
The show was actually
nominated for a number
11:08
of words in Colombia during
its run and the actor
11:10
who had to fill Brian Cranston's shoes
11:13
was widely received well
though most English speaking
11:16
countries aren't even aware
11:19
that this alternate version exists.
11:21
Until now, the knowledge whale's
just packing your mind full
11:23
of (screams) goodness.
11:26
In all seriousness though,
there is a guy from France
11:27
that reuploads all my videos,
he just rips the script
11:30
and reshoots it, that's not a joke.
11:33
I'm not gonna give you his
channel but it's out there
11:35
and I see you, French man.
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