They probably couldn't do the true accent because most of the audience wouldn't understand what they said.

Remember looking in Albertsons in Lafayette at different etouffee mixes and some lady apparently tried to give me advice. I couldn't understand a word.

Went to a wedding in Lake Charles, back in 2001. Had to get directions for the reception. Went back and forth on one road because we couldn't find a road that came close to what we were told - ie: how it sounded. (it was Gauthier). If that is an example, I can assume I wouldn't understand anything in Lafayette

She was probably just f-ing with the dumb foreigner making an etouffee with a mix!

(10-18-2018 07:36 PM)McLeansvilleAppFan Wrote:  

(10-18-2018 10:03 AM)AstroCajun Wrote:  

(10-17-2018 08:58 PM)McLeansvilleAppFan Wrote:  

(10-17-2018 01:19 PM)AstroCajun Wrote:  I watched it. Not even close to the accent and they absolutely butchered the pronunciation of Atchafalaya. Still, I chuckled.

Yea, the accent was dialed up to 200% which is where I found the humor. Some skits should be one-offs but I could see this being done a time or two more and still being worth watching.

They have done some skits making fun of southern Appalachian a time or two. When they are SOOO over the top it is usually funny without being mean, at least that is how I look at it.

It's a shame really because SNL did a much better job of skewering our culture with "Main Justice".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-qPkzXvpS8

It's like they were trying to go back to the well, but this time with the second string.

Why were they in Maine, except for the non sequitur of being in Maine when they are carrying on like Cajuns? It was good and they did that skit twice it seems.

So in the 2nd skit they explain the joke being post Katrina relocations, or a space time distortion.

Thanks for sharing that. I like a good SNL skit.

The whole concept of the skit was that Louisiana has been the home of a number of cheaply made reality TV products (duck dynasty, swamp people) so the joke is that it is clearly shot in Louisiana even though they are pretending to be in "Maine".

Last week's episode missed that bit of finesse.

(10-19-2018 10:19 AM)CatMom Wrote:  Went to a wedding in Lake Charles, back in 2001. Had to get directions for the reception. Went back and forth on one road because we couldn't find a road that came close to what we were told - ie: how it sounded. (it was Gauthier). If that is an example, I can assume I wouldn't understand anything in Lafayette

We'd pronounce that Go-chay.

To make it even more confusing, alot of our pronunciation rules aren't even tied to traditional French pronunciation either. It just is what it is.

For example, there used to be a department store called Godchaux's. In Lafayette we'd pronounce it God-chaws or Got-chaws in New Orleans they'd pronounce it closer to the French with God-chose.

(10-19-2018 08:47 AM)biggie Wrote:  They probably couldn't do the true accent because most of the audience wouldn't understand what they said.

Remember looking in Albertsons in Lafayette at different etouffee mixes and some lady apparently tried to give me advice. I couldn't understand a word.

(10-19-2018 11:23 AM)AstroCajun Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 10:19 AM)CatMom Wrote:  Went to a wedding in Lake Charles, back in 2001. Had to get directions for the reception. Went back and forth on one road because we couldn't find a road that came close to what we were told - ie: how it sounded. (it was Gauthier). If that is an example, I can assume I wouldn't understand anything in Lafayette

We'd pronounce that Go-chay.

To make it even more confusing, alot of our pronunciation rules aren't even tied to traditional French pronunciation either. It just is what it is.

For example, there used to be a department store called Godchaux's. In Lafayette we'd pronounce it God-chaws or Got-chaws in New Orleans they'd pronounce it closer to the French with God-chose.

And Lake Chuck isn't South Louisiana, its East Texas.

I found the skit amusing but in the bizarre stupid way. If you can’t understand the folks in Louisiana, you are either going deaf or you have stepped in a time machine. The Cajun French language pretty much died 50 years ago. BTW, I’m glad to see our mascot found another job.

Look at these Louisiana look-a-likes

(10-19-2018 08:13 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  SNL hasn't been funny in quite a long time.

They have been saying that since 1976. There have been some off years but every year and every show has some skits that work and some that don't. They are not at the level the Will Ferrell years but those were some special years that rival the first years of the show and then the Eddie Murphy years as well.

LOL! I didn’t realize the LSU coach talked like that. The governor does look like Bobby’s Papa! Now stay rat Herat Cher because I’m fixin to pull my piroge rat don da bayou but I com back.

(10-19-2018 07:04 AM)CC Eagle Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 05:33 AM)McLeansvilleAppFan Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 02:19 AM)CatMom Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 12:14 AM)eagleskins Wrote:  Great bit

I found the best part was working in the Cajuns jalepeno/chili pepper. (out of uniform, I might add)

I wonder if someone in the writer's room has a connection to the area.

A lot of the performers are pretty smart and well-rounded. The writers who really mold the sketches are even smarter. The writers rooms at The Simpsons, SNL and most late night shows has more Ivy League degrees than a lot of Fortune 500 board meetings.

Futurama had a math theorem as part of one episode. https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem and the co-creator with Matt Groening was David X. Cohen and he was spotlighted for his physics degree on a website published by the American Physical Society. I think that was the organization. (The person that did all the leg work on the website that showcased various jobs of physics majors was an App Physics and Astronomy alumnus and though I was not really deserving compared to so many others I became the representative of the high school physics teacher. So on a page with Neil degrasse Tyson, a few Nobel laureates, and some truly famous people that have physics degrees I share the webpage with David X. Cohen, and that is what I am most proud of (not that any of the others on the list know me at all, and likely never will.)

(10-19-2018 05:11 PM)Bigtom12 Wrote:  Look at these Louisiana look-a-likes

The biggest rivalry in the country? Coach O versus closed captioning.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2789...-hilarious

(10-19-2018 06:08 PM)McLeansvilleAppFan Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 07:04 AM)CC Eagle Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 05:33 AM)McLeansvilleAppFan Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 02:19 AM)CatMom Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 12:14 AM)eagleskins Wrote:  Great bit

I found the best part was working in the Cajuns jalepeno/chili pepper. (out of uniform, I might add)

I wonder if someone in the writer's room has a connection to the area.

A lot of the performers are pretty smart and well-rounded. The writers who really mold the sketches are even smarter. The writers rooms at The Simpsons, SNL and most late night shows has more Ivy League degrees than a lot of Fortune 500 board meetings.

Futurama had a math theorem as part of one episode. https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem and the co-creator with Matt Groening was David X. Cohen and he was spotlighted for his physics degree on a website published by the American Physical Society. I think that was the organization. (The person that did all the leg work on the website that showcased various jobs of physics majors was an App Physics and Astronomy alumnus and though I was not really deserving compared to so many others I became the representative of the high school physics teacher. So on a page with Neil degrasse Tyson, a few Nobel laureates, and some truly famous people that have physics degrees I share the webpage with David X. Cohen, and that is what I am most proud of (not that any of the others on the list know me at all, and likely never will.)

I will always say that The Simpsons is the best thing that ever happened to comedy on television. I’d put Futurama right behind it, mostly because Groening and Cohen are just that good. Groening’s Netflix series Disenchantment is really good as well.

(10-19-2018 11:57 AM)ragin4u Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 08:47 AM)biggie Wrote:  They probably couldn't do the true accent because most of the audience wouldn't understand what they said.

Remember looking in Albertsons in Lafayette at different etouffee mixes and some lady apparently tried to give me advice. I couldn't understand a word.

(10-19-2018 11:23 AM)AstroCajun Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 10:19 AM)CatMom Wrote:  Went to a wedding in Lake Charles, back in 2001. Had to get directions for the reception. Went back and forth on one road because we couldn't find a road that came close to what we were told - ie: how it sounded. (it was Gauthier). If that is an example, I can assume I wouldn't understand anything in Lafayette

We'd pronounce that Go-chay.

To make it even more confusing, alot of our pronunciation rules aren't even tied to traditional French pronunciation either. It just is what it is.

For example, there used to be a department store called Godchaux's. In Lafayette we'd pronounce it God-chaws or Got-chaws in New Orleans they'd pronounce it closer to the French with God-chose.

And Lake Chuck isn't South Louisiana, its East Texas.

Ok, but it was the new BIL that gave us the directions and the bride was not from Lake Chuck. Further east. Anyway, we passed that road 4 times before my HS French made the connection between French and Cajun French. The only other things I remember is that it turned unexpectedly cold...and we weren't dressed for it, the reception was on an open air patio and it was during a TTU/UT game (my then SIL went to TTU)

Overall, the place sucks. I had been there for a McNeese game then, oddly enough, my ggrandfather's sister is buried there. (Being born and raised in Philly). So I had made a trip to find it. Otherwise, no reason to be.

(10-19-2018 08:09 PM)CC Eagle Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 06:08 PM)McLeansvilleAppFan Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 07:04 AM)CC Eagle Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 05:33 AM)McLeansvilleAppFan Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 02:19 AM)CatMom Wrote:  I found the best part was working in the Cajuns jalepeno/chili pepper. (out of uniform, I might add)

I wonder if someone in the writer's room has a connection to the area.

A lot of the performers are pretty smart and well-rounded. The writers who really mold the sketches are even smarter. The writers rooms at The Simpsons, SNL and most late night shows has more Ivy League degrees than a lot of Fortune 500 board meetings.

Futurama had a math theorem as part of one episode. https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem and the co-creator with Matt Groening was David X. Cohen and he was spotlighted for his physics degree on a website published by the American Physical Society. I think that was the organization. (The person that did all the leg work on the website that showcased various jobs of physics majors was an App Physics and Astronomy alumnus and though I was not really deserving compared to so many others I became the representative of the high school physics teacher. So on a page with Neil degrasse Tyson, a few Nobel laureates, and some truly famous people that have physics degrees I share the webpage with David X. Cohen, and that is what I am most proud of (not that any of the others on the list know me at all, and likely never will.)

I will always say that The Simpsons is the best thing that ever happened to comedy on television. I’d put Futurama right behind it, mostly because Groening and Cohen are just that good. Groening’s Netflix series Disenchantment is really good as well.

An Eagle and Mountaineer in 100% agreement.