The accent thing brings up something I recall a friend who dislikes Buffy telling me.

After watching a few minutes of the show he said, "I cannot believe you watch this crap, let alone like it."

I respond with "Why, it's only the best show in the history of civilization."

He shoots back with "But its all about bad vampires and fashion"

I replied, "I think you have no clue what you are talking about, it is actually about vampires and BAD fashion, especially hats. Get your facts straight, you can't judge a show you know nothing about."

stammers a bit, "well so what, the accents on the show are terrible, listen to this guy trying to be british."

Giles speaks a bit, I think it was a season 1 episode.

"Like that guy, that accent sucks, I could do better."

I just looked at him with a "you're gonna lose this argument" look on my face and said, "no, he is actually british, for real."

And all he could muster was, "well his accent still sucks."

He turned it to Friends reruns shortly thereafter driving me bugfuck with annoying laugh track.

He has pointed out a few times "hey, isn't that guy supposed to be british, where the fuck is his accent" referring to Marsters, which to be fair he isnt half wrong a few times.

"As God is my witness, I will never boff vampires again!"

Compared to SMG's attempt at a British accent, he's Meryl Streep

That was supposed to be British? How funny. I thought (seriously) she was going for an American southern accent.

Huh. I was under the impression she was supposed to be going for a southern belle accent, too.

Which would explain why it sounded like the World's Crappiest British Accent.

Actually, the two accents are very close. It only takes the tiniest shift in how you sound the words to switch between the two, so if her southern belle accent (and I'm certain it was supposed to be southern) was just a little off, then it could have been very easy to confuse with a crap Brit sound.

I think she was going for Southern Belle as well, but it was still horrible.

She was looking at pictures of 18th century U.K. ballgowns from a Watcher's diary that concerned Angel's early years as a vampire, and referred to herself as a noblewoman once transformed. Somehow I doubt they were going for a Scarlett O'Hara effect, though they may have unintentionally ended up with one.

Wasn't she looking at Darla? So really she was a prostitute in the "New World"?

I don't think they specified that the gown drawing was of Darla. But my, wouldn't that have made for a fun episode if they'd had SMG turn into Julie Benz as the 18th century version of her character?

She was definitely going for British, as per Matt's reasoning, and failing. The girl she's looking at is of Angel's time-period, but not Darla.

I never thought she was going for British. I thought she was just going for generic old fashioned. Buffy didn't care that the girl in the sketch was British, or whatever, she cared about the frou-frou.