Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) is from KC and people from Kansas speak in a Midwest accent. I don’t get it. I grew up in STL and lived in KC for 3 years. We don’t have southern accents. I’m I missing something?
Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) is from KC and people from Kansas speak in a Midwest accent. I don’t get it. I grew up in STL and lived in KC for 3 years. We don’t have southern accents. I’m I missing something?
People in Wichita do not sound like that, though. I’ve lived in Kansas my whole life. You will occasionally run into people with thicker accents, especially from small towns towards the Oklahoma border, but generally we sound just like Jason Sudeikis sounds normally. I found this video of someone doing that popular “accent challenge” from 2012. Thisis an accurate representation of how most Kansans sound.
I’ve also lived in Kansas my whole life and don’t find Ted’s accent to be out of place. Kansas isn’t a 100% homogenous state.
Exactly why I used words like “generally”, and “most Kansans” lol. He’s supposed to be FROM Wichita. Not a small, rural town outside of Wichita. Not from somewhere like Oklahoma originally, and then relocated to Wichita. It would be extremely unlikely for him to sound like that if he were born and raised in Wichita. In one of my other comments, I mentioned how I read during the first season that his accent was purposely exaggerated in order to make him seem more like a fish out of water in comparison to the Europeans. Jason’s natural accent is on par with how his character would truly sound, if they were going for accuracy vs huge contrast.
You seem to understand what his accent is and why it is the way it is. I don’t understand what your confusion is about. Are you just upset that it’s not 100% authentic?
No, not at all lol! Just simply pointing out that it’s PURPOSELY not authentic - it’s not supposed to sound like someone from Wichita. It’s known, it was done that way for certain reasons (to have a bigger contrast in comparison to English accents, and the theory that the original Ted Lasso character is based off of Bill Self, who is from Oklahoma).
The reason for my comments are that this whole thread is full of people who aren’t from KC or Wichita, telling people who are from KC or Wichita, that it is the way they talk when they’re saying it’s not lol. That’s all :) Go to Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, Emporia, Hutchinson, etc, and the majority of us sound like Jason Sudeikis! Lol
Gotcha. It’s probably hard to accept that such a perfect show is not perfectly authentic.
You didn’t read what I said then - I am fully aware that it’s not authentic, because they did it on purpose. I love the show! I understand their reasoning behind the exaggerated accent.
My frustration isn’t with the show - it’s with the comment section here in this post. Because it’s filled with people telling those of us who are actually from the area that we DO sound that way, when we’re here. We know what we sound like. That’s all!
I am from southern Kansas, a lot of people DO sound like Ted. When I moved out of state for college, people mocked my accent a lot. I didn’t notice that I spoke differently until it was pointed out. I recently spent time in Wichita and the accent was obvious and endearing.