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Karachi Kings and Lahore Qalandars' fans have made it to Family Guy

Karachi Kings and Lahore Qalandars' fans have made it to Family Guy

While it's cool that the show featured the intense rivalry between the two, what's up with the Indian accents?
Updated 29 Sep, 2020

Pakistan Super League is truly making its mark...in mainstream popular culture.

American animated sitcom, Family Guy's season 19 premiere featured a cheeky little skit referencing Pakistani cricket fans; the episode starts with Peter Griffin, who is the main character, and his squad sitting at a neighbourhood bar, lamenting the fact that it's been taken over by international sports fans.

In the scene, Griffin's friend, Glenn Quagmire, remarks, "It sucks on Saturday mornings, it's just weird foreign sports fans, like those Pakistani cricket hooligans."

He specifically singles out two Lahore Qalandar supporters sporting a green shirt that just says 'Lahore' and holding what seem to be soda cans. One of them says in a thick Indianized accent, "If you're not rooting for Lahore, please you may leave I can tell you."

While the other one chimes in with a, "Lahore cricketers are the best and the others are not the best, dear friends."

Whereas Joe Swanson, another important character on the shows, who's wearing a Karachi Kings tee quickly covers it up, stating, "I am rooting for Karachi but I don't have a death wish about it."

Goes without saying, some were very excited about the mention

PSL going global!

But what's up with the accents?

Though, points to the show for at least trying to get it right

But we promise Pakistani fashion is now (thankfully) decades away from the 80s

Yet, some things never change — like the perennial LHE-KHI debate

No one bothered correcting them either...

Perhaps it really is a step up

Comments

koko Sep 29, 2020 03:30pm
Yes definitely Indian accent from "Appu's era". Not the way youngster talks these days in India. Wonder how does "Pakistani accent" sounds like as opposed to Indian?
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Anas Iqbal Sep 29, 2020 03:44pm
Suprised in a happy way Family guy is a well-watched show
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Hassan Sep 29, 2020 05:09pm
Very nice. Love it
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Fastrack Sep 29, 2020 05:38pm
Love Lahore. Love Karachi. Love Pakistan. Indian accent none of us have.
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Hassan Sep 29, 2020 07:13pm
Good to know that Joe is a Karachi fan :-)
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jehanzeb Khan Sep 29, 2020 07:20pm
UNBELIEVABLE, but right on
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Brownflower Sep 29, 2020 09:08pm
Thank you Seth McFarlane.
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PAK-UK Sep 30, 2020 12:23am
PSL Rocks
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Salman Sep 30, 2020 01:07am
So good to see this! PSL goes global!
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Ash Chak Sep 30, 2020 02:34am
Watch the tourists come now in the droves
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Laila Sep 30, 2020 03:09am
I love this!
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Pakistani Oct 02, 2020 05:45pm
Any publicity is good publicity.
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