Something nutty I wonder about Gobo...

[Drtooth]

I've been wondering this lately. Do you think that Gob's voice kinda sounds like a mock Canadian accent? I mean, the way he occasionaly slips the "eh?" into the end of his sentence. Was this a joke that Jerry Nelson played becasue the show was shot in Canada?

 

[sugarbritchez]

The things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[christyb]

Good one. But I've always wondered. If you listen closely Gobo has a tad bit of a southern accent. Faint, but I've always heard it.

 

[sugarbritchez]

Oh No.........Gobo isn't a REDNECK is he????

 

[DerekJ]

Jerry Nelson already has a few disguised Southern touches, but Gobo was pretty intentionally the Canadian hero, right down to his stereotypic Great White North accent, eh, and, in cold-weather scenes, even wearing a "moss toque"--

...Apparently, Gobo's "nationality" satisfied CBC's broadcast regulation for "native Canadian content"

 

[christyb]

Oh No.........Gobo isn't a REDNECK is he????

So you have a thing about rednecks?? *in my southern accent* You are in the wrong crowd.

 

[MrsPepper]

Jerry Nelson already has a few disguised Southern touches, but Gobo was pretty intentionally the Canadian hero, right down to his stereotypic Great White North accent, eh, and, in cold-weather scenes, even wearing a "moss toque"--

...Apparently, Gobo's "nationality" satisfied CBC's broadcast regulation for "native Canadian content"

I always assumed Gobo was canadian. I mean, he wears tuques and says eh, and Doc was a canadian actor, so I mean, yeah.

And what's a " 'moss' toque"? I have never heard the word moss attached to the word tuque before. But he's definately a canuck.

 

[zeldazipple]

Yeah! I agree. I thoughtat first till I learned about Jerry Nelson. I thought ' Gobo ' was from Canada so I never really gave it any thought, but I did notice he had a southern twans as well that puzzled me a litte. But I think the combo of the two gave him a unque charecter.

 

[DerekJ]

And what's a " 'moss' tuque"? I have never heard the word moss attached to the word tuque before. But he's definately a canuck.

(Well, whatever it's crafted out of, it's Rock-made but looks unquestionably familiar to Northerners...)

 

[Kimp the Shrimp]

Canadain Fraggles? lol