Dish Network’s Hopper And Obnoxious Boston Accents
March 22, 2012 36 Comments
I went to college in the Boston area. It’s a great place. But there’s one thing I don’t miss…
I don’t know what’s more annoying: the actual accents or people imitating them (“pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd.”) Gahh. Dish Network also has a Hopper ad featuring frequent Commercial Society actress Allyn Rachel. Jumping out of a moving car is a bad idea.
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I’m not a big fan of the first commercial, but I definitely think the second one is a bit better. Yeah, jumping out of a moving car isn’t the best of ideas lol, but it’s still pretty funny. Are you a DISH customer? If so, have you tried out a Hopper? I haven’t had mine installed just yet, but after seeing what it could do a couple weeks ago at work with DISH, am excited to finally get it installed this Monday. I’m looking forward to the PrimeTime Anytime feature and putting the 2 terabyte hard drive into good use. It’s going to make my family very happy!
I grew up in a working class Boston neighborhood, and find these commercials WICKED FUNNY.
Exactly Catherine Pansey….I was born and raised here and for those idiots who say we’re annoying bla bla bla. I thought your post here was wicked f”in cool!!!
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I live in CT and these commercials are hilarious – they would still be funny without the Boston accent but it really makes it better!
@ Andrea I wanna get a Hoppa too. But was reluctant. Reviews?
I think the point is this – the “hoppa” is a term older residents of Mass used for toilet. My FIL always did. This ad makes me laugh but I don’t know if too many people get it
I wondered if Dish was aware of that — seems an odd association to make deliberately for their product.
Why else would they show a guy sitting on a reclining toilet?
This guy must be a friggin retahd
Here I am in Cincinnati, Ohio, for the past 15 years. As a Boston native for 35 years, my ears perked up when this commercial came on. Faw-the-luv-a-gawd! it was that horrible accent of my youth! Both my parents had it and were highly educated. My sibling and I grew up in the same area as my parents yet never developed a Boston accent. Go and fig-ya.
Yeah Cincinnati!
Yeah, Cinci! Only thing weird about the accent here is when people say the word “have.” They don’t say have like anyone else; they say “hee-yav.”
I hate it. lol!
I grew up in Alabama. And my aunt, born and bred in Bama moved to Boston. She stayed there for over 10 years. And she dispelled two myths I’ve always had about Boston accents. 1. I always thought Black people didn’t have those hilarious accents. (We’re Black). 2. The Boston accent was something you’re born with and can’t develop over time by living there.
Now that I’ve lived up here, but in Ct not Boston, for 15 years. My friends back home tell me I talk like I’m from Boston. My aunt disagrees. She says I sound like I’m from Long Island.
I laugh hysterically at the Hoppah commercial with the Bahston accent. Being originally from Boston, a lot of people called the toilet the hoppah!
If you’re originally from Boston then you’d know we don’t pronounce it “Bahston”
LOL I grew up in RI and I still say “I gotta go hit the hoppah!”
It really must be a generational thing, because that’s a term I’ve never heard before.
Waaay too funny…born and raised in Boston and my dad used to yell at us to “go shake the hoppah” when it was running!!!
Nothing wrong with that accent. Lets not all turn into bland newscasters, eh.
Guy jumping out of car way to funny because you know how ridiculous it is . Straight face response from lady just as funny. Lol for me.
I love it yes being born and raised in bean town I relate, It is pissa, wicked and all the rest
Lol, I love the Hopper commercials, even though I am not from Boston. I love the accents. I just got my Hopper installed a few weeks ago and it’s the DVR I have ever tried. It has a lot of cool features; my favorite is the Primetime Anytime feature. I am hardly home as it is; with going to school and working at Dish I use to miss a lot of my favorite primetime shows but the Hopper records all the primetime shows for me. A new feature that just got introduced is the Auto Hop where you can skip through primetime commercials so no more watching more commercials then the actual show!
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lmfao i LOVE the accent. grew up in R.I. and recently moved to jersey (yea a whole other accent lol), so needless to say it was hilarious when my g/f was like wtf r they saying lmao… ppl hate on the accent but idk y bc there are accents out there that are far worse than the New England one. chicago area is even more obnoxious than our accents lol.. (sorry if anyone is from that area haha)
Haha yeah, Chicago accents are worse.
I had to use my PVR to slow the commerical down as I thought the old grandfather was Coach Ditka! Then that would be a Chicago family? I was left confused for a bit as I knew the accent was my own New England twistah… Don’t be so hard on accents Josh, these regional indifferences is what gives our national a little culture… we can’t all have that perfect grasp of the english language as found in Ohio.
i thought it was him too!! LOL
love it and also just had my hips done so that is super funny, made me gag laughing. it is wicked pissa!!!!!!!
I lived in Boston, but now the Midwwest. Hearing the accents on my tv in Chicagoland was wicked awesome. I laugh every time. And the other ad “So’s mine” with the old man is even funnier.
The Boston accent is from the British pronunciation of the language. If you listen to someone from England you can hear it.
I live in Dallas and I love those commercials such a salt of the earth east coast family.
I also love the Boston accent. I think its charming and holds a lot of history and tradition. I love accents in general, I hate pretentious people who put down people with accents…
Thank God we don’t all sound the same, how boring would that be???
I love these commercials and the Boston accents. I also love New York and New Jersey accents. By the way, I’m from Ohio.
I live in MA and that guys SUUUUUUCKS. 2000 shahks? go die.
Boston accents annoying? Ask my wife, a born and raised Wisconsin kid what she thinks of my accent which comes out every so often. She loves it. So to everyone who rips on our “Hoppah” guys or on our accents, I will say what we like to say in Boston when we want someone to get lost or to get out of our face. SCREW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boston accents make the rest of the nation sound uneducated. Are you serious? Did you even graduate from the 6th grade? Embarrassing. There is a reason actors train in the midwest so they can be understood by Americans.
They aren’t fake accents. All but one of the actors are Massachusetts natives from the Boston area.