British television critics took aim at Jane Leeves' affected Mancunian accent.
With even a hint of a self-conscious, affected accent, the dialogue can slide right into self-parody.
"Mr. Piper, you don't know what you're talking about," I would reply in my affected British accent.
"And so will you," Maria said, this time without her affected Spanish accent.
"So without me you've got no goon squad," she drawled in her affected British accent.
French actors were extensively used in small parts and several affected English accents with varying levels of success.
Between songs he talked in an affected upper-middle-class English accent or an American one.
Gutfreund talks easily about politics and global economics, sometimes in an affected British accent.
"Those people," she said in her affected French accent.
Yankovic plays the part of Ricky Ricardo, complete with affected Cuban accent.