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I can't hear an accent.

He says "bartender" kinda quickly which might change his voice a bit but I still think he sounds like Cooper. 

Sometimes he talks through a closed-teeth smile, too, like the Howells on Gilligan's Island.  This could be Yakima phonology, dunno.

Strange that you don't hear it, folks! I thought it was such an striking resemblance...... I also hear such french - canadian accent from Shelly(its not so poingnant as Coop at the bar, though), when she's recuperating at the hospital and Bobby come to visit. The way she says "Bobby", it's sounds like it is jaques who's saying it. Well, Jaques has a deeper voice than shelly he! he!, but the accent.......  

Maybe its my  imagination. 

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The way he kind of lifts the word toward the end is sort of reminiscent of the French-Canadian method of accenting the last syllable exceptionally strongly when working a multi-syllable English word into a French sentence.  I wouldn't mistake it for that myself, but I do live in Montreal.

(On a related note, the best French-Canadian accent on the show by a good stretch is Michael Parks.)

Michael Parks accents are always good, in everything.  Good call. 

Walter O. said he was intimidated by the thought of doing a French-Canadian accent, so he said he just imitated Pepe le Pew. At least he was honest. Regionally, the Renaults should all speak Quebec French (or one of it's creoles.)

"What credit card do you want to put that on?"
"Caash, prease."

See: Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

I remember working with a dialect coach in high school for our production of "Tom Jones" and the first thing he said to me was "Dick Van Dyke is an idiot. If I find you've been watching that movie for practice, I will FREAK."

We mimic Bernie here at work all the time. It's entirely too much fun. What's even funnier is we have this programmer who is originally from Hong Kong, and his accent is half-faded, but what remains sounds dead-on like Bernie. He finds it hilarious that this amuses me so.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."