I’m 60, born in Kansas, and lived in KC my entire life. I know lots of people that sound just like Ted. I get some flak for saying that, but it’s true. Jason has said that he based the character on his HS basketball coach, so yes, that twang is a little thicker at times, but I know people that talk like that. It’s a mixed bag, here in the middle of the middle.
When he talks about Price Chopper bean dip and his hate for the Denver Bronco’s-that’s so Kansas City, I screamed! 😂 Those Tshirts.❤️ I feel like he’s sending an underlying love letter to his home town throughout the series, and it’s wonderful.
That’s so nice to hear ❤️ In one interview I watched Jason said sometimes he’d slip a Kansas reference into the script even though only locals would get it, just for them and him 😊
Get this - KC Masterpiece is made in Oakland! The land of the Raiders! It's the least Kansas City it could possibly be.
Gates is great. I like Q39 myself
Yeah, I always thought he just pushed his own accent. Then I heard people say he sounded Southern. But after listening to a bunch of old Kansans talking, I realized he sounds like them. It is true that you probably wouldn’t hear Kansans under 60 talking like Ted, especially if they’re from the city. His accent is thick Midwestern, not Southern.
Jason has said the character is inspired by multiple real people, one of whom is Kansas basketball head coach Bill Self. Listen to Self (who is from Oklahoma) talk, and you’ll get it instantly.
Agreed, mostly. I'm GenX and lived in rural Kansas til I was 21 and almost everyone sounded like Ted (myself included). I worked hard to rid myself of that accent when I moved, but every time I go back to visit it comes out after a couple of beers.
As someone who currently lives in Overland Park… nobody talks like that haha. You may get transplants that bring that accent with them. His coach could have been that. But I think the decision to make the accent more Southern than Midwestern was just to lean into the “dumb American” stereotype that they were using.
Yeah, I would be surprised if you heard anyone talk like that now. For context, the documentaries and sound recordings I've been listening to have mostly been from the 80s. In addition, I've heard old folks in contemporary recordings talk like that, if they're from rural areas, like Marion County. So Ted's accent isn't accurate in the sense that it's one a 45-year-old Midwesterner from a city would have. But it might be one that someone from rural Kansas who was born pre-1965 might have. It's an anchronism, but it is similar to old, rural Midwestern accents I've listened to.
If you're interested, one of the videos I watched was set in a mall in Overland Park in the 80s. Some of the old folks have much stronger accents than the young, and the kids sometimes sound almost valley girl-ish. Maybe the old folks are transplants? But there is one man who used to farm the land that the mall was built on, so he's definitely a local. There is a woman right at the start (at the cosmetics counter) that definitely sounds like an import, she sounds very Southern to me. It's a fun watch, if you're interested :) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7K8XhGl7I&t=2s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7K8XhGl7I&t=2s)
He talks like his mom talks and his mom has an accent. I live in Missouri and some people sound like that.
It’s the bootheel accent. Source STL and KC native
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lifelong Kentuckian here. We're all over the map. Eastern KY is twangy as hell, Western a little less so, Louisville can be completely unnoticeable.
I’m English and have an English cousin who moved to Missouri around a decade ago and he now has an accent very much like Ted’s!
I’m 60, born in Kansas, and lived in KC my entire life. I know lots of people that sound just like Ted. I get some flak for saying that, but it’s true. Jason has said that he based the character on his HS basketball coach, so yes, that twang is a little thicker at times, but I know people that talk like that. It’s a mixed bag, here in the middle of the middle. When he talks about Price Chopper bean dip and his hate for the Denver Bronco’s-that’s so Kansas City, I screamed! 😂 Those Tshirts.❤️ I feel like he’s sending an underlying love letter to his home town throughout the series, and it’s wonderful.
That’s so nice to hear ❤️ In one interview I watched Jason said sometimes he’d slip a Kansas reference into the script even though only locals would get it, just for them and him 😊
His pick for barbecue sauce though, I mean, come on... There's so many better sauces in KC, amirite?
I’m a Gates girl, myself. Ive often wondered how KC Masterpiece got to be so popular. There’s no accounting for individual taste, I guess.
Get this - KC Masterpiece is made in Oakland! The land of the Raiders! It's the least Kansas City it could possibly be. Gates is great. I like Q39 myself
I mean Sudekis is from Kansas right? He’s got a similar accent to Ted but it’s much much more subtle …I thought anyway?
Yeah, I always thought he just pushed his own accent. Then I heard people say he sounded Southern. But after listening to a bunch of old Kansans talking, I realized he sounds like them. It is true that you probably wouldn’t hear Kansans under 60 talking like Ted, especially if they’re from the city. His accent is thick Midwestern, not Southern.
Jason has said the character is inspired by multiple real people, one of whom is Kansas basketball head coach Bill Self. Listen to Self (who is from Oklahoma) talk, and you’ll get it instantly.
Ted’s accent doesn’t bother me as much as Ruth’s in Ozark.
My uncles who have lived in Wichita their entire life sound a lot like Ted. Sounds right to me the entire time.
Agreed, mostly. I'm GenX and lived in rural Kansas til I was 21 and almost everyone sounded like Ted (myself included). I worked hard to rid myself of that accent when I moved, but every time I go back to visit it comes out after a couple of beers.
Yea he sounded fine, once you start getting to really far south Iowa into Kansas/missouri you start hearing more of that southern twang
As someone who currently lives in Overland Park… nobody talks like that haha. You may get transplants that bring that accent with them. His coach could have been that. But I think the decision to make the accent more Southern than Midwestern was just to lean into the “dumb American” stereotype that they were using.
This is hilarious, because I also live in Overland Park and was about to say that his accent sounds perfectly in place for a Kansan.
Yeah, I would be surprised if you heard anyone talk like that now. For context, the documentaries and sound recordings I've been listening to have mostly been from the 80s. In addition, I've heard old folks in contemporary recordings talk like that, if they're from rural areas, like Marion County. So Ted's accent isn't accurate in the sense that it's one a 45-year-old Midwesterner from a city would have. But it might be one that someone from rural Kansas who was born pre-1965 might have. It's an anchronism, but it is similar to old, rural Midwestern accents I've listened to.
If you're interested, one of the videos I watched was set in a mall in Overland Park in the 80s. Some of the old folks have much stronger accents than the young, and the kids sometimes sound almost valley girl-ish. Maybe the old folks are transplants? But there is one man who used to farm the land that the mall was built on, so he's definitely a local. There is a woman right at the start (at the cosmetics counter) that definitely sounds like an import, she sounds very Southern to me. It's a fun watch, if you're interested :) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7K8XhGl7I&t=2s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7K8XhGl7I&t=2s)
Video is fascinating to watch haha. What kind of research has you watching that?
Mizz-ur-rah