Leonardo said:
I see your winky, but I'm keeping my serious hat on this time, so pardon me if I sound stubborn (well, I am).
Isn't this view of culture kinda... I dunno, outdated, for lack of a better term? Nowadays culture is global. Stuff goes on the internet, everybody sees it. I think one should be prepared for that.
No, I mostly agree with you. It is kind of lazy. Sounds like they made an effort, but an extremely minimal one. But, even if everything is global now, they are appealing to an American audience. It is the American Cartoon Network that is paying for the show. And even the Italian speakers who are watching the show via venues where the money gets back to the creators, how many of them are going to say, "You know what, they couldn't bother to get their Italian right for this minute and a half segment of one episode so I am finished!" In other words, what is really at stake for them by not going the extra mile for their Italian viewers?
However, culture being global? How so? Just because everyone around the world buys up and enjoys silly American entertainment, doesn't mean it needs to cater to a worldwide audience. You're a really well informed guy, very intelligent, and clearly very well educated. You're English puts a lot of first English speakers that post on this forum to shame. Hell, your English probably puts my English to shame, but I am sure there are still plenty of Robot Chicken jokes that go over your head, and probably much more so for the general Italian population. It's made by guys who grew up in the eighties and nineties, and most of the jokes are pop culture jokes relating to that era and appealing to guys in that age range. Some of the stuff they reference I feel like I am even too young to get, some of the shows they pull jokes from came on when I was just a little too young to have appreciated them. It is the stuff my slightly older cousins were really into.
I really appreciate that about the show. These guys are sticking to the stuff they know and the stuff they are/were into or grew up around, and making jokes and references aimed at their generation.