the Chinese,,,and probably other Foreigners,,,think our American TV shows are REALISTIC, instead of FANTASY and IDEALISTIC !!

Please,,, Huell Howser of "California Gold" talks 'funny', not California-speak, because he is from Tennessee, far far far away. He sounds completely different from how we talk in California, if you were raised here. Completely different. He does have a college degree. But he speaks simply like the uneducated and uninformed, maybe as part of his tv acting. This is not a much-admired style of speech in California, the Tennessee-accent, tho we tolerate and accept all those that try to speak English, where ever they come from. We make fun of the New York and New Jersey accents as well. And Boston. And Chicago accents.

So for those of you from far far far away , who have never been to the USA or to California, our tv shows are mostly fantasy and not very realistic. Our lawyers, police and cops are mostly incapable of arresting most of the criminals, let alone write a traffic ticket. Our doctors are not all smart and handsome and competent as on tv, in fact many are mainly just doing it for the big paycheck, and badly. And most of our real nurses are not at all like the young beautiful and smart nurses you see on tv. Can you spell 'overworked' and 'overweight' and 'ugly',,, and 'unpleasant' ?