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### Less British
##### [2771] (diff score: 15)
_[2771] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** Fruit Croppers
**US:** Fruit Hedgers
##### [710] (diff score: 13)
_[710] (diff score: 13)_
**UK:** Tarpaulin
**US:** Tent
##### [3357] (diff score: 14)
_[3357] (diff score: 14)_
**UK:** I don't fancy getting in there!
**US:** I don't think I'll be getting in there!
##### [2905] (diff score: 15)
_[2905] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** Look, Kenty babe! You either borrow summat or you don't. You can't 'sorta'. And yes, yes, you can 'sorta' borrow it. Just 'sorta' bring it back when you're done, all right?
**US:** Look, Kenty babe! You either borrow something or you don't. You can't 'sorta'. And yes, yes, you can 'sorta' borrow it. Just 'sorta' bring it back when you're done, all right?
##### [2627] (diff score: 12)
_[2627] (diff score: 12)_
**UK:** Ha ha! You do stuff like that and it'll stunt yer growth! Uncle Jed was only 32cm tall at the age of thirty!
**US:** Ha ha! You do stuff like that and it'll stunt yer growth! Uncle Jed was only 17 inches tall at the age of thirty!
##### [233] (diff score: 28)
_[233] (diff score: 28)_
**UK:** RAARG! YURG! ROAR!..... WOW! What was that stuff? That is potent blackcurrant juice!
**US:** RAARG! YURG! ROAR!..... Whoa!!! What was that stuff? It was Potent!
##### [3297] (diff score: 12)
_[3297] (diff score: 12)_
**UK:** I have no use for rubbish. There's enough of it in my apartment!
**US:** I have no use for trash. There's enough of it in my apartment!
##### [1404] (diff score: 7)
_[1404] (diff score: 7)_
**UK:** Perhaps I could put a stupid message on it, like "Kent wuz ere"?
**US:** Perhaps I could put a stupid message on it like, "Kent wuz here."
##### [4968] (diff score: 7)
_[4968] (diff score: 7)_
**UK:** Bring three Mood Transmitters into this chamber. Get them now lad.
**US:** Bring three Mood Transmitters into this chamber. Get them now dude.
##### [4969] (diff score: 7)
_[4969] (diff score: 7)_
**UK:** Two more now. Brave Lad!
**US:** Two more now. Brave dude! Brave dude!
##### [2813] (diff score: 108)
_[2813] (diff score: 108)_
**UK:** Sheesh!! A triple CD compilation of train noises! English import, from the land of shopkeepers and eccentric Lords.
**US:** This Blows!! A triple CD compilation of train noises! Who in their right mind would buy this?? ...only an engineer.
### More Attitude
##### [1762] (diff score: 31)
_[1762] (diff score: 31)_
**UK:** I'd rather have a kick in the teeth!
**US:** Yeah?! I'd rather have my butt kicked!
##### [3361] (diff score: 14)
_[3361] (diff score: 14)_
**UK:** Can't we go and do something more exciting?
**US:** Can't we like go and do something more exciting dude, or what?
##### [1790] (diff score: 15)
_[1790] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** The shop's open now.
**US:** The shop's open now. Yeah, right on! Cool!
##### [5533] (diff score: 15)
_[5533] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** This stuff is totally smashed.
**US:** This stuff is smashed to the Max.
##### [3996] (diff score: 13)
_[3996] (diff score: 13)_
**UK:** Are you determined to give me a hernia?
**US:** Yo dude, what's up? Are you determined to give me a hernia?
##### [1333] (diff score: 12)
_[1333] (diff score: 12)_
**UK:** I can just manage to lift it. Aha, there's a blue box under here!
**US:** I can just manage to lift it. Aha, there's a blue box under here! Yeah! Scoreage!
##### [2502] (diff score: 12)
_[2502] (diff score: 12)_
**UK:** Ah, the after-effects of a cooking accident. It ruined my white shirt too.
**US:** Ah, the after-effects of a cooking accident. It ruined my white shirt too. Totally bogus.
##### [1341] (diff score: 100)
_[1341] (diff score: 100)_
**UK:** I wonder where these doors lead? To a secret smuggler's hideout, I bet!
**US:** I wonder where these doors lead? To a secret smuggler's hideout, I bet! Or I know, a gang of terrorists! A bunch of people with guns and machines and they want to kill everyone they see and slit their throats and blood and guts!!!
##### [202] (diff score: 130)
_[202] (diff score: 130)_
**UK:** Hey, it's Barbara Barbie! I remember watching her on 'Minor-Celebrity Triangles'!
**US:** Hey, it's Barbara Barbie! What a hot chick. She was always a guest on that stupid show "Love Cruise." That was one of those Miss Spelling productions.
##### [5366] (diff score: 70)
_[5366] (diff score: 70)_
**UK:** It's an intangible lattice of light, man! How can I pick it up?
**US:** Catch a clue, dude! It's a ray of light! How could I pick a ray of light up? It's just not possible.... Get a brain!
##### [3638] (diff score: 10)
_[3638] (diff score: 10)_
**UK:** It seems to be a picture of a human skull.
**US:** Whoa, gnarly. It seems to be a picture of a human skull.
### Confused About Which Direction To Turn The British/American Dial
##### [2392] (diff score: 29)
_[2392] (diff score: 29)_
**UK:** Gnarly drums! I wonder where the rest of them are?
**US:** Cool kit! I wonder where the rest of it is?
##### [206] (diff score: 15)
_[206] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** He looks like one of those presenters that look great on TV but are deeply boring and self-centred off-camera.
**US:** He looks like one of those presenters that look great on TV but are deeply boring and self-centered off-camera.
##### [1524] (diff score: 68)
_[1524] (diff score: 68)_
**UK:** Why does someone want to watch some dumpsters. What a bunch of garbage! Ha ha, get it?!
**US:** Why would somebody wanna watch some dumpsters? Utter rubbish...get it?
##### [5391] (diff score: 13)
_[5391] (diff score: 13)_
**UK:** Totally Trashed Guitar
**US:** Pretty Trashed Guitar
##### [5598] (diff score: 7)
_[5598] (diff score: 7)_
**UK:** Yeah, I rescued the real you, but you're as mad as a marble.
**US:** Yes, I rescued the real you, but you're as mad as a marble.
### Not Incorrect Enough
##### [2653] (diff score: 12)
_[2653] (diff score: 12)_
**UK:** Is it a mean streak a mile wide?
**US:** Is it a mean strike a mile wide?
##### [6460] (diff score: 6)
_[6460] (diff score: 6)_
**UK:** This is where that bed is getting its juice from.
**US:** This is where that bed is getting it's juice from.
##### [1379] (diff score: 7)
_[1379] (diff score: 7)_
**UK:** Mother told me not to play with electricity!
**US:** A mother always told me not to play with electricity!
##### [4039] (diff score: 1)
_[4039] (diff score: 1)_
**UK:** There's still one cog missing.
**US:** There' still one cog missing.
##### [1558]
_[1558]_
**UK:** They're too tough to break into.
**US:** There too tough to break into.
### Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit
##### [1319] (diff score: 31)
_[1319] (diff score: 31)_
**UK:** Uh-huh. Leave The King alone.
**US:** Uh-Uh. Leave The King be. Long Live the King! Hail, Rock-n-Roll!
##### [5374] (diff score: 32)
_[5374] (diff score: 32)_
**UK:** All of these hallucinations seem to be heading toward the same thing, behind that wall.
**US:** All of these hallucinations seem to be heading toward the same thing, behind that wall. I wonder if there's a Pink Floyd concert there?!
##### [6175] (diff score: 32)
_[6175] (diff score: 32)_
**UK:** I could get up to some serious mischief with this hammer.
**US:** Yeah! I could get up to into some serious trouble with this hammer. Can't Touch This!
##### [1268] (diff score: 31)
_[1268] (diff score: 31)_
**UK:** It extracts smells from my bathroom.
**US:** It extracts smells from my bathroom, and believe me...it ain't nearly big enough!
##### [5923] (diff score: 15)
_[5923] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** Anything else? You want me to take a few pictures? Show a few kids around?
**US:** Anything else? You want me to take a few pictures? Show a few kids around? Maybe take a Norm to dinner?
##### [6329] (diff score: 15)
_[6329] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** How do I get onto the stage?
**US:** How do I get onto the stage? Whoa, big question.
##### [2407] (diff score: 14)
_[2407] (diff score: 14)_
**UK:** This is more my scene. I expect this is a satellite transmitter, or maybe a secret death ray!
**US:** This is more my scene. I expect this is a satellite transmitter, or maybe a secret death ray! Beam me up, Scotty!
##### [6178] (diff score: 13)
_[6178] (diff score: 13)_
**UK:** An empty test tube!
**US:** An empty test tube! A Womb with a View!
##### [3014] (diff score: 29)
_[3014] (diff score: 29)_
**UK:** He can be a diversion. I just need to get him to bark.
**US:** He can be a diversion. I just need to get him to bark. Bark! Ruff...Ruff...that's what you're supposed to say...Ruff!
### Other People's Jokes Are Also The Soul Of Wit
##### [4271] (diff score: 15)
_[4271] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** Excuse me?
**US:** Ex-squeeze me?
### Removing Jokes Is Also The Soul Of Wit
##### [6172] (diff score: 47)
_[6172] (diff score: 47)_
**UK:** Someone let a dog do doo-doo, dude.
**US:** Oh, Grodey! Somebody let their dog take a big a'poo-poo.
##### [2400]
_[2400]_
**UK:** I'm too shy to date skeletons!
**US:** Yeah, right?! Like I could use a bunch of bones?!
### Just Needs More Words
##### [4485] (diff score: 15)
_[4485] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** Hey, hey! That's done it! The sucker's busted!
**US:** Hey! HEY! That's done it! The sucker's busted! Whooo hoo, Heee, hee!!
##### [3777] (diff score: 15)
_[3777] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** That capsule thing has disappeared.
**US:** Whoa, check it. That capsule thing has like, disappeared.
##### [2992] (diff score: 31)
_[2992] (diff score: 31)_
**UK:** A huge bin of toy gliders.
**US:** Oh, cool! My favorite thing in the world! A huge bin of toy gliders.
##### [4387]
_[4387]_
**UK:** Not right now, but leave it with me and I'll try to work out what it does. I have my suspicions already.
**US:** Not right now, but leave it with me and I'll try to work out what it does. I already have my suspicions already.
##### [1514] (diff score: 15)
_[1514] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** Oh yes, I eat lard every day!
**US:** Oh yeah, I love to eat my lard every day.
##### [4165] (diff score: 15)
_[4165] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** Glass is dangerous, kids!
**US:** Hey, just remember, glass is dangerous, kids!
##### [2552] (diff score: 45)
_[2552] (diff score: 45)_
**UK:** That's the door of my neanderthal neighbour. I'd better not disturb him!
**US:** That's the door of my Neanderthal neighbor. I'd better not disturb him because he's quite neanderthalish!
##### [1109] (diff score: 7)
_[1109] (diff score: 7)_
**UK:** A key. Hmmm.... this could be the key to the whole problem!
**US:** A key. Hmmm.... this could be the key to the whole problem! Get it? Ha, ha, ha.
##### [2615] (diff score: 7)
_[2615] (diff score: 7)_
**UK:** Indeed!
**US:** Indeed they are, indeed.
### What If The Line Was Totally Different Instead
##### [1329] (diff score: 102)
_[1329] (diff score: 102)_
**UK:** Why does every fridge have to have the obligatory shrivelled lettuce? Why are there so many cliches in this game? Why am I even asking?
**US:** I think it's lettuce and the key word there is THINK!
##### [107] (diff score: 200)
_[107] (diff score: 200)_
**UK:** I suppose this must be the creature's eye. I think the sculpture must be a metaphor for jealousy or something. A green eye? Hmmmm... Well if this thing is interactive, you just press the eye to watch the display. Here goes...
**US:** Hmmm, what an interesting sculpture. Let's see, if I remember my art classes and I -don't... my guess is the creature's green eye represents jealousy towards a materialistic world. Let's see if it's interactive. I'll just poke it in the eye and check it out.
##### [1366] (diff score: 99)
_[1366] (diff score: 99)_
**UK:** This is either a magical potion that will give me endless wishes, or it's humble fruit juice!
**US:** What am I... a rocket scientist? I have no idea what this is!
##### [4422] (diff score: 95)
_[4422] (diff score: 95)_
**UK:** Could I just...
**US:** What is this? What do you mean just me?? Aren't you guys gonna help? I'm no one-man army. Plus, I'm a wanted man already. I'm too young to be tortured!
##### [4393] (diff score: 69)
_[4393] (diff score: 69)_
**UK:** It's too heavy to move!
**US:** Hey, I'm Kent. Not Clark Kent though... I know it's easy to confuse me with my dynamic body.
##### [5750] (diff score: 59)
_[5750] (diff score: 59)_
**UK:** I'm on it, Saul.
**US:** Whoa, check it! That's a gnarly radical heart pounding noise. I'm all over it.
##### [1318] (diff score: 62)
_[1318] (diff score: 62)_
**UK:** Hey, respect the dead!
**US:** Hey, it's the King man! I dig that! I believe in him. I believe he's alive. I believe in those sightings!
### Kent-o-rama
##### [3606] (diff score: 24)
_[3606] (diff score: 24)_
**UK:** Don't look down!
**US:** Vertigo-o-rama!
##### [5953] (diff score: 13)
_[5953] (diff score: 13)_
**UK:** Yawn - reminds me of school.
**US:** Bore-o-rama! Reminds me of school.
##### [2987] (diff score: 95)
_[2987] (diff score: 95)_
**UK:** A cool glider. I lost my pet terrapin on one of these things when I was a kid. Stupid animal didn't steer, even after I told him three times!
**US:** A cool glider. I lost my pet hamster on one of these things when I was a kid. Stupid animal flew straight into a tree-mulching machine! Gross-a-rama!
### Bitchen'
##### [4118] (diff score: 11)
_[4118] (diff score: 11)_
**UK:** It's a sliding door. Neat.
**US:** It's a sliding door. Bitchen.
##### [3211] (diff score: 7)
_[3211] (diff score: 7)_
**UK:** Part of the P.A. system.
**US:** Part of the P.A. system. Bitchen'
##### [5458] (diff score: 12)
_[5458] (diff score: 12)_
**UK:** It's a nice fire axe.
**US:** It's a nice fire ax. Bitchen'!
##### [2523] (diff score: 11)
_[2523] (diff score: 11)_
**UK:** These toys are cool.
**US:** These toys are bitchen'.
##### [4601] (diff score: 73)
_[4601] (diff score: 73)_
**UK:** These suckers work underwater too. Looks like folks lose more than they think in the smallest room around here.
**US:** Whoa, bitchen! These suckers work underwater too.
##### [6477] (diff score: 66)
_[6477] (diff score: 66)_
**UK:** It's a door!
**US:** This leads back out into the corridor. I might be able to escape. Bitchen!
##### [3285] (diff score: 30)
_[3285] (diff score: 30)_
**UK:** These are cool. I could have my own disco.
**US:** Whoa! Check it out, Retro! These are bitchen. I could have my own disco.
##### [3534] (diff score: 26)
_[3534] (diff score: 26)_
**UK:** Hey, Deluge! Did you see yourself on TV? You looked gnarly, man.
**US:** Hey, Deluge! Did you see yourself on TV? You were bitchen.
##### [4010] (diff score: 20)
_[4010] (diff score: 20)_
**UK:** I can hear the music from here. It's really loud!
**US:** Whoa, I can hear the music from here. It's way loud! Bitchen!
##### [4845] (diff score: 19)
_[4845] (diff score: 19)_
**UK:** A ball of paper, ideal for playing office basketball.
**US:** A ball of paper. Bitchen! Perfect for playing office basketball.
##### [5477] (diff score: 15)
_[5477] (diff score: 15)_
**UK:** Hey, by putting this across the tunnel I can exert an even amount of pressure on the sign.
**US:** Hey, by putting this across the tunnel I can exert an even pressure on the sign. Bitchen'.
##### [5878] (diff score: 59)
_[5878] (diff score: 59)_
**UK:** Hey, we are going to see the Sun, right? Just in time for Paul's mighty meeting up at the stadium.
**US:** Oh yeah, we're going to see the Sun, that would be bitchen. I've always wanted to get a tan. Just in time for Paul's mighty meeting up at the stadium.
##### [2404] (diff score: 51)
_[2404] (diff score: 51)_
**UK:** You can create weird lightning effects with these. Cheesy but fun.
**US:** You can create weird lightning effects with these. They're bitchen; been around for about 300 years!
##### [5701] (diff score: 46)
_[5701] (diff score: 46)_
**UK:** You keep saying 'WE'. The only one of you who helps in any way is old, mad and incontinent. I don't know why I'm risking my skin to satisfy your crazy plans!
**US:** Yeah, it's bitchen! Except, who's 'WE', you gotta mouse in your pocket?. The only one of you who helps in any way is old, mad and incontinent. I don't know why I'm risking my skin to satisfy your crazy plans!
### Is This Even Dialogue?
##### [1692] (diff score: 6)
_[1692] (diff score: 6)_
**UK:** Use the slider to alter the volume of in-game speech.
**US:** Yo babe. Use the slider to alter the volume of in-game speech.