Awful fake accents...
If they're going to do such horribly bad accents (and not even use them consistently) then they should just not do them at all.
"Rock 'n roll martian!"
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Mainer is a very hard accent to get right. And, just with most "regional" pieces, some of the actors had a passable accent, some did not, and some were just awful. Some didn't even try and just did their own voices. But mostly what I hear with those who did try was a passable attempt at Mainer, like Alton and Robbie and Ursula. Tim Daly had a passable generic New Englander, but didn't even try for Mainer.
Snoogans.
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Rewatch this and listen to Robbie Beals (Jeffrey Demunn) Otherwise, check out Pet Sematery (Also by Steve King) and listen to Judd (Fred Gwynne). They both do hard-core Mainer very well.
Keep in mind that Mainer is not just accent, but also the manner of speech. Like addressing people by their full name for emphasis (This annoys a lot of people who watch this movie, but it's a true Mainer mannerism), or saying "Ayuh" for Yes, and keeping your lines very brief.
Snoogans.
"Rewatch this and listen to Robbie Beals (Jeffrey Demunn) Otherwise, check out Pet Sematery (Also by Steve King) and listen to Judd (Fred Gwynne). They both do hard-core Mainer very well."
Not even close. No one has ever believably faked a Maine accent; not once, not ever. And Mainers who naturally have a neutral American accent instead of a Maine accent (which is at least half of all Mainers, and of the Mainers who do have a Maine accent, it's usually a mild one) are no better at faking a Maine accent than anyone else is.
There's a lot more to a Maine accent than just dropping your R's, and to even do that part of it right you have to know which R's to drop and by how much, and no one has ever even got that part right. A Maine accent, like all real accents, sounds natural rather than affected.
"Like addressing people by their full name for emphasis"
That doesn't happen in Maine any more often than anywhere else in the country.
"or saying "Ayuh" for Yes"
No one actually says that unless they are trying to be funny. It's a case of people trying to phonetically spell the way they heard a word pronounced and the [inaccurate] spelling itself taking on a life of its own. The same thing happened to Canucks with "aboot". Canucks don't actually say "aboot"; there is no good spelling for how they actually pronounce "about", but "aboat" would be closer than "aboot".
It's also not as common as people outside New England would think. I live in Maine and probably less than 1/2 of 1% of the state talk like this. Similarly, in the movies, people from Massachusetts always talk either like a Kennedy or a Southie (which is like Jersey-speak: poor enunciation, excessive cursing).
shareso your telling me that no one moves to Maine from other part of the USA bringing with them their regional accents? Or perhaps a family from Tennessee moves to Maine with young children. As the children grow older to adulthood, they develop a weird hybrid Maine accent. Im sure there are quite a diverse number of accents being spoken in Maine.
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