Wait.. Helen is not really from Texas..

[Meade]

When I was not as familiar with this show, I thought Helen was born and raised in Texas and came up to Nantucket to work with Sandpiper air. However, the story line says she grew up in Nantucket, moved there as a little girl, alongside Brian and Joe. Therefor, she became a Yankee. She would have lost her Texan accent growing up in Nantucket,l and picked up a Northern one. Just because she was born in Texas doesn't maker her a Texan. Now, if she had of been born in Nantucket, then moved to Texas as a little girl, she would have been a Texan, and she wouldn't have a Yankee accent. Doesn't this make more sense?

[Veronque]

Wow, not one person helped you.

Helen says in several episodes that she moved with her family from Texas to Nantucket when she was 10. Her accent is very heavy for someone who spent just up to age 10 in Texas, but i think we're supposed to just suspend disbelief about it.

I did wonder what the deal was in the ep where the Hackett's childhood home is going to be demolished and they all remember the times there- Helen is shown coming to see them and that's how they met. I guess they boys lived in an apartment in a different place on the island before.

Your last bit is confusing since if she'd moved back to Texas, she would be in Texas. And not on this show

[Meade]

Originally Posted by Veronque

Wow, not one person helped you.

Helen says in several episodes that she moved with her family from Texas to Nantucket when she was 10. Her accent is very heavy for someone who spent just up to age 10 in Texas, but i think we're supposed to just suspend disbelief about it.

I did wonder what the deal was in the ep where the Hackett's childhood home is going to be demolished and they all remember the times there- Helen is shown coming to see them and that's how they met. I guess they boys lived in an apartment in a different place on the island before.

Your last bit is confusing since if she'd moved back to Texas, she would be in Texas. And not on this show

I actually don't think her accent is all that heavy. At least not to me. But she doesn't sound like someone from Nantucket, that is for sure. What I meant in the last part was if in "real life", Helen had been born in Nantucket but moved to Texas at age 10, she probably would lose her Nantucket accent and pick up a Texan one.

I think Brian and Joe have much stronger accents than Helen does, but they don't sound as if they are from Nantucket either. They both have New York city type accents, probably since both actors are from New York. Oddly enough, no one seems to harp on their accents. Only Helen's.

[Ant-Lox]

I'm a bit confused, but I see where you are going with the whole accent thing.

The Hacketts are from Nantucket, the episode that featured them demolishing their childhood home was just them moving to a bigger house from an apartment. Hellen seems to have lived on Nantucket at that point, and they became friends from then on.

Her accent is a big strong, considering she would have been 10 when they moved to the island. But her mother (Debbie Reynolds) had a strong southern accent too, I don't think we see her father at all, and Casey explained that she went to vocal lessons to lose her southern accent.

[Meade]

Originally Posted by Ant-Lox

I'm a bit confused, but I see where you are going with the whole accent thing.

The Hacketts are from Nantucket, the episode that featured them demolishing their childhood home was just them moving to a bigger house from an apartment. Hellen seems to have lived on Nantucket at that point, and they became friends from then on.

Her accent is a big strong, considering she would have been 10 when they moved to the island. But her mother (Debbie Reynolds) had a strong southern accent too, I don't think we see her father at all, and Casey explained that she went to vocal lessons to lose her southern accent.

I agree. Her accent is not all that strong, though. At least not to me. In fact, she sounds normal compared to Brian and Joe who have very thick accents.