V-Flyer

This is so funny already!!

"if you go South of 79th street they murder you"!!

Watch this now if you are in the UK!!

[y]

The Stig's American Cousin - Big Stig!! - was the best!!

Those car decals were just looking for trouble and boy was that a dangerous place to choose to fill up with gas!

I think that was probably the funniest episode ever - its repeated on Wednesday at 7pm on Beeb 2 for anyone who missed it.

Just watched it - very entertaining esp. the trio pulling up at the gas station[y][B)]

VS.

No,
it was childish, pathetic and Anti-American. I would even say it was racist.
Typical of Top Gear and their mentality.

I wouldn't say it was racist - just a light-hearted look at some of our more quirky counterparts across the pond:)

I will however give you childish - but that's kind of an inherent Top Gear trait;)

VS.

Darn it, the new series has just started over here, how far along are you guys?

Originally posted by Scrooge
Darn it, the new series has just started over here, how far along are you guys?

That was Series 9 - Episode 3 tonight.

And it was hysterical[^]

Originally posted by Tinkerbelle

Originally posted by Scrooge
Darn it, the new series has just started over here, how far along are you guys?

That was Series 9 - Episode 3 tonight.

And it was hysterical[^]

Ok thanks [y] means we are only 3 weeks behind.

A few pics from the episode:

Stig's American Cousin

The Three Cars

Miami Car Dealership near 79th Street

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Originally posted by Scrooge
Darn it, the new series has just started over here, how far along are you guys?

I didn't even know it's available in the US, or do you have BBC America? I only have basic cable.

Originally posted by VS-EWR

Originally posted by Scrooge
Darn it, the new series has just started over here, how far along are you guys?

I didn't even know it's available in the US, or do you have BBC America? I only have basic cable.

Well for us it's on the science channel link

Fantastic, back on form I haven't spit so much wine around the front room in years,my ribs are aching more than the Irish front row's this morning.

Originally posted by jaguarpig
Fantastic, back on form I haven't spit so much wine around the front room in years,my ribs are aching more than the Irish front row's this morning.

The "Clarkson Air Con" is an absolute classic!!:D

If anyone's interested, the clip of them driving through Alabama is here

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Brilliant episode... Who's pealing the roadkill for tea...[:0]

Hamster nearly was "the road kill" not enough meat on him to feed the v-flyer contingent.

Up to the point where May (and you could see it coming) said "Jump leads" to Hampster at the Gas Station the program looked reasonably genuine. However things seemed to go a little be awry when mom came out and (allegedly) called in "the boys".

Although it did look a bit dodgy, they still had time to pull over and remove the paint jobs and film the removal! Not exactly something you would bother with if you were fleeing for your lives?

So my take FWIW, is it was all planned and probably carefully scripted and choreographed - sorry guys but there was far too much footage to make it genuine.

Good point, Bazz - I do often wonder how much of it is sponataneous i.e. unplanned. Take, for example, the acceleration/deceleration test; was it just a coincidence that Hammond managed to go far enough to create drama but at the same time avoid ending up in the river or was it meticulously practiced?[:?]

VS.

Im sure there is a mix of "as it happens" and "staged" - I cannot believe that Clarkson "found" the cow and managed to get it on the roof with very little help - those cows are heavy critters!! Although complaining about "cow juice" had me roaring - in fact I think I might even watch it again on Wednesday!

But whatever - it was as good as an episode of Only Fools and Horses!!

I suppose staged or not, the show still had me LMAO:D

VS.

Originally posted by VS045
...was it just a coincidence that Hammond managed to go far enough to create drama but at the same time avoid ending up in the river or was it meticulously practiced?[:?]

VS.

He was shown still braking hard when he went onto the grass, you do not stop very quickly (like he managed to) when braking hard on grass? I rest my case.

Originally posted by MarkJ
But whatever - it was as good as an episode of Only Fools and Horses!!

Yes it was but we all know, apart from the excellent ad libs, the series is well written and excellently cast and acted. It is supposed to be a sitcom - Top Gear is not, or sorry maybe I should say, was not.

I think Top gear is an excellent entertainment program but it is not what it was originally intended to be and I for one, whilst still enjoying it enormously, miss the original concept, alas Fifth Gear has also chosen to go off at a tangent and much as I love Tiff, Jason and VBH (esp VBH [B)]), I want to see a good old motoring program with tests of the xotica that most of us can't afford but which many of us aspire to own.

I thought the programme was very, very funny but completely staged.

The BBC aren't out of the woods yet with the HSE over Hamster's crash (though it is difficult to see what more they could have done to minimise his injuries). They are hardly going to risk getting staff members shot or seriously injured by an Alabama lynch mob.

Television is all about illusion - were the gators really that close? [8D][}:)]

It was first class entertainment, and I will be interested to hear how the programme goes down when it is screened in the US. [:w]

Nick

Originally posted by AlanA
No,
it was childish, pathetic and Anti-American. I would even say it was racist.
Typical of Top Gear and their mentality.

Well last time I checked Southern "hicks", as they are called, are not of a different race, despite some of us wishing they are...[:w]

Originally posted by Nottingham Nick
I thought the programme was very, very funny but completely staged.

The BBC aren't out of the woods yet with the HSE over Hamster's crash (though it is difficult to see what more they could have done to minimise his injuries). They are hardly going to risk getting staff members shot or seriously injured by an Alabama lynch mob.

Television is all about illusion - were the gators really that close? [8D][}:)]

It was first class entertainment, and I will be interested to hear how the programme goes down when it is screened in the US. [:w]

Nick

Nick, the driving through 3 states was filmed before the hamster's crash. In fact that was pretty much the last thing they filmed. They just chose to show it on the first episode.

et al:-
I thought it was pretty funny overall - I don't believe for one minute that 3 well practised drivers could 'accidently' bump and grind cars when parking but I think the paint job reaction from the local would have been genuine.

I don't think for one minute that they were 'fleeing for their lives' but I do think they were fleeing from a mauling.

I can't see how comments like 'Hilary Clinton for President' and something to do with 'Man Love' can be construed as racist. Let's not take PC to far now....

I felt that most protests would come from animal lovers despite all cruelty being aimed at the departed sort.

Paul

think Top gear is an excellent entertainment program but it is not what it was originally intended to be and I for one, whilst still enjoying it enormously, miss the original concept, alas Fifth Gear has also chosen to go off at a tangent and much as I love Tiff, Jason and VBH (esp VBH ), I want to see a good old motoring program with tests of the xotica that most of us can't afford but which many of us aspire to own.

I also Really enjoy Top Gear(it's the only motoring prog Mrs JP will watch:D)but I am with Baz I miss the comprehensive reviews of the likes of Chris Goffey and William Woollard. Quentin Willson giving good advice on the used exotica.I also miss Steve Berry who used to do the bikes whatever happened to him?