Top Gear! ROFLMAO!!!

hopper1

Just watched Clarkson trying to paint with paint balls, fired from the exhaust of an F1 car.
One went straight through the canvas, hitting him in the nutz :shock: Quality

freehub

What episode/series was this?

Did they show it on a Friday due to it being christmas day?

northernneil

latest episode shown last sunday,

this weeks is a challenge across south america

afx237vi

Oh man, I like Top Gear, but I watched last week's episode - the art gallery one - and couldn't stop the words "shark" and "jumped" from running around in my head. It was painful. Like watching a really bad sitcom - you could see the punchlines coming from 4 miles away. Hammond's easel falls in a pond? Check. May's sculpture falls over? Check. Clarkson puts his car in a ditch? Check. The final straw was the two policemen struggling to stop laughing.

mask of sanity

afx237vi wrote:

Oh man, I like Top Gear, but I watched last week's episode - the art gallery one - and couldn't stop the words "shark" and "jumped" from running around in my head. It was painful. Like watching a really bad sitcom - you could see the punchlines coming from 4 miles away. Hammond's easel falls in a pond? Check. May's sculpture falls over? Check. Clarkson puts his car in a ditch? Check. The final straw was the two policemen struggling to stop laughing.

It's getting ridiculous isn't it! Everything is staged! There's talk about it being axed and to be honest if it carries on like this I won't really care!

Buckled_Rims

mask of sanity wrote:

It's getting ridiculous isn't it! Everything is staged! There's talk about it being axed and to be honest if it carries on like this I won't really care!

Totally agree, it's staged. I'll even go as far as to say that the " Alabama Hick town" episode was staged. Someone on another forum mentioned about camera placements being pre-planned around the garage and sure enough if you look at it, it's staged.

I still like it as an entertaining program, but please don't believe it's real time problems.

downfader

mask of sanity wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

Oh man, I like Top Gear, but I watched last week's episode - the art gallery one - and couldn't stop the words "shark" and "jumped" from running around in my head. It was painful. Like watching a really bad sitcom - you could see the punchlines coming from 4 miles away. Hammond's easel falls in a pond? Check. May's sculpture falls over? Check. Clarkson puts his car in a ditch? Check. The final straw was the two policemen struggling to stop laughing.

It's getting ridiculous isn't it! Everything is staged! There's talk about it being axed and to be honest if it carries on like this I won't really care!

It was on yahoo tv news 2 days ago - BBC producers said this new series will be the last. Everyone knows they've gone as far as they can with it now, time for a break. I say that as a fan.

mmitchell88

afx237vi wrote:

Oh man, I like Top Gear, but I watched last week's episode - the art gallery one - and couldn't stop the words "shark" and "jumped" from running around in my head. It was painful. Like watching a really bad sitcom - you could see the punchlines coming from 4 miles away. Hammond's easel falls in a pond? Check. May's sculpture falls over? Check. Clarkson puts his car in a ditch? Check. The final straw was the two policemen struggling to stop laughing.

The best aspect of the episode was that the sorry bunch ended up in Middlesbrough.

From the Northern Echo: 'A Top Gear spokeswoman said: "We are aiming to prove there is some beautiful and inspiring art in the motoring world." '

That's not difficult when you put the exhibition on in the most dreadful and depressing location in the developed world. Any car looks beautiful and inspiring to most locals - they're only going to go TWOCing in it!

freehub

I too thought it was being abit too staged, I thought maybe it was just me, but when clarkson crashed the car, it was not surprising it happened Clarkson is funny though and does appear to know abit about cars, from my point of view at least, so I'd like to keep watching him on TV.

softlad

crucially, there was no footage of him actually drivinig into the ditch, which is odd considering there was a camera in the car. The car was most likely winched down there very carefully...before turning the cameras back on.

Like afx says, you can see the jokes coming a mile off. Even spraying that perfume around - unbelievably it went into his eyes..! Seriously, who saw that one coming.....?

ademort

Saw it yesterday for the first time. I thought the scene in the art gallery where they knocked James Mays sculpture over was brilliant. The look on Mays face as Clarkson just tried to get on with the show. He looked like he could have killed Clarkson, join the queue.
Ademort

shockedsoshocked

softlad wrote:

crucially, there was no footage of him actually drivinig into the ditch, which is odd considering there was a camera in the car. The car was most likely winched down there very carefully...before turning the cameras back on.

Like afx says, you can see the jokes coming a mile off. Even spraying that perfume around - unbelievably it went into his eyes..! Seriously, who saw that one coming.....?

The road he "crashed on" is conveniently very close to the dual carriageway Clarkson was eventually filmed coming into the town on. Literally about half a kilometer from the slip road, so I assume they did a quick detour to do that bit.

As for getting so many people through the doors, that exhibition was tickets only, which sold out, so even that bit was contrived.

And if anythings got anything to say about Boro, why don't you come up here and saym it to our faces

Homer J

The "Clarkson Show" seems to get worse every season, wouldn't surprise me if it got axed.

Barrie_G

Don't forget new episode on tonight 7:45

northernneil

if its all soooooo bad why do I watch it daily ?!?!?!?!

fav program of all time, no question

Cheshley

Here's an interesting idea, why don't they stop d!cking around and take it back to what it should be, a CAR show, not just Clarkson blowing things up and generally being a t0sser. The format has slowly been drifting further and further away from what people who have been watching it for years liked it for, and more about 3 blokes messing around in obviously staged events. This series has got so stupid that I, along with many other people, have stopped watching it

tlw1

I still love it, even though it has become a bit set up like "you've been framed"

vitesse169

Clarkson and Hammond can drive pretty good and put a car thru its paces - but it doesn't stop Clarkson being the archetypal 'knob'...

northernneil

and it was voted show of the decade last night on C4

downfader

northernneil wrote:

and it was voted show of the decade last night on C4

Clarkson was going on about Big Brother, it looked like he thought they were winding him up.

alp777

Last nights show was just awful and i think Hammond is a complete knob what with that hair do and that silly necklace he wears!

campagone

I actually thought last nights show was pretty good, much better than it has been the last few weeks. Most of this series has been poor, like they've finally run out of ideas, apart from the first show, the one where they went to Romania, that was quite good but the worst was that stupid electric car they built, that was just embarasing!

Barrie_G

I enjoyed last nights, it was one of the few programmes of this series which didn't look too staged.

mmitchell88

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

And if anythings got anything to say about Boro, why don't you come up here and saym it to our faces

I tried to - I was in Colin Cheng's the night before last for a nostalgic sweet and sour pork. I also happened to spot the aftermath of a 3-car accident at the Rainbow Centre roundabout, earlier in the day, so Clarkson obviously inspired the locals to try to recreate their own off-road experiences....

Back down South now, so I escaped unscathed!

cougie

Yes its clearly staged - maybe they need to back that off a bit.

It wont be the last series though - producer just said that they were 'nearer to the end of the series - rather than the start' - so that could be another 5 or 6 series ?

Cant see that Top Gear is going to be axed any time soon - look at how much revenue it makes for the BBC ? The show is sold worldwide, and theres also the magazine, shows and all of the toys and books they flog too.

shockedsoshocked

mmitchell88 wrote:

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

And if anythings got anything to say about Boro, why don't you come up here and saym it to our faces

I tried to - I was in Colin Cheng's the night before last for a nostalgic sweet and sour pork. I also happened to spot the aftermath of a 3-car accident at the Rainbow Centre roundabout, earlier in the day, so Clarkson obviously inspired the locals to try to recreate their own off-road experiences....

Back down South now, so I escaped unscathed!

Colin Chengs? Pizza Mondos is clearly superior I used to work in the shop next door for a while, probably served you at some point!

Ollieda

As long as you remember it stopped being a car information show with entertainment ages ago and became an entertainment show with a car theme then I find it great fun to watch, also gives you that sort of "I wish I could go and do that" feeling when they do the long journey challenges like the Bolivia one.

I did start to get a little bored of the whole "I'm in a car racing a plane/train/boat....etc" I have to admit!

Slapshot

The show has become a huge cash cow for the presenters and the BBC, i don't know that they could afford to re-format it. It has lost some of the natural seat of the pants humour they had and as the stunts have got bigger more of it will need scripted because of the demands of the H&S wallahs who try to stop everyone having a bit of fun!!

Both May and Hammond are now in greater demand as presenters than Clarkson so he has to be a bigger, louder Knob than the other pair and to me that's the biggest thing that's changed.

Either way it's STILL one of the best things on tv, you always want a crack at the races they do, (Hammond, London to Edinburgh on a Black Shadow and he complained about cramp ....... move the snivelling wimp over and let me do it) and it's still THE job that most late 30s / early 40s something bloke really wants to do

Le Commentateur

It's got like TFI Friday did at the end of the 1990s, where the presenter(s) are at least a dozen years older than the average age of the audience they are bantering along with -- you know they're close to sell-by date then.

The cross-Bolivia "Road of Death" program was actually one pf the best TG episodes I've seen -- perhaps they should do away with the gormless studio audiences and weekly episodes and just do one-off annual spectaculars. A bit like The Royale Family, on wheels.

The show still sells well worldwide apparently.

Frank the tank

It won a countdown of best TV programme of the decade as voted for by the public.

Although I didn't see it all (I'll get it on catch up I reckon) the BBC seemed to have a good share of the programme's included.

mmitchell88

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

mmitchell88 wrote:

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

And if anythings got anything to say about Boro, why don't you come up here and saym it to our faces

I tried to - I was in Colin Cheng's the night before last for a nostalgic sweet and sour pork. I also happened to spot the aftermath of a 3-car accident at the Rainbow Centre roundabout, earlier in the day, so Clarkson obviously inspired the locals to try to recreate their own off-road experiences....

Back down South now, so I escaped unscathed!

Colin Chengs? Pizza Mondos is clearly superior I used to work in the shop next door for a while, probably served you at some point!

I'm enjoying this hijack, Shocked! Pizza Mondo would, as you've rightly pointed out, have been the correct choice. What do they call their meat-feast type pizza? Just amazing. Many an adolescent Friday night spent watching dreadful videos at firends' houses while enjoying a pizza and garlic bread from the PM emporium. It's 20 years since I lived in Mbro before heading off to uni etc. Pizza Mondo must be doing a roaring trade!

Back on topic - Top Gear. Cars and stuff.