Wacky, you said parts of Top Gear are faked...

[Big Dick McGee]

Well on the episiode I watched last night (the show is on BBC America HD constantly, so I am watching as much as possible), Clarkson, Hamster, and May all had incredibly fuel-efficient cars and had to drive from Switzerland to Brighton to turn on some Christmas lights. They all did the math and didn't think they'd make it, but both Hammond and Clarkson did, despite Clarkson driving incredibly inefficiently.

Was this faked???

 

[CaptainWacky]

I don't know, I don't watch it. I only read the electric car thing in a newspaper.

 

[headvoid]

Hammond died in that crash and has been replaced by Wee Jimmy Krankie in prosthetics. You can tell because when things go well, he can't resist a grin with a "double thumbs up" sign.

 

[Big Dick McGee]

^^I understood approximately 1/3 of that post.

 

[headvoid]

Richard Hammond________________Wee Jimmy Krankie

You can see the similarity I am sure...

 

[Big Dick McGee]

LOL

 

[CaptainWacky]

That's his WIFE.

 

[Dr Dave]

He married a midget?

 

[CaptainWacky]

And makes her dress up as a young boy.

 

[headvoid]

WE WERE BROUGHT UP PROPER AND WELL ADJUSTED IN SCOTLAND!

 

[Consumer]

^ Yep, and in the Ozark's too.

I think there's a connection.

 

[Gagh]

BDM needs to find the one where they visited America...

 

[Big Dick McGee]

BDM needs to find the one where they visited America...

I've seen a couple where they visited America. Once, the had to travel from Miami FL to New Orleans in a car that cost $1,000 or less. That was the first one I saw, and it hooked me. I almost pissed myself laughing everytime Hammond would "accidentally" hit James May's car.

Also saw one where Hamster went to Jay Leno's garage, and one where Clarkson had a Corvette ZR1, May had a Caddillac CTS-V, and Hammond had a Challenger, and they drove from San Fran to the Bonneville salt flats in Utah. The ZR1 is just an amazing car. 638 HP in a car that's just over $100K. Clarkson couldn't stop raving about it.

 

[whisky]

They also did one at christmas where they had to drive to new york

 

[Harkley]

or NU YOIK as Clarkson said it.

I think they're serious car journalists, so wouldn't fake stuff like fuel efficiency, but there is a lot of staged stuff that happens on the show.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Steve Coogan isn't impressed by their lazy racism.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/feb/05/top-gear-offensive-steve-coogan?intcmp=239

The quotes from the show don't sound very funny and he seems to make some good points BUT MAYBE I'M JUST BEING TOO PC EH.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I saw that episode (which later had a rather tedious and overlong "Australians live upside down, don't they?" segment) and was really shocked by those so-called jokes. As Steve Coogan says, Mexicans are a very easy target when you live in a country that doesn't have any.

It was just a very cheap and pathetic attempt to be edgy, which made the three of them look like lazy, cowardly racists, who wanted to pick on someone who wouldn't be able to answer back.

Something tells me that'll be edited out when it's shown on BBC America.

 

[CaptainWacky]

If you have 16 minutes, here's the definitive anti Top Gear video...

[YOUTUBE]w0i0RXMvzMs[/YOUTUBE]

But he's only having a laugh.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Will have to track down that "one eyed idiot" clip sometime.

 

[whisky]

The same Steve Coogan who had a comedy italian character, and who regularly pokes fun at geordies and people from norfolk?

The top gear team were just generating fake drama to comment on the sky sports drama.

Notice that two people lost their jobs over low level off air sexism, wheras three people get away with blatant on air racism, which kind of proves something else was behind the sacking after all.