top gear

[dan no1]

how good was tonight's top gear?!

[pawwaw17]

was realy funny, had me in stiches, all i want to know now is what the bit of pianno music they played as clarkson drove in the rain.

[flip-flop]

Yep - very entertaining: Tope Gear is by far the best show on TV.

What I am surprised about is the that the Redneck Alabama stereotypes are absolutely bank on the money - I always thought it was exagerrated a bit, but they really are all knuckle draggers who walk with their mouths open.

Incredibly stupid inbred buffoons.

[jake-the-peg]

And It hasn't crossed your mind that they might have been actors then?

[flip-flop]

If they were actors, Clarkson, Hammond and May have missed their vocation in life - if they were faking their reactions then they should be actors themselves.

So no, I don't think they were actors (although would happily be corrected).

[deejbee]

Autorock by Mogwai was the piano music, apparently.

[jake-the-peg]

I think they probably weren't actors but Top gear does seem to do an interesting blend of reality with set-pieces.

Burning down caravans is a good example - how handy that that the camera man should just happen to be filming Clarkson cook sausages when he accidently set fire to the caravan.

I think you'd have to be a bit of a mug to take too much at face value

[tali122]

yep its too much playing to the cameras and all staged - a whole townsfull of rednecks turning up hollywood style in no time on back of pick up truck , surprised they didn't grab clarkson "pull your panties down boy squeal like a pig " and they never played banjo with a retard kid either
The petrol station owner looked genuniely angry though- why didn't they phone her up from the studio?

[johnny37]

Does anyone remember the one (a couple of series back)where they tried to wreck a Toyota HiLux and ended up putting it on top of a block of flats which was blown up? Yup, they got it our of the rubble and got it going.

ps the redneck incident was staged, as was the burning caravan. Great telly!

[kjn2]

The repeat is on Wednesday night I for one will be watching it again.Absoulutely brilliant thats my summing up of it.

[maviscoull]

it was BRILLIANT !!! i have never laughed so much in one evening. lets hope they have more of the same to come !!
welcome back Hamster !!!!!

[sarnieken]

I am probably going to get gang murdered here for saying this but I have to say that it wasn't very good.
The story was good and certainly worth putting in there but surely just as the regular snippets like they do in the regular shows.
Have to say that I really enjoy the way TG is done and its amusing to see the efforts that other lesser channels try to fight them with, 5th gear or vroom-vroom for instance; both terrible rip-offs of a brilliant show.
Hopefully they will be back to normal next week and someone might have loaned them a Bugatti Veyron for the track.

[bradtheman]

Surely this is a car show though. Paid for by the licence payer, to review cars and be an informative source of information on the purchase of new vehicles or advice on general motoring. Not to watch three men who are obviously paid too much to travel around the U.S. in clapped out cars you would find it difficult to purchase in this country.....

I am so glad my license pays for such actions in the name of a motoring show for the general public.

Maybe they should develop a show seperate to Top Gear in which they do stupid things costing stupid money for the teenagers that like such things........

[johnny37]

I do like the show but I have to say the arty farty videos are a bit irritating. When a car is reviewed I want to see the car, not Jeremy Clarkson sitting in the drivers seat or headlights and spinning wheels