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[JAHHAJ]

Hyped for TG tomorrow.

 

[Youngun]

22 hours to go.

 

[m8h3r]

With the amount of driving they do they surely must be fairly adept at it at least. JC has been doing this for decades now. I suspect if they did the start in a reasonably priced car all 3 would be within touching distance of the fastest time.

I can't remember exactly, but the first SIARPC's car was something like a 1.48.xxx I believe and Jeremy did a 1.50.000 dead. So its not bad only 1 and a bit seconds off the top time.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

So this series will be seven episodes and not six....but wasn't the last series seven episodes as well?....

 

[stiggygonzalez]

Clarkson looked very happy driving that mclaren P1 in the advert.

 

[Youngun]

So this series will be seven episodes and not six....but wasn't the last series seven episodes as well?....

Technically, the best of at the end is classed as an episode.

 

[The Stig Farmer]

I wholeheartedly approve of this week's soundtrack.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Oh dear. Hammond face palm.

 

[Wiegert]

Slightly disappointed that retro hot hatches and SIARPC are all they're doing this episode.

"Pikey's peak" stands as the only highlight so far.

 

[Clark]

I didn't think it was possible for TG to get any worse.

I was wrong.

 

[MatskiMonk]

I'd be lying if I said I didn't giggle out loud a bit. But c'mon Top Gear, was that it?

 

[adam46]

Well that was an utter load of tripe.

 

[Emptyone]

If I said that was a little juvenile, I can't see how people could disagree with me, realistically. I think there is amusing and then there is pandering to the audience of thrills, not motorists. Ugh.

 

[Bo]

The wrapping of the cars, Pikes Peaky and some of the shopping stuff was funny, the rest was crap.

 

[adam46]

If I said that was a little juvenile, I can't see how people could disagree with me, realistically. I think there is amusing and then there is pandering to the audience of thrills, not motorists. Ugh.

I don't understand why they feel the need to chip in some of the stuff they chip in. "All you need to know is I have an erection." Really, Top Gear, really?

 

[grrlpurple]

I was quite enjoying the show up to the supermarket sweep and it rapidly went downhill from there - not the best season opener ever!

 

[Bo]

I don't understand why they feel the need to chip in some of the stuff they chip in. "All you need to know is I have an erection." Really, Top Gear, really?

That stuff is useless and just crap. I hate all of their cheap jokes for 12 year olds, just do funny things with cars!

 

[Crumpet]

I don't understand why they feel the need to chip in some of the stuff they chip in. "All you need to know is I have an erection." Really, Top Gear, really?

Do you happen to find erections offensive?



I thought this episode was pretty funny. Lots of product placement opportunities in that supermarket scene.

 

[Emptyone]

I don't understand why they feel the need to chip in some of the stuff they chip in. "All you need to know is I have an erection." Really, Top Gear, really?

I mean yes you might be excited to be in a tank, but the whole sequence wasn't necessary, it was almost as if they ran out of ideas towards the end. The vehicles wore somewhat thin. My flat mate called it a soap opera, and I'm not sure he was far off.

 

[adam46]

I was quite enjoying the show up to the supermarket sweep and it rapidly went downhill from there - not the best season opener ever!

Maybe I'm going to sound a bit... green(?) here, but I couldn't help but think the food being squashed there could have been used in much better, worthwhile ways.

 

[MatskiMonk]

I found Hammonds interuption of the SIARPC for more wince inducing than all of the erection jokes.

 

[mattythedog]

I actually thought it was a pretty good episode, even if it felt slightly too scripted.

 

[Bo]

Maybe I'm going to sound a bit... green(?) here, but I couldn't help but think the food being squashed there could have been used in much better, worthwhile ways.

My dad said that, I don't care though because it was hilarious. The things like the explosions and the Nova ending up on its side was completely unnecessary.

 

[adam46]

Do you happen to find erections offensive?

No, I just don't see how that kind of humour has any rightful place in a motoring programme. Then again, I'm not sure Top Gear is a motoring programme now, it's just slapstick using cars as the bassline. As @hsv010 said, it's pandering to 12 year olds.

 

[MatskiMonk]

The foods was most likely beyond it's sell by date, and not saleable.

 

[Wiegert]

This episode - clearer than any other - showed that they weren't taking anything seriously.

Hammond's accidents were painfully forced however, and his hijinks rarely fail to make me cringe as it is. The police chases descended into one long and cartoonish joke, but I did find it surprisingly funny at times.

Nothing quite as bad as the supermarket skit though. Complete waste of a second quarter segment.

 

[Crumpet]

The foods was most likely beyond it's sell by date, and not saleable.

They will get tons of complaints over it regardless

hurr think of africa

 

[Bo]

It's clear this episode wasn't meant to be taken seriously at all. Hammond's accidents were painfully forced though, and the police chases descended into one long joke which I did find funny at times. Nothing quite as bad as the supermarket skit though.

The crashes were by far the worst bit. That police challenge could have been brilliant like the police car episode, but they got lazy and stupid. The supermarket bit was brilliant up until the Nova's turn.

 

[mattythedog]

Then again, I'm not sure Top Gear is a motoring programme

It hasn't been a car show for quite a while now, if you watch a lot of the old episodes on Dave, they actually reviewed cars seriously a lot more than they do now.

 

[Crumpet]

Top Gear should be seen as a comedy.

The scripted scenes are produced for entertainment and they know you aren't meant to actually believe it.