Tonight 8pm, they've got a caravan!
I've got a bottle of Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon!
Should be a laugh.
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Just marked the programme on Sky - really missed the infighting and snide comments/etc between the presenters.
Especially missed the big, blad guy with the large stomach and even larger head - but I tend to agree with most of his comments :)
The 'hermit' needs to be dropped as he is no good.
The man with the long hair needs to stick up for himeslf more and have a really good argument with JC
All good fun.
BTW, Im a bit worried that one of them is going to get kill or they will kill someone when they do their tests
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Pah you peasant Thommo
Just finished the last of my 1978 magill estate shiraz., last if the case I got from my tour of the magill estate.
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The hermit?
Looking forward to its return, but also enjoyed the football!
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>>Just finished the last of my 1978 magill estate shiraz.>>
Still got a (large) bottle of Margeaux Red circa around early 1990s acquired on a car launch in the Bordeaux area (stayed at the Margeaux Chateaux) - problem is that it's worth more than £200 and I'm a bit reluctant to drink it until we get a really special occasion...:-)
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>>they've got a caravan!>>
They can still keep coming up with new ideas then...:-)
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So civilised. None of that fizzy Americal lager the chavs have been conned into necking. I'll be on MontGras Cabernet Sauvignon / Syrah 2005 currently on offer at Waitrose for £5.49. Have to economise.
HJ
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d'Arrenburg Laughing Magpie is all I can muster today! Considerably more expensive than yown. But not as much as the previous neckers...
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whooooo w hoooo im off to warm the valves up on my telefunken 19 inch colour with 6x4 semi eliptical sub woofers,for the highlight of the week ...........hope its justified
washed down with "OLD SPECKLED HEN" bottled circa june 2006
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whooooo w hoooo im off to warm the valves up on my telefunken 19 inch colour with
when the picture starts to roll up and down, it needs a sharp tap, about .5G, 4 inches in from the back.
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What I don't understand is, why all the 'amateur' wine experts now seem to be in the UK and all the plonk drinkers like me live in France (cepage merlot from the south west, excellent and much prized by the expat Brits, 1.25 euros a litre).
Maybe it's because they have to numb their brains at great perceived expense before watching Top Gear?
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1.25 euros a litre).
Cheaper than petrol !
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What the wine or the programme ? I watch t on Sky+ to fast forward throught the tiresome bits.
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I'm still laughing at the last five minutes....:-)
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That episode was great!
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Yeah, it was funny. I enjoyed it.
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Practically wet myself laughing. Guest was boring though.
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Ok highly staged but the crash was genuine! Really funny
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There is stupidity, there is crass stupidity and then there are Top Gear presenters......
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I was amazed that the F1 car only managed 81mph in the hall.
I washed it down with a bottle of Weston Special Reserve Cider.
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Will we hear from Thommo. Or did the Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon overwhelm everything?
350 million viewrs worldwide, Algy. That's why the BPC doesn't stop it, and why we should all be very thankful. For the time being, anyway.
HJ
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A really good episode. Am glad it's back. Don't have to watch the re-runs on uktv anymore!
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Just watched the show as it was recorded - crash at petrol station real - everything else staged.
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>>Just watched the show as it was recorded>>
You have a DVD recorder then?
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Absolutely fantastic.
Staged? Probably. Do I care? Does it detract from the show in any way? No.
It is not a magazine programme. It is not about road tests of the latest Golf diesel. They won't tell you in an unbiased way whether you should buy a Ford Ka or a Kia Picanto. If you want that sort of mind numbing mediocrity, watch Cable television, buy What? Car or get down your local dealer and drive the car yourself.
It is, purely and simply, a car based entertainment/comedy show. I laughed more or less from start to finish. I learnt absolutely nothing, but enjoyed every minute of it.
Treat it how it is intended - as light hearted comedy - and you'll enjoy it far more than you would had you expected an education.
Best thing on television. I would pay my license fee JUST for that.
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>>It is not a magazine programme. It is not about road tests of the latest Golf diesel. They won't tell you in an
>>unbiased way whether you should buy a Ford Ka or a Kia Picanto. If you want that sort of mind numbing
>>mediocrity, watch Cable television, buy What? Car or get down your local dealer and drive the car yourself.
Couldn?t have said it better myself...
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Rarely I laugh out loud quite violently at a tv program but this occured tonight with the caravan scenes.
I 've said this before, TG trades heavily on its on screen chemistry between its presenters and it works too.
Middle aged men playing teenage buffoons is very simular to the chemistry that was Laurel and Hardy.
'one reason people loved us was that they felt so superior to us' Stan once said.
Clarkson, May and Hammond is so so simular.
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>>DVD recorder?
Wonder if it was a Sky+/Tivo similar - have done this a few times myself, timeshifting after missing the start so I can watch it from the beginning as it tapes through until the end. Usually use the unknown celeb in Daewoo bit catch up.... :-)
Top drawer show tonight though,really enjoyed it.
Lee -- There\'s no place like 127.0.0.1
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Now you're talking. I've just come back from Herefordshire with much "clink clinking" from the back.
JH
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Everything with the caravan was staged - A 1.5 Diesel?, the crash was staged - you'd need to be seriously stupid (and probably drive on the verge) to hit the bollard. The club was real but the fire was staged - an exercise for the local fire brigade set up with the empty caravan and awning next to theirs, with full permission from the site.
Does it matter? No. It's just entertainment. Less caravan damage than an episode of Brainiac (starring the Hamster).
The thing that made this show rotten was the Mondeo/Mazda/Vauxhall test - totally dull, the boring guest that went on far too long and the complete lack of fresh ideas.
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Wait for the white van triple test coming soon (according to 'The Sunday Times').
HJ
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The caravan fire was strangely reminiscent of London's Burning carefully staged weekly property fires.
Another point. At one stage there was a truncated shot of May beginning to return to the nearside lane whilst overtaking on the motorway; problem was that the caravan was still alongside the vehicle being overtaken.....
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Great show.
Now, where can I get one of those rear window message things?
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Last night's show made me laugh out loud, which for something on telly to make me do, is a rare occurrence! OK, so much of the caravan thing was staged, but it kind of got points over that many of us think.
And big up to JC and co for being so non-PC - more please!
Did anyone else notice one of the caravan being overtaken shots, where they had a Maestro towing another caravan overtaking the Kia? (Maybe that was genuine?!)
The Star in the Car - OK, I don't do films, but er, "famous actor?" When I play back the show, I tend to fast forward over this spot.
And finally, how cool to have the Top Gear dog - nice touch.
Yeah, good entertainment - good banter about cars - not to be taken too seriously.
Lucky team!!
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"When I play back the show, I tend to fast forward over this spot. "
Like I used to with the ghastly Ronnie Corbett doing his sad monologues, sat in that big chair!
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Like I used to with the ghastly Ronnie Corbett doing his sad monologues, sat in that big chair! >>
Eh? I must have been out of the room during that part of TG ............
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>> Like I used to with the ghastly Ronnie Corbett doing his sad monologues, sat in that big chair! >> Eh? I must have been out of the room during that part of TG ............
Was he doing the "Star in a reasonably priced Noddy Car" segment of the show?
I think we should have "star on a huge "rip your head off and spit you in the grass" motorcycle"
1st Guest on that one anyone?
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Great show. Now, where can I get one of those rear window message things? _______ IanS
I think somewhere like Maplin would be the place for those electric sign things
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>>somewhere like Maplin>>
Indeed it does and probably similar other outlets:
tinyurl.com/ojdkp
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I love the show, but can't stand the 'star in a reasonably priced car' feature. So boring!! They do move all the pretty ladies to the front though, good move!!
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Perhaps an alternative to SIASPC segmet could be 2 "stars" racing each other in the sensible car?
Suggestions:
Ant vs Dec (well, they have been on virtually every other show)
Blair vs Cameron
Wogan vs Edmonds
Ferguson vs Wenger
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"Ferguson vs Wenger"
... zee accident was not my fault... I did not see Sir Alex
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More credible would be Cameron versus himself.
I watched it and enjoyed the bits involving the Mondeo and Mazda vs the Vauxhall. I laughed at the caravan thing. Don't think that the prang was staged. (or it would have been filmed from o/s the car) The caravan turning scene was on a private road somewhere (I would say). The fire was obviously staged and I would say filmed away from the site but cutting to the site as and when required. Kenneth Clark's Civilization it wasn't but it was an entertainig way to pass 35 minutes. (all the other bits were whizzed through.)
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The wine was excellent.
The show well all in all not bad. Not your usual Clarkson going COOOOORRRR for twenty minutes in a zillion pound Wonda or whatever.
The Mondeo, Mazda, Vauxhall bit was interesting and showed up the error of putting huge power in to an otherwise pretty much unmodified car.
The star in a reasonably priced car section I like. Although the definition of star seems a bit stretched at times. Top totty in any car would work better for me.
The caravan bit was fun but obviously all staged except the clonk on the bollard, after all when have you ever seen the emergency services turn up so quick?
Overall OK. Chris Rock on the Comedy channel later was better though...
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The Mondeo, Mazda, Vauxhall bit was interesting and showed up the error of putting huge power in to an otherwise pretty much unmodified car.
But did you notice JC wasn't pushing the ST220 nowhere near as much as the VRX.
As per usual, TG was Ford bias.
Yes, the ST220 was 0.8 seconds quicker than the VXR on the power lap, but it begs the question why they didn't show it instead of wasting time with the star in a car feature.
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I think we could do without the dog; it makes James May look almost neat and tidy but having to live with the Hamster and work in the TG studio isn't much of a life, for anyone!
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Because the vectra has the chasis of a Waterbed and smokes a lot.
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and lots of pretty lights that sometimes flash.............................a lot
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Be assured that something that doesn't work on Top Gear will be dropped - there's too much at stake financially for it to be otherwise.
So the Star in a Car will remain. The key to this is normally the conversation with JC, the actual fastest lap is irrelevant to some extent.
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Lucky the dog (no not that one) is pretty passive. My Springer would have been fighting with the noisy one in that painfully scripted bit about American Muscle cars.
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As a caravanner (cue sniggers!!) I found the caravan bit very amusing! In the same way that that film from years ago (Something like National Lampoon Holiday In Europe is amusing - ie, everything that could go wrong, did go wrong and it used every stereotype that it could.)Nevertheless, some bits were plain daft (and dangerous?) - who in their right mind woud try to do a three (hundred) point turn where they did in a car, let alone a car and caravan? Why would anyone when confronted with a burning caravan go back inside to rescue their valuables when they had taken nothing with them? It was good slapstick though, and I did sit laughing - at their total ineptitude!
I await the next installment, where they fly to Monte Carlo, the flight is delayed for 24 hours and has to divert to Milan so they miss the Grand Prix, the car they hire turns out to be an ancient Fiat Cinquecento not the Bentley and they insist on driving on the left rather than the right, their hotel is Formule 1 not the Ritz, their cruise ship is a rowing boat not a 5 star luxury cruiser (and when they eventually get on the cruise ships it is full of 90 year olds who dance with their zimmer frames)and when they want bacon for breakfast followed by Marmite on toast the local shop doesn't stock it.
May their loos all be French "squatters".
It was funny though!
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PhilW - good lead in mate.
Anyone who has not seen National lampoons Vacation (the first of the series) needs to run (not walk) to the video store. Every time I see this film it gets funnier and funnier. The ultimate family motoring holiday.
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Be assured that something that doesn't work on Top Gear will be dropped - there's too much at stake financially for it to be otherwise. So the Star in a Car will remain. The key to this is normally the conversation with JC, the actual fastest lap is irrelevant to some extent.
Strangely, the format of this programmes has become 'tired' before its time, I think.
The Caravan scenario was obviously very staged but very funny and most enjoyable to watch and exemplified the nonsense of this activity which stills seems to attract a lot of people, unfortunately for the rest of us who don't want to be held up by this selfish but , nevertheless, legal activity.
No. TG should be shortened in order to try and make it more 'snappy'. I, like others here, record it on my HDD/DVD recorder and start watching it after, say, 10 or 15 minutes and therefore am able to >>FF through the interminable boring pieces such as the useless 'road tests' on cars which amount to nothing more than burning off rubber around the aerodrome - serves no purpose whatsoever and makes my partner leave the room, leaving me embarrassed, to boot.
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It reminds me of The Young Ones + 30 years. Hamster = Mike, Clarkson = Viv, and May = Neil. I suppose the dog must be the Alexei Sayle character.
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Silly. Pounding the anti-caravan thing into the ground. Funny in a way, but not worth what it must have cost.
I did like the final shot of the caravan skeleton being towed away.
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