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Jut posted:The episode was doing great until they decided to repeat the Brutus section from one of their DVD's. 2 eps in a row with recycled footage. Not all of us have seen the DVDs. I was thrilled to see the Brutus. Besides, there's seven episodes this season instead of six, so if a byproduct of that is a couple of recycled parts, I'm perfectly fine with that.
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mod sassinator posted:Ah that must be where I remembered it from. The budget must really be tight this year--this is the second somewhat recycled bit. Its not the first time they have recycled stuff from Clarkson's movies/life. I mean his movies feature a ton of the same super cars that he tests on the show although sometimes there are inconsistencies in some of his reviews. Some would be surprised to learn that Clarkson has been to the Makgadikgadi Pan before the show with his family on ATV's. Apparently his daughter found a Diamond out there. http://www.topgear.com/uk/jeremy-clarkson/clarkson-on-quad-bikes-2006-11-01
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CornHolio posted:Not all of us have seen the DVDs. I was thrilled to see the Brutus. I agree. I haven't seen the latest Clarkson special, and i don't think you can get the DVDs of it in Australia. I just love the backfire Brutus does with each gear change
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Preoptopus posted:Its not the first time they have recycled stuff from Clarkson's movies/life. I mean his movies feature a ton of the same super cars that he tests on the show although sometimes there are inconsistencies in some of his reviews. Something that is close to me, being an owner of a small Fiat is that he absolutely gushed over the Panda in his newspaper review but has been 'meh' at best about it on Top Gear.
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KozmoNaut posted:Something that is close to me, being an owner of a small Fiat is that he absolutely gushed over the Panda in his newspaper review but has been 'meh' at best about it on Top Gear. I'm surprised they haven't brought back the Cool Wall to save money for a segment, actually.
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Payndz posted:I'm surprised they haven't brought back the Cool Wall to save money for a segment, actually. Me too, but don't they usually do it late in the series? That's been my impression.
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What was the music playing during Clarkson and May's donut attempts?
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angryhampster posted:What was the music playing during Clarkson and May's donut attempts? Chemical Brothers - Escape 700, from the Hannah soundtrack. Great episode this week, was laughing through quite a bit of it.
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Hammond is a wank again for his hard on with certain manufacturers. If it isn't Porsche it's Morgan.
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G-Dub posted:Hammond is a wank again for his hard on with certain manufacturers. If it isn't Porsche it's Morgan.
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G-Dub posted:Hammond is a wank again for his hard on with certain manufacturers. If it isn't Porsche it's Morgan. He's no worse than Clarkson.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:He's no worse than Clarkson. Clarkson has a little more variety though, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Range Rover, and in most cases Mercedes.
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Mar 6, 2012 08:54
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Damnit Clarkson maybe I do actually want to hear James talk about airplanes. Would have been better than another celebrity with an expensive designer bad hair day talk about his latest movie or whatever it was I just skipped over. I also really want one of those Morgans, I don't care how impractical it is.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:He's no worse than Clarkson. And no worse than any Audi/BMW/[insert manufacturer here] fanboy. E30 E30 E30 E30 E30
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:Damnit Clarkson maybe I do actually want to hear James talk about airplanes. Would have been better than another celebrity with an expensive designer bad hair day talk about
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I had seen various Guardian commentators ridiculing Alex James for this cheese and didn't know anything about him other than he was in that band. He came across as a really cool guy and between the Cessna touring and the Mexico birthday party, I'll be checking out his book.
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:Damnit Clarkson maybe I do actually want to hear James talk about airplanes.
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I thought he already had a show like that, or was that only for toys? (In that case I'd consider planes and cars to be toys too  )
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Ola posted:I had seen various Guardian commentators ridiculing Alex James for this cheese and didn't know anything about him other than he was in that band. He came across as a really cool guy and between the Cessna touring and the Mexico birthday party, I'll be checking out his book.  That's why. Also the festival he helped run, and where that photo was taken, screwed a local primary school out of 7000.
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Top Gears Facebook feed has just informed me there's a faster Veyron coming out called the "Bugatti Veyron GS Vitesse". This is getting silly. Some French bloke going "We've managed to give it five more horsepower, I call it The Bugatti Veyron GS Vitesse Ultrasport HD+".
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jojoinnit posted:Top Gears Facebook feed has just informed me there's a faster Veyron coming out called the "Bugatti Veyron GS Vitesse". This is getting silly. Some French bloke going "We've managed to give it five more horsepower, I call it The Bugatti Veyron GS Vitesse Ultrasport HD+". It's just the topless version of the Supersport. Nothing actually new, just two existing variants combined. At least it's not the last, last, last, last, we swear it's the last one really Zonda.
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Ola posted:I had seen various Guardian commentators ridiculing Alex James for this cheese and didn't know anything about him other than he was in that band. He came across as a really cool guy and between the Cessna touring and the Mexico birthday party, I'll be checking out his book. Yes but blur are shite.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:I've eaten Alex James' cheese, it's nice. He's still a bit of a bellend though. Why? Haha when I've seen that picture I thought it was Brian Cox who had his back to the camera. Also, bloody hell, fair enough that Nick Clegg is smaller than Cameron but carrying him around like that is very patronizing.
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Mar 6, 2012 18:40
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Can anyone explain the ITV jab during the SIARPC lap?
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Understeer posted:Can anyone explain the ITV jab during the SIARPC lap? I once watched Die Hard With A Vengeance on ITV, and they cut out the entire conversation in the police van where you find out about the dump trucks, the police-badge-lottery-number etc.
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Ola posted:Haha when I've seen that picture I thought it was Brian Cox who had his back to the camera. Also, bloody hell, fair enough that Nick Clegg is smaller than Cameron but carrying him around like that is very patronizing. I told someone he was Brian Cox recently, during The Brits I think. Oops.
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I'm honestly enjoying how Top Gear US does a lot more crazy challenges. This one is awesome. One thing, though: I swear every season they have to load livestock (or some other farm stuff like, say, manure) into cars not meant for them and transport them. Other countries, we do more than this in America, I swear!
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Philip J Fry posted:This one? (Audi-censored the best bit! )
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Another extremely entertaining episode of TGUS. Anyone not watching is missing out. There wasn't even a SIARPC, just 42 minutes of hilarity.
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InitialDave posted:ITV are a commercial station, and have a history of editing things for length to fit their schedule and advert breaks. More specifically, ITV cut off Adele's award reception speech at the Brits a couple of weeks ago so that Blur could start playing at the end.
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And then they cut off half of Blur's performance to show... something. I know it went on an another channel but I don't know who watched that after that awful awful performance of 'Song 2' (Although 'Tender' was great).
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Left Ventricle posted:You son of a bitch. Before watching : WTF, Audi? After : Ahhhhh clever! Really good episode, understated but very good.
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opengl128 posted:Another extremely entertaining episode of TGUS. Anyone not watching is missing out. There wasn't even a SIARPC, just 42 minutes of hilarity. It really was an outstanding episode; great scenery, fun challenges, and only a couple bits that were stupid. I loved the livestock challenge.
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I loved it when they talked about "fjording" the lake. Those guys have no idea what those words on the cue cards mean.
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Data Graham posted:I loved it when they talked about "fjording" the lake.
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Tsuru posted:If James ever had a show of his own where he could just talk about planes or drivetrains or pushrod suspension or whatever without Clarkson interrupting him all the time with his irritating willful-ignorance-skit I'd be all over that. I saw his U-2 special the other day and it was loving brilliant. James May On The Moon? That was one of my favourite shows, EVER.
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Anyone else notice during the seat removal race that the vans magically gained their off-road equipment, then lost it again, about three times? Obviously they do a few takes beyond the actual race to get a lot of the the intermediary shots, but you'd think they'd do it before making major visual changes to the vehicles. Other than that and a few other editing/consistency quirks though, one of the best TGUS episodes yet, almost comparable to the Alaska adventure. wolrah fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Mar 8, 2012 |
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