Top Grand Gear Tour TV Megathread: Because nobody wants to post a new one

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CornHolio: May 20, 2001; Toilet Rascal

gently caress you guys, I'm excited about TGUS. As long as you don't compare it to regular Top Gear, it's really a decent show.

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djdanno13: Apr 20, 2004; Killing Nazi Zombies since June 14 1775

Actually I think the last show* to do budget endurance racing was roadkill.

*yeah yeah its not on tv whatever

# ? Apr 26, 2016 15:27

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Doesn't look like it's on the schedule on History/H2 up in Canada :smith:

# ? Apr 26, 2016 15:33

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

I guess this really slipped under the wire. Not even Follow Shows has it.

# ? Apr 26, 2016 15:36

Mustache Ride: Sep 11, 2001

And thetvdb.com assholes are arguing over season numbers so all my automated poo poo didn't schedule it.

# ? Apr 26, 2016 17:09

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Holy poo poo. The History Channel is claiming this is season 8?

# ? Apr 26, 2016 17:27

pik_d: Feb 24, 2006; follow the white dove

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Cojawfee posted:

Holy poo poo. The History Channel is claiming this is season 8?

Season 2 and 3 both had big gaps in them, I'd guess that's where they're getting it from. Still silly.

# ? Apr 26, 2016 18:34

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

Cojawfee posted:

Holy poo poo. The History Channel is claiming this is season 8?

other claims by the history channel:
HITLERS SECRET SHARK ARMY
OCCULT BLACK MAGIC TANKS OF THE NAZIS
ALIENS DID THE PYRAMIDS AND ALSO 9/11

# ? Apr 26, 2016 19:31

davebo: Nov 15, 2006; Parallel lines do meet, but they do it incognito; College Slice

neckbeard posted:

Doesn't look like it's on the schedule on History/H2 up in Canada

You still come out ahead because you get Canada's Worst Driver on Discovery channel.

# ? Apr 26, 2016 20:15

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

davebo posted:

You still come out ahead because you get Canada's Worst Driver on Discovery channel.

I'd say "Why don't we have this?" But I know Discovery would just pick some lovely American celebrity and do America's Worst Driver but it would be 10 times worse.

# ? Apr 26, 2016 20:28

Jealous Cow: Apr 4, 2002; by Fluffdaddy

LeftistMuslimObama posted:

other claims by the history channel:
HITLERS SECRET SHARK ARMY
OCCULT BLACK MAGIC TANKS OF THE NAZIS
ALIENS DID THE PYRAMIDS AND ALSO 9/11

Why did aliens need to store grain here on earth?

# ? Apr 26, 2016 20:45

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

Jealous Cow posted:

Why did aliens need to store grain here on earth?

theyre alium moonshiners and grain alcohol is illegal on their home planet. they got the recipe for sweet corn mash from ramses (aka ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HITLER).

# ? Apr 26, 2016 21:45

SpannerX: Apr 26, 2010; I had a beer with Stephen Harper once and now I like him.; Fun Shoe

Cojawfee posted:

I'd say "Why don't we have this?" But I know Discovery would just pick some lovely American celebrity and do America's Worst Driver but it would be 10 times worse.

There was one. It sucked.

# ? Apr 27, 2016 00:16

Preoptopus: Aug 25, 2008; Ð¢ÑÐ¸ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¾ÑÐºÐ¸,
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:

theyre alium moonshiners and grain alcohol is illegal on their home planet. they got the recipe for sweet corn mash from ramses (aka ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HITLER).

No the aliens owed interest on the grain they got from the Rothchilds.

# ? Apr 27, 2016 00:18

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

So far, this is very Top Gear-ish.

# ? Apr 27, 2016 02:33

Seat Safety Switch: May 27, 2008; MY RELIGION IS THE SMALL BLOCK V8 AND COMMANDMENTS ONE THROUGH TEN ARE NEVER LIFT.; Pillbug

Cojawfee posted:

I'd say "Why don't we have this?" But I know Discovery would just pick some lovely American celebrity and do America's Worst Driver but it would be 10 times worse.

They did do it. I saw it in a hotel room in the US once, it was strange as hell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Worst_Driver

# ? Apr 27, 2016 02:58

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Dont forget the jay leno green car challenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEYGjIOsH2A

# ? Apr 27, 2016 05:01

nmfree: Aug 15, 2001; The Greater Goon: Breaking Hearts and Chains since 2006

They still haven't figured out a name for the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dXELycthFI

# ? Apr 28, 2016 19:34

Cage: Jul 17, 2003; www.revivethedrive.org

nmfree posted:

They still haven't figured out a name for the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dXELycthFI

That was ace biscuits.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 19:40

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

Maybe even the ace-est biscuits.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 20:14

Mustache Ride: Sep 11, 2001

He was right, the Ray-Ban configurator was pretty ace-biscuits.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 20:24

nmfree: Aug 15, 2001; The Greater Goon: Breaking Hearts and Chains since 2006

quote:

Former Top Gear team sets sights on domination of the four-wheeled Internet

You have to hand it to Messrs. Clarkson, May, and Hammond. Together with producer Andy Wilman, they took a moribund BBC show about cars and turned it into a global phenomenon�we are of course talking about Top Gear. Under their revised format, Top Gear dropped the idea of being Consumer Reports for cars, instead opting for comedy banter, insanely impractical road trips, and breathtaking cinematography. When things ended badly with the BBC, Clarkson, May, and Hammond were snapped up by Amazon with a budget reported to be $7 million (�4.5 million) per episode. But they evidently want more. On Monday Variety revealed that the gang, together with a tech entrepreneur called Ernesto Schmitt, want to create a digital home on the Internet for car people.

The site will be called DriveTribe, and will cater to a range of different car enthusiasts�or tribes�with verticals full of written content as well as video. Each tribe will have a different host, including Clarkson, Hammond, and May. According to Hammond, "Gamers have got Twitch, travelers have got TripAdvisor and fashion fans have got, oh, something or other too. But people who are into cars have got nowhere. There�s no grand-scale online motoring community where people can meet and share video, comments, information, and opinion. DriveTribe will change that. And then some."

Clarkson was more succinct: "I didn�t understand DriveTribe until Richard Hammond said it was like YouPorn, only with cars."

It's a bold move, but one that is far from guaranteed success. Various attempts to create an all-singing, all-dancing online automotive publication have been tried and failed (Drivers Republic and /Drive both spring immediately to mind). Unlike a print magazine or weekly TV show, the Internet demands a steady stream of fresh content every day, an activity that cares not for interruptions for foreign filming trips.

But the more challenging part may well be the very idea of those tribes. Building (and managing) an online community is no easy task, for those different automotive tribes are nothing if not partisan�Internet fora are replete with thousands of pages of arguments about Ford vs. Chevy, F1 vs. NASCAR, Tesla vs. everyone else, and so on.

And despite what Hammond might think, these disparate tribes already have online homes like Pistonheads, FerrariChat, Rennlist, CamaroZ28.com, and many others. Drawing enough of these folks in to give the new community a critical mass will be no easy task.

Meanwhile, over at the BBC Top Gear lives on, recreating itself for at least the third time. Headed by UK radio and TV presenter Chris Evans, and joined by a massive cast that includes Matt LeBlanc, Sabine Schmitz, and Chris Harris, the show has been dogged by negative coverage in the UK's newspapers and a bit of a controversy involving someone drifting near the Cenotaph (a war memorial in London).

And it too wants a slice of online action. On Tuesday it emerged that in addition to the main show�which will air on the BBC in the UK and BBC America here in the US�there will be an online-only Extra Gear, hosted by Rory Reid, available via BBC3 (it is unclear whether those of us outside the US will have access).

# ? Apr 29, 2016 02:52

Cat Hatter: Oct 24, 2006; Hatters gonna hat.

So they've said that they can't use "Gear Knobs" because they can't put "gear" in the title. Perhaps they could call it "Oh Cog".

# ? Apr 29, 2016 04:18

pik_d: Feb 24, 2006; follow the white dove

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Cat Hatter posted:

So they've said that they can't use "Gear Knobs" because they can't put "gear" in the title. Perhaps they could call it "Oh Cog".

I stole this and tweeted it at James. Don't be mad.

# ? Apr 29, 2016 04:30

a primate: Jun 2, 2010

Cat Hatter posted:

So they've said that they can't use "Gear Knobs" because they can't put "gear" in the title. Perhaps they could call it "Oh Cog".

I love it. I'm hoping for something funny.

# ? Apr 29, 2016 05:24

MrOnBicycle: Jan 18, 2008; Wait wat?

nmfree posted:

Well there kinda is Car Throttle, but it's mostly filled with kids that pretend they are old enough to drive cars and dumb pictures of models scratch.... leaning on cars.

# ? Apr 29, 2016 07:10

Tide: Mar 27, 2010; by FactsAreUseless

Cog Knobs

# ? Apr 29, 2016 19:35

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

"Le Cog Jolie" for the French.

# ? Apr 29, 2016 22:02

raej: Sep 25, 2003; "Being drunk is the worst feeling of all. Except for all those other feelings."

Cog Goblins

# ? Apr 29, 2016 22:07

Preoptopus: Aug 25, 2008; Ð¢ÑÐ¸ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¾ÑÐºÐ¸,
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nmfree posted:

Im confused, Isnt there already a thing called streetfire.net? I mean they have to know about it, they pulled all the top gear episodes off of it lol.

Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Apr 29, 2016

# ? Apr 29, 2016 22:24