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Keyser_Soze
May 5, 2009

Pillbug
James ate some rotten fermented piss shark w/Gordon Ramsey and barely flinched. :barf:

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Thomamelas
Mar 11, 2009

Keyser_Soze posted:

James ate some rotten fermented piss shark w/Gordon Ramsey and barely flinched. :barf:

Him beating Ramsey in a cook off was magnificent television.

i own every Bionicle
Oct 23, 2005

cstm ttle? kthxbye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xhfJRdwHnU

“You disappoint me Ramsay”

Although Ramsay couldn’t drink a chocolate stout without gagging:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCHuqaMkT2c

So maybe his tastes on camera aren’t a great litmus test.

wilfredmerriweathr
Jul 11, 2005
Y'all seen the Hot Ones with Ramsay? Dude loving CHUGS PEPTO BISMOL. After watching that I was like "yeah I don't think this guy has great taste."

DurosKlav
Jun 13, 2003

Enter your name pilot!

From what I remember it was more or less a joke in the Hells Kitchen TVIV thread that if a contestants signature dish had any spice at all Gordon was going to chuck it because he has no spice tolerance.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
It's always funny to watch him make some cultural dish and talk about everything he's putting into like he's some expert, and then someone from that culture tries it and says it's trash.

Mr. Wiggles
Dec 1, 2003

We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.

Cojawfee posted:

It's always funny to watch him make some cultural dish and talk about everything he's putting into like he's some expert, and then someone from that culture tries it and says it's trash.

With the exception of egg fried rice. He gets Uncle Roger approval on that.

wilfredmerriweathr
Jul 11, 2005
He has TWO woks. Uncle roger only have one!

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT
He also outcooked Ramsay on his own show while actively getting drunk on camera so that tells me who I would want to cook for me and when.

BuckyDoneGun
Nov 30, 2004
fat drunk
Funnily enough, in one of his recent videos a James said he actually thought Gordon’s fish pie was better and he now makes his more like that.

Residency Evil
Jul 28, 2003

4/5 godo... Schumi
I'm watching some old Top Gear on Amazon and man, it is significantly worse without the right music.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

My Lovely Horse posted:

James May likes cooking but not fancy cooking and also not making cooking shows, and these are qualities I enjoy in a cooking show host.

:same: I watched the first episode and him just taking the piss out of how these sorts of shows are made was great. Those types of shows don't make me want to cook, but it does give me ideas on what I want to make for myself and James being as utilitarian as he in some of that appeals to me in that aspect. Like yeah, I could use the proper single purpose implement for the proper preparation of some special ingredient and make it look elegant as gently caress, or I could just use a santoku with somethign I picked up at a bodega and get about 90% of the way there in looks and it'll still tasste and end up the same.

opengl
Sep 16, 2010

New Top Gear America is somehow getting worse as the season goes on. I could barely finish the episode 2 weeks ago and have had no desire to watch more. It's just completely devoid of any fun and is way too staged even by Top Gear standards.

meatpimp
May 15, 2004

Psst -- Wanna buy

:) EVERYWHERE :)
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

:kheldragar:

opengl128 posted:

New Top Gear America is somehow getting worse as the season goes on. I could barely finish the episode 2 weeks ago and have had no desire to watch more. It's just completely devoid of any fun and is way too staged even by Top Gear standards.

I haven't been able to watch TGA or TG since the schism. Hammond/May/Clarkson are such lightning in a bottle that it makes anything they do watchable. But the TG franchise seems to rely on the typecast characters to recreate it, and they're just hollow.

Just like the youtube hoovie/tavarish/ed TG-wannabe series, it all just smacks of trying too hard.

bull3964
Nov 18, 2000

DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.


TG, at least, is getting less mean spirited than it started. That sort of really turned me off of it at first. It wasn't ribbing and pranks, it nasty stuff and you could feel genuine angry reactions bleeding through gritted smiles. It wasn't fun.

They've backed off of that so it's not hard to watch anymore, but it's is pretty bland too.

I think it's because their challenges don't seem to have a narrative to them. Let's have your SUV tow you! It was a neat stunt, but it didn't really go with the whole theme other than "SUV, tow something".

Their cars don't break enough either.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


They obviously have the budget, but just produce garbage with it. Just so much effort into trying to reproduce the formula like they're filling in mad libs.

hoovie's show is so much worse though. It's just Wheeler Dealers without any of the fixing stuff. Just buy car > read the wikipedia entry on it > "cost too much to fix so i'm selling it".

meatpimp
May 15, 2004

Psst -- Wanna buy

:) EVERYWHERE :)
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

:kheldragar:

Powershift posted:

They obviously have the budget, but just produce garbage with it. Just so much effort into trying to reproduce the formula like they're filling in mad libs.

hoovie's show is so much worse though. It's just Wheeler Dealers without any of the fixing stuff. Just buy car > read the wikipedia entry on it > "cost too much to fix so i'm selling it".

I was talking about the Hoovie/Tavarish/Ed TG-copy videos.

Hoovie's channel used to be fun and interesting, but once it became Look At All My Lambos I lost major interest.

Same with Tavarish. When he was finding his way through the turbo Lambo rebuild, he was approachable. Now that he's "rebuilding" McLarens and doing Turbo Supras for sport, it's just not realistic.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
I feel that way about a lot of car channels. It's fun for a while, but then they start doing weird poo poo. I liked Samcrac because he rebuilding cars himself. I was learning things and learning about new tools that have been useful. But then he started buying expensive cars that he couldn't work on himself, so he'd ship them off to some other youtube person's shop, and then he started doing cringy videos with that porn actress.

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

Everyone sucks except Cletus

Murgos
Oct 21, 2010
They are internet shows about whatever that happen to have cars in them. Y'all are way overthinking this.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Bape Culture posted:

Everyone sucks except Cletus

Is he cool and/or good? I hope so, it's apparently something that will be relevant to me soon

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

Oh you know he’s both Cool AND Good

meatpimp
May 15, 2004

Psst -- Wanna buy

:) EVERYWHERE :)
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

:kheldragar:

Bape Culture posted:

Oh you know he’s both Cool AND Good

Except for the whole covid-denying thing. :rolleyes:

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

What’s this??

meatpimp
May 15, 2004

Psst -- Wanna buy

:) EVERYWHERE :)
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

:kheldragar:

Bape Culture posted:

What’s this??

https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article247419155.html

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Swell



Not one bit different from what I was expecting though

SlowBloke
Aug 14, 2017
The new Clarkson show hopefully is not going to be a dumpster fire like the hamster one

https://youtu.be/USzFmRbRQGQ

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Playing country music over footage of a British farm seems weird.

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

I really wanted to see the "Soviet Cars across the Soviet Union" they probably were making. Unfortunately COVID-19 and the current Putin shenanigans in Ukraine will postpone it indefinitely.

And I personally cannot see Clarkson making it in 4-5 year timescale. Jeremy found a time machine that made him 40 years older in 20 year timescale.

And yeah, Grand Tour has too much money. Its funnier when they have to shoot with an (alleged) budget.

And where is the "Scotland travel episode"? It was shot something like 1 year ago?

Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 21:09 on May 21, 2021

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



"I'm just turning 60" in that promo

Christ, he looks 85

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Data Graham posted:

"I'm just turning 60" in that promo

Christ, he looks 85

Yeah, Clarkson will not make it from Vladivostok to Finnish border outside St. Peterbourg, or Berlin in any car at this rate. Let alone something that was made by the soviets before 1992.

Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 21:17 on May 21, 2021

Murgos
Oct 21, 2010

SlowBloke posted:

The new Clarkson show hopefully is not going to be a dumpster fire like the hamster one

https://youtu.be/USzFmRbRQGQ

Looks good.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Data Graham posted:

"I'm just turning 60" in that promo

Christ, he looks 85

Smoking does that.

BuckyDoneGun
Nov 30, 2004
fat drunk
That’s what normal 60yo people who smoke and don’t take care of themselves well look like, as opposed to Hollywood 60. Of course Clarkson looks rougher than Clooney, he also started out much rougher too.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

BuckyDoneGun posted:

That’s what normal 60yo people who smoke and don’t take care of themselves well look like, as opposed to Hollywood 60. Of course Clarkson looks rougher than Clooney, he also started out much rougher too.

Speaking of, Clarkson's new thing is up. The editing and presentation is very Top Gear/Grand Tour-esque with how things are cut and how Clarkson punctuates things. Still partway through episode one.

AFewBricksShy
Jun 19, 2003

of a full load.



Xelkelvos posted:

Speaking of, Clarkson's new thing is up. The editing and presentation is very Top Gear/Grand Tour-esque with how things are cut and how Clarkson punctuates things. Still partway through episode one.

Is it any good? The Hammond/Tory from Mythbusters one sucked and I usually like things Hammond does.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

AFewBricksShy posted:

Is it any good? The Hammond/Tory from Mythbusters one sucked and I usually like things Hammond does.

It definitely seems better than the Hammond one if only because it feels like an extended Top Gear documentary featuring Clarkson. It's literally just a mix of Clarkson faffing about and running through some of worst poo poo in the UK between September 2019 and wherever it leaves off. I've only finished the first ep and it's pretty decent and informative so far.

Edit: In case you were curious, Clarkson's GF is 15 years younger than him. Ep2 is dealing with his newly acquired sheep and stuff like breeding and shepherding.

Edit2: Jeremy is now having a bunch of ideas that aren't actually terrible for once,but he does the unthinkable: He says nice things about Caravans and Caravanning.

Related to Ep 3
https://twitter.com/JeremyClarkson/status/1230855355787350016

Xelkelvos fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Jun 11, 2021

gileadexile
Jul 20, 2012

My wife and I just spend the late afternoon and night binging though and I felt it was as good as anything any of them have ever done. Caleb is hilarious, Gerald is..an experience, and seeing how wrapped up in sheeps he gets made our entire month

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xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

gileadexile posted:

My wife and I just spend the late afternoon and night binging though and I felt it was as good as anything any of them have ever done. Caleb is hilarious, Gerald is..an experience, and seeing how wrapped up in sheeps he gets made our entire month

My wife grew up on a farm, she's really enjoying watching him screw up everything possible.

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