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

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BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

neckbeard posted:

Don't talk about torrenting/downloading the show

Not even over I Player?

# ¿ Dec 20, 2011 21:40

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 13:22

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

Now watch The Grand Tour be all the stuff from old new top gear everyone liked without all the poo poo the BBC forced in like SIARPC.

# ¿ May 30, 2016 01:32

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

sean10mm posted:

"He's a serial workplace sexual harasser nobody likes, and an unfunny rear end in a top hat, and unattractive, and has no discernible talent at anything, but by the letter of the law he's not literally a pedophile, so..."

Oh but you see he likes cars and Clarkson likes cars so they are the same ok.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2016 18:32

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

sincx posted:

Dr. May's Virtual Daughter

So he bought it from Krieger?

# ¿ Jun 5, 2016 22:03

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Why doesn't the Stig listen to music anymore?

Because that is fun and nue top gear is super serious dontyaknow?

# ¿ Jun 10, 2016 13:32

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2016 00:16

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

Ola posted:

Welp, enjoy that race to Venice, there won't be many of those in the future.

That is the only episode I have tried to watch so far, I say tried as I couldn't take it after a while and just went to go do the dishwasher and play with the dog. Everything that has been said about how it feels awkward and put on with some of the presenters not suited to television is completely correct. Also the race wasn't much of a race as they had to come up with bullshit challenges on the way to make it anywhere close to a fair race rather than old new top gear races being researched so they would be close without any other distractions.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 18:40

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

United Kingdom of not England as it is for racist gob shites

# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 19:19

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

It is not just Evans tho. Eddie Jordon is painful to watch as well and Sabine is just not a good presenter either.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2016 21:42

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

Mister Kingdom posted:

Instead of The Stig, we can have The Baldrick.

I give this car 3 turnips

# ¿ Jul 12, 2016 22:45

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

The thing is Clarkson was known for working the script until it was tight and had a team of writers and good co presenters. Nu-top gear had none of that.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2016 01:27

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

I want to see Jeramytron 9000 make racist jokes

# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 15:16

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

I don't jump and watch new episodes as soon as they come out but if this is a rush job then it just shows how much better then production team are than the new one the BBC were using for Top Gear. Since if my memory serves it wasn't just the presenters who went to Amazon but most of the production team as well. Either way it is enjoyable and while some of the running jokes are getting trite such as the dying celebrity bit at least they are not spending 15-20 minutes per show having some over hyped "star" prattle off about their latest project.

VVV fair enough, it always felt longer.

BigPaddy fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Jan 9, 2017

# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 14:20

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

I find the jabs at the BBC funny since most of them are true. It has some very creative people that produce great entertainment in spite of not because of the BBC being funded by TV license fees.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2017 14:56

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

Which evolved into the wife of the president of France having owned it.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2017 17:28

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

sean10mm posted:

Chris Evans made the show radioactive, without him it can at least rise to boring but harmless and maybe evolve from there.

Pretty much everyone in Britain apart from BBC bigwigs knew that he would torpedo the whole thing.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 00:21

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

People think that AWD/4WD means offroad not that it is there to keep the thing stable on icy roads and a bit of mud maybe. The episode was good for showing this.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2018 14:05

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

The thing that is being missed IMO is that a F150 Raptor costs half as much as the SUVs they had :staredog:

# ¿ Feb 12, 2018 14:21

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

He is a heavy smoker so yeah he looks much older than 57.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2018 13:22

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

Deteriorata posted:

The show needs to find a new direction to go in. It seems creatively bankrupt and not very fun to watch.

But enough about the BBC

# ¿ Mar 5, 2018 19:33

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

The problem with nue new top gear is that it wasn't just the presenters that left it was the production company and all the crew. That and JC is pretty well known for working the script over and over until it is tight which is a major issue with the new show. If you go back to the first few series of new top gear even when they had not been working together for years yet there was still a lot of good scripting to make it feel tight.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2018 14:57

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

DiggityDoink posted:

I wonder if they know how much people hate the star in a car bit. If I actually watched it on TV I would change the channel during it, it's so bad.

Every time it came on when I watched it live I took the opportunity to go to the bathroom or make a coffee to try and kill the 10 minutes.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2018 12:10

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

spog posted:

Plus, we had the bad news: Eddie Jordan isn't dead.

My father worked the Paddock Club at F1 race weekends for a few years and he saw someone drop after having a heath attack. Eddie Jordan ran over and started giving CPR. Not sure if he would be up to it these days.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2018 01:39

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

Being from the leafy NIMBY land that is Surrey this is 90% the locals were fed up with the noise and pestered the owners of the site that they just sold it to developers. This happens a lot of sites where there is any kind of motor sport activity. A good example is Castle Combe which has been there since before WW2 and people are moving into the village and complaining about the noise the track makes. It has been around longer than you have and maybe if you had looked at a map before you bought the house you might have noticed a large racing circuit that hosts events pretty much every weekend 8 months of the year. Morons.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 12:39

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

Main problem with MToD now is that is is full of lovely Discovery shows like Fast and Loud.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2018 13:51

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

Mister Kingdom posted:

Graveyard Carz is the worst. The shop owner is a dick and they only work on MOPARs.

All those shows are poo poo, "hey this week we work on this car here it is as a total basket case" cut to the end of the episode spend generating false drama about the wrong parts being ordered "Oh hey here it is done without any idea of the passing of time or what work was required to get to this point GO TEAM!"

# ¿ Apr 14, 2018 04:47

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 13:22

BigPaddy: Jun 30, 2008; That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.

Dimebag posted:

As soon as I saw the announcement I decided to check out on the shows, I watch YouTube via Android tv and there is no native app for MToD so they made it harder to consume their media that I enjoyed but not enough to sign up for a new streaming platform. I don't think this was the right choice for them, they have to be one of the only content creators moving away from YouTube and it's ease of access.

The app works with chromecast... badly. For example if you want to resume a video then nope start at the beginning and try to find the place you were in. Oh did I mention that if you close the app on your phone it kills the chromecast stream? So yeah you will be starting from the beginning a lot.

I just wish with Roadkill they would rip the band aid off and just turn it into the Finnigan and Angelo show since that is what is slowly becoming anyway.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2018 11:40

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