Some people are saying Top Gear's jumped the shark.They're wrong, of course.
Having said that, it is clear they may be struggling in their quest to stay at the cutting edge of cocking about.
They've fired cars off aircraft carriers (failed), turned a Reliant Robin into a spacecraft (failed) and taken a nice, quiet caravan holiday in South Dorset (epic failed).
What else can they do? Where else can they drive their dream cars? How else can they outrage the outragerati at the Daily Mail?
Fear not, Stig fans – we're working on it. And after literally minutes of frenzied brain-storming, thought-showers, solutioneering and scuba-diving in our think-tank, here's what we've come up with:
- Which Japanese budget car would make the best Kamikaze plane? James May uses MATHS, SCIENCE and a bloody great catapult to fire Nissan Micras at the Isle of Wight ferry whilst jumping over a shark
- Jeremy Carkson takes the Bugatti Veyron on a tour of Ann Noreen Widdecombe ("Oh my Lord – this is the most cavernous nadge .. .. .. .. .. .. IN THE WORLD")
- Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car – Maureen from Driving School. And Stevie Wonder
- Richard "Hamster" Hammond drives the new Ford Ka down to the corner shop for twenty Bensons and a copy of Nuts magazine, but hilariously crashes and burns whilst negotiating a speed hump in Shepherd's Bush
- RACE CHALLENGE: The boys race across Europe from Bulgaria to a cabbage farm in Suffolk. How many immigrants can they get across the Channel in the back of a family-sized luxury estate? Jeremy wins with a grand total of 117 through cunning use of a garden shredder ("Nothing in the rules says they have to arrive intact")
"Next week we start our own Bulgarian-flavoured kebab vans. And on that bombshell..."
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Sneer all you want, but UK Top Gear still craps all over Australian Top Gear, in which they would have seemed to spend the first few episodes acting like bogans and reigniting the Ford vs Holden debate. And your guys speak WAY better. What's not to love about Ninety Thowsand Pownds? When it's compared to Thirdy Thahsand Bucks?
As a none car owner I couldn't give a toss what they get up to. Grown men playing with their toys springs to mind.......
And on German Top Gear- grown women as well.
Yes, it's jumped the shark. But shamefully, it's still probably the most entertaining show on TV at the moment.
I agree with Technogran...and isn't it great? :)
Meh. I tried watching it last week and was all, like, WTF? What is this crap? Racing airport lorries around? Sponsored by Cadbury's now, are we? WTF does that tell me? It's like Brainiac's "which is the stickiest breakfast cereal?" article.
Now a race between the 5th Gear team and the Top Gear team... but I suspect Tiff has blocked Clarkson's cell phone number.
TRT: I did think Hammond was trying far too hard to be funny in that Airport race last week. He should know by now that you shouldn't have to force the humour, it was a bit cringy.
I did like the DVD screen that showed sat nav to the driver and films to the passenger. Two things crossed my mind, though,
(1) what if it's a touch sensitive screen? You could think you're zooming in on Basildon, whereas the missus thinks you're touching up Kirsten Dunst, so when you get out of the car at Tesco and she's fuming and you're all "What? WTF have I done? (No change from the usual there then)"
(2) Can they fit it to the windscreen so that those Truvelo cameras see someone else is driving?
TRT - Sugar Puffs. Everybody knows that.
the Clarkson interpretation of the rules in the race challenge is SD comedy gold. Excellent stuff, I knew some would be along soon :)
@ Pseudonymph
I agree. Austalian Top Gear is awful! My Aussie kids will ONLY watch English Top Gear.
It's not jumping the shark if you never come back down.
Shark jumpage was conceded with reluctance last Sunday, having sampled the start of this series and found it wanting. Whereas I'm looking forward to the last couple of James May toy programs, whenever they're going to be shown.
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