New Top Gear Series Starts Next Sunday

[verytalldave]

No prorgram hits the spot 100% of the time. In fact, very few hit that spot even 50% of the time. So 20% isnt too bad in reality.
I do find the hamster a little irritating, then again I find most people a little irritating some of the time.
I can recall that the ONE programme that EVERYBODY went home to watch and then discuss at length the next day was Monty Python. And even that had its low points and areas of extreme blandness.
To be fair, Top Gear repeats on Dave get watched as the other channels are even worse. I know that doesnt sound like a glowing recommendation, but things like the Gambon interview and the report on the Peel car make it all seem worthwhile. Top Gear is certainly the best TV motoring programme at the moment.

 

[Dieselman]

Lots of people buy the Sun everyday, but I think that's rubbish too.

Perhaps it is just me...

No, you are correct, the Sun is rubbish.

Top Gear is just a chuckle and the old men bits are just there to accentuate that and bring on a few gags, most of which work. I think they are accentuated to enhance the stereotyping of each of the presenters images.

Without the 'fill' the programme might be a bit tedious and a more typical car programme.

Take last week, the 'Police car challenge'. You just knew that something was going to happen to JC's car, but the overall image presented of him just makes one laugh all the more when it does as it fits with the stupidity of him.

 

[Dieselman]

I can recall that the ONE programme that EVERYBODY went home to watch and then discuss at length the next day was Monty Python. And even that had its low points and areas of extreme blandness.

Python leaves me cold, I just don't find it funny.

 

[glojo]

Take last week, the 'Police car challenge'. You just knew that something was going to happen to JC's car, but the overall image presented of him just makes one laugh all the more when it does as it fits with the stupidity of him.

Absolutely,
Anyone with £1000 to spend would not buy the cars the presenters turned up in. These vehicles were used for effect and to be funny.

The American program highlighted that perfectly. The cars were purchased purely for OUR entertainment value. I get frustrated when these presenters think it funny to deliberately use a colleagues car as a method of stopping! It is done to be funny and get a reaction.

The sad thing is thats some people believe what they are seeing! The little two stroke that drove around the BBC building!! It was exceedingly funny but in reality impossible to replicate in the real World.

It is pure comedy that some folks will understandably not like, or appreciate, BUT....... Is it one of the most popular TV programs on BBC?

Regards
John

 

[robert.saunders]

I get frustrated when these presenters think it funny to deliberately use a colleagues car as a method of stopping! It is done to be funny and get a reaction.

That has me laughing every time I see it, always against May's car - one of the things I sadly look forward to on the different challenges

 

[glojo]

That has me laughing every time I see it, always against May's car - one of the things I sadly look forward to on the different challenges

It is always done for this reaction and clearly it works

Regards
John

 

[jeremytaylor]

Python leaves me cold, I just don't find it funny.

Parts of the TV series, I agree.

But Life of Brian must surely be the funniest film ever!

 

[WLeg]

Anyone notice Sabine was in a clip at the begining.....Is she the new presenter ? Have a look - it's at 1min 40secs (bbc iplayer)....

 

[imadoofus]

Anyone notice Sabine was in a clip at the begining

Apparently they're going to be 'making more use' of her this series.

Which presumably means countless *yawn* laps of the Nurburg...zzzzzzzzzzz

 

[jonm]

Me, I loved it, always do.

Yep its childish and indeed I don't find all of it brilliant, but the police car challenge? well that tickled me. Which one had 'Rozzers' written on the car? can't remember, but just the thought of seeing one on the raod had me in stitches.

Every now and then they pull a briliant one out of the bag and, for me, that was one of them. Oh, and the Boudica wheel thingies, excellent!

Jon

 

[mw_C32]

Parts of the TV series, I agree.

But Life of Brian must surely be the funniest film ever!

At least one of them. Along with Fish called Wanda!!!!

"Dont call me stupid....."

M.

 

[W210 Fan]

But Life of Brian must surely be the funniest film ever!

Your a very naughty boy

 

[amwebby]

Brian: You're all individuals!

Crowd: Yes, we are all individuals!

Man in crowd: I'm not.

 

[Dieselman]

Apparently they're going to be 'making more use' of her this series.

Which presumably means countless *yawn* laps of the Nurburg...zzzzzzzzzzz

Not necessarily..

 

[glojo]

Anyone notice Sabine was in a clip at the begining.....Is she the new presenter ? Have a look - it's at 1min 40secs (bbc iplayer)....

She was definitely a character and Jeremy did ask her to stand in for him once!

I wonder how she would get on driving that celebrity car thingie around the track. Me thinks she would set a very impressive time.

John

 

[Beetnik]

I do find the hamster a little irritating, then again I find most little people irritating some of the time.

Typo corrected

Coat time...

 

[Dragon]

If you find the content to be 80% rubbish then why on earth are you watching it??

I find it sad how folks will habitually watch a program that they find to be 80% rubbish. It reminds me very much of Mary Whitehouse most viewers waited for her to criticise a forthcoming program and then everyone would watch it. I think Coronation Street, Emmerdale Farm, Crossroads, and all the other silly soaps are 80% rubbish and guess what? I don't watch them. I accept soaps are very popular so I keep quiet and watch something that I like. More fool me if I watch any program that I know will contain 80% rubbish. (that will say more about me rather than the content of the program)

Top Gear is a light hearted tongue in cheek comedy program with a motoring theme. I think it is well planned, well researched and 95% fiction, but 95% funny. We are all different, we all have different ideas about what is funny, but we all have the choice about what to watch.

What is the 80% rubbish content? If it is the funny aspect, then perhaps you are in the wrong to watch? As the humour being broadcast is not to your specific taste? (We all have differing opinions about what is, or is not funny)

I cannot stand that giggling hyena 5th Gear presenter that lets out ear piercing screams whenever she drives a car, so I have not watched this program for a number of years. each to their own and respect to those that enjoy watching 5th Gear.


Regards
John

Some said she got gonads.

 

[stats007]

I was hoping they'd have changed the format a bit but appears not. Looks like some interesting bits coming up judging by the start but this episode was tripe until the £1000 Police cars.

 

[verytalldave]

And to think Life of Brian very nearly didnt make it to the big screen...........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python's_Life_of_Brian

 

[BTB 500]

And to think Life of Brian very nearly didnt make it to the big screen...........

Yup, remember the sketch mentioned on that Wiki entry

In a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, a bishop who has made a scandalous film called The Life of Christ is raked over the coals by a representative of the "Church of Python", claiming that the film is an attack on "Our Lord, John Cleese" and on the members of Python, who, in the sketch, are the subjects of Britain's true religious faith. This was a parody of the Friday Night, Saturday Morning programme, broadcast a week previously.