How did they do it? How did these three muppets make some of the best telly around?
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The producers were asleep at the wheel, and let them do anything they wanted.
Part scripting, part chemistry, all creativity and a love of cars.
Andy Wilman (the executive producer) was heavily involved in TG and GT, even going with the crew for filming the Specials.
Drilled in UK banter culture from a very young age
This is most likely the answer. Formative years in the banter pit. They didn’t see regular conversation till they were already men.
>They didn’t see regular conversation till they were already men
Bantz is a art
Filming men doing their constructive hobbies without interference from women is entertaining. Watch This Old House, New Yankee Workshop or Red Green Show. Hell, even proper cooking shows with male chefs (not mindless food contests) is kino.
your masculine constructive hobby seems to be snarky online comments that get no Engagement, sad
>t. i watch twitch streamers and yourube video essays all day
>I will defend your honor m'ladies
Hours later, still trying to understand why this guy was so hostile about a post listing other dude hobby shows
I've been watching Warship: Life at Sea and it's fairly good until they run a segment featuring a woman sailor.
Inside the Zoo is about the only time a female makes sense on a "non-script" show as womeme and their empathies towards animals seems organic.
great chemistry, great characters, great challenges, great cars.
it's going to be a national day of mouring when one of them croaks.
Who do you reckon will be first? my money's on Clarkson. He looks really unhealthy in Eurocrash
He's got a powerful gut here which probably isn't healthy.
Clarkson assuming Hammond doesnt crash and die first.
My money is on May for last man standing, though Hammond could beat him if his family takes the keys away from him.
>Cpt. Slow coming last one more time
that would be a kino script
Clarkson in next 10 years, May shortly after and Hammond will reach 97
Clarkson is getting fricking close, he's been smoking and generally unhealthy his entire life
James May will go first.
Those racist aircraft tirades can't be good for blood pressure.
for me, its the 24 hour race challenge
>24 hour race challenge
Nice.
I'm for the Econ and the Japan Race as well.
thats a suburu BRZ / Toyota GT86 he is smiling about btw
>I was the first to arrive
Prime TG and TGT might be the most comfy show that I never wanted to end. The last few Grand Tour specials have been well below par though, I think they're ready to stop.
May said recently there isn't much in the tank now for him.
All good things have to come to an end I guess. Hopefully he still has it in him to do the Our Man series, Japan and Italy were both Kino.
I've still yet to watch those.
I'm pacing TG and their standalone content out in cycles of years because I don't want it to end yet.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're brought back for one last Top Gear run after the current weenies leave, even if it's only 10 episodes
1. They only pretended to be muppets. Everyone working on the show was actually very talented. Clarkson, Hammond, and May are all accomplished writers and presenters as well as being properly passionate car nuts. But also jobs like cinematography and music choice was excellent.
2. They have genuine chemistry. You can't fake that. The first season of top gear, without James May, is pretty painful.
3. They purposely told the BBC, the department of transport, etc and their woke nanny rules to go frick themselves.
4. They didn't become too nerdy about engineering shit and just made it a comedy show with a car theme.
>and music choice was excellent.
This.
I'm really surprised that TGT has been lower in terms of music as they've got Amazon and its entire catalog.
I guess just because you sell the music you can't use it as well?
It must be some sort of rights nonsense going on. Maybe it's more of a pain in the ass for an american company like amazon than it is for the bbc.
>James May was supposed to replace Clarkson whose contract was not renewed
>OG Top Gear is finally canned altogether
>this boring posh piece of shit who almost replaced me
>they actually meet
>boring posh piece of shit likes to make pranks like a schoolboy
>they become friends
>Top Gear is relaunched
>Clarkson nudges May
>persuades the BBC to hire his own replacement alongside him
>proceed to pretend they can't bear each other just for the laughs
Wild
James Mays official intro as one of the lads was kino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o73labyqQ3I
I miss Man Lab. Not sure why they cancelled it.
They seem to be winding things down since they stopped doing mainline TGT. I'd be surprised if they continue after their current Amazon contract ends.
The latest TGT specials have been my favourites tbh. Season 1 and 2 were painful but Carnage a Trois and Scandi Flick were great
Carnage a Trois was the best one, ironically enough because it was the least ambitious and almost resembled an old TG episode
The Madagascar one was shite with really heavy-handed scripting. The rest have ranged from ok to forgettable (I can't remember a single thing from the Scotland one)
Yeah I liked that it resembled an old cheap car challenge. The Lochdown one did too which is why I liked it - I loved the part about the shooting weekend and making fun of prince andrew. Also about American cars being embarrassing.
The Madagascar and Seamen ones were weak I admit. For me its:
>Mongolia
>Carnage a Trois
>Scandi Flick
>Eurocrash
>Lochdown
>Beach buggies in Namibia
>Jags in America
>Colombia
>RVs
>Motown muscle cars
>the rest
Mongolia was indeed kino, probably up there with their best TG specials. Even if just for the cinematography.
i'd like for them to do one last big trip episode before they call it quits, but i can't think of anywhere that would be great that they already haven't done and they could realistically do.
i'd love to see them sail across the atlantic, but i doubt it would happen
Yeah I want to see them go out with a bang.
I did think that maybe they could drive across multiple countries and use a car from that country when they were in it.
Alternatively the ultimate special would be driving across all 7 continents, but that would be quite tricky to do logistically.
They've done the North Pole Arctic Adventure.
Maybe it's time for a South Pole Antarctic Adventure.
They final scene is the lads mounting an assault on New Berchetesgaden.
I quite liked the Seamen special. Mostly for Clarkson being an oaf with his landing craft
TGT specials are too fake. Obviously all the TG specials had scripted set pieces and some of them are probably completely scripted out, but watching them there’s plenty of stuff in there that feels real. The banter, the sense of challenge or adventure, they can all feel genuine in most TG specials. TGT ones feel like the whole thing has been tightly planned out beforehand and it saps the sense of fun out of the show.
the early top gear specials are so good and just feel like lads on tour. botswana+bolivia+vietnam trilogy is kino beyond compare.
>TGT ones feel like the whole thing has been tightly planned out beforehand and it saps the sense of fun out of the show.
it's because they're all getting old, anon. Clarkson in particular really isn't suited to going on wilderness expeditions and sleeping in the boot of a car anymore.
checkd
just lads being mates innit
>CLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARKSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>Why has it done that?!
For some reason I can picture him saying that in my head so clearly but I can't actually remember where/when he said it
because he says it so often
pretty much any time the orangutan tries to do any sort of technical work it's pop up
>We bought you a present!
They lie constantly about the cars in the show. British TV is even faker than America.
>How did these three muppets make some of the best telly around?
jusdging by the grand tour top gear's success should be credited for more than these three
Talented blokes all around
brought down by how obviously and painfully scripted every event and conversation is
once you realize it isn’t banter it’s just lines on a page it feels a lot less fun
couldn’t even get through grand tour for that reason
>TONIGHT:
>Hammond gets a visit from The Met for saying "homosexual" on the internet without a loicense
>James narrowly escapes an acid attack by a bunch of Pakis in the tube station
>And I outrun a "lorry of peace" in a Bugatti Veyron
they knew the reddit audience
What happened Season 1's co-presenter, Jason Dawe? Was he fired or did he quit?
He was replaced. Wasn't he just a car dealer anyway? It really showed because he had zero on screen presence.
I feel like the BBC insisted on some degree of content that felt like OG Top Gear, made for the regular car consumer. Jason was there to provide info on second hand deals and the like. He got his own show 'Classic Gear' later on which was really comfy in its own way and suited his presenting style way better.
feedback said they had to fire one of them to "focus on a younger audience". somehow Clarkson managed to convince the BBC that James fricking May was hip and would fit, but as soon as he was in he was assigned the role of the "boring grandpa".
what is a muppet how do i know if i am one
is it a doughy semi-man type thing like these guys?
>what is a muppet how do i know if i am one
A muppet is just a stupid person. Go to a search engine and put in "muppet define".
oh ok,, yes i am one meself
Top Gear changed quite a bit from the early seasons. They didn’t start getting all three out of the studio together until series 4 or so. They had that black suited Stig and kept on trying to do a car buying segment that literally everyone hated.
You were my perfect friend
Right there until the end
I'm forever missin' you until we meet again
Can't explain this pain
Never felt like this
Sabine don't you know
That you'll be truly missed
I dont give 2 shits about cars, their specials are travel show kino though
I mean after a while everything they do is pre-planned bantz. Forced bants if you will - its so very obvious in jeremy's farm season 2. Nothing is organic
This is why the best segments are them just standing around roasting each others cars unscripted
>everything they do is pre-planned bantz
Ah yes another 90 iq moron who reads "scripted tv" and doesn't have the situational awareness to figure out what is real and what is clearly fake.
Their best shit has always been the organic and real parts.
bet that's your argument for enjoying WWE lol
the worst part about top gear is the cars. Who gives a shit. Just let these funny fricks do whatever.
An Idiot abroad was funny as hell with Karl as the gimmick, just make it a travel show with them acting like normal. I dont care about cars. No one cares about cars.
If you watch their independent stuff you'll see that they're just very good writers/television hosts and luckily they crossed paths and got to do a show about anamazing invention called the automobile