The Grand Tour: Seamen
#16
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I went looking for that tuk, tuk clip to post it but couldn't find it, just ended up watching a bunch of older Top Gear/Grand Tour video's. It is much funnier when you watch it in context from the whole beginning because it just happens out of nowhere while they are talking/narrating and they don't even comment or pay much attention to it which makes it so much more funny. It does not even look like that guy slows down or tries to avoid the accident, just runs into stuff on the side of the road because he is staring at their cars.
hammond: "check out the driver of this tuk tuk"
clarkson: "what's he done?"
hammond:" i don't know but he's done a lot of it..."
that show was the best lmao
#17
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if you're still interested it's in the 2nd part of the burma special about 7½ minutes in, it may not be on a syndicated version though you might have to find the real version of the episode
hammond: "check out the driver of this tuk tuk"
clarkson: "what's he done?"
hammond:" i don't know but he's done a lot of it..."
that show was the best lmao
hammond: "check out the driver of this tuk tuk"
clarkson: "what's he done?"
hammond:" i don't know but he's done a lot of it..."
that show was the best lmao
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Am I the only one who didn’t enjoy this special that much? Yes still entertaining as something to watch but a far cry from the stuff they used to make. They don’t even talk about the cars anymore.
bring back the used car challenges!
bring back the used car challenges!
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the used car challenges were great... find a porsche for £1,500 as well as the subsequent find a £1,500 car that isn't a porsche were both top notch, as well as the find a classic supercar for under £10,000... one of my all time favorites was of course the US special where they had to find a car for less than $1,000 and then got attacked by homophobic alabamans
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I think the issue is the classic "used car challenges" are a copyright issue with TopGear. So the trips by neccessity have to be a little different.
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Can BBC really copyright buying a used car and comparing it? Even if not, they could have given them a budget of say 30K for this challenge. Ans the whole idea of finding the pirate treasure was kind of lame, and Richard Hammonds part was way too scripted in leading them where to go next.
As for this special, I dont even remember hearing James May say "As you can imagine viewers, I've done this properly...."
As for this special, I dont even remember hearing James May say "As you can imagine viewers, I've done this properly...."
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I would say they certainly can compromise those sorts of challenges yes. I think thats why you havent seen them do that.
He did say that before the Caterham was introduced lol
He did say that before the Caterham was introduced lol
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Can BBC really copyright buying a used car and comparing it? Even if not, they could have given them a budget of say 30K for this challenge. Ans the whole idea of finding the pirate treasure was kind of lame, and Richard Hammonds part was way too scripted in leading them where to go next.
As for this special, I dont even remember hearing James May say "As you can imagine viewers, I've done this properly...."
As for this special, I dont even remember hearing James May say "As you can imagine viewers, I've done this properly...."
Many of those specials are pretty scripted, it is pretty easy to tell many things are set up, part of a script. It was not their best special but still pretty good. I thought the 3rd Season of The Grand Tour was by far the best.
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Thanks, I will look for that, don't remember it when I saw it a while ago. Some of the funniest things to people in movies, shows, tv specials often are the smaller things that were not intended to get the big laughs or something that happens really quick and a low key response. There is a scene in Top Gear when they are pulling caravan trailers in cars, James May is in back of one and it totally falls apart and the toilet comes out on a dirt road in the woods, it was hilarious, James May starts cracking up as he watches it. There was also a really funny scene in The Grand Tour when they are racing around a track and talking about pee breaks slowing them down and Jeremy Clarkson just walks into scene and says he solved it or something like that and it shows he wet his jeans and he acts like he doesn't care and explains it was a clever strategy.
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some say... it was actually james' caddy in the 3rd episode of the 9th series
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