Top Gear Specials

Just finished the africa special. Fucking comfy/10. Are these the pinnacle of reality TV?

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Vietnam and Bolivia is better mate.

Second this.

Vietnam especially

vietnam special best special

botswana, usa are good too

Clarkson's likely getting too old and frail and intolerant of discomfort for these.

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FACTS!!!

Vietnam and Bolivia already been mentioned

Polar Challenge is good aswell

All of them are great.
Except India. Fuck India.

Polar special wins it any day of the week, even if it's a bit low on banter and embarrassing themselves with the locals.

Yet we have evidence that suggests he did his "most dangerous stunt ever" filming his new series.

Are these the pinnacle of reality TV?
Basically, but Bolivia/Botswana/Vietnam are the best specials.

what's with the 'india special is bad' meme?

I've watched the Arctic, Bolivia, Middle East, and Vietnam.

Any others on that level?

It's not as good as the new series.

Latest special where they get trucks to fuck around in jungle is pretty comfy.

Vietnam and Bolivia are however absolute pinnacle of reality TV.

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Is this just paid promotions for DHL? They're funny either way

I want an Opel kadett after watching this, such a comfy car.

I actually really liked the Patagonia special.

Also not really a special, but the Japan Nissan GTR was a pretty good trip as well.

>new show is 100% clarkson hammond and may globetrotting

may's youtube channel is fucking amazing

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Africa, Vietnam and USA were the best because they were the least scripted

my sides

you're not wrong

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Can you guys imagine how bad the new top gear specials will be with Matt and Chris. They will probably force some prank stuff in there too. New top gear is a disaster

I feel sorry for LeBlanc, he could be a good host if he had someone to work off

Vietnam > Bolivia > Burma > Botswana > Polar > Patagonia > Middle East > Africa > USA > India

Although not even India is bad tbqh

>USA
>that low
It's easily in the top 5

>Reality television
>scripted beyond all recognition

What's a good torrent for these? Tried one now but quality was fucking garbage

its pretty comfy

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>Performed by James May, unemployed.
Holy shit, I don't know why but that got me

it's "scripted" in the sense that the jokes are thought of before hand and written up and then the "actors" try and find a good spot to throw them in.

Also the Top Gear crew don't go for scripted jokes as much as they go for some scripted gags which are better in my opinion.

Top Gear specials have the perfect mix of real interesting adventure, scripted / edited performances, and f e e l s. When clarkson starts rambling on about that piece of shit camaro he has to drive through the ass-crack of America I knew exactly what he was talking about and it really does keep you invested. Watching those specials you are rooting for the cars that have just as much personality as the hosts by the end of it and that is so rare to see on TV.

Indian is just a shit country.

USA with shit cars is top tier, USA with modern cars was okay.

His bit about the 928 during the Argentina special was an absolutely fantastic bit of TV.

>Is this just paid promotions for DHL?
>It's a plug

>implying Top Gear is the pinnacle of reality TV
Sorry lads, Japan already blew everyone out of the water by having a man live naked and alone for over a year, filling out thousands of postcard entries to try and win himself food to eat.

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Top Gear is pretty fun though.

Kek.
They can make a cheesy joke and really get away with it, but the new guys just fall flat - especially with that terrible hospital bed skit at the start of last episode.

Hey you autistic turd. you know that watching people drive is like watching somebody playing video games or watching somebody fucking your gf ?

Japan is the pinnacle of game shows.

That's a completely different beast.

Thanks for that, just when I thought it couldn't get any worse , I pictured the charisma vacuum that is Evans trying to banter with an American and a German who he barely knows whilst driving across Siberia.

i know right, watching anyone doing anything makes you a cuck lmao

retard

Eh, I honestly prefer the banter to that sort of shit.
If I want Japanese sadism I'll watch MAD series. JAV.

vietnam special is the best
india special is literally poo
not only the worst special but the worst episode as well

>any special besides Vietnam
so good

Anyone else feel legitimately sad for Hammond when The Donkey rolled down in the Bolivia special?

RIP Donkey :'(

why does everybody hate the india special?

Basically nothing happened.
Plus rumour.is that they did an insane amount of editing not to seem raycus.

i agree the ending was a bit shit, i really enjoyed the section where they held the party though

India disappointed me as there was potential for it being really good. Then it just wasn't.

Sup Forums always jerks off the Vietnam special but it wasn't that great

Being in India for five minutes would make anyone a massive racist

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Fuck going to India.

Kill yourself.

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The fucking fake party in India is the worst thing they ever did. Horrible.
The India special is still better than 99% of other tv though.

I wonder if he started with hello

>getting this upset when someone disagrees with your opinion
Hello autismo

Okay, what's your favourite special then.

India and the Middle East were the worst but at least India had the Genesis bits.

I prefer the middle east to India.

>moronic American Christian furious about blasphemy detected

I liked Burma and Africa better. Vietnam wasn't even about cars.

I think the challenges are better than most of the specials:

>Make an amphibious car (x2)
>Make a train
>Make an electric car
>Break a Toyota Hilux

My sides entered orbit with the USA bike.

>"Children watching at home, if you don't understand why this is inappropriate, ask your parents."

It was a load of overscripted bullshit.

Patagonia bants > Vietnams bike bants

Like the rest of top gear?

Top Gear is a travelogue and buddy comedy, m8. It can be bikes or boats and it's still the same.

Fact!

It was about bikes.

Doesn't even need to be about bikes or boats

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yeah but at least the other stuff was a bit more subtle about it

Hey he did his meme guys! He's soooo funny.

No, hang on not 'funny'.... he's ....a boring contrarian cunt! Thats it! A massive cunt.

Hows the american Top Gear on the history channel?

The one you obviously know nothing about? Guess.

i feel like I just ruined Christmas for a child. Top gear is scripted.

We all know top gear is scripted, but the difference between the deliver is what matters.

Plus with the challenges/treks a lot of genuine stuff happens between scripted elements.

India special is the only one I've never rewatched. It was pretty poor overall.

Middle East is honestly more forgettable. They really didn't do anything

>BORN IN THE USA

Didn't that one kind of get fucked up a bit when one of them had to go to hospital?

>not listing fuel economy challenge
shiggydiggerydoo, mate

that's only funny because may comes dead last

It was comfy though, with a lot of neat stuff.
India was just filthy and boring.

Rumor is that a lot of content was cut because it would have been racist to depict Indians Street shitting/being general filth.

>implying anything in Patagonia beats
>I AM THE MOST MISERABLE HUMAN BEING ALIVE

>Make an amphibious car (x2)
>Clarkson's car flips at the end
>Hammond starts trying to hold onto the rolling tyre

And then in the follow-up they managed to actually get Clarkson's all the way to France.

Funny Vietnam is everyone's favourite, and it's the only one they did on bikes (which Clarkson famously hates)

>This week on Grand Tour, we drive to Midway.

>coast guard try to stop them
>WE'RE TRYING TO BEAT BEARDY BRANSONS RECORD

There was a lot of genuine bantz there, the genuine interaction between friends is just really great TV.

Plus we're all miserable cunts here and we need a friendship simulator.

just like the three modes of transport across london which was almost as good

>it's a special where they say this is the most beautiful spot they've ever been to

Well, it makes for great TV and they visit a lot of beautiful places.

They still weren't don't no anything. James hurt himself in the middle of the desert.

>Plus we're all miserable cunts here and we need a friendship simulator.
Reminder that when Hammond had his massive crash in the Vampire dragster, Clarkson and May dropped everything they were doing to immediately go straight to the hospital he was taken to.

That was great. Never watch sport relief and all that stuff I only discovered this a few months back.

That and they point blank refused to do the show without him.
>You will never have mates that would turn down millions of dollars to continue the show without you.