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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 09:41 PM
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Poll question: Top Gear or Top Gear?
Choice 1 - Top Gear
Choice 2 - Top Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (US)
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 11:38 PM
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1. The US version sucks like hell
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:37 AM
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7. And yet the show was just renewed for a second season
:wtf: :banghead:
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:16 PM
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10. It was?
:wtf:
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:52 PM
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11. Read it and weep
http://screenrant.com/top-gear-america-season-2-mcrid-101136/
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:29 PM
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12. *facepalm*
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 05:25 PM
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16. And just what, exactly,
is a "NASCAR Analyst"? :wtf:
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:33 AM
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2. How about Top Gear?
http://jalopnik.com/#!5784003/is-this-top-gear-china
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:17 AM
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4. Well, there's also Top Gear: Australia
which isn't supposed to be half-bad. Certainly not as bad as the American version.

Even their presenters look cooler/better!
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:47 AM
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3. The US version is an example of how bad it could be
without wit, personality, charm and americans to make fun of.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:20 AM
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5. I gave them a couple of minutes of my time a few months ago.
Still can't get the bad taste out of my mind... }(

And I agree with your last bit of "no Americans to make fun of." :thumbsup:
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:36 AM
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6. There is only one--all others are mere shadows of the true TG
Edited on Tue Mar-22-11 07:36 AM by MorningGlow
:P
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:45 AM
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8. Tonight, Hammond wears a hat. nt
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 08:06 AM
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9. It's weird how, at the time, so few people talked about how obviously homoerotic the movie is
Edited on Tue Mar-22-11 08:07 AM by Orrex
Difficult to miss it, really. I mean, that volleyball scene? Hello!

:shrug:
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 05:06 PM
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13. I don't think the US version is that bad.
I fully expected it to suck. But I grudgingly gave it a chance, and was surprised. I'm actually kind of happy they've renewed it. I will always give top billing to the original, of course, as a true Top Gear fan. But there's room in my heart for the US version.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 05:09 PM
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14. This is the strangest poll...in the wooorrrld.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 05:18 PM
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15. It was either inspired by another TV-show poll-thread, or by May/Clarkson/Hammond.
I just can't decide which one gave the most inspiration to dredge up the American version. Probably Clarkson :P
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