Insanely Great Top Gear: Polar Edition
4 Comments Published by Jason February 28th, 2008 in Uncategorized. Share ThisI was flying from SFO to JFK on United and the flight attendant handed me this crazy portable MP3 video player. As I flipped past the incredibly lame titles they were providing it was as if sunlight hit the headpiece on the staff of Ra. What did I see?
TOP GEAR: POLAR EDITION
Holy crap, this is one of the best episodes EVER. There is really not an instant of suck in this hour of awesome TV entertainment. The basics, without spoiling anything, the team races to the North Pole in an episode that involves everything you love about Top Gear:
•Hammond is served a big bowl of suffering for the entire hour
•Clarkson and May enjoy alcoholic beverages while driving a car over ice
•People are put in life threatening situations
•The stress of the race causes people to hate upon one another and behave badly
•A Toyota HiLux is abused and takes it
•Clarkson takes a shotgun to a can of Spam
Here’s a link to Part 1 of a YouTube hackjob on the full episide (7min chunks or so and low quality.) I suggest finding an HD source!
BTW: Top Gear is a BBC television program, available on BBC-A and elsewhere.
The near- constant jokes about global warming being a myth are an example of suck in an otherwise entertaining hour of television.
A HD Source you say? Why, I can’t really guarantee that on the internet, as sharing links to websites devoted to pirating would probably be a bad thing… Except that the Final Gear (dot com…) guys have the people behind Top Gear visiting the forums and acknowledging they exist, and not in an overtly unfriendly manner that legal departments know and love. Now that the over-the-top hint is out of the way…
The Polar episode is a classic, but the USA episode ranks just as highly. The African one? Not so much, but at least Oliver survived (…Don’t ask)
<3 Oliver!
For whatever reason, the Brits just know how to do motoring television. The rumors of Top Gear America have me very excited, though I am worried about a crushing disappointment. I just can’t see any American host, hopping in a Ferrari and racing an Acela train down the Eastern Corridor.
I guess the bar is set pretty low, seeing as the only other car show is PBS’s MotorWeek.