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Watched the first one, it was crap.
Watched last week, was better but still not good.
Forgot it was on last night, the repeat tonight.... meh, forget it.
BBC killed the Golden Goose.
Hope they enjoy the diversity of bankruptcy.
Yea, would have been far better to keep that arrogant prick on staff beating up his producers. Sends a great message.
It was described as a fight by the BBC and since by definition a fight requires 2 people it means like it or not the producer was part of the problem. But, with that aside Clarkson was fired more for PC's sake than any fight he had with the producer. Here's a list of the UN PC things Clarkson said which led to his demise on the program.
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June 2006 - Clarkson calls bus drivers "little Hitler bastards."
You automatically lose your argument when you invoke Hitler, but Clarkson's remarks in a newspaper column infuriated members of the UK's Transport & General Workers' Union. In the column he said a bus driver who doesn't let a car go first is an "inconsiderate jumped-up little Hitler bastard" who should be "shot in the middle of his face." But how do you really feel, Jeremy?
December 2006 - BBC apologizes after Clarkson calls a car "a bit gay."
During a discussion with the audience about the Daihatsu Copen sports car, one man described the car as "a bit gay," to which Clarkson replied "A bit gay, yes, very ginger beer," which is Cockney rhyming slang for "queer." The BBC condemned Clarkson's remarks.
February 2007 - Clarkson and crew get pelted with rocks in the Deep South.
Top Gear's infamous U.S. special involved them driving through deeply conservative rural Alabama with "Hillary for President," "Man-love rules OK," and "NASCAR sucks" painted on their cars. While this one didn't create an international diplomatic crisis, it did get their van pelted with rocks. (For the record, as both an American and a Texan, I think this one was fantastic.)
March 2007 - Clarkson apologizes after asking Hammond if he's a "a mental" after his head injury.
Hammond suffered brain damage following a 280 mph car crash on a Top Gear shoot in 2006. When he returned to the show after months of recovery, Clarkson asked him if he was "a mental" now, and May asked if he "dribbled." The BBC had to apologize again.
November 2008 - Clarkson makes a joke about truck drivers murdering prostitutes.
The BBC received hundreds of complaints when Clarkson did a segment on driving a commercial truck where he described their daily routine as "Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day." The network responded by saying the comment was meant to "comically exaggerate and make ridiculous an unfair urban myth."
2009 - Top Gear slammed for suicide, WWII joke.
An episode in 2009's Series 13 involved Clarkson and James May making spoof ads for Volkswagen, one of which said the Scirocco TDI could get from Berlin to Warsaw in one tank, and another that featured a suicide onscreen. The BBC was again inundated with complaints.
November 2009 - Clarkson pisses off Romania.
Visiting the Romanian countryside for an episode of the show, Clarkson referred to the nation as "Borat country," made jokes about communism, and said Gypsies "can be violent if they don't like the look of you." The Romanian government complained about the episode.
February 2011 - Clarkson and Richard Hammond make jokes about Mexicans.
This one's not just on Clarkson, but it's haunted the show for years. When talking about the Mexican-made Mastretta sports car, Hammond referred to it as "lazy," "feckless," and "flatulent." After that Hammond said, "I'm sorry, but just imagine waking up and remembering you're Mexican," and Clarkson added "It'd be brilliant because you could just go straight back to sleep again!" Hilarious.
March 2011 - Top Gear gets sued by Tesla over a "rigged" test of the Tesla Roadster.
The Tesla Roadster may have been barely two steps above a car Jalopnik would purchase off Craigslist for rallycross in terms of build quality, but Elon Musk didn't take kindly to a test that showed the car losing its charge and having to be pushed into a garage. After Tesla took a sales hit, Musk argued the scene was staged. The lawsuit got dismissed in 2013 but Musk was still mad about it years later.
November 2011 - Clarkson calls for the public execution of striking workers in Britain.
Turns out he's not a fan of unions. Shocker.
July 2013 - A Clarkson review pisses off the British and the Chinese.
Originally British and now Chinese-owned automaker MG is a far cry from what it used to be, but when Clarkson said the MG6 was "as Chinese as a chopstick," he managed to piss off both nations — not to mention MG.
October 2013 (But since, like, always) - Clarkson gets into old man Twitter fight with Piers Morgan.
There's a long running hatefest, both in person and in print, between Clarkson and Morgan. Clarkson even punched Morgan in the face once at a British awards show. Then again, Piers Morgan is a giant shitwaffle himself, so nobody feels bad for him.
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March 2014 - Clarkson offends Asian people by using the word "slope" on air.
"That is a proud moment. But, there's a slope on it," Clarkson said, referring to a bridge in Burma. But he said it while a construction worker passed over it, leading people to wonder whether he was using an antiquated racial slur or not. An India-born British actress filed suit against the BBC in response.
May 2014 - Clarkson accused of using the the N-word in rehearsal footage.
Clarkson was accused of using probably the most hated word in the English language while reciting a children's nursery rhyme chant during unaired rehearsal footage from an episode that leaked to The Mirror. He later offered a reasonable explanation and apologized but conceded he'd likely be fired if he fucked up again.
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October 2014 - Top Gear gets kicked out of Argentina over "offensive" license plate.
While filming the Patagonia Christmas special, the hosts were pelted with stones and forced to hide from a mob of angry Argentinians furious over a Porsche 928 license plate that supposedly referenced the Falklands War with the digits "H982 FKL." It later turned out the plate on the Porsche came that way.
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This one was definitely stupid and kind of a non-controversy, but Clarkson's critics jumped on it hard. When your show has a long history of pissing people off on purpose, it's not too hard to believe that they would want to do this too.
http://jalopnik.com/all-the-times-jerem ... 1690580901So I guess the BBC can claim the politically correct trifecta with this diversified crowd that includes everything a SJ warrior could want. Well everything but ratings.
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As for me and most of the former fans, it was Clarkson, Hammond and May's irreverent non PC antics that made the show the success it was. So yes they killed the golden goose.
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That ended with a bang though, drag racing in Cuba! And the segment they had with the Saleen Mustang vs. the Petty Challenger vs. the Callaway Camaro was awesome!
