james may is the boringest of the three. And the show could work without him but not the other wa around. That being said he is part of the three. But the least important which is why in the Armenian police chase they pretended james may drove off a cliff and died.
It tastes pretty good, actually. I bought some as a birthday gift for a supervisor of mine who happened to be of the lesbian variety. After having a laugh in good spirits all of us in the office tried the drink and found it to be rather enjoyable!
Clarkson and Hammond’s interactions have always been my favorite, but adding May into the mix is like adding fuel to the fire. The two combined are quite flammable, you add May in and they all just combine forces to create one giant idiot fire.
It work because any combination 2 of the 3 have common ground. May and Hammond together mock Clarkson's insistence that he's always right. May and Clarkson mock Hammond's height and propensity to crash. Clarkson and Hammond mock May's slow driving.
It pretty much isn't a motoring show at all, it's based around motoring, but gives no actual advice, does no real tests, it's absolutely not for real car people. It started like that, once the show was rebooted, but then after seasonn10 or so it became a comedy show, just looking for entertainer, cars eye just the subject, couldn't made it about food or sports, I mean, a league of their own isn't sport now is it, but its based around it
@@kurtsudheim825 What are you on about? Of course it is. They do actual car reviews and review the (current day) trends in between these segments lol. Top Gear has always been a motoring magazine even before it was televised. These three just gave it character and made it entertaining to watch. I’d say you can watch this show for two reasons: one, you are genuinely interested in cars, and two, you are genuinely interested in the Clarkson Hammond and May trio…
@@kurtsudheim825 "nOt fOr rEaL CaR PeOpLe" Come on, get a grip. Programs like these brings people to the car culture as well. This is for everyone, car people or not.
Let me just...... "There has never been, and there will likely never be, a more exceptional trio of television presenters quite like these three." ....... but yes, you're right :)
"no no, its alright, I got this emergency light" proceeds to make it look like a horror. I feel like this is my family christmas every year, something goes up in flames
top gear was our family "meet up at mums house and watch this together" show for years. Even as grown men, me and all my brothers would turn up at mums on Sunday night to watch top gear together. These are the memories which make things great... top gear was more than just a show.
Very jealous of this. Was not on in the US until very late in the run for these three. Even then it was on only in syndication and did not run currently. Would have loved to have followed along with the development of the show with these guys.
These three just bounced off each other perfectly, unlike those who came after. I see them as the modern day equivalent of The Three Stooges (Curly, Larry nad Mo) and just bloody hilarious together. 😂
well May was bought onto the show becasue the otherperson wasn't good enough and even then the show nearly failed. people forget those early years and how they built up chemistry over time. You simply can't bring in replacements and expect it to work the same. Foolish of them to try mind you.
I Agree. The BBC tried to force it after they canned Clarkson. BUY+T it wasn't just these three that left the show. 90% of the production staff left with Jeremy. They lost everything and should have ended it there.
@@anotheruserism It wasn't that he wasn't good enough, it was he wouldn't play his part. He didn't want to look like an idiot so they sent him to the magazine and brought in James may (Who was hired for old Rop Ger and the show ended before he could start)
I want a job like that. Travel the world, drive fast cars around, insult each other and laugh a lot. And get paid handsomely for it! Where do I sign up?
And to think Clarkson is now operating heavy machinery for a living, like tractors and combine harvesters, and he's still as reckless and immature as he was back then. Absolutely fantastic.
Yep, definitely one of the best (and I'm glad you left in the Pussy bit at the beginning for context). Defo up there with Hammond's rant about the Clarkson wax model
@@carltonleboss The bit that always gets me is when Hammond snaps his fingers and says, "No, don't put it there, put it in the Natural History Museum." Even Clarkson creased up at that
234 subscribers, 214 THOUSAND views. Totally deserved. Wonderful clip action. I had forgotten all about this episode like so many other classics from apex TG. I am therefore very happy to see it again. As others have noted, "what flavour is it?" must be one of the best lines of all time with impeccable comic timing from JM. The audience was amazing. Lots of sniggering and giggling but with a little bit of edge, some tangible gasps, and even the odd Edwardian swoon (one imagines). Could have gone anywhere. Letters to the BBC followed, naturally. And then they pretended to destroy the entire lighting system and set the studio on fire. Pure gold.
I tried. You can't consciously try to recreate something like that. Have always felt really bad for the blokes they hired to try to replace the Trinity; they had an impossible job.
You make something fly around under your own control, and I might as well be a 4yo boy again. Super fun to play with, and I'm sure that was pretty new at the time on top of it
I was a young teenager excitedly looking forward to watching Top Gear during this era. At 36 and every now and then as I come back to a clip or two I find they get younger as I grow older. One day the time will come pretty soon where I watch these and they will look like children to me. How quickly the time goes. One day you're a child. The next, you're passed your prime and the world isnt a playground anymore.
I either managed to miss that part everytime i rewatched Top Gear on the TV, or it got cutout 😅...i rewatched this Top Gear a boat load of times and I'd still to it
Their bantering about and the "Star in the Reasonably Priced Car" were the best parts of the shows. They tried to do the same the first few years of the GT whilst attempting to not copy Top Gear, but it just didn't work.
People can try and recreate the original Top Gear, but lightning will never strike again like it has with these three. Not really a car show, not really the best drivers either, and you knew things were planned out as a bit but you can't help but love their chemistry.
Tony Hall and it’s utter incompetence to get rid of Jeremy Clarkson. I know there had to be repercussions of him belting that guy but Top Gear after and The Grand Tour never had this amount of brilliance
Masters of Motoring Mayhem that will be missed Massively. Thanks guys for 27 plus years of great motoring moments. You will be missed as you can't be replaced.
"I've put the Christmas tree out with some pussy!" Nobody, in the history of mankind has ever utter those words. I swear I can feel Clarkson's semi genius's power level.
It was very annoying they cut this entire part out whenever it came back on TV or on the AirPlay webpage. I remember this part when it was shown the first time. I assume BBC must of have complaints from viewers so likely his this afterwards
I once heard someone say “maturing is realizing James is the funniest of the three”
Literally
Fax
yeah
james may is the boringest of the three. And the show could work without him but not the other wa around. That being said he is part of the three. But the least important which is why in the Armenian police chase they pretended james may drove off a cliff and died.
You still young @@majortom4543
“Pour some pussy on it” is my new favourite James May quote
“CHEESE”
Whenever it's been the right flavour it's always been the solution to all of my problems! 😆
Indeed, B4 that one, it was, permission to say cock, and it goes like a stabbed rat, 😅
Currently replacing "Pour Some Sugar On Me" with this line...
It’s the way james says it in his posh voice that’s gets me😂😂😂
“What flavour is it?” Absolutely love James May
"Flavour?"
@@top_banananaplaysThat's how it's supposed to be spelled with the "u" unlike in the colonies.
he was quoting the response in the video.@@EagleBeagle4886
Pour some pussy on it.... the always rational and logical, James May
It tastes pretty good, actually. I bought some as a birthday gift for a supervisor of mine who happened to be of the lesbian variety. After having a laugh in good spirits all of us in the office tried the drink and found it to be rather enjoyable!
The best part was Hammond’s “leave it. Leave it….LEAVE IT”
had to stop anyone in the audience from just shouting something like fish
James May: "steady on madam!"
@MrAbletospeakyou must be truly miserable
@MrAbletospeak didn’t ask
Hammond’s dog :(
really is one of the best scenes from the worlds biggest motoring show and its got nothing to do with cars.
this is precisely why Top Gear was so popular.
@@disgruntled_llama don’t know why they’re still making it tbh, the imbd ratings for series 23 are hilarious
@@jpdfiveto be fair the most recent series aren’t too bad, but the original trio are in another league
@@jpdfiveTechnically, they shelved it indefinitely because of one of the presenter's injuries.
@@TheOz91 everything after series 22 was shit though
My friends actually bought that energy drink. First time id drunk an energy drink. Tastes of passion fruit
Passion fruit sounds fitting lol
Smells like ........... victory !
smells fishy...
It tastes really nice. Much better than Monster or Red Bull
Passion fruit, eh...? 😏
Clarkson and Hammond’s interactions have always been my favorite, but adding May into the mix is like adding fuel to the fire. The two combined are quite flammable, you add May in and they all just combine forces to create one giant idiot fire.
It work because any combination 2 of the 3 have common ground. May and Hammond together mock Clarkson's insistence that he's always right. May and Clarkson mock Hammond's height and propensity to crash. Clarkson and Hammond mock May's slow driving.
I love how May seems to play his cards close, waits for Hammond and Clarkson to set unwittingly set him up, and then he jumps in and steals the moment
@@theAmazingJunkman He's definitely the type of introvert that thinks not speaking makes people believe he knows more than he lets on.
very stable geniuses,, the lot of them !
Another team like those three will be very hard to find.
Yeah Top Gear was almost always completely scripted, but the moments like this are magical.
I came to realise as I grew wiser that even though we all know it's 100% scripted, it's still fun to suspend disbelief and treat it as if it weren't
@@xFluingI wouldn't say 100% I'd say probably more like 80/20 including the specials as they were the least scripted
And it’s not that bad since those three were the ones that wrote the majority of the scripts
I bet this scene was scripted as well
And I miss it 😢
This wasn’t just a motoring show. It was also watching these three interact with each other lmao
It pretty much isn't a motoring show at all, it's based around motoring, but gives no actual advice, does no real tests, it's absolutely not for real car people. It started like that, once the show was rebooted, but then after seasonn10 or so it became a comedy show, just looking for entertainer, cars eye just the subject, couldn't made it about food or sports, I mean, a league of their own isn't sport now is it, but its based around it
@@kurtsudheim825 What are you on about? Of course it is. They do actual car reviews and review the (current day) trends in between these segments lol. Top Gear has always been a motoring magazine even before it was televised. These three just gave it character and made it entertaining to watch. I’d say you can watch this show for two reasons: one, you are genuinely interested in cars, and two, you are genuinely interested in the Clarkson Hammond and May trio…
@@kurtsudheim825it totally is, I don't care much about cars and watched this show purely for the banter and comedy and I loved it.
@@kurtsudheim825 "nOt fOr rEaL CaR PeOpLe"
Come on, get a grip. Programs like these brings people to the car culture as well. This is for everyone, car people or not.
So true. My wife couldn't give a shit about how much horse power a car has but she loves watching these baffons with me
“Pour some pussy on it” was absolutely brilliant
There has been nor ever will NEVER be a better holy trinity of TV presenters like these three.
Agreed, I found the show by accident. It was on late night on BBC America (back when they showed British shows) and loved it ever since.
I understand what your sentence meant, but holy shit is it a train wreck.
Let me just......
"There has never been, and there will likely never be, a more exceptional trio of television presenters quite like these three."
....... but yes, you're right :)
@@KCM25NJL I like the holy trinity part, though.
Let me just .....😅
"There never has been, and there likely never will be"
Sorry it had to be done
I miss the old top gear 😢
True but you have to admit GT is much more fun and completely idiotic.
@@enyaliosval7157being away from network TV definitely helped.
Straight from the go top gear
Me too :(
a certified hood classic
I see what I did there 😂
"no no, its alright, I got this emergency light" proceeds to make it look like a horror. I feel like this is my family christmas every year, something goes up in flames
HAHAH, Christmas horror sounds nice, bring some pussy for the flames🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was never about the cars
top gear was our family "meet up at mums house and watch this together" show for years.
Even as grown men, me and all my brothers would turn up at mums on Sunday night to watch top gear together.
These are the memories which make things great...
top gear was more than just a show.
Very jealous of this. Was not on in the US until very late in the run for these three. Even then it was on only in syndication and did not run currently. Would have loved to have followed along with the development of the show with these guys.
This was actually amazing holy shit
And the newest one has just been canned, was never going to match the original.
James's reaction at 0:02 😂
Puts the teacup down
When all seems bleak, these three always manage to put a sincere and happy smile on my face. Thank you for the memories.
There will never be another show like top gear. Absolutely apex tv. I miss it so much. I still go back and binge it like once a year
These three just bounced off each other perfectly, unlike those who came after.
I see them as the modern day equivalent of The Three Stooges (Curly, Larry nad Mo) and just bloody hilarious together. 😂
only you need captions for these ones.
lol, all in the scripting, no different from the Big Bang theory or Friends
well May was bought onto the show becasue the otherperson wasn't good enough and even then the show nearly failed. people forget those early years and how they built up chemistry over time. You simply can't bring in replacements and expect it to work the same. Foolish of them to try mind you.
I Agree. The BBC tried to force it after they canned Clarkson. BUY+T it wasn't just these three that left the show. 90% of the production staff left with Jeremy. They lost everything and should have ended it there.
@@anotheruserism It wasn't that he wasn't good enough, it was he wouldn't play his part. He didn't want to look like an idiot so they sent him to the magazine and brought in James may (Who was hired for old Rop Ger and the show ended before he could start)
This was a well written piece
It wasn't scripted...
@@borris3768 oh, to be young and naive again.
How's it smelling up there?
Pretty good actors really.
@@borris3768You can't be serious 💀
You can tell that they were all genuinely enjoying themselves back in those days.
I want a job like that. Travel the world, drive fast cars around, insult each other and laugh a lot. And get paid handsomely for it! Where do I sign up?
This whole scene feels like a dream where nothing makes sense and you wake up with a confused look on your face.
😂😂👍
And to think Clarkson is now operating heavy machinery for a living, like tractors and combine harvesters, and he's still as reckless and immature as he was back then.
Absolutely fantastic.
The lines "What flavour is it" and "Pour some pussy on it" actually killed me
Top Gear was the greatest tv show ever conceived. Nothing compares to its brilliance.
"just forget the fire"
famous last words 😂💀
Fun fact, that drink is actually sold in the UK by Home Bargains. It's pretty cheap, it tastes of pomegranate and it's honestly quite nice.
So you're saying that you like pssy...
Christ, they're still making it? I shall have to go tomorrow and get some Home Bargains pussy.
0:03 Hammond licking his lips while thinking is hilarious
The shocked look on his face 😅
😢😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Yep, definitely one of the best (and I'm glad you left in the Pussy bit at the beginning for context). Defo up there with Hammond's rant about the Clarkson wax model
I was just thinking about the Madame Tussauds scene.
@@carltonleboss The bit that always gets me is when Hammond snaps his fingers and says, "No, don't put it there, put it in the Natural History Museum." Even Clarkson creased up at that
This is up there with the car train
nah Jezza driving a towerblock down the M3 still makes me LOL
@@philiprice7875spot on! May laughing his tits off while Jez goes over the bridges just kills me still to this day!
the best thing about that drink is how it's priced at 69p per can
These 3 will remain the greatest car journalist of all time, for decades they put a smile on another of people's faces.
These three are a gift to comedy and a gift to humanity😂
One of the greatest 3 minutes of television
The greatest Clip in all of Top Gear. James' expression after Clarkson asks is amazing, he just stops his drink and its just hilarious🤣🤣🤣🤣
234 subscribers, 214 THOUSAND views. Totally deserved. Wonderful clip action.
I had forgotten all about this episode like so many other classics from apex TG. I am therefore very happy to see it again. As others have noted, "what flavour is it?" must be one of the best lines of all time with impeccable comic timing from JM. The audience was amazing. Lots of sniggering and giggling but with a little bit of edge, some tangible gasps, and even the odd Edwardian swoon (one imagines). Could have gone anywhere. Letters to the BBC followed, naturally.
And then they pretended to destroy the entire lighting system and set the studio on fire. Pure gold.
This is why I miss the real Top Gear , never watched since these 3 went
I tried. You can't consciously try to recreate something like that. Have always felt really bad for the blokes they hired to try to replace the Trinity; they had an impossible job.
The hidden messages in TG and now GT are very clever
Hidden?!
gear top?
@@jackieburkhart3268grand tour
@@jackieburkhart3268 Grand Tour
@@jackieburkhart3268Gop Tear
Brilliant scene, also one hell of a health and safety nightmare, drones, candles & proper fire.
Greatest trio of T.V. hosts ever. The chemistry between them is perfect.
Watching this show as a kid was truly awesome. I miss those days.
That was perfect... the good times when I would eagerly wait for each new episode of the show ❤
Every other TV show: Fire? To dangerous…
TG: hang on - how hard can it be…?
CLASSIC LINE!!😂
Thank you for reminding me, brother.
"how hard can it be...."😂😂😂
"How hot can it be?"
You make something fly around under your own control, and I might as well be a 4yo boy again. Super fun to play with, and I'm sure that was pretty new at the time on top of it
That was the very first model of a "consumer" drone, they were brand new.
I have been waiting for this full version to be back on UA-cam. Thank you
I so miss this show. It was the height of television entertainment in its day.
‘Yes, I’m the man for the job!’ 😂
This mught be one of the best best scenes in all of tv lol
The Growler bit was great too
A word for how epic that coffee table was, the first time we all saw it...
00:58: Uh-oh, Hammond's face there, that says, "I think I can see where this is going!"
"I've put the christmas tree out with some pussy!" The way he said it is just gold!
The energy drink bit wasn't shown on BBC America, I saw this a couple years ago for the first time and I was in tears laughing.
I have never seen this clip before, but, I Love It!!!!
Top Gear (old, of course) has become my favorite show over the past few years of insanity!
There’ll never be another TV like this😫
Wtff I’ve never seen the last bit LMAOO James kills me everytime
RIP Top Gear. Killed by the BBC in 2015
RIP.
The greatest TV show of our generation, for boys like us.
In fairness, even with this 3 still onboard, it was on its last legs.
I was a young teenager excitedly looking forward to watching Top Gear during this era.
At 36 and every now and then as I come back to a clip or two I find they get younger as I grow older.
One day the time will come pretty soon where I watch these and they will look like children to me.
How quickly the time goes. One day you're a child. The next, you're passed your prime and the world isnt a playground anymore.
I either managed to miss that part everytime i rewatched Top Gear on the TV, or it got cutout 😅...i rewatched this Top Gear a boat load of times and I'd still to it
Top gear is the perfect balance of scripted and improvised comedy
Doesn't matter how many hosts they might try to get, they'll never be able to find a trio with the chemistry and wit of May , Hammond, and Clarkson.
The bast TV show of ALL time! I watch reruns all the time on Samsung TV +
Very simply the greatest television show in the history of television
The thing about this show that I always loved is that I can never tell what is scripted and what isn't 😂
Their bantering about and the "Star in the Reasonably Priced Car" were the best parts of the shows. They tried to do the same the first few years of the GT whilst attempting to not copy Top Gear, but it just didn't work.
They really caught lightning in a bottle putting these three together.
Got to love the OG Top Gear!
People can try and recreate the original Top Gear, but lightning will never strike again like it has with these three.
Not really a car show, not really the best drivers either, and you knew things were planned out as a bit but you can't help but love their chemistry.
You must be young.
Why?? People from old and young think this is the best tv show period of the past 2-3 decades. Are you a fake voting? Lol
What a brilliant scene. How have I never seen this until now 😆
Who does NOT miss this and these guys ? Timeless
Tony Hall and it’s utter incompetence to get rid of Jeremy Clarkson. I know there had to be repercussions of him belting that guy but Top Gear after and The Grand Tour never had this amount of brilliance
Totally in competition with the Smoking Pipes segment.
Nah more the Wizards Sleeve and Pork Sword segment.
There's an energy drink in NZ called Big Cock. It's got a picture of a Rooster on it.
This has to be the most elaborate joke that they have ever made and it is actually brilliant.
i actually went to order some after seeing this episode lol
What flavour is it?
@@Federal_President_of_GermanyLeave it 🤣
@@ybing 😂
I really miss these three guys guys in a studio
I never got this when it first came out being like 8 or so. I was missing out big time
The first twenty one seconds will go down in television history. (double entendre intentional)
Who remembers entertainment on TV?
To me, the scene is even more impressive knowing it was all scripted.
Masters of Motoring Mayhem that will be missed Massively. Thanks guys for 27 plus years of great motoring moments. You will be missed as you can't be replaced.
Watching this properly for the first time since it was all cut out when it was on TV... Tears of laughter
Please bring the holy trinity back 🙏🏻
Here will never be a programme like that again, Top Gear was Clarkson, May and Hammond
These trio is and will be the funniest trio ever. Everyone adds a perfect charm to the show.
It’s so chaotic, I love it
Ahh yes i remember buying this drink as a kid. It was funny to ask shopkeepers for it
"I've put the Christmas tree out with some pussy!"
Nobody, in the history of mankind has ever utter those words. I swear I can feel Clarkson's semi genius's power level.
What he really wanted to say was” I’ve put the Christmas tree out with some pussy juice”
This is why these guys are so great!
i hope that suggestion sticks in my head for eternity
Yeah but what flavor is it?
$300 for a drone back then is really impressive.
300 hundred quid. (British Pounds) Not 300 dollars. Back then was probably converted closer to 500 dollars.
Brilliant. I miss watching those guys...
That is why we love top gear
Which episode?
It was very annoying they cut this entire part out whenever it came back on TV or on the AirPlay webpage. I remember this part when it was shown the first time. I assume BBC must of have complaints from viewers so likely his this afterwards
Absolutely loved this show, a laugh a minute.