The Grand Tour (Vol. 2)

[redrabbit]

Really good fun.

And to stoke the fire... if people are still comparing TGT with current TG, they're comparing Curb Your Enthusiasm with Mrs Brown's Boys. There's no comparison.

[Smollet]

Murghee said:

Jezza may and hammon look so different it took me 10mins to adjust to them

They now have patina

[chrispmartha]

redrabbit said:

Really good fun.

And to stoke the fire... if people are still comparing TGT with current TG, they're comparing Curb Your Enthusiasm with Mrs Brown's Boys. There's no comparison.

Nah to be honest it’s more like comparing Miranda with Mrs Brown’s Boys.

Both TGT and TG are just base humour at their core, lets be honest neither are high brow viewing ;-)

[redrabbit]

chrispmartha said:

Nah to be honest it’s more like comparing Miranda with Mrs Brown’s Boys.

Both TGT and TG are just base humour at their core, lets be honest neither are high brow viewing ;-)

Fair call. My view is, One show is easy to watch made by craftsmen; the other Is a car crash made by bodgers. Paddy and Freddie are reading a script, they might as well be fronting any Saturday night ttfest. CMH are in the groove, easy in their skin, however contrived the setup.

[waynecyclist]

Tried to watch earlier and all I am getting is the trailer on a loop, all signed up with prime.

Anyone get any ideas

[twohoursfromlondon]

waynecyclist said:

Tried to watch earlier and all I am getting is the trailer on a loop, all signed up with prime.

Anyone get any ideas

Do you need to find the actual episode?

S4 E4.

[TTmonkey]

Really enjoyed it.



Anyone whinging about old cars getting trashed should probably take them selves down a scrap yard and save some old crap that no one wants to spend heaps of time and money saving.

[Doofus]

It was all a bit lazy, IMO.

And there were a couple of shots which were obviously setups suggesting not all the spontaneity was actually spontaneous.

[Beyond Rational]

Absolutely top class children's television. They are well aware their audience is the bottom of the barrel and they are not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get down there.

[OldGermanHeaps]

They missed a trick at the end, they should have used a manitou cherrypicker instead of a genie.
On a tangent, the manitou machines are a real triumph of french engineering, a million times nicer to operate than the competition, they flatter even ham fisted operators.

[paulw123]

Few smiles in the first half, second half was dire

[Pistom]

Great to see that tatty old Matra Murena. It seemed odd not to mention the Alpine A110/GTA/A610 which whilst being great French cars aren't bonkers enough to warrant including.

Also no mention of Bugatti unless I missed it.

[Doofus]

Pistom said:

Great to see that tatty old Matra Murena. It seemed odd not to mention the Alpine A110/GTA/A610 which whilst being great French cars aren't bonkers enough to warrant including.

Also no mention of Bugatti unless I missed it.

There are many more French cars than that.

It wasn't a documentary.

[aterribleusername]

paulw123 said:

Few smiles in the first half, second half was dire

Same thoughts for me. Could have gone somewhere interesting and funny but just played to the age-old stuff that I'm rather tired of.

As an aside, when Hammond was bump-parking I was just behind the cameras taking my mum's dog for a walk. As they were filming it said dog decided to have a very large and very smelly poo (for his size, he's a Shih Tzu/Bichon Frise cross), enough to make one of the crew say that he hoped it wasn't a comment!

[OldGermanHeaps]

The bump parking brought back memories of visiting my late parisien uncle, he would do exacly that, just nudge other cars until the space was just big enough to fit his battered fiat panda.
In paris in the 90s it was a thing to nudge someone in traffic if you fancied them and wanted to try and get their number and ask them out. We were joking with him thats why his car had hundreds of dents.
Amazing how many memories thats bringing back now, just looking at rue de la pompe on street view to try to remember where his apartment was.

[waynecyclist]

Got it to work, sorry but that was crap.

Has to be one of the worst episods they have done.

[Evercross]

Seems to be a very polarising episode.

Guess you need to have at least some of the same worldly experience as the presenters to get it.

Reminds me of the India special when they climbed to the border with China and had to camp in the foothills of the Himalayas and May cracked a joke about doing a Mediterranean special where they have to choose a nice car and stay in a nice hotel in France, but Hammond buys a Renault Four and books into a Formule Une.

How many people watching would have understood the reference? (I did, and laughed appropriately...).

[skwdenyer]

Beyond Rational said:

Absolutely top class children's television. They are well aware their audience is the bottom of the barrel and they are not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get down there.

I've been happy enough to go along with TGT. My wife and I even went to the filming of one series 2 episode in the tent.

We both thought this one poor. Our son - aged 15 - was in fits, however, suggesting they've found a level with teenage humour. Which is a shame, as they're better than that.

Clarkson is a good story teller. The problem with this episode (as with Lochdown) was there was no story to tell. And it showed. All the content could have been condensed into half the time, edited properly to get the best bits, leaving time for more. In the TG days, this would have been 30 minutes at most for all the same stuff.

I don't mind CHM; they can still deliver. I just think they're getting too old to understand pacing, and need younger producers to whip them into shape.

[FiF]

Evercross said:

Seems to be a very polarising episode.

Guess you need to have at least some of the same worldly experience as the presenters to get it.

Reminds me of the India special when they climbed to the border with China and had to camp in the foothills of the Himalayas and May cracked a joke about doing a Mediterranean special where they have to choose a nice car and stay in a nice hotel in France, but Hammond buys a Renault Four and books into a Formule Une.

How many people watching would have understood the reference? (I did, and laughed appropriately...).

That's a very fair comment I reckon. If you've experienced and seen first hand the French attitudes to many things, especially cars and motoring over the years, you immediately recognise the digs and jokes. Possible to come up with anecdotes of odd behaviour witnessed that resulted in a Gallic shrug all round when in UK it would have started a war. At that point you either go along with the TGT fun poking or not.

[anonymous-user]

I thought that was great,

A proper return to form, had me laughing most of the way through.