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Originally Posted by Calgarian
Canada doesn't need a Top Gear, we get British humour, unlike our neighbours to the south. That is possibly the best show on TV! the American version sucks, never seen the Ausi version...
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The Australian one is... interesting. Lots of emphasis on heavy-duty 4-wheel drive vehicles doing ridiculous things. "ROIT, T'DAI WE'R GEN' SEE IF THE TAYOTA LAND CRUISA CAN JUMP 56 CROCS AND SURVOIVE A POOL OF STINGRAYS". Still way better than the American one.
I kinda wish the British top gear would do a Canada special, like have a race from Windsor to Halifax or something like that. I'd like to see what Clarkson would think of mini-London and the Imperial Capital. Actually, speaking of which...
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Originally Posted by Mister F
Yeah it would be nice if CBC had someone like that. Someone like, oh let's say, Mary Walsh?
Okay, Mary Walsh may not be everybody's cup of tea, but to suggest that she and other CBC personalities are "put on a leash by the Politically Correct overseers" is just laughably wrong.
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Something tells me that nobody employed at the CBC would get away with one of the following Clarkson comments without antagonizing the Overly Sensitive Canadians' CBC PC Brigade:
- "“The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertable was Adolf Hitler”
- “The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite”
- “I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?”
- “I think the problem is that it’s French. It’s a surrendermonkey.” (Renault Clio)
- "The Hyundai has to die because it's made in Korea, a country where they eat dogs. I'm not joking; over there, a dog is not just for Christmas. There should be some left over for Boxing Day too."
- "The Morris Marina was the unpleasant log laid by British Leyland after communism had cracked, like an itchy red blanket, over the shop floor" (criticizing communism is always taboo at the CBC)
- "“This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that’s much to shout about. That’s like saying 'Ooh good I’ve got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.'" (Imagine if the same were said about the Dodge Caravan, a terrible car, but one that half of Canada unfortunately happens to drive-- never mind what syphilis carriers would think)
And the list of these goes on, and on, and on. Clarkson's leash is about a mile long, but the end results are good. He's funny, and if people have a problem they can deal with it or switch off the TV. Mary Walsh on the other hand... good at making Ford look like a moron (fits the CBC's agenda anyways), but does she have a long leash free from PC interference? Well...
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