Top Gear

Top Gear is my favorite TV Show now, of course I know it only broadcasts in the BBC in the UK, but it still is an amazing show. This program has everything you want in one show. For example, another show that I enjoy watching, which appeals to me in different way is G4, the game network full of nonsense Japanese-made human obstacle games. You're probably asking, how the hell does this fit in with Top Gear, a purely car show. Well! Top Gear, while it does have car reviews and car news every episode, it also has really funny and humorous challenges given to the hosts Jeremy, Richard, and James every other or even every episode in which they are supposed to race some kind of clock or prove who is the best at doing something. In one episode titled "Man with the Van", each of the hosts were to get a van that they could buy with limited money and run it through a number of obstacles, a drag race, fastest loading the car, fastest to change the door, and of course fastest around the Top Gear track. It was SOOO funny I couldn't stop laughing, and THAT is what makes a show amazing. 5th Gear, another car review show in the UK just doesn't cut it. That show is bland, boring, and although they also have the British accents, they just don't do anything that makes you want to continue watching car review after car review everyday. I also failed to mention how Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson has a fixation with EXTREMELY fast car, so whenever the "boss" or the "directors" tell them to tailor one of their episodes to the increase in gas prices and the need for caution of Greenhouse gases, they decide to do a race of 5 supercars to see which one is the most economical, which turned out to be the Audi R8. YEAH AUDI!! Woot!

Not only that, you find news things out about the show the other day. I always though the co-host Richard Hammond was just a really short person, shorter than me even! But not only until recently did I discover that his co-hosts Clarkson and May were 6+, Clarkson is 6'5''! Haha, that's probably why he always complains about room to sit everytime he does a car review.

Anyway, this show has became my latest fixation since I can't watch normal TV that's not in Chinese. I do admit that I watch TV sometimes, but instead of enjoying and not thinking like I do when I'm at home, I end up exerting a lot more mental energy trying to translate what they are saying and learn the words that I don't know yet. So, naturally I've turned to Youku (because Youtube sucks) and watching episode by episode, uninterrupted and loading within seconds. Tammy bought me a magazine from the post office the other day, China's Top Gear. Haha. It's pretty cool, I think I might even use one of the articles about the car to do a review for my class. I hope that she allows it, but you guys already know about what kind of psycho my Jingdu teacher is. This assignment will count as my baokan or zuowen assignment, which NO OTHER CLASS HAS TO DO, and I thought I escaped it when I left my Baokan class. Nooooo sir. At least I found other means to satisfy her crazy demands without being to shut down by the idea.

You guys should all look into watching Top Gear (UK Version! because I don't know about the other ones) if you have the time, it's really funny and interesting. Even if you don't have a thing for cars, it will make you interested in whatever they are talking about. It's a great program and my interest for it grew in China! Nuff said.

Oooh, also they do tests with motorcycle sometimes, I think it's happened a couple times to test the speed of motorcycles vs supercars around test tracks (including turns :) haha).