Top Gear and the 2012 Olympics

[Phineas999]

While watching the Olympics today I got to wondering about the 2012 London Games. Will they do another Olympics special? Who, if any of the presenter's do you think will be involved in the Torch Relay?

I'm kind of envisioning the following:

All 4 of the boys are involved. Stig (in trademark helmet) starts for the foursome with a blistering time in his leg. Powersliding around the bends and catching James off guard by arriving 2 minutes early.

After James takes the torch, 5 minutes is spent making sure all the dust is off the Torch using his little brush from the Porsche. He surprises everyone by only getting lost once, though he does stop to let an OAP cross the street (Christian running you see) and successfully hands off to the Hamster.

Hamster starts out great, hair meticulously styled and whitened teeth glistening in the sun. Unfortunately, on his last leg, he hits 2.88mph, loses a trainer, and careens into the crowd. Due to his rather small stature however, he simply bounces off a spectator and resumes running to make the pass to Jezza.

Jezza takes the torch and stops dead in his tracks. From somewhere inside his jacket he pulls out a huge propane gas container and connects it to the torch. Having seen what is going on and being avid Top Gear fans, the crowd knows what's about to happen and wisely pulls back. After the enormous cloud of black smoke dissapates from the ensuing explosion. we see a blackened and burnt Jezza standing alone in the street and we hear those now famous words....


"That's not gone well....."

[ahpadt]

Uhm, no.

[diti]

Hysterical LOL!

That reminds me, the guys are switching on Blackpool Illuminations next Friday. I live about 4 miles away. Would it be safer if I temporarily moved to another county? (local paper reports possible chases down the Promenade between Jezza and the Red Arrows, racing supercars down the Prom, etc). It'll be impossible to get anywhere near, and anyway, I'm going to MPH at the NEC in November - I can wait!

[Khaki]

Well the only reason the Winter Olympics episode worked was because it was entirely devoted to running cars around on ice and snow at high speed, something that is not normally done everyday.

The problem with doing a regular Olympics Special would mean running cars at high speeds on dry roads. What would they do for the normal Olympics that they haven't done before? They've already done Car Football. Twice. Long jump perhaps? Well, they've jumped numerous cars off ramps already.

Swimming? Amphibious cars took car of that.

Hell, they even did Archery with the Car Launcher.

No point even mentioning anything that involves running, like the 100m sprints or Marathon.

No, I think an Olympics episode would be no different to a regular episode. Besides, how sick do people get of "Olympics specials" of everything else on TV?

[Richmondgal]

I like your thinking, but all the stuff that relates to sport has already been done in past seasons.

[Aiike]

That would be awseome. But I think the boys would haqve a bit of a laugh doing it hence upsetting alot of people. But the idea of Jezza doing a burnout to light the tourch in front of the world would be awesome. (to me anyway)

[tone76]

Given that we all concur that a 2012 TG Olympic special would be kinda pointless, let's talk about more important stuff ... like the logo for the 2012 Games. I know, it's been out for over a year, but it still cracks me up. Mainly because of all the speculation on the 'tubes about how much it looks like Lisa Simpson performing a certain act that someone of Lisa Simpson's age shouldn't even know about. It's very wrong.



/hotlinked for your pleasure

[Chupacabras]

Originally Posted by Khaki

Long jump perhaps? Well, they've jumped numerous cars off ramps already.

That and the Olympic car long jump section they did...

[Jimmeh]

Mainly because of all the speculation on the 'tubes about how much it looks like Lisa Simpson performing a certain act that someone of Lisa Simpson's age shouldn't even know about. It's very wrong.

There was a .gif floating around where it looks like the symbol came from a swastika(sp?)

[Crazyjeeper]

Originally Posted by tone76

Given that we all concur that a 2012 TG Olympic special would be kinda pointless, let's talk about more important stuff ... like the logo for the 2012 Games. I know, it's been out for over a year, but it still cracks me up. Mainly because of all the speculation on the 'tubes about how much it looks like Lisa Simpson performing a certain act that someone of Lisa Simpson's age shouldn't even know about. It's very wrong.



/hotlinked for your pleasure

That reminded me of this

[ralf3001]

is it possible for the stig to take part in the torch relay

[klankymen]

Originally Posted by Khaki

Long jump perhaps? Well, they've jumped numerous cars off ramps already.

They've actually done long jump before, with 5 different nation cars....

But how about high jump? Build a big quarterpipe, and drive a car up it as fast as you can, and see how far up in the air it goes....
now THATS something I'd like to see!

[PaperBiro]

Originally Posted by ralf3001

is it possible for the stig to take part in the torch relay

Of course not, he's Jamaican.

[Ironlord]

Originally Posted by tone76

...Mainly because of all the speculation on the 'tubes about how much it looks like Lisa Simpson performing a certain act that someone of Lisa Simpson's age shouldn't even know about.

Not that Lisa Simpson would ever engage in said act, as it involves a mouthful of animal products...

[theboyG]

Macy Gray not Lisa Simpson

[AutoAero]

I think I could confidently come up with a better logo.

[captain_70s]

I lol'd at the Hammond falling after loosing a trainer, very clever!
And Jezza blowing himself up, made me laugh a bit too.