Top Gear Hoax

Top Gear - any petrol head's favorite show. It's a show where the boys drive expensive cars with massive engines, boring cars with little engines, and on one occasion, some bikes.

This is all great. Sometimes though, you need a break. And that's what the producers of Top Gear decided that the presenters needed. They were sent to South Vietnam, given 15 million Dong, which amounts to about $1,000, and were told to buy something that would get them from the South to the North.

On the way, they bought each other some presents that were apparently not very well suited for the bikes. In James' world, it was a classic statue of a ballet scene. It was a heavy thing, and was meant to slow him down even more.

But, there was an interesting thing I found when I played it just now that I noticed that I didn't notice before. During the test, to be licensed to enter North Vietnam, they had to do a driving test, and Jeremy, thinking that he couldn't pass it because of his bike, decided to have a go in James' bike.

After that, he gets off the bike and just drops it, like he normally would. There was something I spotted though. When he dropped it, the statue was strapped. This gave me an idea - why don't I rewind and see if it was strapped to the bike during the test, and funny enough, it wasn't.

This is a bit of a problem, because while the show is scripted, is it too scripted? Was it scripted so that the statue would be strapped to the bike when Jeremy puts it down, and inevitably break? Was it scripted that James was so cross? Was the "paint-Richard's-bike" scene scripted as well?

I knew that Top Gear scripted the show when they filmed it from the studio every week while the show is live, but unfortunately, it's also scripted in their big films, when the show is off the air, and they take a few months to make a new program. That means everything is sort of planned.

I can see that it's not as scripted as WWE and similar shows, not absolutely everything is just professionally acted out. How do I know? Well, simply, the three Top Gear presenters cannot act! Well, not to such an extent. They can be funny, and they are. They can drive, well two of them can, and they sure know their cars. Thing is, the BBC is doing things to make it rather interesting, but they don't always do a great job hiding it.