Last week's was a brilliant opener - this week's was OK, just "normal" Top Gear if you know what I mean...
Motoring show Top Gear has been using Morse code to insult Strictly Come Dancing.
The programme's soundtrack was overdubbed with dot-dash beeps last week, tapping out the message: "Strictly Come Dancing is crap."
BBC Complaints
Complaint
We received complaints from viewers who were unhappy with comments made by Jeremy Clarkson that featured in Top Gear on Sunday 2nd November 2008.
The BBC's response
"Top Gear is BBC Two's long-running motoring show and its audience has clear expectations of Jeremy Clarkson's long-established and frequently provocative on-screen persona and exaggerated humour.
These references did not go out without the BBC giving them careful consideration and we did not intend to cause offence.
We took the view that their inclusion was justified as we were taking an urban myth about the world of lorry driving, and then exaggerating it to an absurd level. The comments should be seen within the context of the programme".
Andy Wilman
Executive Producer
May is scaring me at the moment. Where's the real May gone?
The Daily mail is moaning about TG again.
It's not they don't like Top Gear so much as they don't like the BBC, and want to protect "hard working people" from the "Filth" on there.The Daily mail is moaning about TG again.
Again?
I didn't know the Daily Fail doesn't like Top Gear, but it makes me like the show even more.![]()
The Daily mail is moaning about TG again.
Again?
I didn't know the Daily Fail doesn't like Top Gear, but it makes me like the show even more.![]()
Because then he's slagging off the French and the Germans, and the Daily Mail love that. It must cause them quite the (tiny) brainstorm to have two contradictory opinions of that sort: "Must... attack... BBC! BBC bad! But BBC... insulting... Johnny Foreigner! Insulting foreigners good! ERROR! ERROR!"Wonder what they will moan about next week.
Surprise they only pick on Clarkson James can be a naughty boy sometimes epically when he talks about the French or the VW beetle
Maybe this is TG plain to kill the DMBecause then he's slagging off the French and the Germans, and the Daily Mail love that. It must cause them quite the (tiny) brainstorm to have two contradictory opinions of that sort: "Must... attack... BBC! BBC bad! But BBC... insulting... Johnny Foreigner! Insulting foreigners good! ERROR! ERROR!"Wonder what they will moan about next week.
Surprise they only pick on Clarkson James can be a naughty boy sometimes epically when he talks about the French or the VW beetle
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