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'''Clarkson:''' ..yeah, we used nitrous. }}

* [["No. Just... No" Reaction]]: Word for word from Clarkson when May claims his car/dinghy 2.0 can do twenty knots.

** He's recently received another nickname because of this; Captain Sense-of-Direction.

* [[Noble Bigot]]: Clarkson in particular has made many homophobic and racial remarks on the show, he's also a patron for the charity Help For Heroes.

:And from Season 12:

{{quote|'''May''': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}_wxn2cTlW3I And now the news.] And it's great news ladies and gentlemen, it's news to warm the hearts of nations. Jeremy Clarkson has lost his voice! [''Audience cheers and applauds'']}}

* [[Sobriquet]]: "All we know is, he's called The Stig."

* [[Something That Begins With Boring]]: In the Polar Special. And again in the "Economy Run" episode.

* [[Take Our Word for It]]: We don't see what Clarkson has found on the internet each week, only the response from the studio audience. At one point Jeremy joked that there's more to the internet than "Abi Titmuss's 'Lady Garden'" and those who have attended filming have confirmed that the unseen screen shows "[[The Internet Is for Porn|particularly nasty porn]]".

* [[Take Over the World]]: Top Gear Live World Tour in 2008 started off with the three presenters [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/02/bbc.television driving over Tower Bridge in a tank].

** After Clarkson and Hammond have been discussing a campaign by the author Bill Bryson against needless roadside signs and clutter, and generally agreeing with the sentiment behind it, May launches into this fabulous [[Character Filibuster|rant]]:

{{quote|'''May''': [http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2008/james-may-american-rant-p1.php I think that man is a danger, frankly]. If there is one thing I can't stand it's beardy, sanctimonious, patronising Americans in tartan trousers coming to England and trying to persuade us to turn into a museum. He wants the East End for the cheeky Cockney chaps pushing wheelbarrows full of eels and he wants northernists to be industrialists with big braces and blokes dying of consumption -- Good morning Bill, I've got the consumption, it's tradition alright. I say Bill, if you're watching -- OK, now you won't be watching because we're not talking about steam engines or longboats or bear-baiting -- but IF you've happened to tune in by mistake: We're not interested in your views of stupid Americans who come over here with their big video cameras saying Gee, I love your history, it's just so old. SOD OFF!}}

** In another episode he fitted a large turbocharger to his car's engine for an endurance race, making it the fastest car there but only able to do one lap at a time before the engine overheated.

** Even Hammond got in on the act during ''Top Gear Ground Force'', creating a barbecue out of a jet-engine, complete with a turbo-powered skewer for the chicken. It was a side-splitting [[Epic Fail|epic failure]].

* [[Time Compression Montage]]: In episodes featuring long road trips or extensive work on a car. Sometimes spoofed by showing a series of clips that suggests the work of hours and then revealing that only a minute or two have passed.

** In series 18's 2nd episode, Richard Hammond was in America for NASCAR. With NASCAR races taking hundreds of laps and several hours long, a montage ensued after the race started, featuring various scenes including Hammond bringing tires to the pit stop. All with [[Team America: World Police|an appropriate "montage" song]].

{{quote|'''May''': I'm not sure I really understand "bling," but I think this must be it. I mean, it's got 24-inch rims and blacked-out glass. It's.. wicked.

[''at the end of the review'']

{{quote|'''Adam Ferrara:''' We could explain what ''Top Gear'' is, or you could watch this <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Beyond the Impossible|awesome]] [[Montage]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>.}}

** The opening narration explained what ''Top Gear'' [[Take That|is not]]: no dancing, no makeovers, no cooking ...

 

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