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** Come for the hijinks, stay for the [[Cool Car|cars]].

** Come for the "get your friend to shut the hell up", stay for the "because he's right".

* [[Dude Not Funny]]: "Yes! We've made it through Vietnam, south to north! We've proven to the Americans it could be done!"

* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: "Yes! We've made it through Vietnam, south to north! We've proven to the Americans it could be done!"

** The jokes they made about the Mexican supercar they tested earned this reaction, which is why that segment never aired in the US.

** Even worse off, their dissing (and subsequent on-screen wrecking) of the [[Useful Notes/Malaysia|Malaysian]] made Perodua Kancil car was probably the true reason the BBC Entertainment channel (which airs Top Gear in Asia) is no longer available from Pay TV providers in the country. In other words, Clarkson's action cost Malaysian ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' fans their access to the show! <ref>And oh, Perodua cars are designed under commission by Daihatsu Japan</ref>.

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* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: The Stig.

* [[Estrogen Brigade]]: ''Top Gear'' has a remarkably solid female fanbase for a show oriented around manly pursuits. The trap is probably [[Mr. Fanservice|baited with hamster]], but Clarkson, May, and even The Stig have their devotees.<br /><br />This is made fun of on the show frequently: all three have been featured in this context in magazines and suchforth, but only Hammond tends to appear on lists of "hottest male celebrities" (once in a gay magazine, technically making him testosterone bait as well). That said, all three main presenters have won the dubious title of ''Heat'' magazine's "Number One Weird Crush" in [http://www.heatworld.com/Fun-Stuff/2009/09/Weird-Crush-2009--we-want-YOUR-votes/ consecutive years], and there was a campaign for The Stig to win it in 2009 -- though sadly he only managed third place.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: The presenters' [[In Series Nickname|In Series Nicknames]] (Jezza, Hamster, and Captain Slow) have been taken up by the fanbase. The presenters collectively are sometimes called the Top Gear Three, or TG3 for short.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: The presenters' [[In-Series Nickname|In Series Nicknames]] (Jezza, Hamster, and Captain Slow) have been taken up by the fanbase. The presenters collectively are sometimes called the Top Gear Three, or TG3 for short.

** Also "White Stig," distinguished from the former "Black Stig" by the white color of his racing suit.

** [[Nico Nico Douga]] users tend to tag videos featuring [[Adorkable|May]] with "J｀・ω・)".

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* [[Hate Dumb]] / [[Misplaced Nationalism]]: The [[Top Gear US (TV)|American]] and Australian versions have gotten hate mainly because "It's not the British version." A lot of hate for the American version comes from [[Its the Same So It Sucks|trying to be just like the British version]]. Yet ironically, they want it to be like the British version.

** Noting the [[Acceptable Targets]] example, the hosts themselves tend to invoke some [[Misplaced Nationalism]] at times.

** [[Fan Hater]]: The complaints over the various controversies and the [[Stop Having Fun Guys]] crowd are bad enough, but when it stoops down to bashing people's taste in comedy, what follows usually makes the presenters' squabbling look like sensible debate.

** [[Fan Hater]]: The complaints over the various controversies and the [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]] crowd are bad enough, but when it stoops down to bashing people's taste in comedy, what follows usually makes the presenters' squabbling look like sensible debate.

* [[Hilarity Ensues]]: The predictable result of just about every task which the producers give to the presenters in any given episode.

{{quote| '''Clarkson''': How hard can it be?<br />

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* [[Squick]]: Several of the challenges have involved eating dubious items, like roadkill or snake.

** When the guys had forensic tests done on their cars. Only one of them was able to rest easy- the others decided to wear gas masks and biohazard suits.

* [[Stop Having Fun Guys]]: A somewhat common complaint, particularly from fans of the show's 1978-2001 incarnation, is that modern-day ''Top Gear'' spends too much time on entertainment and not enough on being informative. The hosts quite often acknowledge lampshade this fact, but it only seems to make the detractors angrier.

* [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]]: A somewhat common complaint, particularly from fans of the show's 1978-2001 incarnation, is that modern-day ''Top Gear'' spends too much time on entertainment and not enough on being informative. The hosts quite often acknowledge lampshade this fact, but it only seems to make the detractors angrier.

** Pretty much anyone else who doesn't like Top Gear derides it as a mid-life crisis show for vaguely xenophobic manchildren who really need to quit messing about and grow up.

* [[Tear Jerker]]: Surprisingly more than a few times, usually when the one of the trie (or all of them) lament on the passing of some automotive great.