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Top Gear · Season 11, Episode 1

“June 22nd, 2008” quotes from Top Gear

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“June 22nd, 2008” · Season 11, Episode 1

In this episode: Jeremy Clarkson (25), James May (14), Richard Hammond (12)

[During Top Gear Stuntman's first record attempt to jump cars in reverse]

If you've just tuned in, you may be thinking, 'Oh no, he's facing the wrong way!'. But no, he is about to enter the history books...in reverse.

[Jeremy and James laughing at Richard Hammond's Suzuki Vitara]

Officer Barbie has arrived!

[voiceover] It really was time for a challenge.

We don't yet know what we've gotta do.

Well if it's go to Brighton and pose undercover in gay clubs you're right there already.

[James and Jeremy laugh]

...yeah.

We've got a challenge here, boys.

Please don't let it have the word "Brighton" in it...

[Showing the slogan painted on his Lexus Police Car]

Catching crims and locking them up...in your community.

[upon Jeremy's arrival with his car's Italian-inspired police livery]

Oh, good God. The Carabinieri have arrived.

(N.B. Jeremy's car's paint scheme was actually based on that of the Italian State Police, not the Carabinieri - although real Polizia di Stato cars presumably don't say "IT'S THE FILTH" in reversed letters, "ECNALUBMA"-style, on the bonnets.)

All you're going to do with this [indicates Jeremy's rear-wheel spike attachments] is generate headlines: "POLICE CHOP MORE PEOPLE'S FEET OFF".

[During the Police Car challenge, on sirens]

[voiceover] James then demonstrated his siren... [James' Lexus plays "Camptown Races" in a cheesy electronic voice]...which he'd got from an ice-cream van.

They're gonna be really impressed with that on an American police video.

No, they stop for an ice-cream. And then they're nicked.

May I? [voiceover] Mine was much more high-tech. [Shows Clarkson pressing button on child's sound toy, the car moos] Oh, wait, no, that's the cow.

[upon Richard's arrival]

The Pet Cop Boys are here. No, wait. [reads Richard's car-door graphic] The Police.

Yeah, well, the police are coming... [indicates door] "The Police".

De do do do, de da da da.

[During the Police Car challenge, about Hammond's 'stinger']

[voiceover] It was unmistakably a doormat with some nails in it.

[[as the Stig begins a lap in a standard-issue police Astra]

He's proceeding! In a westerly direction.

So we're now watching James, in a hot pursuit situation?

Yeah. How long have you got before you have to go home tonight?

[During the 'Arrest the Stig' part of the Police Car challenge, after May's paint attempt]

[voiceover] Sadly there was one invention James hadn't considered.

[shows the Stig using his windscreen wipers to clear the paint off]

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