[During the opening sequence.]
Tonight: I find a bicycle in a river; James annoys a dog; and Richard jumps over a dyke!
“July 3rd, 2011” · Season 17, Episode 2
In this episode: Jeremy Clarkson (5), Richard Hammond (1), James May (1)
This is a place of screaming engines and tire smoke. It is a cathedral to the god of thunder and the mistress of power--the natural home then--for James May.
[On the Stig]
Some say that he can't eat mashed potato, for religious reasons. And that he recently received 47,000 tickets, Olympic tickets, all of them... for the final of the women's wrestling. All we know is, he's called The Stig!
But -- but I think there is a problem with this car... because they've called it... The Growler.
[laughter from the audience]
Yeah. Now... now, we... we... we Googled growler [laughter] and we were quite surprised and a bit shocked by what it turns out to mean.
And do you know, Richard, I've forgotten what it is. What does it mean? Can you tell the ladies and gentlemen?
Well, you know those... big welcome mats you might see on a girl in the '70s? [laughter]
That's what it is!
Yeah.
Why would you name your car after that?
Honestly, James, I don't think they knew. I think they're sitting in Zurich, or wherever they are. This is the first time they've realised that growler means that in England. And they'll be sitting going, "Gott in Himmel! Wolfgang, ve have accidentally named ze car after ein Fraugarten!"
[laughter from Richard and the audience]
Look, the car, the Growler... is it based on an XK? Has it got four seats?
No, you can't get in the back.
[brief pause then laughter from Richard and the audience applauses]
Everybody's turned over to Countryfile.
What? What?!
I'm not, uh, I'm not sure they're going to sell very many of those.
No, neither do I. There's another reason why. It costs £670,000.
Ouch!
Yeah. There probably will be a trimmed-down version later, but I bet you... [laughter] just for the Brazilian market.
I'm sorry. It's called a Growler.
There's a bloke at some point who is going to say, "I'm just going outside to wax the Growler."
[laughter from Jeremy, Richard and the audience]
Wax the Growler.
Oh, you dirty bugger!
[trying to say he can't get out of the car in Italian to 2 service station workers]
[subtitle: My prawns don't function]
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