10 Insane TV Theories You Won't Believe
1. Top Gear Specials Destabilise Parts Of The World On Purpose
The politics of Top Gear (in the Clarkson, May, and Hammond days) were a little iffy, to say the least. Which is a very strange sentence to have to type about a television show which is, ostensibly, just about three blokes test-driving the latest cars and reviewing them for an hour on a Sunday evening. And yet those three blokes included Jeremy Clarkson, a man who can't stop from using racial slurs even when he tries "very hard", and the show became better known not for the reviews section but the "challenges" which more or less took over the show's entire running time. Because watching a few berks try and modify some totally unsafe road vehicles to sail across the sea to France is much more entertaining than knowing how fast the new Fiat sedan can go.
Having discovered that Top Gear is enormously popular in Syria Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May set off on a feature-length Middle East Special, where they attempted to retrace the Biblical journey of the Three Wise Men in second-hand two-seater convertibles that cost under £3,500. That meant they went from northern Iraq to a stable in Bethlehem, avoiding Iran for "political reasons". Later, they went on a trip through Ukraine in compact hatchbacks, which ended with a race to see who could run out of fuel faster on the road between the city of Kiev and the radiation contaminated Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Yes, there were plenty of jokes in bad taste. But look at the common denominator in both those specials: six months after they sped through Syria the country collapsed into Civil War, as people rose up against President Bashar al-Assad's violent and repressive government. Not long after visiting Ukraine, all that nasty business with Russia started kicking off. They even had a little jaunt to Egypt around the time of the Arab Spring.
What if, asks another Redditor (their political views tend to align pretty well with Clarkson's), the show is nothing more than a front for the Brits to destabilise parts of the world? It certainly seems to be working. But also, we don't want to live in a world where Jeremy Clarkson has that much control over significant events. That's... that's terrifying.
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