10 Things BBC Wants You To Forget About Jeremy Clarkson

5. Top Gear's Mexican Remarks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSyjKmiqoKk Like all the best groups of playground bullies, the creative spark of inappropriate banter always fires best when it's being bounced around a group, and it's on the Top Gear sofa that the show's three presenters really come into their own. During an alleged review of a Mexican car, the conversation instead merely descended into childish stereotypes about country's native population. Seeing an opportunity to make the bigger kids laugh, Richard Hammond joked that Mexican cars reflected national characteristics, saying they were "just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat". James May jumped straight in by describing Mexican food as "like sick with cheese on it", before Clarkson sensibly predicted that the show wouldn't get any complaints because "at the Mexican embassy, the ambassador is going to be sitting there with a remote control like this . They won't complain, it's fine." Except they did, and later that week the BBC was forced to apologise again.