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45_31 | a flatbed truck, is labeled with the factual title, "Top Ground Gear Force". This minor detail is |
45_32 | not explained throughout the show and may be a simple mistake or an intentional joke. In his book, |
45_33 | And on That Bombshell, Richard Porter (Top Gears script editor) explained that the original name |
45_34 | was in fact "Top Garden Gear Ground Force" but the word "garden" was removed since it is not found |
45_35 | in either show's title. |
45_36 | Synopsis |
45_37 | The Top Gear team of Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond decided, for Sport Relief, to |
45_38 | impersonate and belittle the show Ground Force, and provide a garden makeover to the garden of one |
45_39 | of Britain's sporting legends, namely Steve Redgrave. Helping them was a team of "Foreign |
45_40 | Nationals", and on hand to provide advice on Redgrave's tastes was his wife, Ann Redgrave, who was |
45_41 | erroneously addressed and referred to as "Lady Ann" rather than the proper "Lady Redgrave". |
45_42 | As the team's only 'country bumpkin', Hammond decided to designate himself as the team leader. |
45_43 | However, his plan to build a 'river of gravel' failed to impress Clarkson and May, who wanted to |
45_44 | include a water feature and a shed, respectively. Clarkson also noted that Hammond's river of |
45_45 | gravel would pass through one of Redgrave's flowerbeds, which would be particularly difficult to |
45_46 | remove. Hammond demonstrates that it is easy to simply dig up each flower with a trowel, Clarkson |
45_47 | declares it would take too long, and instead reveals his unique method for removing the flowers |
45_48 | using a shotgun. Unimpressed, Hammond sends Clarkson and May to a Garden Centre to pick up |
45_49 | supplies. Deciding to go ahead with his plans to create a 'river of gravel', Hammond uses a small |
45_50 | Caterpillar digger to dig a trench in the garden. Meanwhile, Clarkson and May arrive back with |
45_51 | their desired equipment, only to destroy the push bike of one of Redgrave's children as they pull |
45_52 | into his drive. As May starts work on his shed, Clarkson enlists the help of the Poles to start |
45_53 | work on his greenhouse. Meanwhile, unable to control his digger, Hammond crashes it into the |
45_54 | trench, leaving it immobile. In an attempt to rectify the situation, he hires a much larger digger |
45_55 | to pull the smaller one out of the hole, but due to the digger being extremely heavy, it results in |
45_56 | him leaving numerous caterpillar track marks all over the remainder of the garden lawn. Meanwhile, |
45_57 | May has just completed work on his shed. |
45_58 | Hammond decides to leave both Caterpillars, and instead moves on to his next project - building a |
45_59 | round-the-tree seat to be placed at the end of his 'river of gravel'. However, Clarkson quickly |
45_60 | points out that despite the seat being complete, Hammond has no way of placing it around the tree, |
45_61 | as it has been constructed as a sole piece. Clarkson offers to help Hammond by attempting to prune |
45_62 | the tree with his shotgun, allowing the seat to be lifted and then dropped from the top of the |
45_63 | tree. However, his gun misfires, and instead blasts a massive hole through the side of May's shed. |
45_64 | Meanwhile, Hammond hires a 14-ton crane to lift his seat high enough to slip it over the tree. |
45_65 | However, the crane is too heavy, and instead sinks into the lawn, leaving massive holes in it. |
45_66 | However, he finds that the crane itself is long enough to still do the job, but his inexperience |
45_67 | means that instead of lifting the seat, he moves it sideways, crashing it into and destroying May's |
45_68 | shed. May is extremely angry, but Clarkson appears amused by the situation. May starts upon |
45_69 | rebuilding the shed, and with the help of the Poles, the shed is quickly reinstated. He begins by |
45_70 | labeling where each of the tools in the shed should go, alphabetically ordering the books on the |
45_71 | bookshelf, and placing up pictures that he believes will remind Redgrave of his glory days. |
45_72 | Meanwhile, Clarkson has the tricky job of removing a rockery in order to build his water feature. |
45_73 | He decides to use a homemade bomb to complete the job quickly. The bomb is successful, destroying |
45_74 | the rockery in one clean sweep - but the blast is so powerful that the energy manages to blow all |
45_75 | of the windows and one of the walls out of May's rebuilt shed, leaving him angrier than ever. May |
45_76 | subsequently emerges from the shed and asks Clarkson what time the programme will air. After being |
45_77 | informed it was going to air after the watershed, he exclaims at Clarkson, 'you're a fuc-'; at |
45_78 | which point, the episode cuts to the next scene. |
45_79 | With Hammond at a loose end after the failure of both his 'river of gravel' and his tree seat, he |
45_80 | begins to wander aimlessly. Meanwhile, Clarkson has ordered some cement to pave over the parts of |
45_81 | the lawn which were destroyed by Hammond's giant digger and 14-ton crane. However, despite his |
45_82 | estimations, he orders too little, and only a small portion of the lawn is covered. At this point, |
45_83 | The Salvation Army brass band arrive to provide entertainment for the team, but their appearance is |
45_84 | cut short when Hammond gets stuck in Clarkson's undried cement, and their musical accompaniment |
45_85 | drives Clarkson insane, leading him to bend one of their trombones in half and ask them to leave. |
45_86 | With Hammond having ruined Clarkson's cement by leaving footprints in it, Clarkson moves on to his |
45_87 | next project - erecting some rugby posts, despite being told that none of Redgrave's family plays |
45_88 | rugby. With May having successfully rebuilt his shed again, it's not long before disaster strikes |
45_89 | again when Clarkson and the Poles drop the rugby posts, and they fall directly on May's shed, |
45_90 | destroying part of the roof and one of the side walls. By this point, May is fuming, and he screams |
45_91 | at Clarkson to apologize while pointing a two-by-four at him. After being successfully rescued from |
45_92 | the cement, Hammond has moved on to his last project, a turbo-charged barbecue system, which allows |
45_93 | the user to cook varieties of meat in under five minutes, using a jet engine to rotate the meat and |
45_94 | cook it. Clarkson and May are impressed until the blades begin to rotate too fast, and the chicken |
45_95 | is flung off the rotisserie. May and Clarkson are amused by the situation, as all of Hammond's |
45_96 | projects so far - the tree seat, river of gravel and barbecue - have all failed, while both May's |
45_97 | shed, after being resurrected three times, and Clarkson's greenhouse, have both been successful. |
45_98 | However, May's amusement is short-lived when the fire from the barbecue burns out of control and |
45_99 | manages to set fire to his once again newly rebuilt shed. Fuming, he attempts to put the fire out |
45_100 | before it can take hold, but when Clarkson takes hold of the fire extinguisher, May is forced to |
45_101 | watch his shed burn. |
45_102 | In the midst of this latest calamity, the team suddenly receives word that Redgrave is now pulling |
45_103 | into the drive. Despite two abandoned Caterpillar diggers, an abandoned crane, a burning shed, a |
45_104 | ruined lawn and a destructive barbecue, the team are forced to go ahead and unveil the garden to |
45_105 | Redgrave. At first, Redgrave is upset at the destruction of his garden, and storms inside his |
45_106 | house, leaving the Poles to run away, with Clarkson proclaiming they can 'sense the mood'. Clarkson |
45_107 | and May initially attempt to blame the entire debacle on Hammond, but eventually, after Clarkson |
45_108 | talking to him privately, Redgrave's mood lightens. Despite all of Hammond and May's projects being |
45_109 | failures, Clarkson manages to unveil his proudly built greenhouse and his turbo-charged water |
45_110 | feature. Redgrave is slightly impressed until Clarkson activates the water feature. The gush of |
45_111 | water is so powerful that it manages to blast the top of the water feature off, sending gallons of |
45_112 | water flying up into the air, and the broken half of the water feature crashing down through the |
45_113 | greenhouse, smashing all of the windows and destroying some of the wooden structure. |
45_114 | Ratings |
45_115 | On its first showing in the UK on BBC Two, the programme obtained 4.5 million viewers which equated |
45_116 | to a 22% audience share for its timeslot between 10pm and 10.40pm. The programme was part of the |
45_117 | Sport Relief fundraising evening. The Sport Relief programmes preceding it on BBC One between 7pm |
45_118 | and 10pm averaged 6.2 million viewers (28% audience share) and the Sport Relief programmes on BBC |
45_119 | One between 10.50pm and 1am averaged 2.6 million viewers (29% audience share). |
45_120 | References
External links |
45_121 | Group Gear Force, Top
2008 British television series debuts
BBC Television shows |
45_122 | Gardening in the United Kingdom
Comic Relief |
46_0 | 8 Diagrams is the fifth studio album by American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, released December 11, |
46_1 | 2007, on SRC/Universal Motown Records. The album was released three years after the death of Ol' |
46_2 | Dirty Bastard, and six years after the group's previous LP Iron Flag. |
46_3 | Upon its release, 8 Diagrams debuted at number 25 on the Billboard 200, and number 9 on the Top |
46_4 | R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with 68,000 copies sold in the first week. It has sold 202,000 copies in |
46_5 | the United States as of April 2014. The album received generally favorable reviews from most music |
46_6 | critics, and earned greater praise than the group's previous album Iron Flag, based on an aggregate |
46_7 | score of 73/100 from Metacritic. |
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