AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :D

[elisi]

Specially filmed scene featuring Matt Smith and Dermot O'Leary as shown in the National Television Awards.

Oh show. Never change. ♥ (ETA: Very British TV centric...)

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[promethia_tenk]

Sadly fell pretty flat for me . . .

And I say this as someone trained through untold hours of Top Gear watching to laugh at jokes based on British cultural references that I don't actually get and (this is the part that confuses me) find them funny anyway (WTF, brain?).

[elisi]

Ah well. It was probably too... self-referential?

ETA: Re. Top Gear, then it's partly just the way it's done. They're grown men being idiots - that in itself is funny. :)

[promethia_tenk]

Probably. And I usually find awards show humor uneven at best anyway.

ETA: Re. Top Gear, then it's partly just the way it's done. They're grown men being idiots - that in itself is funny. :)
True. All in the tone and such. I'm pretty sure I'm conditioned to find anything that comes out of Jeremy Clarkson's mouth funny no matter what. Plus their jokes about British culture tend to go by in a blink, so you're carried along by the patter even if you don't get all of it. The references here were a bit more sustained.

[elisi]

Probably. And I usually find awards show humor uneven at best anyway.
Ooooh yes. I didn't watch it at all.

True. All in the tone and such. I'm pretty sure I'm conditioned to find anything that comes out of Jeremy Clarkson's mouth funny no matter what.
He has a column in The Sunday Times where he writes about cars and I read it every single week, even though I find cars very, very dull. But all the extra stuff makes it worth it!

The references here were a bit more sustained.
Oh it was all injokes.

[promethia_tenk]

Top Gear is what finally convinced me that I am literally interested in learning about anything, provided it's delivered with the right enthusiasm and style, because I would have told you that cars were the last thing on the planet I had any desire to know about and now I go driving about wondering if that pattern of headlights coming at me in the dark is a Mustang or a Jaguar.

I shudder to think what would happen if I ever tried to have a conversation with a mechanic, though. All my car terminology is British.

[elisi]

and now I go driving about wondering if that pattern of headlights coming at me in the dark is a Mustang or a Jaguar.
Seriously? I seem incapable of retaining any information they sprout.

I shudder to think what would happen if I ever tried to have a conversation with a mechanic, though. All my car terminology is British.
Heh.

[promethia_tenk]

Seriously? I seem incapable of retaining any information they sprout.
Well, I'd never pass muster as a gear head, but I now know exponentially more about cars than I ever did before and have, like, opinions about them and things.

I think I see a lot of it from a design angle--not just aesthetically, but in dealing with decisions about balancing functions, compromising this for that . . . There is a part of my brain that genuinely believes there is a single best possible way to do anything--tap into that and I'll be lost and never quite able to give it up ever again.

[elisi]

Well, I'd never pass muster as a gear head, but I now know exponentially more about cars than I ever did before and have, like, opinions about them and things.
I just leave that to my husband. Not that I couldn't have opinions, but they'd inevitably differ from his and no way am I arguing with him about *cars*! ;)

There is a part of my brain that genuinely believes there is a single best possible way to do anything--tap into that and I'll be lost and never quite able to give it up ever again.
Oh I understand that. Very much.