BBC Top Gear Episode 19056 Part 3:
Jeremy Clarkson: I'm what our American viewers would term a bit of a douche. Let me rephrase that: I'm a very tall bit of a douche. A six foot five bit of a douche. So tall, in fact, that BMW had to build a special Mini the size of a tank for me.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Sunday Times: Mini Ha Ha!
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Jerummy Clahkson has the smawlest head...
...in the woahld.
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That is so good! :D
the shadow work on his shopped in face is classic :p
Wow! How ridiculous!
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Nice one!
(Great comment Sean too)
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Maybe when he gets into small cars his head shrinks?
My evidence:
http://www.funnypic.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/jeremy-clarkson-citroen-picasso.jpg
I'm impressed. Truly. I always thought the "mini" in Mini-Cooper meant it was a small car. I want one now...
He kind of has this look on his face that says "Why, yes, my car is about to go crashing off the page and into your thigh. What ya gonna do 'bout it?"
Or is that just me?
I fail to see the problem. Minis are larger cars than most people give them credit for. In fact, Penn Jillette drives one. He's 6'7". You can read about it here: http://www.motortrend.com/features/consumer/112_0906_penn_jillette_celebrity_drive/index.html
i love jeremy clarkson and i'm an american...and if you don't see the problem, you've obviously never seen his big giant head.
wv: derti - how jeremy pronounces what they did to him here "it was derti"
http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2009&mon=07&evt=britney-candies&pic=britney-spears-candies-ads-03.jpg Oh God, just look like a painting.. and what about her leg? Oo
What do they say about men with small heads?
It was probably Hammond driving originally.
D'you think he's compensating for something? I mean you know what they say about men with big cars...
D'you think he's compensating for something? You know, big car-small...
Oops, double posted sorry!
Looks like Hans Moleman when driving an enormous truck :-D
They probably haven't ever seen Jeremy so how could they know, huh?
very complicated... as a german, at first i didn't understand what was the problem - there's some dude in the car, you can hardly recognize him because of all the car parts over his face, but the ad is about the car anyway, right?
then i read the caption and gleaned: the guy whose face is mostly hidden by the car is some famous guy. and he's actually pretty tall.
so now what i really don't understand: if you have a famous guy in your ad, why would you want to make him so small that he's barely even in sight?? i mean i get the pont of advertising, that even tall people can drive a mini, but you should still let people see their VIP faces. i think...
wv: ammeef (the expression on my face while follwing this train of thought)
So some bad photoshop makes him a douche? What?
It's been a long time since I learned it, but I'm pretty sure "The ear bone's connected to the shoulder bone" was never part of the anatomy song...
LOL...Like Gulliver in Liliput...
@eloahjames: I have seen Top Gear. Every single episode in fact. I know how large Jezza's head is (both figuratively and literally). However, I also know how big a mini really is inside, and how low you can sit in the Mini 'vert because you can ratchet down the front seats so you're ducking under the wind.
This may well be a photoshop and maybe they shrunk him a bit, but I wouldn't call it a disaster.
They inserted a new head - see a small version of the image in the original article and an overlay
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Well, Al's link pretty much proves that:
a) this is a Photoshop job
and
b) his height in the car is correct.
I don't think it rises to the level of "disaster", although it does look a bit "off" the way they've got his head positioned and lit. But he's the right height in the car.
I've actually got a picture of myself sitting in a Mini at a car show from the exact same angle, and I'm 6'4 and I look about the same height in the photo. The seats in those cars are very low (and there's a surprising amount of legroom).
In the original it is a different guy driving the car as seen here. The images were credited to MINI, it appears they come from a press kit. The Sunday Times botched the head swap and, perhaps, the copyright-shmopyright.
god i hate him
@Aggrazel - His head is definitely bigger than the side mirror of a mini - even the head of the guy who was actually driving in the link provided by Al has a head bigger than the mirror. And when you make a 6'5" man look tiny in a car called a mini...PSD
The fact that he's a douche is what makes him so charming and lovable .p
HAHAHAHAHA!
That's the funniest thing I've ever seen.
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Even IF the head is correctly proportioned, this is a PSD. I mean, for god's sake, it looks more like a cardboard cutout sitting behind the wheel than a person.
doesnt Jeremy haaate minis too? I'm sure he called the mini clubman the biggest abomination in the car industry. so much irony in one picture.
I'm worried for the little weird things in the tire... what are they?
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I remember seeing this recently, if I'm right it was in the Sunday Times a few weeks back.
Ironically the smaller-sized original Mini Cooper was far more spacious than the larger, broader BMW-built one.
I've only been in one of those new minis once in my life for about 3 minutes, in the time it took to drive out of an airport carpark in Germany and then stop, turn around and drive straight back to the rental car desk and demand a real car.
And since I'm a huge fan of Top Gear and all things Clarkson I happen to know that, like me, he is not a petite man and would surely have the same problems I had when I managed to stoop myself into one of those acursed things.
To have Clarkson dwarfed by the immensity of a new mini is beyond ridiculous, except for the novelty-sized rear view mirror, which, being wider than his head, actually seems to be proportionally correct.
I think it's Hammond in a Clarkson mask.
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