Clarkson's Farm

Wife and I watched all the way through (finished yesterday). We both really enjoyed it.

Every time I heard Gerald (the older guy with the mullet) talking I thought of the soccer hooligans from the movie Eurotrip

 
I liked it and hope he does a second season. I liked the way he shows how some of the government regulations make no sense and how they hurt the farmers. Like his farm shop, how the local council shut it down because they thought it needed a slate roof instead of a metal roof so the shop would fit the local flavor more. Also how the local council was investigating the shop because they wanted all of the products to be local to the county, even though some came from as close as 8km but in a different county.

Then there was the episode where he was building his trout pond and the tractors got stuck and they made ruts in the ground where they had to pull the tractors out. The land agent Charlie looked like he was about to have a heart attack because of all the "damage" that was done to the ground. Charlie then explained that this had to be fixed or there could be heavy fines for the "damage".
 
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We watched two episodes last night. Mrs. Jeppo is hooked. My impression is…

What in the world was he thinking?????? :oops:
 
So he's had the farm for quite some time, but had a local guy managing it, who then informed Clarkson that he would be unable to continue managing the farm. So Clarkson got the idea he'd just do it himself (while doing yet another 'reality' show of him attempting to do it). That's where the kid Caleb came from, who helped the other guy run the farm. It's not clear actually how long Clarkson's had the farm, but while he was trying to open the farm store, and getting council approval, they did show the snippet of Hammond and May blowing up his house, which was apparently on the farm?

It's a great show. Clarkson has his moments (screaming liberal), but he's fun to watch. Only he could find a Lamborghini tractor......who knew.
 
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LTC Don said:
It's not clear actually how long Clarkson's had the farm…
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What’s not clear about “when I bought the farm back in 2008”, which was said in the first 90 seconds. 😝
 
Wifey asked Google how old Clarkson is. He looks about 15 years older. 😳
 
LTC Don said:
So he's had the farm for quite some time, but had a local guy managing it, who then informed Clarkson that he would be unable to continue managing the farm. So Clarkson got the idea he'd just do it himself (while doing yet another 'reality' show of him attempting to do it). That's where the kid Caleb came from, who helped the other guy run the farm. It's not clear actually how long Clarkson's had the farm, but while he was trying to open the farm store, and getting council approval, they did show the snippet of Hammond and May blowing up his house, which was apparently on the farm?

It's a great show. Clarkson has his moments (screaming liberal), but he's fun to watch. Only he could find a Lamborghini tractor......who knew.
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Lamborghini originally made tractors. The Lamborghini guy bought a Ferrari and didn’t like it so he made his own sports car. Or something like that.
 
LTC Don said:
It's a great show. Clarkson has his moments (screaming liberal), but he's fun to watch. Only he could find a Lamborghini tractor......who knew.
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Who knew? Uhhh that's where the company STARTED
 
JLChooChoo14 said:
Lamborghini originally made tractors. The Lamborghini guy bought a Ferrari and didn’t like it so he made his own sports car. Or something like that.
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I had opened the page and didnt refresh before I replied, you posted in that time.

My understanding - he had a Ferrari, had clutch (?) issues, he complained to Enzo, Enzo tells him to piss off or make his own car...he does/did.
Yeah, he started as a tractor manufacturer and you can still get one...when I saw that I def looked up a Lambo R8 to see how much they cost ha
 
Also, I finished it today.
The ending is good. He made a lot of money in that first year of farming, it'll make a lot more people want to rush out and start farming!
 

Hysterical. I’ve never watched much of him (apparently he’s quite a personality in UK), but he’s a real fish-out-of-water in this first attempt at farming nearly a thousand acres in Cottswald England.
 
Johnny said:
On Prime video.

Jeremy bought a farm and attempts to farm it and plays the incompetent role much like his other shows.

If you're a fan of Clarkson you might enjoy it.
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He has actually owned it for years, but the guy who operated it for him retired, if you remember when they blew up a house on the grand tour it was that property
 
Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear and The Grand Tour fame trying to start and run a farm.

I can’t describe how much I enjoyed this show. For anyone who has ever run, worked on or even just been around a farm it is hysterical and touching.

I love Clarkson’s sense of humor, dry wit and his choice of wording to describe things anyway but he’s at his best here IMO.

Trying his best to be a good steward for his land and making a lot of mistakes.

Fortunately he’s enormously wealthy so the fact that he ended up making about 40 cents a day when it was all over won’t hurt him at all.

It also reinforced the knowledge that I would never wish to live in England.

Damn we have regulations here. But nothing like the hoops he has to jump through.
 
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I watched it last year when it came out and I hope they do a season 2!
 
We loved it!
 
cold1 said:
I watched it last year when it came out and I hope they do a season 2!
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I THINK theyre good through season 3, at least according to a youtube video he put out
 
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Chdamn said:
It also reinforced the knowledge that I would never wish to live in England.

Damn we have regulations here. But nothing like the hoops he has to jump through.
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Can't disturb the waterway here because there is rodent poop in the field that may or may not have come from a water vole.
i shook my head so hard
 
My wife and I binged it. I wish they focused more on the farming this season, but he has some enemies he wanted to out for sure.
 
Love the show. Definitely not as funny as the first season, but definitely did a great job of exposing the hardships for farmers and the impact a bunch of Karens can have on their livelihoods based exclusively on their disliking of someone.
 
related news, Jeremy makes good on a tweet challenging a locally-based F1 team to get on the podium at the Monaco race a couple weeks back (which they did)

www.total-motorsport.com

Jeremy Clarkson delivers on Alpine promise

Jeremy Clarkson has delivered on his promise to buy everyone at Alpine a pint if they could secure an Formula 1 podium in 2023 at the Monaco Grand Prix.Clarkson, most famous for hosting Top Gear
www.total-motorsport.com www.total-motorsport.com
 
Just watched the last episode of Season Three. The way it ended, it felt like there won’t be more. Sorry about that. 🙁

ETA: Seems S4 is actually in production. 🕺
 
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