Over 2 years later we finally find out what this was about:

"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel) 01/31/2019 at 20:04 • Filed to: None

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The giant Clarkson head finally finds a purpose in tonight's Grand Tour episode.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 01/31/2019 at 20:27

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Toppled like Saddam!

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 01/31/2019 at 20:28

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Thanks for reminding me to watch GT.

Tristan > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 01/31/2019 at 20:33

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Last week's episode was awful enough to make me not care... Is this week's worth watching?

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Tristan 01/31/2019 at 20:39

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I’m only halfway through right now. The out of tent bits are kinda scattered all over the place so far. It seems rather improvised.

Tristan > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 01/31/2019 at 20:45

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Improvised sounds better than last week's scripted, formulaic garbage.

Urambo Tauro > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 01/31/2019 at 20:48

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And here I was thinking it was just a viral marketing stunt.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Tristan 01/31/2019 at 21:00

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It really felt like they got there the day of filming, found out they had 3 pickup trucks, and then had to ask "What are we supposed to do with pickups?"

Mercedes Streeter > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 01/31/2019 at 21:08

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Gonna call it now: They’re going to be called transphobic... maybe even on Jalopnik if Elizabeth Werth watched it.

I don’t think it was, even I had a laugh. :)

facw > Tristan 01/31/2019 at 21:27

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Definitely worse than the first week. Probably a little better than last week’s.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Mercedes Streeter 01/31/2019 at 21:46

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I’m not sure what to make of that segment. It kinda makes the show look bad when combined with the Jeep shenanigans last week. It feels like the writing has really gone down hill since previous seasons.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 01/31/2019 at 22:37

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The Columbia special’s writing made me cringe. Not because of the gay jokes - “Lesbian ... b acon? No, what is it? Lesbian, bacon, transgender” made me laugh (come on, it’s a fair bit when they keep adding letters) - but because it was just completely lazy from there.

Just completely shit writing with no effort .

Mercedes Streeter > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 01/31/2019 at 22:48

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They’ve certainly made their content a lot more “ edgy” . I feel like they’re intentionally doing that because they no longer have the censorship that comes with being on public tv.

Tonight’s segment could have been handled much better. What made me more okay with it was May’s attempts to point out that it was really a serious subject and the two examples they brought up were in fact people abusing the system. Had they taken the Dave Chappelle cringy-offensive approach I probably would have been a bit disgusted.

The Artgineer > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 02/01/2019 at 22:25

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I’ve been vindicated for my unloved comment about the E-Tron, finally!

https://jalopnik.com/1829132326

bubblestheturtle > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 02/03/2019 at 20:19

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It needed purpose other than to hold his ego?