[police sirens are heard]
Jeremy: Police are here! Runaway!
Richard: Run! Hide in a bush!
[on the way to hosting the radio programme, Jeremy and James had taken to bad-mouthing Richard’s Cadillac BLS]
Richard: Just stop talking now.
[a brief silence…]
James: I don’t like the clock.
Richard: Save it!
Richard: A dog oversteers, which is more fun…
Jeremy: …than an understeering hyena.
Richard: So, you want a Mazda MX-5 because it’s rear wheel drive
As of later series, these gave way to various abilities that “Some Say…” he may (or may not) have - such as seeing the world in the way Neo sees The Matrix. The presenters (particularly Jeremy Clarkson) like to work in a topical joke from the week’s news - those who have been lampooned in this way include Jade Goody and John Prescott. These introductions included following setences:
6x1 he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves
6x2 he’s wanted by the CIA, and that he sleeps upside down like a bat
6x3 he appears on high value stamps in Sweden, and that he can catch fish with his tongue
6x4 he is illegal in 17 US states, and he blinks this way (horizontally)
6x5 that his breath smells of magnesium, and that he’s scared of bells
6x6 he naturally faces magnetic north, and that all his legs are hydraulic
6x7 that he lives in a tree, and that his sweat can be used to clean precious metals
6x8 that his heart ticks like a watch, and that he’s confused by stairs
6x9 that his voice can only be heard by cats, and that he has two sets of knees
6x11 that he’s terrified of ducks, and that there’s an airport in Russia named after him
7x1 his skin has the texture of a dolphin’s, and that wherever you are in the world if you tune your radio to 88.4 you can actually hear his thoughts
7x2 that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his earwax tastes like Turkish Delight
7x3 that his politics are terrifying, and that he once punched a horse to the ground
7x4 that his tears are adhesive, and that if he caught fire he’d burn for a thousand days
7x5 he can swim seven lengths underwater, and he has webbed buttocks
7x6 that his heart is in upside down, and that his teeth glow in the dark
8x1 that his ears aren’t exactly where you’d expect them to be, and that once, preposterously, he had an affair with John Prescott
8x2 he has a digital face, and that if he felt like it, he could fire Alan Sugar
8x3 that his genitals are on upside down, and that if he could be bothered he could crack The Da Vinci Code in 43 seconds
8x4 his ears have a paisley lining, and he’s been banned from the Chelsea Flower Show
8x5 that the outline of his left nipple is exactly the same shape as the Nurburgring, and that if you give him a really important job to do, he’ll skive off and play croquet
8x6 he invented Branston Pickle, and that if you insult his mother he will headbutt you in the chest
8x7 that on really warm days he sheds his skin like a snake, and that for some reason he’s allergic to the Dutch
8x8 that his first name really is The, and that if he went on Celebrity Love Island they’d all be pregnant including the cameramen
9x1 that he once threw a microwave oven at a tramp, and that long before anyone else he realised that Jade Goody was a racist pig-faced waste of blood and organs
9x2 that he once had a vicious knife-fight with Anthea Turner, and that he is in no way implicated in the Cash for Honours scandal (Lord Stig)
9x3 that he is a CIA experiment that went wrong, and that he only eats cheese (American Cousin, Fat Stig)
9x4 that if you lick his chest it tastes exactly the same as Piccalilli, and that at this week’s Brit awards he was arrested for goosing Russell Brand
9x5 that he sucks the moisture from ducks, and that his crash helmet is modelled on Britney Spears’ head
9x6 he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called Steve
10x1 that his scrotum has its own small gravity field, and that because our Producer rigged a phone vote he now has a new name (all we know is he’s called Cuddles)
10x2 that he’s banned from the town of Chichester, and that in a recent late night deal, he bought a slightly dented white Fiat Uno from the Duke of Edinburgh
10x3 that he gets terrible eczema on his helmet, and if he’d been the video ref in the world cup rugby final he would have seen that of course it was a try you blind Australian halfwit
10x4 some say he’s seen The Lion King 1780 times, and that his second best friend is a caped buffalo (all we know is he’s not The Stig, but he is The Stig’s African cousin)
10x5 some say that to unlock him you have to run your finger down his face like that (he runs his index finger down someone’s face), and that if he was getting divorced from Paul Mccartney he’d keep his stupid whining mouth shut
10x6 some say that he thought Star Wars was a documentary, and that he recently pulled out of I’m A Celebrity because he’s frightened of trees…and Australia… Koo Stark… and Ant… and Dec
10x7 some say that he knows 2 facts about ducks and both of them are wrong, and that 61 years ago he accidently introduced Her Majesty The Queen to a Greek racialist (all we know is I’m going to the tower to have my head cut off, and he is called The Stig)
10x8 some say that when he slows down brake lights come on in his buttocks, and that if he’d been the manager of the England football squad last week, he wouldn’t have been a feckless ginger gum-chewing buffoon and ruined it for all of us
10x9 some say that he once lost a canoe on a beach in the north-east, and that he once did some time in a prison in Canterbury, because his teddy is called The Baby Jesus
10x10 some say that as we speak he is actually relaxing in the resort pool, and he is, he is actually