My, someones quick uploading this, it was only on telly last night. A brilliantly funny episode, well worth the watch.

My grandfather is from Alabama and told me of his life growing up on a farm working with, and playing with blacks. He said the only difference to him was that they didn't go to the same schools.

After joining the armed forces in the 40's, he swore he would never live in Alabama again as many of the residents made it to segrigated, and were judgmental to outsiders.

This kind of behavior from anyone is unacceptable. It is one thing to not agree with someone, but another to run them out of town.

Having said that, it is in bad taste for Top Gear to set something like this up to poke fun. It's like sending a man with a lamb chop tied around his neck into a cage full of angry monkeys.

"I think they went too far." Gee, smells like a bunch of whiny twats in here. Everyone knows some creepy shit goes on in those backwoods towns. I suppose the group of commenters here would say that the movie Deliverance is grossly inaccurate and unnecessary. Some things are just funny because they're true.

Sometimes I hate my country and the things many people in it stand for.

Of course, this would happen in a lot of countries... There's no excuse for the behavior of the people at the gas station. The people "inciting" the situation did absolutely nothing to provoke any sort of confrontation.

Why can't we just leave each other alone?

I'm uncomfortable with the hosts doing a programme on the South like a PBS special on animal life, but the whole Easy-Rideresque, "You lost, boah?" reaction isn't sympathetic either.

As a brit, I've read through all the comments so far on this page with great interest.

While I do sympathise with some of the comments about stereotyping - one thing sticks clearly in my mind:

If you drove through some of the equally small towns near where i live, with similar slogans painted on, the most you'd get is a few disaproving glances from the occasional passing old folk - other than that you'd probably get a few laughs and "horn toots" from everyone else who would see it for what it obviously is - a joke.

God Jeremy is a tosser,
"I never thought I'd do this but I'm running for the border"

The border of where Jeremy, Mexico? Keep driving a little bit further moron.

Cmon people. This isn't about Alabama, or the Us, or Britain.

It's about dumb people in general.

If you're in some parts of the UK and you drive around with a car that says, "Manchester United Sucks", you'd probably get your ass kicked

If you're in France and you write a bunch of slogans on your car about how worthless france is in wars, it'd probably cause trouble

They just picked Alabama because it's the easiest place to do a skit like this.

There's places in every country in the world where you could do something similar and get the same reaction.

I for one love Top Gear, and thought the skit was hillarious, and I don't think they meant any harm towards the reputation of Alabama or the US.

I started watching this without looking at the comments. I finished and thought gee, I wonder what the comments look like on this one? I still haven't looked at the comments (other than the number - 32, yikes).

It sucks when they're making fun of you, don't it? Scratch that, it's fucking hilarious!

Try driving through Alabama and Tennessee with a Bad Religion bumper sticker. I had people pull up beside me on the freeway and scream obscenities at me.

As far as I'm concerned, we should nuke the South from orbit...It's the only way to be sure.

I still think this is freaking hilarious. Boo hoo, "they don't like the same things I like. I feel oppressed and unjustly mistreated".

It doesn't really matter as the south hasn't discovered the internet yet so they won't see it :P

I just registered for this site because this is the first time I've ever felt the need to comment on one of the videos posted here. I'm from Alabama and found this video to be more annoying than anything else. I can take a good joke as much as the next person, but sometimes jokes cross the line into the area of bad taste. The way this is presented just furthers stereotypes that are unfair and simply not true. For starters is seems that we are all homophobic, which is not true. I myself am gay, I have something on my car displaying this fact as do some of my friends, and not one of us have been attacked or discriminated against. The video also claims we would be offended by cars that boast support for Hillary Clinton, which as a republican I would find foolish but I digress...If you simply look at the history of the state you would find that with only three exceptions since 1874, all of our governers have been Democrats. I don't understand how it became acceptable in our culture for other areas of the country to point their fingers at us as ignorant racists or idiotic hicks when doing so makes you just as equally wrong. I don't mind a joke that exposes those who are ignorant, but when you do something that is blatently disrespectful it becomes a problem. What is more frustrating is that there are those who will see a video like this and assume that everyone in the state behaves the way these people did. What needs to be pointed out is that if they are in a road trip across the state like one of the posters commented, then you are only seeing three minutes of a several hour trip, and of course they are going to look for the places and people that will give them the reaction they want for the show. Anyway, had to defend all of us ignorant southerners who "probably don't even have the internet."

Get a grip.

Turning what was obviously meant as harmless fun into a political debate on a show NOT EVEN FILMED/ SET/BASED OR AS FAR AS I KNOW TRANSMITTED ON A MAJOR NETWORK in the States is a f**king joke.

Some of you really need to develop some sort of sense of humour.

And TangleRED needs to improve his/her grammar dramatically.

Wow this is the most comments ive ever seen on a headline while it was still the most recently posted headline. This could be some sort of record.

As far as the clip goes, I think it was hilarious and I dont believe it was staged. I think you could probably get a similar reaction if you drove through the streets of downtown Boston with a huge sign saying "Red Sox Suck" You'd be lucky if your car escaped without a broken window at least.

I'm with Fatso. Promote, fatso, promote!

You'll never get an audience like this again (God willing).

Obviously people in Alabama are closed minded idiots! This episode almost made me ashamed to admit that I live in the same country as the people in this video. All you hicks need to just get off the computer and get back to screwing your sisters or goats, or whatever you do!

a) Hello! I'm Charli and I'm English (but I did live in the US for a couple of years) and reading all of these comments has both pissed me off and made me laugh :) I have a whole lot of stuff to say about it so here goes...

b) PI55_FLAP5.. how am I supposed to take you seriously with a name like piss flaps?

c) Jeremy - "people in certain parts of America people have started to mate with vegetables!" - Haha! Hilarious! To be fair you could say the same about people living in Liverpool but still.. hilarious.

d) Please don't be so vain as to think the Top Gear guys only pick on Americans.. I myself have heard some fantastic lines about the french, germans, welsh... pretty much anyone anywhere gets a good bashing. Gotta love that 'british sense of humour' - one of the things I missed most when I moved to Rhode Island in the good ol' US of A a while back.

e) Some people seem to think that they're using one hick town as an example for all of the US. An english person wouldn't think ‘Oh, that place sucks. All of America must be like that” unless they had never seen or heard of any other places in America. Trust me, we get enough American TV to realize not all Americans are stupid rednecks =P

f) “I am also a Brit and if this was done in Britain there would be very little reaction. This is a perfect example of people thinking they can solve a problem by using violence. In a way i think this clip was purposefully designed to show this. I understand peoples opinion that its just poking fun at peoples beliefs but it is just a bit of fun and i found the clip very funny as they got so angry and violent just because of some words painted on a car.” – nice comment =) totally agree.

g) “Maybe some day I'll go to Britain, rent a car, and paint "Princess Di was a slut." and be extremely surprised when people get mad.” First of all.. that’s very different to the TG guys slogans. Secondly, why do you guys still think we’re in mourning over princess di? I doubt any brit would react if you said something derogatory about her. We’re all pretty sick of all the frickin’ inquests and stuff. It has been like 10 years. We’re over it!

h) Wooah I’m glad I don’t live in Alabama. Jeez.

i) The people in that town are so pissy. They take offence at the notion that homosexuality is acceptable. They can’t take a joke. Their ignorant, arrogant ways make me want to be sick! I hate people like that who make the rest of the us look bad. On the whole, america’s an awesome place.

j) “I think above all this is disrespectful. These british people overreacted to a minor situation that was incited by obvious disrespect. The three cars pulled in simultaneously to the same station with pink letters written all over their cars to enrage southerners, and the southerners were completely aware of what was going on. They were being treated like another species, and those ignorant britons deserved every little bit of abuse they received.” – When did this turn into an England vs america war? Why is the fact they’re English so important to you? And they were not treating the southerners like a different species. Hammond was actually very polite when he talked to that stupid, incredibly rude shop owner. They wrote some stuff on their cars insulting things those people say they like. The TG guys were just seeing if they would get a reaction… and yes they did. It was a huge and ridiculous overreaction.

k) “they ust have staged the gfas station scene becasue no gas station attendant is going to look away from the register long enough to come out and harass people for what they have on thier cars, and she probably couldn't see it from inside anyways. Whata piece of trash this segment was, they must be running out of stuff to do.” Nice spelling. And did it really look staged to you? May was crapping himself!

l) “If you drove through some of the equally small towns near where i live, with similar slogans painted on, the most you'd get is a few disaproving glances from the occasional passing old folk - other than that you'd probably get a few laughs and "horn toots" from everyone else who would see it for what it obviously is - a joke.” – damn straight.

m) “Again, i don't agree with that because your using a completely unequal analogy.

After all the KKK represents an organisation synonymous with racial hatred, violence, intimidation and murder - which kinda guarantees an understandably strong reaction.

This is slightly different to saying you dont like their music/motorsports, or support different politicians.” – another very eloquent and truthful comment.

n) “First, suggesting that a genuine politician should become president is far removed from mocking someones death - your analogy simply doesn't fit.

Comments such as "Soccer sucks", "Drum n Bass is rubbish" and "Robert Kilroy-Silk for Prime Minister" however would be a far better comparison (and is what i originally suggested, but perhaps didn't make clear enough), and would - as i descirbed - result in nothing more than a bit of laughter and light-hearted banter.

As for your comment about English football hooliganism - it was relevant about 15-20 years ago! - besides, who even suggested that you'd get beaten up at a NASCAR race? And if you want to get into a discussion about our comparative murder rates - bring it on... you'll lose miserably.” – couldn’t have put it better myself =)

o) I’m getting bored of typing.

p) And on that bombshell, goodnight!

Here is a truly fantastic Top Gear quotation;

Jason: ...and the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sports car...

Jeremy: Yeah...

Jason: ...in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President.

I thought it was relevant =P