Jeremy Clarkson Meets the Neighbours: Germany The FULL Episode
In this series, produced by Chrysalis Entertainment in 2002, which later became part of the production company that makes Fifth Gear, Jeremy Clarkson drives a 1960s Jaguar E-Type around six European countries to discover just how different their lifestyles are to those in Britain, and whether the reality matches the stereotypical perception of each country. In this episode, Jeremy's exploring Germany. There he helps some serious Germans find their humorous side at a laughter clinic and tackles the most feared racetrack in the world, deciding to go for a spin. Make sure you're subscribed to be the first to see the other episodes.
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Thank you!
@ 18:56 Clarkson sounded like he was reading Vogon poetry. {0.o}
Yay!
This was epic you guys! 👍 We Germans should be full of guilt as ashamed as well, for how we looked like in the 90's! I go down to my knees because I was already a teen, full involved in the GDR community [without an accent you noticed, right] and also responsible for this pictures we painted for the rest of the world. Anyways 😂 The longer the video last the better it gets. There was so much within this short movie. Where Jerry is holding the f6 cigarettes, they btw survived until today. Also so much proved stereotypes and the guy in Cologne who's talking to Jerry, made me falling down from my couch 😂
This is a reminder of the sad life in the GDR 50 years ago... ...and a preview of Brexit Britain in 50 years from now.
R.I.P Sabine Schmitz, what a legend!!
She was awesome I miss her so much
I still can't believe she's passed, she was still so young.
One of my best experiences ever... I will never forget her... A forever legend...
I always wanted to take a trip around the ring with Sabine, too bad I never made it, would have been quite a trip!
Maybe
I love the one German joke "I am 78 but sometimes I feel like I'm only 76" lol lol I love dry humor and dad jokes
The old German pilot secured two additional gliding records & survived until 2021 !
He is the only one who made Jeremy laugh
He is still flying ... now with the angels above the cloweds for ever and ever
Legend.
how old has he been or is he still alive in 2023?
@@Supreme40x he was 96-98 years old when he died.
Considering 20 years have passed, he should do a follow up, visiting the same places and comparing them
well no mullets and almost no trabants
At least east Germany will be re-populated. Just not by Germans or Russians or even Europeans.
Well done for being a racist franko
@@joshuataylor3550 what part of that is racist?. That’s the problem with young people nowadays, their thick as shit.
@@joshuataylor3550 try finding out what racism actually is before you put on a comment.
28:47 Sabine Schmitz... she was (still is) a legend. Her early death (due to cancer) is such a big loss for the racing and drivers community, while she was always a natural joy to watch on any program with her happy personality. How she beat lap records even in a Ford Transit...
whaaaat she passed away?! I had no idea, what a shame. That's sad
@@paddington1670 Yep, a few months ago I think.
@@sukhdevr3489 if by a few months, you mean 18 months, then yes, she died 18 months ago
@@paddington1670 /watch?v=LiZY3yaz4no
@@lordshu007 Damn I knew it was much longer. Time goes fast.
Hard to believe this was made only 12 years after the Berlin Wall fell. Now, twenty years have passed since this was filmed.
and certain areas that have been diversified have turned into third world ghettos
Thirty years!
You see, there were people with Education even in Berlin
They should have left the Berlin wall intact , nothing good ever came over it or through it .
@@davidgalea6113 Yeah, just like everywhere in western europe, and eastern europe is a shithole to begin with. Is there no reprieve here or what
I loved the Luftwaffe veteran glider man, *that* was a funny German! "I quite enjoyed it until you bastards started shooting at us." So good! Great episode as well, Jeremy never disappoints!
“Because we were bloody dangerous” cracked me up. What a legend.
...and the deadpan delivery of 'I'm 78 but sometimes I feel 76
I knew a glider pilot here in S.Africa - Karl Heinz-Hirsch - who had flown with the Luftwaffe in WW2. He was a great pilot and flew many airshow displays which is where I met him. He also said he enjoyed his time flying Bf109 and Fw190 fighters. When I asked which allied fighter planes had given him a hard time he answered "none of them, because I knew how to fly!"
@@MatthewJohnCrittenden He found a German with a sense of humour.
He would not have been shot at if he had staid in german air ....
I was born 1999 so honestly this is very interesting, seeing how much has changed here in 20 years.
Same
not for the better at all.
You are disgustingly young
@@LR_84 Yep. Change is not always automatically better
Jeremy Clarkson at his best, this whole series was made when the BBC made excellent programs. It was great to see a young Sabine Schmittz, the nurburg ring lost it's queen at far young an age. RIP Sabine
Seeing Sabine made me tear up. So young. RIP Queen of the Ring!
seeing sabine is wonderful. she was the queen of the nurbergring , a glorious talent, a legend, who came across as a friend to all. and she died so young . RIP , S , you will be missed by so many fans
Having been stationed in Germany from 1989 to 1992 I can say that the conversation at the end of this had me teared up a bit. I remember most Germans being a solemn lot. Now I know why. It would be hard to get over that history. It was a beautiful country though. The fall of the wall did change their landscape and the country.
For the worse. Anything is better the the shit hole it’s become now. Ffs Hitler would turn in he’s grave to see the state of Europe now. Peace and love to all patriots
I loved Sabine. What a beautiful lady and beautiful soul that has left us...
People like her and Jeremy are childhood heroes of mine.
I love that journalist explaining how much hard work it is for Germans to plan vacation. That’s absolutely spot on.
Can we just spend a moment to appreciate how great the playlist of these episodes are
@Real Aiglon bro doesn’t like anyone showing appreciation to the soundtrack composer
I’m Momentarily Broke.
Got teary the moment I saw Sabine!! Really miss her smile!!
5:36 that trabant must be the inspiration behind that extra long fiat Panda they made for top gear.
I enjoy the end everytime. the part with the old man is very nice and i was shocked he just passed last year. 20 years later since this aired. Nearly a hundred years old crazy. RIP
And it is truth. Germany is destroying eu at the moment because of sanctions.
An E39 M5 and Sabine Smitz in it. Can't get any better then that.
An E60 M5 with the V10 and Sabine in it...
Being a German myself, I was wondering why the Germans made a decent, composed and relaxed impression. Then I saw the video is 20 years old. Today everyone seems to be very busy and stressed.
simple: ausbeutung
Pay no attention to the comment before me, he shouldn't feel ashamed for liking to be exploited by men. The world is busy and stressed, It's not a German problem. this was filmed in the dark ages aka 2001 with little to no internet. Maybe 1/3 of these people had the internet at home. Life was easier and more carefree.
@@kabalu millions of migrants that want to be fed...
This episode I looked forward to the most being uploaded just to see a young Sabine doing her thing at the Nurburgring. It’s what everyone will remember her for forever, R.I.P Also does anyone know what that music is during the glider scene?
In the whole series most music are samples of songs by Moby and it's his older work from the 90's. I do not recognize this glider bit but it kind of sounds like him.
Zero 7
@@kevlar5150 Thanks
No problem! More specifically, it's "Give it Away" off of Simple Things. Top Gear has used a ton of Zero 7 throughout the years, so I'm inclined to say that the same folks were doing the music for this. Great stuff!
@@kevlar5150 Thank you!
Growing up watching Jeremy Clarkson, I must say. I love this man. So many emotions
As a German I have to say this is soooo funny.
A German thinking something his funny...now that is funny. Have a good 1 Fritz
I learned a lot about Germany - as a German.
Hee hee ha ha ha
As someone living in Germany, I couldn't stop laughing while watching this. Excellent!
Clearly you are someone living in Germany but you are not German..😂🤣 As we Germans only laugh if told so according to the guy from Cologne..who luckily hasn't got it right in all aspects to my opinion. But he's right saying when we are told one thing we do it and we do it well whatever we are told to do.
@@Falk4J The guy in cologne must have been also not german, because he was very jokingly and sarcastic ;D
@@ThomasAndAbe au contraire, it’s one, if not the German trait to really take the piss and utter the most insane nonsense with the straightest of faces - which is excactly what he did. As a German, I find this documentary also hilarious. Especially, after watching "Jeremy Clarkson - King of Controversy". With that in mind, you can see how he’s just trolling and being deliberately ignorant of facts about Germany and England, for example. Claiming that England is better at football, has prettier cars, better music or more distinguished history is just a-class trolling.
@@epultimast I´m happy i scrolled down this far. Don´t have to write this one by my own now - you did it brillantly.
@@epultimast Apart from probabaly the football part (but it seems they won close to when this was released) hes right.
I wished for this at the end of Episode 2. Now it's here! Thank you! Can't wait for the next one 😊
The elder guy who says gut, super about the wine is a deceased relative of mine from Bosnia and Herzegovina, he and his wife lived there for many years and when i stumbled on him in this really didnt suprise me cuz he was an alcoholic, he would have smelled booze a mile away god rest his soul
yes, the way he says super tells you he is not a german
@Rodney 1984 well yeah it depends how many years someone spent there. What did they do. He was i think a house builder or painter, dont need that much perfect german 🤣
I love the ‘90s electronica music in this episode. It’s so appropriate for the period.
Thank you for posting this series.
"But, I must admit I feel like Seventy-SIX!!" 😂 Here, we have German humour in its natural habitat.
I lived in germany my whole life (24 years) and this video is showing me a whole new part of germany i have never seen befor.
00:52 I stayed in a flatshare in Berlin thirty years ago, in which there was a notice in the toilet which read: "Bitte nicht im Stehen schiffen, wegen der Streubreite." It has resonated with me to this day.
What does that translate to, in English?
@@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM "Please don't piss standing up, because of the spread."
@@Blog4Justice : CLASS! 🤣
These episodes are absolutely 10/10
once again thank you so much for uploading this!
R.I.P. Sabine, unapologetically German, a true petro head, a beautiful soul.
What a beauty that glider, 0mg!, the pilot, great sense of humor, great. Great seeing Sabine Schmidt. Great video, thanks
How wonderful to have found this series, Jezza will always be the person that makes me laugh the most
And what a wonderful human being Sabine was.
@Real Aiglon because she was she did it enjoyed it didnt boast got on with it rip my dear
That Humor-kirche is a dystopian nightmare good lord
*HO HO HAHAHA*
AH AH NEIN-NEIN-NEIN @@dimashevchenkoua
That laughter church was truly terrifying omg
this is gold! didn't know jeremy was also making these extraordinary documentaries about europe
The British have separate taps because the hot water could be contaminated and unsafe (to drink). They had open boilers for the hot water. (See Tom Scott)
So that's the explanation? The problem is that it's a tradition that continues in modern houses.
@@-ca-- It's more complicated then that, see the following video for detailed explanation "tom scott british taps" there is some logic to it.
It used to be that the only SAFE drinking water was from the kitchen 'cold' tap which was at mains pressure,all the other taps hot and cold were fed from a loft water tank which could become contaminated over time,this was ALSO fed by the mains supply but only gravity was used from the tank to the various other taps and boiler feeds.Most of the tanks were plastic or galvanised steel with just a cover on top for ease of access and were almost never cleaned internally(awkward and difficult job mostly)
@@busking6292 Thanks for the detailed explanation, you would think they updated this. In the Netherlands we have a central heating unit that also does the hot water, it's a sealed system and keeps the water above salmonella temperature but I still do not drink it!
I can't remember the last time I was in a house that didn't have mixer taps throughout. You are all living in the 1950s.
Thank you all for uploading these episodes! Ill be sure to subscribe in order to catch the upcoming Spain episode
Thanks for uploading this amazing piece.
Glider pilot died at 18 feb 2021, rest in peace
Gotta love that even to this day you can still see East Berlin from space, because the old street lamps were never fully replaced with better ones, so they glow differently on nighttime photographs.
I doubt that´s the case any more. During the course of 32 years the streetlighting bulbs have been replaced. several times.
@@AlfaGiuliaQV Guess making a fool of yourself was faster than doing an image search for "berlin night from space" to see the different colors.
@@Iskelderon Why would i image search old photos?
@@AlfaGiuliaQV I mean, some of the most recent photos of berlin from space (where the differences are still visible) were made by Matthias Maurer while he was staying on the ISS during the ESA mission "Cosmic Kiss". He took off from earth on 11. November 2021 and landed back on earth in may 2022. But yeah I guess in that time span of not even a year, poor city of berlin randomly found a crate of gold and decided to invest it all in lightbulbs and payments of workers to change those. What an Idiot you are.
@@AlfaGiuliaQV it is
These shows are legendary. This should have millions of views
Having never seen these before in America I never realized the Grand Tour was just remaking old shows. I like these better.
Sabine Schmitz superb fearless driver and driving one of the best saloon car of all time around a legendary track.
How is it that Clarkson hasn't single-handedly gotten us into WW3?
As brilliant as ever! Thanks for sharing this, Fifth Gear.
This moment, when you realise that service station at the motorway is the one next to your city and it still looks near to exactly the same...
Alway thought Jeremy could be a bit abrasive , this however shows a better side of him Intelligence, thoughtful even poetic...one of his best videos .. he really is good at this ..
@@zen7349 Well, maybe I am overimagining things here, because I like him as well as being German myself. But I do feel like whenever he insults people or is racist about something, it is not in fact meant that way. Not in an insulting or deminishing way at least. It may be criticism, but in many cases it is his way of processing difficult subjects into a story that is lighthearted enough to be enjoyed. I mean he managed to scrape quite a few parts of deep-rooted world-moving problems that originate in Germany, while not making them so overbearing that the 30min long episode becomes a heavy history documentary. Because that is never what was intended.
@@zen7349 He was fired for punching a producer in the face? I mean it was definitely a horrible act and was punished correctly but i dont see the correlation to racism
@@zen7349 Because his crew had been to set up a live show, then film the audience section for the tv show, then had 10 hours of filming out in the rain for film in the show and when they got to the hotel the producer he paid to look after the crew hadn't sorted decent food, so he lost his rag.
@@zen7349 No it was because the producer hadn't looked after his crew after a long day.
26:00 As it turns out... he was dead serious and wasn't joking at all. Of course he wasn't, he's a German after all
🎶You're not laughing now are you Clarkson?🎵
LOL, the whole series is staged and blown up
25:35 the most profound and correct part I’ve seen. They did exactly what it said on the tin.
This guy was great. Very funny.
The guy was dead serious, as a french this opened up my eyes even more on why the EU went mostly the german way.
@@StringerBell50 wait until they run out of oil this coming winter, are rearming as we speak!
RIP Sabine. So good to see you again doing why you loved!
The fact alone that nearly every German speaks more than acceptable English should be a shock to every Englishman
R.I.P Sabine Schmitz........You are solely missed❤
Finally Jeremy Clarkson Meets the Neighbours is on youtube. I have really missed this show. Also, great to see Sabine Schmitz :)
At 11:14 the "East German town" shown is actually the Kornmarkt in Zwickau, Saxony. It's where the aforementioned Holiday Inn used to be located, by now called First Inn. Never has been particularly busy of spot because as there is no real business there, while down the street is the Hauptmarkt with cafes and other shops, quite busy back then and even today. Also; Back then 20:30 was a somewhat misleading time to pick in Germany to judge "activity" of people on the street. German TV has the tradition of showing news at 20:00, and then some interesting movie/show at 20:15. So between 20:00 and around 22:30 plenty of German streets can be eerily empty, particularly back then when streaming wasn't even much of an option.
I'm glad these are back up again, I watched these 10 years ago with 3 parts of Italy, Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands
Jezza: "We have more distinguishedhistory" The world: "Are you sure about that?"
Really cool, would love to see Jeremy doing the same today again.
Thank you Jeremy... I enjoy your Videos... Greetings form Germany 😎🥇
Sabine was beautiful funny and an amazing driver, RIP Sabina Schmitz
FIrst Clarkson tries to back up the myth that Germans don' t usually laugh and then he shows Sabine Schmitz (may she rest in peace) who basically laughed all the time. 🤦♂😁
Yes, she was an amazing woman, laughed her head off while hurtling round the 'Ring' in a white van on one Top Gear episode.
She was the only one laughing to get the average up to 6 mins
That was bloody brilliant.
I really enjoyed this, thanks
Having been married for 15 years to a wonderful lady of German / Hungarian extraction , the laughter section killed me .
36:32 *I visited Köln [Cologne] Germany in the early 60's from the UK on my Triumph 350cc Motorbike and on the campsite with a few Feldschlößchen Lagers, was having a chat with other similar aged (early 20's) Germans, and one asked have you been to Köln before, I said no but my Dad did, "How did he like it?" - I don't know he just dropped his bombs and said let's get the Hell out of here - They all rolled over laughing !*
Yeah I doubt they did.
@@k.k.8394 i don't and I've been there. some germans actually do have a sense of humour.
@@cyborgbadger1015 Or you get punched in the mouth
@@k.k.8394 speak for yourself.
Sabine,absolutely gorgeous,RIP!Going round the "ring" in a Transit Van in just over 10mins on "Top Gear",priceless!
I love E39 M5, daamn. That is one beautiful timeless classic
Nice to see Sabine again , she had a sense of humour too :-)
RIP Sabine... :(
I cried when he took the ride with Sabine Schmitz... the whole world misses her!
Pure Gold.
Sabine ❤
Great segment. There is nobody like Clarkson.
Please post the Spain and Italy episodes, I actually love watching this.
That was 20 years ago. It'll be awesome if he did an update.
RIP Sabine...certain people should still be with us,Sabine is one...so sad!
As a historically interested would like to add that Germany is not only a 100 years old. It was the Holy Roman Empire of German Nationality which was founded in 962 AD and devolved 1806 so Germany has over 1100 years of national history
Do we smell a whiff of far right propaganda? Something about bird's dropping and the other Gauland rubbish?
Let me guess: you’re a German, right? That’s the most German thing to write.
@@roadtripusa9433 yes I'm german but I'm also right
im from belgium but i love germany
It was recognised as a region in 962AD. It only became a unified state in 1871. I assume this is the reason for the 100 years reference in the programme.
My goodness since about this time pretty much every feature with JC has impressed me with its music choice, beit forward looking (me watching brand new top gear episodes in 2005 or so) or backward (this being a fine example).
NICE ONE JEREMY, THANKS
R.I.P. Sabine Schmitz 😞
Rest in Peace Sabine Smits
How can I not have seen this up to now
RIP Sabine. It was a pleasure to see you in this program.
I reckon Sabine is pinnacle of German engineering...😄👍👍
laughing in English: hahaha in Chinese: 哈哈哈 in Japanese: wwww in Spanish: jajaja in German: sehr gut
When I german says "free time is very dangerous" ... just bloody agree.
02:40 Its now 32 Years... still not done :) Greets from East Germany xD
Herr Schmitt caught me off guard with that little joke 👏👏👏
That first German who spoke at the beginning , his name was Hans !! He was brought by English parents from 4 months of age and didn't say a word until he was 14 !! He banged the table with his fist and shouted " This AppleStrudel is cold in the middle !!!" . His English parents said " Hans all these years you say nothing !? All these years you are silent ! why ? " . Hans said " Because up until now everything had been quite satisfactory ! ".
is this supposed to be funny
@@BananaRama1312 Germans don't know what is funny and what isn't !! You must be German !!!!!
@@BananaRama1312 I found it very amusing and on point .
@@johnniethepom7545 aight 😂
@@BananaRama1312 Hans didn't think so.
22:14 I love this guys dry sense of humor
Great to see Sabine (rip) driving the BMW E39 M5. I have had my one since 2008.
Glider pilot is a legend, a funny German but I bet he got up to some stuff at one point.....hehe
Henning Wehn - the British think we Germans have no sense of humour - but we do laugh a lot - the only difference to the British is we laugh when the work is done.
... and we lover "Dinner for one" at new years eve
the last words about laughing...well said, Jeremy, well said!
The old man at the end seems to be very happy with what he is going :), he somehow made my day!