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It was renewed for a second series in July 2021, which released on 10th February, 2023. And while a third series has been planned, the long-term future of the series is in doubt after his remarks on Meghan Markle landed him in hot water (again).

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It was renewed for a second series in July 2021, which released on 10th February, 2023. And while a third and fourth series has been planned, renewed, despite the long-term future of the series is being formerly in doubt after his remarks on Meghan Markle landed him in hot water (again).
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* LackOfEmpathy: Deconstructed, the other farmers and the workers at the abattoir appear unempathetic towards Clarkson when he has to send 4 of his sheep to slaughter and Pepper, one of his cows that he grew fond of. However, it's not as malicious as it looks, all the farmers and abattoir workers have been doing their jobs longer than Clarkson has and are just used to it. Whereas Clarkson is not used to making these decisions and is visibly upset when he realizes his sheep have been slaughtered while he was in the office.

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* AdoptTheFood: In Series 2, Jeremy buys a herd of cattle to provide beef for his restaurant, but makes sure to take special care of the white cow, Pepper, at the request of the daughter of the handler he buys them from. Over time, he ends up getting attached to Pepper; when she's unable to get pregnant even after mating with a live bull, Jeremy can't bear to send her to the slaughterhouse and adopts her as a pet instead.



* DidntThinkThisThrough: At least OncePerEpisode, Clarkson admits that he didn't forsee a major problem with his plans.
** Instead of simply cutting the fields' grass once a year or paying someone to do that, he instead opts to buy a flock of sheep, which nets him an overall loss once he factors in all their costs and the low income the lambs are worth.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: At least OncePerEpisode, Clarkson admits that he didn't forsee a major problem with his plans.
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plans. For instance, instead of simply cutting the fields' grass once a year or paying someone to do that, he instead opts to buy a flock of sheep, which nets him an overall loss once he factors in all their costs and the low income the lambs are worth.



* GreenAesop: As the series progresses, it places increasing emphasis how much harm climate change is doing to the farming industry as the issue becomes an increasingly big problem for Clarkson (a vocal anti-environmentalist) and the rest of the farm staff.
* HarsherInHindsight: In the second series (which took place in 2021), Clarkson assured Kaleb that Russia and Ukraine were not going to go to war. It's lampshaded by the show itself (which released in 2023).

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* GreenAesop: As the first series progresses, it places increasing emphasis how much harm climate change is doing to the farming industry as the issue becomes an increasingly big problem for Clarkson (a vocal anti-environmentalist) and the rest of the farm staff.
* HarsherInHindsight: An in-universe case. In the second series (which took place in 2021), Clarkson assured Kaleb that Russia and Ukraine were not going to go to war. It's lampshaded by the show itself (which itself, which released in 2023).2023, well into the Russian invasion of Ukraine.



* NaiveNewcomer: Much of the show's comedy revolves around how woefully inexperienced Jeremy is at farming. He approaches the job like he would a typical challenge on ''Series/{{Top Gear|UK}}'' and ''Series/TheGrandTour'', emphasizing television-friendly flashiness above all else, and ends up stuck with ill-fitting equipment and self-sabotaging techniques, repeatedly irritating the younger, but far more experienced Kaleb. As the show progresses, he gradually gets a better hang on the ins-and-outs of farming, but still gets blindsided by new equipment and techniques at least OnceAnEpisode.

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* NaiveNewcomer: Much of the show's comedy revolves around how woefully inexperienced Jeremy is at farming. He approaches the job like he would a typical challenge on ''Series/{{Top Gear|UK}}'' and ''Series/TheGrandTour'', emphasizing television-friendly flashiness above all else, and ends up stuck with ill-fitting equipment and self-sabotaging techniques, repeatedly irritating the younger, but far more experienced Kaleb. As the show progresses, he gradually gets a better hang on the ins-and-outs of farming, but still gets blindsided by new equipment and techniques at least OnceAnEpisode. It also gets {{deconstructed|Trope}} in Series 2, where Jeremy's inexperience as a farmer and his past as a controversial and showy media personality fuel the public skepticism and bureaucratic obstruction towards his plans to open a restaurant on the farm.
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* EurekaMoment: Jeremy has one in the second series when Alan mentions that he is allowed to do whatever he wants with the old existing barn on his land, which finally lets him get the restaurant idea going when Plan A is refused by local government. Overlaps with NowYouTellMe.
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* TemptingFate: Jeremy finds out his farm used to be a source of spring water, so he sets out to bottle it. The testing results show two of the springs are contaminated, but one is good, so while further testing is done, he bottles it and labels it "Hasn't Got Shit In It." The testing comes back contaminated, so he has to frantically rush to the store to pull it off the shelves because it ''has'' got shit in it.

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* TemptingFate: Jeremy finds out his farm used to be a source of spring water, so he sets out to bottle it. The testing results show two of the springs are contaminated, but one is good, so while further testing is done, he bottles it and labels it "Hasn't "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Hasn't Got Shit In It.It]]." The testing comes back contaminated, so he has to frantically rush to the store to pull it off the shelves because it ''has'' got shit in it.
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->"''For many years, [[Series/TopGearUK this has been]] [[Series/TheGrandTour my day job]]. But, when the important work was over, I came home... to this. It's my farm in the Cotswolds. Nestling amongst the ancient stone villages, it's a peaceful, 1,000 acre haven of wide open fields, brooks, waterfalls, woods and wild flower meadows. It stretches from those trees over there on the far horizon, then it goes behind that big wood, down into the valley and then up past here to a point a couple of miles over there. And ever since I bought it back in 2008, it's been run by a chap from the village. However, he told me a couple of months ago that he's retiring, so, I've come up with a plan: I shall farm it myself.''"
-->-- '''Creator/JeremyClarkson''', first episode intro
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keeping it consistent with the rest of the page.


It was renewed for a second season in July 2021, which released on 10th February, 2023. And while a third season has been planned, the long-term future of the series is in doubt after his remarks on Meghan Markle landed him in hot water (again).

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It was renewed for a second season series in July 2021, which released on 10th February, 2023. And while a third season series has been planned, the long-term future of the series is in doubt after his remarks on Meghan Markle landed him in hot water (again).



* CallToAgriculture: Jeremy takes up farming between seasons of ''Series/TheGrandTour'' after the contract farmer retires.
* CockADoodleDawn: In season two, Jeremy buys roosters for the chicken coop on his farm. Predictably, they end up crowing at every sunrise and waking him up... which quickly irritates him due to sunrise happening at 4 in the morning. Over time, the crowing turns out to be more useful than expected, since it gives Jeremy more room to get to work on the farm.

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* CallToAgriculture: Jeremy takes up farming between seasons series' of ''Series/TheGrandTour'' after the contract farmer retires.
* CockADoodleDawn: In season series two, Jeremy buys roosters for the chicken coop on his farm. Predictably, they end up crowing at every sunrise and waking him up... which quickly irritates him due to sunrise happening at 4 in the morning. Over time, the crowing turns out to be more useful than expected, since it gives Jeremy more room to get to work on the farm.



* LaymansTerms: Charlie is a saint for carefully and clearly explaining things to Clarkson and the audience, and clearly has experience doing this. Compare to Kaleb, who doesn't care that Clarkson doesn't have the farming background to follow along, and Gerald, who is [[TheUnintelligble Gerald]].

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* LaymansTerms: Charlie is a saint for carefully and clearly explaining things to Clarkson and the audience, and clearly has experience doing this. Compare to Kaleb, who doesn't care that Clarkson doesn't have the farming background to follow along, and Gerald, who is [[TheUnintelligble [[TheUnintelligible Gerald]].



* TheUnintelligible: A RunningGag in the series is that Gerald, the Farms' head of security and occasional farm hand, has an extremely heavy West Country accent. Jeremy is never sure what he's saying and mostly just nods and agrees with him, hoping the conversation ends. This makes harvesting in the last episode a bit of a pain at first, with Gerald driving the (very loud) combine with a face mask on, muffling his speech and making him impossible to hear over the comms. EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped, as half of what Gerald says is "[[=[Unintelligible Words]=]]"

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* TheUnintelligible: A RunningGag in the series is that Gerald, the Farms' head of security and occasional farm hand, has an extremely heavy West Country accent. Jeremy is never sure what he's saying and mostly just nods and agrees with him, hoping the conversation ends. This makes harvesting in the last episode of series one a bit of a pain at first, with Gerald driving the (very loud) combine with a face mask on, muffling his speech and making him impossible to hear over the comms. EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped, as half of what Gerald says is literally just printed as "[[=[Unintelligible Words]=]]"
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Gerald launches into non-sequiturs and strange topics even when his accent is intelligble, but Clarkson nontheless respects his years of experience at masonry and farmwork.


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* DidntThinkThisThrough: At least OncePerEpisode, Clarkson admits that he didn't forsee a major problem with his plans.
** Instead of simply cutting the fields' grass once a year or paying someone to do that, he instead opts to buy a flock of sheep, which nets him an overall loss once he factors in all their costs and the low income the lambs are worth.


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* LaymansTerms: Charlie is a saint for carefully and clearly explaining things to Clarkson and the audience, and clearly has experience doing this. Compare to Kaleb, who doesn't care that Clarkson doesn't have the farming background to follow along, and Gerald, who is [[TheUnintelligble Gerald]].


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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Charlie and Kaleb both do this to Clarkson on a regular basis for different reasons, whether he listens to them or not is a different story. For instance, Charlie advises against buying a herd of sheep to deal with the simple problem of cutting the grass once a year, and is ignored.

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Copy-pasting from Series.The Grand Tour since that's more clear about what specifically the remarks were about.


It was renewed for a second season in July 2021, which released on 10th February, 2023. And while a third season has been planned, the long-term future of the series is in doubt due to Clarkson making inflammatory comments on social media.

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It was renewed for a second season in July 2021, which released on 10th February, 2023. And while a third season has been planned, the long-term future of the series is in doubt due to Clarkson making inflammatory comments after his remarks on social media.
Meghan Markle landed him in hot water (again).


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* CockADoodleDawn: In season two, Jeremy buys roosters for the chicken coop on his farm. Predictably, they end up crowing at every sunrise and waking him up... which quickly irritates him due to sunrise happening at 4 in the morning. Over time, the crowing turns out to be more useful than expected, since it gives Jeremy more room to get to work on the farm.

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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: A running theme in Series 2 is the local council repeatedly denying Diddly Squat farm basic farming projects. For example, Clarkson wants a farm track to connect the restaurant to the farm house, with the added benefit of keeping his tractor off of the roads, which the Council denies, despite being an active benefit for everyone involved.
** Because the council denied them permission to build a car park near the farm shop, customers parked on the side of the roads, which the council then put "no stopping" cones to make sure people don't stop there either. As Jeremy points out, they wouldn't have needed to use the cones if they let him build parking space ''on his own field'' to begin with, and even Charlie (a well-mannered assistant than barely gets angry) is mildly furious at the council.

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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: A running theme in Series 2 is the local council repeatedly denying Diddly Squat farm Farm basic farming projects. For example, projects:
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Clarkson wants a farm track to connect the restaurant to the farm house, with the added benefit of keeping his tractor off of the roads, which the Council denies, despite being an active benefit for everyone involved.
involved. Charlie also notes that, in his time as a farmer assistant, he has ''never'' seen the council deny such requests.
** Because the council denied them permission to build a car park near the farm shop, customers parked on the side of the roads, to which the council then put up "no stopping" cones to make sure people don't stop there either. As Jeremy points out, they wouldn't have needed to use the cones if they let him build parking space ''on his own field'' to begin with, and even Charlie (a with. And Charlie, a usually well-mannered assistant than barely that hardly gets angry) angry, is mildly visibly furious at the council.council for their actions.
** When Clarkson and Charlie were denied permission to make a restaurant on the farm, they consider taking the council to court; and the only reason they don't go through with it is due to the ''eyewatering'' costs of the legal case (£500,000, including other costs too).
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** Clarkson jokingly refers Kaleb's Volkswagen as a "grand touring" (or GT) car.

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** Clarkson jokingly refers Kaleb's Volkswagen as a "grand touring" tourer" (or GT) car.
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* CountryMouse: In Series One, Kaleb says the furthest he's been from his hometown in his new car is 12 miles. He once went on a school trip to London when he was younger, but was so scared he refused to get off the bus. He also doesn't read very much (if at all) and has essentially no knowledge of the world beyond his village. Jeremy, therefore, gleefully picks him to go to London to drop off some orders for the farm's clients.

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* CountryMouse: In Series One, 23-year-old Kaleb says the furthest he's been from his hometown in his new car is 12 miles. He once went on a school trip to London when he was younger, but was so scared he refused to get off the bus. In Series Two he calls his infant son "foreign" because he was born in Oxford, 20 miles away. He also doesn't read very much (if at all) and has essentially no knowledge of the world beyond his village. Jeremy, therefore, gleefully picks him to go to London to drop off some orders for the farm's clients.
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* CountryMouse: In Series One, Kaleb says the furthest he's been from his hometown in his new car is 12 miles. He once went on a school trip to London when he was younger, but was so scared he refused to get off the bus. He also doesn't read very much (if at all) and has essentially no knowledge of the world beyond his village. Jeremy, therefore, gleefully picks him to go to London to drop off orders to the farm's clients.

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* CountryMouse: In Series One, Kaleb says the furthest he's been from his hometown in his new car is 12 miles. He once went on a school trip to London when he was younger, but was so scared he refused to get off the bus. He also doesn't read very much (if at all) and has essentially no knowledge of the world beyond his village. Jeremy, therefore, gleefully picks him to go to London to drop off some orders to for the farm's clients.
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* CountryMouse: Kaleb once went on a school trip to London. He was afraid of the large crowds and stayed on the bus. He also doesn't read very much (if at all) and has essentially no knowledge of the world beyond the village. This ends up coming back to bite him when he has to travel to London to drop off orders to the farm's clients.

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* CountryMouse: In Series One, Kaleb says the furthest he's been from his hometown in his new car is 12 miles. He once went on a school trip to London. He London when he was afraid of the large crowds and stayed on younger, but was so scared he refused to get off the bus. He also doesn't read very much (if at all) and has essentially no knowledge of the world beyond the his village. This ends up coming back to bite Jeremy, therefore, gleefully picks him when he has to travel go to London to drop off orders to the farm's clients.clients.
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I doubt if anyone under 30 in the UK has read the Bible at all.


* CountryMouse: Kaleb once went on a school trip to London. He was afraid of the large crowds and stayed on the bus. He also doesn't read very much (if at all, even the Bible) and has essentially no knowledge of the world beyond the village. This ends up coming back to bite him when he has to travel to London to drop off orders to the farm's clients.

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* CountryMouse: Kaleb once went on a school trip to London. He was afraid of the large crowds and stayed on the bus. He also doesn't read very much (if at all, even the Bible) all) and has essentially no knowledge of the world beyond the village. This ends up coming back to bite him when he has to travel to London to drop off orders to the farm's clients.

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