The Grand Tour season 1 episode 5 review round-up: Yes, Clarkson inflates a sex toy with a V8 engine

The episode 5 of Amazon Prime's new motoring show The Grand Tour was just aired on Friday, December 16. In the episode, the former Top Gear trio apparently reached the set of Game of Thrones as it just beat HBO's drama series to become the most illegally downloaded TV show in the history.

Jokes apart, in the fifth episode of TGT named Moroccan Roll, the trio landed in the Netherlands and showed us some spectacular scenic beauty of North Africa with some lightweight supercars. It was a compilation of the trio's little jibber-jabber, some stunning visuals, Game of Thrones set, Clarkson's inflatable sex toys and the celebrity brain crash of the famous Dutch rock band Golden Earring. Here are a few highlights of the episode below.

Highlights:

Inflatable dolls

After presenting an array of sex toys as "safety" gears for use in cars, Jezza hooked an inflatable doll up to an engine and watched as it slowly filled with air. But not before it got more and more inflated and eventually burst. And Clarkson quipped, "The inflatable person has split."

Game of Thrones set

The excitement of Richard Hammond was extremely visible as he was quite convinced that he had discovered an entire ancient civilisation. But unfortunately, Clarkson revealed that the Hammond's assumption is totally wrong as it was the set of HBO's hit drama series Game of Thrones.

Weighing the cars with dead animals!

Clarkson, Hammond and May headed to Morocco with their lightweight sports cars. And, Jezza went on weighing their car as he tried to convince May that his car is much lightweight than others. He went on building a set of scales to weigh each of the cars and started grabbing cow, donkey, camel, and other animals to measure his car's weight. But as soon as he failed in the experiment, he gathered some dead animals to weigh those up. At last, some policemen came and interrupted in it.

The Board Game

Co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond are convinced to play the traditional board game but if the cars were real. To witness this in real, they arranged a range of vehicles, from a limousine to a Chrysler PT Cruiser, as the ships and dropping a fleet of missile-looking Reva G-Wiz electric cars on top of them - a running joke from their days on the BBC motoring show.

Critics review:

Let's have a look at what critics have to say about the fifth instalment of the show.

Ed Power of The Telegraph has written, 'A gorgeously-shot segment in Morocco was a showcase for the millions Amazon is sinking into the Grand Tour. Yet it doubled as an honest-to-goodness motoring piece in which the trio compared and contrasted low-slung sports cars."

"Across its first four episodes, the Grand Tour swung from spectacular to ridiculous – and was often both at the same time. But instalment five got the mix right, with competent jibber-jabber between the hosts and segments that didn't wear out their welcome. Even the jaw-dropping jaunt to North Africa – culminating with a race around a temple complex used in Game of Thrones – was more about cars than basking in the scenery. They've cracked the code."

Brandon Turkus of autoblog compared the show with Top Gear and writes "the fifth episode of The Grand Tour as it was with Top Gear."

"....the North Africa film plays out well in its first segment. There's the normal banter between the hosts, with each explaining why his car is superior, and we get a surprising drag race. It's fun and simple and is precisely the kind of stuff we like from TGT."

"After some initial shenanigans involving an air cannon, the two hosts get the game going. There's an old, Cold War-era airfield as the board, a quartet of cargo containers serve as the wall, and rather than an inaccurate cannon, a pair of cranes drop hateful G-Wiz "missiles" on the squares the hosts target. It's fun, competitive, and most importantly, simple, all of which makes it the highlight of episode five," he added.

Shaun Kitchener writes in the Daily Express, "The episode generally went down very strongly online, although the praise wasn't quite unanimous."

The Grand Tour airs on Amazon Prime Video every Friday at one minute past midnight.