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The boys attempt to break the British water speed record for amphibious cars and the guests of the show are Dynamo and Penn and Teller. The boys attempt to break the British water speed record for amphibious cars and the guests of the show are Dynamo and Penn and Teller. The boys attempt to break the British water speed record for amphibious cars and the guests of the show are Dynamo and Penn and Teller.

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• Trivia The Grand Tour now holds the UK water speed record for an amphibious car. The world water speed record is 60mph and held by something called the WaterCar Python. The Grand Tour probably won't be attempting to smash that.
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• Soundtracks Grand Tour Opener (uncredited) Written by Matt Clifford

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Episode Rating:  Four of Five

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The episode starts with Jeremy Clarkson asking what seems like an obvious question: have humans really improved over time?

But he offers an interesting reasoning: 25 years ago, the super cars were just as fast as they are now.

The Jaguar XJ220, with a top speed of 217, was the fastest car in the world briefly until the Bugatti EB110 beat it's record with a top speed of 218 mph. These two cars were designed in the 80's but came out in the early 90's when the financial climate was not as good for supercars.

25 years later, only 3 cars currently in production are faster. However, the turbo lag is very old fashioned. Once they spool up, as Jeremy says, "all hell breaks loose." Even though the Bugatti has a faster top speed, a bigger engine, and all-wheel drive, Clarkson still prefers the Jag, primarily because it is just gorgeous.

In a drag race, the "slower" Jag beats the Bugatti by about a car length. And that's with Jeremy having to guess when to shift since the tach was broken.

From here, Clarkson's argument that we haven't advanced starts to fall apart, because tech-wise, the 90's was practically the dark ages. The Jag has no AC, no power steering, no ABS and no traction control, making it a challenge to keep it on the road.

Modern supercars make speed fun and easy instead of terrifying, and when the two 90's supercars get on the track, the progress of 25 years of technology is evident.

The 4wd EB110 on a wet test track still only managed a lap time of 1:32.8 and the Jag a 1:35.1. Those times put the 200 mph+ machines lap times on par as the modern Fiat Abarth 124 Spider and a VW UP GTI, which also drove in the wet.

Conversation Street

Clarkson is joined by Richard Hammond and James May to chat about the new BMW Z4 and Toyota Supra cousins, and share our love of the new Supra's looks especially. They mention a VW executive that took a vacation in Florida when there was a warrant for his arrest so he was taken in as soon as he landed for his role in Dieselgate.

They also discuss a new Rimac Concept Two to remind Hammond what happened to the first one, and the Mclaren Senna, noting that it is the only F1 driver name that works well for a car.

A familiar theme

The feature of this episode will be familiar to anyone who has watched season one or any of the three's previous show's seasons. They are building an amphibious vehicle in order to attempt to break the British Water speed record. They claim that 85% of people attempting water speed records have been killed attempting. They say they like their odds.

The current record is 39.1 mph in a road legal amphibious vehicle. Clarkson is in charge of the build, so of course he immediately goes to an airport to procure a jet engine. He shows off the jet engine's power by blowing planes over before suggesting they slap one on the back of a Suzuki Jimny, known in America as the Samurai.

After mating the Samurai, a jet engine and a small boat, the creation drives, but it started as a car so that isn't much of a surprise. When they get to the lake, Hammond refuses to join the two on the water.

The first surprise is that it floats. The second surprise is that the jet engine works and it fires up right behind their heads with just a plexiglass window keeping from them getting sucked in. The final surprise is that, even at full power, the jet engine can barely move the craft because of the insane amount of drag the car's undercarriage produces.

They go back to the drawing board, and smartly put Jeremy in charge of tea while the other two make a new design. They get a jet ski and a "Bond Bug," a three wheeled car that looks like Jeremy's old nemesis, the Reliant Robin.

Celebrity F Off

This time, Clarkson wants to figure out who is the fastest magician, so they bring on guests Dynamo and Penn and Teller. The two acts actually perform a few basic magic tricks for what makes for a very entertaining celebrity segment. But they still have to go for a drive, and the track is covered in snow and slush.

Penn and Teller complete the slushy lap in 1:33.8, which Dynamo can't match with his time of 1:39.3.

The Pond Bug

Now that their Bond Bug conversion is complete, the "Pond Bug" is brought to a 5 mile stretch of water where official speed record attempts take place. Clarkson showed up with a regular boat that has tracks that come out, but it isn't road legal so he is disqualified.

May and Hammond show Clarkson their finished creation and he notes how little they know about boats and that they have built an over-complicated death-trap. Unfortunately for Jeremy, he is the only one with the required license to make the attempt.

Just like land records, water speed records require a run both directions to get an average speed. Clarkson couldn't get it to steer properly, and once he gets it going, he can't tell his speed because the GPS speedo won't pick up a satellite.

On his return trip, the engine started to lose power, but surprisingly produced the higher speeds of the two runs. The official results were 47 mph one way and 48 mph on the return, which averaged to 47.81 which is good for a new record.

Impressions

Clarkson hit the nail on the head when he chose the "slower" Jaguar XJ220 over the Bugatti EB110 based solely on looks. Both cars have a uniquely 90's exotic style but the Jaguar has always been revered as the prettier car.

Magic tricks don't have quite the same effect on TV where it is even harder to tell what is actually going on, but the guest magicians actually made a pretty enjoyable segment that had us wondering just how they did it.

Building an amphibious vehicle is old hat for these three presenters but they upped the ante by using all of their past experience to not just make a working craft this time, but a record setting one. The episode had the fewest cars of all the previous ones, but the speed boats were more than enough to make up for it.

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"So, we're now actively trying to kill each other?"

"Yes, and we can't even do that properly."

Clarkson and Hammond about the improbable lack of fatalities during their death-trap speed record attempt.

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In this episode, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May attempt to set a new British water speed record for amphibious cars. A staggering 85 percent of all people who try to break records on water are killed but this doesn’t put off Clarkson, Hammond and May as they set about building their own road legal machine from an unholy union of car, boat and jet engine and then use it to spear across the choppy waters of a vast lake during something called “Coniston Speed Week”.

Also in this show, Jeremy makes a nostalgic trip to the Eboladrome to drive a pair of incredible supercars from the early 1990s, the Jaguar XJ220 and the Bugatti EB 110 Super Sport.

Plus, Celebrity Face Off finds the world’s fastest magician as Dynamo goes head-to-head against Penn & Teller.

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In tonight’s episode of  The Grand Tour , the trio attempt a water-based world record and compare old hypercars to the new.

Jaguar XJ220 vs. the Bugatti EB110

The first segment is one that viewers had been looking forward to for quite a while: the Jaguar XJ220 vs. the Bugatti EB110. It’s reminiscent of the spectacular Audi vs. Lancia film from the other week, which is about as high a compliment as a Grand Tour  segment can have. It’s loud, screamy, and full of good shots of the XJ220 and EB110.

The Trio Attempt A High Speed Water Record

They start out at Huddersfield International Airport, on the hunt for a jet engine that could create enough thrust to break a record. Two aviational casualties later, the process begins of combining a Suzuki Jimny with a boat and a jet, culminating in a finished product which the presenters undoubtedly had nothing to do with at all. The first test run is mostly a success, mainly since neither James nor Jeremy were killed, but that’s because the top speed is revealed to be about three.

Clarkson is then forced to test the newly-christened  Pond  Bug out for real. After numerous stationary circles, he manages to get the Bug pointing in the correct direction, and wouldn’t you know it, the record is broken. Meaning that  The Grand Tour has, literally, made history. With a rebodied Reliant Robin and a jet ski.

Celebrity Face-Off

During Celebrity Face-Off, three of the world’s best-known magicians (Dynamo and Penn & Teller) take the F-Type around the track. All three do some pretty sweet magic before the extremely slow and snowy laps, making for by far the most entertaining Face-Off segment of the season. Penn’s tail-happy 1:33.8 smokes Dynamo’s somewhat lethargic 1:39.3 in the end, though both laps are catastrophically slow by any other standard.

Overall, this was a strong episode. None of the films were particularly weak, as was the case with the previous episode with the mobile-refueling-unit bit, and the Bugatti/Jag segment was extremely strong, if a bit short.

The Pond Bug wasn’t overdone, and managed to stay reasonably grounded while still providing a great ending with the record being broken. So if you want to see three old men break a record of which most of the population is completely unaware, watch away.

These Are The Sickest Custom Rides From The Grand Tour

Leaving Top Gear didn't stop the famous trio from making even more wild and ludicrous custom creations to keep the fans guessing.

Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond. These three gentlemen are single-handedly (in this case, six-handedly) responsible for bringing the auto industry and car culture to new heights of popularity. We bet many people started watching Top Gear for the humor and satire and ended up becoming gearheads. But when their stint on Top Gear came to a sudden end because of some physical alterations between Jeremy and a producer of the show , Clarkson and his two mates got an offer from Amazon and the world got blessed with The Grand Tour .

After the trio left Top Gear , The Grand Tour was arguably the next best thing. And just like their previous show, the three hosts did not hold back on satirical stunts and their classic buffoonery. Hence, we got to see a lot of challenges, road trips, and special episodes over the course of 4 seasons so far. Everyone knows that with challenges and road trips come modified cars. Some of them are weird and great, some of them are just weird, but a few of them are simply next level. So we went through all of them and found 10 of the best and coolest ones.

9 Jeremy's V8-Powered Beach Buggy

The boys went to Namibia on a crazy journey through the Namib desert in search of a road. Their starting point was a spot where the desert meets the South Atlantic Ocean. It’s fitting that a car from the first Special episode of the show starts off this list as well.

The boys brought their own beach buggies, but Jeremy clearly wasn’t happy with the stock power of a VW Beetle buggy. So we got to see what happens when a tiny little buggy gets a big ol’ V8 strapped to its back. If we had to guess, Jeremy’s reason behind it was “ SPEED AND POWER!!! ”

Related: 8 Cars That Surprisingly Came With A V8 Engine

8 James May's American Road Trip RV

The three hosts went on an RV camping trip across the US in a stock RV in a typical fashion. And they got bored with it pretty early on and got their own custom RVs, again in typical fashion. When we say customizing the RV suited to our own needs, James May seems to have taken things ‌seriously.

This man fitted an entire pub inside his RV, complete with dart boards and cheesy wall posters. Just imagine going on a road trip all day long and then camping in the wilderness in the middle of nowhere and having a drink of your choice in peace and quiet.

Related: 10 Things You Never Heard About Top Gear's James May

7 Richard Hammond's Living Car Aka The Tree-T-I

The fourth episode of the first season of The Grand Tour saw the three hosts try and build a car from a Land Rover Discovery chassis and sustainable materials from nature. “Well, what’s more sustainable and green than actual plants?” asked Richard.

So he made the entire outer body of his car from plants, bamboo, shrubs, and even a few flowers! Before the episode ends, Hammond’s car was so sustainable that a little hedgehog hopped in and started living in the car!

6 The Excellent

In the last several years, more and more people are buying SUVs than ever before. But they tend to justifiably cost a lot more than sedans and hatchbacks. That's why Jeremy decided to make his own version of a modern SUV. For that, he took the underpinnings and chassis of a Land Rover Discovery and merged it with the outer body of a 1978 MGB Roadster.

It was a catastrophic failure, so he chose the ‘80s Mercedes-Benz SL which was a better fit on the DIscovery than the MG. And the result was something that Jeremy would call ‘The Excellent’ while his two mates would call rubbish. Now it’s up to you to decide which team you are on.

5 Jeremy's 'The Flying Bridge'

Whenever the hosts do a special in the US, we know we are in for a show. James’ Pub RV was not the only wonky-but-sick ride in the show. Jeremy Clarkson wanted to get a feel of one of those luxury yachts while on this trip.

So he took a page out of Mr. Bean’s page and added the controls to his RV to the top. As goofy as it sounds, the thing actually works and looks magnificent while doing it. Until the brakes failed, the throttle got stuck, and his two mates had to attempt to do a pincer grasp on his RV to get it to stop.

Related: This Two-Story Trailer RV Looks Nicer Inside Than Most Apartments

4 Richard Hammond's Modified Ford Focus

The Grand Tour ’s Madagascar special ‘A Massive Hunt’ may have gotten semi-decent reviews on IMDB. But, the vehicles they use in it are some of the best and most popular. While James May’s Caterham was sick, it wasn’t modified enough to be on this list.

But Richard, on the other hand, changed one of the most fundamental things of his car—the wheels. Hammond’s new modified Ford Focus now sported a full-on pirate look. It now had caterpillar tracks to endure the harsh roads of Madagascar.

Related: Here's What You Never Knew About Top Gear's Richard Hammond

3 The Road-Legal Amphibious Car

The challenge was to break an amphibious speed record. So they needed a car that could run on roads and sail on water. Obviously, Jeremy decided to use the jet engine of a Maritime patrol aircraft. The idea was to merge a Russian jet engine, a small boat, and an old Suzuki Jimny. The result was extravagant!

But it was also a failure. So they made another one. This time, they got a Bond Bug , replaced the wheels with those retractable ones, and gave it a jet-ski engine...and that result was also pretty bold and out there.

Related: The Atlas ATV Is The Ultimate Off-Road Amphibious Vehicle From Ukraine

2 Jeremy's 'The MFB'

The MFB is undoubtedly one of the most remembered cars from the entire series. Jeremy chose the Bentley Continental GT for his Madagascar treasure hunt. When the smooth asphalt ended and the gravel, mud, and grit kicked in, the Bentley evolved.

It had (get ready...) skid plates, snorkels, a winch at the front, armor-plated steel running across the underside, a motorcycle’s headlamps, an external roll cage, Golf GTI brakes, bigger tires, replaced fenders, and rally lights on the top.

Related: Check Out The Most Ridiculous Custom Rides Featured On Top Gear

John is THE sickest custom ride in The Grand Tour. It’s also least like any factory-rolled stock car because it’s completely self-constructed by the three hosts in the Gobi Desert. The trio was in the middle of nowhere in the Gobi Desert, and their only ray of hope was the car they built.

For six days, John went through every obstacle the untamed desert had to offer and carried the boys to the nearest place of civilization, which was a town with a funny name. In simple terms, John went through hell and brought the boys to humanity, both literally and metaphorically.

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In an attempt to set a British water speed record for amphibious cars, Clarkson, Hammond and May will show off a very quirky road legal machine on The Grand Tour this Friday. The build is actually part car, part boat, part jet engine and it should provide the hosts with plenty of challenges as they look to defy some really bad odds regarding maritime records.

Afterwards, Jeremy Clarkson will take to the Eboladrome to compare the Jaguar XJ220 and the Bugatti EB110 Super Sport in a battle of early 1990s 3.5-liter turbocharged supercars. However, whereas the XJ220 was powered by a 3.5-liter twin turbo V6, the more powerful EB110 SS had a 3.5-liter quad -turbo V12.

On paper, they had very similar performance figures, so it will be quite interesting to see what Clarkson makes of those 20-year old supercars. As for the Celebrity Face Off segment, it will feature magicians Dynamo and the famous duo of Penn & Teller.

Episode 9 of The Grand Tour’s second season will be available on Amazon Prime Video this Friday, February 2nd.

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Top gear veterans have engaged in all manner of surreal antics over the years, from building their own stretch limosines to turning caravans into airships, article bookmarked.

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A new series of The Grand Tour starring Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond and James May arrives on Amazon Prime on Friday 18 January.

The motoring show first aired in 2016 after the trio’s acrimonious departure from the BBC had ended their wildly popular tenure as hosts of Top Gear between 2002 and 2015.

Nominally a review programme, Top Gear became known for its ever-more madcap and improbable stunts in their hands, apparently undertaken to “test” the durability of the vehicles in question but really having a great deal more to do with the hosts’ appetite for reveling in carnage for the sheer hell of it.

While the blokey, boot-cut conservatism of Clarkson and his familiars might not be to everyone’s taste, their exploits remain sensationally popular and together these Falstaffs of the forecourt have risked their lives beyond all reason to deliver some of the most spectacular and inventive feats of destruction British television has ever seen.

Here’s our selection of their 10 most ludicrous escapades.

Jeremy Clarkson and co: Their 10 best stunts

10. Bugatti Veyron versus RAF Eurofighter Typhoon

Series 10, episode 3, 2007

Hammond races the £1m sports car against the £67m twin-engine jet, capable of hitting speeds of 1,500mph, along the runway of RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire for no very good reason at all.

9. Homemade stretch limosines

Series 9, episode 6, 2007

The chaps were tasked with building their own stretch limos by carving existing cars in half and welding them together to create surreal new “luxury” models.

• The Grand Tour review: More wanton destruction with Jeremy Clarkson

Clarkson chose a 1992 Fiat Panda, May a 1994 Saab 9000 (and an 1996 Alfa Romeo 164) and Hammond an MG F. Chris Moyles, Jamelia and Lemar (remember him?) were the celebrities lucky enough to be ferried around in the resulting abominations.

8. Toyota Aygo football

Series 6, episode 1, 2005

Hammond and May (alas, not the chancellor and PM) play five-a-side using two fleets of the Japanese city car to make two teams, nudging a giant rubber ball goalwards in a closely fought match ending 2-1 to the former.

7. Destroying the indestructible Toyota Hilux

Series 3, episode 5, 2003

Clarkson attempts to reduce the pick-up truck to scrap metal by ramming it through the alleyways of Bristol before reversing it into the sea, dropping a family caravan on it, attacking it with a wrecking ball and finally torching it in desperation.

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6. Amphibious cars

Series 8, episode 3, 2006

The hosts turn three clapped-out old bangers into boats with the goal of making it across the two-miles of water making up Rudyard Lake in Leek, Staffordshire.

Hammond turns a 1983 Volkswagen T3 campervan into a houseboat, May converts a 1962 Triumph Herald into a sailboat and Clarkson attaches an outboard motor to a 1989 Hilux, a vehicle he appeared to take particular relish in torturing.

5. Double-decker car racing

Series 11, episode 6, 2008

Clarkson, Hammond and May take on their German counterparts Sabine Schmitz, Carsten van Ryssen and Tim Schrick from D Motor in a race around Belgium’s Zolder circuit driving cars with duplicate models welded to the roof. The upper car steered, the lower controlled the brakes and gears.

The British contingent of course make the requisite Churchillian postures and war jokes, even touching down on “neutral territory” via Spitfire.

4. Caravan leaping

Series 3, episode 2, 2003

The show’s obsession with the inherent absurdity of the motorway-blighting caravan was a recurring theme and the use of a Volvo 240 Estate to leap a line of five of them, Evel Knievel-style, made the disdain especially clear.

See also the 2004 caravan conkers stunt, in which presenters swung the mobile homes at one another from giant hydraulic cranes, replicating the timeless playground contest on an industrial scale.

Series 4, episode 4, 2004

A similar idea was the firing of old cars into a disused quarry with the aid of a gas-powered launcher, altering the angle to better hit a target painted on the base of the pit, the game marrying medieval siege warfare tactics with classic pub darts.

As perfect an illustration of what Top Gear was all about as any.

2. Airship caravaning

Series 14, episode 3, 2009

An even grander assault on the much-maligned caravan, May proposes removing them from the roads entirely by converting them into old-fashioned Zeppelins.

Flying over the fields of Norfolk, he is able to grill sausages in the sky before causing a major incident when he drifts into Norwich Airport’s aerospace – a disaster worthy of the county’s favourite son Alan Partridge , himself a major fan of the show and not above using its accompanying magazine to berate his ex-wife Carol over her new boyfriend’s Renault Megane.

1. Reliant Robin space shuttle

Series 9, episode 4, 2007

Top Gear took Clarkson, Hammond and May from the North Pole to Bolivia. The closest they ever got to outer space was building a shuttle to blast a rusty old Reliant Robin into the atmosphere. Delightfully absurd.

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The Grand Tour spotted on WATER as Jeremy Clarkson is pictured smashing amphibious car speed record

• Joe Finnerty
• Published : 15:12, 2 Nov 2017
• Updated : 16:13, 2 Nov 2017

JEREMY Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have been spotted filming for The Grand Tour - but this time smashing a record on WATER.

The trio, who just revealed series two of show would return in December, were snapped breaking the speed record in a tiny amphibious car.

The presenters, who are famous for their ridiculous challenges in cars, have turned to speedboats for their latest stunt.

Clarkson tore through the lake at record speeds of 47.81mph in the "Bond Bug" car while filming the Amazon Prime series with his co-hosts.

The 1970s orange three-wheeler was fitted with a jet ski engine ahead of Power Boat Records Week in the Lake District.

The wedge-shaped microcar - with a lift-up canopy and side screens instead of doors - also has retractable rear wheels for water "driving".

Clarkson was able to power through the water and break the speed record for the "experimental amphibious unlimited class".

The trio also took to the skies arriving at the national park for the event by helicopter.

A new trailer for series two of The Grand Tour was released yesterday showing fans what to expect this time round.

It'll return to Amazon Prime on December 8 with another episode released weekly.

It promises the biggest range of locations with the globetrotting show stopping off in Croatia, Mozambique, Dubai, Spain, Switzerland, Colorado and New York.

But the movable studio tent will stay put this year, taking up a permanent home in the Cotswolds.

Filming for the series hasn't been plain sailing, either, with Clarkson off ill for months with pneumonia .

While Hammond was left in hospital after another horror crash when filming a high-speed segment in the Swiss Alps.

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Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson build ‘deadly’ amphibious car in The Grand Tour to break water speed record

The Grand Tour heads off-road and onto water for episode nine of the new series with a car, boat, jet contraption

• Joe Finnerty
• Published : 16:46, 31 Jan 2018
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THE GRAND TOUR heads onto water this week as Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May try to break a speed record.

The gang build a "deadly" water, boat and jet contraption to spear across a choppy lake to break the water speed record.

And the odds are against the Amazon Prime trio with 85 per cent of attempts ending with someone being killed.

Unsurprisingly, daredevil and accident prone Hammond, 48, is banned from driving the amphibious car with Clarkson strapped in instead.

And the vehicle they build looks more lethal than record-worthy and fortunately never makes it to the competition.

Instead, Clarkson, 57, drives the "Bond Bug" at the Power Boat Records Week in the Lake District.

The ninth episode of The Grand Tour, titled "Breaking, badly" will also see Clarkson behind the wheel of two incredible supercars from the 90s - the Jaguar XJ220 and the Bugatti EB110.

This week's Celebrity Face Off will also feature THREE famous names - as the show tries to find the world's fastest magician.

Dynamo will go head-to-head with Penn & Teller in the Jaguar F-Type challenge.

And there's extra peril to the on and off-road race as the track has been covered in snow.

Dynamo, 34, who told The Sun at the premiere of Fast & Furious Live he wants to be a stunt driver, said: "I don't know if I was going fast or not because I couldn't see the track as it was covered in snow!

"I remember the back end of the car kept spinning out all over the place but it was so much fun.

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"I don't know if I’ve beaten the others, I couldn't have attacked the track like I would have liked to but I completed it, which I’m happy with, but if I’ve beaten them, even better."

Penn & Teller added: "It was lots of fun and I was glad I was wearing a helmet because I didn't fit in that car and banged my head a lot - I was so big that they had to pull out the seat so I was sitting on the floor."

The episode will be available on Prime Video from this Friday (February 2).

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