Top Gear, Series 17

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Richard:
I always struggle throwing boxes away.

Jeremy:
Why?

Richard:
Well because if you take the washing machine out of it, and fit that in your kitchen, and there's the box, all crisp and new and empty and I can't help but look at it, and part of my mind sees the potential. You look at it and you think, wow, that could be, like, a castle, or a - you've been there! [laughter and awkward looks from Jeremy and James] Or a den, or a like car. I'm the same with shoe boxes. I don't think I've ever thrown one away ever, because you think, I could keep special things in it, or put it on it's side and you could have, like, a TV screen, or maybe you could use the big box as a spaceship and then the little one as a dashboard. Come on, you've been th-!

Jeremy:
Richard? Are you all right? Seriously, because this is a man, with, there's no other way of putting this, with a helicopter licence.

Richard:
The CAA said I was alright.

Jeremy:
I know but, the CAA, if they're watching this, will think, "He's a madman!"

James:
Well, it's not a real helicopter - it's just the box his fridge came in.

Richard:
Yeah, alright. I just make the noise! [laughter and applause]

Richard and James:
[both imitating helicopter rotor noise]

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