Four all-time favorite episodes from the popular radio show—complete, unexpurgated, and hilarious.
Click and Clack may be America’s most trusted car repair experts. They are certainly the funniest, as millions of listeners who tune in each week to Car Talk can attest. As each show unfolds, it develops its own zany feeling and rhythm, sometimes due to the strength of the coffee or a particularly large burr in Tommy’s undershorts.
This Car Talk set is for fans who want to waste another four perfectly good hours. Rather than a “best of” collection, it’s four complete shows—every call, every joke, every “Don’t drive like my brother” admonition, every puzzler, every punny mention of a fictional show staff member (chauffeur Picov Andropov, night club manager Don Kashane), and every maniacal laugh.
The four shows include the 2002 Mother’s Day extravaganza with Click and Clack’s long-suffering mom, and “You Can’t Do It Unless the Number Is Two” from February 2001, the show that gave birth to a new Car Talk mantra and exposed Tommy’s radical views on education (like, it should end after 7th grade).
Guy Talk I purchased this for my father who is losing his eyesight and looking for alternate entertainment to TV.A couple of guys talking cars. They know their subject and have that “front stoop” sense of humor thatlets you laugh while you learn. He enjoyed this a great deal.
A load of fun and I even learned a few things! I’m such a fan of the NPR show Car Talk, where Tom and Roy answer callers’ questions about their cars, with equal parts humor and intelligence. This CD set includes some “Classic” shows, such as the time that the brothers’ own mother appeared on the show (or called into the show) and the time that Martha Stewart appeared as a guest on the show. They manage to pick friendly, articulate callers, and the banter with the callers is always a blast. Listening to Car Talk in my car turns a boring…
Too Many Duplicates Many of these episodes are already on their other CD’s. In fact one CD is dedicated to Mother’s Day and is almost a duplicate of the Maternal Combustion CD. With so many programs and so few CD’s I don’t know why they duplicate them. If you don’t already own any of their other CDs then this set would be worthwhile.