Top Gear: series 20, episode 4, BBC Two, review What we got was a shouty, wet, miserable day up and down the banks of a river during which Clarkson & Co attempted to steer a pimped up van-turned-hovercraft all the way to Tewkesbury. The purpose, as if it needed one, was some half-baked mission to see if and whether this 'Hovervan' would be a formidable mode of rescue transport, in the event of another severe flood in the area. The delightfully random plot itself is nothing new to Top Gear; it is this that makes the show arguably one of the most entertaining things on tele on a Sunday night. Normally. This week, however, it didn't help that the topic was based around one of flooding and grey skies and wet, wet water: when most Britons have spent the last two weeks revelling in a heatwave you sort of forget what it's like to have miserable, grey day. Still, things cheered up when not only did we see Clarkson et al in ridiculous black wet suits (their beer belly silhouettes brilliantly on display), I also couldn't help but LOL at Richard Hammond getting blasted with spray from the Hovervan as he tried to climb into it while it was stuck in the canal lock. Long story. I was hoping Jeremy would fall in beside it (that could have been worth the £14m) but alas, he escaped pretty much unharmed. Naturally their half-hearted flood rescue mission failed and Clarkson and the team failed to prove anything except, yet again, they're a bunch of idiots messing about on a river. We all know that's what the show's about these days - I didn't learn a thing about cars. Having said that, the "green" Mercedes sports car - the electric version of the V8 - at the start of the show was pretty impressive, but none more so than Clarkson casually comparing it to a rampant rabbit. Blimey, the BBC really is trying to appeal to more women. And with Hugh Jackman on the show, things were looking up. Not least because Clarkson was forced to admit that "my penis is too small" in response to the Wolverine star asking if he'd ever taken a dip in hot springs. Just after an #awkward silence, the presenter followed it up with "you know what I mean," to which the mighty Jackman said: "No." It got a laugh in our house and then left us scratching our heads arguing about whether you're allowed to say "penis" before the watershed. Of course you are, it's not a swear word, is it? Such was the highbrow discussion in our house prompted by the show, you begin to wonder what on earth Top Gear is trying to achieve these days. It's entertainment, sure, yet somewhere between the "penis" jibe and the rampant rabbit remark at the top of the show, you being to wonder if Top Gear is trying just a little too hard to appeal to new audiences. This is series number 20, after all, and it feels a little like we're scraping the barrel.