It is about time someone said it - George is a better host than Robert. Robert was good, but George is funnier. His commentary on the sideways-mounted-motorcycle-engine / dune-buggy was awesome! You British people can go watch "A fish called Wanda" again or "Billy Elliot" if you want more unfunny homemade stuff!

-- John McNeil (JK_MCN@msn.com), January 11, 2001

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I'm an American, and George stinks. Bring back Robert.

They have switched focus from the actual engineering and construction, to George and his idiotic noises and comments.

I'm going to start recording the show, so I can skip over any scenes with him in them.

-- Johnny Utah (hiagftd@yahoo.com), January 11, 2001.

I think they actually put George on this show to weed out the true scrap building junkies from the weenie whinning babies who care more about the host. Whahhhhhhh whah blah blah. Heard it all before.

-- John Gap (mindthegap64@hotmail.com), January 11, 2001.

Well said!!

Stop the whining and get back to the show. You people make it sound like there's 45 minutes of George every episode.... this is not the case.

For all you Brits out there, don't think that all Americans are this whiny. Really, we aren't this bad....

-- Brian Nicolucci (Kenzo@NoSpam.com), January 11, 2001.

Hey McNeil, do you watch the same show.. or are you on crack? George is everything thats wrong with American TV... Thanks For Wasting My Time....

-- Wallace Dee (wallacedg@aol.com), January 11, 2001.

Wallace, or are you on crack? George haters are everything thats wrong with American TV... Thanks For Wasting our Time.... you should go watch battle bots...after 20 minutes with thier hosts, you'll be right back!

-- John Gap (mindthegap64@hotmail.com), January 11, 2001.

And Rosanne Arnold is sexier than Pamela Anderson.

-- Richard Manahan (rjcyclesk8@hotmail.com), January 11, 2001.

McNeil, pass whatever you're smoking over here. Considering that the US series has yet to be shown in the UK, I would guess that most of the posts you are seeing re: George sucks are in fact being written by a North American audience.

-- Rick (rml@hotmail.com), January 11, 2001.

almost everyone has said george sucks!.....who cares what he does in his spare time!?

-- (milehiharley@hotmail.com), January 12, 2001.

bring back robert the show is not about sound efects it is about bulding things out of SCRAP.

-- oliver shoesmith (olivershoesmith@aol.com), January 19, 2001.

Hey wait a minute Oliver... speaking of sound effects and silly noises, does anyone but me remember that Robert did the same thing ALL THE TIME?! Good Grief, how soon we forget! In fact, I seem to remember a thread on this board way before George was on, where everyone RAVED about Robert's funny noises!

-- Rhonda (mxrs@zianet.com), January 19, 2001.