The BEST episodes of Hamish and Andy's Gap Year season 2
Every episode of Hamish and Andy's Gap Year season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Hamish and Andy's Gap Year season 2!
Hamish and Andy take a year out of the rest of their lives and take their special brand of Aussie larrikinism to New York. Clearly, they're making a tilt at the Big Time. Ah, but is the Big Time ready for them?
#1 - Week 2
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/21/2012
The boys travel to Lapland (northern Scandiavia), to compete in reindeer racing. They also head out in London to be paparazzi for a day with a professional paparazzi called Jack. Later they crack open their homebrewed beer, Gap Byear, too early, and the beer hadn't even begun to ferment, due to "the freezing cold London summer" as Hamish puts it.
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#2 - Week 1
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/14/2012
Hamish and Andy have taken their misplaced sense of adventure to all corners of the globe, and now it's Europe's turn. Broadcast from a disused pub in London, the boys will be there to revel in all of Europe's weird and wonderful pastimes.
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#3 - Week 5
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/12/2012
Hamish and Andy go to Catalonia to be part of Los Torres Humanas, but Hamish finds out there is a snail festival happening at the same time and joins that instead and he competes in a biscuit eating contest, which he wins, and spends most of the day drinking. In Paris they go into the catacombs where Andy tries to leave Hamish behind. They also try to ride a stage of the Tour de France with Australian cyclist Cadel Evans, but he was "too busy", so instead they decide to go from Gibraltar to Morocco on an aqua trike.
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#4 - Week 3
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/28/2012
Hamish and Andy go to Venice, where they pilot Gondolas for a day, Hamish also reveals he his one eighth Italian, and acts as if Venice is his hometown, despite occasionally speaking Spanish to their Gondolier instructor. They head to the Netherlands to see which one is the better buttler, by going to the International Butler Academy.
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#5 - Pre-Opening Ceremony Special
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/26/2012
Australian Olympic athletes are the audience in the Lord Stanley for the filming of the episode. The boys go to Russia and act in Russian "cat theatre", a circus-type event involving cats. During the episode's filming, a torch, which was a model galah lit on fire (a flaming galah), was run from a Walkabout pub in London to light the Lord Stanley's fireplace. They head to Prague for some synchronized swimming, and run "vigorous psychological tests" on Australia's best Olympians.
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#6 - Week 4
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/5/2012
The boys go to Bavaria to compete in "Finger Pulling", a sport in which string is tied to each player's middle finger and they try to pull the other player's hand over a center line. Hamish pulls the short straw and must compete, and is unnerved after meeting a man who lost his finger in a game of finger pulling. In Russia, they go to a fighter pilot training centre and where they are taught how to eject, and not to f****ng touch anything once in side the plane, but before that they must go to a preparation sauna with other trainees. Ultimate Wingman returns, and they spend a day fulfilling other people's London dreams which are sent in and drawn from a pillowcase.
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#7 - Week 6
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/19/2012
In Germany, they compete in "Bus Pulling" where teams of men pull a roadcoach over 30 metres, with some teams managing to do it in around 20 seconds. In Sicily, they try to sell more fish than each other in an hour. The boys head to France, where Hamish has the goal of buying a rollersuit, but after a disastrous trial run, Andy forbids Hamish from buying one. They also go to Gibraltar and set off on their aqua bike to Morocco, fueled by a Red Bull rip-off made by Hamish the night before, which was water with "every performance-enhancing vitamin in the store", Hamish also keeps a "captains log" during the voyage.
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