I thought it was a pretty funny episode too. I had recorded it a while back and never got around to watching it, but this discussion prompted me to finally watch it. I got a kick out of the "Big Stig" comment, and the part where Clarkson said something about the motorsports park being deserted because the left and right hand turns was "too complicated for the colonials".

The cheese connection was lost on me also, maybe he was thinking of Wisconsin and the "cheeseheads"?

It was too bad they had to end it on the downer of New Orleans. An instructor for a training course I recently took was from Mississippi which apparently also sustained great damage. He asserted that the reason much of New Orleans is still in shambles is that they are waiting on the government to come in and fix it up instead of doing it for themselves as the people did where he lives.