The hosts of Amazon’s “The Grand Tour” car show offered admiration for the work of two Navy aviators who designed a condensed-air-trail phallus over Washington state last year, inviting them to appear on the show while mocking the name of their aircraft.

The episode, which went online late last Thursday, features hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May discussing the November stunt and showing an image of the aviators’ handiwork to an appreciative studio audience in Great Britain.

Clarkson quoted Vice Adm. Michael Shoemaker, head of Naval Air Forces, who said that “sophomoric and immature antics of a sexual nature have no place in naval aviation today.”

Why then, Clarkson wondered, would the Navy dub the aircraft used to create the drawing a “Growler”?

“To be clear, if you’re American, and you don’t know why we’re laughing, it’s the same as [when] U.S. troops in Iraq laughed when British troops were being transported around in what we call a ‘Snatch’ Land Rover,” Hammond added.

The Navy grounded and disciplined the lieutenants involved in the incident, but has not released their names or the details of their punishment.

The Amazon show is in its second season. Celebrity guests regularly stop by — wrestler Bill Goldberg joined the most recent episode and another featured “Maverick” himself — but the show rarely features those outside the entertainment or automotive realm.

The hosts may be willing to make an exception for the sky artists.

“We like immature acts of a sexual nature,” May said to close the segment.

Kevin Lilley is the features editor of Military Times.

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