Five-ring circus: The Thread of the XXXIII Olympiad

Weir and Lipinski have outlived their shelf lives.

 

What was the point of Fallon being on tonight? Aside from promoting his show?

 

Is it over yet?

 

If I want Fallon, I'll watch his show. Tonight's all about the athletes.

 

POMMEL HORSE GUY GETS THE HAMMER!

(For a bronze? )

 

This is what the Opening Ceremony was missing, an explanation of all the scenes. Ah, who am I kidding, MAGA Christians wi find something offensive.

 

Tom Cruise comes out of the closet, er, roof. And he parachutes better than QE2.

 

One last note. Someone in the edit room at NBC had a snicker, as they put Ato Boldon saying "It's the Olympics, if you get it wrong you have to wait a long time before you can make it right," directly over the 4x100 relay fuckup.

Also, Nederoscik's mother is 100% Mass. "That's the slickest piece a hardwayah y'evah got in yah whole life."

 

This infomercial for 2028 does beat "The Marriage Ref."

 

I think this one felt so much more alive. There was a feeling of theater to it that the others didn't really have because of the pandemic.

 

The BBC Olympics montage is really well done.

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"220, 221 ... whatever it takes."