Oh, there's accordion music in both places. In heaven, it's the work of Weird Al, John Linnell, and cumbia bands composed of women who look like Salma Hayek and/or Sofia Vergara. In hell, it's performed by everyone else.
I probably should have turned it off at about the point that Kelly Clarkson just couldn't believe that they'd come up with the brilliant new idea of combining heavy metal and classical music. It seemed really odd that NBC had a big "commercial-free coverage" setup, complete with sponsor logos, for about the first hour, and then they abandoned it. Guess Coca-Cola and Delta were only willing to pay so much. I also didn't hear them explain why the U.S. team wasn't sailing in until near the end of the parade (because future host countries now go at the end, just before the current host country) until the broadcast actually got to that point. I knew the U.S. was supposed to be with the E's in French, so I was in a state of mild confusion for quite a while. > On Jul 26, 2024, at 10:26 PM, Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The irony of Steven Spielberg’s opening narration, talking about the > importance of good storytelling, then leading us into a cacophony of > disjointed audio/video gibberish. > > The dancers were the opposite of synchronized. They were so asynchronous that > they must’ve rehearsed to be that out of sequence with one another. I mean, > it had to be intentional to be that bad. If you put 100 gorillas in a chorus > line, statistically one or two of them will move in unison, but not so our > professional dance troop. > > There was an angel on a bridge playing an accordion. If heaven is filled with > accordion music, I’m ok being sent down to the bad place when I die. > > Several minutes devoted to celebrating threesomes. Is group sex an Olympic > event this year? > > A singing, decapitated head of Marie Antoinette is odd, but she was smiling. > Severed heads should not be smiling… that’s just creepy. Then the simulated > blood-soaked building. Kids are going to be describing this moment to > therapists. > > It’s France’s oldest marching band, but rather than hear them perform, they > are going to awkwardly engulf a French pop singer, because nothing says > France like a claustrophobic woman surrounded by a gang of men in funny hats. > > Kelly Clarkson used the word “incredible” to describe everything. You know > what I find incredible? That Kelly Clarkson gets paid to speak. Somebody buy > the woman a thesaurus. > > The torch … it was a giant joint. It wasn’t a torch that looked a little bit > like a joint… it was a giant joint that was only a little bit like a torch. > > After 90 minutes, they’d only gotten to athletes from countries starting with > the letter C. For my own sanity, I had to turn it off. > > I remember during the opening ceremony for the London games, watching a > musical number featuring dying children in hospital beds, I thought that was > the weirdest moment in Olympic history. Here we are in 2024, and I can only > say: Where the hell are the singing dying kids? > > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4AXHD2g-4CNbgOQcjwh6NQUE3%3DJJDWUpFWsHz5dR9pq_w%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4AXHD2g-4CNbgOQcjwh6NQUE3%3DJJDWUpFWsHz5dR9pq_w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/9C39E671-8270-47BA-9B8A-ACDA6732E904%40ellwanger.tv.
