The Olympic Opening Ceremony at a glance.
WTF is this? An episode of Countryfile?
A beautiful day in the Shire but OH WAIT, what is this?
MORDOR IS RISING.
DRUMS.
Five rings to rule them all.
The name’s Bond. James Bond.
Bond and the Queen, parachuting into the stadium. There are few words to accurately desrcibe this moment. Holy fucking shit, are some of those.
The NHS dance. Yes, we have a free health service. Fuck you world.
J.K. Rowling. Voldemort attacks!
Mary Poppins uses Umbrella Attack! It’s super effective!
Mr. Bean/ Rowan Atkinson playing the keyboard and running seductively through the sand.
The rock music era is dawning. And it is doing it wearing leggings.
Okay, so we’ve had some bloody good music over the years.
Are we about to witness a teen pregnancy? That would be very British.
YOU OWE US FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB.
A lovely montage. How lovely.
That footballer on the Thames.
Hush now.
And the Olympians! I’m done. No more.
tl;dr: Almost every British stereotype has just been reinforced to the entire world. Well done.
No, no. It was actually rather spiffing. Thank you Danny Boyle; you’ve done us proud.
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