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Madness! Complete and utter madness! It sounds like an internet hoax if you haven't watched any of it.

All they needed was for Rick Astley to come out of nowhere and sing "Never Gonna Give You Up" to really complete it. Sure, he's not British, but neither are Batman and Robin, so why not?

 

I sort of think they looked at the Beijing Olympics and said, "We're not going to surpass that in terms of grandeur, so lets try to make this as trippy as possible instead."

 

That's not to say it was bad. But it was maybe the weirdest cultural event I've ever witnessed, surpassing even the Edward Scissorhands ballet.

All they needed was for Rick Astley to come out of nowhere and sing "Never Gonna Give You Up" to really complete it. Sure, he's not British, but neither are Batman and Robin, so why not?

 

 

Ah, the Batman and Robin thing was a reference to an old and long-running sitcom we have called Only Fools and Horses. The protagonists Del Boy and Rodney dress up as Batman and Robin respectively for a fancy-dress party but on the way their van breaks down and they're forced to walk it. On the way they interrupt a mugging by charging through a smoky alley with the Adam West Batman theme tune playing. Its a reference I guarantee everyone in Britain will have rolled their eyes at and I'd link you but BZP wouldn't allow it. Just have a look for the clips yourself

Actually if you were to go to a certain popular video-sharing site unmentionable on BZP and add this to the url you should get a good look at the clip and its context

 

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