My French wife would laugh after every sentence that Furlong spoke.
K-os was there? If I’d known that, I would have watched. K-os is great. No Drake?
I thought one of the most Canadian things about the show was, even though there were many female performers, not one was dressed as a stripper or felt the need to bump and grind like a pole dancer. I am so proud of my country!
Hell, where were Red and Harold?
You didn’t see the hot mounties?
I was waiting for them too!
The closing was lots of fun – especially the Mounties and inflatable beaver pageant. I remember comments that China’s ceremonies were going to be a hard act to follow – the Canadians followed just fine! 
"You didn’t see the hot mounties? "
I did indeed! But I didn’t see any thongs. And the length of their skirts was absolutely parochial compared to, say, any American highschool cheerleader. Saucy, yes. Slutty, no.
No one appeared to be wearing lingerie is what I’m appreciating. And there wasn’t any ‘shaking that thing in my face’ dancing. Very Canadian, I feel.
Any French I speak is with a decided Saskatchewan accent, and it sounds better than that. That was Joey from “Friends” brutal.
I thought the whole thing was great fun (except Alanis - girl really knows how to bring down a party).
Ceremony performed by people who moved to the United States to become rich.
Missed a golden opportunity to have Red be the one crawling out of the pit at the start with a roll of duct tape. The rest of the world might have wondered wtf was going on, but the home crowd would have loved it.
The only things I liked about the closing ceremonies: the Russian Sochi part, Ben Heppner singing the Olympic Hymn, Avril Lavigne finally giving the athletes a party.
I left during Alanis Morrissette’s song, it was the last drop of boring and a good time to leave an embarrassing pile of cliches and lipsynch.
Did I mention I hated the closing ceremonies?
I came in late (during O’Hara’s part) and was watching happily until NBC cut away to that stupid “Marriage Ref” show without any “and that concludes our broadcast” voiceover/transition or anything. Jerks. (Central time zone here.)
Aha! I was wondering about all of the Marriage Ref refs. I never saw any. (I was watching CTV.)
I like where you are going with this, but to top it off they should have cut to video of Bob and Doug sitting at center ice in the hockey arena - drinking Molson and goofing off. After a bit a zamboni could have come along and pushed them off screen.
Then,
Cut to Rush.
They obviously should have consulted SDMB for a few ideas.
pretty sure anything dealing with Bob and Doug McKenzie is owned by Global TV, since they had some sort of cartoon of them on there recently. I doubt CTV wants to advertise those guys. Just like how they used the old Hockey Night in Canada theme and not the new one on CBC.
I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that NBC cut away from the closing ceremonies to run the rich-and-famous-celebrities-making-fun-of-poor-slobs reality crap-fest. The whole of NBC’s coverage was terrible.
From the opening night til the end, just awful. More commercials and hanging with the polar bears features than actual coverage of the events. What happened to the skating champion’s gala? There was only time to show four skaters because they kept interrupting to show the bobsled final that happened hours earlier.
Even the direction was awful during the opening and closing ceremonies. A small outdoor fireworks display happened at the beginning of the closing, but the director didn’t cut to it until all that was left in the air was the smoke trails. Were the snowboarders making an effect with their snowboards that was impressive from above? Hard to tell if you’re shooting them from ground level.
I wish another US network could grab the Olympics. Nobody could do worse than NBC did this time.
NBC wasn’t even showing the footage live. I was flipping between NBC and CTV, CTV had things live and NBC had it like 3minutes to 5minutes tape delay.
Is that the new theme that Neil Peart wrote? What band does he play with now? Hmmmm, that’s a poser.
Canada has some excellent musical talent, but what I saw was a couple of bubblegum pop star girls, a dreary Neil Young (isn’t this ceremony supposed to be fun?), some opera singers that had to bore every one of the athletes, a Harry Connick knock-off, and then a lousy NBC show (Ok, I did not see the marriage show, some things don’t have to be seen to be believed.)
Of the Canadian stars there to make fun of themselves, I watched only a few moments of Michael J Fox. The bit wasn’t funny, the production values were awful and cliched, and if you are going to trot out famous Canadians it would be nice if you found some who still lived in Canada or had become famous while in Canada.
By the time they were done with the artsy fartsy portion of the evening I was just fast forwarding to see if Rush made an appearance. They did not. Fail.
I’d rather watch an actual competition than an exhibition. Besides which, figure skating has four categories, with two nights each. I see plenty of it during non-Olympic years; I’ll probably have to wait four years to have another chance to watch bobsledding.
I thought NBC’s coverage was actually not too bad this year[sup]*[/sup]. There were a few puff pieces, but not nearly as much “up close and personal” glurge as in years past. The commentators seemed to know what they were talking about. And not a hint of John Tesh.
Until the closing ceremonies. Cutting away for something good would have been a mistake. Cutting away for The Marriage Ref was inexcusable. NBC’s Olympics went out with a whimper, and not with a bang.
- Mostly good, but there were some bad camera angles and too much chattering during the ceremonies. And those “here’s how Vikings accidentally invented snowboarding” commercials should have never infected the telecasts, but those went away pretty quickly.
Stompin’ Tom, is that you? 