PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 25: Entertainers perform during the Beijing segment during the Closing Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 25, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by XIN LI/Getty Images)
The Closing Ceremony was the closest you can get to dropping acid and not having to worry about failing a drug test.
Let’s just get right to it: the Closing Ceremony of the Winter Olympics was one of the trippiest things ever televised. We don’t have enough fingers to count the number of ‘wait, what?’ moments we saw.
There was everything we never knew we wanted: Illuminated ice dancing panda bears, K-Pop performances against the backdrop of LED tie-dye, a laser light tiger running around. At one point, Pandas received emails from children on a mountaintop and proceeded to travel through hyperspace (maybe?) on a journey through time.
Things got weird.
We saw typical Closing Ceremony festivities take place, such as athletes riding each other’s shoulders and waving to the crowd in celebration of the games we were all glued to for the last two weeks. But a bulk featured what was basically the trippiest laser light show this side of a Pink Floyd concert.
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA – FEBRUARY 25: Entertainers perform during the Beijing segment during the Closing Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 25, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by XIN LI/Getty Images)
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA – FEBRUARY 25: Entertainers perform during the Beijing segment during the Closing Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 25, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by XIN LI/Getty Images)
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA – FEBRUARY 25: Entertainers perform during the Beijing segment during the Closing Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 25, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by XIN LI/Getty Images)
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA – FEBRUARY 25: Entertainers perform during the Beijing segment during the Closing Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 25, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by XIN LI/Getty Images)
I mean…
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA – FEBRUARY 25: Entertainers perform during the Beijing segment during the Closing Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 25, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by XIN LI/Getty Images)
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA – FEBRUARY 25: Entertainers perform during the Beijing segment during the Closing Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 25, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by XIN LI/Getty Images)
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA – FEBRUARY 25: Entertainers perform during the Beijing segment during the Closing Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 25, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by XIN LI/Getty Images)
Not that the Olympics weren’t awesome, but we couldn’t have started with this? The Opening Ceremony was alright but in comparison to what we saw on Sunday night, we should feel a little cheated.
They say ‘save the best for last’. The Closing Ceremony was essentially a collective acid trip, but with the benefit of remembering everything and not being hungover at work tomorrow morning.
