Space Olympics

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo look to be canceled due to COVID-19. With this in mind, it looks like the perfect time to consider another canceled sports event, the Space Olympics.

In the year 3022, an alien explains to us the story of the Space Olympics. The Space Olympics have their own host of problems–ordinary and galactic. Like many olympics the Athlete’s VIllage isn’t quite what it was drafted to be (it’s on Zargon, yikes), and budget cutbacks have limited all athletes to one meal per day. Also, there’s no gravity, light, or sound in space so all of the events are canceled, the oxygen ran out, alien hordes overran the event, and everyone is going to die.

The performance by Andy Samberg is truly one of a kind. It’s difficult to know what to make of it. It really just turns out to be a strange surreal auto-tuned experience that some how ends with an allusion to Justin Timberlake’s “My Love”.

Enjoy and be sure to wash your hands, we’re in the Space Olympics now.

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