So many people took the piss out of the Rio 2016 Olympics Opening Ceremony

The greatest show on earth kicked off in Rio's Maracana stadium after midnight and the Brazilians certainly put on a show.

Here's our quick recap of literally everything that happened during the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games. And as midnight struck, it began! https://twitter.com/TeamUSA/status/761700991326646272 https://twitter.com/stroppadel/status/761696754194579456 https://twitter.com/Olympics/status/761700831066554368 A lot of people thought the first dancers on screen looked like a particular kitchen items: https://twitter.com/AFP/status/761699975009038337 https://twitter.com/AuditionPianist/status/761699458564366336 https://twitter.com/_RhysThorne/status/761699437177630720 https://twitter.com/dgellis0907/status/761699420337561605 https://twitter.com/scottygb/status/761699241039454208 And they reminded at least one person of Eurovision... https://twitter.com/ShakenByAStorm/status/761699676529786881 After the national anthem... https://twitter.com/Cameron_Surname/status/761700651017637888 ...we got the segment of the ceremony that "represented the beginnings of life itself". Giant bugs and microbes, basically: https://twitter.com/luckytran/status/761701513475530754 ...which raised an uncomfortable issue: https://twitter.com/bens_1989/status/761705924490829824 ...leading on to the virtual forest: https://twitter.com/Scores_WTA/status/761702495181803520 https://twitter.com/RyanJayBailey/status/761701944092192770 And elastic bands: https://twitter.com/efellingham/status/761702231292993536 https://twitter.com/rhodri/status/761701542621741057 It was all a bit Avatar-y: https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/761701589098852352 This lead on to the arrival of the various people in Brazil through the centuries, starting with the Europeans, and then Africans. https://twitter.com/dgellis0907/status/761703207475220480 The ceremony didn't shy away from the role of slavery in Brazil's past: https://twitter.com/sweetadelinevt/status/761721480371703810 Or as one person put it: https://twitter.com/JonathanRWarner/status/761702808877985792 https://twitter.com/GraemeDemianyk/status/761702895033122817 Then we got the emergence of the cities in Brazil, represented by visual trickery - WITCHCRAFT, one might say - in the stadium: https://twitter.com/behlul_official/status/761705426903760901 https://twitter.com/wiwibloggs/status/761704553658060801 https://twitter.com/Rio2016_en/status/761704969691074564 https://twitter.com/Herdotie/status/761705896300965888 We had the funny little flight segment: https://twitter.com/BBCSport/status/761705642528735233 https://twitter.com/frankpallotta/status/761723744599638016 Then we got GISELE walking for bloody ages: https://twitter.com/andymannion77/status/761706964523094017 https://twitter.com/Tweet_Dec/status/761706393950879744 Followed by "the voice of the favelas": https://twitter.com/wiwibloggs/status/761706895367348224 https://twitter.com/The_Dolphin_Pub/status/761707577365426176 It all certainly looks stunning: https://twitter.com/feistyfrank/status/761712830424944640 What followed was a segment comprising lots of different types of Brazilian dance: https://twitter.com/SEisenhammer/status/761708184109256705 https://twitter.com/Hotdesigner/status/761708556534083585 https://twitter.com/jaybusbee/status/761709432493531136 https://twitter.com/vulture/status/761728250221559808 https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/761709310321852416 The main stage eventually cleared and we got some serious/drab stuff about climate change and global warming, narrated by Judi Dench: https://twitter.com/scottygb/status/761710201061990406 https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/761710844422066180 https://twitter.com/mike_mccahill/status/761710578490601472 https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedCanada/status/761709902779731968 Then it was time for the athletes: https://twitter.com/Rio2016_en/status/761711319657619458 SO many athletes: https://twitter.com/BBCSport/status/761711773372252160 https://twitter.com/callumfosberry/status/761711292226871296 https://twitter.com/GeneralBoles/status/761711806708588549 https://twitter.com/AKiiDaL/status/761727244981112833   Andy Murray led Team GB out into the stadium: https://twitter.com/TelegraphSport/status/761724294590234624 https://twitter.com/GeneralBoles/status/761724832555958272 https://twitter.com/MarumGo/status/761724373418074112 Looking dapper, Rafa! https://twitter.com/FirstpostSports/status/761726967649603584 But, y'know what, as much as we take the piss and moan about how long the ceremony is, a massive global event like this is an incredible thing to behold: https://twitter.com/MJRgrs/status/761699012923777024 https://twitter.com/ambettano/status/761719065845067776 https://twitter.com/TomFarrey/status/761728623686606848 And at least we get to watch the thing without a delay and annoying ad breaks, unlike the poor Americans: https://twitter.com/TonyOrtega94/status/761717552045228032 And after all that, we can look forward to Japan's staging of the Games in 2020: https://twitter.com/GeneralBoles/status/761719360008380416