Is It Time To Bring Back The Synchronized Swimming Musical?

For the first time in 16 years, the United States Artistic Swimming Team has qualified to compete in the Olympics! Admittedly, that and the dancier parts of gymnastics are really the only things I bother to watch in the Summer Olympics.

They won’t be competing until Monday, but you can see their routine from the World Aquatics Championships, where they came in third and officially qualified for the Olympics. It is pretty awesome, especially the part where they all spit water in the air!

In celebration of artistic/synchronized swimming perhaps having a “moment” again, allow me to also bless you with a scene from Million Dollar Mermaid, in which Esther Williams played Australian swimmer and vaudeville star Annette Kellerman!

It’s a literal water ballet!

Sadly, Williams herself never actually got to compete in the Olympics because of World War II, but even to this day she is probably one of the most famous swimmers in history.

And, of course, what would be a brief foray into the world of synchronized swimming without this classic scene from “Pushing Daisies,” featuring the song stylings of the fabulous Ellen Greene.

I will never, ever stop being mad that this was canceled. Sigh.

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