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This farewell to Ethan Hunt begins with a three-decade-spanning montage of Cruise that could double as the intro to his inevitable honorary Oscar.

I’m sitting there listening — that’s the reason the intro’s so long, because I was just waiting — and finally I start singing, “You’re rock candy, baby — hard, sweet and sticky.”

Early on, the twins tell Sammie he can drive their red car home in the morning — and again, from that very first intro shot, we know that will happen but without the twins in it.

There were costume changes and choreographed dance numbers, even an intro where a moving tentacle flailed halfway out of her mouth.

The band also suffered a mishap, missing Usher's cue to extend the intro to Superstar, and coming in four bars early.