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* {{Pseudolympics}}: The entire show is based on this trope.
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* AssumedWin: For downhill skiing, [[spoiler:Kurt Wuffner, who had disappeared some days earlier]]; for fencing, [[spoiler:The Contessa, who appears out of nowhere]], and the Marathon: [[spoiler: Rene Fromage ''and'' Kit Mambo. Though they were in front the whole way, the twist is that they tie.]]
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* AssumedWin: For downhill skiing, [[spoiler:Kurt Marcel Pourseau [[spoiler:loses to Kurt Wuffner, who had disappeared some days earlier]]; earlier, but showed up just in time]]; for fencing, [[spoiler:The Count Maurice Boardeaux? [[spoiler:Nope, the Contessa, who appears out of nowhere]], and the Marathon: Marathon, Rene Fromage? Kit Mambo? [[spoiler: Rene Fromage ''and'' Kit Mambo. Though they were in front the whole way, the twist is that they tie.They tie for gold.]]
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''Animalympics'' is an animated film produced by Steven Lisberger. The film was originally conceived as a pair of specials for {{NBC}} to air during the 1980 Olympics (one for the Summer Games and one for the Winter Games), but the American boycott of the Summer games that year put the kibosh on those plans. Lisberger's studio instead released ''Animalympics'' in theaters as a single feature film.
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''Animalympics'' is an animated film produced by Steven Lisberger. The film was originally conceived as a pair of specials for {{NBC}} Creator/{{NBC}} to air during the 1980 Olympics (one for the Summer Games and one for the Winter Games), but the American boycott of the Summer games that year put the kibosh on those plans. Lisberger's studio instead released ''Animalympics'' in theaters as a single feature film.
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* IWantSong: René's "Love's Not For Me" is sort of an ''inverse'' IWantSong from the lyrics alone, but the visuals during the number make it more clearly one of this type.
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->''"In all creatures great and small, there resides a spirit of athletic competition..."''
''{{Animalympics}}'' is an animated film produced by Steven Lisberger. The film was originally conceived as a pair of specials for {{NBC}} to air during the 1980 Olympics (one for the Summer Games and one for the Winter Games), but the American boycott of the Summer games that year put the kibosh on those plans. Lisberger's studio instead released ''Animalympics'' in theaters as a single feature film.
The film consists of a series of vignettes representing news coverage of the "Animalympics", which as you can imagine are the Olympics for anthropomorphic animals. The main event is the marathon, in which the two favorites (the obsessively driven goat René Fromage, and YouGoGirl lioness Kit Mambo) take an early lead... and also take to each other. Other highlights include the rags-to-riches tale of track-and-field alligator Bolt Jenkins, a fencing match that turns into a pastiche of Errol Flynn movies, and a hockey game that almost literally turns into all-out war.
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!!''{{Animalympics}}'' provides examples of:
* {{Acrofatic}}: Ilsa Blintz the hippo during the Vault section, as well as the elephant acrobat on the uneven parallel bars.
** Subverted: Ilsa Blintz only gets a score of 4.5 (Keen Hacksaw wonders if that was actually the reading on the Richter Scale), the Elephant's routine ends in disaster (she destroys one of the uneven bars), and Keen Hacksaw does a lap around the track in 46 seconds, and says [[LampshadeHanging "Not bad for a fatso"]].
* AnimalStereotypes: Played straight in some places, averted in others.
* AssumedWin: For downhill skiing, [[spoiler:Kurt Wuffner, who had disappeared some days earlier]]; for fencing, [[spoiler:The Contessa, who appears out of nowhere]], and the Marathon: [[spoiler: Rene Fromage ''and'' Kit Mambo. Though they were in front the whole way, the twist is that they tie.]]
* AwardBaitSong: "We've Made It to the Top."
* BigDamnHeroes: Right after Count Boardeux wins a gold medal in fencing through unscrupulous tactics, the Contessa literally swoops in and shows him what-for.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: TV will occasionally play a version of the movie with a lot of "inappropriate" material removed.
* BoxingKangaroo: One of the participants in the boxing match. Of course. Billy Crystal (or is it co-writer Michael Fremer?) voices him mimicking Muhammad Ali.
* CharacterFocus: Born out of necessity, due to the four-person voice cast. For all intents and purposes, René and Kit represent the marathon, Bolt Jenkins is track and field, Kurt Wuffner is skiing, and Dean Wilson is the aquatic events. Less broad events get their own one-off characters who are never heard of beyond said events.
* ChestOfMedals: A dolphin, who helps narrate the swimming and diving section, has an impressive set of gold medals.
* CurbStompBattle: The boxing match, which goes thus: The kangaroo hops around the bull a few times, then taunts him by kissing his nose. The bull then grabs the kangaroo by the neck and punches him in the face, sending him spinning into the ropes. The kangaroo then spins back out and catapults himself back at the bull, hitting him in the gut. Then the kangaroo lands a punch to the nose, then to the top of the head. Two more jabs to the nose and an uppercut later, the match is over. The bull was knocked out, the kangaroo only took one hit.
* {{Determinator}}: Everybody, given that this is about winning Olympic events, but René really puts out the image.
* DisneyAcidSequence: Two big ones:
** The most obvious example is Dean Wilson's "Underwater Fantasy", a/k/a "the movie's taking a break for a few minutes, so go ahead and grab a snack or use the can if you need to."
** Rene Fromage's "Love's Not For Me" is the other big one.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Barbara Warblers, one of the commentators, has this.
* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: One of the soccer teams is a South American pack of llamas.
* EverythingsFunkierWithDisco: "Go For It," set in the Noah's Ark disco.
* FatBastard: Count Maurice Boardeaux.
* FeatherFingers: In an interesting example, The Contessa can still fly although she has upper limbs that are 95% indistinguishable from human arms.
* {{Flynning}}: During the fencing event.
* FoeYay: Canonical, as rival runners Kit and René have a pretty obvious thing for one another despite also wanting each other to lose pathetically.
* FurryFandom: Quite popular with it, unsurprisingly.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Quite carefully attended to in one scene featuring Brenda Springer.
* GretzkyHasTheBall: Sometimes they get it, sometimes they exaggerate it, and sometimes there's moments like the "Platform Diving" graphic introducing the springboard diving segment.
* HartmanHips: Kit Mambo.
** Brenda Springer was fairly shapely in that area as well.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Like you wouldn't believe, verbally ''and'' visually. The closed captioning even goes out of its way to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain some of them]].
* IAmSong
* IWantSong: René's "Love's Not For Me" is sort of an ''inverse'' IWantSong from the lyrics alone, but the visuals during the number make it more clearly one of this type.
* InelegantBlubbering: Ilsa Blintz when she gets a 4.5 on the vault. Also Count Maurice Boardeaux, when The Contessa beats him in fencing.
* InterspeciesRomance: A number of them: Kit and René [[CarnivoreConfusion most obviously]], but also a husband-and-wife figure-skating team who happen to be a lizard and a chicken, plus several hookups at the disco.
* IsThisThingStillOn: A silent example: When Bolt Jenkins watches his former hero utterly bung up the high jump, he looks at the camera with an amused smirk, before realizing he's supposed to be looking determined.
* KickTheDog: One of the commentators isn't afraid of letting the loser of the boxing match know that he's let down his coach, family, country, and ''himself''. The bull actually starts ''crying''.
--> Rugs: And now, you can let ''me'' down. (Cut to wide shot, Rugs is standing on the bull's head).
* LandmarkOfLore: Animalympic Island is apparently built on top of Atlantis.
* MaleGaze: See the "...Past the Radar" entry involving Kit.
* MeaningfulName: Anyone familiar with surf rock will instantly understand why the hero of the swimming events is named Dean Wilson.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Asian freestyle swimmer, [[PunnyName Ono Nono]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Several of the commentators reference famous celebrities -- one of them, inexplicably, is a tortoise with the accent (and eyeglasses) of Henry Kissinger.
* NotSoInnocentWhistle: The head of the Rats soccer team after swapping medals with the head of the Dogs.
* ParodyCommercial
* PettingZooPeople
* PyrrhicVictory: Of a sort. The visuals to the song "Love's Not For Me" near the end suggest that René Fromage will get his gold--and have absolutely nothing else in his life. [[spoiler: That's not his actual fate.]]
* PlayfulOtter: Dean Wilson.
* PopStarComposer: Graham Gouldman from the group 10cc, which made the charts a couple of times, so it counts.
* {{Ridiculympics}}: The entire show is based on this trope.
* ShoutOut / HeyItsThatVoice: Barbara Warblers' voice actress was Gilda Radner, who had often played Barbara Walters (or "Baba Wawa") in the same manner on SaturdayNightLive. Billy Crystal's Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell imitations were also part of his act long before this film.
** Also, the basketball-playing cats are a homage to the HarlemGlobetrotters.
** Bolt Jenkins was [[TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest "born as a handbag"]][[hottip:*:A pun on "Born ''in'' a handbag]]
* SillyLoveSongs: René and Kit's "With You I Can Run Forever," Kurt Wuffner's "Away From It All."
* StealthPun: Right at the beginning, you see a polar bear running with the torch to a coyote. The Announcer goes on about the "Thrill of Victory, and the [[AgonyOfTheFeet Agony of Defeat."]] [[DontExplainTheJoke The polar bear's feet are red hot at this point, and he's blowing on them after passing the torch.]]
* SuicideAsComedy: At least, threatened suicide. When Tatyana Tushenko is about to receive her score, her coach has a noose around his neck and has ChatteringTeeth (she receives a perfect 10). This may be an allusion to Nadia Comăneci, who also received a perfect 10 from the judges in the 1976 Olympics--but, because the scoreboard could only display 9.99, [[BrokeTheRatingScale her score was accidentally displayed as an abysmal 1.00]].
* SurferDude: Dean Wilson.
* TearsOfJoy: When Dorrie Turnell wins gold.
* ThemeNaming: Virtually all of the characters have names that either reference their species or their nationality.
* TrainingMontage: Bolt Jenkins' "Born to Lose," though his character more directly parodies Tony from ''SaturdayNightFever''.
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: at the end of the marathon, Kit Mambo and Rene Fromage tie for first.]]
* UnnecessaryRoughness: Certainly the ice hockey game. There's probably some elsewhere, too.
* WaterWorks[=/=]OcularGushers: Dorrie Turnell in general.
* WhatsAHenway: Lampshaded. "This reminds me of the old joke, 'how much does a Grecian urn?' but [[LampshadeHanging you've probably heard it]]."
* WheelOfFeet: During the 100 Meter Dash, the contestants first show this, then [[UpToEleven take on the characteristics of drag-racing cars]]--complete with arms turning into exhaust pipes, bodies into engines, and releasing parachutes to stop them.
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->''"In all creatures great and small, there resides a spirit of athletic competition..."''
''{{Animalympics}}'' is an animated film produced by Steven Lisberger. The film was originally conceived as a pair of specials for {{NBC}} to air during the 1980 Olympics (one for the Summer Games and one for the Winter Games), but the American boycott of the Summer games that year put the kibosh on those plans. Lisberger's studio instead released ''Animalympics'' in theaters as a single feature film.
The film consists of a series of vignettes representing news coverage of the "Animalympics", which as you can imagine are the Olympics for anthropomorphic animals. The main event is the marathon, in which the two favorites (the obsessively driven goat René Fromage, and YouGoGirl lioness Kit Mambo) take an early lead... and also take to each other. Other highlights include the rags-to-riches tale of track-and-field alligator Bolt Jenkins, a fencing match that turns into a pastiche of Errol Flynn movies, and a hockey game that almost literally turns into all-out war.
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!!''{{Animalympics}}'' provides examples of:
* {{Acrofatic}}: Ilsa Blintz the hippo during the Vault section, as well as the elephant acrobat on the uneven parallel bars.
** Subverted: Ilsa Blintz only gets a score of 4.5 (Keen Hacksaw wonders if that was actually the reading on the Richter Scale), the Elephant's routine ends in disaster (she destroys one of the uneven bars), and Keen Hacksaw does a lap around the track in 46 seconds, and says [[LampshadeHanging "Not bad for a fatso"]].
* AnimalStereotypes: Played straight in some places, averted in others.
* AssumedWin: For downhill skiing, [[spoiler:Kurt Wuffner, who had disappeared some days earlier]]; for fencing, [[spoiler:The Contessa, who appears out of nowhere]], and the Marathon: [[spoiler: Rene Fromage ''and'' Kit Mambo. Though they were in front the whole way, the twist is that they tie.]]
* AwardBaitSong: "We've Made It to the Top."
* BigDamnHeroes: Right after Count Boardeux wins a gold medal in fencing through unscrupulous tactics, the Contessa literally swoops in and shows him what-for.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: TV will occasionally play a version of the movie with a lot of "inappropriate" material removed.
* BoxingKangaroo: One of the participants in the boxing match. Of course. Billy Crystal (or is it co-writer Michael Fremer?) voices him mimicking Muhammad Ali.
* CharacterFocus: Born out of necessity, due to the four-person voice cast. For all intents and purposes, René and Kit represent the marathon, Bolt Jenkins is track and field, Kurt Wuffner is skiing, and Dean Wilson is the aquatic events. Less broad events get their own one-off characters who are never heard of beyond said events.
* ChestOfMedals: A dolphin, who helps narrate the swimming and diving section, has an impressive set of gold medals.
* CurbStompBattle: The boxing match, which goes thus: The kangaroo hops around the bull a few times, then taunts him by kissing his nose. The bull then grabs the kangaroo by the neck and punches him in the face, sending him spinning into the ropes. The kangaroo then spins back out and catapults himself back at the bull, hitting him in the gut. Then the kangaroo lands a punch to the nose, then to the top of the head. Two more jabs to the nose and an uppercut later, the match is over. The bull was knocked out, the kangaroo only took one hit.
* {{Determinator}}: Everybody, given that this is about winning Olympic events, but René really puts out the image.
* DisneyAcidSequence: Two big ones:
** The most obvious example is Dean Wilson's "Underwater Fantasy", a/k/a "the movie's taking a break for a few minutes, so go ahead and grab a snack or use the can if you need to."
** Rene Fromage's "Love's Not For Me" is the other big one.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Barbara Warblers, one of the commentators, has this.
* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: One of the soccer teams is a South American pack of llamas.
* EverythingsFunkierWithDisco: "Go For It," set in the Noah's Ark disco.
* FatBastard: Count Maurice Boardeaux.
* FeatherFingers: In an interesting example, The Contessa can still fly although she has upper limbs that are 95% indistinguishable from human arms.
* {{Flynning}}: During the fencing event.
* FoeYay: Canonical, as rival runners Kit and René have a pretty obvious thing for one another despite also wanting each other to lose pathetically.
* FurryFandom: Quite popular with it, unsurprisingly.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Quite carefully attended to in one scene featuring Brenda Springer.
* GretzkyHasTheBall: Sometimes they get it, sometimes they exaggerate it, and sometimes there's moments like the "Platform Diving" graphic introducing the springboard diving segment.
* HartmanHips: Kit Mambo.
** Brenda Springer was fairly shapely in that area as well.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Like you wouldn't believe, verbally ''and'' visually. The closed captioning even goes out of its way to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain some of them]].
* IAmSong
* IWantSong: René's "Love's Not For Me" is sort of an ''inverse'' IWantSong from the lyrics alone, but the visuals during the number make it more clearly one of this type.
* InelegantBlubbering: Ilsa Blintz when she gets a 4.5 on the vault. Also Count Maurice Boardeaux, when The Contessa beats him in fencing.
* InterspeciesRomance: A number of them: Kit and René [[CarnivoreConfusion most obviously]], but also a husband-and-wife figure-skating team who happen to be a lizard and a chicken, plus several hookups at the disco.
* IsThisThingStillOn: A silent example: When Bolt Jenkins watches his former hero utterly bung up the high jump, he looks at the camera with an amused smirk, before realizing he's supposed to be looking determined.
* KickTheDog: One of the commentators isn't afraid of letting the loser of the boxing match know that he's let down his coach, family, country, and ''himself''. The bull actually starts ''crying''.
--> Rugs: And now, you can let ''me'' down. (Cut to wide shot, Rugs is standing on the bull's head).
* LandmarkOfLore: Animalympic Island is apparently built on top of Atlantis.
* MaleGaze: See the "...Past the Radar" entry involving Kit.
* MeaningfulName: Anyone familiar with surf rock will instantly understand why the hero of the swimming events is named Dean Wilson.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Asian freestyle swimmer, [[PunnyName Ono Nono]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Several of the commentators reference famous celebrities -- one of them, inexplicably, is a tortoise with the accent (and eyeglasses) of Henry Kissinger.
* NotSoInnocentWhistle: The head of the Rats soccer team after swapping medals with the head of the Dogs.
* ParodyCommercial
* PettingZooPeople
* PyrrhicVictory: Of a sort. The visuals to the song "Love's Not For Me" near the end suggest that René Fromage will get his gold--and have absolutely nothing else in his life. [[spoiler: That's not his actual fate.]]
* PlayfulOtter: Dean Wilson.
* PopStarComposer: Graham Gouldman from the group 10cc, which made the charts a couple of times, so it counts.
* {{Ridiculympics}}: The entire show is based on this trope.
* ShoutOut / HeyItsThatVoice: Barbara Warblers' voice actress was Gilda Radner, who had often played Barbara Walters (or "Baba Wawa") in the same manner on SaturdayNightLive. Billy Crystal's Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell imitations were also part of his act long before this film.
** Also, the basketball-playing cats are a homage to the HarlemGlobetrotters.
** Bolt Jenkins was [[TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest "born as a handbag"]][[hottip:*:A pun on "Born ''in'' a handbag]]
* SillyLoveSongs: René and Kit's "With You I Can Run Forever," Kurt Wuffner's "Away From It All."
* StealthPun: Right at the beginning, you see a polar bear running with the torch to a coyote. The Announcer goes on about the "Thrill of Victory, and the [[AgonyOfTheFeet Agony of Defeat."]] [[DontExplainTheJoke The polar bear's feet are red hot at this point, and he's blowing on them after passing the torch.]]
* SuicideAsComedy: At least, threatened suicide. When Tatyana Tushenko is about to receive her score, her coach has a noose around his neck and has ChatteringTeeth (she receives a perfect 10). This may be an allusion to Nadia Comăneci, who also received a perfect 10 from the judges in the 1976 Olympics--but, because the scoreboard could only display 9.99, [[BrokeTheRatingScale her score was accidentally displayed as an abysmal 1.00]].
* SurferDude: Dean Wilson.
* TearsOfJoy: When Dorrie Turnell wins gold.
* ThemeNaming: Virtually all of the characters have names that either reference their species or their nationality.
* TrainingMontage: Bolt Jenkins' "Born to Lose," though his character more directly parodies Tony from ''SaturdayNightFever''.
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: at the end of the marathon, Kit Mambo and Rene Fromage tie for first.]]
* UnnecessaryRoughness: Certainly the ice hockey game. There's probably some elsewhere, too.
* WaterWorks[=/=]OcularGushers: Dorrie Turnell in general.
* WhatsAHenway: Lampshaded. "This reminds me of the old joke, 'how much does a Grecian urn?' but [[LampshadeHanging you've probably heard it]]."
* WheelOfFeet: During the 100 Meter Dash, the contestants first show this, then [[UpToEleven take on the characteristics of drag-racing cars]]--complete with arms turning into exhaust pipes, bodies into engines, and releasing parachutes to stop them.
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