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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.
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 [[You Go, Girl!]] 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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* [[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 [[Lampshade Hanging|"Not bad for a fatso"]].
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** Rene Fromage's "Love's Not For Me" is the other big one.
* [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: Barbara Warblers, one of the commentators, has this.
* [[
* [[Everythings Funkier With Disco]]: "Go For It," set in the Noah's Ark disco.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Count Maurice Boardeaux.
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** Brenda Springer was fairly shapely in that area as well.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Like you wouldn't believe, verbally ''and'' visually. The closed captioning even goes out of its way to [[Don't Explain the Joke|explain some of them]].
* [["I Am" Song]]
* [["I Want" Song]]: René's "Love's Not For Me" is sort of an ''inverse'' [["I Want" Song]] from the lyrics alone, but the visuals during the number make it more clearly one of this type.
* [[Inelegant Blubbering]]: Ilsa Blintz when she gets a 4.5 on the vault. Also Count Maurice Boardeaux, when The Contessa beats him in fencing.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: A number of them: Kit and René [[Carnivore Confusion|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.
* [[Is This Thing Still On?]]: 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.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: 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''.
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* [[Landmark of Lore]]: Animalympic Island is apparently built on top of Atlantis.
* [[Male Gaze]]: See the "...Past the Radar" entry involving Kit.
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Asian freestyle swimmer, [[Punny Name|Ono Nono]].
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Several of the commentators reference famous celebrities -- one of them, inexplicably, is a tortoise with the accent (and eyeglasses) of Henry Kissinger.
* [[Not
* [[Parody Commercial]]
* [[Petting Zoo People]]
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* [[Pop Star Composer]]: 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.
* [[Shout
** Also, the basketball-playing cats are a homage to the [[Harlem Globetrotters]].
** Bolt Jenkins was [[The Importance of Being Earnest|"born as a handbag"]]<ref>A pun on "Born ''in'' a handbag</ref>
* [[Silly Love Songs]]: René and Kit's "With You I Can Run Forever," Kurt Wuffner's "Away From It All."
* [[Stealth Pun]]: 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 [[Agony of the Feet|Agony of Defeat."]] [[Don't Explain the Joke|The polar bear's feet are red hot at this point, and he's blowing on them after passing the torch.]]
* [[Suicide
* [[Surfer Dude]]: Dean Wilson.
* [[Tears of Joy]]: When Dorrie Turnell wins gold.
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* [[Unnecessary Roughness]]: Certainly the ice hockey game. There's probably some elsewhere, too.
* [[Water Works]]/[[Ocular Gushers]]: Dorrie Turnell in general.
* [[What's a Henway?]]: Lampshaded. "This reminds me of the old joke, 'how much does a Grecian urn?' but [[Lampshade Hanging|you've probably heard it]]."
* [[Wheel of Feet]]: During the 100 Meter Dash, the contestants first show this, then [[Up to Eleven|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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