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{{quote|''"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 [[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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