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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.

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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=== Tropes: ===

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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.

* [[Everything's Better ~~With~~ Llamas]]: One of the soccer teams is a South American pack of llamas.

* [[Everything's Better with Llamas]]: One of the soccer teams is a South American pack of llamas.

* [[Everythings Funkier With Disco]]: "Go For It," set in the Noah's Ark disco.

* [[Fat Bastard]]: Count Maurice Boardeaux.

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* [[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 As Comedy]]: At least, threatened suicide. When Tatyana Tushenko is about to receive her score, her coach has a noose around his neck and has [[Chattering Teeth]] (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, [[Broke the Rating Scale|her score was accidentally displayed as an abysmal 1.00]].

* [[Suicide as Comedy]]: At least, threatened suicide. When Tatyana Tushenko is about to receive her score, her coach has a noose around his neck and has [[Chattering Teeth]] (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, [[Broke the Rating Scale|her score was accidentally displayed as an abysmal 1.00]].

* [[Surfer Dude]]: Dean Wilson.

* [[Tears of Joy]]: When Dorrie Turnell wins gold.