Laff-A-Lympics: Difference between revisions

** In a ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' skit that parodies ''[[Munich]]'', one of the Really Rottens [[Lampshade|lampshades]] this fact.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: The competitors wear their team shirts ''over'' their [[Limited Wardrobe|normal attire]] ([[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal|where applicable]]). As you [[Captain Obvious|may have deduced]] from the intro text, The YYs are red, the SDs are blue, and the RRs are green.

* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: In the 13-issue comic book series published by Marvel, each story had a central plot with the usual event participation. In the comics, Scooby-Dum (Scooby Doobies) and Sooey Pig (Really Rottens) were left out. A 14th issue, about a vengeful college professor, was not published. A special giant-sized story, "The Man Who Stole Thursday", featured most of the regular stars and cameos from other classic H-B characters.

* [[Corrupt Hick]] (Daisy Mayhem)

* [[Grand Finale]]: The final episode moved to the moon, and ended {{spoiler|in a three-way tie}}.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Mildew Wolf was originally an antagonist, in the "It's the Wolf!" segments of ''[[The Cattanooga Cats (Animation)|The Cattanooga Cats]]''. On that show, Mildew was voiced by Paul Lynde, who by 1977 was subject to scandal. John Stephenson would voice Mildew on ''Laff-a-Lympics''.

** Joe Besser, one of the latter-day Three Stooges, was Babu's voice.

* [[Human Ladder]]: The Rottens used one of these to win a "Freestyle Pole Vault" competition; in this case "freestyle" meant "anything goes", so it wasn't cheating, but they sure [[Loophole Abuse|abused that loophole]] for all it was worth.

* [[Ridiculympics]]: The whole point of the series.

* [[Road Sign Reversal]]: The Rottens mistakenly switched the signs back, resulting in disgust from their teammates (although they ''did'' get a 50-point bonus for "chivalry" because the judges thought they did it to help their opponents).

** Mildew Wolf referring to everyone as "savages" is a double reference to both his original voice actor, Paul Lynde (who again, originally voiced Mildew), and the Hanna-Barbera series ''Where's Huddles?'' (CBS, 1970), in which Lynde played Claude Pertwee, a character who often referred to show's football-playing Fred and Barney [[Expy|expies]] as "savages".

* [[Team Rocket Wins]]: On at least two occasions the Really Rottens won an episode legitimately, as much to their surprise as everyone else's.