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[PostToastie]

This is a cable 'movie', but it came on so much it was more like a show.
Did anyone else watch?

All of the athletes were animals and there was a crazy stork who was a total rip on Barbara Wa-Wa?

[Tabbyclaw]

Sweet zombie Jesus, I remember that. Most of the characters were parodies of somebody, and the big arc that tied the whole show together was the marathon being run by a lioness and... a goat. I never got why the goat was a contender.

[GirlDrinkDrunk]

Oh my goodness, I vaguely remember seeing this on a long, long time ago. All I really remember was when the lioness (who I thought was a cheetah, probably just because, well, running) and, yeah, the goat finally hooked up because they...like...blew up their thought bubbles so they could be together? Or something? The thought that a lioness and a goat could be a couple really bothered me as a kid.

[Dbrain2004]

I remember this too!

There was this fencing event where this zippy squirrel was beaten by this big ass English rhino with one of those monocole things - you know, the glass with a gold chain you wear in front of one eye. Just as he was about to take the gold medal, this Spanish female eagle appeared in the rafters like Zorro. She jumps down, wipes the floor with the rhino, then pokes his monocole out.

It was brilliant.

[SVNBob]

I thought the fencing rhino was Russian.

[Justin Cognito]

Oh, sweet zombie Christ. This movie just came from behind and walloped me in the back of the head like a ton of bricks.

I remember the dog skiing slalom, accidentally finding Shangri-La, and then returning to the lost city after winning gold.

This was one fucked up movie.

[PostToastie]

the big arc that tied the whole show together was the marathon being run by a lioness and... a goat. I never got why the goat was a contender.

And they fell in love and lived happily ever after and didn't want to compete because of all of the luuuuuuuurve.

Oh yeah, and she really needed a bra!

I forgot about the dog Shangri-La. And wasn't the 'Mark Spitz' guy a huge killer whale?

Amazon Site

Animalympics

Edited by PostToastie, Mar 20, 2004 @ 11:28 AM.

[trainman]

There's some discussion of "Animalympics" somewhere in the bonus features on the "Tron" DVD (same director!). It was commissioned by NBC, which first showed a winter "Animalympics" as a special, and then had planned to use the summer "Animalympics" as wraparounds/intermissions/whatever during their coverage of the 1980 Summer Olympics (note that two members of the voice cast, Gilda Radner and Harry Shearer, were on "Saturday Night Live" at the time).

But since the American boycott of the Olympics extended to the TV coverage, that didn't happen, so it all got edited together into a movie.

Edited by trainman, Mar 20, 2004 @ 3:56 PM.

[Cloud McDuck]

Jeebus! I haven't thought about this movie forever. And I've actually still got it on tape. Damn, now I'm tempted to rewatch it. I loved that movie as a kid, so my mom bought it for me. It was like the only cartoon movie I ever owned. Disney? Pffft, who needs Disney when you have animals participating in the Oliympics.

I recall that otter that was, I think, a diver. And then there was this ultra-cool underwater music sequence, complete wit two headed fish eating itself. There was also that weight-lifting rhino, and a boxing alligator I believe.

My memories of this are too vague. I need to watch it again.

[Gracelessly]

Damn I loved this film. Gilda continuing her Barbara Walters schtick, Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer.

Am I confusing this with something else, or was there a turtle who did interviews?

[PostToastie]

I think there was a turtle. Wasn't that the one with the Howard Cossell voice?

[MrsMarsters]

Oh my gosh, I'm not the only person who remembers this movie? I freakin' loved it, especially the otter. Now if only I could remember his name....

One of my favorite parts was the hockey game, but I don't remember what kind of animals they were. Bears, maybe?

"Coach, I think I'm going to that big penalty box in the sky"....Heee!

[Uzumaki]

Man, I loved this movie. I remember I taped it over my mom's copy of 'Thelma and Louise.' I've downloaded a bunch of the songs and I still listen to 'em. I thought the lioness and the goat were sorta cute. One thing that always bothered me was, during the goat sequence, when he's remembering how he's rejected everything to excell at his running, he catches a rose from one of his admirers. He tosses it behind him, but then the next shot shows him stepping on it. Even as a young'un, I knew it was out of sequence.

Umm, the different animals were:

Walrus - President Nixon, I think
The flamingo - ice skating
Otter, or weasel - gymnast
Hippo - uneven bars
Penguin - the suspended rings thing and karate
Calamari - bobsledders (in the summer Olympics?)
Bears and I can't remember what the opposing team was - Ice Hockey
Chickens - Volleyball, or tennis
That alligator who 'started life as a handbag. They said he'd never walk again.' - XX meter dash
The boar, eagle, and squirrel - fencing
Otter, and Ono Nono the Orca - Swimming
Another boar, I think, and a kangaroo - Boxing

And of course, the skiing dog. It made me sort of sad when I found out later that once you left Shangri La (in this case, Dogra La) you could never find it again.

[babblesmuch]

Bears and I can't remember what the opposing team was - Ice Hockey

The opposing team was a bunch of bulls. I distinctly remember horns.

Am I the only one who thinks it would be kind of cool if they made an updated Animalypics?

Darn typos.

Edited by babblesmuch, Nov 26, 2004 @ 2:49 AM.

[sally12]

I randomly found this movie on here and remembered how much I loved it when I was little so I decided to check Amazon for it....I cannot believe it is going for up to $125!

[Dale]

Man, I haven't seen the whole thing. I only saw up to the lioness and goat finally holding hands while running.

[BigPaul25]

I still remember vividly Harry Shearer doing a Keith Jackson impression as bulldog sportscaster Keen Hacksaw after running the dash before introducing a segment "Thirty seconds, not bad for a fatso!"

[Twilight Man]

I saw this thread a few months ago but I was hesistant to reply.
I, too, thought that I was the only one who remembered this movie.
I taped it off of HBO several years ago, and I'm sure I still have it somewhere in my mountain of VHS tape-filled boxes down in my cellar.

The first thing that I always remember is the boxing segments with the kangaroo that sounded like Ali and the peacock that sounded like Cosell.
I was so young back then that I didn't know anything about Ali or Cosell.
About a year later, I saw an past interview between Ali and Cosell and made the connection.
I still didn't know that it was Billy Crystal doing both voices until several years later.

The penguin gymnast with his move "Me-washee-you-face-e"

The octopus (Calamari????) bobsled team (Were they making fun of the Jamaicans or did the Jamaican team come even later?): Let's a-do it again

Hockey: "Men, this is the face of the enemy!!!!"
"You go for the face-off, after you take his face off, kick him in the shins!!!"

Track & Field: the alligator (Bolt Jenkins), doing a commercial for cereal immeaditely after winning the gold.

Swimming: the otter (Dean Wilson), who sounded like a California surfer
"Hey man, like, that wave had my name written all over it. Fer' sure!!"

The songs: High diving with Dean Wilson
"I'm going down (down, down) something something"
"I'm going down (down, down)"
and they show this psychodelic video of him diving.

The club area where they mingled.
"Go for it against your competition"
"Go for it, you wanna rule the day"

That's enough for now, I am so going to try and find that video now!!!!!!

[Eris]

The octopus (Calamari????) bobsled team (Were they making fun of the Jamaicans or did the Jamaican team come even later?): Let's a-do it again

Actually, the Calamari brothers were Italian.

"I'm going down (down, down) something something"

down in the water...

If only I had $125 to spare....

[Twilight Man]

...........and still more from Billy Crystal.

"That face looks almost as ugly as yours. He's too ugly to be the champ."

"I can't even pronouce his last name. That's why I'm going to beat him up so bad, he's gonna look like his last name."

"I AM THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!!!"



Has anybody bothered checking Youtube?

Looks like we don't have to pay $125 or go through a mountain of old VHS tapes to enjoy this funny movie again

Edited by Twilight Man, Jul 15, 2010 @ 4:57 PM.

[Twilight Man]

Rowdy C Presents TV Trash reviews Animalympics.

[InvaderNorbert]

Brad Jones aka The Cinema Snob reviewed it, too. I honestly can't believe there's a thread for this, but here we are.

[elle]

I loved this movie too! So nice to see others remember it so fondly too!

I thought it was older than 1980 and I never knew it was supposed to go with the coverage of the '80 summer Olympics.

My favorite character was Contessa, the female hawk.

Wasn't the flamingo ice skater supposed to based on Dorothy Hamill and the otter gymnast was based on Olga Korbut?