Animalympics

The music at 2:15 used to get me super pumped up and excited. still does.

The Torch
Opening Credits
Opening Ceremonies
Marathon (Part I)
Gymnastics
– Floor Exercises

Gymnastics (continued)
– Vault
– Uneven Parallel Bars
Animalympic Island Tour
Marathon (Part II)
Figure Skating (Part I)
Note: There is a little flare-up in distortion during the Figure Skating segment

Figure Skating (Part II)
Track and Field
– “Born To Lose” segment/Bolt Jenkins background
– High Jump
– Pole Vault (with Gecko flakes! the breakfast of Chimps)
– “We’ve Made It To The Top” segment

Track and Field (continued)
– 100-Meter Dash
Marathon (Part III)
“Go For It” segment (Noah’s Ark Disco)
Soccer
Marathon (Part IV)
“Love’s Not For Me” segment

Slalom Skiing
Squawk Valley Tour
Bobsledding
“Away From It All” segment

Ice Hockey
Marathon Update
Dean Wilson: ZOO On You
Swimming – 100-meter freestyle

Platform Diving
“Underwater Fantasy” segment
Animal Archives
Downhill Skiing (featuring “Bionic Boar” segment and my favorite music again)
Marathon (Part V)

Boxing (Part I)
Basketball
Marathon Update
Boxing (Part II)
Marathon Update
Volleyball
Marathon Update
Weightlifting

Fencing
Marathon (Part VI)
“With You I Can Run Forever” segment
Wrap Up
Behind the Scenes
Credits

Animalympics is a 1980 animated film produced by Lisberger Studios, that spoofs the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, featuring the voices of Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer and Michael Fremer, who also co-wrote the script with director Steven Lisberger as well as editing the dialogue and music tracks and supervising the sound mix.
Originally commissioned by the NBC Television Network in 1978, it was produced as two separate shows intended to air along with the network’s 1980 winter and summer Olympics coverage. However, only the half-hour winter show made it to the small screen, as the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan caused President Jimmy Carter to boycott the Moscow Summer Olympics. America stayed away, NBC canceled its Olympic coverage and with it, the hour-long Animalympics.

Unlike the real Olympics, continents are represented rather than countries. The continents featured are North America, South America, Eurasia, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Eurasia represented Eastern Europe, reflecting the Summer Olympics scheduled to be held in Moscow, whereas Europe represented Western Europe. South America is only briefly represented in soccer. The only reference to Australia is the use of a kangaroo as a North American boxer and a koala as a commentator.

The movie is a series of vignettes presented as the broadcast of the first animal Olympic Games through the fictional ZOO television network. Because of the combination of the two short cartoons, the Games combine both summer and winter Olympic events. Many of the characters presented, both ZOO crewmembers and Olympic participants, are celebrity caricatures.

Although many of the segments could easily stand alone, there are a number of recurring events and important characters. The largest such story is the coverage of the marathon, where competitors René Fromage (a French goat) and Kit Mambo (an African lioness) are the favorites to win. Both determined to win — Fromage having devoted his entire life to the marathon, Mambo determined to make a name for herself — they find themselves surprised when their minds wander to thoughts of mutual admiration and then to love. Another important story is that of Kurt Wüffner, German dachshund skier, and his disappearance to Dogra-la (see Shangri-la) during a mountain climbing expedition shortly after the slalom event.