YMMV / Animalympics

• Accidental Innuendo: "Darren checks the goalie! He likes what he sees."
• Awesome Music: The entire soundtrack, largely courtesy of 10cc's Graham Gouldman.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Dean Wilson the otter, for suure.
  • Tatyana Tushenko is probably one of the most well known competitors in the show.
  • Bolt Jenkins is being treated like this due to his backstory, achieving what he dreamed of, being a proper sportsman towards Kip Ngogo, and for being a expy/parody of Rocky Balboa and John Travolta and it shows in the Noah's Ark Disco scene.
  • Brenda Springer is seen as this for her Fanservice.
• Fair for Its Day: The film has a metric ton of ethnic stereotypes, good and bad, so it avoids being offensive.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Many fans ship Bruce Kwakimoto and Tatyana Tushenko. Some theorize that they'd even receive a lot less controversy than Kitt and Renee since they were in different divisions in their event so they never competed against each other.
• Harsher in Hindsight: At one point in Kurt Wuffner's introductory sequence, he is seen skiing down "the Animal Trade Center".
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • A track & field athlete called Bolt, who did exceptionally well in the 100m? Ironic Echo doesn't even begin to cover it!
  • Speaking of Bolt, who is a parody of John Travolta, in 2008 the real John Travolta would later go onto to voice another Bolt.
  • Harry Shearer essentially doing Kent Brockman seven years before The Simpsons debuted.
    • This wouldn’t even be the last time Shearer would voice a dog sports announcer in a World of Funny Animals.
  • You can't watch the Calimari Brothers and not think of Cool Runnings.
  • During the fashion show segment, the athletes are showing off pieces from a fashion designer named Enrico Pucci... Now where have we heard that name before?
• Older Than They Think: Some people assume Henry Hummell is an expy of Ben Stein rather than Henry Kissinger.
• Nightmare Fuel: The scene spoofing The Seventh Seal features a scene in a different art style of a horse lying with a shocked expression. Let's just say, if you watched The Godfather, this scene might trigger some memories...
• Popular with Furries: One of the most well-known closet keys into the fandom.
• Tear Jerker: "Love's Not for Me"...
  So when the race is won
  And there's nothing left to do
  Alone again,
  But where are you?
  • René's expression at that moment is heartbreaking.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Being made in 1980, most of the characters and some of the jokes are references to the pop culture of the late 70s. For example, if it was remade in the 2020s, the ex-champion swim star with a zillion gold medals would likely be an expy of Michael Phelps rather than Mark Spitz.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Some viewers saw Joey Gongolong’s boxing opponent Janos Brushteckel as this. Not only did Joey berate him before dishing out a brutal Curb-Stomp Battle, but afterwards anchor Rugs Turkell wastes no time delivering him a brutal recap on why he lost, forcing him to relive his humiliating defeat, saying that he let down his coach, country, mother, and himself, to the point where Janos is in tears. To add insult to injury, Rugs then finishes his rant by telling Janos that he can now let him down, before proceeding to jump up and down on top of the crestfallen Janos’ head.
• Viewer Species Confusion:
  • Most viewers mistake Tatyana Tushenko to be a ferret, mink, otter, or weasel, when she is actually stated to be a sable, a species of mustelid that’s usually overshadowed by the other mustelid species mentioned.
  • Bruce Kwokimoto is a puffin, but is usually mistaken to be a duck or penguin by viewers.

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