Animalympics (1980)

Made as two specials to honor the 1980 Winter and Summer Olympics separately, the airing of the second special was waylaid because of the United States’s boycott of Moscow’s Summer Olympics. The film is a whole bunch of random vignettes featuring a whole bunch of random animals performing in a whole bunch of random sports. Instead of representing countries, the animals more or less represent their various continents with there being a special Eurasia contingent to cover Russian stereotypes. One of the few stories that lasts beyond a minute or two is the coverage of the marathon, framed as a battle between an African lion and a goat from France who toward the end fall in love. Inexplicably the female characters almost all exhibit cleavage with the lion particularly having rather large unencumbered breasts for a runner. A number of animators who worked on this project later went on to much bigger, well-known properties, such as Brad Bird, director of Ratatouille and The Iron Giant. The sparse voice cast also has a bunch of well known artists: Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, and Harry Shearer.