Thursday, August 2, 2012

DO THE NAMES KIT MAMBO, RENE FROMAGE, AND BOLT JENKINS RING A BELL?  I don't know what you were planning on doing for the next seventy-eight minutes, but readers of a certain age will be hit be a tidal wave of nostalgia when I tell you that the entire 1980 animated film Animalympics is available on YouTube.

Voice talent includes Gilda Radner, Billy Crystal, and Harry Shearer, and it's a pretty unbeatable combination of sports parody, soft rock music videos, and awful, horrible (which is to say wonderful) puns. Others have given this film much more thought. ("I’m more trying to figure out how a cobra took third in figure skating. Where does it put on the skate?")