The 5 Worst Olympic Mascots
From morbidly obese beavers to walking penises, these icons should be banned for life.
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3. Olly, Syd, and Millie, mascots of the 2000 Sydney Games.
The organizers of the 2000 Sydney Games realized that nobody could top Izzy in a one-on-one competition. So they instead drank 1,000 Imperial gallons of Foster's and created an unholy trinity of mascots: A kookabura named Ollie (why not?) who represents the Olympics' spirit of generosity(?); a duckbilled platypus named Syd (as in Sydney) who represents the environment (??); and an echidna called Millie (as in Millenium Games) who represented the year 2000 (???). It's not just toilets that flush backwards in Australia, mates. Even free association doesn't make sense Down Under.
How bad were Olly, Syd, and Millie? Worse than a Paul Hogan film festival or a Mel Gibson beer run. People in Sydney instead embraced Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat, an unofficial mascot who made up in crowd-love what it lacked in sponsorship.
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Aw, c'mon, Nick - the Fuwa are adorable!
Right up until they unleash the Mongol Hordes™ to bust yer kneecaps for failure to pay back the $75kabazillion your country has borrowed from China.
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Huanhuan looks like it is on fire. Maybe the Mongols burnt his village raped the cattle and killed the women and stole the men?
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Prediction: The 2028 St. Louis Summer Olympic Games mascot will be "Archie the the St. Louis Arch", an ill-tempered, Bud-drinking, Cardinals fan who always enters events to the sound of Sheryl Crow's "All I Wann Do."
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And, yes, the band The The will host the opening ceremonies.
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I've been waiting for this moment all of my life
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Hey, I like The The. At least their first album...
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Since the 2016 Olympics are in Rio, I propose the following two mascots:
Wedgie - the women's beach vollyball bikini bottom that's moved, um, a bit out of place
Breasty - a topless carioca hottie who strolls the beaches
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I'll be in my bunk...
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the name "Rio De Generate" comes to mind.
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Great band name!
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Sure, but at least one of them has to be a tranny.
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Wedgie - the women's beach vollyball bikini bottom that's moved, um, a bit out of place
Like this?
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I luuuvvs the intrawebs!
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5. Amik the Beaver, the mascot of the 1976 Games in Montreal.
Come on! Who doesn't like a little beaver?
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scientists have yet to synthesize anything that can make Amik the Beaver look like anything other than a colostomy bag.
IDK, to me he kind of looks like a big turd with a ribbon around it. Like a really shitty present, IOW.
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And Izzy kind of looks like Mr. Hankey's retarded cousing who got into a bucket of blue paint once. What is it with turd shaped Olympic mascots?
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it aint just olympic mascots w teh stupid.
behold slider the tribe mascot...which should be sum stud warrior mascot like florida state.
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Nice to see Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat, the Battler's Prince, get a guernsey as a great mascot that never was.
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The official Sydney mascots were the least stupid on the list, but it's a shame Fatso wasn't adopted officially.
Also - are your news outlets lamenting the dearth of Aussie medals nightly?
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Fatso does look like someone, er, something(?) you'd want to share a pint and laugh with.
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Minor nitpick: there is no way the organizers of the Sydney games were sitting around drinking Foster's, because nobody in Australia drinks that. Seriously. They sell that stuff in America because it got laughed out of Australia.
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Barack Obama should be the mascot if a US city wins a bid again sometime, for HE IS GOOD AND JUST AND EMPIRE.
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A bit of a sting after Chicago got dumped ASAP for 2016.
Besides, our mascot would be a loveable, plush alderman with a large plain brown envelop in one hand and the other behind his back with its fingers crossed.
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Probably the best thing I've seen/read/heard about the Olympics. Ever.
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Thank you, Mr. Gillespie. Dick. Fucking Jedward? How much whiskey is it going to take to erase that? Warn a guy next time, would ya?
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The mascots of past Games and, one suspects, their yet-to-be born brethren of future Olympics, drive home the fact that however far we run and high we jump, we will, just like Olly, Syd, and Millie - and even Fatso! - fail completely in our quest to make something more of our efforts than abject, humiliating failure.
Case in point: The one time there was actually a good Olympic mascot, the US boycotted the games!
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They should have gone with "Anatoly the Gulag Bound Dissident".
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Any reports of those things terrifying children?
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If you showed them to your kids, CPS would show up in a heartbeat.
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I have no idea why there is even such a thing as an Olympic mascot or why anyone would think that there should be one.
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Funniest thing I've read all week. Completely lost it when I clicked on that link for Fatso.
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Hahahaha. Hilarious article. Reason gets the gold.
Synchronized swimming gets the gold, too.
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However far we run and high we jump, we will, just like Olly, Syd, and Millie - and even Fatso! - fail completely in our quest to make something more of our efforts than abject, humiliating failure
poetry
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Olympic mascots are designed by smart people in a room and don't necessarily reflect any history or familiarity with people. It would make more sense to just sell mascot rights in a sponsorship package and let Mickey Mouse or Betty Boop or whatever be the mascot at future games.
I imagine the Geico gecko or the Coca Cola polar bears would have more resonance if only from familiarity.
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The best Olympic mascot was obviously Homer Simpson's.
/too lazy to search for a link.
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The best Olympic mascot was obviously Homer Simpson's.
/too lazy to search for a link.
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Design by committee is never a good idea and when it comes to Olympic mascots, it seems like no idea is so bad that it can't be made even more rotten—and then dipped in multiple coats of WTF lacquer. Here's the five worst mascots of the Summer Games.