There's nothing quite like the unveiling of the Olympic mascot. The world shudders in the anticipation someone will have developed a mascot worse than the sperm-like Izzy from Atlanta 1996, and then breathes a collective sigh of relief when it's not that awful. Which is a generous scale as most Olympic mascots are pretty awful.
A good rundown can be found here.
The Athens mascots freaked the hell out of me. Though the Torino mascots bring back memories of the Mr. Show sketch about Pit-Pat (WARNING: More profanity than you ever thought possible in the following clip*). How hard is it to dress a guy up in a bear costume?
*Ed Note - Even better, one of the actors on that show is now the voice for SpongeBob Squarepants. That just makes me happy. He went from transvestite cookie manufacturers to a sponge living in a coconut under the sea... which isn't THAT much of a stretch now that I think about it.
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Ooooh, they're cute! Yay!!
Sidenote: The Athenian mascots were, if memory serves, based on ancient wooden sculpture and not bigfoot. I can't find a link to the actual museum page, but here's a Wiki entry if you trust it. While the intention was good (and the mascots names' fabulous), they were admittedly frightening and not exactly marketable.
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