Animal Crack-Ups
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- Not to be confused with Animal Crackers, a Canadian animated television series.
Animal Crack-Ups was a Saturday morning game show airing on ABC from 1987-1990. It was produced by Vin Di Bona Productions and hosted by Alan Thicke, who was on Growing Pains at the time.
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[edit] Contestants
Four celebrities competed to win $2,500 for their favorite animal charity. No civilian contestants competed.
[edit] Gameplay
Host Thicke introduced a video clip about an animal. At some point, the video was paused, and Thicke asked the contestants a question about the clip. The celebrities give their answers, after which the remainder of the clip was played, revealing the answer. Any celebrities giving the correct answer received a point (score was kept by placing a stuffed toy monkey in front of the celebrity's podium). The celeb with the most toy monkeys/points won the game & the $2,500 grand prize.
[edit] Notes
- The show's theme song is called "Animals are just like People too", which was written and sung by host Alan Thicke.
- On segues to some commercial breaks, a hedgehog puppet named "Reggie the Heggie" (performed by Susan Blu) gave animal facts to the home viewers.
- Spain had a version of this show called Waku Waku.
[edit] References
- Vin Di Bona Productions
- Animal Crack-Ups at the Internet Movie Database
- Animal Crack-Ups at TV.com
- Clip of the show's theme song with scenes of animals
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