Animal Crack-Ups

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Not to be confused with Animal Crackers, a Canadian animated television series.

Animal Crack-Ups is 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 (sometimes a different stuffed animal) in front of the celebrity's podium). The celeb with the most toy animals/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 two commercial breaks, a hedgehog puppet named "Reggie the Heggie" (performed by Susan Blu) gave animal facts to the home viewers & read home viewer mail.
  • Spain had a version of this show called Waku Waku. Brazil had a version called TV Animal for SBT. Portugal had a version called Arca De Noe.

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