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''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.


CONTESTANTS

Four celebrities competed to win $2,500 for their favorite animal Charity . No civilian contestants competed.


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.


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''. Brazil had a version called ''TV Animal'' for SBT .



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