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5.3/10 TV Country of origin United States Running time 30 minutes First episode date 8 August 1987 Presented by Alan Thicke Executive producer Vin Di Bona | 6.5/10 IMDb Genre Game Show No. of seasons 3 Original network ABC Final episode date 1 September 1990 Number of seasons 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original release August 8, 1987 – September 1, 1990 Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Videotape Editing Similar Game show, The Wizard of Odds, The Alan Thicke Show, New Kids on the Block, The Wizard of Oz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Animal crackups
Animal Crack-Ups is an ABC game show which aired in primetime from August 8 to September 12, 1987, after which it aired on Saturday mornings from September 12, 1987 to December 30, 1989 and again from June 2 to September 1, 1990. It was produced by ABC Productions in association with Vin Di Bona Productions (both companies also produce America's Funniest Home Videos) and hosted by Alan Thicke, who was on Growing Pains at the time. The program was based on a Japanese series, Waku Waku.
Contents
The show's theme song was "Animals Are Just Like People Too", created by Thickovit music (Alan and Todd Thicke and Gary Pickus).
Embry playing with animal crack ups
Gameplay
Four celebrities competed. Host Thicke introduced a video clip about an animal; at some point, the video was paused and Thicke asked 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 animal (a monkey in the first season, a hedgehog in later seasons) in front of the celebrity's podium. The celeb with the most toy animals/points won the game and $2,500 for their favorite animal charity. If a tie occurred, the money was split between the charities.
On segues to two commercial breaks, a hedgehog puppet named "Reggie the Heggie" (performed by Susan Blu) gave animal facts to the home viewers and read home-viewer mail.