Animal Crack-Ups

{{Short description|American game show}}

{{distinguish|Animal Crackers (TV series)}}

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| genre = Game Show

　| based_on = Wakuwaku Dōbutsu Land

　| writer = Todd Thicke

| presenter = Alan Thicke

| voices = Susan Blu

| narrated =

| theme_music_composer = {{Plainlist|

• Alan and Todd Thicke
• Gary Pickus

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| opentheme =

| endtheme = "Animals Are Just Like People Too" by Alan Thicke

| producer = {{Plainlist|

• ABC Productions
• Vin Di Bona Productions

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| country = United States

| executive_producer = Vin Di Bona

| runtime = 30 minutes

| network = ABC

| first_aired = {{Start date|1987|08|08}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1990|09|01}}

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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.{{cite book |last1=Hyatt |first1=Wesley |title=The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television |date=1997 |publisher=Watson-Guptill Publications |isbn=978-0823083152 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofda00hyat/page/24/mode/2up|accessdate=22 March 2020|pages=24–25}} 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 Tokyo Broadcasting System Television series, Wakuwaku Dōbutsu Land (わくわく動物ランド).

The show's theme song was "Animals Are Just Like People Too", created by Thickovit music (Alan and Todd Thicke and Gary Pickus).Library of Congress. "Animals are just like people too : Theme from Animal crack-ups." Copyright registration PAu001011105.