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1. Animals provide running gags in many sitcom plots, sometimes develop enormous followings, fan clubs, and even steal the limelight from the human actors! This canine character not only steals the "Frasier" show, but the muffins and the Christ child from a nativity scene. He has licked a Lichtenstein painting and scratched his back on an expensive leather sofa overlooking the sophisticated city lights. Who is this character?
2. In the classic comedy series "Cheers", Diane's beloved companion passes on and Sam Malone is challenged to show his sensitivity to her without revealing his wish to take advantage of the situation with his ulterior motives. What is this pet whose loss almost breaks Diane's heart?
3. In the Britcom series "Fawlty Towers" with the talents of John Cleese and Prunella Scales amongst others, Manuel, the trusty waiter from Barcelona (que?) must face harsh reality when his Siberian hamster turns out to be a threat to the hotel's future. Name this animal.
4. Here is one for the younger set as it's apparently a very popular episode and everyone over 2 years old must be able to debate this in polite society according to my younger sources. I am forced to include it in the interests of being fair to my subject and leaving no stone unturned in my study. In the series "Friends," Joey and Chandler have a chick and a duck as roommates. They acquire these after seeing the sad fate in store for discarded Easter pets. Without going into details of the story, what is the chick's name?
5. One of the popular teen-oriented programs of the nineties, a spin-off from the 60s comic book series "Archie," is "Sabrina the Teenaged Witch" which features a show-stealing feline character who is not what he seems. What is Salem's story?
6. Back to "Frasier", Niles, in an effort to find a companion in his new single life without Maris, in a luxury apartment with a snobby address, seems to gravitate towards pets that resemble her in some odd way. What were the animals featured in the episode "To Kill a Talking Bird"?
7. Selma Bouvier on "The Simpsons" is rather unlucky in love, her marriages are dismal flops, in fact her only lasting relationship is with whom?
8. This comedy series still musters a few web pages from devoted worldwide fans with its wise-cracking furry character from the planet Melmac where cats are eaten from time to time. Yes, that loveable alien life form Alf managed to resist eating his hosts' feline. Ready? What was the cat's name?
9. Here's an oldie but goody for you, nothing like hillbillies and choochoos to please a sixties crowd, plus you throw in a few critters and you've got a pretty decent series. It's got a few websites and petitions to get it back on the air. Though Arnold the pig remains in my memory, the dog was the only one with name recognition as he went on to bigger things. What was his name on the "Petticoat Junction" series?
10. "A horse is a horse of course of course, unless it's Mr. Ed." This equine entertainer who could shake a mean hoof was quite a hit and stole the show from his "master". Now reach into your memory banks and get his human companion's name.
11. In another Britcom that crossed the Atlantic to conquer large audiences in North America, "Are You Being Served?," Mrs. Slocombe's constant references to her female companion Tiddles provided a long running gag that no character escaped from. Everyone from the pompous Captain Peacock to Mr. Lucas raised their eyebrows accordingly. In one episode she complains of another breed of cat bothering hers, which sends poor Mr. Grainger into a frenzy, rushing home to protect his wife from a bus conductor neighbor. What was this interloper's breed?
12. Back to "Friends" again, this animal is almost more than a mere pet, he's more of a kindred spirit: Ross' monkey Marcel. Someone named Bethel rescued him from a lab, and then Ross brings him home. Why does Ross have to part with his dear Marcel, sending him to a zoo across the country in California?
13. Now, a sixties series based on a book that delighted many a child and adult and then became a hit in its film version, the "Addams Family". It obviously needed some animals as comedy props. You did know that Thing wasn't a pet, didn't you? Well on the other hand, try this question, Pugsley's octopus is named Aristotle, but what was Wednesday's spider's name with a literary bent in this epic odyssey of a sitcom?
14. No one will have missed the symmetric pattern of the good old syrupy sweet American series "The Brady Bunch" (unless we count that monkey wrench in the works Alice the fulltime housekeeper in the equation). When the parents first meet and marry, with the lovely girls and the boisterous boys, there are pets too. Choose the right ones.
15. Here's a last one to ponder, in the classic Disney cartoons, with Mickey and Minnie and company, there are two dogs, but only one of them is a pet. Which of the following is the pet?
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