Why's Everyone Watching the Humans? Quiz

Answer: Eddie

Eddie is Martin Crane's dog and companion on the critically acclaimed American sitcom "Frasier". Martin lives in his son's apartment on the show, and Eddie irritates Frasier to no end. Of course, Frasier was irritated from the beginning that he had to agree to allow his dad's dog to stay in the apartment. Eddie was played by two different Jack Russell terriers over the course of the show: Moose and then Moose's son Enzo. Occasionally, when Moose still had the role, Enzo would play the stunt double.

Answer: Fred

Fred was a white-feathered cockatoo from the American TV crime drama "Baretta". Mostly Fred hung out in Baretta's hotel room, but he sometimes ventured outside while perched on Baretta's shoulder as he walked down the street or went for a drive. Fred's real name was Lala, who was originally found in a crate of chickens smuggled into the United States from China; at first, Lala spoke Chinese. Lala had a stunt double named Weird Harold.

Answer: Flash

Flash was the bassett hound that Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane carried around in his patrol car on the American TV action drama "The Dukes of Hazzard". Although, Roscoe boasted that he had purchased a certified "attack dog", Flash mostly slept through every TV episode and hardly moved except to grab a treat or to bounce involuntarily on the seat when Roscoe was in "hot pursuit" of "them Dukes". An interesting tidbit is that a stuffed replica of a bassett hound jokingly referred to as "Flush" was used as a "stunt double" during many of the driving, chasing, and crashing scenes. Flash's real name was Sandy, a female bassett that had been adopted from a dog shelter.

Answer: Elvis

Elvis the alligator appeared on the American crime drama "Miami Vice" and lived with his owner James "Sonny" Crockett, played by Don Johnson. Before the show began production, Elvis had been the mascot for the University of Florida, Don Johnson's alma mater. Rumor has it that the alligator bit a football player from an opposing team and had to leave the campus. Apparently, he also had a clock inside of him because of a prank played by the members of a fraternity.

Answer: Murray

Murray was the Buchmans' dog, a mixed collie breed, on the American sitcom "Mad About You". Murray's real name was Maui, and he was found by Boone Narr, the owner of Boone's Animals for Hollywood. Maui had his own dressing room on the set, and he performed in a few Pizza Hut commercials in addition to his sitcom role.

Answer: Igor

Igor was really nothing more than a rubber toy and some nice camera work. However, we of the viewing audience were supposed to pretend we were witnessing the antics of a real Transylvanian bat on the American TV comedy "The Munsters". Grandpa (Al Lewis) kept Igor as a pet because he claimed the animal reminded him of "the Old Country". Of course, he constantly used poor Igor as a test subject in many of his experiments.

Answer: Jack

Jack was a mutt who appeared on the first few seasons of the American TV drama "Little House on the Prairie". He was basically Laura Ingalls' dog. Jack was played by Barney until his character was killed off in the first episode of season four. Until then, he was seen in the credits as the Wilder family descend a hillside as well as on several family picnics and trips to town, where he would be denied entry to the Olesons' store.

Answer: Arnold

Arnold Ziffel was the much pampered pig from "Green Acres" who was treated by Fred and Doris Ziffel as the son they never had. Arnold was played by a series of piglets, usually female. Because piglets obviously mature, Arnold had to be replaced every season with a new piglet.

These were trained by Frank Inn, who trained all the animals on "Green Acres", "Petticoat Junction", "The Beverly Hillbillies", and the "Benji" films. A horrifying rumor once circulated that the cast of "Green Acres" ate Arnold.

Answer: Zeus and Apollo

Zeus and Apollo were the two Doberman pinschers that lived on Robin Masters' estate in Hawaii on the American crime drama "Magnum, P.I." Jonathan Higgins, the estate's overseer, was also the dogs' caretaker, and he treated them royally, often feeding them sauteed steaks.

They were excellent guards of the premises but frequently gave the star of the show--Thomas Magnum--fits, until later in the series when they became pals. Their real names were Brutus and Dominique. Some stories say that these dogs were used for the entire series, and that Tom Selleck (Magnum) refused to work with any other dogs even when producers wanted to cut costs by getting rid of Brutus and Dominique because they were having to ship them from L.A. over and over. Selleck trusted these two dogs not to harm him during all the chase scenes.

However, other stories claim that the original two dogs were replaced eventually.

Answer: Dino

Dino was the Flintstones' pet dinosaur on "The Flintstones", referred to as a "snorkasaurus" on the show. Dino mostly barks but sometimes comes close to speaking. He and Barney (Fred Flintstone's neighbor) were voiced by Mel Blanc. However, on one episode, number eighteen, he was voiced by Jerry Mann, who tried to make Dino sound somewhat like Phil Silvers. Hannah-Barbera seemed to have a difficult time figuring out what they wanted Dino to be, for up to the eighteenth episode Dino frequently was a different color nearly every episode--pink, red, blue, purple, etc.