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Wink Martindale created this Game Show for USA Network, in which two pairs of contestants competed to solve puzzles based on vanity license plates*

in the vein of William Steig's juvenile book C D B!

that might have belonged to celebrities or fictional characters. After winning a toss-up, the team in control revealed one of the seven characters in a "super stumper" puzzle. The object was to solve the "super stumper" before the opposing team.

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Game Show Tropes in use:

• Bonus Round: The winning team has 30 seconds to solve a series of license plate puzzles. Then they pick from the seven letters in the word STUMPER and hope the stop sign doesn't appear.
• Personnel:
  • The Announcer: Ken Ryan
  • Game Show Host: Al DuBois

Other tropes in use:

• Vanity License Plate: The entire premise.

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