History Series / FamilyChallenge

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Both male and female team members were fair game for being CoveredInGunge, most often the adults.

* CoveredInGunge: A staple of kids' shows at the time, usually having the kids getting their parents messy. The show also had the Gunk Tank, recycled from the Pie Slide on ''Series/WhatWouldYouDoNickelodeon''.

* CoveredInGunge: A staple of kids' shows at the time, usually having the kids getting their parents messy. The show also had the Gunk Tank, recycled from the Pie Slide on ''Series/WhatWouldYouDo''.

!!GameShowTropes in use:

* Personnel:
** TheAnnouncer: Gene Wood in the first season (this would be his last show), Charlie Glaize in the second.
** GameShowHost: [[Series/FamilyFeud Ray Combs]] in the first season (this was also ''his'' last show), [[Series/MatchGame Michael Burger]] in the second.
** StudioAudience: Present in both seasons. In the Burger era, audience members would be called down to participate on Friday shows.

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!!This show provides examples of:
* BraggingRightsReward: "The Family Challenge Championship Cup", won by the family with the most points at the end of the show.
* ButtMonkey: Combs was sometimes on the receiving end of CoveredInGunge torture.
* CarriedByTheHost: Combs, even a year removed from ''Series/FamilyFeud'', as well as Burger.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Combs season had a red team playing against a blue team. The Burger version had different colors on each episode.
* ExcitedKidsShowHost: Both Combs and Burger were Type 3 examples.
* LevelAte: Some stunts focused around food, such as the "Fast Food Relay".
** As Gene Wood sometimes noted in the credits, "All of the food used on "Family Challenge" is food that is no longer edible."
* PieInTheFace: Many stunts involved the family members pieing each other.

** GameShowHost: [[Series/FamilyFeud Ray Combs]] in the first season (also the last show he would host), [[Series/MatchGame Michael Burger]] in the second.

* StepfordSmiler: Combs who managed to be his joyful self even when faced with the problems that would lead to his suicide the following year.

* StepfordSmiler: Combs who managed to be his joyful self when faced with the problems that would lead to his suicide the following year.

In Season 2, the show moved to Universal Studios and Michael Burger took over hosting. Families now had two adults and three children playing. On Fridays towards the end of the run, Burger picked contestants out of the audience to do stunts.

GameShow produced by Woody Fraser Productions that ran on [[Creator/FreeForm The Family Channel]] from 1995-97. Two families consisting of two adults and four children played against each other in a variety of rotating stunts and quizzes for points. The family with the most points after seven stunts won the game and "The Family Challenge Championship Cup".

* DieHardOnAnX: "Family Quiz" was ''Series/TheNewlywedGame'' with one family member predicting how another member would answer a question. A match got points while wrong answers resulted in a PieInTheFace.

** TheAnnouncer: Gene Wood in the first season, Charlie Glaize in the second.
** GameShowHost: [[Series/FamilyFeud Ray Combs]] in the first season, [[Series/MatchGame Michael Burger]] in the second.

* StepfordSmiler: Combs who managed to be his joyful self when when faced with the problems that would lead to his suicide the following year.

* BraggingRightsReqard: "The Family Challenge Championship Cup", won by the family with the most points at the end of the show.