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3	GameShow from 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".
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5	In Season 2, the show moved to Universal Studios, became ''The New Family Challenge'' 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.
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7	!!This show provides examples of:
8	* TheAnnouncer: Gene Wood in the first season (this would be his last show), Charlie Glaize in the second.
9	* BraggingRightsReward: "The Family Challenge Championship Cup", won by the family with the most points at the end of the show.
10	* ButtMonkey: Combs was sometimes on the receiving end of CoveredInGunge torture.
11	* CarriedByTheHost: Combs, even a year removed from ''Series/FamilyFeud'', as well as Burger.
12	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Combs season had a red team playing against a blue team. The Burger version had different colors on each episode.
13	* 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 What Would You Do?]]''.
14	* ExcitedKidsShowHost: Both Combs and Burger were Type 3 examples.
15	* GameShowHost: [[Series/FamilyFeud Ray Combs]] in the first season (this was also ''his'' last show), [[Series/MatchGame Michael Burger]] in the second.
16	* LevelAte: Some stunts focused around food, such as the "Fast Food Relay".
17	** As Gene Wood sometimes noted in the credits, "All of the food used on "Family Challenge" is food that is no longer edible."
18	* PieInTheFace: Many stunts involved the family members pieing each other.
19	* RulesSpiel: Done to introduce each stunt.
20	* {{Slapstick}}: All team members are fair game for being CoveredInGunge, most often the adults.
21	* StepfordSmiler: Combs, who managed to be his joyful self even when faced with the problems that would lead to his suicide the following year.
22	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: In a segment where Combs quizzes the family members on how much they know about each other, a team's mother predicted that her kid's favorite classical musician was Kenny G. She turned out to be right!
23	* StudioAudience: Present in both seasons. In the Burger era, audience members would be called down to participate on Friday shows.

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