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2-->Welcome to ''Wild and Crazy Kids''!
3-->The show that goes anywhere and does anything to find kids having fun!
4-->With your hosts, Annette Chavez/Jessica Gaynes, Omar Gooding, and Donnie Jeffcoat!
5--->--''OpeningNarration for TheNineties version''
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7Dubbed as "the show that goes anywhere and does anything to find kids having fun", this Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} GameShow (term used loosely) from TheNineties featured teams of kids playing games ranging from summer camp-style contests to different takes on sports; several episodes also took place at amusement parks or water parks. The games were played strictly for fun with whatever kids they could round up for the day, including locals, members of boys' and girls' clubs, and sometimes even the cast and/or crew's own family members; no prizes were awarded, hence no apparent need for "eligibility requirements". The show was created and executive produced by Woody Fraser, who would later go on to create and executive produce another series for Nickelodeon, ''Series/WhatWouldYouDoNickelodeon''. The show was produced by Woody Fraser Productions and Nickelodeon alongside Reeves Entertainment Group, a production company owned at the time by Creator/ThamesTelevision.
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9Revived in 2002 for a brief period, with episode names all containing "WACK". This time, Valencia Entertainment International replaced Reeves Entertainment Group as a production partner, as Thames Television had gone bankrupt in 1992 and was bought out by Creator/FremantleMedia.
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11!!GameShowTropes in use:
12* CoveredInGunge: Many of the games (it was Nickelodeon after all), especially toward the end of the run, when it was officially named "blap".
13* GameShowHost: Annette Chavez (later replaced by Jessica Gaynes), Creator/OmarGooding, and Donnie Jeffcoat on the original. Mati Moralejo hosted the revival.
14* HomeGame: Inverted; several games were "human" versions of board or video games, such as TabletopGame/{{Battleship}} (with [[{{Pun}} navy beans]] dropped onto "hit" contestants) and ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'' (with water balloons as ammo).
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16!!This show provides examples of:
17* BrokenGlassPenalty: '''Inverted''' with a baseball-themed game where the players hit balls at a whole wall of glass windows, marked with letters indicating the likes of strikes, home runs, and the exception, outs.
18* ButtMonkey: Donnie received the gunge treatment ''much'' more often than the other hosts.
19* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Each team had a different colored shirt with the show's logo; these varied per game.
20* CrossOver:
21** Marc Summers (from ''Series/DoubleDare1986'' and ''Series/WhatWouldYouDoNickelodeon'') made appearances on several occasions to play some of the games.
22** Another episode had the show's cast as the heads of one team while several of the ''Series/SaluteYourShorts'' cast headed another.
23* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: One of the opening teasers involve this old gag.
24-->'''Donnie:''' I love that old Bugs Bunny gag.
25* EveryEpisodeEnding: Usually a closing skit similar to TheTeaser (see below).
26* EvilLaugh: The closing credits ends with REG card, accompanied by a sinister-sounding chuckle.
27* FoodFight: A pie fight originally set up to be a structured "kids vs. counselors" contest ''very quickly'' turned into a free-for-all.
28* InitiationCeremony: In the final season, the guest cast member had to participate in a messy stunt to earn his or her shirt, with the guest usually getting his or her revenge on the hosts in the closer.
29* PieInTheFace: See "Food Fight" above, although that wasn't nearly the only time it was used. Another staple of the show was "Green Pie, Red Pie", which was a standard game of "Green Light, Red Light" where each contestant had a pie that they had to hit themselves with if they were eliminated.
30** Also, some of the trademark pie devices used on other Woody Fraser shows such as ''What Would You Do?'' and ''Family Challenge'' made an appearance in this series as well, notably "Pie Roulette" (similar to the "Pie Face" board game, except, as on ''What Would You Do?'', with the addition of a bucket of pie filling hanging overhead which could be dumped on a contestant).
31* {{Pilot}}: With three different hosts, different graphics and a different theme song.
32* ProductDisplacement: Somebody ''really'' didn't like Nikko--several games involved destroying said company's remote-controlled cars, with said brand name edited out (rather poorly) via a black box that "floated" over it on-screen.
33* RecycledSoundtrack: The show started using Alan Ett's music library about halfway through the run; these tracks would later appear on ''What Would You Do?''
34* RuleOfThree: Three hosts, each of which was responsible for one of the episode's games.
35* SpecialGuest: Many, especially in the very last episodes ([[Series/HomeImprovement Jonathan Taylor Thomas]], Creator/MichaelFishman, and Creator/LarkVoorhies, just to name a few).
36* StuffBlowingUp: One or two games featured sandcastles being blown up; another game had kids pushing random plungers to blow up large balls filled with popcorn.
37* TheTeaser: Every episode, involving a skit with the hosts talking about the game(s), their location, and/or any celebrities guest hosting.
38* TemptingFate: Jessica remarks at the end of a show featuring Marc Summers how no one got slimed... and immediately all three hosts get drenched in the green stuff.
39** Happened also in the episode in which the Los Angeles Fire Department guest starred. At the end of the show, the fire captain mentions how disappointed he is that no one has experienced a pie in the face (hitting Jessica with a pie as he says this) or a gunk balloon or bucket of "blap" (the show's new term for slime) over the head (delivered to Omar and Donnie, respectively, by two other firemen). After Jessica explains that they don't do the messy stuff on ''every'' show, the fire captain ends up with a surprise pie in his own face, delivered by another fireman.
40* TitleThemeTune: The theme song had an electronic voice mention "Wild and Crazy Kids" throughout it.
41* TotallyRadical: It was TheNineties, after all... one particular contest had a ''judging system'' of "Awesome" (the best ranking), "Cool" or "Bogus" (the worst).
42* YoungerAndHipper: According to a cast reunion at the 2012 Comikaze Expo, Annette was replaced after the first season because she was too old... ''she was '''18'''.'' They brought Jessica on at 14 in order to keep the show "kids hosting kids".

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