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dlanning
Since: Nov, 2019
Randallw201238
Since: Sep, 2012
Obiwanlivesforever2
Since: Mar, 2015
2019-11-28 20:14:44
Sounds like The Animal Shelf? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE5Z4tXWxDU
At least where I'm from, it was a segment on a compilation show called Itsy Bitsy Time.
shooterboss
(Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)

This was back in the early 2000s. 5 animal dolls (one was a bear, another a monkey if I remember correctly) lived around a family home. At the end of the day, they'd sit on a shelf and go to sleep as the owner (a kid whose face is never shown, only his shadow) ended each episode by counting each doll and saying something like "5 special animals."
I remember one episode involving the kid wanting to watch a rare comet in the sky but unknowingly misses it, so the animals get together and shine a flashlight outside to make him think he saw it.