We've seen animation and comics legends such as Stan Lee and Chuck Jones appear on To Tell The Truth. As The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour begins 1984, a future animation legend appears as a contestant.
Butch Hartman was just 19, a college student, when he appeared on the show, which aired on January 3, but taped a couple of weeks prior. Mind you, this was a few years before he began working for Cartoon Network and, later, more famously, Nickelodeon.
I think this is why Butch would later use game show motifs in his cartoons (i.e. Fairly OddParents).
How no one thought to think of Fat Albert as an answer to that Dumb Donald question, I'll never know.
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Good stuff...
I actually remember seeing this when Match Game-Hollywood Squares hour was starting to be rerun on Buzzr via their stream, and being rather surprised to see Butch as a contestant, as i've watched the series he's produced before.
There actually are a few other folks who later became known for animation/kids TV that were game show contestants in that era...
I'm not sure if i've ever mentioned it in previous comments, but Renae Jacobs(later known for being the voice of April in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series) was a contestant on Sale of the Century around 1984/1985 or so(her episode is on YouTube luckily).
Also, Kirk Fogg(later host of Legends of the Hidden Temple on Nickelodeon), was a contestant on the CBS game show Body Language(his episodes might be on YouTube; i'm not sure if they were rerun on Buzzr or GSN though).
I'll keep an eye open.
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