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[Television series] [date=July 2010] [date=March 2025] {{Infobox television |
image = Sponk! title.png | caption = | alt_name = | genre = {{plainlist|
- Sketch comedy
- Improvisational comedy
- Game show
}} | creator = | developer = | writer = | director = | creative_director = |
presenter = Johnathan McClain | starring = {{Plainlist|
- Allie Berdebes
- Tim Dorsch
- Julia Kay
- Vanessa Lengies
- Scott Irby-Rainnar
- Miles Thompson
- Louie Torrellas
- Lori Wells }}
| judges = | narrated = Karen Fowler (as SID) | theme_music_composer = Chris
Phillips | opentheme = | endtheme = | composer = | country = United
States<br>Canada | language = English | num_seasons = 1 | num_episodes = 26 |
list_episodes = | executive_producer = John Brunton<br>Barbara
Bowlby<br>Eileen Braun | producer = Karen Fowler | location = | cinematography
= | editor = | camera = | runtime = 30 minutes | company = Sesame
Workshop<br>Noggin LLC<br>Insight Productions | network = Noggin | first_aired
= [2001] | last_aired = [2002] | related = }} _SPONK!_ is a children's
television game show produced by Sesame Workshop and Insight Productions for
the Noggin channel. It was Sesame Workshop's first original production for
Noggin.[1] It premiered on Noggin on September 10, 2001<ref
name=PRNewswireSponk>[url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/noggin-goes-back-to-school-with-new-interactive-programming-beginning-monday-september-10-71629047.html]
and ended on March 4, 2002. The series reran on Nickelodeon on Sunday
mornings, starting September 16.[2]
The premise of _Sponk!_ was improvisational comedy, similar to the show _Whose
Line Is It Anyway?_ Two teams of performers depicted suggestions in a variety
of games. Viewers suggested their ideas by submitting them to the Noggin
website. "SID" (Suggestion & Idea Distributor) was the name of the computer
on the show that picked the ideas submitted by Noggin.com members. From 2002
to 2004, Noggin aired reruns of _Sponk!_ as part of its nighttime programming
block, The N.[3]
** Cast
The cast included host Johnathan McClain, and announcer (as the voice of SID)
Karen Fowler. The performers were all young actors. Among them were Julia
Kay, Tim Dorsch, Scott Irby-Rainnar, Lori Wells, Miles Thompson (who later
went on to star in the feature film _Me and You and Everyone We Know_ and
cameoed in _Return To Sleepaway Camp_), Allie Berdebes, Vanessa Lengies, and
Louie Torrellas.[4]
** Gameplay
The game show featured young actors and a young studio audience. The
performers were four boys and four girls, but with two sitting out and six
competing in a red team and blue team. The ideas for the improvisational and
sketch contests were submitted by the home audience through Noggin.com. SID
would then pick a submission and provide credit for the home audience (as
their screen name). Later, she announced the winner of a small electronic
device.
The studio audience participated as judges for the sketches. They
disqualified a contestant by yelling out, "Sponk!". When time ran out and the
sound of a hen squawking was played, the audience voted the winner by raising
the side of their "Spaddle" to vote for the red team or blue team. The
"prize" that the performers competed for was the Sponk Trophy, a golden rubber
chicken. Occasionally an audience member would be the sketch participant
while the original performers acted as a celebrity panel and won a small prize
for participating.
** References
[Reflist]
** External links
- [id=0295820]
- _Sponk!_ on SesameWorkshop.org (see https://web.archive.org/web/20110608011042/http://www.sesameworkshop.org/programs/sponk)
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