Bumper Stumpers

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Wink Martindale created this Game Show for USA Network, in which two pairs of contestants competed to solve puzzles based on vanity license plates[1] that might have belonged to celebrities or fictional characters. After winning a toss-up, the team in control revealed one of the seven characters in a "super stumper" puzzle. The object was to solve the "super stumper" before the opposing team.

The following Game Show tropes appear in Bumper Stumpers:
  • Bonus Round: The winning team has 30 seconds to solve a series of license plate puzzles. Then they pick from the seven letters in the word STUMPER and hope the stop sign doesn't appear.
  • Personnel:
Other tropes include:
  1. in the vein of William Steig's juvenile book C D B!