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It wasn't a game show, persay, but are you perhaps thinking of Animal Jam from the Jim Henson Company?
Ah no, I do not remember dancing being a major component of the show and I don't think I encountered it in 2003
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Know it's not the latter and pretty sure not the former
"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also EveryBetween the Lions did a lot of different skits and I think some of them may have been game shows. And I know they sometimes played the fact that the main characters were lions for humor. Any chance it could have been something on there?
could it be Animal Show with Stinky and Jake?
Oh! I think it is Animal Show, yeah! This looks most familiar to what I remember
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I know it was airing in the late 90s, maybe early 2000s but forger what channel. Maybe Animal Planet? Probably one of the non-cable stations if not. Pretty sure it involved some sort of game show with puppet animal hosts or something? I remember an episode where one of the hosts was getting antsy about a lot of the contestants or something being carnivorous and seeing him as a meal or something though that just may have been a gag.