America's Funniest Home Videos
Competing for the grand prize (1)
TV Flash files “Competing for the grand prize (1)” as hour 332 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 15, episode 23, aired 2005-05-13, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S15E23: listed hour 332 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 23 of 24 in season 15. It aired 2005-05-13 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “May 8, 2005” (S15E22). Next is “Competing for the grand prize (2)” (S15E24). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In a show filmed on location in Walt Disney World, this season's three $100,000 prize winners will return to compete for the grand prize, the trip of a lifetime to all 11 Disney theme parks around the world, including Disney Paris, the Tokyo Disney Resort and the newest Disney theme park in Hong Kong.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Competing for the grand prize (1) sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S15E23 is listed hour 332 of 814 — hour 23 of 24 in season 15, season 15 episode 23.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S15E23 air?
Competing for the grand prize (1) aired 2005-05-13 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Who is the 1990s host?
Bob Saget hosted the formative era that turned camcorder disasters into family-hour ritual.
In the series
Why this series still plays
VHS disasters as national sport: kids vs. piñatas, pets vs. gravity, dads vs. their own lawns. Bob Saget hosts the proto-YouTube pipeline years before anyone had an upload button. User-generated comedy as family-hour ritual — cheap, mean in a gentle way, and the reason relatives still shout that a wedding clip belongs on television.
Visual first: VHS snow, a kid versus a piñata, a dad versus his own lawn, studio lights treating a camcorder disaster like a gown. Vin Di Bona developed the ABC series from a Japanese format starting in 1989; Bob Saget hosted the formative late-1980s/1990s era that made home-video fails a national sport. *User-generated comedy as family-hour ritual.* **This was proto-YouTube before anyone had an upload button** — audiences as the content pipeline, relatives already shouting that a wedding clip belongs on…
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