America's Funniest Home Videos
A car alarm prank
TV Flash files “A car alarm prank” as hour 439 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 20, episode 7, aired 2009-11-15, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S20E07: listed hour 439 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 7 of 24 in season 20. It aired 2009-11-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A squirrel picks a fight with a deer” (S20E06). Next is “Bob Saget makes an appearance” (S20E08). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
With the first $100,000 prize of the season to be awarded, here are the videos in the running: "Hidden Honkers," a car alarm prank; "U Don't Know Uvulas," a little girl with a smarty pants vocabulary; "Ballpark Promise," a Dodger fan catching a ball; "Laser Chasers," a Great Dane and a little boy chasing a laser pointer; "Soda Bottle Blowout," a kid's science experiment having explosive results; and "Boohoo in the Loo," a little boy pitching a dramatic fit in the bathroom. Also: The year's first at-home sweepstakes winner is announced, with the lucky winner awarded a 10-night Disney cruise to the Mediterranean.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A car alarm prank sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S20E07 is listed hour 439 of 814 — hour 7 of 24 in season 20, season 20 episode 7.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S20E07 air?
A car alarm prank aired 2009-11-15 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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