Local dog loses moment in the sun on "America's Funniest Home Videos"

Posted Mar 05 via Statesman TV blog 2009-03-05 13:53:37


Chance and Yoko Nelson threw a party for themselves last Sunday to watch themselves and their dog win $100,000 on 'America's Funniest Home Videos.'

The taping, with host Tom Bergeron, actually happened in Los Angeles in mid-February. The show was scheduled and listed in various viewers' guides for Mar. 1.

With friends, food and fun in place, the Nelsons turned to the ABC show at 6 p.m. on KVUE.

But instead of seeing the winning clip of their beloved Chihuahua Chester, who walks on his front paws and urinates at the same time, they saw an infomercial called 'Hidden Millionaires' Secrets.'

We're not making this up about Chester. Check the YouTube video below.

'We already knew we had won,' said Chance, who works for Extra Space Storage in Austin. 'So we had this big party. But the show was preempted, so we lost our moment in the sun.'

A source in KVUE's programming department confirms that the infomercial was a last-minute schedule change, and they probably wouldn't have done it if they had been aware that Austin's own Chester was going to be featured as the big prize winner.

For the record, Chester thought up the hand-walking-urinating trick on his own. Chance Nelson swears neither he nor his wife taught him how to do it.

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