Shortly after its debut, a game segment called Totally Homemade Videos was added to the show.
In this segment, contestants sent in their funny videos to win a $10,000 prize, the winners of which were announced by Skrovan at the end of every episode - very similar to the format used by rival series America's Funniest Home Videos.
[3][8] While the producers admitted that the series pilot had staged some of the "setups", they swore all skits which made it to air were legitimate.
However, in the wake of the controversy, series producer Larry Hovis was fired for staging incidents.
In the season 5 "Triple Play" episode of The Golden Girls, when Blanche calls off a scheme to meet wealthy men by claiming to be selling an expensive car, Sophia tries to help Blanche save face by telling the men that the whole thing was a setup for Totally Hidden Video, and that she's actually Kaye Ballard in disguise.