America's Funniest Home Videos
October 31, 2004
TV Flash files “October 31, 2004” as hour 314 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 15, episode 5, aired 2004-10-31, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S15E05: listed hour 314 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 5 of 24 in season 15. It aired 2004-10-31 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “October 17, 2004” (S15E04). Next is “December 12, 2004” (S15E06). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
It's Happy Halloween on "America's Funniest Home Videos," with highlights including a musical montage of the unsuspecting getting scared out of their wits by others in frightful costumes; and animal horrors, including what happens when a man tries to get rid of a beehive, and a moose decides to pay a family a visit in their garage.
Viewer FAQ
Where does October 31, 2004 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S15E05 is listed hour 314 of 814 — hour 5 of 24 in season 15, season 15 episode 5.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S15E05 air?
October 31, 2004 aired 2004-10-31 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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- Bob Saget as Host
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- Ernie Anderson as Announcer
Ernie Anderson announced America's Funniest Home Videos as the voice of VHS disaster sport — kids versus piñatas, pets versus gravity, Bob Saget hosting the proto-YouTube pipeline. User-generated comedy as family-hour ritual. TV Flash…