America's Funniest Home Videos
May 7, 2006
TV Flash files “May 7, 2006” as hour 356 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 16, episode 23, aired 2006-05-07, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S16E23: listed hour 356 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 23 of 26 in season 16. It aired 2006-05-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “April 23, 2006” (S16E22). Next is “May 14, 2006” (S16E24). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
America's Funniest Home Videos awards the final $100,000 prize of the season, with one lucky viewer at home who voted online also winning a Disney 7-Day, 6-Night Land and Sea Vacation for four. Among the finalists: Purr-fect Pet -- A cute kitty who does the strangest thing when her owner pets her; The Cupcake Kid -- a little boy who just can't share a cupcake with his grandpa; Merry Fishmas -- A not-so-merry X-mas when someone's holiday gift, fish, go belly up; and Jingle Bell Babe -- A little girl who just can't stand the snow, but it doesn't stop her from singing!.
Viewer FAQ
Where does May 7, 2006 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S16E23 is listed hour 356 of 814 — hour 23 of 26 in season 16, season 16 episode 23.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S16E23 air?
May 7, 2006 aired 2006-05-07 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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- Ernie Anderson as Announcer
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