America's Funniest Home Videos
November 5, 2006
TV Flash files “November 5, 2006” as hour 365 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 17, episode 6, aired 2006-11-05, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S17E06: listed hour 365 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 6 of 25 in season 17. It aired 2006-11-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “AFHV: Halloweenies” (S17E05). Next is “November 12, 2006” (S17E07). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
AFHV salutes Yankee Doodle Dorks, celebrating the nincompoops who make America great. Clips include a homemade rocket that shoots off into a man's groin; what happens when an enlisted man learns his wife is expecting twins; a montage of goofs from America's sport, baseball, and funny footage of America's kids -- including one baby who laughs hysterically every time mom says the word peas.
Viewer FAQ
Where does November 5, 2006 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S17E06 is listed hour 365 of 814 — hour 6 of 25 in season 17, season 17 episode 6.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S17E06 air?
November 5, 2006 aired 2006-11-05 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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