America's Funniest Home Videos
January 14, 2007
TV Flash files “January 14, 2007” as hour 371 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 17, episode 12, aired 2007-01-14, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S17E12: listed hour 371 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 12 of 25 in season 17. It aired 2007-01-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “January 7, 2007” (S17E11). Next is “January 21, 2007” (S17E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
AFHV takes a look at outrageous water sports and harebrained animals. Clips include a kneeboarder skidding onto shore, a seagull eating four hotdogs quickly, a squirrel doing a handstand and a man flipping and flying off a jet ski.
Viewer FAQ
Where does January 14, 2007 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S17E12 is listed hour 371 of 814 — hour 12 of 25 in season 17, season 17 episode 12.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S17E12 air?
January 14, 2007 aired 2007-01-14 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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