America's Funniest Home Videos
December 9, 2007
TV Flash files “December 9, 2007” as hour 392 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 18, episode 8, aired 2007-12-09, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E08: listed hour 392 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 8 of 23 in season 18. It aired 2007-12-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “December 2, 2007” (S18E07). Next is “December 16, 2007” (S18E09). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Seven finalists from across the country will compete for the first $100,000 prize of the season. One online sweepstakes winner will also receive an "AFV Dream Vacation Sweepstakes" prize, a Disney Cruise Line(r) Land and Sea Vacation, starting at the Walt Disney World(r) Resort in Florida and then sailing on Disney Wonder for an enchanting Bahamian voyage to Nassau and Disney's private island paradise,
Viewer FAQ
Where does December 9, 2007 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S18E08 is listed hour 392 of 814 — hour 8 of 23 in season 18, season 18 episode 8.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S18E08 air?
December 9, 2007 aired 2007-12-09 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…
Open the America's Funniest Home Videos package · Season 18 hub
Filed against
- Bob Saget as Host
Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner made Full House industrial-strength wholesome — 1980s catalog TGIF as religion, then America’s Funniest Home Videos turning VHS disasters into family-hour sport. TV Flash files him as the clean dad with a filthy…
- 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…