America's Funniest Home Videos
February 17, 2008
TV Flash files “February 17, 2008” as hour 398 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 18, episode 14, aired 2008-02-17, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E14: listed hour 398 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 14 of 23 in season 18. It aired 2008-02-17 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Top 10 Practical Joke Countdown” (S18E13). Next is “March 2, 2008” (S18E15). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Clip highlights include a boy who plays a practical joke on his mom by giving her a box of worms as a gift, and a man whose water slide ride ends in disaster. Also: Animals do the craziest things - viewers see what happens when a dog jumps off a boat to chase a dolphin and when an ostrich attacks a woman.
Viewer FAQ
Where does February 17, 2008 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S18E14 is listed hour 398 of 814 — hour 14 of 23 in season 18, season 18 episode 14.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S18E14 air?
February 17, 2008 aired 2008-02-17 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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