America's Funniest Home Videos
May 4, 2008 (400th Episode)
TV Flash files “May 4, 2008 (400th Episode)” as hour 404 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 18, episode 20, aired 2008-05-04, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E20: listed hour 404 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 20 of 23 in season 18. It aired 2008-05-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “April 13, 2008” (S18E19). Next is “May 11, 2008” (S18E21). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
"America's Funniest Home Videos," the longest-running primetime show in ABC history, celebrates another landmark, its 400th episode. Highlights include wedding mishaps, college kids making a homemade water slide and sliding through dorm halls, and a little girl who makes a big mess with chocolate powder.
Viewer FAQ
Where does May 4, 2008 (400th Episode) sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S18E20 is listed hour 404 of 814 — hour 20 of 23 in season 18, season 18 episode 20.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S18E20 air?
May 4, 2008 (400th Episode) aired 2008-05-04 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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- 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…