America's Funniest Home Videos
October 5, 2008
TV Flash files “October 5, 2008” as the first listed hour of season 19 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 19, episode 1, aired 2008-10-05, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S19E01: listed hour 408 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, first listed hour of season 19. It aired 2008-10-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “May 16, 2008 (2)” (S18E23). Next is “October 12, 2008” (S19E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
. Season premiere highlights include clips of the painful hilarity that ensues when men get their hair waxed; a little boy getting some unwanted help from his brother when making his first jump off a diving board; a puppy going to great lengths to avoid a bath and a deer giving a man a swift kick in the head.
Viewer FAQ
Where does October 5, 2008 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S19E01 is listed hour 408 of 814 — first listed hour of season 19, season 19 episode 1.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S19E01 air?
October 5, 2008 aired 2008-10-05 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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- Ernie Anderson as Announcer
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