America's Funniest Home Videos
December 9, 2008
TV Flash files “December 9, 2008” as hour 415 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 19, episode 8, aired 2008-12-09, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S19E08: listed hour 415 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 8 of 25 in season 19. It aired 2008-12-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “November 30, 2008” (S19E07). Next is “December 14, 2008” (S19E09). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, as AFHV salutes the holiday with clips that include a little girl who refuses her sister's participation in the singing of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," a little boy who gives an unusual performance of "Jingle Bell Rock" during a school recital, Santa Claus tripping down the stairs, a little boy who is very upset with his Xmas presents (clothes), and a pug who plays scrooge when he steals a cat's treats -- and the cat decides to give him some payback.
Viewer FAQ
Where does December 9, 2008 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S19E08 is listed hour 415 of 814 — hour 8 of 25 in season 19, season 19 episode 8.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S19E08 air?
December 9, 2008 aired 2008-12-09 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…
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