America's Funniest Home Videos
December 14, 2008
TV Flash files “December 14, 2008” as hour 416 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 19, episode 9, aired 2008-12-14, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S19E09: listed hour 416 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 9 of 25 in season 19. It aired 2008-12-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “December 9, 2008” (S19E08). Next is “January 4, 2009” (S19E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In this edition of AFHV, someone will go home with $100,000 in prize money. Clips in the running include footage of a toddler with a special dance for each state of the union, a cat resisting a bath, an over-eager tot trying to blow out the birthday candles too soon, a toddler making a break from his crib, a hula-hoop-challenged three-year-old, two boys mocking their sister's dance routine, and a four-year-old's musical tribute to Barry Manilow.
Viewer FAQ
Where does December 14, 2008 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S19E09 is listed hour 416 of 814 — hour 9 of 25 in season 19, season 19 episode 9.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S19E09 air?
December 14, 2008 aired 2008-12-14 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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