All episodes Season 19 S19E15 2009-03-01 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

March 1, 2009

TV Flash files “March 1, 2009” as hour 422 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 19, episode 15, aired 2009-03-01, 60 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S19E15: listed hour 422 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 15 of 25 in season 19. It aired 2009-03-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “February 8, 2009” (S19E14). Next is “March 8, 2009” (S19E16). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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On this edition of the show, someone will go home with $100,000 in prize money. Clips in the running include what happens when a little girl thinks a radish is an apple, a Chihuahua with hilarious bathroom habits, a man who talks to the animals (and they talk back), a boy who steals the show at a Christmas pageant, a dog with some bizarre ear habits and a toddler escaping from his crib.

Viewer FAQ

Where does March 1, 2009 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S19E15 is listed hour 422 of 814 — hour 15 of 25 in season 19, season 19 episode 15.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S19E15 air?

March 1, 2009 aired 2009-03-01 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.

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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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