America's Funniest Home Videos
May 10, 2009
TV Flash files “May 10, 2009” as hour 430 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 19, episode 23, aired 2009-05-10, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S19E23: listed hour 430 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 23 of 25 in season 19. It aired 2009-05-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “May 3, 2009” (S19E22). Next is “Contestants compete for the grand prize (1)” (S19E24). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Seven finalists compete for the last $100,000 prize of the season. Videos include a little boy with a Lego stuck on his tooth; a kid retrieving his basketball from an overly friendly Labrador; a fake lotto ticket prank; friends dumping their roommate in the trash; a little boy who names the presidents and their famous quotes; a woman after one-too-many shots of Novocain at her dentist's; and do-gooders saving a squirrel stuck in a tree.
Viewer FAQ
Where does May 10, 2009 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S19E23 is listed hour 430 of 814 — hour 23 of 25 in season 19, season 19 episode 23.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S19E23 air?
May 10, 2009 aired 2009-05-10 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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