America's Funniest Home Videos
Funny and unique videos
TV Flash files “Funny and unique videos” as hour 455 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 20, episode 23, aired 2010-05-09, 60 min.
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This leaf is S20E23: listed hour 455 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 23 of 24 in season 20. It aired 2010-05-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Videos compete for the grand prize” (S20E22). Next is “The strangest video is revealed” (S20E24). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Part one of a two-part "America's Funniest Home Videos" series -- "the 20 videos that changed the world!" - features the funniest and most unique videos the show has received in its two decades on television. The top video, to be named in the Season Finale, will win the entrant a cruise for four anywhere in the world Disney Cruise Line sets sail (with choices including the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, the Mexican Riviera and Alaska), between June 2010 through September 2011. Tom Bergeron is the host. The episode includes footage shot aboard the Disney Magic on an Eastern Caribbean cruise.
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Where does Funny and unique videos sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S20E23 is listed hour 455 of 814 — hour 23 of 24 in season 20, season 20 episode 23.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S20E23 air?
Funny and unique videos aired 2010-05-09 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.
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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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