America's Funniest Home Videos
The $100,000 winner is chosen
TV Flash files “The $100,000 winner is chosen” as hour 478 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 21, episode 22, aired 2011-05-08, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S21E22: listed hour 478 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 22 of 24 in season 21. It aired 2011-05-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A marriage proposal goes wrong” (S21E21). Next is “Counting down to the grand-prize winner” (S21E23). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The final $100,000 video winner of the season will be chosen. Video contenders include: "Butt Thermometer Mix-Up" -- a teenager who's disgusted to learn she's just taken her temperature with her dog's rectal thermometer; "Wax On, Wax Ouch!" -- a man who gets his chest and tummy very painfully waxed; "Crying Camera Kid" -- a very funny, dialogue-only video from a kid who lost his camera in the snow; "Uranus or Mine?" -- a little girl who has trouble saying the name of a planet; "Misspelling Safari" -- a little boy's first try at reading; "Rainbow Calling" -- a little girl convinced that a rainbow would end in a golden treasure at grandma's house; "The Battle with the Balloon" -- a kid who just can't get a balloon to pop.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The $100,000 winner is chosen sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S21E22 is listed hour 478 of 814 — hour 22 of 24 in season 21, season 21 episode 22.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S21E22 air?
The $100,000 winner is chosen aired 2011-05-08 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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