America's Funniest Home Videos
Counting down to the grand-prize winner
TV Flash files “Counting down to the grand-prize winner” as hour 479 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 21, episode 23, aired 2011-05-15, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S21E23: listed hour 479 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 23 of 24 in season 21. It aired 2011-05-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The $100,000 winner is chosen” (S21E22). Next is “The grand-prize winner is revealed” (S21E24). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In Part One of the Season Finale, filmed aboard the Disney Dream(TM), the newest ship in the Disney Cruise Line(R) fleet, the countdown begins to see which $100,000 winner will take home this year's grand prize, SUNDAY, MAY 15 (7:00-8:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. The prize is a once-in-a-lifetime trip, which will include making memories at the Walt Disney World Resort(R) in Florida and the Disneyland(R) Resort in California; traveling to Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa in Ko Olina, Hawaii; choosing a guided family group vacation with Adventures by Disney(R); and finally, sailing aboard Disney Cruise Line's(R) newest ship, Disney Dream(TM).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Counting down to the grand-prize winner sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S21E23 is listed hour 479 of 814 — hour 23 of 24 in season 21, season 21 episode 23.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S21E23 air?
Counting down to the grand-prize winner aired 2011-05-15 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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