America's Funniest Home Videos
The grand-prize winner is revealed
TV Flash files “The grand-prize winner is revealed” as the last listed hour of season 21 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 21, episode 24, aired 2011-05-22, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S21E24: listed hour 480 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, last listed hour of season 21. It aired 2011-05-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Counting down to the grand-prize winner” (S21E23). Next is “A man teases an alligator” (S22E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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In Part Two of the Season Finale, filmed aboard Disney Dream, the newest ship in the Disney Cruise Line fleet, and at the Disney California Adventure Park nighttime water spectacular, World of Color, this year's grand prize winner is revealed. The prize is a once-in-a-lifetime trip, which will include making memories at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and the Disneyland Resort in California; traveling to Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa in Ko Olina, Hawaii; choosing a guided family group vacation with Adventures by Disney; and finally, sailing aboard Disney Cruise Line's newest ship, Disney Dream. Tom Bergeron is host of "America's Funniest Home Videos.".
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Where does The grand-prize winner is revealed sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S21E24 is listed hour 480 of 814 — last listed hour of season 21, season 21 episode 24.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S21E24 air?
The grand-prize winner is revealed aired 2011-05-22 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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