America's Funniest Home Videos
Christmas Spectacular
TV Flash files “Christmas Spectacular” as hour 488 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 22, episode 8, aired 2011-12-08, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S22E08: listed hour 488 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 8 of 23 in season 22. It aired 2011-12-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A bride laughs during her ceromony” (S22E07). Next is “Kids say funny things” (S22E09). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
This holiday season, "America's Funniest Home Videos" celebrates from the Disneyland Resort in California, with host Tom Bergeron highlighting the best classic Christmas videos in "AFHV" history, along with all-new clips. The exciting episode includes: videos featuring the hazards of decorating, as lights, mantels, trees and people all go down; videos of kids reacting to lousy gifts, or causing mayhem during recitals, or the hilarious things they say while sitting on Santa's lap; and videos of cats and dogs getting in on the Christmas mischief as they investigate gifts and decorations.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Christmas Spectacular sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S22E08 is listed hour 488 of 814 — hour 8 of 23 in season 22, season 22 episode 8.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S22E08 air?
Christmas Spectacular aired 2011-12-08 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.
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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