America's Funniest Home Videos
The grand prize winner is announced.
TV Flash files “The grand prize winner is announced.” as the last listed hour of season 22 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 22, episode 23, aired 2012-05-20, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S22E23: listed hour 503 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, last listed hour of season 22. It aired 2012-05-20 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A countdown begins” (S22E22). Next is “October 7, 2012” (S23E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Where does The grand prize winner is announced. sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S22E23 is listed hour 503 of 814 — last listed hour of season 22, season 22 episode 23.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S22E23 air?
The grand prize winner is announced. aired 2012-05-20 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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- Bob Saget as Host
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- Ernie Anderson as Announcer
Ernie Anderson announced America's Funniest Home Videos as the voice of VHS disaster sport — kids versus piñatas, pets versus gravity, Bob Saget hosting the proto-YouTube pipeline. User-generated comedy as family-hour ritual. TV Flash…