America's Funniest Home Videos
AFV's 500th Episode
TV Flash files “AFV's 500th Episode” as hour 509 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 23, episode 6, aired 2012-11-11, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E06: listed hour 509 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 6 of 22 in season 23. It aired 2012-11-11 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Not So Super-Heroes and Name That Sound” (S23E05). Next is “The First 6 Nominees of the Season Battle it Out to Win the $100,000 Prize” (S23E07). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The episode highlights include a woman finding half a $20 bill in her dog's mouth, a music montage featuring wedding mishaps, a teen girl rambling on after dental surgery about how much she loves Prince William, and Tom playing "Who Breaks It?" The show will also award the Golden Cup to the one millionth groin hit.
Viewer FAQ
Where does AFV's 500th Episode sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S23E06 is listed hour 509 of 814 — hour 6 of 22 in season 23, season 23 episode 6.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S23E06 air?
AFV's 500th Episode aired 2012-11-11 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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