America's Funniest Home Videos
The First 6 Nominees of the Season Battle it Out to Win the $100,000 Prize
TV Flash files “The First 6 Nominees of the Season Battle it Out to Win the $100,000 Prize” as hour 510 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 23, episode 7, aired 2012-11-18, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E07: listed hour 510 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 7 of 22 in season 23. It aired 2012-11-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “AFV's 500th Episode” (S23E06). Next is “Grumpy Little Dogs and Practical Jokes” (S23E08). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In this $100,000 award show, the past six weekly winners compete for this season's first $100,000 prize. The nominees include: "Hollow Tube Howler," Saki the dog sounds more like a cow when he howls with a toilet paper roll in his mouth; "What's not in your Wallet?," a new dad discovers his 14-month-old son has been hiding his credit cards down an air vent; "Cinemadographer," a dog runs off with a Flip Cam in his mouth while his owners give chase; "Pause for Applause," a three-year-old recites her number flashcards and is convinced the number 11 means pause; "Great News for Great Grandma," two women are ecstatic to learn they will be a grandmother and great grandmother at Thanksgiving dinner; "Sibling Shower Scare," a brother puts on a mask and scares his younger brother while he's in the shower.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The First 6 Nominees of the Season Battle it Out to Win the $100,000 Prize sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S23E07 is listed hour 510 of 814 — hour 7 of 22 in season 23, season 23 episode 7.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S23E07 air?
The First 6 Nominees of the Season Battle it Out to Win the $100,000 Prize aired 2012-11-18 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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