America's Funniest Home Videos
Six Finalists Compete for $100,000
TV Flash files “Six Finalists Compete for $100,000” as hour 517 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 23, episode 14, aired 2013-02-17, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E14: listed hour 517 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 14 of 22 in season 23. It aired 2013-02-17 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Mischievous Cats and Dogs and Hopeless Handsprings” (S23E13). Next is “Foot, Face or Fanny?” (S23E15). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In this $100,000 award show, clips include: "Ultrashocking Ultrasound," featuring a woman's stunned reaction when her ultrasound results, placed in her Christmas gift, reveal she's going to be a grandmother; "Santa Calls," in which a little girl thinks she's talking to Santa on the phone but doesn't catch on that it's her father sitting right next to her on his cell phone; "Little Scene Stealer," featuring two young sisters recording a video for their dad when the youngest decides to steal the spotlight; "Kiss on the Commode," in which a father wearing a scary mask wants to surprise his young son who's using the restroom; "Nursery Rhyme Rewrite," with a little girl recites Jack and Jill but replacing the traditional ending with her own -- in which Jill is ok; and "Fist Full of Follicles," featuring a little girl singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and becoming annoyed when her baby brother tries to join in.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Six Finalists Compete for $100,000 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S23E14 is listed hour 517 of 814 — hour 14 of 22 in season 23, season 23 episode 14.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S23E14 air?
Six Finalists Compete for $100,000 aired 2013-02-17 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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