America's Funniest Home Videos
AFV Presents a Salute to the Military
TV Flash files “AFV Presents a Salute to the Military” as hour 522 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 23, episode 19, aired 2013-04-28, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E19: listed hour 522 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 19 of 22 in season 23. It aired 2013-04-28 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Smart Dog/Dumb Dog and "Worst Ever"” (S23E18). Next is “A Screaming Goat Mash-up, Failosophy and Itchy Animals” (S23E20). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Presenting a "Salute to the Military," this week's highlights include a soldier surprising his girlfriend at a baseball game with his homecoming and a proposal, a Marine with an unusual way of cutting the cake at his wedding, a montage of dogs eating with human hands, and Tom playing "Who's Makin' That Racket?."
Viewer FAQ
Where does AFV Presents a Salute to the Military sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S23E19 is listed hour 522 of 814 — hour 19 of 22 in season 23, season 23 episode 19.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S23E19 air?
AFV Presents a Salute to the Military aired 2013-04-28 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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