America's Funniest Home Videos
6 Finalists compete for the final $100,000 of the season
TV Flash files “6 Finalists compete for the final $100,000 of the season” as hour 524 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 23, episode 21, aired 2013-05-12, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E21: listed hour 524 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 21 of 22 in season 23. It aired 2013-05-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A Screaming Goat Mash-up, Failosophy and Itchy Animals” (S23E20). Next is “AFV's Grand Prize Spectacular” (S23E22). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In this $100,000 award show, clips include "Gorging During Grace," featuring a two-year old boy who sneaks pasta while pretending to pray at the dinner table; "You Ate the Baby?," a little girl who asks if the mother-to-be "ate" the baby during the ultrasound; "Little Animal Imitator," featuring a very animated little girl who imitates animal faces and sounds at her family reunion; "The Not-So-Amazing Spiderman," featuring two terrified men screaming while trying to catch the biggest spider they've ever seen; "Accidental Cup Crime," with a boy begging his mother not to call the cops after he accidentally steals a cup from a restaurant; "Backseat Sleeper," featuring a toddler who tries his best to stay awake in the back seat of his dad's car, but before his father can finish telling him it's ok to fall asleep, the little boy is out like a light.
Viewer FAQ
Where does 6 Finalists compete for the final $100,000 of the season sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S23E21 is listed hour 524 of 814 — hour 21 of 22 in season 23, season 23 episode 21.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S23E21 air?
6 Finalists compete for the final $100,000 of the season aired 2013-05-12 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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