America's Funniest Home Videos
AFV's Grand Prize Spectacular
TV Flash files “AFV's Grand Prize Spectacular” as the last listed hour of season 23 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 23, episode 22, aired 2013-05-19, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E22: listed hour 525 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, last listed hour of season 23. It aired 2013-05-19 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “6 Finalists compete for the final $100,000 of the season” (S23E21). Next is “October 13, 2013” (S24E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Tom Bergeron hosts the Season Finale of "America's Funniest Home Videos" from New Fantasyland(TM) at the Walt Disney World (R) Resort in Florida. The makers of the season's funniest video will take home this year's grand prize, a vacation for four to the Walt Disney World (R) Resort in Florida, where they'll get to visit New Fantasyland(TM)in the Magic Kingdom(R) Park, the biggest expansion in Magic Kingdom history. They can also go on a group, guided vacation with Adventures by Disney(R) to one of 16 destinations, with hassle free and authentic experiences the whole family can enjoy.
Viewer FAQ
Where does AFV's Grand Prize Spectacular sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S23E22 is listed hour 525 of 814 — last listed hour of season 23, season 23 episode 22.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S23E22 air?
AFV's Grand Prize Spectacular aired 2013-05-19 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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