America's Funniest Home Videos
December 8, 2013
TV Flash files “December 8, 2013” as hour 534 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 24, episode 9, aired 2013-12-08, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S24E09: listed hour 534 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 9 of 22 in season 24. It aired 2013-12-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “December 1, 2013” (S24E08). Next is “December 15, 2013” (S24E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
This week's highlights include a boy accidentally turning his hair trimmer upside down and shaving off a good portion of his hair to his horror, a woman who discovers her dog opened a can of paint and spread it all over the house and furniture, an aggressive ostrich wreaks havoc on passengers at a drive through zoo, and a round of "Name that Sound."
Viewer FAQ
Where does December 8, 2013 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S24E09 is listed hour 534 of 814 — hour 9 of 22 in season 24, season 24 episode 9.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S24E09 air?
December 8, 2013 aired 2013-12-08 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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