America's Funniest Home Videos
January 5, 2014
TV Flash files “January 5, 2014” as hour 536 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 24, episode 11, aired 2014-01-05, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S24E11: listed hour 536 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 11 of 22 in season 24. It aired 2014-01-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “December 15, 2013” (S24E10). Next is “January 12, 2014” (S24E12). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In this $100,000 show, ten prize-winning finalists battle it out for the big money. They include "Toddler TV Tantrum," featuring a little girl who gets annoyed with her brother and throws a toy at him resulting in a broken TV; "The Not So Secret Secret," a little girl at her soccer game tells her dad her big secret, that she's peed her pants; "Pensive Pooper," with a boy who denies that he's pooping, just "thinking" when questioned by his mom; "Fake Car For Christmas," a teen girl is pranked by her brother on Christmas, believing she got keys to a new car but soon realizing they're keys to a toy car; "The Three Toddler Tip Over," featuring 3 tots who keep tipping over in their bulky snow suits while mom tries to snap their photo; "Kid Can't Consume Cookie," in which a boy attempts to eat a cookie but can't reach his mouth due to the pool floaties he's wearing on his arms; "Pint-Sized Pick-Up Artist," a toddler learns at an early age that his toy car is for picking up chicks; "Boys' Breakfast Blunder," brothers trying to surprise their mother on Mother's Day with breakfast in bed let their excitement get the best of them and keep dropping the fruit bowl on the carpet; "Stalling For Sleep," featuring a baby girl who doesn't want to listen to her mom telling her to go to sleep, but dives into bed the instant mom calls out for her dad; "Bonding Over Baseball" in which a little tee ball player stops to tell his dad that he loves him while rounding the bases.
Viewer FAQ
Where does January 5, 2014 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S24E11 is listed hour 536 of 814 — hour 11 of 22 in season 24, season 24 episode 11.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S24E11 air?
January 5, 2014 aired 2014-01-05 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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