America's Funniest Home Videos
March 16, 2014
TV Flash files “March 16, 2014” as hour 539 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 24, episode 14, aired 2014-03-16, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S24E14: listed hour 539 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 14 of 22 in season 24. It aired 2014-03-16 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “January 26, 2014” (S24E13). Next is “March 23, 2014” (S24E15). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
This week's highlights include people destroying snowmen in unique ways as a payoff to the Destroy a Snowman Assignment America, a squirrel running off with a man's cell phone, Unicycles versus Unibrows, a toddler showing his parents how he can easily remove a childproof lock, a package of clips featuring siblings doing what they do best: causing each other grief and Tom playing "Nice Face."
Viewer FAQ
Where does March 16, 2014 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S24E14 is listed hour 539 of 814 — hour 14 of 22 in season 24, season 24 episode 14.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S24E14 air?
March 16, 2014 aired 2014-03-16 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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- Bob Saget as Host
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- Ernie Anderson as Announcer
Ernie Anderson announced America's Funniest Home Videos as the voice of VHS disaster sport — kids versus piñatas, pets versus gravity, Bob Saget hosting the proto-YouTube pipeline. User-generated comedy as family-hour ritual. TV Flash…