America's Funniest Home Videos
April 6, 2014
TV Flash files “April 6, 2014” as hour 542 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 24, episode 17, aired 2014-04-06, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S24E17: listed hour 542 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 17 of 22 in season 24. It aired 2014-04-06 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “March 30, 2014” (S24E16). Next is “April 13, 2014” (S24E18). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
This week's highlights include a little girl scaring her grandmother with a fake iguana, a touching military homecoming by a man surprising his cheerleader daughter during half-time, a hamster who loves being fed peanut butter so much he is trying to store the entire spoon in his cheeks, a dog stealing a shovel from a man trying to clear the snow off his walkway, and Tom playing "Say What?."
Viewer FAQ
Where does April 6, 2014 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S24E17 is listed hour 542 of 814 — hour 17 of 22 in season 24, season 24 episode 17.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S24E17 air?
April 6, 2014 aired 2014-04-06 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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- Ernie Anderson as Announcer
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