America's Funniest Home Videos
April 13, 2014
TV Flash files “April 13, 2014” as hour 543 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 24, episode 18, aired 2014-04-13, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S24E18: listed hour 543 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 18 of 22 in season 24. It aired 2014-04-13 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “April 6, 2014” (S24E17). Next is “April 27, 2014” (S24E19). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
This week's highlights include "Bug Zapping Zeroes versus Kids Destroying Cell Phones," a woman surprising her mother, scaring her to death, by walking into her house on Christmas day, a montage featuring animals dressed in clothes, a teen playing a practical joke on his brother by waking him up late for school when it's a snow day, and Tom playing "Pick the Real Video," on America's Funniest Home Videos."
Viewer FAQ
Where does April 13, 2014 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S24E18 is listed hour 543 of 814 — hour 18 of 22 in season 24, season 24 episode 18.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S24E18 air?
April 13, 2014 aired 2014-04-13 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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