America's Funniest Home Videos
April 27, 2014
TV Flash files “April 27, 2014” as hour 544 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 24, episode 19, aired 2014-04-27, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S24E19: listed hour 544 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 19 of 22 in season 24. It aired 2014-04-27 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “April 13, 2014” (S24E18). Next is “May 4, 2014” (S24E20). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
This week's highlights include a musical tribute to basketball fails, a man ice skating for the first time with a series of hilarious falls, a round of "Eye Pokes Versus Dogs Licking Glass," parents pranking their son by sticking his soft drink straw directly into a packet of ketchup, a little boy replies that he'd prefer pizza rolls when asked if he wants a brother or a sister, and Tom plays "Who's Makin' That Racket?."
Viewer FAQ
Where does April 27, 2014 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S24E19 is listed hour 544 of 814 — hour 19 of 22 in season 24, season 24 episode 19.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S24E19 air?
April 27, 2014 aired 2014-04-27 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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