America's Funniest Home Videos
May 11, 2014
TV Flash files “May 11, 2014” as hour 546 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 24, episode 21, aired 2014-05-11, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S24E21: listed hour 546 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 21 of 22 in season 24. It aired 2014-05-11 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “May 4, 2014” (S24E20). Next is “May 18, 2014” (S24E22). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In this season's second $100,000 show, ten prize-winning finalists battle it out for the big money. They include "Smiley Face Faller," featuring a woman who falls and can't get up when wearing a big smiley face costume to help advertise a store; "Coconut Candy Killer," a little boy is given a piece of coconut chocolate and is so disgusted he spits it out and shoots it with his toy gun; "Straw Sipping Struggles," with a groggy woman just out of surgery trying to take a sip out of a straw but failing miserably on judging the distance from her lips; "Language Barrier Bride," featuring a civil wedding ceremony with a bride not fully understanding all of the questions being asked because of the language barrier leading to hilarious results; "Hawaiian Nuptial Nuisance," in which an oblivious sunbather drops his robe and goes swimming right behind a couple's romantic beach wedding ceremony; "Billy Goat Groan," where a goat gobbles and spits over a fence at the woman talking to it; "Mail Slot Menace," featuring an aggressive cat ready to do battle with the mailman as he tries to get the mail through the slot in the door; "Babysitter's Botched Break," in which a grandmother is excited that she has finally gotten her two granddaughters to fall asleep and just as she is ready to celebrate one starts crying; "Shouldn't Smarthmouth Santa," featuring a boy who smartmouths Santa and then realizes he probably won't be getting any presents this Christmas because Santa can hear everything.
Viewer FAQ
Where does May 11, 2014 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S24E21 is listed hour 546 of 814 — hour 21 of 22 in season 24, season 24 episode 21.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S24E21 air?
May 11, 2014 aired 2014-05-11 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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