America's Funniest Home Videos
The Barking Lot, Mission Im-Paw-Sible, Hammocks vs Hams
TV Flash files “The Barking Lot, Mission Im-Paw-Sible, Hammocks vs Hams” as the first listed hour of season 25 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 25, episode 1, aired 2014-10-12, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S25E01: listed hour 548 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, first listed hour of season 25. It aired 2014-10-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “May 18, 2014” (S24E22). Next is “Halloween, Stumblebums, Creative Drinkers vs Lousy” (S25E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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"America's Funniest Home Videos" kicks off its anniversary season, celebrating 25 years of hilarity, with all-new videos. The video highlights in the season 25 premiere episode include clips featuring Ice Bucket Challenges that went wrong, a little girl trying out her new gift, a fairy that actually flies, only to see it fly directly into the lit fireplace, "Hammocks vs. Hams," a music montage featuring comedic canines and Tom playing "Head, Gut or Groin?"
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Where does The Barking Lot, Mission Im-Paw-Sible, Hammocks vs Hams sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S25E01 is listed hour 548 of 814 — first listed hour of season 25, season 25 episode 1.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S25E01 air?
The Barking Lot, Mission Im-Paw-Sible, Hammocks vs Hams aired 2014-10-12 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.
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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
Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner made Full House industrial-strength wholesome — 1980s catalog TGIF as religion, then America’s Funniest Home Videos turning VHS disasters into family-hour sport. TV Flash files him as the clean dad with a filthy…
- 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…
Also in season 25
- S25E02 Halloween, Stumblebums, Creative Drinkers vs Lousy
- S25E03 Feline Fun Fest, Dim Bulbs, The AFV World Cup
- S25E04 Who's Who in the AFV Zoo, Kids Fighting Sleep vs People
- S25E05 Dim Bulbs, Dog Shame, and Trampolines
- S25E06 Ten Pounds of Dumb in a Five Pound Bag, and Kids Who Think They're Hula Hooping vs Flaming Turkeys
- S25E07 Bad Hair Days, Cats, and Springy Playground Ride Things vs Horse Faces