America's Funniest Home Videos
Best Christmas Ever, Like a Light Bob, and Who Doesn't Like Dogs?
TV Flash files “Best Christmas Ever, Like a Light Bob, and Who Doesn't Like Dogs?” as hour 555 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 25, episode 8, aired 2014-12-07, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S25E08: listed hour 555 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 8 of 23 in season 25. It aired 2014-12-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Bad Hair Days, Cats, and Springy Playground Ride Things vs Horse Faces” (S25E07). Next is “Stumblebums, There's the Dog, and Hamsters vs Hamstrings” (S25E09). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Tis' the season to celebrate with lots of laughter on a special Christmas themed episode of "AFV." This week's highlights include a little girl reacting very excitedly when she discovers a puppy under the tree, a little boy unwrapping a gift packaged in a box of macaroni and is beyond thrilled over getting macaroni, "Outta Control Fireplaces Versus Flapping Dog Lips," and soldier surprise homecomings on.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Best Christmas Ever, Like a Light Bob, and Who Doesn't Like Dogs? sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S25E08 is listed hour 555 of 814 — hour 8 of 23 in season 25, season 25 episode 8.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S25E08 air?
Best Christmas Ever, Like a Light Bob, and Who Doesn't Like Dogs? aired 2014-12-07 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
- S25E01 The Barking Lot, Mission Im-Paw-Sible, Hammocks vs Hams
- 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