America's Funniest Home Videos
Farewell to Tom and the Grand Prize episode
TV Flash files “Farewell to Tom and the Grand Prize episode” as the last listed hour of season 25 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 25, episode 23, aired 2015-05-17, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S25E23: listed hour 570 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, last listed hour of season 25. It aired 2015-05-17 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Failure is an Option, Dogs, and $100,000 Episode” (S25E22). Next is “Blessed are the Mess Makers, Animal Encounters, and Ladies Who Fall” (S26E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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On the season finale of "America's Funniest Home Videos," the show says farewell to beloved host Tom Bergeron from the Disneyland (R) Resort in California as the season's two $100,000 winners of the season battle it out for the Grand Prize. This season's fantastic grand prize vacation for 60 people to the Disneyland(R) Resort, including a visit to both Parks - Disneyland(R) Park and Disney California Adventure(R) Park --in honor of Disneyland(R) Resort's Diamond Celebration, their 60th anniversary!.
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Where does Farewell to Tom and the Grand Prize episode sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S25E23 is listed hour 570 of 814 — last listed hour of season 25, season 25 episode 23.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S25E23 air?
Farewell to Tom and the Grand Prize episode aired 2015-05-17 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