America's Funniest Home Videos
$100,000 Showdown, Tough Being a Kid, Great Moments in Bad Ideas
TV Flash files “$100,000 Showdown, Tough Being a Kid, Great Moments in Bad Ideas” as hour 591 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 26, episode 21, aired 2016-05-08, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S26E21: listed hour 591 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 21 of 22 in season 26. It aired 2016-05-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Stumblebums, Basic Boneheads, and Pets Who Sit Like People” (S26E20). Next is “AFV's Grand Prize Spectacular, Food Follies, and Kids Say” (S26E22). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Nine finalists compete; videos include a man's frantic fear of spiders, a butterfly versus a hungry bird, a boy's science experiment gone awry, and a surprised baboon.
Viewer FAQ
Where does $100,000 Showdown, Tough Being a Kid, Great Moments in Bad Ideas sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S26E21 is listed hour 591 of 814 — hour 21 of 22 in season 26, season 26 episode 21.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S26E21 air?
$100,000 Showdown, Tough Being a Kid, Great Moments in Bad Ideas aired 2016-05-08 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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- 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 26
- S26E01 Blessed are the Mess Makers, Animal Encounters, and Ladies Who Fall
- S26E02 The Teen Commandments, It Coulda Been Worse, and Squirrels
- S26E03 Halloween, Frights, and Tricks and/or Treats
- S26E04 You're Doing it Wrong, Daddy-Daughter Time, and Water Bottle Prank
- S26E05 Selfies Gone Wrong, The Barking Lot, and Rocket Men
- S26E06 Dogs Unleashed; Ostrich's; Skunks and Stupid People Tricks !!