America's Funniest Home Videos
AFV's Grand Prize Spectacular, Food Follies, and Kids Say
TV Flash files “AFV's Grand Prize Spectacular, Food Follies, and Kids Say” as the last listed hour of season 26 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 26, episode 22, aired 2016-05-22, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S26E22: listed hour 592 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, last listed hour of season 26. It aired 2016-05-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “$100,000 Showdown, Tough Being a Kid, Great Moments in Bad Ideas” (S26E21). Next is “Hilarious Face Swaps and a Hip-Hop Mama” (S27E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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On the season finale of "America's Funniest Home Videos," the season's two $100,000 winners battle it out for the grand prize. Special guests Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck join Alfonso as he announces the grand prize winner who will receive an unforgettable vacation for six to the Walt Disney World® Resort in Florida and the new Shanghai Disney® Resort in China opening in June. Former "AFV" host Tom Bergeron returns to play "Who Breaks It?" with Alfonso.
Viewer FAQ
Where does AFV's Grand Prize Spectacular, Food Follies, and Kids Say sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S26E22 is listed hour 592 of 814 — last listed hour of season 26, season 26 episode 22.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S26E22 air?
AFV's Grand Prize Spectacular, Food Follies, and Kids Say aired 2016-05-22 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 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 !!