America's Funniest Home Videos
Grand Prize Spectacular, Alfonso's Funny Videos, and Family Time
TV Flash files “Grand Prize Spectacular, Alfonso's Funny Videos, and Family Time” as the last listed hour of season 28 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 28, episode 22, aired 2018-05-20, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S28E22: listed hour 636 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, last listed hour of season 28. It aired 2018-05-20 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Alfonso's Flubs, Kid Vids, and Exercise Your Right to Fall Down” (S28E21). Next is “Winter Blunderland, Prank You Very Much, and #NotTrending” (S29E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
This week's videos include a collection of our host Alfonso's funniest home videos, a little girl who is so enthralled with her new whoopee cushion she doesn't want to open any more Christmas presents and a compilation of the hazards of winter featuring people falling on icy porches.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Grand Prize Spectacular, Alfonso's Funny Videos, and Family Time sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S28E22 is listed hour 636 of 814 — last listed hour of season 28, season 28 episode 22.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S28E22 air?
Grand Prize Spectacular, Alfonso's Funny Videos, and Family Time aired 2018-05-20 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
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- 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 28
- S28E01 Dorky Dads, Dinosaurs, and Mistakes on the Lake
- S28E02 Cats Being Cats, Kids Say, and Winter Blunderland
- S28E03 Halloween, Animal Crack-Ups, and Pool Time
- S28E04 Skate Park, Siblings, and Daddy Daughter Time
- S28E05 A Bit of Bad Luck, Mind Blowing Magic, and Not So Macho
- S28E06 Summer Fun, On the Job, and Literal Kids