America's Funniest Home Videos ?

America's Funniest Home Videos ?

America's Funniest Home Videos (currently abbreviated AFV, previously AFHV) returns with more of the amazing and hilarious home videos that have been an American television institution on ABC for 20 seasons. The videos, submitted by viewers, offer big laughs and compete to win big money throughout each season of the show. In addition to the weekly contests with the prize of $10, 000, special $100, 000 prizes are awarded during the season to video buffs whose wildly funny or unusual video clips are judged favorites by studio audiences. These winners come back at the end of the season to compete for the ultimate grand prize. Host Tom Bergeron continues to introduce the comic clips that capture the unexpectedly funny things that happen when adults, children, animals and sometimes even inanimate objects are at their spontaneous best. From practical jokes to home improvement plans gone awry, from animal mishaps to just flat out strange behavior, America's Funniest Home Videos pulls out all the stops to present a hilarious look at everyday people caught on tape in their most embarrassing moments. However, this unique look in the lives of normal Americans also proves that everyone does humorous things once in a while. ABC_s longest-running comedy series, America_s Funniest Home Videos, has become an American institution. As the storage facility of our country_s _bloopers_ for more than 15 years, the hit show has presented the unexpectedly funny moments that happen when things don_t go quite as planned. From practical jokes to home improvement plans gone awry, from animal mishaps to just flat out strange behavior, America_s Funniest Home Videos pulls out all the stops to present a hilarious look at everyday people caught on tape in their most uproarious and unexpected human moments. The supply from the video cameras of the American public has been endless. And really funny. Hosted by Tom Bergeron, this box set includes 12 episodes on 3 discs, including the 0, 000 Season Finale, plus a bonus disc with the 300th Episode Parts 1 and 2. By now a television institution, ABC_s America_s Funniest Home Videos has been on the air since 1989 and seen a number of hosts come and go. Comedian-actor Bob Saget, perhaps, is still a favorite of many of the show_s longtime fans_he was the series_ host during its first seven years. The post-Saget America_s Funniest Home Videos was re-launched a couple of times, with different performers introducing funny video clips sent in by the public. This four-disc set, volume 1, is the first season of the Tom Bergeron years, a comic who took over host duties in 2001. Other than a new face from time to time, Videos is essentially the same show it_s always been. Clips are procured and loosely organized around various themes: pets, sports, kid antics, accidents, disasters, displays of machismo that backfire. Once in a while one has to wonder what the producers are thinking: Images of toddlers being terrified by some idiot in a scary costume, or a guy hit in the teeth with a golf ball, or an animal frantically trying to remove a discarded paper cup or bag covering its head are only funny to sadists. For the most part, however, the goofy stuff that gets caught on home video (and ends up on millions of American television sets) is wholesome proof that slapstick isn_t just for professional clowns. Among the best moments in the 12 com complete episodes in this collection is the extraordinary sight of a very small child standing in a stream and casually scooping an enormous carp from the water; a civic awards ceremony in which the recipient accidentally knocks a dignitary into a lake; and a crowded swimming pool party in which the pool (one of those assembly-required, metal frame jobs) falls apart. There_s also the weird sight of baseball-size hail assaulting some poor lad out in a rowboat; a dog that pulls the pajama bottoms off a little boy while the latter_s dad swings the kid by his arms; and a pair of do-it-yourself home-repair types knocking down a wall by throwing a bowling ball through it repeatedly. Disc 4 contains a two-part celebration of America_s Funniest Home Videos_ 300th episode, spotlighting some of the series_ greatest hits. Among them is a dog who picks up a fireworks launcher while it_s still spewing sparks; and the kid who whacks his brother with a freshly caught fish only to have the affronted sibling push him into a bucket containing the day_s catch. Both boys end up crying, natch. _Tom Keogh
collectcheaps products/381-Americas-Funniest-Home-Videos-DVD-Boxset-1990-2005. America's Funniest Home Videos DVDdebuted in 1990 and includes footage captured (or staged) by home video cameras. The first host was Bob Saget, who provided commentary on topics such as wedding and sports bloopers, children and pets getting in trouble, and furniture or other objects collapsing. The top three videos of the week are eligible for a cash prize, and the winner is selected by the studio audience.