Premieres: October 2
Airs: Sundays, 7pm ET/PT
Network: ABC
Hosted By Tom Bergeron
Where We Left Off: In its previous 21 seasons, AFHV has given away over $12 million in prize money and evaluated more than half a million videotapes from home viewers. No current stats are available on how many footballs have been taken to the groin.
What To Expect: Now, what do you think? Entering its 22nd season, the series isn’t going to mess too much with its tried-and-true formula of humorous videos starring adults, children, animals and even inanimate objects at their spontaneous best.
The video highlights in this season’s premiere episode include a man teasing an alligator — but the alligator gets revenge; a music montage featuring homemade rocket disasters; a poodle with a funny way of showing his unhappiness with taking a bath; a man flipping out when he discovers a lizard crawling on him; and a package of frogs causing mayhem.
This season on “AFHV,” the three $100,000 prize winners will compete for the Grand Prize: a membership in Disney Vacation Club. In addition to the Grand Prize for the video winner, the three sweepstakes prizes for viewers throughout the season will be a trip for four to Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, a trip for four to Disneyland Resort in California and a Disney Cruise Line vacation for four.
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What to Expect: Children running amok. Birthday parties gone haywire. Animals acting strangely. In other words, this enduring series left off basically where it always had, with host Tom Bergeron supplying extra mirth. This is one of those cases in which it pays not to mess with a proven recipe, and the public has continued to respond in kind, providing endless material for a tradition of Sunday-night viewing. The potential for entrants to win thousands of dollars for their videos, based on the studio audience’s voting, certainly doesn’t diminish the supply of footage.
This season, the three $100,000 prize winners will compete for a trip to Walt Disney World. Additionally, as part of the show's 20th anniversary, there will be a competition among the top 20 funniest videos of all time, with the winner receiving a cruise from anywhere that the Disney Cruise Line sets sail. Viewers will also be able to get in on some prize action, as three sweepstakes will be held throughout the year where home viewers get a chance to win a 10-night Disney cruise to the Mediterranean, a 7-night Disney Cruise Line and Walt Disney World vacation, and a magical vacation to any Disney Park around the world. You'll have to tune in for details, of course.
In a special 20th anniversary celebration episode airing in November, original host Bob Saget will join Tom Bergeron to look back at the series' long run.
What to Expect: Children running amok. Birthday parties gone haywire. Animals acting strangely. In other words, this enduring series left off basically where it always had, with host Tom Bergeron supplying extra mirth. This is one of those cases in which it pays not to mess with a proven recipe, and the public has continued to respond in kind, providing endless material for a tradition of Sunday-night viewing. The potential for entrants to win thousands of dollars for their videos, based on the studio audience’s voting, certainly doesn’t diminish the supply of footage.
This season, the three $100,000 prize winners will compete for a trip to Walt Disney World. Additionally, as part of the show's 20th anniversary, there will be a competition among the top 20 funniest videos of all time, with the winner receiving a cruise from anywhere that the Disney Cruise Line sets sail. Viewers will also be able to get in on some prize action, as three sweepstakes will be held throughout the year where home viewers get a chance to win a 10-night Disney cruise to the Mediterranean, a 7-night Disney Cruise Line and Walt Disney World vacation, and a magical vacation to any Disney Park around the world. You'll have to tune in for details, of course.
In a special 20th anniversary celebration episode airing in November, original host Bob Saget will join Tom Bergeron to look back at the series' long run.
