afv-related stories
Posted Jan 28th 2007 7:14PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC, Dancing With The Stars, Pickups and Renewals
ABC is happy with its current slate of reality programming. This week, the network announced it will renew
Wife Swap,
Supernanny and
America's Funniest Home Videos (
AFV) for one more season each. That puts
Wife Swap in season four,
Supernanny in season four and
AFV in season 18 (although, that's debatable since it was technically off the air for two years in 1999-2000). Of all those shows, I'm really only excited about
AFV. It still makes me laugh.
Wife Swap and
Supernanny are good for
The Soup content.
ABC is also expected to renew
Dancing with the Stars,
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and
The Bachelor.
Posted Nov 15th 2006 5:45PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC, OpEd, Web
Clever piece over at McSweeneys.net, describing some of the supposed videos submitted to ABC's America's Funniest Home Videos that were rejected for one reason or another. One of my favorites:
AFV712940: Fifteen minutes of still footage of washing machine. Strongest theory to date is that a man inside the washing machine is waiting to emerge in order to surprise girlfriend with marriage proposal.
By the way, is anyone else amazed that America's Funniest Videos is still on the air?
Continue reading Bad submissions to America's Funniest Home Videos
Posted Sep 10th 2006 6:59PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, OpEd, The Five
This is season 16 of
America's Funniest Home Videos and I can't believe it still makes me laugh. And, we've been laughing at pretty much the same things for years, haven't we? We humans are pretty stupid since the same stuff keeps happening to everyone all over the country and people keep recording it and sending it to ABC to show the rest of America how stupid they are. Here are The Five: Life lessons learned from
America's Funniest Home Videos.
5. If there's a bat, someone is going to get hit in the nuts. It can be a baseball bat or a whiffle bat. And it doesn't matter whether a kid or an adult is swinging it, bats always target the groin area. Other telltale signs someone will get hit in the nuts include a golf club, a pinata, a ball, and a father wrestling with his young child. And if you are lucky enough to avoid the swipe to the groin, no doubt the ball will
hit you in the face.
Continue reading The Five: Life lessons learned from AFV
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