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America's Funniest Home Videos (often abbreviated AFV) is an American video clip television series that has aired on ABC since 1989. It shows viewer-submitted video clips with voice-over narration (and occasionally sound effects) added for humorous effect. The show spawned two spin-offs: America's Funniest People (abbreviated AFP), which aired from 1990 to 1994; and World's Funniest Videos, which aired in 1996.

America's Funniest Home Videos has been referenced and parodied several times in Simpsons media.

References[edit]

Episodes[edit]

Season	Episode number	Episode name	Reference
3	36	"Stark Raving Dad"	Homer watches a TV show where the announcer introduces the three "home video finalists". After rolling the clips, the announcer asks the audience to cast their votes. Even though the show isn't named and the clips aren't shown on-screen, the clips' titles ("Man Breaking Hip", "Dog on Fire" and "Baby with a Nailgun"), voiceover narration, studio audience voting and layout of the set (briefly seen in an establishing shot) make it clear that the show is a parody of America's Funniest Home Videos.
44	"Saturdays of Thunder"	At VHS Village, Homer rents a video titled Football's Greatest Injuries.
6	121	"A Star Is Burns"	At the Springfield Film Festival, one of the films submitted by Springfieldians is Hans Moleman's Man Getting Hit by Football, which shows Moleman being hit in the groin by a football and then collapsing to the ground. When the film is screened for the festival attendees, Homer laughs uproariously and says, "This contest is over! Give that man the ten thousand dollars!" and adds, still laughing, "Roll it again." Jay Sherman, on stage presenting the films, glares at Homer and says, sharply, "This isn't America's Funniest Home Videos." Later, when the judges convene to cast their votes for the best film, Homer supports Moleman's, enthusiastically referring to it as "Football in the groin!", which is reminiscent of how the producers title the finalists' clips on AFV.
10	207	"Treehouse of Horror IX"	The program World's Deadliest Executions parodies the show.
216	"Homer to the Max"	While watching TV, the Simpson family see a promo teaser for America's Funniest Tornadoes.
14	301	"Pray Anything"	When Homer sues the First Church of Springfield for damages, the Blue-haired lawyer, in defense of the church, shows a video of Homer driving in the fog leaning out the car window and hitting his head on a mailbox to demonstrate that Homer is accident-prone. After the video, jury foreman Cletus Spuckler says to the judge, "We the jury find that to be America's funniest home video. Back to you, Bob Saget."
23	498	"Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"	"France's Funniest Cave Paintings"
28	604	"Dad Behavior"	Kirk and Milhouse try to make a tape to submit to "America's Funniest Home Videos."
36	775	"Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes"	In the segment based on Fahrenheit 451, one of the shows Homer discovers is Funniest Home Videos.

Comic stories[edit]

Comic issue	Story name	Reference
Simpsons Comics #42	The Homer Show	Two video clip shows being produced by FOX are World's Funniest Surveillance Videos and World's Zaniest Police Chases. Homer's frequent appearances in viewer-submitted clips inspire the network to create a show built around Homer.
Simpsons Comics #193	Man vs. Beast vs. Food	The taping of the season finale of Man vs. Beast vs. Food goes horribly awry, with an eating contest between Homer and Stampy resulting in the two of them destroying a Krusty Burger restaurant and running up a large damage bill. Krusty thinks he can salvage the situation by selling some of the footage to another reality show such as America's Funniest Maulings.
Bartman #2	Where Stalks... The Penalizer!	When Kent Brockman breaks the news that video footage has been obtained of The Penalizer, he says that a local couple inadvertently caught The Penalizer on tape while they were staging an "accident" for Springfield's Most Mortifying Home Videos.

Books[edit]

Picture	Book	Reference
	The Ralph Wiggum Book	One of the programs on Ralph's Gotta-See TV Line-Up is America's Zaniest Store Surveillance Videos.
	Flanders' Book of Faith	One of the items on "Ned's Lifetime To-Diddly-Diddly-Do List!" is to "Attend a taping of America's Funniest Home Videos".

Video games[edit]

Picture	Game	Reference
	The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield	Football's Greatest Injuries is one of the videos on the shelf at the Springfield Library.

Twitter[edit]

Account	Date	Tweet
HomerJSimpson	September 7, 2009	That "Funny Video" show is sick. Tonight they showed a plane crash and a shooting. What is America coming to... wait that was the news.

Common cast and crew[edit]

Cast[edit]

Name	Role on AFV / AFP	Role on The Simpsons
Kathy Griffin	Served as a celebrity panelist in the 2002 "Battle of the Best" episode of America's Funniest Home Videos.	Voiced Francine Rhenquist in the Season 12 episode "Bye, Bye, Nerdie".
Jess Harnell	Has served as AFV's announcer since 1998; co-hosted the 1999 Family Follies collection; served as a celebrity panelist in the 2002 "Battle of the Best" episode.	Voiced Charlton Heston in the Season 13 episode "The Parent Rap".
Martin Mull	Served as a celebrity panelist in the 2002 "Battle of the Best" episode.	Voiced Seth in the Season 10 episode "D'oh-in' in the Wind".
Ashley Olsen	Made guest appearances on AFV and AFP.	Voiced herself in the Season 15 episode "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife".
Mary-Kate Olsen	Made guest appearances on AFV and AFP.	Voiced herself in the Season 15 episode "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife".
Dave Thomas	Served as co-executive producer for six episodes of America's Funniest People.	Voiced Rex Banner in the Season 8 episode "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" and Bob Hope in the Season 17 episode "Bart Has Two Mommies".

External links[edit]

America's Funniest Home Videos at Wikipedia
America's Funniest People at Wikipedia
World's Funniest Videos at Wikipedia

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