Bob Saget hosting the first episode of AFV, serving you viral videos before viral was even a thing
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I’ll take Bob Saget ***any*** time over Rob Dyrdek.
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I loved watch AFV and America’s Funniest People back to back on Sunday nights but it meant it was bedtime and school the next morning.
Bob Saget invented the Internet!
Simpler times..
AFV has such a special place in my heart. I agree with other commenters that it wasn’t the most amazing show ever, but it gave my family an excuse to spend some time together laughing at funny home clips.
Different times. Where did it all go.
Basically the grandfather of react channels.
Just had a moment while watching the kid try and walk on the slip and slide….video watermarked july 21 1988. That means I could be that kid, as I sit here on reddit at 33 years old.
When people talk about how they don’t understand why comp videos are so successful on the internet, they just have to realize it was already being done on TV and was wildly successful.
A lot of these ended up in the intro for several years.
It’s not AFHV?
“DO_YOU_WANT_ME_TO_ROBOTIZE_YOU?”
“no..”
Meanwhile Danny be like “oh shit!” and gets TF up on the couch where the robot can’t reach him.
que chido cap
And this is back when you had to mail tapes in to get them on the show. They had an actual mailing address announced in the program and everything.
There tend to be some videos that showed on there here on riddit. They try to cut out the afv logo.
I’ve never been told why, but why did Bob go on this family-friendly streak in the 90s?
Here’s the [full first episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18zYe51ocEg) with Bob Saget
Back when everyone has Russian-level safety standards
That was a nice dose of nostalgia. Thanks for sharing
Wait until you realize how old the first cat ‘video’ is!
https://youtu.be/Ka-2BYJkewA
I watched this episode the night it aired!
I grew up watching man. RIP. We would race home Sundays I think it was for the new AFH.
As a non-American, This is some cringe and lame-ass comedy.
There’s an entire generation of millennials that learned about Bob Saget from the Tourettes Guy
I was in my Freshman dorm and heard screams, howls. Like some unimaginable horror was taking place. I walked down the hall to see what was going on and I look in the corner room and dudes are literally falling down, crying, screaming with *laughter* over this new show on their TV. It was bananas. I can’t say I ever got into the show at that level, but I’ll never forget that moment. There was nothing like it available to watch before and people went nuts for it. It reminded me of my mom describing the chaos of what it was like watching a Martin & Lewis movie in a theater when they were new.
Classic AFV last shot is a nut shot
[The clip at 9:52](https://youtu.be/xULetjwKL10?t=593) is really bizarre.
It’s weird to think how human life was completely different up until the internet, and that this was just a few decades ago.
Holy jeeze how’d I forget AFV existed? I used to watch it so much
When I found out he died, I thought more about my memories of AFV than of Full House.
My whole family would watch it together whereas it was just me an my sisters who watched Full House. His commentary and voices always made the videos funnier to me, granted I was a small child. It got me really missing my dad. I remember him being the most enthusiastic of my parents when watching the show and tenth anniversary of his passing is coming up soon… so it stung a bit more.
As a kid I would tell my friends I thought Bob was trying to hard to be funny, but the guy doing the voice over was hilarious!
TVs Bloopers and Practical Jokes paved the way in the early 80s. And by the end of the decade, many families now had camcorders. Went from watching celebs screw up to each other.
Being a little kid in the 80s and early 90s, everyone loved this show and you would watch it with your whole family
I feel real bad for you motherfuckers who didn’t get born and raised on his squeaky clean Dad persona, then grow up and see him in Half Baked.
Do you think those dogs are still alive?
I would never use the word viral for pre internet stuff. This was hand chosen and forced (still good) like maybe superbowl commercials. Viral was more used as an internet thing of unexpected huge explosion in exposure via sharing.
I just realized there was a time not that long ago when only white people could afford video cameras
And not only were people watching this at home, but there was a live studio audience.
The narration never bothered me, and the joke writing was pretty lame…but holy shit, when Bob started doing that falsetto voice for kids, women and animals? I couldn’t stand to watch it any longer.
Oh long Johnson!
They aren’t viral videos by any means. “Viral” isn’t synonymous with “funny” and these videos have nothing in common with any aspects of what makes a video “viral”.