Favorite "Home Videos" Moment/Clip?

[Classic Speedy]

I'm sure we've all watched "America's Funniest Home Videos" at some point. There was a time when I frequently watched the show, though that's since passed. But during that time, I must've watched thousands of clips total. Are there any that stick out to you amongst the thousands?

Oddly, my favorite clip wasn't from "AFV", but a copycat on Fox called "World's Funniest". In the clip, a blindfolded kid is swatting at a Pooh Bear pinata. He keeps hitting it and the thing never breaks. I swear he must've been hitting it for a good minute, and it STILL didn't break.

I can't explain why this clip is so funny. Maybe it's the fact that such a small pinata (which was about the size of two fists) is unbreakable. Maybe it's that every time the kid hits the pinata, Pooh goes twirling around like crazy. Maybe it's that the kid is BEATING Winnie the Pooh. Maybe it's how long the clip is, so long that they have a couple crossfades to show time passage. Maybe it's that at the end of the clip, the dad finally takes the Pooh pinata off the string and forcibly smashes it open. Whatever, it had me in stitches back then. I would LOVE to see just that one clip again.

There was another that wasn't so much funny as it fascinated me. It had a guy driving an invisible car, so it was just his body in a sitting position moving along various roads. At the time (I think I was eight), I didn't know how stop motion worked, so I wondered how they accomplished that. After my parents explained how it was done, I tried it out for myself with our camcorder, but of course, my early tries were pitiful because I left too much time between cuts. I have to wonder, though, if that "AFHV" clip got me interested in filmmaking.

What are yours?

[The Old Maid]

The top three:

3. "Marine Drill Tot." Jarhead and toddler on the carpet, chanting the Marine march to each other.

2. "Cat says no." Black cat about to get a bath and can say in English what he thinks about it. Though I do cringe at bath clips because the cats fight so hard, poor puddytats. One of these days the bather should get dunked instead, like in dog clips.

1. "Garbage trucks on ice." Bob Saget added Swan Lake music to the footage, as the named truck slowly and gracefully slides backwards down the lane, aiming for the only car within the observable universe.

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For ongoing clips/gimmicks, gotta go with Tom Bergeron's Bobbleheads. His mug shots are so unapologetically enthusiastic. Anyway, I just like 'em. I don't know why. :p

[Brandon Pierce]

For ongoing clips/gimmicks, gotta go with Tom Bergeron's Bobbleheads. His mug shots are so unapologetically enthusiastic. Anyway, I just like 'em. I don't know why. :p
The funniest "Bobblehead Tom" moment was where they put Tom's head on a weightlifter, and the guy in the clip couldn't hold the weights, and they dropped on his shoulders and over his head.

However, Tom's head was in the way, and the special effects people, for whatever reason couldn't make it look like the weight bar was "overlapping" Tom's head, so it looks like the weight bar is going THROUGH the guy's neck!

Loved Tom Bergeron's comment after the clip ended: "Did it look like I got decapitated in that clip to you?"

Other clips I like:

-An army group is sneaking through some forest area, and the leader yells "Get down!" M.C. Hammer's "Can't Touch This" plays, and the soldiers start dancing.

-A cat walks past a lit candle, and his tail catches fire. However instead of the cat freaking out and running away like you'd expect, the cat calmly thumps it's tail and the fire is out. The cat remaining calm the whole time is what made this clip hilarious.

-A guy is out fishing with his dog, and the guy actually tries to kick [???] his dog into the water, but he misses and it's HIM that falls into the water. The dog looks down at his master in the water as if to say, "Butthead, serves you right."

-A seal knocking off a bunch of other seals from a wooden platform in the water (by swimming underwater and bumping the lower side).

-While I have come to despise the kiddie clips in recent years, the one that I think is cute and funny is this little kid in some bad class, and his hat falls over his face, yet the entire time he continues the choreogrpahy until the kid next to him fixes his hat. Bob Saget's narration on this clip also adds to the humor.

[Classic Speedy]

-While I have come to despise the kiddie clips in recent years, the one that I think is cute and funny is this little kid in some bad class, and his hat falls over his face, yet the entire time he continues the choreogrpahy until the kid next to him fixes his hat. Bob Saget's narration on this clip also adds to the humor. I always hated the clips with kids crying about whatever. In what universe is a kid bawling funny? It was even worse when those clips got nominated for the final three.

I will say, though, that a toddler getting knocked down is always hilarious. They're so short and stubby that they just kinda fall over like they're a wood post, and because they don't know about lessening their fall yet, they don't stick out their arms or flail or anything. It's just, BOOMP, down.

I'm also fond of animal clips. In fact, whenever they had an animals-only edition, I'd make sure to watch.

[Michael24]

-An army group is sneaking through some forest area, and the leader yells "Get down!" M.C. Hammer's "Can't Touch This" plays, and the soldiers start dancing.

I remember that clip as well. Funny.

My favorite is from the very first season, I believe. A baby in a high chair is being fed dinner and apparently dislikes the taste. He begins to make this gagging gesture with his face, to which Bob Saget dubbed this hilarious-sounding "Hoy . . . hoy . . . hoy!!" That video is close to being twenty years old now, but to this day my family and I still reference it every so often.

In another one (also from the first season), some friends are playing football in the backyard. One guy catches the ball and turns to run, unaware he's right next to the fence, and runs into it so hard he breaks an entire section of the fence and falls into the neighbor's yard on top of it.

And a third clip where some kids are on stage at school doing some kind of ceremony. A boy is sitting at the end of the front row with a rolled up piece of paper in his hands, and everytime a girl walks by he gives them a playfull little one-two-three tap on the butt, complete with a funny dubbed in "dink-dink-dink" sound effect.

Most other videos just seem a blur after so many years, but those three I've always remembered. Once Bob Saget left, I pretty much stopped watching.