Why don't funny videos ever win on AFV?
 

I was angered when NO funny videos were nominated tonight. There was some AMAZING videos!! This happens all the time. I've had it!! (Yes, I'm a loser that watches AFV) Does anyone know how/why they pick stupid videos as finalists?

Am I the only one who thinks dumb videos end up winning? It appears you have to either have a dog, a baby or a "stunt" to get nominated...Oh and it has to be a painfully long 30 second video as well...

This show is still running?

Anyway, to answer your question, this show is composed of volatile anti-humor particles. When humor and anti-humor collides, the universe will cease to exist. So you'd better thank Jesus that nothing funny ever occurs on the show.

Also composed of anti-humor: World's Funniest Animals on Animal Planet.

Couldn't help you. I think the last time I watched AFV was in 93' or 94'.

My ex-girlfriend used to love that show. I never understood how it was supposed to be funny.

I like it

The producers really love irony?

Fuck anyone who hates this show. Who can't love a segment called "34 Tablefalls in 30 Seconds?"

Yeah, that's right goddamnit.

Seriously, this show is still on? I thought they just showed re-runs from 1999 or something.

I watch the show and enjoy it. (although the host is very annoying). I agree with the OP. Very few of the videos I think are really funny ever win or even get nominated to the final 3. It's usually the "manufactured" clips that win, not the spontaneous stuff.

good question. there are some funny videos but they're usually just old/fat people falling or getting knocked over. there's too much animal clips and "baby like massage" clips. how they come up with the finalists, I don't know.

yep...a non-funny baby involved clip always wins. but the show itself remains hilarious week in and week out. I still love it.

As long as someone gets hit in the nuts at least once in every episode, I don't ask too many questions.

Why do the videos all look like they were recorded in 1987? Every time I catch this show, I feel like I've been sucked into a time warp.

I'm curious what a "baby like massage" entails. Does that cost "extra"?

Only if you want a "Happily Ever After" Ending.

I still watch the show, and I like Tom Bergeron a million times more than Bob Saget, Daisy Fuentes, or John Fuselgang.

Some of the clips are repetitive. If you see someone on a trampoline, you know that person is going flying; if you see a pinata, someone's taking a bat to the nads; if you see a chubby old man walking, you know his pants are headed south, etc.

The videos run the gamut of funny, not funny, annoying, or obviously staged.

I also often disagree with the three competing videos. For instance, last night's episode had (1) a father teaching his daughter how to drive, but accidentally leaving the emergency brake on, filling the car with smoke. It would be a funny memory for them, but there was nothing really kneeslapping about it. (2) A woman on the floor playing with a baby and the baby's sock got stuck in the woman's braces. This won, but I didn't think it was funny. (3) Two morons unwisely trying to break apart a stone column in which bees had made a hive.

I always assumed the "final three/winners" were chosen just based on who they could get to appear easiest/cheapest. :shrug:

it's kind of an inside joke from Mr. Show. I think they took it from an actual AFV clip title, though.

That probably plays a part. I don't think I've ever seen a foreign clip in the final three.

it's the same reason 'Arrested Development' got cancelled. The people who are the "numbers" are dum-dums.

My wife and I still enjoy the show. However we never watch the final three part of the show, because we generally always find that others were funnier then the ones that they picked. You can always tell who is going to win anyways.

1.baby
2.young kid,
3.animal,
4.old person.

If none of those are involved something having to do with nuts will get to be the winner

Homer watches television...

Announcer: Our $50,000 home video finalists are...
Man Breaking Hip. [sound of bowling pins, followed by a scream]
Homer: [chuckles]
Announcer: [chuckles]
Dog On Fire.
[doing a doggy voice]
Ruff, anybody order a hot dog?
Homer: [laughs uproariously] Oh, look at him!
Announcer: And finally, Baby With a Nail Gun. [kachunk]
Homer: Aww....
Announcer: Okay, it's time to cast your votes now!
Homer: Dog On Fire! Dog On Fire!

I don't watch it as a routine, but I always have a few episodes Tivoed to enjoy when not quite sober. Altered mental states (plus being able to skip through the banter) make it a much more enjoyable way to laugh at others' misfortunes.

:lol: I was just going to post I had recently rewatched the Sundance in Springfield episode with Hans Moleman getting a baseball to the nuts.

This is my credo also. I haven't watched it lately but about a year ago AFV was in my regular viewing schedule and I never failed to crack up. Seeing stupid people hurt themselves and/or get hit in the nuts never stops being funny to me. Usually the music montages with multiple quick-hitting clips are the best.