How the fuck is America's Funniest Home Videos still on?

MissUtilis

(Other than "because Anonus Utilis keeps forgetting to cancel it")

The television in the living room was left on KMGH and this came on. It's a holdover from a less sophisticated era in television. The show's logos were adopted in fucking 1998 and they look like it. The set now resembles the intro to 101 Dalmatians: The Series if it somehow assumed physical form and got even more garish. All I can think of is that it's cheap filler that costs the network next to nothing to keep on the air.

MissUtilis

...and the show is about to change hosts from Tom Bergeron to Alfonso "Carlton" Ribiero. the fuck

Yarrun XIX

What's the point without handsome Bob Saget

MissUtilis

Yarrun XIX said:

What's the point without handsome Bob Saget

There is none

Though apparently somehow Disney worked their corporate synergy magic with Maker Studios so that Bob Iger's latest bazillion-dollar deal wasn't a waste

Salix Babylonika

it's one of the two shows they play at the laundromat (the other is Jeopardy).

Tachyon

i feel like fail compilations on youtube have made this genre redundant

MissUtilis

Planet Jane said:

it's one of the two shows they play at the laundromat (the other is Jeopardy).

heheh, ABC Warner has a monopoly on the laundromat television

Princess Alice

Tachyon said:

i feel like fail compilations on youtube have made this genre redundant

yeah, me too

Calica

Planet Jane said:

it's one of the two shows they play at the laundromat (the other is Jeopardy).

i like jeopardy when i watch it

Salix Babylonika

AFHV is family friendly for the most part

fail compilations are not.

Honestly given the general fondness a lot of this site has for old stuff I'm surprised that no one here likes it at all.

Salix Babylonika

Calica said:

Planet Jane said:

it's one of the two shows they play at the laundromat (the other is Jeopardy).

i like jeopardy when i watch it

I actually really enjoy Jeopardy.

Getting questions right makes me feel smart.

Princess Alice

I feel like the reason AFHV lives on is that it's cheap to produce because the content is mostly viewer-submitted and it makes for easy filler

Princess Alice

That said the original theme song was the best:

Tachyon

i liked the UK equivalent when i was a kid; it was called You've Been Framed!

it still exists, but i haven't watched it in years

MissUtilis

not gonna lie, I half expected this fucking jingle to come on during that:

Tachyon

just in case anyone's curious

glennmagusharvey

I used to like this.

but then they gradually started featuring too many cringeworthy moments.

Imipolex G

I liked this show when I was maybe 10, 11.

Also I find it strange to think that television had a "less sophisticated" time. Is that possible?

glennmagusharvey

My parents actually didn't like the fact that I was into this show, when I was into it.

Imipolex G

my family watched it together, it's what passed for family bonding time or whatever

glennmagusharvey

My parents preferred Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, and the various evening news programs, including the News Hour.

Tachyon

Imipolex G-cup said:

I liked this show when I was maybe 10, 11.

Also I find it strange to think that television had a "less sophisticated" time. Is that possible?

i think it's probably fair to say production quality has gone up?

i also think it depends what you mean by more sophisticated.  If by that you mean opera or science documentaries, i don't think you can claim modern reality TV is more sophisticated than that.  But a lot of old television looks somewhat amateurish by comparison with today's programming, no?

Imipolex G

I guess the productions these days may look "slicker" or something.

Of course I don't even watch TV these days so what do I know

Tachyon

glennmagusharvey said:

My parents actually didn't like the fact that I was into this show, when I was into it.

my parents were the same, although they had very little interest in most of the stuff my brother and I watched.

my dad liked Looney Tunes and The Simpsons, and my mum liked Cardcaptor Sakura and My Parents Are Aliens! (i don't know if that one ever got a US broadcast).

MissUtilis

Tachyon said:

Imipolex G-cup said:

I liked this show when I was maybe 10, 11.

Also I find it strange to think that television had a "less sophisticated" time. Is that possible?

i think it's probably fair to say production quality has gone up?

that and the critics think the quality of acting and writing has gone up, or at least a category of shows boasting such traits has been carved out

MissUtilis

I vary on whether or not I agree with them

Tachyon

Is that a general critical consensus?

i'm not sure i agree.  In writing terms i feel there's been a shift towards faster pacing which is not necessarily an improvement.

MissUtilis

I'm not sure that's necessarily an improvement either, but growing up in this era has kind of stunted my attention span

Tre

Imipolex G-cup said:

I liked this show when I was maybe 10, 11.

Bee

Between the overabundance of recycled clips, and increasing the focus on toilet humor, crotch shots, and kids being obnoxious for the sake of it even more than back in Saget's day, I really can't watch that shit anymore.