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* [[The Announcer]]: ABC staff announcer Ernie Anderson, best known for his bumpers for ''[[The Love Boat|The Loooooooove Boat]]'', was the announcer until his death. (In one episode, Anderson's illustrious past was pointed out by Saget and he even gave the audience a thrill by saying ''The Loooooooove Boat'' one more time.) Gary Owens announced the show from 1995 to 1997, and voice actor Jess Harnell took over after Owens left.
* [[Anticipatory Breath Spray]]: One memorable clip in Season One had a groom do this right before he kissed the bride.
* [[Biting the Hand Humor]]: An unusual case—thecase -- the show has its [[Enforced Plug|enforced plugs]] for ABC's corporate parent Disney (see below), but aside from those grand prize shows Disney hasn't stopped them from running home videos that don't paint the [[Disney Theme Parks]] in the best light, such as costumed characters falling off of parade floats or scaring toddlers, and a memorable clip of ''The Hall of Presidents'''s Abraham Lincoln animatronic slowly falling backwards at the waist during his big speech. Even better, one season finale shot at Disney World had Bergeron joke that when his daughters go there, the three things they're most excited to see are "Mickey, Minnie, and Daddy's Wallet."
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Keep those cameras safely rolling" in the Saget era, probably added because there was concern from commentators and the producers themselves that people would wind up seriously hurt, accidentally or even ''intentionally'', in pursuit of prizes. Bergeron uses "If you can get it on tape, you can get it in cash"; he now uses "video" in that phrase thanks to the rise of online video uploading, and then later, "Upload to us. Get rich. Get famous."
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Tom Bergeron, often.
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* [[MST]]: Especially with Saget. In fact, two of the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' writers (Trace Beaulieu and Josh Weinstein) went on to write for ''AFV''.
* [[Once an Episode]]: Saget almost always signed off with a joke beginning with the phrase "And honey?" (except for the tail end of his run; see below). Bergeron does slo-mo replays of the "honorable mentions" from each show, in a spoof of inspiring montages.
* [["Previously On..."]]: Parodied in the Bergeron era—eachera -- each episode opens with him intoning "Previously on ''AFV''..." and a quick montage of particularly silly clips from the actual previous episode follows.
* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]]: A classic clip featured Carlos Jones, a black boy with a pronounced accent who shouted out the alphabet letter by letter. ("Aeh! Beh! Ceh! Deh!", etc.)
* [[Reality Subtext]]: Saget's last two episodes did not have him do the "And honey..." closer. By that point, his marriage was crumbling and eventually resulted in a divorce.
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** [[The Pratfall]]: Countless amateur versions have been displayed.
* [[Spin-Off]]
** ''America's Funniest People'' ran from 1990–941990-94 and was hosted by Dave Coulier—anotherCoulier -- another ''[[Full House]]'' performer—andperformer -- and a female co-host (Arleen "[[Batman: The Animated Series|Harley Quinn]]" Sorkin from 1990–921990-92, Tawny Kitaen from 1992-94). The videos sent in to this show were of people ''intentionally'' being funny, and combined the clips with appearances by comedians and original [[Sketch Comedy]] segments.
** Coulier later hosted a shorter-lived spinoff, ''The World's Funniest Videos''.
** Producer Vin Di Bona repackaged clips from both ''Funniest Home Videos'' and ''Funniest People'' for Fox Family Channel's ''Show Me the Funny'' and syndication's ''That's Funny''.
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* [[You Fail Physics Forever]]: Invoked. During a game of "Head, Gut, or Groin", for a clip of a man diving off a diving board into a pool, a female audience member guessed he would hit his head on the diving board, even though his head was far away from it. Tom Bergeron asked her, "What was your grade in Physics?"
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=== Often clips include... ===
* [[Amusing Injuries]]
* [[Epic Fail]]: It was practically [http://failblog.org/ Failblog] (or at least the video portions of Failblog) before there was a Failblog.
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