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{{quote|''"You know I like to think of my job as holding a mirror up to the face of America. I don't... offer to help you shave, or comb your hair. Or check for cellulite. I just hold the mirror. Look at yourselves."''|'''Tom Bergeron''', on the show.}}
Long-running television series that features home video clips sent in by viewers, and has aired on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] since its debut as a special in November 1989. At the end of most episodes, the producers pick three clips for the studio audience to vote on for prizes of $2,000, $3,000, and $10,000; the big money winner goes on to compete with other weekly winners for a $100,000 prize later in the season.
The show can be considered the proto-[[Reality Show]] concept, as it existed through audience interaction. AFHV has gone through three "eras", being originally hosted by comedian [[Bob Saget]] until 1997, then by Daisy Fuentes and John Fugelsang from 1998-99. Over 1999-2000 it existed as occasional specials rather than a regular series, but it returned to the old format in 2001 with Tom Bergeron as host and has remained an ABC fixture since. (A ''lot'' of people are only familiar with the Bob Saget version... which is odd, because usually the Bergeron episodes are the only ones that ever air nowadays. And the show is heavily promoted, so you'd have to have lived under a rock since the late 1990s to ''not'' know this show is still on, and has a different host.)
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