One of my faves is where one guy is working on a light switch or socket and the other is holding the flashlight and eating a banana. Guy #1 suddenly starts pretending he’s being electrocuted–Guy #2 starts panicking. When Guy #1 starts laughing his ass off, the other one calls him an asshole (I have the unbleeped version on tape) and shoves the banana in his face.
I thought DH was going to pass out when they showed that one fellow getting his eyebrows waxed. Each time the poor man yelled in pain, DH laughed harder. The icing on the cake was the guy saying that it’d be better to go around looking like a Klingon than to have the wax job.
Love AFV too. And I have a wild crush on Tom Bergeron…well no actually I don’t but he’s a damn sight funnier than Bob Saget who was just a trainwreck Every. Single. Week.
The dog licking the inside of the lady’s mouth was just flat out nasty. I usually have one of 4 reactions to the clips:
“That was funny.”
“Damn that looked painful. That wasn’t funny.”
“Awwww. Kids are cute.”
“Gross.”
My favorite clips are the ones where the parents play a trick to freak the hell out of their kids. I remember one where the kids come into the bathroom to get in the tub and dad is behind the shower cutrain in a gorilla mask and the kids run away shrieking and mom and dad laugh their fool heads off. Love that.
Oh, and it sure doesn’t hurt that Trace Beaulieu (formerly with Mystery Science Theater 3000) is a writer for the show.
Holy cow, I thought it was just me; glad to see I’m not the only one who loves the show. Any time, day or night, drunk or sober, I will drop everything and watch as many hours of AFV as are on TV. It’s like crack to me.
My favorite: The people are out on one of those whale-sighting tours on a boat. As an enormous whale rears up out of the water, we hear “BARK! splash” and pan over to see a dog, a Lab of some kind, swimming like hell toward the whale. He is furious, and he’s clearly determined to get the whale.
Everyone’s calling to the dog to come back, but he doesn’t even look back; when the whale finally goes back underwater, the spell breaks and he looks around, sort of confused, and begins swimming back toward the boat.
The whale comes up again! The dog goes BONKERS, swimming back toward the whale and barking like mad.
They cut away after that; I still wonder if the dog was OK, but damn, that was funny. Boundless optimism in action.