Well I don’t know if I’d call it that, but one of the creepiest videos I saw was a father preparing to tell his son about “the birds & the bees.” Of course, the kid started screaming & tried to get away, while the father held him down on his lap. It might have been a joke – both of them were smiling & laughing about it – but still, what kind of sicko do you have to be to videotape THE SEX TALK with your own child?!?
It was a finalist video, too. But it didn’t win.
AFV finalists always go like this: The cute child wins. The cute pet comes in second. The only funny one, where somebody gets hurt or something incredibly surreal and weird happens (like the fish jumping in the boat, knocking the guy over, and then jumping back out into the water) doesn’t win squat.
It’s perplexing only until you think about the huge market for those big-eyed-child ceramic figures with the sappy message on the base, and the like. Then it makes sense.
The all time best video-that-didn’t-win award goes to the kid who is playing with his pet rat outside, and when he sets it down on top of the cage, a hawk swoops down and carries it off. I would love to hear Dad explain that to him.
Apparently, the show does exist. I read a review of a Japanese video game based on it.