About this season
America's Funniest Home Videos is the longest-running primetime entertainment show in ABC history. Each week AFV shines the spotlight on hilarious videos. Fans tune in to witness failures and fiascos and to submit their own mishaps for their chance at stardom.
Episodes (16)
1. Pilot
Aired 14 January 1990 • 60 min
Swimming pool collapse; water-skiing mishaps. This was the first episode in which people got to vote for the winner.
2. Weddings
Aired 21 January 1990 • 60 min
Blowing out birthday candles; baby plays the drums.
3. February 4, 1990
Aired 4 February 1990 • 60 min
A man recruiting fellow airplane passengers to help him propose to a woman waiting to greet him in the terminal; a sky diver who leaps with a lawn chair; skiing a flooded street; entries featuring babies' first tastes of different foods.
4. February 11, 1990
Aired 11 February 1990 • 60 min
Bride interrupts ceremony to go to rest room; wrestling kittens; people suddenly losing their clothes.
5. February 18, 1990
Aired 18 February 1990 • 60 min
Dog pulls master's ""tail""; equestrian accidents; dog plays piano; boy tries to flee his shadow.
6. March 4, 1990
2.0Aired 4 March 1990 • 60 min
Do-it-yourselfers; water skiers; amateur magicians.
7. March 11, 1990
Aired 11 March 1990 • 60 min
Practical jokes; bicyclists; ""dueling"" earlobes.
8. March 18, 1990
Aired 18 March 1990 • 60 min
Oddball sports; people who don't watch where they're going.
9. April 1, 1990
Aired 1 April 1990 • 60 min
Stagestruck children; golf gaffes.
10. April 8, 1990
Aired 8 April 1990 • 60 min
Auto mishaps in snow; astronauts.
11. April 15, 1990
Aired 15 April 1990 • 60 min
Dog bowling; Easter egg hunt; baby's first haircut; Birthday bloopers.
12. April 29, 1990
Aired 29 April 1990 • 60 min
Talking 3-month-old; do-it-yourself disasters; baseball bloopers; a man who messes up the National Anthem; animals taking revenge on their owners; rodeo mishaps. Finalists: 'Love Bird' (Winner), 'Baby Who Says I Love You' (2nd Place), and 'Man Who Sings the National Anthem' (3rd place).
13. May 6, 1990
Aired 6 May 1990 • 60 min
A ballerina gets wrapped up in her work . . . and the stage curtain; basketball plays, including donkey basketball; young entertainers; toddlers talk; the ups and downs of yo-yoing.
14. May 13, 1990
Aired 13 May 1990 • 60 min
Kissing bridegroom; parasailing; a cat, a canary and a fish.
15. May 20, 1990
Aired 20 May 1990 • 60 min
The grand prize winner is selected. Possible winners include a boy dealing with trick candles; a dog that says ""mama""; kids sledding into their houses; and a woman caught in a dishwasher.
16. Grand-prize winner
Aired 20 May 1990 • 60 min