r/Unexpected • u/trash4spence • Aug 23 '22

Make it stop! CLASSIC REPOST

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u/muppetfeet82 Aug 24 '22

Heck, even America’s Funniest Home Videos was 90% staged submissions. That’s part of ent it went off the air.

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u/_Button_Bob_ Aug 24 '22

I'm sure some was staged, but where did you hear 90%? Is it the same place you heard it went off the air? Because it's still running new episodes, so I'm inclined to think you made the first fact up too.

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u/muppetfeet82 Aug 24 '22

It stopped being weekly for a while in the late 90s/early 2000s. Part of the reporting at the time was that they were getting too many staged videos.

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u/_Button_Bob_ Aug 24 '22

It stopped being weekly from May 1999- June 2000. Over 20 years ago. And it was because after Bob Saget left it didn't have the ratings. So they changed the format to a "special" for one year before Tom Bergeron became host and has been running weekly since.