Season 14 (2003-2004)

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AFV Season 14
$100,000 Winners	Linguine Greenie Their Cup is Half Full

America's Funniest Home Videos Season 14 aired from September 28, 2003 to May 23, 2004.

Episodes

Season 14 Episode 1

Ramp Champ, The Collision Kid & Canine Chaos

Season 14 Episode 2

Fleas Tease, Linguine Greenie & The Mom That Roared

Season 14 Episode 3

Feathered Freakout, The Fast and the Fuzziest & Dynamite Kids

Season 14 Episode 4

Skeleton in Closet, Mouthy Minister & I Do... Who?

Season 14 Episode 5 and 6

300th Episode

Season 14 Episode 7

Macaw Guffaw, Toddler Roulette & Toto Recall

Season 14 Episode 8

*Treadmill Trauma*, Bat to the Belfry & *Caught on Tape*

Season 14 Episode 9

Piñata Pirate, *Flush with Success* & Sonic Youth

Season 14 Episode 10

*Horse Hawk*, Cat Scat & *Not-So-Funhouse*

Season 14 Episode 12: All-Animal Extravaganza

Smitten With a Kitten, Cat on the Attack & Pumpkin-Headed Pooch

Season 14 Episode 13

Tooth from a Youth, *Flour Child* & Little Runaway

Season 14 Episode 14

Ring-A-Ding Dog, Gifted Child & *Pain in the Brass*

Season 14 Episode 15

Cookie Monster, While You Were Sleeping & Solo Screamer

Season 14 Episode 16

Bikini Biter, Captain Cardboard & Keyboard Bungle

Season 14 Episode 17

Doggy Dinghy, Clown Face Catastrophe & Daddy Long Life

Season 14 Episode 18

Bike Yikes, The One Coat Kid & Blindfolded Fool

Season 14 Episode 19

Backdoor Blues, *Cake Mistake* & Pew Spew

Season 14 Episode 20: Guide to Parenting

Cellphone Frenzy, *Bridge Under Troubled Daughters* & Hula Oops

Season 14 Episode 21

*Boy in the Bubble*, Their Cup is Half Full & *Spring Fling*

Nominees in other episodes

*= Shown later in the season in a montage.

Finalists

Trivia

• This is the last season of a few things:
  • The last season to use the logo introduced in Season 9. From the next season to Season 21, it has a new logo.
  • The last season until Season 24 to have two $100,000 shows.
  • The last season to have a $100,000 show as its last episode. Beginning in the next season, each season ends with a grand prize show in which the $100,000 winners compete.
  • The last season until Season 26 in which the song "Movie Overture" by Larry Hochman is used in the "Honorable Mentions" segment of a $100,000 show.
• This is the first season in which the "Honorable Mentions" segment with the song "Enchanted Meadow" by Christopher Stone is shown in every episode. Beginning in the next season, it is also shown in every episode, but during the contest for the funniest home video of the episode while the studio audience votes.
• This is the only season to have a nominee from Washington, D.C., "Bridge Under Troubled Daughters." This does not include the surrounding region.
  • This is also the last season to have a nominee from Quebec, "Cat on the Attack." As of October 28th, 2005, videos from the province will no longer be accepted.
• During the "Versus" segment in the 300th episode, a rejected video is shown.
• "Their Cup is Half Full" is one of several videos to win first place in its episode, then win $100,000 in the next episode.
• Many videos nominated throughout this season have references in their titles:
  • Like "The Mouth That Roared" in the previous season, "The Mom That Roared" is a reference to the 1955 satirical novel The Mouse That Roared.
  • "Fast and the Fuzziest" is a reference to the 2001 film "The Fast and the Furious."
  • "Dynamite Kid" is the ring name for British wrestler Thomas Billington.
  • "Skeleton in (the) Closet" is an idiom for a hidden fact about a person that would destroy their reputation if revealed.
  • "Toto Recall" is a pun on the 1990 film "Total Recall."
  • "Bat to the Belfry" is a reference to "bats in the belfry," a phrase referring to insanity.
  • "Flush with Success" is an idiom describing the feeling of confidence after an achievement.
  • "Sonic Youth" shares its name with a former American rock band.
  • "Flour Child" is a pun on "flower child," a term describing someone associated with the flower power movement.
  • "Little Runaway" is a lyric from the 1961 Del Shannon song "Runaway."
  • "Ring-a-Ding-Dog" is a reference to "Ring-a-Ding-Ding!," a 1961 Frank Sinatra album.
  • "Gifted Child" is a phrase describing a child with an above-average intellectual ability.
  • "Pain in the Brass" is a pun on the idiom "Pain in the ass," used to describe an annoyance.
  • "Cookie Monster" shares its name with a Sesame Street character.
  • "While You Were Sleeping" shares its name with a 1995 film.
  • "Daddy Long Life" is a reference to "daddy longlegs," a common name for a harvest spider.
  • "Bridge Under Troubled Daughters" is a pun on "Bridge Over Troubled Water," a 1970 album and its title track by Simon & Garfunkel.
  • "[The] Boy in the Bubble" shares its name with a 1986 Paul Simon song.
  • "Their Cup is Half Full" is a reference to the rhetorical question, "Is the glass half empty or half full?."

Goofs

• In episode 20, Bergeron mispronounces "Woods Cross" as "Wood Cross" when he announces that "Hula Oops" is a nominee. He also mispronounces Gigi Stephens' surname as "Stephen" when he announces that "Cell Phone Frenzy" is the second place-winning video.
  • In the Amazon Prime Video release of the episode, two of the video submitters' surnames are misspelled in the subtitles:
    • Gigi Stephens' surname is misspelled as "Stevens."
    • Lorraine Swerdloff's ("Bridge Under Trouble Daughters") surname is misspelled as "Swerdof."