Production and broadcast← Previous revisionRevision as of 23:46, 18 October 2026 Line 84: Line 84: ==Production and broadcast== ==Production and broadcast== The program's studio segments were taped on location in front of a studio audience at [[Walt Disney World]] within [[Epcot#World Showcase|Epcot’s World Showcase]] attraction; episodes were taped at the various pavilions in the attraction space, including the Germany, Morocco, Italy and United Kingdom areas.{{cite news|title=WORLD’S FUNNIEST VIDEOS TO TAPE AT EPCOT|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1996/01/25/worlds-funniest-videos-to-tape-at-epcot/|newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|date=January 25, 1996|access-date=October 18, 2026}} Contestants could submit their videos by sending them via mail to a [[Hollywood, California]] [[post-office box]] address; unlike ''AFHV'', however, the series did not contain a grand-prize contest element, and viewer-submitted videos were not rewarded with prizes. The program's studio segments were taped on location in front of a studio audience at [[Walt Disney World]] within [[Epcot#World Showcase|Epcot’s World Showcase]] attraction; episodes were taped at the various pavilions in the attraction space, including the Germany, Morocco, Italy and United Kingdom areas.{{cite news|title=WORLD’S FUNNIEST VIDEOS TO TAPE AT EPCOT|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1996/01/25/worlds-funniest-videos-to-tape-at-epcot/|newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|date=January 25, 1996|access-date=October 18, 2026}} Contestants could submit their videos by sending them via mail to a [[Hollywood, California]] [[post-office box]] address. Although ''Funniest Home Videos'' had maintained a half-hour format at the time, ABC decided against pairing it with ''World's Funniest Videos'' in the Sunday 7:00 p.m. ([[Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Time]]) hour, as ''AFHV'' had been performing well in the 7:30 slot since the network added a second airing of the show in January 1995;{{efn|The expansion of ''AFHV'' occurred as a result of the network’s decision to put the short-lived sitcom ''[[On Our Own (1994 TV series)|On Our Own]]'', which had been underperforming in the lead-out 7:30 slot, on hiatus in December 1994. The sitcom would later move to Fridays, as part of the ''[[TGIF (ABC)|TGIF]]'' lineup, in March 1995; ''On Our Own'' was ultimately cancelled after one season.}} instead, it was paired with ''[[Before They Were Stars]]'' (a series adapted from the 1994–95 ABC specials) on Thursday nights, airing opposite the first hour of NBC's "[[Must See TV]]" sitcom lineup and directly against the highly-rated ''[[Friends]]'' as well as the [[CBS]] mystery-drama ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' (then in its twelfth and final season, having suffered a drastic drop in viewership upon moving from Sundays to Thursdays for the 1995–96 season) and the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] sitcom ''[[Living Single]]''. ''World’s Funniest Videos'' regularly underperformed in the ratings, usually placing a distant third among the network shows during the 8:00 p.m. ET slot.{{cite news |title=ABC Pits ‘Videos’ Against ‘Friends’|url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/feb/01/abc-pits-videos-against-friends/|author=John Martin|newspaper=[[The Spokesman-Review]]|via=[[The New York Times Syndicate]]|date=February 1, 1996|access-date=October 18, 2026}} ABC officially cancelled the series in May 1996, after only one season. Although ''Funniest Home Videos'' had maintained a half-hour format at the time, ABC decided against pairing it with ''World's Funniest Videos'' in the Sunday 7:00 p.m. ([[Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Time]]) hour, as ''AFHV'' had been performing well in the 7:30 slot since the network added a second airing of the show in January 1995;{{efn|The expansion of ''AFHV'' occurred as a result of the network’s decision to put the short-lived sitcom ''[[On Our Own (1994 TV series)|On Our Own]]'', which had been underperforming in the lead-out 7:30 slot, on hiatus in December 1994. The sitcom would later move to Fridays, as part of the ''[[TGIF (ABC)|TGIF]]'' lineup, in March 1995; ''On Our Own'' was ultimately cancelled after one season.}} instead, it was paired with ''[[Before They Were Stars]]'' (a series adapted from the 1994–95 ABC specials) on Thursday nights, airing opposite the first hour of NBC's "[[Must See TV]]" sitcom lineup and directly against the highly-rated ''[[Friends]]'' as well as the [[CBS]] mystery-drama ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' (then in its twelfth and final season, having suffered a drastic drop in viewership upon moving from Sundays to Thursdays for the 1995–96 season) and the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] sitcom ''[[Living Single]]''. ''World’s Funniest Videos'' regularly underperformed in the ratings, usually placing a distant third among the network shows during the 8:00 p.m. ET slot.{{cite news |title=ABC Pits ‘Videos’ Against ‘Friends’|url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/feb/01/abc-pits-videos-against-friends/|author=John Martin|newspaper=[[The Spokesman-Review]]|via=[[The New York Times Syndicate]]|date=February 1, 1996|access-date=October 18, 2026}} ABC officially cancelled the series in May 1996, after only one season.