In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Greg has a set of neighbours who host "half-birthday parties" for their children, where the adults do stupid things that often end badly for them with the explicit purpose of making it onto AFV.
The Goldbergs: In "Just Say No", Barry asks Adam to shoot an audition video to get on American Gladiators, but his failed attempts at athleticism are so funny, Adam sends them to America's Funniest Home Videos instead.
The Jeff Foxworthy Show Season 1 episode 8 "A Sore Winner" features the Foxworthys competing on the show.
The Golden Girls: In the second part of "Home Again, Rose", Rose dreams that she and her friends all died and had their heads frozen. Dorothy explains that she died after being thrashed by a gorilla at a zoo and then learns that Sophia submitted the footage to the show, where it ended up winning.
Saturday Night Live got Parody Assistance from Bob Saget when he hosted in Season 20, as one skit had him host America's Funniest Militia Videos. Much of the humor comes from videos of clumsy militiamen (played by the regulars in pre-taped clips) getting themselves killed, particularly in Your Head Asplode manners, being handled exactly like the family-friendly hijinks of the real thing.
Dinosaurs: In "Family Challenge", the Sinclair family watches Pangaea's Funniest Home Injuries. The episode they watch involves a father and son playing catch too near an active volcano. The show is followed by Pangaea's Second Funniest Home Injuries, referencing both America's Funniest Home Videos and America's Funniest People, which aired back-to-back at the time of the episode's broadcast.
In an episode of 101 Dalmatians: The Series Spot the chicken watches a show called America's Funniest Egg Bloopers.
Animaniacs (1993): In "Guardin' the Garden", the narrator is Ernie Anderson, best known at the time for being the voice of ABC, and ends his narration by saying, "So stay tuned for ''The Garden of Eden's Funniest Home Videos!'"
Cow and Chicken had an episode where Cow and Chicken made a video of them deliberately gluing themselves together to get onto the show.
Another episode had an international version called Uganda's Funniest Home Videos.
Goof Troop: Max and PJ try to shoot video of Goofy messing up for America's Most Painful Home Videos and win a trip to Hawaii.
KaBlam!: In "Going the Extra Mile", when Ryan wins a contest to spend a day with Henry and June, he shows the viewers rare footage of the duo when they were little. Henry is shown getting kicked by a cow on America's Nuttiest Home Videos, which embarrasses him.
An episode of Rugrats (1991) is entitled "America's Wackiest Home Movies". In the episode, both Stu and Drew try respectively to get Tommy and Angelica to do funny stuff in the hopes of winning the titular Show Within a Show's contest. Angelica tries to sabotage Tommy's chances of winning by telling him that if he clams up in front of a "clam-quarter", he'll get a whole quarter. Lou ends up winning the contest with his own film of his sons rollerblading through Tommy's house at Stu's birthday party.
"Stark Raving Dad" has Homer watching a Black Comedy version of the show with the three finalist videos being a man who breaks his hip bowling, a dog set on fire (which Homer gets a big kick out of and wants to win) and a baby with a nail gun.
"A Star is Burns" has film festival judge Homer cracking up at a clip of Hans Moleman getting hit in the groin by a football and he proceeds to cry out, "Give that man the $10,000!", which causes guest star Jay Sherman to point out "This isn't America's Funniest Home Videos."
"Homer To The Max" had an upcoming mid-season series called World's Funniest Tornadoes and the trailer was of a farmer struggling to get to safety during one when a stop sign suddenly flies into his crotch to Bart and Homer's amusement.
South Park had a Take That! in the form of America's Stupidest Home Videos that Stan and Kyle hate, but the former's grandfather loves. Interestingly, one of Bob Saget's own daughters loved the joke and even some years later he also came around to it.
An episode of Taz-Mania is titled "Tazmania's Funniest Home Videos''. In this episode, Taz attempts to film some candid videos of his family in the hopes of winning a trip to Bora Bora.
