America's Funniest Home Videos
October 28, 2007
TV Flash files “October 28, 2007” as hour 388 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 18, episode 4, aired 2007-10-28, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E04: listed hour 388 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 4 of 23 in season 18. It aired 2007-10-28 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “October 21, 2007” (S18E03). Next is “November 4, 2007” (S18E05). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
"AFHV" salutes the scariest night of the year with some frighteningly funny clips, including footage of people being scared silly by some ghoulish costumes.
Viewer FAQ
Where does October 28, 2007 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S18E04 is listed hour 388 of 814 — hour 4 of 23 in season 18, season 18 episode 4.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S18E04 air?
October 28, 2007 aired 2007-10-28 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Who is the 1990s host?
Bob Saget hosted the formative era that turned camcorder disasters into family-hour ritual.
In the series
Why this series still plays
VHS disasters as national sport: kids vs. piñatas, pets vs. gravity, dads vs. their own lawns. Bob Saget hosts the proto-YouTube pipeline years before anyone had an upload button. User-generated comedy as family-hour ritual — cheap, mean in a gentle way, and the reason relatives still shout that a wedding clip belongs on television.
Visual first: VHS snow, a kid versus a piñata, a dad versus his own lawn, studio lights treating a camcorder disaster like a gown. Vin Di Bona developed the ABC series from a Japanese format starting in 1989; Bob Saget hosted the formative late-1980s/1990s era that made home-video fails a national sport. *User-generated comedy as family-hour ritual.* **This was proto-YouTube before anyone had an upload button** — audiences as the content pipeline, relatives already shouting that a wedding clip belongs on…
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