America's Funniest Home Videos
Top 10 Practical Joke Countdown
TV Flash files “Top 10 Practical Joke Countdown” as hour 397 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 18, episode 13, aired 2008-02-10, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E13: listed hour 397 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 13 of 23 in season 18. It aired 2008-02-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “January 27, 2008” (S18E12). Next is “February 17, 2008” (S18E14). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The best practical jokes in the history of the show, including the video deemed the greatest gag ever in 18 years of primetime hilarity, are featured in "AFV's" Top 10 Practical Joke Countdown. Clip highlights include a man scared by Dracula jumping out of a coffin, a man who dresses as the Grim Reaper to scare his mom, practical jokes that backfire, fake lotto pranks, a dad who fools his son into thinking he's slept through the night and that it's time for school, and a guy who teases his terrified buddy with a large iguana.
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Where does Top 10 Practical Joke Countdown sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S18E13 is listed hour 397 of 814 — hour 13 of 23 in season 18, season 18 episode 13.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S18E13 air?
Top 10 Practical Joke Countdown aired 2008-02-10 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.
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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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