All episodes Season 20 S20E18 2010-03-14 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Fake lottery tickets; pet pranks

TV Flash files “Fake lottery tickets; pet pranks” as hour 450 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 20, episode 18, aired 2010-03-14, 60 min.

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This leaf is S20E18: listed hour 450 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 18 of 24 in season 20. It aired 2010-03-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Skydiving accidents” (S20E17). Next is “A collection of Easter mishaps” (S20E19). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Clips include people getting excited over fake lotto tickets, plus pet pranks -- including two dogs who are threatened by a photo of a cat, a man who has trained his dog to fetch him a beer from the fridge, and kids who chase and terrify their dad with a dead bat.

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Where does Fake lottery tickets; pet pranks sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S20E18 is listed hour 450 of 814 — hour 18 of 24 in season 20, season 20 episode 18.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S20E18 air?

Fake lottery tickets; pet pranks aired 2010-03-14 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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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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