America's Funniest Home Videos
Pranks that backfire
TV Flash files “Pranks that backfire” as hour 496 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 22, episode 16, aired 2012-03-11, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S22E16: listed hour 496 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 16 of 23 in season 22. It aired 2012-03-11 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A baby cheers while sleeping” (S22E15). Next is “Pranking a co-worker” (S22E17). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
This week's highlights include a music montage of cats and dogs who do not get along, a package of pranks -- including guys who set up a bucket of water to fall on their roommate's head as she enters the room - a segment entitled "Dogs Eating Ice Cream Versus Dudes Getting Hit in the Junk by Fish," practical jokes that backfire, and a game of "Head, Gut or Groin."
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pranks that backfire sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S22E16 is listed hour 496 of 814 — hour 16 of 23 in season 22, season 22 episode 16.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S22E16 air?
Pranks that backfire aired 2012-03-11 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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