America's Funniest Home Videos
Kids say funny things
TV Flash files “Kids say funny things” as hour 499 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 22, episode 19, aired 2012-04-29, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S22E19: listed hour 499 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 19 of 23 in season 22. It aired 2012-04-29 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Mishaps involving Easter eggs” (S22E18). Next is “A gassy baby; kids say funny things” (S22E20). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
This week's highlights include "31 Baby Farts in 27 Seconds"; a package of kids saying hilarious things, including a boy who's upset because he misses George Washington; a kid with a very funny reaction during a slingshot amusement park ride; and Tom playing "Too Far, Too Short, Just Right" and "Name that Sound."
Viewer FAQ
Where does Kids say funny things sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S22E19 is listed hour 499 of 814 — hour 19 of 23 in season 22, season 22 episode 19.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S22E19 air?
Kids say funny things aired 2012-04-29 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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