America's Funniest Home Videos
Grumpy Little Dogs and Practical Jokes
TV Flash files “Grumpy Little Dogs and Practical Jokes” as hour 511 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 23, episode 8, aired 2012-11-25, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E08: listed hour 511 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 8 of 22 in season 23. It aired 2012-11-25 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The First 6 Nominees of the Season Battle it Out to Win the $100,000 Prize” (S23E07). Next is “People Scared of Clowns Versus Big Babes on Bulls” (S23E09). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
This week's highlights include a package featuring grumpy little dogs, practical jokes that backfire, a music montage of animals that look like they're actually dancing, and Tom playing "What's Makin' That Racket?" with "Dancing with the Stars" judge Carrie Ann Inaba.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Grumpy Little Dogs and Practical Jokes sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S23E08 is listed hour 511 of 814 — hour 8 of 22 in season 23, season 23 episode 8.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S23E08 air?
Grumpy Little Dogs and Practical Jokes aired 2012-11-25 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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