America's Funniest Home Videos
Buffoon Buffet and Kid, Cat or Canine?
TV Flash files “Buffoon Buffet and Kid, Cat or Canine?” as hour 515 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 23, episode 12, aired 2013-01-20, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E12: listed hour 515 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 12 of 22 in season 23. It aired 2013-01-20 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Smart Dogs and Fore!” (S23E11). Next is “Mischievous Cats and Dogs and Hopeless Handsprings” (S23E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
This week's highlights include videos of a teen girl waxing her lip for the first time with hilarious results, a dog who foils his master's plan to keep him out of the garbage, cooking mishaps, "People Getting Hit with Hammers Versus Dogs who Think they are Swimming," and Tom playing "Kid, Cat or Canine?."
Viewer FAQ
Where does Buffoon Buffet and Kid, Cat or Canine? sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S23E12 is listed hour 515 of 814 — hour 12 of 22 in season 23, season 23 episode 12.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S23E12 air?
Buffoon Buffet and Kid, Cat or Canine? aired 2013-01-20 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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