America's Funniest Home Videos
Mischievous Cats and Dogs and Hopeless Handsprings
TV Flash files “Mischievous Cats and Dogs and Hopeless Handsprings” as hour 516 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 23, episode 13, aired 2013-02-10, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E13: listed hour 516 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 13 of 22 in season 23. It aired 2013-02-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Buffoon Buffet and Kid, Cat or Canine?” (S23E12). Next is “Six Finalists Compete for $100,000” (S23E14). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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This week's highlights include videos of a determined teenager who repeatedly attempts a handspring with hilarious results, a package of cats and dogs making mischief together, a foolhardy doctor who tries to pop a wheelie in a wheelchair, and Tom playing "Head, Gut or Groin?."
Viewer FAQ
Where does Mischievous Cats and Dogs and Hopeless Handsprings sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S23E13 is listed hour 516 of 814 — hour 13 of 22 in season 23, season 23 episode 13.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S23E13 air?
Mischievous Cats and Dogs and Hopeless Handsprings aired 2013-02-10 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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