All episodes Season 23 S23E16 2013-03-10 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Name Calling Canines and Dads Getting Dinged

TV Flash files “Name Calling Canines and Dads Getting Dinged” as hour 519 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 23, episode 16, aired 2013-03-10, 60 min.

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This leaf is S23E16: listed hour 519 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 16 of 22 in season 23. It aired 2013-03-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Foot, Face or Fanny?” (S23E15). Next is “Tom's Tips for Office Etiquette and Sink Sprayer Practical Jokes” (S23E17). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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This week's highlights include videos of a dog who can call his owner by his name, "Anthony," a baby boy who springs a leak on his grandpa during his bath, music montages featuring dogs walking on two legs, funny babies, a marathon runner who surprises his girlfriend in the middle of the race, and Tom playing "Say What?."

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Where does Name Calling Canines and Dads Getting Dinged sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S23E16 is listed hour 519 of 814 — hour 16 of 22 in season 23, season 23 episode 16.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S23E16 air?

Name Calling Canines and Dads Getting Dinged aired 2013-03-10 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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