America's Funniest Home Videos
Tom's Tips for Office Etiquette and Sink Sprayer Practical Jokes
TV Flash files “Tom's Tips for Office Etiquette and Sink Sprayer Practical Jokes” as hour 520 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 23, episode 17, aired 2013-03-24, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E17: listed hour 520 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 17 of 22 in season 23. It aired 2013-03-24 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Name Calling Canines and Dads Getting Dinged” (S23E16). Next is “Smart Dog/Dumb Dog and "Worst Ever"” (S23E18). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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This week's highlights include videos of a little boy confessing to his mom that he said he was sick to get out of going to school, parents giving a little girl a pet hamster as a gift and being shocked when they discover it has had babies, a prank package of people getting sprayed by a kitchen sink hose, and Tom playing "Pick the Real Video."
Viewer FAQ
Where does Tom's Tips for Office Etiquette and Sink Sprayer Practical Jokes sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S23E17 is listed hour 520 of 814 — hour 17 of 22 in season 23, season 23 episode 17.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S23E17 air?
Tom's Tips for Office Etiquette and Sink Sprayer Practical Jokes aired 2013-03-24 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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