All episodes Season 23 S23E20 2013-05-05 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

A Screaming Goat Mash-up, Failosophy and Itchy Animals

TV Flash files “A Screaming Goat Mash-up, Failosophy and Itchy Animals” as hour 523 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 23, episode 20, aired 2013-05-05, 60 min.

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This leaf is S23E20: listed hour 523 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 20 of 22 in season 23. It aired 2013-05-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “AFV Presents a Salute to the Military” (S23E19). Next is “6 Finalists compete for the final $100,000 of the season” (S23E21). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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This week's highlights include videos of a mom getting an unexpected reaction from her daughters when she tells them she's pregnant again, a package of funny dog videos entitled "Dog Park," an inventive wedding proposal by a man who sets up a fake arrest and gets handcuffed while his horrified fiancée-to-be looks on, and Tom playing "Kid, Cat or Canine?."

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Where does A Screaming Goat Mash-up, Failosophy and Itchy Animals sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S23E20 is listed hour 523 of 814 — hour 20 of 22 in season 23, season 23 episode 20.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S23E20 air?

A Screaming Goat Mash-up, Failosophy and Itchy Animals aired 2013-05-05 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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