America's Funniest Home Videos
October 20, 2013
TV Flash files “October 20, 2013” as hour 527 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 24, episode 2, aired 2013-10-20, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S24E02: listed hour 527 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 2 of 22 in season 24. It aired 2013-10-20 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “October 13, 2013” (S24E01). Next is “October 27, 2013” (S24E03). 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 kids saying hilarious things, a family getting a gooey surprise from a llama while visiting a drive-through zoo, practical jokes including a woman who tricked her mother into believing she cut her finger off during a kitchen accident, a devoted dad giving his daughter permission to give him a makeover and Tom plays "Who's Makin' That Racket?.".
Viewer FAQ
Where does October 20, 2013 sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S24E02 is listed hour 527 of 814 — hour 2 of 22 in season 24, season 24 episode 2.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S24E02 air?
October 20, 2013 aired 2013-10-20 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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