All episodes Season 25 S25E17 2015-03-22 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Mensa's Rejects, Teen Scene, and Air Mattress Catapults vs Weirdo Eye Tricks

TV Flash files “Mensa's Rejects, Teen Scene, and Air Mattress Catapults vs Weirdo Eye Tricks” as hour 564 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 25, episode 17, aired 2015-03-22, 60 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S25E17: listed hour 564 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 17 of 23 in season 25. It aired 2015-03-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A Dose of Dumb, The Feline File, and Bowling” (S25E16). Next is “Who Said Childhood Was Easy?, Nature Gone Wild, and Paws for Effect” (S25E18). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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This week's highlights include a girl who swallows a bug while screaming on a roller coaster, a music montage of cats freaking out after discovering their images in mirrors, a squirrel finding a tissue box and stuffing his cheeks full of them, a teen boy happily singing in the house is abruptly threatened by his sister who is trying to sleep, and Tom playing "Who Breaks It?."

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Where does Mensa's Rejects, Teen Scene, and Air Mattress Catapults vs Weirdo Eye Tricks sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S25E17 is listed hour 564 of 814 — hour 17 of 23 in season 25, season 25 episode 17.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S25E17 air?

Mensa's Rejects, Teen Scene, and Air Mattress Catapults vs Weirdo Eye Tricks aired 2015-03-22 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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