All episodes Season 26 S26E03 2015-10-25 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Halloween, Frights, and Tricks and/or Treats

TV Flash files “Halloween, Frights, and Tricks and/or Treats” as hour 573 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 26, episode 3, aired 2015-10-25, 60 min.

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This leaf is S26E03: listed hour 573 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 3 of 22 in season 26. It aired 2015-10-25 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Teen Commandments, It Coulda Been Worse, and Squirrels” (S26E02). Next is “You're Doing it Wrong, Daddy-Daughter Time, and Water Bottle Prank” (S26E04). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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This week's Halloween-themed episode includes a trick-or-treating tot who rings the doorbell and then walks directly into a neighbor's house, another trick-or-treater who would rather skip a house than get close to a dancing skeleton, a little boy who interrupts the pastor during service to ask where the candy is, a fisherman who gets spooked by a rubber shark, and a dog who is frightened by a lone bird feather.

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Where does Halloween, Frights, and Tricks and/or Treats sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S26E03 is listed hour 573 of 814 — hour 3 of 22 in season 26, season 26 episode 3.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S26E03 air?

Halloween, Frights, and Tricks and/or Treats aired 2015-10-25 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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