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Third Times the Harm, Jokes Backfire, and Girls Getting Their Hair Caught in Things Versus Hot Dog Dogs

TV Flash files “Third Times the Harm, Jokes Backfire, and Girls Getting Their Hair Caught in Things Versus Hot Dog Dogs” as hour 582 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 26, episode 12, aired 2016-01-17, 60 min.

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This leaf is S26E12: listed hour 582 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 12 of 22 in season 26. It aired 2016-01-17 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “$100,000 Show, Dog Park, Second Guy Bites It” (S26E11). Next is “Kids are a Handful, Dog Park, and Blockheads” (S26E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Third Times the Harm, Jokes Backfire, and Girls Getting Their Hair Caught in Things Versus Hot Dog Dogs sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S26E12 is listed hour 582 of 814 — hour 12 of 22 in season 26, season 26 episode 12.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S26E12 air?

Third Times the Harm, Jokes Backfire, and Girls Getting Their Hair Caught in Things Versus Hot Dog Dogs aired 2016-01-17 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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Filed by Lana Reyes · Red Carpet Reality · Show package

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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