America's Funniest Home Videos
Out of Nowhere, Face Plants, and Babies Will Laugh at Anything
TV Flash files “Out of Nowhere, Face Plants, and Babies Will Laugh at Anything” as hour 588 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 26, episode 18, aired 2016-04-10, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S26E18: listed hour 588 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 18 of 22 in season 26. It aired 2016-04-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Dudes Being Dads, You're Busted, and Happy Birthday to Us” (S26E17). Next is “Sneezes, Dog Park, and Snow Follies” (S26E19). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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This week's video highlights include a dog who obeys the "sit and stay" command yet still finds a clever way to get closer to a treat, a woman who is frightened when a camel sticks his head inside her car window, a family that learns DIY is harder than it seems when they pull down an old chimney and it smashes the side of their house, a segment called "Pets Making the Best Out of Wearing a Cone Versus People Sitting on Hover Boards," and Alfonso plays "Say What?"
Viewer FAQ
Where does Out of Nowhere, Face Plants, and Babies Will Laugh at Anything sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S26E18 is listed hour 588 of 814 — hour 18 of 22 in season 26, season 26 episode 18.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S26E18 air?
Out of Nowhere, Face Plants, and Babies Will Laugh at Anything aired 2016-04-10 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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- Bob Saget as Host
Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner made Full House industrial-strength wholesome — 1980s catalog TGIF as religion, then America’s Funniest Home Videos turning VHS disasters into family-hour sport. TV Flash files him as the clean dad with a filthy…
- Ernie Anderson as Announcer
Ernie Anderson announced America's Funniest Home Videos as the voice of VHS disaster sport — kids versus piñatas, pets versus gravity, Bob Saget hosting the proto-YouTube pipeline. User-generated comedy as family-hour ritual. TV Flash…
Also in season 26
- S26E01 Blessed are the Mess Makers, Animal Encounters, and Ladies Who Fall
- S26E02 The Teen Commandments, It Coulda Been Worse, and Squirrels
- S26E03 Halloween, Frights, and Tricks and/or Treats
- S26E04 You're Doing it Wrong, Daddy-Daughter Time, and Water Bottle Prank
- S26E05 Selfies Gone Wrong, The Barking Lot, and Rocket Men
- S26E06 Dogs Unleashed; Ostrich's; Skunks and Stupid People Tricks !!