America's Funniest Home Videos
Hilarious Face Swaps and a Hip-Hop Mama
TV Flash files “Hilarious Face Swaps and a Hip-Hop Mama” as the first listed hour of season 27 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 27, episode 1, aired 2016-10-02, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S27E01: listed hour 593 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, first listed hour of season 27. It aired 2016-10-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “AFV's Grand Prize Spectacular, Food Follies, and Kids Say” (S26E22). Next is “Pranks, Pets, and You're Doing it Wrong” (S27E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A teen recovering from dental surgery thinks her nurse is Hillary Clinton; a woman in labor dances hip-hop in the delivery room; a boy battles fierce winds; hoverboard mishaps; face-swapping videos.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Hilarious Face Swaps and a Hip-Hop Mama sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S27E01 is listed hour 593 of 814 — first listed hour of season 27, season 27 episode 1.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S27E01 air?
Hilarious Face Swaps and a Hip-Hop Mama aired 2016-10-02 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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- Ernie Anderson as Announcer
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Also in season 27
- S27E02 Pranks, Pets, and You're Doing it Wrong
- S27E03 Face Filter Fun, Kids Say, and Cats
- S27E04 Halloween, Gymnastics, and Fathers and Sons
- S27E05 Boneheads, Pinatas, and Sports Galore
- S27E06 Angry Birds, Hairless Cats, and Dog Park
- S27E07 Funny Faces in Slo-Mo, Remote Controlled Cars, and The Oblivious