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All episodes Season 27 S27E02 2016-10-09 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Pranks, Pets, and You're Doing it Wrong

TV Flash files “Pranks, Pets, and You're Doing it Wrong” as hour 594 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 27, episode 2, aired 2016-10-09, 60 min.

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This leaf is S27E02: listed hour 594 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 2 of 22 in season 27. It aired 2016-10-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Hilarious Face Swaps and a Hip-Hop Mama” (S27E01). Next is “Face Filter Fun, Kids Say, and Cats” (S27E03). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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This week's video highlights feature a series of pranks, including a mom who gives her kids special lollipops made out of broccoli, a music montage starring cats causing chaos, a package of slo-mo mishaps, a man who loses his pants while being chased by a goose, and a little girl who denies eating cotton candy even though she has pieces of it in her hair.

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Where does Pranks, Pets, and You're Doing it Wrong sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S27E02 is listed hour 594 of 814 — hour 2 of 22 in season 27, season 27 episode 2.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S27E02 air?

Pranks, Pets, and You're Doing it Wrong aired 2016-10-09 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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