America's Funniest Home Videos
Puppies, Scaredy Cats and Dogs, and Second Guy Bites It
TV Flash files “Puppies, Scaredy Cats and Dogs, and Second Guy Bites It” as hour 603 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 27, episode 11, aired 2017-01-08, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S27E11: listed hour 603 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 11 of 22 in season 27. It aired 2017-01-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Busted!, Tragic or Magic, and Worst Ever” (S27E10). Next is “Fathers and Sons, Siblings, and Animal Planet” (S27E12). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ten finalists compete for the first $100,000 prize of the season. The videos include "Bacon Begging Beagle," a beagle shakes and whimpers when his owner brings out the bacon; "Cell Phone Siesta," a man is caught having fallen asleep while on the phone with his talkative brother; "Amusement Park Pass Out," a boy terrified of roller coasters finally accepts his little brother's dare to ride one; "Funny-Walking Fetcher," a Frisbee-fetching dog's view is obstructed, causing him to zig-zag across the grass; "Llama Said There's Be Days Like This," two men feed llamas in a safari park but the hungry llamas misbehave badly; "Cranky Choir Kid," a young boy has an attitude change at a Mother's Day church play; "Centerfield Samba," a little boy can't stop dancing in the outfield, unaware of the baseball whizzing past him; "Sentimental School Send-Off," an emotional boy can't hold back the tears when it's time to graduate from elementary school; "Candle Supply Surprise," a woman unknowingly drives her car off a loading dock but has no idea what happened, even though her car is smoking; "Pop's Non-Stop Face Swap," a man answers "AFV"'s Assignment America call to send in face swapping videos with hilarious results.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Puppies, Scaredy Cats and Dogs, and Second Guy Bites It sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S27E11 is listed hour 603 of 814 — hour 11 of 22 in season 27, season 27 episode 11.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S27E11 air?
Puppies, Scaredy Cats and Dogs, and Second Guy Bites It aired 2017-01-08 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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