America's Funniest Home Videos
Fathers and Sons, Siblings, and Animal Planet
TV Flash files “Fathers and Sons, Siblings, and Animal Planet” as hour 604 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 27, episode 12, aired 2017-01-15, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S27E12: listed hour 604 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 12 of 22 in season 27. It aired 2017-01-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Puppies, Scaredy Cats and Dogs, and Second Guy Bites It” (S27E11). Next is “Cats, Playgrounds, and Laughing Babies” (S27E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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This week's video highlights include women in a car understandably horrified when buffaloes try to get their food, a little boy's sticky encounter with a llama, a brother who can't hide his displeasure at his sister's first music recital, a youngster denying he has eaten any candy despite the trail of chocolate all over his face, and a toddler who gets very nervous when dad borrows the corn cob he is eating.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Fathers and Sons, Siblings, and Animal Planet sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S27E12 is listed hour 604 of 814 — hour 12 of 22 in season 27, season 27 episode 12.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S27E12 air?
Fathers and Sons, Siblings, and Animal Planet aired 2017-01-15 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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