America's Funniest Home Videos
Cats, Playgrounds, and Laughing Babies
TV Flash files “Cats, Playgrounds, and Laughing Babies” as hour 605 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 27, episode 13, aired 2017-02-12, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S27E13: listed hour 605 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 13 of 22 in season 27. It aired 2017-02-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Fathers and Sons, Siblings, and Animal Planet” (S27E12). Next is “Stumblebums, Dogs in Slo-Mo, and Animal Kingdom” (S27E14). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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This week's video highlights include the always fun and hilarious face filters, a very brave but tiny puppy trying to keep a much larger Great Dane dog away from his food; a video package of funny cats causing chaos, a brother and sister accidentally dropping their dad's birthday cake and blaming each other; a little girl searching for her missing bike helmet not realizing she's been wearing it all along, and a group of dogs barking at the shadow of one of their own on a fence, thinking it is another dog.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Cats, Playgrounds, and Laughing Babies sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S27E13 is listed hour 605 of 814 — hour 13 of 22 in season 27, season 27 episode 13.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S27E13 air?
Cats, Playgrounds, and Laughing Babies aired 2017-02-12 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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