All episodes Season 27 S27E16 2017-03-12 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Weddings, Bad Hair Days, and Oh Mother Where Art Thou?

TV Flash files “Weddings, Bad Hair Days, and Oh Mother Where Art Thou?” as hour 608 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 27, episode 16, aired 2017-03-12, 60 min.

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This leaf is S27E16: listed hour 608 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 16 of 22 in season 27. It aired 2017-03-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Animals Stealing Hats Versus Stilts, In the Background, and Scares” (S27E15). Next is “Workforce Follies, Bird Brains, and Party Games” (S27E17). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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This week's video highlights feature hilarious wedding moments that include a best man who faints and takes the entire wedding arch down with him, unique fails for people attempting the "Mannequin Challenge," a young magician who pouts when his sister tells the audience how he performed his trick, and a little boy who is very proud of the haircut he gave himself, but his disapproving mom is unable to share in his pride,

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Where does Weddings, Bad Hair Days, and Oh Mother Where Art Thou? sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S27E16 is listed hour 608 of 814 — hour 16 of 22 in season 27, season 27 episode 16.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S27E16 air?

Weddings, Bad Hair Days, and Oh Mother Where Art Thou? aired 2017-03-12 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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