America's Funniest Home Videos
Easter, A Salute to Hamsters Eating, and Cats
TV Flash files “Easter, A Salute to Hamsters Eating, and Cats” as hour 610 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 27, episode 18, aired 2017-04-09, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S27E18: listed hour 610 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 18 of 22 in season 27. It aired 2017-04-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Workforce Follies, Bird Brains, and Party Games” (S27E17). Next is “Recovery Room Ramblers, Dad Fails, and Dogs in Slo-Mo” (S27E19). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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This week's video highlights feature Easter-themed videos of kids' hilarious Easter egg hunts, which include a little girl so focused on finding eggs that she overlooks the big basket of candy right in front of her, and another who has an adverse reaction when she spots the Easter Bunny. Also, a dog who thinks his shadow belongs to another dog and a barking war ensues, a boy's toy drone gets caught in his mother's hair, and a musical salute to hamsters eating.
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Where does Easter, A Salute to Hamsters Eating, and Cats sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S27E18 is listed hour 610 of 814 — hour 18 of 22 in season 27, season 27 episode 18.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S27E18 air?
Easter, A Salute to Hamsters Eating, and Cats aired 2017-04-09 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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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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