All episodes Season 27 S27E21 2017-05-07 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Cats in Slow-Mo, Legs in the Air, and Moms

TV Flash files “Cats in Slow-Mo, Legs in the Air, and Moms” as hour 613 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 27, episode 21, aired 2017-05-07, 60 min.

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This leaf is S27E21: listed hour 613 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 21 of 22 in season 27. It aired 2017-05-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Snow, Stumblebums, and Face Swaps” (S27E20). Next is “Dorky Dads, Creepy Crawlies, and Kid Vids” (S27E22). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Cats in Slow-Mo, Legs in the Air, and Moms sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S27E21 is listed hour 613 of 814 — hour 21 of 22 in season 27, season 27 episode 21.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S27E21 air?

Cats in Slow-Mo, Legs in the Air, and Moms aired 2017-05-07 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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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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