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All episodes Season 28 S28E01 2017-10-08 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Dorky Dads, Dinosaurs, and Mistakes on the Lake

TV Flash files “Dorky Dads, Dinosaurs, and Mistakes on the Lake” as the first listed hour of season 28 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 28, episode 1, aired 2017-10-08, 60 min.

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This leaf is S28E01: listed hour 615 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, first listed hour of season 28. It aired 2017-10-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Dorky Dads, Creepy Crawlies, and Kid Vids” (S27E22). Next is “Cats Being Cats, Kids Say, and Winter Blunderland” (S28E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Dorky Dads, Dinosaurs, and Mistakes on the Lake sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S28E01 is listed hour 615 of 814 — first listed hour of season 28, season 28 episode 1.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S28E01 air?

Dorky Dads, Dinosaurs, and Mistakes on the Lake aired 2017-10-08 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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Filed by Lana Reyes · Red Carpet Reality · Show package

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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