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America's Funniest Home Videos

Face Filters, Science Experiments, and Scares

TV Flash files “Face Filters, Science Experiments, and Scares” as hour 696 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 31, episode 16, aired 2021-03-28, 60 min.

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This leaf is S31E16: listed hour 696 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 16 of 22 in season 31. It aired 2021-03-28 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Sisters, Birds, and Catastrophe Countdown” (S31E15). Next is “Easter, Cat-astrophes, and the Borrowed Hands Challenge” (S31E17). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Face Filters, Science Experiments, and Scares sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S31E16 is listed hour 696 of 814 — hour 16 of 22 in season 31, season 31 episode 16.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S31E16 air?

Face Filters, Science Experiments, and Scares aired 2021-03-28 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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