All episodes Season 31 S31E17 2021-04-04 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Easter, Cat-astrophes, and the Borrowed Hands Challenge

TV Flash files “Easter, Cat-astrophes, and the Borrowed Hands Challenge” as hour 697 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 31, episode 17, aired 2021-04-04, 60 min.

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This leaf is S31E17: listed hour 697 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 17 of 22 in season 31. It aired 2021-04-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Face Filters, Science Experiments, and Scares” (S31E16). Next is “Weird Pets, Birthdays, and Virtual Reality Insanity” (S31E18). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Easter, Cat-astrophes, and the Borrowed Hands Challenge sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S31E17 is listed hour 697 of 814 — hour 17 of 22 in season 31, season 31 episode 17.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S31E17 air?

Easter, Cat-astrophes, and the Borrowed Hands Challenge aired 2021-04-04 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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