America's Funniest Home Videos
When Pets Become Pests, and Phony Phone Pranks
TV Flash files “When Pets Become Pests, and Phony Phone Pranks” as hour 739 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 33, episode 15, aired 2023-03-26, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S33E15: listed hour 739 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 15 of 22 in season 33. It aired 2023-03-26 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Bonehead Boulevard, Furry Frenemies, and Dunce Upon a Time” (S33E14). Next is “Snow Blunders, and Kids Who Try Our Patience” (S33E16). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Pets become pests; phony phone pranks.
Viewer FAQ
Where does When Pets Become Pests, and Phony Phone Pranks sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S33E15 is listed hour 739 of 814 — hour 15 of 22 in season 33, season 33 episode 15.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S33E15 air?
When Pets Become Pests, and Phony Phone Pranks aired 2023-03-26 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.
In the series
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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Filed against
- Bob Saget as Host
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- Ernie Anderson as Announcer
Ernie Anderson announced America's Funniest Home Videos as the voice of VHS disaster sport — kids versus piñatas, pets versus gravity, Bob Saget hosting the proto-YouTube pipeline. User-generated comedy as family-hour ritual. TV Flash…
Also in season 33
- S33E01 Bonehead Brigade, Magic, and Look on the Bright Side
- S33E02 Bird Brains, Windy City, and Didn't Go the Way You Thought it Would
- S33E03 Nincompooporama, Pranks, and Horses
- S33E04 Halloweenies, Dog Park, and Doofus Delight
- S33E05 Animal Antics, Sneaking Food, and Construction Chaos
- S33E06 Influencer Flubs, and Young People and Old Technology