America's Funniest Home Videos
Close Calls, Cats, and Moms Doing Their Best
TV Flash files “Close Calls, Cats, and Moms Doing Their Best” as hour 764 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 34, episode 18, aired 2024-04-21, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S34E18: listed hour 764 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 18 of 22 in season 34. It aired 2024-04-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Weddings, Outta Nowhere, and Kid Vids” (S34E17). Next is “Kitchen Craziness, Wardrobe Malfunctions” (S34E19). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Cats cause all sorts of trouble; a lash technician plays practical jokes on her customers; when a cupcake goes missing, the suspected thief shows up with icing on their face.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Close Calls, Cats, and Moms Doing Their Best sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S34E18 is listed hour 764 of 814 — hour 18 of 22 in season 34, season 34 episode 18.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S34E18 air?
Close Calls, Cats, and Moms Doing Their Best aired 2024-04-21 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
Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner made Full House industrial-strength wholesome — 1980s catalog TGIF as religion, then America’s Funniest Home Videos turning VHS disasters into family-hour sport. TV Flash files him as the clean dad with a filthy…
- 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 34
- S34E01 Sassy Seniors, Garbage Day, and Bonehead Bonanza
- S34E02 Dr. Prankenstein, Dad Brain, and Nincompoop Compatible
- S34E03 Nincompoops on Parade, Birthdays, and People Scared of Animals
- S34E04 Halloween, Bonehead Brigade, and Dog Park
- S34E05 Animal Antics, Snow Snafus, and Practically Joking
- S34E06 Cats, Baseball, and Taken by Surprise