America's Funniest Home Videos
A dog steals bread from a toaster
TV Flash files “A dog steals bread from a toaster” as the first listed hour of season 20 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 20, episode 1, aired 2009-10-04, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S20E01: listed hour 433 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, first listed hour of season 20. It aired 2009-10-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Three compete for the grand prize (2)” (S19E25). Next is “A music montage features cats” (S20E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
America's Funniest Home Videos" begins its 20th season with all-new footage of what happens when adults, children and even inanimate objects are at their spontaneous best. Hosted by Tom Bergeron, "America's Funniest Home Videos" is the longest-running primetime show in ABC history. Season premiere highlights: A hidden camera revealing a dog stealing bread from a toaster; a dog who waits every day for the ice cream truck to arrive (and to gobble down his daily ice cream cone); an office prank with a remote controlled spider; a man cutting down a tree -- which lands on his house; a salute to Florida, with clips collected from all over the Sunshine State; and a clip montage of people getting sprayed in the face by a faucet prank.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A dog steals bread from a toaster sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S20E01 is listed hour 433 of 814 — first listed hour of season 20, season 20 episode 1.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S20E01 air?
A dog steals bread from a toaster aired 2009-10-04 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.
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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