All episodes Season 20 S20E02 2009-10-11 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

A music montage features cats

TV Flash files “A music montage features cats” as hour 434 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 20, episode 2, aired 2009-10-11, 60 min.

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This leaf is S20E02: listed hour 434 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 2 of 24 in season 20. It aired 2009-10-11 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A dog steals bread from a toaster” (S20E01). Next is “Daredevils' stunts go awry” (S20E03). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Highlights include a musical montage featuring cats; a dog having a funny reaction when some suggests he take a bath; a salute to stupidity with a package of clips featuring mishaps due to some not-so-bright ideas; a teenage boy having his eyebrows plucked who freaks out when he realizes he's being taped; and this week's state spotlight, Michigan, with a package of clips.

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Where does A music montage features cats sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S20E02 is listed hour 434 of 814 — hour 2 of 24 in season 20, season 20 episode 2.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S20E02 air?

A music montage features cats aired 2009-10-11 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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