America's Funniest Home Videos
Bob Saget makes an appearance
TV Flash files “Bob Saget makes an appearance” as hour 440 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 20, episode 8, aired 2009-11-29, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S20E08: listed hour 440 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 8 of 24 in season 20. It aired 2009-11-29 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A car alarm prank” (S20E07). Next is “Boy steals Christmas cookies” (S20E09). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Former "America's Funniest Home Videos" host Bob Saget returns as a guest co-host with Tom Bergeron in an episode that salutes the show's funniest moments in its two decades on the air.
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Where does Bob Saget makes an appearance sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S20E08 is listed hour 440 of 814 — hour 8 of 24 in season 20, season 20 episode 8.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S20E08 air?
Bob Saget makes an appearance aired 2009-11-29 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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