America's Funniest Home Videos
Boy steals Christmas cookies
TV Flash files “Boy steals Christmas cookies” as hour 441 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 20, episode 9, aired 2009-12-13, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S20E09: listed hour 441 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 9 of 24 in season 20. It aired 2009-12-13 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Bob Saget makes an appearance” (S20E08). Next is “Unusual sneezes; golf mishaps” (S20E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Clips in this holiday episode include a kid with a seemingly endless Christmas list that he recites to a poor Santa in a department store, and a little boy who tricks his mom into looking away so he can steal the cookies left for Santa. This week's video salute is to the "Tar Heel State," with videos submitted from North Carolina.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Boy steals Christmas cookies sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S20E09 is listed hour 441 of 814 — hour 9 of 24 in season 20, season 20 episode 9.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S20E09 air?
Boy steals Christmas cookies aired 2009-12-13 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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