All episodes Season 20 S20E13 2010-01-31 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

A cat gives a dog a massage

TV Flash files “A cat gives a dog a massage” as hour 445 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 20, episode 13, aired 2010-01-31, 60 min.

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This leaf is S20E13: listed hour 445 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 13 of 24 in season 20. It aired 2010-01-31 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A boy makes a funny toast at a wedding” (S20E12). Next is “Videos compete for the $100,000 prize” (S20E14). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Clips include a Grizzly bear that tries to steal a fisherman's catch, only to be then challenged by a bigger Grizzly; a musical montage of birds attacking people, and a cat giving a dog a massage.

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Where does A cat gives a dog a massage sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S20E13 is listed hour 445 of 814 — hour 13 of 24 in season 20, season 20 episode 13.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S20E13 air?

A cat gives a dog a massage aired 2010-01-31 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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