All episodes Season 21 S21E02 2010-10-10 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Musical cat montage; videos from Iowa

TV Flash files “Musical cat montage; videos from Iowa” as hour 458 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 21, episode 2, aired 2010-10-10, 60 min.

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This leaf is S21E02: listed hour 458 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 2 of 24 in season 21. It aired 2010-10-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A bulldog drools in a car” (S21E01). Next is “A man has a run-in with a squirrel” (S21E03). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Clips include a dog confused by a fart machine, kids who unknowingly eat caramel "onions" instead of apples, funny things kids say and a musical montage of cats. This week's state spotlight shines on Iowa, with clips submitted from the Hawkeye State.

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Where does Musical cat montage; videos from Iowa sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S21E02 is listed hour 458 of 814 — hour 2 of 24 in season 21, season 21 episode 2.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S21E02 air?

Musical cat montage; videos from Iowa aired 2010-10-10 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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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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