All episodes Season 21 S21E04 2010-10-24 60 min 1990s ABC

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Dogs that talk; a man scares neighbors

TV Flash files “Dogs that talk; a man scares neighbors” as hour 460 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 21, episode 4, aired 2010-10-24, 60 min.

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This leaf is S21E04: listed hour 460 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 4 of 24 in season 21. It aired 2010-10-24 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A man has a run-in with a squirrel” (S21E03). Next is “A woman on a roller coaster” (S21E05). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Highlights include clips of dogs who can talk, a man who scares his neighbors with a rubber snake in his yard, and friends who rewire a man's brake pedal to his horn so it honks every time he steps on the brakes. This week's state spotlight shines on Mississippi, with clips submitted from the Magnolia State.

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Where does Dogs that talk; a man scares neighbors sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S21E04 is listed hour 460 of 814 — hour 4 of 24 in season 21, season 21 episode 4.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S21E04 air?

Dogs that talk; a man scares neighbors aired 2010-10-24 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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