All episodes Season 21 S21E09 2010-12-05 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Christmas morning pranks

TV Flash files “Christmas morning pranks” as hour 465 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 21, episode 9, aired 2010-12-05, 60 min.

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This leaf is S21E09: listed hour 465 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 9 of 24 in season 21. It aired 2010-12-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A turkey catches fire in the oven” (S21E08). Next is “Bridesmaids with trick bouquets” (S21E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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On this Christmas-themed episode, clips include X-mas morning pranks, with a dad who hooks up a car horn to a gift so it honks every time his son opens the lid, and Santa not coming through the chimney but taking a header down the stairs. This week's state spotlight shines on Pennsylvania.

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Where does Christmas morning pranks sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S21E09 is listed hour 465 of 814 — hour 9 of 24 in season 21, season 21 episode 9.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S21E09 air?

Christmas morning pranks aired 2010-12-05 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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