All episodes Season 21 S21E13 2011-01-30 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

A boy dumps cold water over his father

TV Flash files “A boy dumps cold water over his father” as hour 469 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 21, episode 13, aired 2011-01-30, 60 min.

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This leaf is S21E13: listed hour 469 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 13 of 24 in season 21. It aired 2011-01-30 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Backyard birds bother a cat” (S21E12). Next is “A woman interrogates her dogs” (S21E14). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Highlights include videos of boys being naughty, including one kid who dumps cold water over his sunbathing dad; funny things kids say; a football player who recovers a ball, then runs in the wrong direction; and a crocodile that charges at a menacing dog -- and the dog lives to tell the tale. This week's state spotlight shines on Michigan.

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Where does A boy dumps cold water over his father sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S21E13 is listed hour 469 of 814 — hour 13 of 24 in season 21, season 21 episode 13.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S21E13 air?

A boy dumps cold water over his father aired 2011-01-30 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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