America's Funniest Home Videos
Cheerleading gone wrong
TV Flash files “Cheerleading gone wrong” as hour 473 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 21, episode 17, aired 2011-03-13, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S21E17: listed hour 473 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 17 of 24 in season 21. It aired 2011-03-13 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Golf cart mishaps” (S21E16). Next is “A Thanksgiving turkey goes up in flames” (S21E18). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Highlights include a music montage of cheerleading gone wrong; a girl who pulls out her sister's loose tooth by tying it to a baseball; and men being tricked into biting into caramel onions rather than apples. This week's state spotlight shines on Washington.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Cheerleading gone wrong sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S21E17 is listed hour 473 of 814 — hour 17 of 24 in season 21, season 21 episode 17.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S21E17 air?
Cheerleading gone wrong aired 2011-03-13 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.
In the series
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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