All episodes Season 22 S22E02 2011-10-09 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Cats attack

TV Flash files “Cats attack” as hour 482 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 22, episode 2, aired 2011-10-09, 60 min.

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This leaf is S22E02: listed hour 482 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 2 of 23 in season 22. It aired 2011-10-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A man teases an alligator” (S22E01). Next is “A man wrestles with a giant fish” (S22E03). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Highlights include cats that are on the attack, a music montage featuring kids pulling out their loose teeth in amusing and unusual ways, a woman's excitement at her own surprise party -- causing her to faint -- and Tom Bergeron playing Pick the Real Video.

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Where does Cats attack sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S22E02 is listed hour 482 of 814 — hour 2 of 23 in season 22, season 22 episode 2.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S22E02 air?

Cats attack aired 2011-10-09 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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