All episodes Season 22 S22E09 2012-01-08 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Kids say funny things

TV Flash files “Kids say funny things” as hour 489 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 22, episode 9, aired 2012-01-08, 60 min.

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This leaf is S22E09: listed hour 489 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 9 of 23 in season 22. It aired 2012-01-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Christmas Spectacular” (S22E08). Next is “A little boy's take on plumber pants” (S22E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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This week's highlights include a package of kids saying hilarious things, clips of "Guys with their pants on fire" versus "Dogs with itchy poopers," another package of people being scared witless, an owner who finds his dog's head stuck in a container of cheese puffs, and Tom playing an entertaining game of "Hit, Miss or Disgusting," on "America's Funniest Home Videos."

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Where does Kids say funny things sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S22E09 is listed hour 489 of 814 — hour 9 of 23 in season 22, season 22 episode 9.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S22E09 air?

Kids say funny things aired 2012-01-08 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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