All episodes Season 22 S22E10 2012-01-15 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

A little boy's take on plumber pants

TV Flash files “A little boy's take on plumber pants” as hour 490 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 22, episode 10, aired 2012-01-15, 60 min.

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This leaf is S22E10: listed hour 490 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 10 of 23 in season 22. It aired 2012-01-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Kids say funny things” (S22E09). Next is “Football mishaps; Shark encounters” (S22E11). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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This week's highlights include a little boy who decides to do his own version of "plumber pants," videos of things that go wrong on the job, a hilarious segment of baseball mishaps, and Tom playing a really fun game of "Say What?."

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Where does A little boy's take on plumber pants sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S22E10 is listed hour 490 of 814 — hour 10 of 23 in season 22, season 22 episode 10.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S22E10 air?

A little boy's take on plumber pants aired 2012-01-15 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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