America's Funniest Home Videos
Animals on the attack
TV Flash files “Animals on the attack” as hour 492 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 22, episode 12, aired 2012-01-29, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S22E12: listed hour 492 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 12 of 23 in season 22. It aired 2012-01-29 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Football mishaps; Shark encounters” (S22E11). Next is “Mishaps caught on camera” (S22E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
This week's highlights include a segment featuring animals on the attack, a music montage filled with weddings gone wrong, a girl whose hair gets caught in an electric mixer, and Tom plays a hilarious game of "Flip, Slip or Censorship," on "America's Funniest Home Videos."
Viewer FAQ
Where does Animals on the attack sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S22E12 is listed hour 492 of 814 — hour 12 of 23 in season 22, season 22 episode 12.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S22E12 air?
Animals on the attack aired 2012-01-29 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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