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All episodes Season 25 S25E11 2015-01-18 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

$100,000 show, Dog Park, and Dudes Doing Splits vs Ants

TV Flash files “$100,000 show, Dog Park, and Dudes Doing Splits vs Ants” as hour 558 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 25, episode 11, aired 2015-01-18, 60 min.

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This leaf is S25E11: listed hour 558 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 11 of 23 in season 25. It aired 2015-01-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Hooked on a Feline, Animals on Pianos, and Clumsy Groomsmen” (S25E10). Next is “A Whole Lotta Little Dogs, Nice One Dad, and Folding Chair Fails vs Thirsty Kittens” (S25E12). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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On this week's $100,000 episode, ten hilarious finalists battle for the prize money. They include "Road Rage Rascal," a young boy exhibits a hilarious form of road rage when his toy ATV gets stuck on a curb; "Kids Caught Kissing," two little kids encouraged to kiss by their scheming cousins get caught by an unhappy mom; "Crappy Car for Christmas," parents play a practical joke on their teen daughter by giving her a beat-up car for Christmas, before revealing a new one; "Babysitter Breaks Heart," a little boy is heartbroken when he learns his beloved babysitter is getting married; "Remote Control Chew Toy," a guilty dog refuses to look at his owner when she asks who chewed up the remote control; "The Invisible Rope Ruse," two teen boys confuse passing cars when they pretend to pull an invisible rope across a street; "Pasta Prank," a woman with a piece of spaghetti on her forehead is fooled into thinking it is a worm; "Back Seat Bathroom," a family road trip takes an unpleasant turn when a little boy accidentally spills the contents of the cup he relieved himself in; "Centipede Surprise," a toddler reacts with awe when her dad swallows her plastic centipede; "Someone Needs a Nap," a boy wise beyond his years tells his sobbing sister she could use a nap.

Viewer FAQ

Where does $100,000 show, Dog Park, and Dudes Doing Splits vs Ants sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S25E11 is listed hour 558 of 814 — hour 11 of 23 in season 25, season 25 episode 11.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S25E11 air?

$100,000 show, Dog Park, and Dudes Doing Splits vs Ants aired 2015-01-18 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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Filed by Lana Reyes · Red Carpet Reality · Show package

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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