All episodes Season 26 S26E09 2015-12-13 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

On the 1st Day of Christmas, Tool Fools, and 24 Christmas Tree Hits in 43 Seconds

TV Flash files “On the 1st Day of Christmas, Tool Fools, and 24 Christmas Tree Hits in 43 Seconds” as hour 579 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 26, episode 9, aired 2015-12-13, 60 min.

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This leaf is S26E09: listed hour 579 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 9 of 22 in season 26. It aired 2015-12-13 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A monkey refuses to give up a toy; workplace pranks; a girl who's afraid of her own shadow; anxious people.” (S26E08). Next is “Mischievous cats and dogs; a creative pregnancy announcement; a man drops the breakfast he made for his wife; Who's Makin' That Racket?” (S26E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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"AFV" celebrates Christmas with video highlights that include tree trimming fails, a little boy who wants cough drops instead of toys for Christmas, a workman who sends his ladder crashing through a glass door and a welder who sets his hair on fire.

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Where does On the 1st Day of Christmas, Tool Fools, and 24 Christmas Tree Hits in 43 Seconds sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S26E09 is listed hour 579 of 814 — hour 9 of 22 in season 26, season 26 episode 9.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S26E09 air?

On the 1st Day of Christmas, Tool Fools, and 24 Christmas Tree Hits in 43 Seconds aired 2015-12-13 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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