All episodes Season 26 S26E11 2016-01-10 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

$100,000 Show, Dog Park, Second Guy Bites It

TV Flash files “$100,000 Show, Dog Park, Second Guy Bites It” as hour 581 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 26, episode 11, aired 2016-01-10, 60 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S26E11: listed hour 581 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 11 of 22 in season 26. It aired 2016-01-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it 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). Next is “Third Times the Harm, Jokes Backfire, and Girls Getting Their Hair Caught in Things Versus Hot Dog Dogs” (S26E12). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Ten finalists compete for the first $100,000 prize of the season. The videos include "Can't-Do-Karate Kid," a kid who can't break things and just can't catch a break; "Car-Sick Sympathizer," a nauseous boy sets off a chain reaction of "yuck"; "Brain Freeze Feline," a cat realizes that brain freeze isn't just for humans; "Oblivious Bun in the Oven," a father-to-be just can't take a hint; "Clown Face Flip Out," a kid who's not scared of clowns, but doesn't want to look like one; "Kid's Clipper Catastrophe," a boy shows why 8-year-olds aren't hair stylists; "Scare Ya Later Alligator," a hot-blooded woman doesn't want to hold a cold-blooded reptile; "Yes Man," a man can't spell, but he can take a joke; "Cough Drop Kid," a child has a very short Christmas list; "Donkey Delights Lil' Dude," a certain animal makes a tot laugh a lot.

Viewer FAQ

Where does $100,000 Show, Dog Park, Second Guy Bites It sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S26E11 is listed hour 581 of 814 — hour 11 of 22 in season 26, season 26 episode 11.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S26E11 air?

$100,000 Show, Dog Park, Second Guy Bites It aired 2016-01-10 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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