All episodes Season 26 S26E20 2016-05-01 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Stumblebums, Basic Boneheads, and Pets Who Sit Like People

TV Flash files “Stumblebums, Basic Boneheads, and Pets Who Sit Like People” as hour 590 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 26, episode 20, aired 2016-05-01, 60 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S26E20: listed hour 590 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 20 of 22 in season 26. It aired 2016-05-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Sneezes, Dog Park, and Snow Follies” (S26E19). Next is “$100,000 Showdown, Tough Being a Kid, Great Moments in Bad Ideas” (S26E21). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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This week's video highlights include a bear who breaks into a convertible by tearing through the soft roof, pets who sit like people, a man with a squawking cockatoo on his shoulder gets very nervous as the bird becomes more animated and amazing basketball trick shots.

Viewer FAQ

Where does Stumblebums, Basic Boneheads, and Pets Who Sit Like People sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S26E20 is listed hour 590 of 814 — hour 20 of 22 in season 26, season 26 episode 20.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S26E20 air?

Stumblebums, Basic Boneheads, and Pets Who Sit Like People aired 2016-05-01 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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