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All episodes Season 29 S29E01 2018-09-30 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Winter Blunderland, Prank You Very Much, and #NotTrending

TV Flash files “Winter Blunderland, Prank You Very Much, and #NotTrending” as the first listed hour of season 29 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 29, episode 1, aired 2018-09-30, 60 min.

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This leaf is S29E01: listed hour 637 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, first listed hour of season 29. It aired 2018-09-30 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Grand Prize Spectacular, Alfonso's Funny Videos, and Family Time” (S28E22). Next is “Soccer Fails, Party Fouls, and Doggy Disappearing Acts” (S29E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Winter Blunderland, Prank You Very Much, and #NotTrending sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S29E01 is listed hour 637 of 814 — first listed hour of season 29, season 29 episode 1.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S29E01 air?

Winter Blunderland, Prank You Very Much, and #NotTrending aired 2018-09-30 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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