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All episodes Season 29 S29E04 2018-10-21 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Animal Thieves, Climbing Fails, and Wax Off

TV Flash files “Animal Thieves, Climbing Fails, and Wax Off” as hour 640 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 29, episode 4, aired 2018-10-21, 60 min.

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This leaf is S29E04: listed hour 640 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 4 of 22 in season 29. It aired 2018-10-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Money Mishaps, Hair Cuts Get Hairy, and A New Grandma” (S29E03). Next is “Costume Catastrophes, Spooky Scares, and Smashing Pumpkins” (S29E05). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Animal Thieves, Climbing Fails, and Wax Off sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S29E04 is listed hour 640 of 814 — hour 4 of 22 in season 29, season 29 episode 4.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S29E04 air?

Animal Thieves, Climbing Fails, and Wax Off aired 2018-10-21 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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