America's Funniest Home Videos
Bicycles, Copycats, and Birthdays
TV Flash files “Bicycles, Copycats, and Birthdays” as hour 672 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 30, episode 14, aired 2020-02-23, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S30E14: listed hour 672 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 14 of 22 in season 30. It aired 2020-02-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Donkeys, Bonehead Brigade, and Recovery Room Ramblers” (S30E13). Next is “Influencer Flubs, Cats, and Virtual Reality” (S30E15). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Kids get upset for dumb reasons; a girl steps on a marshmallow and thinks it's a slug; birthday mishaps; a little girl tries to buy an app by putting money on her tablet.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Bicycles, Copycats, and Birthdays sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S30E14 is listed hour 672 of 814 — hour 14 of 22 in season 30, season 30 episode 14.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S30E14 air?
Bicycles, Copycats, and Birthdays aired 2020-02-23 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.
In the series
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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Filed against
- Bob Saget as Host
Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner made Full House industrial-strength wholesome — 1980s catalog TGIF as religion, then America’s Funniest Home Videos turning VHS disasters into family-hour sport. TV Flash files him as the clean dad with a filthy…
- Ernie Anderson as Announcer
Ernie Anderson announced America's Funniest Home Videos as the voice of VHS disaster sport — kids versus piñatas, pets versus gravity, Bob Saget hosting the proto-YouTube pipeline. User-generated comedy as family-hour ritual. TV Flash…
Also in season 30
- S30E01 The Pleasures of Parenting, Influencer Flubs, and Catastrophe Countdown
- S30E02 Employees of the Month, Magic, and Kids Getting Upset for Dumb Reasons
- S30E03 Wisdom Teeth, Stumblebums, and Sensitive Startle Reflex
- S30E04 Things that Go Boo!, Weddings, and Bonehead Brigade
- S30E05 The Prank Bank, I'm Not Buying Your Excuse, and What are the Odds?
- S30E06 The Teen Commandments, Riddles, and Stuck