All episodes Season 31 S31E07 2020-12-06 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Happy Hollidaze, Pranks, and Kids Getting Upset for Dumb Reasons

TV Flash files “Happy Hollidaze, Pranks, and Kids Getting Upset for Dumb Reasons” as hour 687 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 31, episode 7, aired 2020-12-06, 60 min.

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This leaf is S31E07: listed hour 687 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 7 of 22 in season 31. It aired 2020-12-06 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Bummer Alert, Magic, and Sink Sprayer Pranks” (S31E06). Next is “Safari So Good, Amateur Movers, and People Distracted by Smart Phone” (S31E08). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

America's Funniest Home Videos — Happy Hollidaze, Pranks, and Kids Getting Upset for Dumb Reasons (S31E07)

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A holiday-themed episode featuring a little girl's hilarious reaction to getting a new puppy for Christmas; a dog has wrapping paper stuck to its mouth; funny prank videos.

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Where does Happy Hollidaze, Pranks, and Kids Getting Upset for Dumb Reasons sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S31E07 is listed hour 687 of 814 — hour 7 of 22 in season 31, season 31 episode 7.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S31E07 air?

Happy Hollidaze, Pranks, and Kids Getting Upset for Dumb Reasons aired 2020-12-06 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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