All episodes Season 31 S31E09 2021-01-10 60 min 1990s ABC

America's Funniest Home Videos

Kids and Pets Sneaking Food, Bad Hair Days, and I think I see the Problem

TV Flash files “Kids and Pets Sneaking Food, Bad Hair Days, and I think I see the Problem” as hour 689 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 31, episode 9, aired 2021-01-10, 60 min.

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This leaf is S31E09: listed hour 689 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 9 of 22 in season 31. It aired 2021-01-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Safari So Good, Amateur Movers, and People Distracted by Smart Phone” (S31E08). Next is “Salute to Seniors, Mud, and the Toddler Temptation Challenge” (S31E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

America's Funniest Home Videos — Kids and Pets Sneaking Food, Bad Hair Days, and I think I see the Problem (S31E09)

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Kids and animals sneak food; a little boy eats an entire block of cheese; cats cause chaos; a man unsuccessfully tries to repair his bad haircut.

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Where does Kids and Pets Sneaking Food, Bad Hair Days, and I think I see the Problem sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S31E09 is listed hour 689 of 814 — hour 9 of 22 in season 31, season 31 episode 9.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S31E09 air?

Kids and Pets Sneaking Food, Bad Hair Days, and I think I see the Problem aired 2021-01-10 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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