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Guinea Pigs, Slow on the Uptake, and the $100,000 Competition

TV Flash files “Guinea Pigs, Slow on the Uptake, and the $100,000 Competition” as hour 701 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 31, episode 21, aired 2021-05-16, 60 min.

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This leaf is S31E21: listed hour 701 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 21 of 22 in season 31. It aired 2021-05-16 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Dogs with Human Hands, Broken Televisions, and You Think It's Easy Being a Kid?” (S31E20). Next is “Influencer Flubs, Face Filters, and the Grand Prize Spectacular” (S31E22). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Guinea Pigs, Slow on the Uptake, and the $100,000 Competition sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?

S31E21 is listed hour 701 of 814 — hour 21 of 22 in season 31, season 31 episode 21.

When did America's Funniest Home Videos S31E21 air?

Guinea Pigs, Slow on the Uptake, and the $100,000 Competition aired 2021-05-16 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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