America's Funniest Home Videos
Magic, Pranks, and They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To
TV Flash files “Magic, Pranks, and They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To” as hour 709 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 32, episode 7, aired 2021-11-21, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S32E07: listed hour 709 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 7 of 22 in season 32. It aired 2021-11-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Farms, Cicadas, and Busted!” (S32E06). Next is “Christmas, Influenzer Flubs, and Bonehead Brigade” (S32E08). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Hilarious pranks, including kids who are tricked into thinking frozen mashed potatoes and beans are ice cream; poorly executed magic tricks.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Magic, Pranks, and They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S32E07 is listed hour 709 of 814 — hour 7 of 22 in season 32, season 32 episode 7.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S32E07 air?
Magic, Pranks, and They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To aired 2021-11-21 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.
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 32
- S32E01 Summer Bummers, Cats, and Mask Appeal
- S32E02 Influencer Flubs, You're Really Not Helping, and Pranks
- S32E03 Bonehead Brigade, Windy City, and the Uncooked Pasta Prank
- S32E04 Halloween Spooktacular, Toddler Temptation Challenge, and One Hump or Two?
- S32E05 Birds, Birthdays, and Snow Problems
- S32E06 Farms, Cicadas, and Busted!