America's Funniest Home Videos
Just Hire a Guy, Birthday Blunders, and Close Calls
TV Flash files “Just Hire a Guy, Birthday Blunders, and Close Calls” as hour 777 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 35, episode 9, aired 2024-12-08, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S35E09: listed hour 777 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 9 of 22 in season 35. It aired 2024-12-08 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “AFV's Wreck the Halls: 35 Years of Holiday Hijinks” (S35E08). Next is “Weddings Worth Forgetting, That's a Unique Problem, and Magic” (S35E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Catch birthday blunders, including a dog that tries to steal a cake and a kid who denies eating cupcakes, plus a woman who makes the mistake of spraying a wasp nest.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Just Hire a Guy, Birthday Blunders, and Close Calls sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S35E09 is listed hour 777 of 814 — hour 9 of 22 in season 35, season 35 episode 9.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S35E09 air?
Just Hire a Guy, Birthday Blunders, and Close Calls aired 2024-12-08 and is listed at 30 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 35
- S35E01 The Joy of Parenting, Up to Snow Good, and Meow Mix
- S35E02 Scaring is Caring, Rubbish, and Instant Regret
- S35E03 Botched Haircut, Squirrel Havoc
- S35E04 Halloween Ha-Ha's, That's Amore, and Scared Silly
- S35E05 Gymnastic Goofs, Pets Confused by Mirrors, and A Side of Sass
- S35E06 Birthday Blunders, Boneheads, and Busted!