America's Funniest Home Videos
Back to School, Vacation Misadventures, and Purr-fect Cats
TV Flash files “Back to School, Vacation Misadventures, and Purr-fect Cats” as the first listed hour of season 36 — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 36, episode 1, aired 2025-09-28, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S36E01: listed hour 791 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, first listed hour of season 36. It aired 2025-09-28 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Snow Snafus, Busted, and the Grand Prize Finale” (S35E22). Next is “Melodrama-rama, Sports Report, and Golden Agers” (S36E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Laugh-out-loud moments, including back-to-school blunders, vacation slip-ups and cats causing chaos.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Back to School, Vacation Misadventures, and Purr-fect Cats sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S36E01 is listed hour 791 of 814 — first listed hour of season 36, season 36 episode 1.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S36E01 air?
Back to School, Vacation Misadventures, and Purr-fect Cats aired 2025-09-28 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 36
- S36E02 Melodrama-rama, Sports Report, and Golden Agers
- S36E03 Farm Follies, Food Freak-outs, and Birthday Blunders
- S36E04 Trick-or-Treat Tumbles, Workouts Gone Wrong, and Costume Calamities
- S36E05 Twice on Ice, Messes, and Animal House
- S36E06 Matrimonial Mayhem, Pranksters, and Snow Snafus
- S36E07 Senior-itis, Tooth Pulls, and That's an Unusual Problem