America's Funniest Home Videos
Animals Being Jerks, Name That Sound, and What Are the Odds?
TV Flash files “Animals Being Jerks, Name That Sound, and What Are the Odds?” as hour 801 of 814 in the TV Flash guide — America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–present) on ABC, season 36, episode 11, aired 2026-01-04, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S36E11: listed hour 801 of 814 in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide, hour 11 of 22 in season 36. It aired 2026-01-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Holiday Hoots, Santa Shenanigans, and Festive Funnies” (S36E10). Next is “Sleep Snafus and That Was Not on My Bingo Card” (S36E12). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Siblings engage in silly squabbles; mischievous animals create chaos; friends and family find themselves in goofy shenanigans.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Animals Being Jerks, Name That Sound, and What Are the Odds? sit in the America's Funniest Home Videos guide?
S36E11 is listed hour 801 of 814 — hour 11 of 22 in season 36, season 36 episode 11.
When did America's Funniest Home Videos S36E11 air?
Animals Being Jerks, Name That Sound, and What Are the Odds? aired 2026-01-04 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…
Open the America's Funniest Home Videos package · Season 36 hub
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
- S36E01 Back to School, Vacation Misadventures, and Purr-fect Cats
- 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