50 WAYS TO BREAK A PHONE

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## Basic Information

**50 WAYS TO BREAK A PHONE** is the 1st episode in the 50 WAYS TO BREAK series.

## Synopsis

King breaks an LG Extravert VN271 in 50 ways.

## Description

My old, unwanted phone. Stay until the end for the most deadly method! Goodbye LG Extravert!

## Ways

1. Basic Drop – King drops his phone on the floor.
2. Basic Drop in Water – King drops his phone in a bathtub filled with water.
3. Basic Walk and Trip – King is walking while using his phone, but he trips when he goes down a stairway.
4. Bad Catch – King tells a classmate to catch his phone, but no classmate is able to catch it.
5. Dumb Construction – King sees his friend Bob while doing some roof construction, but his phone slides out of his pocket and falls off the roof.
6. Dumber Construction – King sees Bob again while hammering a nail, but accidentally hammers his phone instead.
7. Dumbest Construction – King sees Bob again while building, this time accidentally picking up his phone instead of the hammer and hiting it on a nail.
8. Little Water Exposure – King sees that his phone is dirty and pours a whole bottle of liquid on the phone.
9. Lots of Water Exposure – King takes a shower with his phone.
10. Malfunction – King accidentally dials the wrong number and throws his phone at the door, thinking it malfunctioned.
11. Selfie – King tries to take a selfie hashtag in the bathroom, but accidentally drops his phone in a sink full of water.
12. Robot Attack – A robot goes towards and hits the phone.
13. Washed – The phone gets washed in a washer.
14. Dried – King dries his phone in a dryer.
15. Overheating – King microwaves his phone.
16. Super Overheating - King boils his phone in a pan and pours boiling water on it in the sink.
17. The Sad Truth – King looks up the trade-in value for his phone, and discovers that it only worth $1, and angrily hits it.
18. A Big Stick - King shows off a big stick that he made, then his phone rings, but he accidentally hits it with his big stick.
19. Tech Support – King is on the phone to ask how much it would cost to repair his phone, but it appears to cost too much money for King to afford. So he tries to repair it himself, but instead angrily hits it with his tools.
20. Money Saver – King gets mad after failing at Flappy Bird and prepares to hit his laptop, but realizes that it is quite expensive. So he decides to take out his anger on his phone by hitting it, due to it's low value.
21. Chores – King is vacuuming his floor and sees his phone by the wall. Thinking it’s a dirty spot, he tries to vacuum it, then angrily hits it.
22. Don't Wake Me Up - The phone plays a song as an alarm, but King hits it for awakening him.
23. When The Beat Drops – King is in the bathroom and drops his phone on the floor, to the beat of the background music.
24. Patrick's Logic - King hits his phone on a dollar bill, imitating Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants.
25. Misplaced – King needs to make a phone call, but sees that he is holding a hot pocket. He then realizes that he misplaced the hot pocket and his phone, meaning that he accidentally microwaved his phone.
26. Denied – A classmate asks King to see his phone, but another classmate smacks it away when King tries to throw his phone to the other classmate.
27. When The Lights Go Out - The lights suddenly turn off, so King turns the lights back on by throwing his phone at the light switch.
28. Egg - Drop Soup – King cracks an egg on his phone, drops it on the ground, and pours a bowl of soup on it.
29. Cleaning after Filming – King cleans up the mess from the previous way by pouring liquid on the area where the phone landed.
30. Extreme Overheating – King sets his phone on fire, and later puts it out with his slipper. Surprisingly, the phone survives.
31. Frozen (Not that overrated movie) - King freezes his phone and hits the ice with a mini hammer to break it.
32. Dishes – King uses his phone as a sponge to handwash a plate and proceeds to put it in the sponge container.
33. Ran Over by Bus – King puts his phone on the street for it to get run over by the school bus. The first attempt fails, but the other two attempts succeed.
34. Drunk - King appears to be drunk. He then sees his phone on a table and hits it with a bottle.
35. Scootin' - King runs over his phone with a scooter multiple times.
36. Recycling - King puts his phone down on the drive way while he gets the recycle bin. When he comes back, he accidentally runs over his phone with the recycle bin, as he is unable to see it.
37. Trashing - After so much destruction, King prompts to throw his phone away in the trash. However, this is unsuccessful as he hits the phone on the trash bin lid while it’s closed, making the phone land elsewhere.
38. Doorstop - King uses his phone as a makeshift doorstop and hits it when he opens the door.
39. The Party Just Begun - King hits his phone doorstop again when he shows up for a party.
40. The Party's Gone Extreme - King hits his phone doorstop once again, and is very enthusiastic for the ongoing party.
41. Falling Space Junk - King throws a wooden table at his phone.
42. Miss - King tries to hit his phone with a hammer, but the hammer instead hits the table, making the camera and his phone fall off the table.
43. Revenge - King decides to get revenge on his phone, and successfully hits it with his hammer twice.
44. Far Basketball - King tries to throw his phone at a rather far away basket, but he fails.
45. Near Basketball - King successfully throws his phone at the basket twice, resulting in the phone no longer functioning.
46. Last Dying Breath, Killed – King hits his phone with a bat, which makes an odd sound with each hit.
47. Sawed - King saws his phone.
48. Real Life Video Game - King sets his phone on fire and completely destroys it.
49. Curiosity - King hits the remains of his phone with his hammer to find out what the keyboard looks like.
50. This Video. - King claims that this video is the most deadly way to break a phone.

## Characters

* King Liang
* Classmates
* Bob (debut) (mentioned)
* Verizion Wireless customer service supervisor (debut)

### Objects

* Hammer
* Mini hammer
* Pruner
* LG Extravert
* iPhone 5s

## Trivia

### General:

* This is the first 50 WAYS TO BREAK video uploaded to this channel.
* This is the only 50 WAYS TO BREAK video in 2014.
* This, and 50 MORE WAYS TO BREAK A PHONE are the only two videos in the 50 WAYS TO BREAK to have the original intro (before the 2016 version).
* The phone that was used in this video used to be King's 3rd phone.
	+ This video was made a few months after King got his 4th phone.
* Part 2 of this has been uploaded as an *unlisted* video, due to the 48th way getting copyrighted.

### Community:

* In the 22nd and 23rd way, the song originally played, *Don't Wake Me* Up by *Chris Brown*, but due to copyright claim, the music has been replaced with a different music.
* 24th background sound effect is taken from the episode, *Wet Painters* from *SpongeBob SquarePants*.
* In the 48th, the background plays a soundtrack from *Mortal Kombat*, but due to copyright claim, the music has been replaced. However, the clip with the original soundtrack can be found here.
* The phone that was used in this video used to be King's 3rd phone.
	+ This video was made a few months after King got his 4th phone.
* This, and 50 MORE WAYS TO BREAK A PHONE re-used several clips on 50 WAYS TO BREAK A TABLET as throwbacks.

* This is the last video to feature the LG Extravert.

### Cultural References:

* In the 5th - 7th way, the name, Bob is possibly a reference to *Bob the Builder*.
* 12th way is a reference to the episode, *Krab Brog* from *SpongeBob SquarePants*.
* In the 20th way, it appears that King has a 3rd party Nintendo 3DS charger before hitting his phone with a tool.
* A copy of *New Super Mario Bros.* for the *Nintendo DS* can be seen at the end of 48th way.

## Errors

* 34. Drunk - King appears to consume alcohol before getting drunk, but when he hits his phone with a bottle, he's using a *Coca-Cola* bottle, with an unknown liquid.
* 49. Curiosity - King mistakenly says the wrong name to his phone at the end of the scene.