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Salim convinces Yasser to buy him the new iPhone by promising to blow himself up at Tel Aviv.


  • Anything but That!: As shitty as his current phone is, Salim would never want to have an Android.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: Salim wishes for the iPhone 5 and gets it. Although he enjoys it at first, he eventually starts to suffer from all the crappy glitches and stupid designs of the product, such as everything running through iTunes for some reason and the phone's tendency to delete everything off your phone.
  • Catchphrase: Yasser yells out "iTunes" in the same manner he usually yells "Ahmed and Salim!"
  • Comical Translation:
    • "Please" in Arabic is "Banana".
    • "Promise" in Arabic is "Pinky Swear".
    • "Prick" in Arabic is "Shane Dawson".
    • "Yes" in Arabic is "Si".
    • "What?" in Arabic is "Que?".
    • "Oh!" in Arabic is "Oi!".
    • "The Rocket" in Arabic is "Team Rocket".
    • "Pussy" in Arabic is "Lady Gaga".
    • "Transvestite" in Arabic is "Justin Bieber".
    • "Asshole" in Arabic is "Bruno Mars".
    • Yasser's scream in horror after he realizes he's about to get nuked is translated in the subtitles to "Oh, what an unfortunate chain of events."
  • Cultural Blending: Especially for Spanish this episode, (i.e. Salim is heard saying "Si" as the Arabic word for "Yes" and Yasser is heard saying "Que? for "What?") However, they also do a joke for Israeli too, with Yasser saying "Oi!" for "Oh!".
  • Double Take: Ahmed does this after hearing Salim's plan to commit suicide.
    Ahmed: How the fuck did you convince dad to buy you an iPhone 5!?
    Salim: I told him I'd kill lots of Jews by committing suicide in Tel-Aviv!
    Ahmed: Holy, shit! I can't believ-Wait, what? Let me get this straight. So, you agreed to kill yourself for an iPhone 5?
    Salim: ... Yes ...
    Ahmed: Yeah, okay. Makes sense.
  • Evil Plan: Yasser's plan is to have Salim go down to Tel Aviv and blow himself with a homing missile, that will be activated with the controls of the iPhone 5. However, thanks to the iPhone 5's shittiness, the controls crap out and the homing missile is redirected to "Default", (AKA Right back at home), landing the missile on Yasser instead.
  • Extreme Omnisexual: Yasser has sex with Habub's iPhone 5.
  • Gilligan Cut: Played with. Ahmed uses the power of gilligan cuts to get himself an iPhone by saying "I'll never get an iPhone" and it succeeds. However, he accidentally gets rid of it by saying "Nothing can take it away.", which cues another gilligan cut, which makes it disappear.
    Ahmed: Dammit. I want an iPhone 5 so bad ... Hmm, ... Maybe I'll try that trick they always do on sitcoms. [ahem] Oh, what a bummer! I'll bever have an iPhone 5!
    [Gilligan cut to Ahmed with an iPhone 5]
    Ahmed: Ah! I can't believe it actually worked! Awesome! Now I've got an iPhone 5 and no one will ever take it away from me!
    [Gilligan cut to Ahmed's iPhone 5 being gone]
    Ahmed: Ah, fuck this.
  • Gross-Up Close-Up: There's one of these when showing Salim's current iPhone.
  • Inner Monologue: Yasser has some of these while watching Glee.
    Yasser: Oh, Finn. When will you realize that Rachel is the one for you?
  • Insult to Rocks: Salim's current iPhone is just a dirty piece of cardboard with "AifUN" written on it but he'll be damned if he trades that in for an Android.
    Yasser: Would you prefer an android?
    Salim: No, no, no. Cardboard is fine.
  • Irony: It's not lost on Habub that after Yasser fucked the iPhone, the iPhone later "fucked" him.
  • Literal-Minded: After hearing that you can have sex with people through the iPhone, Yasser goes onto a porn website and starts fucking Habub's phone.
  • The Stinger: After the credits, Ahmed and Salim use the screaming app to yell insults at each other.
    Ahmed: Ah, iPhone is such a useful thing.
  • Suicide Attack: Salim attempts one of these on Tel-Aviv, where he would have blown himself up with a homing missile, had it not been for the piece of shit he had for an iPhone.

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