It's Stephen's sixteenth birthday, and his family has bought him a used truck as a present. Stephen is unimpressed by the gift, as the truck is extremely old and covered in graffiti, and is quickly enraged by what he perceives as his parents trying to make him look bad in front of his friends. He gets a baseball bat and starts battering the truck with it, screaming all the while about how badly he believes he's being treated by his family.
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- The Alleged Car: Stephen's truck is clearly decades old and is covered with graffiti. Jennifer claims that the truck runs very well, and you would hope that the Quire parents wouldn't be willing to get their son a truck that doesn't run well (even a son like Stephen), but David admits the truck only cost $200.
- Batter Up!: Stephen gets a baseball bat from the garage and goes to town on his truck, even threatening to hit his father with it at one point.
- Big "SHUT UP!": Jennifer tells Stephen to stop hitting his truck with the baseball bat, and Stephen unleashes a truly epic "SHUT UP".
- Blatant Lies: As Stephen's temper tantrum is peaking, Jennifer jumps in front of the camera and tells Jack to turn it off. Jack says that he's turned it off...and then goes back to pointing it right at Stephen.
- Defiant Strip: When Stephen is at the heights of his rage over his unhappiness with his gift, he rips his t-shirt off. Amusingly, he does this while Jack has the camera momentarily off of him, and Stephen gets the shirt off so quickly it almost looks like a magic trick.
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Deleted Scene: Over a year after the video's initial upload, another channel uploaded a 'practice run' of the video that the family had done. The exact same scenario is shown, but with less believable acting and worse presentation, making it clear that the scene was rehearsed by the family. How this channel got the footage of the practice run and why they uploaded it is unknown, but it essentially left zero doubt that this video (and likely all subsequent ones) were faked. - Exact Words: When trying to sell Stephen on the truck, Jennifer tells him that he'll be able to beat up the truck and not worry about it, due to it being so tough and old. Of course, him taking out a baseball bat and beating the truck with it wasn't exactly what she had in mind when she said that.
- Never My Fault: Stephen says that he's the most unpopular kid at school thanks to his parents making him look bad, as opposed to his personality and anger issues.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Stephen says 'retard' a couple times in this video (although unlike the previous video, he's not insulting someone else, but rather saying that he believes he'll look like a retard driving the truck).
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: YOU GUYS LIKE MAKING ME LOOK LIKE A FREAKIN' POOR KID IN FRONT OF ALL MY FRIENDS, ALL (wacks truck cab roof with bat) THE (wacks it again) TIME! (wacks it again)
- Spoiled Brat: Stephen is referred to as one by David when he voices his displeasure with the truck, and later Stephen starts yelling about how his parents keep making him look like a 'poor kid' in front of his friends.
- Spotting the Thread:
- When Stephen first emerges from the garage with the bat and Jack is right in front of him, you can see a clear tear in the collar of Stephen's shirt. Later in the episode, Stephen rips his shirt off in a fit of rage, so the tear was likely there so he would have an easy time doing it, seemingly indicating that the video was scripted.
- Furthermore, Stephen only hits the truck in places where he can't do any actual damage (the side of the bed, the top of the cab) when he would almost certainly have targeted the windows, side mirrors, lights and windshield if he was really furious. Of course, hitting any of those would have made additional takes rather difficult.
