Oh No! Our Table! It's Broken!

About

Oh No! Our Table! It's Broken! is a catchphrase and viral video made public in an America's Funniest Home Videos episode that aired in February 2016. The video shows a boy stacking bricks like a Jenga tower on his family's glass coffee table, which breaks from the weight. He then yells, "Oh no! Our table! It's broken!" The video was posted to YouTube and Vine by AFV in February 2016 and was remixed and re-edited across YouTube in 2019. Starting in December 2020, notably in July 2021, the video received attention on TikTok as a sound, becoming a lip-dub trend on the platform.

Origin

On February 17th, 2016, the official Vine^[1] page of America's Funniest Home Videos, @americasfunniest, posted the original table-breaking clip to their page. The Vine^[2] (shown below) received roughly 978,100 loops and 19,800 likes over the course of five years.

Spread

Starting in 2018, the video was reuploaded to YouTube multiple times.^[3][4] At the time, the video was also known as, "Brick Breaking Experiment Gone Wrong." YouTube^[3] channel Emily Petsche, for example, reuploaded the video (shown below, left) on May 11th, 2018, and received roughly 532,000 views and 30,000 likes over the course of three years. In January 2019, YouTubers began re-editing the video into further meme content. The YouTube^[5] channel HigglyTownHeroesFanatic2017 uploaded a video^[5] on January 9th, 2019, titled "Brick Breaking Experiment Goes Wrong in Adriana BL Major." The video (shown below, right) received roughly 2,900 views and 36 likes over the course of two years.

The video received more attention on TikTok starting in December 2020. TikToker^[6] @official_dr_socks posted a now-deleted TikTok that used the "Oh No! Our Table! It's Broken!" soundbite. On December 4th, 2020, multiple TikTokers used the sound for their own videos. For example, TikToker @youngdiegothesaucegod posted a video on December 4th, 2020. The TikTok^[7] (shown below) received roughly 5,300 plays and 545 likes over the course of 10 months.

The "Oh No! Our Table! It's Broken!" soundbite was used again by another TikTok account in March 2021. TikToker^[8] @rikku_vr uploaded a video (shown below) on March 11th, 2021, and received roughly 177,000 plays and 9,300 likes over the course of six months.

On July 22nd, 2021, TikToker^[9] @chefsbrim reuploaded the original "Oh No! Our Table! It's Broken!" viral video to his page. The video (since deleted) received roughly 85,500 plays and 8,000 likes over the course of two months and would be the primary origin of the sound going forward on the platform. TikToker^[10] @figapotente was the first to use the sound as a lip-dub in a skit he posted on July 30th, 2021, (shown below) which received roughly 24,000 plays and 4,700 likes over the course of two months.

Multiple other TikTokers began to hop onto the trend going in August and September 2021. At first, many TikTokers^[11] used the sound to show off their character designs in video games like Roblox. Roblox TikTokers also began recreating the original viral video using their Roblox character, like TikToker^[12] @g1are, whose video received roughly 1.8 million plays and 245,000 likes over the course of two months.

The most viewed video using the sound was posted by TikToker @tooffarie on August 2nd, 2021, where she showed off her still-working yet incredibly broken laptop. The TikTok^[13] (since deleted) received roughly 14.2 million and 3.1 million likes over the course of one month. The soundbite continued to trend on TikTok going into September 2021, with multiple TikTokers using it ironically, trying to look sexy while lip-syncing the audio, barely moving their lips to the audio or moving their adam's apples to the audio.

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References