History Funny / HowToBasic

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSXGagNzNLw Face Reveal]] is full of hard lefts from start to finish, starting with the lines [[WebVideo/VSauce "Hey! VSauce! Michael here!" He then proceeds for a few minutes completely straight faced explaining his concern that [[AIIsACrapshoot AI was at risk of learning too much and becoming autonomous]], so he made the channel to [[SpannerInTheWorks throw it off balance]]. He then flubs his line off the cue card off screen, sending the camera man into a fit of righteous indignation and frightening Michael. This is then revealed to be a joke reveal, but for that introduction, Michael really sells the joke!

* In "How To Deliver A Baby", Mr. Basic mixes three eggs into some milk, and grabs a pear. Think he's going to mix it in? [[spoiler:No! He just chucks it at the wall!]]

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-24Ad6t-g How To Masturbate]]". Everything he "does" are [[VisualPun literal puns]] of various slang terms for the act (i.e. tossing a salad, beating a slab of meat, flicking a bean, and choking a rubber chicken). Bonus points because of what he's masturbating to: [[spoiler:Eggy Sluts 5]].
* "How to Make a Thai Fish Curry." For literally ''three'' minutes, Mr. Basic acts calm and normal. He doesn't smash anything, he doesn't spill anything, he actually makes fried rice and fish with no oddities at all. And just as he's about to eat... [[spoiler: he promptly goes ''apeshit'' on the food in ways not seen before.]]

* "How to Win From a Claw Machine" features Mr. Basic repeatedly trying in vain to grab an egg in a tiny skill crane [[OverlyLongGag for most of the video]] (the machine is full of eggs except for a doll head). [[spoiler:He eventually manages to grab an egg, only to inadvertently release the claw's grip.]] At this point, he goes utterly apeshit--he takes the machine, smashes it on the ground, and ''takes a sledgehammer to it''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh6LFitHeyg How to Cool Down Your Laptop]], which has Mr. Basic dumping enough ice on that poor laptop to appease global warming [[OverlyLongGag (10 straight seconds of ice dumping)]] and then doing even more crazy stuff to it like violently throwing it into a refrigerator. The most hilarious part is the ending, where [[spoiler:Mr. Basic ''throws a chair'' at the refrigerator]]. Totally out of left field.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik8wgBSaHn0 How To Break a Brick With Your Hand]] which starts with Mr. Basic slamming his hand on a brick [[spoiler: but he fails at breaking the brick, so he goes absolutely apeshit and destroys his kitchen (including an oven and a microwave) with said brick]]

** The Greek subtitles (βάζω αυγά στον κώλο μου) is translated as [[spoiler: "I put eggs in my ass."]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d-E2ZcaNII How To Read Twilight]]. The first sentence alone, cause him to [[BloodyHilarious cough up his own blood]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSXGagNzNLw Face Reveal]] [[spoiler: is full of hard lefts from start to finish, starting with the lines [[WebVideo/VSauce "Hey! VSauce! Michael here!"]] He then proceeds for a few minutes completely straight faced explaining his concern that [[AIIsACrapshoot AI was at risk of learning too much and becoming autonomous]], so he made the channel to [[SpannerInTheWorks throw it off balance]]. He then flubs his line off the cue card off screen, sending the camera man into a fit of righteous indignation and frightening Michael. This is then revealed to be a joke reveal, but for that introduction, Michael really sells the joke!]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8y3SSmz4sg How To Make Ramen]] is actually a fairly legitimate tutorial where Mr. Basic goes through the long process of putting together a bowl of ramen from scratch, and the finished product wouldn't look out of place in a five-star restaurant... And then Mr. Basic notices more noodles in one of the ingredient bowls and puts it in. The bowl ''keeps filling back up'' while more bowls appear, and Mr. Basic keeps piling on more and more noodles until it's a huge mound of the stuff sitting on his counter. Then Mr. Basic blacks out, and when he wakes up, there are ramen noodles on literally every surface of his kitchen, stuffed into a trash can and the microwave, and all over the floor. The video concludes with him going to his bathroom, which is also covered in noodles, and he ''[[UpToEleven takes a bath in them.]]''

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-jsayvbpYU How To Skin and Debone a Fish]]'' starts out legitimate, until it gets to the boning and skinning part, which basically is Mr. Basic smashing a bunch of fish with a hammer. Then for no reason, they add an additional "Don't Egg The Fish'' rule, which Mr. Basic does anyway, resulting in the instructor shouting at him to stop or he'll quit. Mr. Basic does it anyway, resulting in the instructor doing just that and being replaced with a computer.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-jsayvbpYU How To Debone A Fish]]'' starts out legitimate, until it gets to the boning and skinning part, which basically is HowToBasic smashing a bunch of fish with a hammer. Then for no reason, they add an additional "Don't Egg The Fish'' rule, which HowToBasic does anyway, resulting in the instructor shouting at him to stop or he'll quit. HowToBasic does it anyway, resulting in the instructor doing just that and being replaced with a computer.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-jsayvbpYU How To Debone A Fish]]'' starts out legitimate, until it gets to the boning and skinning part, which basically is HowToBasic smashing a bunch of fish with a hammer. Then for no reason, they add an additional "Don't Egg The Fish'' rule, which HowToBasic does anyway, resulting in the instructor shouting at him to stop or he'll quit. HowToBasic does it anyway, resulting in the instructor doing just that and being replaced with computer.