We’ve All Been There: Hilarious ‘Average Dad Crash Out’ Videos Go Viral

We’ve all been there. You’re assembling furniture. You’re fixing a ceiling fan. You’re hanging a flat-screen TV. You’re moving a refrigerator that weighs more than an elephant. (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a free weekly newsletter about modern masculinity) But you miss a step. You strip a screw. Impatient, you drill into the wall, only to realize that you missed your mark just enough that now the TV is crooked. You jam a finger or a toe. Worse yet, you throw out your back. Usually, you have the patience. Usually, you can take a deep breath and let your anger, frustration, and pain subside. It’s not a big deal, after all. But no, not this time. You’ve been at it for hours — in fact, for the entire duration of your Saturday — and all of a sudden, a minor inconvenience feels like a colossal failure. All of a sudden, you are the victim of a mass conspiracy. Everyone in the world is an idiot — except you. The last section of the couch isn’t locking into place because the couch was made in China, and everything made in China is cheap garbage. No, this time, you suffer an average dad crash out. Every man has felt this at some point in their lives pic.twitter.com/EK2mwdLkXE — Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) November 17, 2025 Blinded by rage, you mutter under your breath before letting out a loud stream of colorful language. You combine cuss words in ways you have never combined them before. One second, you were putting together some patio chairs; the next thing you know, you are throwing those chairs off the deck and telling them they are about to get their a**es kicked and that they should have never messed with you in the first place. Your average dad crash out isn’t always victimless. Usually, the loved ones nearby, pets included, suffer from a collective spike in cortisol. At a certain point, though, your wife and kids have gotten so used to it that, amid your fits of rage, they end up desperately fighting back laughter. It becomes a comedy routine, and you’re the clown on stage. There’s nothing more amusing than watching a grown man curse out an Amazon coffee table and blaming his inability to read directions on Jeff Bezos and the corporate overlords who sold out America to the Chinese. Speaking from personal experience, I have told a bookshelf that it was only there in my living room, causing me great psychic pain, because of NAFTA. But for the average dad crashing out, this feeling can be therapeutic. It’s usually a combination of both relief and embarrassment. When you finally regain composure and drive home the last screw, you are proud of your work, but also wonder to yourself, Why did I just pull a Joe Biden and call the bed frame a lying dog-faced pony soldier? Do I have anger management problems? Do I need help? Of course you don’t. You were just suffering from an average dad crash out. We’ve all been there, and we will be there again anytime our wives or kids ask us to fix something. There’s nothing to be ashamed of. You are okay. You are heard.