| 2026-02-24 | Went on the fritz |
| 2025-03-30 | Broke down |
| 2024-10-23 | Ran out of battery |
| 2024-08-25 | Ran out of juice |
| 2024-05-06 | Ran out of battery |
| 2024-02-15 | Powered down, in a way |
| 2024-01-22 | Went kaput, as a battery |
| 2022-11-01 | Fizzled out |
| 2022-09-24 | Laughed and laughed and laughed |
| 2021-11-15 | Ran out of battery |
| 2021-06-11 | "I literally ___" (millennial's overstatement) |
| 2021-01-21 | Fell off, as laughter |
| 2019-09-06 | Went pffft! |
| 2018-09-06 | Word on a gravestone |
| 2018-08-20 | Ran out of juice |
| 2017-10-27 | Broke down |
| 2017-10-05 | Stopped working |
| 2017-07-10 | Went kaput |
| 2016-06-25 | Went on the fritz |
| 2016-06-09 | Didn't make it |
| 2015-12-14 | Stopped working |
| 2014-07-22 | Was incredibly embarrassed, in slang |
| 2013-11-29 | Quit running |
| 2013-11-17 | Was mortified, hyperbolically |
| 2013-08-08 | Was overcome with embarrassment, in slang |
| 2011-11-20 | Burned out |
| 2011-10-24 | Conked out |
| 2010-01-06 | Went kaput |
| 2007-10-17 | Fizzled out |
| 2007-09-16 | Tombstone word |
| 2007-06-18 | Went out, as a fire |
| 2006-01-04 | Went kaput |
| 2004-06-21 | Went out, as a fire |
| 2004-02-16 | Stopped working, as an engine |
| 2003-12-18 | Went pffft |
| 2002-07-29 | Went out, as a fire |
| 2002-01-06 | Burned out |
| 1999-06-23 | Conked out |
| 1998-03-14 | Didn't get a single laugh |
| 1996-08-08 | Lost vitality |
| 1994-10-11 | Fizzled out |
| 1994-02-10 | Fizzled |