List of 1000 Ways to Die episodes
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This is a list of episodes for the TV show 1000 Ways to Die which airs on the cable channel Spike.
Season 1
"The stories you are about to see are true and based on actual events. Names have been changed to protect the identities of the deceased."
"WARNING: The deaths portrayed in this show are real and extremely graphic."
The disclaimer then cuts to a scene of a city at night, followed by images of various manners of death, either from episodes or file footages, while the voice-over reads the monologue, which appears in "comic-book" style (comic font inside yellow boxes, as in a comic book):
"The human body is remarkably resilient..."
(note: in the following sentence, only the ALL CAPPED words are illustrated in large, red "Sin City"/"comic" font; the rest are only heard) "Every day we fight a new WAR against GERMS, TOXINS, INJURY, ILLNESS, CATASTROPHE and Calamity."
"The fact that we survive at all is a miracle..."
"Because, every day we live..."
"We face 1000 WAYS TO DIE."
The first story begins with the opening screenshot drawn as a comic, which fades to the live action. The narrator gives an account of the story as it unfolds, describing the circumstances leading up to the death and details of the death itself. The story is interspersed with expert testimony from physicians and scientists about the science of the death (what happens to the body, etc.). The story ends with another comic screenshot, over which the "Way to Die # " and the nickname for the death is typed over the image in black and red "True Crimes"/"Sin City"/"comic" font.
Episode 1: Life Will Kill You
Originally aired May 14, 2008.
Death # | "Event" Name | Circumstances of Death |
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208 | Semi-cide | A man is run over and cut in half by an 18-wheeler while working under his car in a parking lot. His upper body and legs are accidentally sent to separate hospitals. |
422 | Constriction Accident | A construction worker is buried under three tons of sand and dies from crush asphyxia. |
92 | Fang Banged | A drunk man is shot at by his equally drunk brother. When he ducks, he falls onto a rattlesnake, which bites him near his heart. |
832 | Lesbocution | After being involved in a series of bad relationships, a woman decides to become a lesbian. While going home to have sex with a female friend to celebrate her coming out, the woman takes off her high heels and steps barefoot into a puddle with a live wire in it and is electrocuted. |
125 | Love Bugged | A reclusive French amateur entomologist and herpetologist is bitten by his black widow spider in a misguided attempt to build an immunity to its venom. Electing to ride out the symptoms of his latrodectism, he suffers a fatal heart attack, knocking over his reptile tanks. The released animals then feed on his corpse for two weeks before it is found by police. |
640 | Tumble Die | A repairman is accidentally trapped inside an industrial clothes dryer and dies of being battered around and excess heat within minutes. |
Episode 2: Hard Lives, Easy Deaths
Originally aired May 21, 2008.
Death # | "Event" Name | Circumstances of Death |
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293 | Freeze Died | A man working at a mafia-owned South Philadelphia meat packing company is deliberately locked in a walk-in freezer out of revenge for stealing cuts of meat and getting his employer's 17-year-old granddaughter pregnant, and dies of hypothermia. |
713 | Dive Bombed | A group of friends fly themselves home from Cabo San Lucas in a private plane shortly after going scuba diving. At 12,000 ft, they all suffer from decompression sickness and crash, causing the plane to explode and killing everyone aboard. |
91 | De-Coffinated | A land dispute between two brothers in Haiti ends with one brother asking a witch doctor to poison the other with tetrodotoxin, causing paralysis. Believed to be dead, the poisoned brother is buried alive, and his corpse is later found by grave robbers, having succumbed to suffocation. Shortly before the brother's death, he tried to claw his way out with his fingers, wearing them down to the bone. |
606 | Wet Dream | A man who wants to live like a fish constructs a fish suit out of waterbed material and attempts to use it. The suit is so constricting, however, that he cannot get into the water fast enough, and he dies from heat exhaustion. |
112 | Fur Burger | In the 2nd century, one method of execution was wrapping the victim in freshly killed animal skins, tying him to a tree, and leaving him to be eaten alive by whatever carnivores happened to be in the area (a flock of vultures in this case). |
Season 2
Shot months after the pilot, the first full season is executive produced by Thom Beers who also created the series. Season One was written and directed by Tom McMahon. This season also debuted a new narrator with actor Ron Perlman instead of Beers who previously narrated the pilot episodes.
The episodes in Season One, while maintaining the "tongue-in-cheek" story-telling aspect of the first two shows, vary in formatting compared to the pilot. The "comic-book" styling is completely gone, as are the trivia bits between segments. Each episode opens with a voice-over by the narrator giving brief summaries of upcoming deaths, accompanied by clips. This fades to a more ominous version of the previous disclaimer: white wording on black background, while a deeper, echoing voice-over reads:
"WARNING: The deaths portrayed in this show are real and extremely graphic."
"Names have been changed to protect the identities of the deceased."
"Do not attempt to try ANY of the actions depicted."
"YOU WILL DIE!" (the word "DIE" reverberates ominously).
The disclaimer then cuts to animation depicting human figures encountering various deaths, while the voice-over reads (note: only the ALL CAPPED words are illustrated):
"Death...is everywhere. Most of us try to avoid it, others can't get out of its way. Every day we fight a new war against GERMS, TOXINS, INJURY, ILLNESS, and CATASTROPHE."
"There's a lot of ways to wind up dead. The fact that we survive at all is a miracle, because every day we live, we face.... 1000 WAYS TO DIE."
This introduction cuts to a screenshot of the "victim", framed by gray grainy film art, and information appears as being typed out onto screen: "DATE" and "LOCATION". The stories are played out as in the "Pilot Season", but end as they began, with a different screenshot of the "victim" (this time, they are usually dead), again framed in grainy film art, over which the "Way to Die # " and the nickname for the death typed over the image in black, yellow and red "True Crimes"/"Sin City"/"comic" font. Two stories are shown in this manner, then an outro to the commercial says, "Coming up:" followed by brief, clever descriptions of upcoming deaths. This is usually repeated twice. After the last commercial break, the real-life story is shown, followed immediately by the end credits, which appear as white spray-painted bold letters on a grainy film background, backed by heavy metal music.
Episode 3: Unforced Errors
Originally aired Feb. 8, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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64 | Habeas Corpse | May 1, 1998 | Law Office Los Angeles, CA |
Trying to impress a new workmate, a lawyer runs head-on into a window on the fortieth floor of his office to prove it unbreakable, a stunt he had done multiple times without any injury. Unfortunately, the window gives way and he falls to his death. (NOTE: This is based on the death of Garry Hoy) |
288 | Chippin' Dale | August 11, 2003 | Sonoran Desert Yuma, AZ |
While two men are shredding tree branches in a woodchipper, one of the branches jams the woodchipper. Anxious to go home, one of them foolishly tries to unjam the woodchipper with his foot, but his foot gets stuck in the machine and he gets shredded alive. |
226 | Gasketballed | November 21, 1993 | Ball State College Kenosha, WI |
A young couple in college climbs into a giant helium-filled basketball. Although they enjoy it at first, the couple begins to find it difficult to breathe in it after a while. Realizing that they need to get out, they try to, but cannot because they are unable to find the zipper to open it. They eventually suffocate, due to the lack of oxygen. |
199 | Me So Hornet | September 27, 1992 | Boone Residence Lubbock, TX |
A man doing lawn work is confronted by his wife for sex and agrees, but she says he has to get rid of a hornet's nest first. After failing to get it down with a rake, he gets a paintball gun and shoots the hornet's nest, knocking it to the ground. The hornets attack him and he dies from anaphylactic shock due to an unknown allergy to hornet venom. |
952 | Dumbrella | January 13, 2007 | Wood's Carnival Barnegat, NJ |
A sword swallower trying to perform despite dwindling audiences and an unstable economy takes a bet to swallow an umbrella, only for the release button to be accidentally hit and be lodged in his esophagus, closing off his trachea and causing internal bleeding and choking, killing him. |
674 | Killdo | January 31, 2004 | Jennifer's Pad Roanoke, VA |
While eyeing a handsome grocery store clerk, a woman gets the idea to use a peeled carrot as a dildo during her nightly masturbation session. While using the carrot during her session, a rough cut slices her vaginal wall, letting air into her circulatory system. An air bubble travels to her heart, blocking her blood flow, and the woman dies from an air embolism. |
Episode 4: Death Over Easy
Originally aired Feb. 8, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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316 | Butt F***ed | December 21, 1978 | Mercy Care Mobile, Alabama |
A man falls asleep while smoking and sets himself on fire. He is rescued, taken to the hospital, and wrapped from head to toe in bandages soaked in burn medicine to treat his 3rd-degree burns. After 3 weeks in the hospital without a cigarette, he bribes a nurse to let him outside for a few minutes. He smuggles a cigarette out and lights up, but the ashes from the cigarette ignite his bandages. As he struggles to put the fire out, his wheelchair rolls down the ramp, and at the bottom, his oxygen tank explodes. |
818 | Frightmare | June 15, 1995 | Alexi's Apartment Fargo, ND |
A woman suffers from SUNDS (Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome), and dies in her sleep from cardiac arrhythmia, brought on by an intense nightmare she could not wake up from. |
97 | Oprah Winfried | November 12, 1986 | Folsom Prison Folsom, CA |
An obnoxious former death row inmate whose sentence was commuted to life without parole (much to the disgust of his lawyer) is watching The Oprah Winfrey Show on his metallic prison toilet and is electrocuted when he grabs an exposed portion of the power cord in an attempt to fix his TV reception. |
412 | Em-Bear-Assed | April 16, 2001 | Mojave Desert Palmdale, CA |
A man under the influence of magic mushrooms comes across a group of furries in animal costumes engaged in sexual encounters around a campfire in the desert and attempts to join in, but is rebuffed. He mistakes a nearby mother brown bear for one of the participants and is mauled to death. |
625 | Midnight Choker | December 18, 2006 | Jack's Bar Gary, Indiana |
A man impresses bar patrons by swallowing a billiard ball (the 8-ball in particular) and then bringing it back up. He tries to repeat the trick with the larger diameter cue ball, but the increased size prevents the ball from passing back up his throat, choking him. |
269 | Window Pained | August 22, 1998 | Su Su's House Atlanta, GA |
A peeping tom spies on a woman dancing around her house in lingerie. He partially enters a window to get a better look, but is spotted and accidentally hits the window support. The window breaks his neck between the C2 and C3 vertebrae, killing him.
(This has the first instance of an interviewee being kept in shadow for criminal protection, in the case of a voyeur named "Nick") |
Episode 5: Dead and Deader
Originally aired Feb. 15, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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504 | Wel-dead | March 13, 2005 | House of Steel Long Beach, CA |
An adrenaline junkie working at a metal shop connects a welder to his ear piercings to administer an electric shock and adrenaline rush. He turns the voltage on the welder to the maximum setting, and the electricity disrupts his natural electrical rhythms, causing cardiac arrest. |
230 | Trailer Trashed | May 1, 1979 | Roger's RV Park Aberdeen, SD |
A newly married man attempts to unclog his new RV's toilet with bleach since other attempts to unclog it are unsuccessful. The bleach reacts with the sewage to form chlorine gas, which suffocates him. |
171 | Nite Capped | December 31, 2003 | Echo Park Los Angeles, CA |
A group of revelers celebrate New Year's Eve by shooting a stray bullet into the air. Unfortunately, the bullet comes back down and hits a man in the shoulder several miles away. The bullet goes through his shoulder and pierces his heart, killing him. |
385 | Sh*t Faced | September 19, 1983 | Dunkeler's Home Sparta, KY |
An alcoholic recovering from throat surgery asks his wife to give him an enema consisting of sherry. The alcohol bypasses his digestive tract and is absorbed directly into his bloodstream unfiltered by the liver, causing alcohol poisoning and he later dies. |
197 | Dead Eye | May 15, 1993 | Milhouse High Glendale, CA |
A high school physical education teacher demonstrates the javelin and makes an impressive throw. Running to retrieve the javelin, he turns around and yells to the class, only to impale himself through the eye on the javelin when he turns back around, driving it into his brain.
Based on the death of Jon Desborough |
319 | Domin-a-Dead (a.k.a. Rubbered Out) | February 27, 2006 | The Kitty Patch Tonopah, NV |
A 32-year-old virgin looking to have sex with a hooker is chosen by a dominatrix, who makes him wear a latex suit and a ball gag as she is punishing him. The man soon has an allergic reaction to the latex suit (which he was unaware he had), and ends up dying because his cries of distress were muffled by the ball gag and the dominatrix thought he was groaning from pleasure, not pain. (This is the first death on the show with an alternate title.) |
Episode 6: Death Gets Busy
Originally aired Feb. 22, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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610 | Deep Fried (a.k.a Acid Bath) | October 26, 1999 | Tool & Die Works Akron, OH |
A metal shop worker with serious anger issues is fired after his co-workers and boss grow tired of the man's outbursts. When he returns to work to get revenge on his boss, the latter shoves the former in self defense into a vat of hydrochloric acid, which eats away at the former employee's flesh and internal organs. |
892 | Gorgeous Gorge | May 2, 2004 | Beechwood Hotel New York, NY |
A female model keeps her weight by eating and throwing it up later. One night she eats too much and dies when her stomach is over-filled. |
347 | Re-Tired | June 4, 2005 | Ted's Tire Service Bakersfield, CA |
A porn addict reads a dirty magazine while inflating a truck tire. Distracted by the magazine, the man forgets to check on the tire. After a while, the tire explodes from over-inflation, lodging pieces of shrapnel from the metal tire rim into his brain and killing him. |
652 | Botoxicated | August 16, 1998 | Debbie's House Carbondale, IL |
A woman desperate to get rid of her wrinkles hires an inexperienced doctor to administer Botox in her home. The man unknowingly injects pure botulinum toxin into her face, resulting in intense pain and paralysis. While lying in a hot tub trying to relax, the woman's entire body becomes paralyzed and she slips underwater and drowns. |
498 | Choke-A-Lot | March 27, 1975 | Homefood Cafe Peachtree City, Georgia |
Two dim-witted kitchen aides play by throwing cocoa powder at each other in a confined room. The powder impairs the alveoli in their lungs and they are asphyxiated. |
629 | Sex Ray | March 12, 2001 | St Jude's Hospital Jackson, MS |
A man is having an x-ray of his head taken when the doctor and nurse begin having sex in the control room. They accidentally hit the exposure button repeatedly while having sex, eventually giving the patient a lethal dose of radiation. |
Episode 7: The Lighter Side of Death
Originally aired Mar. 1, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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314 | Dung For (a.k.a. Sh*t Happens in the previews; Done For) | October 25, 1986 | Lucky Days Ranch Aberdeen, TX |
A farmhand on the run from his boss for hitting on the farmer's daughter hides in a manure truck. A load of manure is dumped on the farmhand, suffocating and crushing him. |
622 | Brain Worms | December 21, 1978 | General Hospital San Francisco, CA |
A couple eat live snails and ingest Angiostrongylus cantonensis, parasites that travel through their bloodstreams to their brains, where they feed on their brain matter until the couple dies (with the man telling his girlfriend that he's a closet homosexual just before the two die). |
401 | Abracadaver | November 12, 1995 | Shyrock Theater Flint, MI |
A second-rate magician attempts to perform the famed "bullet catch trick". He taps the pistol (loaded with blanks) with his wand, not noticing that a piece of it has broken off and fallen into the barrel. When his ex-girlfriend assistant fires the blank in his direction for the illusion, the piece is propelled into his neck, severing his jugular vein, and he bleeds to death. |
429 | Weed Whacked (a.k.a. Whacked) | February 8, 2002 | Diablo Desert Fort Wayne, IN |
Two stoners run out of marijuana, so they look for other things to light up. They unwittingly decide on North America's most toxic plant: poison sumac and are killed from flash pulmonary edema caused by its irritating urushiol fumes. |
221 | Rebel Without A Pulse | July 4, 1867 | Stonetop Canyon Anniston, CA |
Soon after the American Civil War, a Confederate deserter is ordered to be executed via firing squad. All of the shooters miss, but the deserter dies anyway from a massive heart attack caused by hearing the shots. |
510 | Kill Basa | August 16, 1996 | The Brig Disco New Orleans, LA |
A man who wants to impress women with a "large package" uses surgical tubing to tie a 12-inch kielbasa sausage to his upper thigh. However, he makes it so tight that it cuts off his circulation. The blood in his clogged artery forms into a clot over the next several hours, eventually killing him at a night club. |
Episode 8: The Good, The Bad, and the Dead
Originally aired Mar. 8, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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770 | Face offed | December 21, 2007 | The Excalibur Las Vegas |
A Las Vegas showgirl shaves her legs with a rusty razor blade. When she accidentally cuts herself, she contracts a Group A streptococcal infection, which develops into necrotizing fasciitis ("flesh-eating" bacteria) that eats away her face after surfacing in a pimple, eventually killing her from sepsis. |
47 | Re-Coiled | May 28, 1994 | Jake's Domain Tres Piedras, NM |
A survivalist living alone in the wilderness is shot in his chest when a snake coils itself around his gun when he was going to the bathroom. The snake is then startled, and pulls the trigger on his rifle as he picks it up. |
301 | Sucked offed (a.k.a Son of a Leech) | February 3, 2000 | Buffalo Lake Amarillo, TX |
An escaped female convict hides from police for forty-five minutes in a 55 °F (13 °C) lake full of leeches. When she comes out of the water, she is too weak to move from hypothermia and blood loss and dies of exposure. |
312 | Re-Formed | March 24, 1989 | Acme Shipping Pico, CA |
A thief hides in a dumpster, and the dumpster is emptied into a garbage truck. More garbage is emptied on top of him, trapping him and the load of garbage is compacted, crushing him. |
963 | Fin-Ished | July 17, 2004 | Lake Havasu Lake Havasu City, AZ |
A woman catches a fish for the first time and, as she pulls it from the water, it flies through the air and lodges in her throat. The design of the fish's scales prevents her from pulling it out and she chokes to death. |
553 | Butt Plugged (a.k.a. Plugged Up) | November 9, 2002 | Imperial Highway El Segundo, CA |
A newly released con driving drunk with a hooker in the front seat shoves a can of pepper spray into his rectum to avoid detection by a police officer who pulls him over. When the officer shoves the con against his truck for talking back to the officer, the can is activated, soaking the con's inner colon with the spray and eating the flesh away. |
Episode 9: Death Be Not Stupid
Originally aired Mar. 15, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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502 | Gas-Hole (a.k.a. Confusing Beverages) | May 19, 2002 | Glacier National Park West Glacier, Montana |
A wanted drug dealer hides out in the wilderness. Wanting to get drunk, but having no booze (and not willing to get caught by authorities by setting foot in a bar or liquor store), he siphons the gasoline from his motorcycle, thinking he can drink it because it contains ethanol, but is unable to keep it down. When he vomits it back up into his campfire, he is engulfed in flames. |
1 | Ichiboned | November 21, 1987 | Tanaka Residence Tokyo, Japan |
A young, shy Japanese couple that has been married for seven years are too repressed to even consummate their marriage by making love. One day, after a bottle of plum wine, they try again, and this time succeed. Their hearts were not physically ready for such a shock, however, and they both die from cardiac arrest after achieving simultaneous orgasms. |
518 | Jake N' Baked | December 15, 1990 | H.A. Metal Works Long Beach, CA |
A narcoleptic metal worker falls asleep in a curing oven. When a friend/co-worker locks him in and turns the oven on to 600 °F for 12 hours, not knowing the man is in the oven, he is burned alive. |
734 | Die It | June 12, 2003 | Darlene's House Evanston, IL |
A woman, desperate to lose weight, swallows tapeworm larvae. They eat everything she does, and eventually breed, spread throughout her body, and start eating her internal organs, killing her. |
499 | Pained Gun | September 20, 2006 | Simi Valley, CA | A pair of high-school boys film themselves doing drive-bys on people with a paintball gun as part of a hare-brained plot to become viral video stars on YouTube. When the gun malfunctions, one of the boys shoots the canister of CO2 at 200 mph into the larynx of his friend, which breaks his neck and kills him. (This features the youngest person to have been killed in any of the stories to date) |
283 | Deadliest Catch | July 17, 2000 | Laguna del Perro Willard, NM |
An easily agitated electrician tries his hand at fishing to calm his nerves, but is frustrated by not being able to make a catch. He strings a 12,000 volt electrical wire into the lake to kill the fish, but accidentally steps off the wooden boat seat with his bare feet onto the metal of the boat floor, electrocuting himself.
(Note: This is the first death whose name comes directly from a 21st century television program.) |
Episode 10: Cure for the Common Death, Part I
Originally aired Mar. 22, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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77 | Red, White and Blew | July 4, 1983 | Happy's Trailer Park Lawrence, KS |
A group of rednecks attempt to celebrate the Fourth of July by launching a homemade firework from a homemade launcher. When it fails to work, one of them looks down the barrel of the launcher, and the firework explodes in his face, shattering his skull into his brain. (Note: This clip features a Wilhelm scream) |
756 | Bank Ruptured | December 21, 1978 | Chateau Cousteau Bordeaux, France |
A man with the eating disorder pica manages to fill his stomach with metal objects, which eventually cut the surrounding veins and arteries, filling his stomach with blood. His stomach soon bursts and spills blood into his abdomen. |
66 | Guitar Zeros | July 23, 2005 | Beijing, China | Two Chinese heavy metal music lovers spend their nights doing air guitar and listening to loud music while jumping back and forth on their beds. On this particular occasion, one of the men slips off the bed next to the window and falls 6 stories to his death. His friend follows suit and jumps out after him. |
196 | Radium Girls | January 5, 1920 | U.S. Radium Corp. Orange, NJ |
In the 1920s, a group of women who work at a factory that uses paint containing radium to create fluorescent watch faces notice that the paint also glows when applied to their skin. They eventually expose themselves to huge amounts of radiation after repeated applications (mostly using the radioactive paint as glow-in-the-dark body paint for their lovers during sex). While most of them died from bone cancer, the survivors filed one of the first successful workers' rights lawsuits against the company and won, leading to increased safety standards in American workplaces. |
638 | Oz Holed (a.k.a Oz Gone Wild) | August 19, 2001 | Bonelli Park San Dimas, CA |
Two teenagers obsessed with rock legend Ozzy Osbourne snort fire ants in celebration of Ozzfest, believing an urban legend that Osbourne had supposedly done the same with fellow rocker Nikki Sixx. The ants immediately latch onto their nasal passages and trachea and proceed to bite and sting them repeatedly, causing swelling and eventual suffocation. (This features the first, and so far only, time one of the interviewees actually makes an appearance in the segment itself, with animal trainer Jules Sylvester coming out and chastising the two dead teenagers about what led to their death.) |
710 | Tanked Girl | December 21, 1978 | Decompression Chamber St. Augustine, FL |
A female scuba diver waits in a decompression chamber after making an emergency swim back to the surface. A maintenance worker, not knowing the diver is in the room, releases the pressure of the room, causing her body to instantly explode. |
Episode 11: Death: A User's Manual
Originally aired Mar. 29, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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117 | Gut Busted | February 20, 1998 | Bucket-O-Wings Naperville, NV |
An obese man starts belching constantly while on a date due to numerous peptic ulcers lining his stomach. Thinking the belching is simply due to gas, he asks his date to punch him in the stomach to stop it. Instead, the impact causes his stomach to burst, leaking acid into his abdomen. |
417 | DestRoid | October 24, 2003 | Gould's Gym Seattle, WA |
A body builder who uses anabolic steroids and human growth hormones on a daily basis dies of a heart attack due to cardiomyopathy caused by the steroids. |
78 | Text Dead | August 19, 2005 | Rigfield Plaza Irvine, CA |
A man is texting his girlfriend while driving, asking about where she should be picked up. Unaware that the two's paths are about to meet, the man accidentally runs over his girlfriend in his pickup truck when she unknowingly steps out in front of it. |
210 | Pissed Off (a.k.a. Not So Happy Lad) | July 3, 1992 | Cross River Links Monrovia, CA |
An Irishman on a golf course in the United States is recovering his ball from the rough when a rat runs up his pants leg, scratches his leg, and urinates on him. The urine seeps into the scratch, causing leptospirosis, which kills him a week later. |
222 | Car Jacked | June 5, 2004 | Manatee, FL | A car thief attempts to steal a muscle car by descending from the garage ceiling by a rope. His leg becomes tangled in his rope, leaving him suspended upside down. Unable to free himself, the thief eventually dies from rising blood pressure and multiple strokes caused by the venous hemorrhaging in his skull after 48 hours. |
201 | Blown Job (a.k.a. Blown Away) | August 11, 2007 | Miami[disambiguation needed], OH | A disgruntled, alcoholic clown, who ironically was coulrophobic as a child, drives to a birthday party for his next job. When he stops short in front of the party, a canister of CO2 rolls up against his seat, inflating a giant balloon while he is still in the car. He is too drunk to sense the danger until it is too late, and dies when the balloon presses him against the door and he suffocates. |
Episode 12: I See Dead People (And They're Cracking Me Up)
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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447 | Water Logged | August 12, 2007 | The Reservoir New River, AZ |
A college student jumps from a cliff into a lake and hits the water at an angle and speed that causes water to rush into his rectum, rupturing his large intestine. He passes out from massive internal bleeding and pain and drowns. |
302 | Funny Boned | January 19, 1997 | Lindsey's Pub Mesa, AZ |
An easily amused man dies of cardiac arrest after laughing for 36 hours straight over an unknown (and unmentioned) punchline to a joke. |
72 | Bowed Out | November 21, 1995 | Owanda Steel Corp. Kobe, Japan |
A nervous Japanese man and his future boss bow to each other. They accidentally bump heads, which causes an unknown aneurysm inside the would-be employee's brain to rupture. |
277 | You're So Vein | July 5, 2007 | Statesvillee Prison Albuquerque, NM |
An inmate being executed by lethal injection initially does not react to the chemicals that were injected, because the strap restraining his arm is acting as a tourniquet. When his restraints are undone, he confronts the witnesses. But before he can do anything, the poison takes effect, finally killing him. |
85 | Doggie Style (a.k.a. Eat and Run) | April 2, 2001 | La Paz Liquor Store Jasper, TN |
A drunken would-be shoplifter flees a convenience store with just a hot dog. He shoves the whole thing down his throat and chokes to death on it. |
403 | Heart On | October 19, 2005 | Hillendale Ranch Tooele County, UT |
A mentally unstable man attaches jumper cables to a cow heart he bought from a slaughterhouse and tries to use it as a sex toy. At first, he attached the cow heart to a car battery, but when it did not work for him, he tried hooking it up to a 110-volt wall socket, and he gets electrocuted.
(Note: This segment begins with a montage of clips from earlier segments in the first season.) |
Escaped Deaths
This season featured a list of segments in which the survivors tell the tale of how they evaded death.
Episode | Date of Story | Location | Survivors |
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Unforced Errors | July 12, 1998 | Lake El Mirage San Bernardino, CA |
Motorcycle Racer |
Death Over Easy | April 11, 1989 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Helicopter Pilot |
Dead and Deader | January 25, 1993 | Oahu, Hawaii | Tourist |
Death Gets Busy | August 12, 2000 | Spanaway Speedway Tacoma, WA |
Stock Car Racer |
The Lighter Side of Death | February 24, 1985 | Firebird Raceway Firebird Lake, AZ |
Drag Boat Racer |
The Good, The Bad, and the Dead | February 20, 1991 | USS Roosevelt Persian Gulf |
Aviation Boatswain Mate J.D. Bridges |
Death Be Not Stupid | November 23, 1996 | Comoros, Indian Ocean | Plane Crash Survivors |
Cure for the Common Death, Part I | April 23, 2003 | Skydive DeLand DeLand, FL |
Skydiver |
Death: A User's Manual | May 5, 2005 | Mexico City, Mexico | Producer/Actor Sergio Mayer |
I See Dead People (And They're Cracking Me Up) | January 29, 2003 | Punta Gorda, FL | Snake Handler |
Season 3
Season 2 was set to premiere on Dec. 9, 2009 at 10 PM (EST), but a special airing of the season premiere episode was shown on Dec. 6, 2009 at 12:30 AM (EST). The pattern in which the segments were shown remained the same, but the real-life scenarios of people escaping death shown at the ending were dropped to make room for more death segments. The deaths are slightly more graphic in this season, and "Idiot Alerts" (in the same font as the "Way to Die #" and nicknames descriptions are) were added to deaths from moronic and ill-advised stunts that could easily be imitated in real life. Another change is that under "Location", only the city is told, not the city and the specific location as it was in Season 1. Also, the female models that were featured in the opening and coming up bumpers were removed as well. The wording of the opening disclaimer was changed slightly from Season 1:
"WARNING: The stories portrayed in this show are based on real deaths and are extremely graphic."
"Names have been changed to protect the identities of the deceased."
"Do not attempt to try ANY of the actions depicted."
"YOU WILL DIE!" (this time, the emphasis is on the word "WILL").
Episode 13: Death On Arrival
Originally aired Dec. 6, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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948 | Titty Titty Bang Bang (a.k.a. Bad Explosions) | June 6, 2006 | San Diego, CA | A woman decides to become a stripper after months of doing low-level temp work and not earning enough to support her dreams of being an actress. Thinking that her breasts are too small for her to be a good stripper, she decides to get large breast implants to compensate. However, the plastic surgeon who gave her the implants was unlicensed and the implants she got were substandard and filled with water containing dissolved oxygen instead of silicone. While on a plane, the atmospheric pressure causes the implants to expand and explode, blowing out the woman's chest and killing her. |
714 | Forked-Up | July 13, 2006 | Chester, PA | Two men under the influence of marijuana decide to play on a forklift. One drives while the other is pulled on a platform behind him attached with a rope, but when the rope gets caught under the tire of another vehicle, the rope constricts around the rider so tightly that it severs his torso. |
590 | UninTented | June 15, 2009 | Jerome, AZ | During a hike in the desert, a nymphomaniac dumps her boyfriend after discovering that he cannot satisfy her. She spends the rest of the time masturbating inside her tent until a freak wind sweeps the tent into the air with her still inside. After flying for a while, the tent crashes into the roof of a shed, where the woman is killed from a severe skull fracture. |
123 | Tali-Bombed | April 1, 2005 | Patna, Iraq | Two would-be terrorists plan to blow up a police station with a bomb involving a suitcase filled with Semtex using a GPS timer. They set the timer for one hour, but they start it right when daylight savings time starts, causing the bomb to blow up the two men. |
515 | Vike-O-Done | c. AD 1011 | Hvarslo, Norway | A Viking kills and decapitates his rival, and he swings the severed head in victory; however, the teeth of the head accidentally strike his thigh, causing an infection that kills him ten days later. |
444 | Deadliest Munch | June 7, 2008 | Stockton, CA | A lesbian comes home to find that her lover burned their dinner for the evening. To lighten the mood, the woman's lover reveals that she's wearing a candy bra and G-string. The lesbian begins eating the G-string, but it snaps and then she chokes to death on it. |
913 | Dead Meat-Eorite | May 11, 2006 | Woodland Hills, CA | At an outdoor pool party, a man tries to make friends by telling them about Christianity, but is unsuccessful. Later, he is shot through the chest by a meteorite while standing beside the pool to talk to a girl. |
Episode 14: Death Bites!
Originally aired Dec. 9, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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451 | Ass Phyxiated (a.k.a Plumper Humper) | April 6, 2005 | Omaha, NE | A travelling salesman with a fetish for fat women meets an extremely overweight woman, seduces her and manages to get her to have sex with him. She passes out on top of the man after climaxing and suffocates him. |
103 | Work of Fart (a.k.a Farted Out) | March 5, 2005 | Boston, MA | To prepare for a fraternity farting contest, a college student hires a flatulence trainer known for his unconventional methods. The trainer applies a lit blow torch to the student's buttocks and is killed when the student's gases set him on fire. |
76 | Crash-endo | September 9, 1996 | New York, NY | A talented but clumsy violinist who worships her hands rolls on top of her ankle and falls down a flight of stairs. Refusing to break the fall with her hands, she slams her head against the wall when she reaches the bottom, cracking her skull and killing her. |
505 | Vermin-ated (a.k.a Mort's Bad Day) | August 4, 2003 | Macon, GA | A convicted robber on the run hides in a drainage pipe and gets stuck. Later that night, rats appear and start eating him alive, eventually eating into his brain. |
105 | French Fried | December 23, 1988 | Milwaukee, WI | A French maid performs for a dying elderly millionaire in bed who is hooked up to a respirator to bring oxygen into his body. The maid plugs Christmas lights in and wraps them around herself, which causes the house's circuits to overload, making the power go out. The respirator stops operating, and the man dies from lack of oxygen. |
803 | Bomb-Bino | June 27, 1994 | Palermo, Italy | An Italian man who made the mistake of borrowing money from the Mafia and not being able to pay them back is forced to dig his own grave as two mobsters have a picnic nearby. While digging, the man digs up a World War II fragmentation grenade, which he throws at the mobsters' picnic area, not knowing what it is. The grenade blows up in the mobsters' faces, killing them instantly, but the man digging his own grave is spared because the mound of dirt he created from digging acted as a barrier. |
186 | Die-Agra | November 4, 2001 | Darien, CT | During a failing marriage, a man's wife secretly grinds up three Viagra pills and puts them into his beer in an attempt to "jump start" his sex drive. The man then gets a call from his mistress and takes three more Viagra pills before going to her house. The mistress later drops another three pills into his beer. During sex, too much blood rushes to his penis because of the 900 mg overdose of Viagra, which deprives blood to his brain, eventually killing him. (Based on the death of Sergey Tuganov.) |
Episode 15: Up With Death
Originally aired Dec. 16, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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485 | M-R-Ouch! (a.k.a Nurse Case Scenario) | May 4, 2005 | Peoria, IL | A night nurse is mugged by a gun-toting drug addict during her shift. She tries to knock him unconscious by giving him prescription drugs, but they are ineffective. The addict soon tries to rape the nurse and she lures him to an MRI room by stripping. The nurse then turns it on to disarm the addict, but the addict has a steel plate in his skull, which is also attracted by the MRI machine's magnetic force and the man flies into the machine, hitting his head on the top of the machine and dies of brain damage from the massive blow. (This is based on the death of a 6 year old boy who was killed by an oxygen bottle that was attracted by the MRI.[1] Because of the real victim's age, the decedent was changed to a drug-addicted adult out of ethical concerns and respect for him and his family.) |
229 | Succu Offed | July 19, 2008 | Tucson, AZ | Two stoners with a large collection of cacti return from the Arizona Desert with a stolen Saguaro cactus. They celebrate by drinking a brew of mezcal and peyote. In a shared hallucination, the Saguaro tells them they will be punished for stealing it, causing them to flee in panic. One falls on an Agave plant and gets impaled through the heart. The other runs head-on into another Saguaro and its needles pierce him through his eyes and into his brain. |
432 | Coming & Going (a.k.a Good Vibrations) | September 2, 1997 | Palmdale, CA | A movie make-up artist rides home with her boyfriend on the back of his motorcycle. The vibrations of the bike arouse the woman to the point of orgasm and for a moment she forgets she is on the motorcycle. She briefly lets go and ends up tumbling onto the road, breaking many bones and damaging her organs. |
150 | Coffin Nailed | January 13, 1989 | Cold Spring, Kentucky | A necrophiliac working in a morgue drives a casket to a funeral home in his van. Prior to the drive, he had sex with the corpse and forgot to secure the casket. When a car comes out in front of him, the man makes a sudden stop, which flings the casket forward and hits the driver in the back of the head, severing his brainstem. |
89 | Greased Is The Word | May 17, 2001 | St. Louis, MO | A would-be robber plans to rob a jewelry store. He puts a pair of pantyhose on his face as a mask, which prevents him from seeing clearly. He ends up in a gun shop instead, where the customers and clerks — all legally armed and acting in self-defense - shoot the man multiple times until he drops dead from a fatal shot to the heart. (Based on David Zaback and his failed attempt to rob a gun store.[2]) |
110 | Blades of Gory | January 18, 2009 | Halifax, Canada | A one-time hockey prospect playing in a city league gets into a fight with an opponent during a game and pushes him on the ice. As the opponent falls, his ice skate slashes across his aggressor's throat, severing the carotid artery and killing him from excessive blood loss. (This is based on injuries to NHL players Clint Malarchuk and Richard Zednik in separate games. Both survived their injuries and have made full recoveries.) |
611 | Boris Bititoff | June 9, 1991 | Chernobyl, Ukraine | A zoophilic soldier misses his chance to have sex with his female colleague, so he tries to have sex with a raccoon instead. While trying to get the raccoon to perform fellatio, the raccoon bites his penis off, and he bleeds to death. |
Episode 16: Putting a Happy Face on Death
Originally aired Dec. 30, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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712 | Rub-A-Dubbed Out | August 27, 2004 | Tulsa, OK | A man who has stolen a bag of groceries from a blind pregnant woman hides in a car wash to escape police. The car wash owner runs the daily maintenance check, and the thief becomes disoriented by the chaos inside the car wash. During his struggle to find the exit, his head becomes impaled by a 1,000 PSI spray nozzle, which fills his skull with water. The force of the water pressure inside his skull eventually causes his head to explode. |
616 | Cock-A-Doodle-Die | May 19, 2007 | Santa Fe, NM | A man cheats in a cock fighting competition by putting razor blades on his rooster's feet. His rooster kills his opponent's rooster almost right away, and his opponent notices the razor blades. He lets the crowd know about it, and they become an angry mob. Just as they are about to attack the cheater, his own rooster's razors slice his jugular vein open and he bleeds to death. |
534 | Chucked Up | August 2, 2008 | Miami, FL | A woman is acting out a bondage fantasy with her husband through a live webcam when a burglar breaks into the house and begins stealing things. The woman is duct-taped and handcuffed to her chair, so she cannot escape, stop the burglar or scream for help. After taking her laptop, he leans over her face to thank her for making his job easy. Smelling the thief's extremely bad breath, she vomits, but the duct tape prevents it from exiting her mouth, and it goes down her windpipe into her lungs, essentially drowning her. The robber leaves, oblivious to the woman's death. |
332 | Little Person Big Death | March 19, 2007 | Houston, TX | Two dwarf wrestlers battle for a crowd and get paid a lot of money. They celebrate by having sex with some women and getting drunk. While drunk, and trying to impress the women, they destroy everything in their hotel room. They finish off by running head-on into a wall, trying to break it. One breaks through, but the other hits the part of the wall supported by a 2x4 stud, and the veins inside his head burst. He dies from a combination of brain swelling and bleeding. |
254 | Booby-Zapped (a.k.a. Booby Trapped) | July 12, 2009 | Tucson, AZ | A man, paranoid to the point of paralysis and insomnia over current events, places booby-traps around his house to protect himself. To get some much-needed sleep, he takes some sleeping pills, but the pills come with the side-effect of sleepwalking. Later that night, the man sleepwalks to his refrigerator to get some food, escaping every trap he placed until he sits down, which triggers a laser-operated shotgun that shoots him in the head. |
234 | ReToaded | September 6, 2003 | Huacaña, Peru | Two men search the world for the ultimate high while making a video. They end up in Peru looking for the Colorado River toad, but they actually pick up the yellow-banded poison dart frog instead. They lick the toad's secretions, believing this will get them high. Instead, the toad's poison paralyzes them and shuts down their hearts. |
114 | Vegged Out | August 13, 2004 | Naperville, IL | After landing a date with a bicyclist, a gardener picks a zucchini as an aid on which to practice fellatio. While walking around with the vegetable in her mouth, she steps on the blade of a hoe causing the stick to hit the zucchini, lodging it in her throat and she chokes to death on it. |
Episode 17: Bringing In The Dead
Originally aired Jan. 6, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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528 | D. U. Die | August 4, 2000 | Akron, OH | Two drunk men go for a drive in a stationwagon. While driving at 60 miles per hour, the driver starts to get carsick. He leans out the window to vomit, causing the car to swerve toward the edge of the street, and is decapitated when his head slams into a mailbox. |
146 | Belly'd Up | June 18, 2001 | Ann Arbor, MI | While practicing for an upcoming competition, a belly dancer wraps a scarf around her neck and throws the tail end of it into the air, where it catches on a moving ceiling fan and strangles her. |
217 | Suck Her Punched | October 4, 2007 | Gary, IN | A rapist lurking in the alley behind a boxing gym attacks a woman in a blue cocktail dress, not knowing that his target is actually a male boxer who cross-dresses to calm down from his workouts and gets extremely angry whenever someone calls him a "lady." The boxer defends himself by punching the rapist with a powerful right cross to his temple. The would-be rapist's brain compresses and bleeds out inside his skull, causing him to pass out and die due to blood loss and severe brain damage. |
177 | Jack 'n' Croaked | August 3, 1911 | Lynchburg, TN | Whiskey distiller Jack Daniel samples the taste of his family brew and keeps asking his workers to perfect it. He gets drunk in the process, but finally makes the perfect batch. He decides to update his family recipe, which is stored in a safe, but is so drunk that he cannot remember the combination. In a drunken rage, he kicks the safe, and damages his big toe. The cut soon becomes infected, and he dies of sepsis two weeks later. |
657 | Dead Heat | February 25, 1998 | Syracuse, NY | A woman is cooking for her new boyfriend and asks him to smell some exotic, imported spices, not knowing that he has asthma. The asthmatic's inhaler soon runs out of medicine, and he dies of a massive attack. |
96 | Poi Vey | May 18, 1989 | Honolulu, HI | An Orthodox Jew who is obsessed with a hula dancer decides to stalk her, but his attempts to woo her by leaving poi kreplach on her doorstep, serenading her on a ukulele, and taking up surfing are all in vain. After one last attempt to romance her fails, he drowns his sorrows in mai-tais. In his inebriated state, he takes part in a torch ceremony, where he catches on fire and burns to death. |
412 | (NOTE: This is the second death on the show given this number.) | ReTired (This is the second death with that name) | Scottsdale, AZ | An elderly man goes through his daily ritual of getting into his classic Chevy car and reminiscing about his life while sitting in the driver's seat, but he dies. At the same time, a gangster robs a gas station. The old man's car's emergency brakes slip, and it starts rolling down a hill while the gangster is crossing the street, running him over. |
Episode 18: Gratefully Dead
Originally aired Jan. 13, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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599 | Mercury in Uranus | July 28, 1979 | Norman, OK | A frequent hospital patient who pleasures himself by sticking common objects up his anus returns when he claims to have gotten a shampoo bottle stuck in his rectum by slipping in the shower. While left alone after the bottle is removed, he finds a drawer containing glass rectal mercury thermometers and shoves nine of them taped together up his anus. When startled by the doctor, the man jumps back on the bed and breaks the thermometers while they are still inside of him, causing internal bleeding and mercury poisoning. (This is based on the man in the shock site 1 Guy 1 Jar). |
297 | A Turn For the Purse | October 9, 2003 | Dallas, TX | A stripper living in a suburban town has her purse stolen by a mugger on a bicycle, who threatens her with a screwdriver. A nearby man sees the mugger and goes after him. The mugger speeds away, but hits his bike on a rock and flies onto a lawn, where he impaled on his screwdriver through his heart. The stripper then takes her purse back. |
102 | Dead Weight | March 9, 2002 | Newton, MA | A drunk weightlifter makes a bet with his workout partner that he can lift a 350 pound I-beam he found at a construction site, but ends up dropping it on his chest after losing his grip, crushing his windpipe. |
310 | Cult Evaded | September 20, 2000 | Encino, CA | A teenage girl who had been in foster homes for most of her life is taken in by an extremely devout Christian couple. On her first day living with them, they are immediately convinced that she is possessed by the Devil because of her tattoos, piercings, dark make-up, and interest in the Goth subculture (including having a boyfriend who is Goth), so they and two friends from church try to exorcise her. They tie her to the ground inside an enclosed tent and burn a large amount of coal and incense during the exorcism, which eventually gives everyone in the tent, except for the daughter, carbon monoxide poisoning from inhaling the fumes. The daughter, who had a layer of fresh air above her, is the only survivor. She manages to free herself and leaves for the mall completely unfazed over their deaths. |
463 | Smoke-A-Doped | October 14, 1997 | Newark, DE | A man refuses to have sexual intercourse with his sex addict girlfriend unless she quits smoking. The woman finds a box of nicotine patches in her bathroom and puts a month's worth of them all over her body thinking it will make her break her addiction overnight. However, the excess of nicotine overloads the woman's system and she dies of cardiac arrest. |
655 | Two Stoopid | March 15, 2005 | Portland, ME and Reno, NV | This episode features two deaths in one, and both take place at the same time but in different states: 1. A man attempts to create a new "sport" by tying a mattress to his friend's truck and holding on to it. The rope holding the mattress comes loose and the man falls off the truck at a fast speed, hitting the desert ground and breaking most of his ribs. |
204 | Cream-ated | August 20, 2008 | La Crosse, WI | A man who suffered emotional and sexual abuse from his sadistic uncle in a cow costume develops a fetish for drinking milk straight from a cow's udders. On this particular occasion, he is kicked in the head when he accidentally bites the cow's teat, and dies when his brain bleeds out inside his skull. |
Episode 19: Come On, Get Deathy
Originally aired Jan. 20, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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113 | Tanks for Nothing | December 7, 2006 | St. Augustine, FL | While a devout Buddhist woman meditates inside a sensory deprivation tank, a Florida water moccasin snake slithers into the tank because of its warmth and bites the woman, leaving her to die from its venom. |
322 | The Chokes On You | June 21, 2002 | Nashville, TN | A dwarf dates an abusive lover who wants him to make money. He tries to practice for a musical stand-up comedy act, but he is not funny. After testing his hackneyed jokes numerous times in front of his bored lover, she finally gets fed up and hits him in the face with her purse, causing his harmonica to go down his throat and choke him to death while his girlfriend laughs, thinking his choking is part of the act. |
111 | Back Broke Mountain | October 29, 2003 | Los Angeles, CA | An unhappily married couple on the verge of divorce go for a walk near a cliff. The husband plans on killing his wife to collect her insurance by taking a picture of themselves with his phone and then shoving her over the edge. As they are about to take the photo and he tries to shove her, the wife tries to fight him off in self-defense. The ensuing tussle leads to the husband's plan backfiring on him as she accidentally tosses the husband off the cliff, breaking many of his bones and killing him. |
120 | Grateful Bed | November 7, 2008 | Hollywood, CA | A musician who is about to be evicted evades his intensely angry landlord by hiding behind his Murphy bed. After the landlord leaves, he finds that he is stuck behind the bed and no one can hear his screams for help due to him soundproofing his apartment with empty egg cartons. He eventually suffocates. |
479 | Fore Head | June 19, 1998 | Waterloo, IA | A thief hides behind a "Virtual Golf" display in an arcade to wait for closing time. Bored and impatient, he cuts a hole in the display screen to see outside and, as he is looking, someone hits a golf ball into the screen, which strikes the thief in the forehead, fracturing his skull. |
333 | Booty Trapped | January 17, 2007 | Paso Robles, CA | A greedy woman married to an elderly millionaire locks herself in a secret room to play around in the money she stole from her husband's accounts. While playing around one day, a small earthquake hits, causing the bags of money fall on top of the woman, crushing her. |
412 (NOTE: This is the third death on the show given this number.) |
S**t Canned | May 2, 2005 | Sioux Falls, SD | A jealous man goes to the wedding of a woman he once loved in the hopes of ruining it. He bribes a waiter to slip a laxative into the bride's drink. The waiter at first accepts the $100 bribe, but slips it into the man's drink instead after a thought of morality. When the laxative takes effect, the man runs to the bathroom, but finds the only stall occupied by a couple having sex. The man leaves in disgust, and runs outside in desperation, where he relieves himself in a garbage can. He gets stuck, and while trying to get out, the can tips over and sends him rolling down a hill, where he is beaten to death by the rough ride. |
Episode 20: Death Watch
Originally aired Jan. 27, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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238 | Washed And Fried | September 28, 2001 | Simi Valley, CA | Desperate to make extra money, five strippers pose as college cheerleaders offering car washes. As they are washing an elderly widower's dirty van, the exposed cord of a power buffer gets wet and electrocutes all five women. |
300 | Bad Hair Day | August 14, 1956 | Los Angeles, CA | A woman on a double date refuses to let her boyfriend make out with her out of fear that her bouffant will be ruined. Finally, the boyfriend gets frustrated with her and the two step outside to smoke cigarettes, with the woman's boyfriend lighting hers for her. However, the flame from his lighter sets fire to her hair, saturated with hairspray. The woman dies when the fire spreads to her scalp, burning her brains. |
539 | Micro-Whacked (Micro-Waxed) | October 21, 1992 | Pomona, CA | A full-blown drug addict gets high after taking meth, cocaine, prescription drugs, and PCP all at once. During his high, the man decides that his lava lamp is flowing too slowly and puts it in a microwave to speed up the wax. Eventually, the lamp explodes, scalding the man in hot wax and lodging broken glass into his face and brain. |
88 | Pussy Whipped | May 12, 2000 | San Francisco, CA | A man who has a hatred and an allergy to cats begrudgingly agrees to look after his girlfriend's cat while she is away. He drinks heavily to pass the time and dull the frustration of his girlfriend giving more attention to the cat than to him, getting drunker and meaner. He then tries to kick the cat, but the rug he is standing on slides and he hits his head on a fireplace rail. As he loses consciousness, the man rolls over and lands face-first in the cat's water dish and drowns from breathing in the water. |
457 | Blend-Dead (aka. Ratted Out) | September 19, 1998 | Austin, TX | A woman tries to achieve longevity by eating healthy foods grown in her own garden blended together in a smoothie. Unbeknownst to her, her landlord has been spraying rat poison in her garden when she is not home. Due to her not knowing what the landlord is doing, she consumes the poisoned produce, which thins her blood and makes her increasingly ill. Foolishly believing she needs more smoothies to regain her health, she continues to consume her poison-laced produce. Later, she sprawls across a medicine ball, causing all her blood to rush to her head until she eventually dies of a brain hemorrhage. |
116 | Shanks for the Memories | June 19, 2009 | Atlanta, GA | A disgruntled, "has-been" golf star and her husband spend their days getting drunk, fighting, and insulting each other at public golf courses. In the middle of a heated argument, the couple loses focus and crashes their golf cart. The cart rolls down a hill, crushing both of them. |
142 | Snake Du Jour | August 21, 2001 | San Jose, CA | The head chef of a black market restaurant that serves dangerous and endangered animals is bitten on the cheek by a king cobra that he was attempting to prepare into one of his dishes. |
Episode 21: Waking Up Dead
Originally aired Feb. 3, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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662 | Phone Boned | May 10, 2005 | Kaisertown, NY | A woman goes to an acupuncturist to cure her addiction to texting. While lying on her back during the treatment, the woman's cell phone begins to receive multiple texts. She tries to reach for it, but ends up falling to the floor face-down. An acupuncture needle that was on the woman's chest stabs her in the heart, killing her instantly. (A scene in Final Destination 5 is based on this accident). |
521 | Toilet Rolled | August 5, 2006 | Kingman, AZ | A functioning alcoholic steamroller operator drinks while driving his vehicle, then leaves to use a port-a-potty. He forgets to set the hydraulic brake on the steamroller, which rolls down the hill and crushes the port-a-potty with the man still inside it. |
559 | Mile Die Club | October 2, 1997 | Clarkdale, AZ | An abusive man trying to stop his soon-to-be ex-wife from leaving him climbs into the cargo bay of his wife's plane (which he was easily able to do, as airport security prior to the September 11 attacks was not as tight). The atmospheric temperature drops as the plane rises, and he eventually dies of hypothermia and asphyxia. |
140 | Bitch Zapped | June 16, 2001 | Tampa, FL | An extremely shrewish and drunk woman harshly criticizes her husband's lawn mowing and, after getting frustrated, decides to finish the job herself to show him how he should do it. The woman runs over the cord to the arc welder of his car and is electrocuted, much to the delight of her long-suffering husband. |
311 | Texas Fold 'Em | March 7, 1999 | Silver City, NM | A junkyard owner cheats in a Texas hold 'em poker game with mob/gang-connected players in his car junkyard. They notice and chase the man outside, where he hides in a wrecked minivan. The mechanical claw on one of the machines clamps onto the van, breaking his leg, and carries him to a car crusher, which crushes him to death. |
168 | Written Offed | April 28, 2009 | Glendale, CA | An immigrant military-store owner who is facing foreclosure is confronted by a banker ready to repossess his business. After the owner signs a contract he throws the banker's pen in anger. The banker demands a new pen, pointing to one in the display case, which is actually a gun that looks like a pen. The owner tries to explain this to the banker, but is ignored. The banker inadvertently aims the gun at himself and shoots himself in the head. |
817 | Ball 'N Pain | May 1, 2002 | San Francisco, CA | Two men steal a zorb ball and play around in it, but are killed after rolling down a mountain at 45 miles per hour (72 km/h), repeatedly hitting their skulls and breaking many of their bones. |
Episode 22: You're Dead! LOL!
Originally aired Feb. 10, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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198 | Samurai Death Squad | July 17, 2009 | Los Angeles, CA | An underground group of Japanese-American men and women called the "Samurai Death Squad" try to modernize the art of bushido. The men challenge each others' courage by engaging in a modern day jousting matches, using tuner cars and spears while the women stand around in skimpy schoolgirl outfits sucking on lollipops (save for one who dresses as a geisha and acts as a referee). The object of the game is to get as close to injuring their opponent as possible without actually injuring one another. One of the men gets his shoulder cut, causing him to have trouble holding his spear. Intending to slice his opponent back, he accidentally impales him through his eye and all the way out the back of his head. |
856 | Shafted | January 8, 1992 | Fort Worth, TX | A mean-spirited, claustrophobic office manager gets in an elevator with some employees. However, the elevator gets stuck. In a desperate attempt to get out, the other employees pry open the doors to let her out. As she is climbing out, the hydraulic brakes fail and the elevator proceeds to descend, crushing the woman's abdomen/bisecting her. |
343 | Smoked | July 1, 2004 | Idaho Falls, ID | A teenager and his friend smoke on his porch, and his friend repeatedly asks him for cigarettes, not paying up for his own. Eventually, the other boy gets fed up, loads some cigarettes into a shotgun shell, and fires them at his friend's face as a practical joke. Unfortunately, the cigarettes get lodged in his friend's face and brain, killing him. |
413 | Just Plane Dead | July 19, 2001 | San Pedro, CA | A former pilot and current public nuisance flying an RC glider eventually flies it into the direction of the sun, losing view of it. It comes back behind the pilot, impaling him through his chest. |
108 | Exhaustdead | October 19, 1995 | Orlando, FL | A woman secretly dates another man to escape her abusive ex-boyfriend. When the ex finds out, he drives to the restaurant where the woman is meeting the other man and plans to pelt them with his paintball gun. He backs his car against a pile of trash, which blocks the exhaust pipe. The exhaust comes out through the air conditioning vents, and he eventually dies when high levels of carbon monoxide fill his car and poison him. |
227 | Ruffed Up | August 11, 2004 | St. Paul, MN | An unemployed woman desperate for another job reluctantly takes a position as a dog walker, despite her intense hatred for the animals. On her first day, the dogs drag her across the ground. She cannot break free from the many leashes tied to her wrist, and she collides with a tree head-first, damaging her temporal lobe and killing her. |
115 | Lady & The Trampled | August 19, 2001 | Sturgis, SD | A drunken, misogynistic biker pulls off a female dancer's top at a bar during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, and another dancer in the troupe defends her friend by knocking him to the ground. The biker is then trampled to death by several drunk men who rush to the stage to check out the woman who had just been stripped. |
Episode 23: Dead to Rights
Originally aired Feb. 17, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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118 | Blown Job | April 21, 2001 | La Jolla, CA | A woman who is addicted to energy drinks attempts to get a promotion at her job, but her sexist (and unbeknownst to her, bisexual) boss will only give her the promotion if she performs fellatio on him. She refuses (despite tolerating his other acts of sexual harassment) and, in disgust, guzzles down multiple energy drinks. When she sees a new male employee get the promotion by doing what she would not do, she immediately gets angry and furiously confronts her boss. Her anger, combined with extreme amounts of caffeine, causes her to go into cardiac arrest from a caffeine overdose. |
355 | Anger Damagement | August 6, 2002 | Lawrence, KS | A group of friends gather at one's house to watch professional wrestling. The new guy, who met one of the friends at an anger management class, starts picking fights with the guys. He is killed when he runs headfirst into the widescreen television, embedding glass shards in his face, breaking his neck, and electrocuting himself. |
235 | Wrin-Killed | June 8, 2008 | Pittsburgh, PA | A purse snatcher attempts to steal an elderly woman's purse. The woman, however, has 30 years of experience in Taekwondo, and beats him severely before crushing his windpipe as impressed passers-by watch in amusement. |
98 | Huffington Toast | March 17, 2008 | Seattle, WA | Three huffers get high off aerosol fumes from spray paint cans. Later, they find jars of solvent, and one decides to pour it on himself, attempting to get higher. The liquid evaporates quickly and absorbs his body heat and, in an attempt to get warm, he asks his friends for a lighter. When one hands him a lit match, his clothes quickly catch fire and he burns to death. His friends run off, and are later arrested for manslaughter. |
157 | Hydro-Co-Done | July 26, 2003 | Las Vegas, NV | A couple get high in their hot tub after overdosing on painkillers and drinking champagne. The temperature gauge malfunctions, and the temperature of the water rises to the boiling point, but they are both too intoxicated to react and are boiled alive. |
218 | Samu-Fry | September 18, 2001 | Tustin, CA | Two Japanese-American teenagers attempt to engage in a katana battle after watching a samurai movie and playing samurai video games. When they take their fight outside, one of the teenagers attempts to land a deadly strike on his friend, but his katana hits a low-hanging power line and he electrocutes himself. |
236 | Screwged | December 24, 1988 | Lansing, MI | An elderly Scrooge attacks a group of carolers gathered outside his house during a hailstorm by throwing rotten fruit at them. As the carolers run off, a large hailstone hits the man on the head, fracturing his skull. |
Episode 24: Dead on Dead
Originally aired Feb. 24, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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101 | Weenie Roast | July 20, 2001 | Climax, KS | A group of men and women on a camping trip after spending the day at a Christian retreat play truth or dare. A man is dared by one of the women to urinate on an electric fence. The man declines, though another man follows through with the dare and is electrocuted when his urine makes contact with the fence. |
202 | Reef Stew | June 14, 1981 | Fijian Islet | A Fijian tribe in the South Pacific cannot find meat during typhoon season, so they are forced to omit it from their diet, only to grow hungrier as the days continue. One night, two drug smugglers wash up on their island in search of provisions, to the delight of the tribe. The men are beaten unconscious, stripped naked, boiled alive for five hours, and eaten. |
889 | Fiddle Licked | February 8, 2008 | Washington, D.C. | A Middle-Eastern terrorist poses as a rug salesman out on a date. Meanwhile, a CIA agent poses as a violinist at the same restaurant, attempting to kill the man with an experimental laser gun hidden in her violin case. The gamma rays from the gun succeed in causing thermal damage on a molecular level to the terrorist's brain. |
224 | Snakey Breaky Neck | March 2, 1987 | Manaus, Brazil | A spoiled rich man vacations in the jungle with a tour guide. Ignoring his tour guide's warnings, he lies down for a nap, and wakes up to find tarantulas all over his body. In horror, he runs out of his tent and leans against a tree. A boa constrictor then wraps around his neck, strangling him to death. |
540 | Beer Bashed | April 24, 1998 | Malibu, CA | A rugby team throws a beach party after losing another game. One of the players gets drunk and throws a keg of beer into a bonfire in addition to bullying some of his team members. After a while, the rest of the team abandons him because of his behavior. Shortly after they leave, the keg explodes and the metal scraps from the keg cut through his body. |
321 | Bad Assid | September 21, 2005 | Downers Grove, IL | Four friends are bored on a rainy day, until a fifth friend shows up with some LSD. One girl, having recently broken up with her boyfriend, takes two hits. The quintet begin to swim around in an empty pool, thinking it is filled with water. The girl who took two hits dives in, and dies when she bellyflops against the bottom of the pool. |
176 | Tree Mugger | April 7, 2001 | Flathead Forest, MT | A nature enthusiast chains himself to a tree in protest to it being cut down. A grizzly bear shows up an bite into the mans stomach and pulls out his intestines. |
Season 4
Episode 25: Death On A Stick
Originally aired Aug. 3, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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354 | Blood Bath & Beyond | May 11, 2005 | Queens, NY | A landlord uses a fiber optic scope to spy on young female tenants. One day while spying on a woman from below in her bathroom, the above floor collapses from water damage due to all the holes he drilled and the tub (with the bathing woman inside of it) crushes his head.
(this features the second time an interviewee has been kept in shadow for criminal protection, a voyeur known as "Paul") |
418 | Easy Slider | May 17, 2008 | Henderson, NV | A couple finds a pool to hop into while the owners are away. After getting drunk and playing in the pool, the guy takes out a tarp and prepares to slide in the pool not noticing the nail (from when he was playing with a nail gun earlier)sticking up in the center of it. He then slides down the tarp and has his intestines torn out. |
337 | Mine Over Splatter | May 8, 1985 | Da Nang, Vietnam | Three former Vietnamese soldiers are arguing about what is the best aphrodesiac. They then attempt to play Russian Roulette and no one is killed. After feeling invincible, they start stomping and then blow themselves up from a undiscovered and undetonated land mine. |
261 | Gum's the Word | December 9, 2003 | Palm Springs, CA | A man begins to make out with a woman which he is taking care of. After feeling sick, he runs into the bathroom and ingests several denture whitening tablets he believed were mints. After washing them down with water that had more denture cleaner dissolved in it, the chemicals dissolve his digestive tract while removing the oxygen in his blood. He bleeds and suffocates to death on the bathroom floor. |
378 | Bird Brained | May 31, 2007 | New York, NY | A politically conservative bachelorette has a party in a limousine with her friends. She plans not to drink too much alcohol, until her friends give her absinthe. In her drunken stupor, she sticks her head out of the limousine's sunroof and a low flying bird flies into her open mouth, snapping her neck and killing her. |
919 | Inquisi-Torn | June 6, 1483 | Córdoba, Spain | An inventor of the Spanish Donkey is denounced as a heretic during the Spanish Inquisition. He is then placed on his own device and slowly is split to death. |
87 | Boys 2 Dead | June 23, 2009 | Canoga Park, CA | A has-been boy band is playing a performance at a bar to a less-than-excited audience. The lead singer then decides to crowd surf, though the audience does not catch him and he lands on the floor, snapping his neck and dying. |
Episode 26: Putting A Smiley Face On Death
Originally aired September 14, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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400 | Fat-ality (a.k.a Fatty Splatty) | May 15, 2006 | Austin, TX | An obese man dreams of becoming a bodybuilder, but is too lazy to exercise and cannot afford to pay for a liposuction. The man requests the aid of a friend to perform a rather unorthodox method of liposuction on him by using a shop-vac. During the procedure, the friend accidentally latches onto the man's intestines and begins sucking them out. The friend manages to turn off the shop-vac, but turns it off too late and the man dies from blood loss and shock. |
608 | Catch and Decease (a.k.a No Candiru) | June 17, 2008 | The Amazon | A man in the Amazon hires a group of natives to search for gold and abuses them while they are doing so. While swimming in a river nearby from the men, he relieves himself in the river, which attracts a candiru, which enters his penis and attaches itself to the side of his urethra. The man rips the fish out, along with much of the inside of his penis, and is soon eaten alive by piranhas attracted by the escaping blood, much to the amusement of the men he had hired. |
278 | Gas Holed (a.k.a Dr. Assman) | January 5, 2009 | Palm Beach, FL | A proctologist with a fetish for women's rears begins to operate on a pole dancer who damaged her rectum during a porno movie shoot. Prior to the operation, the doctor forgets to advise her not to eat anything 12 hours before the operation. On the day of the operation, the doctor's cauterizer ignites the woman's flatulence (due to a chili dog she ate), creating a fireball which travels through the doctor's windpipe and incinerates his lungs. |
869 | Back Stabbed (a.k.a Blood Eagle) | 10th century (around 950 A.D.) | Scotland | The king of a Viking clan leads a campaign of marauding, leaving his younger brother in charge during his expedition. The younger Viking celebrates by having sex with the women. When the queen tries to shut it down, he rapes her. A few months later, when the king returns, he catches his brother having his way with her and executes him by performing the blood eagle; slicing open his back and pulling out his lungs (resembling wings, hence the name), not allowing him to breathe due to the lack of pressure on the lungs. |
617 | USSR-Dead (a.k.a Fools Russian) | October 12, 1989 | Brighton Beach, NY | A Ukrainian immigrant seeking to join the Russian Mafia is asked by two mobsters to murder some people for not paying their debts. After doing so, the mobsters burn the man's fingertips with sulfuric acid so that he will not leave fingerprints. To celebrate the man joining the mafia, the elderly and senile bartender pours drinks for the mobsters. However, he mistakenly picks up the acid instead of the vodka bottle due to the two bottles and liquid looking exactly alike. None of the men notice until it's too late, and the acid dissolves their tissue and organs, killing them. |
55 | Cardiac A-Breast (a.k.a Zapped Rack) | August 2, 2006 | Galena, IL | A woman about to go out for a party, hoping to end with a date, wears a metal-lined bra to improve the shape of her bust. A sudden thunderstorm allows her to show herself off, getting the attention of everyone at the party, until a bolt of lightning hits the woman's metal bra, killing her instantly. |
303 | Road Killed | July 10, 2008 | Bend, OR | A nature-loving hippie on her way to a hemp convention accidentally runs over a raccoon. Distraught, she tries to perform CPR on the animal and, while looking up to inhale, gets decapitated by the bumper of a passing truck whose driver did not see her in the middle of the road. |
Episode 27: Stupid is as Stupid Dies
Originally aired September 21, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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444 (NOTE: This is the second death given to this number.) |
Jaw Boned (a.k.a Chew Bomber) | July 4, 2004 | Orangeville, Michigan | A chemist addicted to crystal meth cooks batches of the drug in his basement, constantly chewing a wad of gum that he dips in citric acid to keep it fresh. When he accidentally dips the gum in red phosphorus instead, the force of his chewing causes it to explode, tearing off his lower jaw. (This is based on the death of Vladimir Likhonos.[3] In his case, the explosive was not identified.) |
412 (NOTE: This is the fourth death given to this number.) |
Hair Today, Dead Tomorrow (a.k.a Rug Munched) | May 1, 1968 | San Francisco, CA | A female nudist painter lapses into a coma and dies after months of digestive problems caused by her trichophagia. At the morgue, the coroners discover a trichobezoar in her intestines, which was clogged with enough hair and undigested food to cause intestinal rupturing and internal bleeding. |
620 | Mudder Sucked (a.k.a Mudsport) | November 21, 2009 | Brentwood, CA | The strict pledge master at a sorority bullies her pledges into building a mud wrestling pit for a charity event. When one pledge gets fed up and attacks her, the others have to drag her out of the pit so that the pledge master will not drown her. A sinkhole then opens beneath the pit, and the pledge master plunges into it and dies of suffocation. |
223 | Offed the Hook (a.k.a Meathead, Meet Hook) | July 17, 2003 | Black Rock, OR | A survivalist armed with a shotgun, a chain and meat hook is shown dying in three scenarios (the last of which actually happened to him): 1) Electrocuted after throwing his meat hook onto a power line so he can poach electricity for his TV, 2) Hanged on a tree branch after using his meat hook and chain to string up an elk carcass, and 3) Tripping in a ditch and getting stabbed in the throat with his own meat hook. |
672 | Erecto-Phobia (a.k.a Peter Pork-Her) | June 9, 2007 | Washington D.C. | A man cheating on his girlfriend gets bitten by a Brazilian wandering spider while getting some bananas out of her grocery bag. The spider's venom causes his blood vessels to dilate, resulting in a permanent erection. After having sex with two other women, the venom causes him to have a heart attack. |
299 | Fansicle | October 19, 2009 | Cool Rapids, MI | A football fanatic paints himself in his team's colors (blue and white) and goes to a game in freezing weather. Sitting drunk and half-naked in the stands, he begins to develop hypothermia; however, no one can tell due to his blue paint and he loses the ability to speak, quickly freezing to death. |
517 | Tongue Tied | April 16, 2006 | Long Beach, CA | A group of teens play a game in which two of them kiss while in adjacent moving cars. The couple's tongue piercings get tangled in each other, and they are decapitated by a forklift traveling between the cars. |
Episode 28: Dead Wrongs
Originally aired September 28, 2010
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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179 | Pam Caked! | October 19, 2007 | Beaumont, TX | A cruel high school cheerleader captain gets jealous when a new girl joins the cheerleader squad, becomes the new flyer, and dates the quarterback who was previously dating the captain. On homecoming night, as the girls are about to do the heel stretch formation with the new girl on top, the captain lets her go, and she falls. Before the captain can gloat, she steps in front of the banner and gets trampled by the football team as they run through it. (This is based on any number of videos submitted to television programs like America's Funniest Home Videos and websites like YouTube[4] showing cheerleaders being trampled. So far, no fatalities have occurred.) |
124 | Bibli-killed (a.k.a E-I-E-I-OWW) | June 6, 2006 | Hancock, IA | Two con artists posing as preachers go around the country handing out Bibles and having sex with their female customers. One day, they end up at a farm, where they attempt to have sex with the farmer's granddaughter. Hearing the commotion, the farmer's wife chases the men with a shotgun. They hide in a grain silo. However, when one of the men uses a lighter to see where they are, he ends up killing himself and his partner by causing a dust explosion. |
779 | Eel Effects | May 10, 2007 | Washington, D.C. | At a sushi chef school, only 2 out of 25 students have graduated. As a custom, the head sushi chef shares shots of sake with his students to celebrate their graduation. After he passes out drunk, the students decide to put a Japanese eel down his pants as payback for the chef's abusive punishments (one of which was threatening to shove an eel up their rectums). The eel slithers through his rectum and eats its way out causing him to bleed to death. |
207 | Glow Job (a.k.a Glow Schmoe) | May 1, 2006 | Los Angeles, CA | A drug dealer does business at a rave, but gets bored when business slows down. He then decides to take a few hits of ecstasy. In his high, he injects himself with fluid from a glow stick and dies of phenol poisoning. |
557 | D-Parted (a.k.a Blade Sunner) | September 20, 2008 | Reno, NV | As a woman attempts to seduce a construction crew, one distracted worker loses control of his concrete saw, launching the blade at her and cutting her in half. |
746 | Pornicated (a.k.a Hoard Knock Life) | April 19, 2010 | Tucson, Arizona | A porn addicted compulsive hoarder throws out everything in his wife's vanity to make room for his dirty movies, prompting his long-suffering wife of 35 years to leave him. Unfazed, the man continues to feed his addiction, but forgets to eat and drink. Disoriented, he begins to stagger his way out of the house, but because he has been hoarding so much X-rated material over the years, he gets trapped, collapses on the floor from severe dehydration, and dies. |
156 | Hard Balled (a.k.a Jock Shocked) | April 2, 2006 | Durham, NC | A lacrosse player and a bully hurls lacrosse balls at other students to impress some girls. One ball bounces off the wall, and when he is distracted by the most attractive girl at the school walking by, it hits him in the chest and triggers commotio cordis, causing him to die of arrhythmia. |
Episode 29: Fatal Distractions
Originally Aired October 5, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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507 | Golden Die-Angle (a.k.a Four By Gore) | April 8, 1996 | Laos | A Golden Triangle drug lord with a penchant for decapitating trespassers with a machete receives a call that a few trespassers are stealing from his poppy fields. He mounts his ATV and chases after them. While the robbers hide, the man tries to track them down, forgetting about a barbed wire rope he set up as a security measure. The man hits the barbed wire at high speed and, ironically, is decapitated. |
243 | Clay Achin' | June 3, 2006 | Astoria, Oregon | Two stoners create a bong out of pottery clay that uses flavored disks to make the marijuana smoke smell like different foods. They contact a friend with a homemade kiln. After some time, they check on the progress of the bong. After seeing that the kiln has gone out, the stoners drop a lighter into it. The lighter ignites the propane gas inside, causing an explosion which turns the clay into deadly shrapnel, killing them. |
159 | Death of Sum Young Guy (a.k.a All He Could Eat) | January 19, 2009 | San Diego, California | A gluttonous man arrives at a Chinese restaurant for an All You Can Eat buffet. After already eating at other restaurants, he has a high content of MSG building up in his body, which eventually leads to him having a heart attack on his way out of the restaurant. |
239 | Crib Your Enthusiasm | September 12, 2009 | Redwood City, California | A couple who enjoy baby-mother roleplaying build a full nursery, complete with an adult-sized drop-gate crib. During one session, the wife leaves for a brief break, resulting in her husband throwing a tantrum. Accidentally throwing his teddy bear out of the crib, the man reaches through the bars to try and grab it. He shakes the crib with enough force to unlock the gate, which falls and severs the man's vertebrae, causing him to die of asphyxiation. |
929 | Turtle Waxed (a.k.a Turtle Shelled) | August 17, 2010 | Mojave Natl Park | An animal poaching married couple attempt to find rare animals to sell on the wildlife black market. They spot a rare, endangered turtle, and the husband attempts to capture it. However, before he can grab the turtle, a bald eagle swoops down and snatches it. The eagle drops the turtle from a high altitude to break its shell, but it lands on the husband's head, breaking through his skull and sending him into cardiac arrest. |
282 | Potty Mouth (a.k.a Dirt Eater) | July 21, 2008 | Spokane, Washington | An executive of a failing loan office reaches the point where she has to eat her neighbor's organic soil to manage her anxiety, unknowingly consuming a mixture of compost and her neighbor's own fecal matter. She ends up contracting a virulent strain of E. coli. After three days, the E. coli bacteria spreads throughout the woman's body, poisoning and eventually killing her. |
342 | Die-Brator (a.k.a Pink Tingler) | May 1, 1998 | San Francisco, California | After a seminar, a misandristic, sociopathic leader of a fringe feminist party returns home to find a vibrator from her lover, unaware that it's really a 1000-kilovolt taser that resembles a vibrator. After inserting it into herself and activating it, the taser electrocutes the feminist, causing cardiac arrest and kills her. |
Episode 30: The End is Weird
Originally Aired October 19, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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723 | Bot-ily Harm (a.k.a. Mod Man) | July 25, 2002 | Austin, TX | A teenage boy obsessed with building robots and annoying his mom with them uses the microprocessor from his mother's Roomba to build a motion sensing robot with a sharp rotating edger blade. After dropping a screw and bending over to pick it up, the robot awakens and charges at the boy, severing two of his fingers, then slashing his foot, and after he falls to the ground, it lacerates deeply into his abdomen, killing him from excessive loss of blood. |
121 | Hertz So Good (a.k.a. Oh My God) | May 17, 2008 | Tarzana, CA | An exhibitionist couple have public sex on top of an old, defective transformer. The man reveals a Prince Albert piercing to his girlfriend, and once it makes contact with the transformer during intercourse, he is electrocuted. The girlfriend is unharmed, as her feet were not on the ground and all she felt was a mild tingle from her boyfriend getting shocked. |
14 | Harry He-Done-Y (a.k.a Harry Hou-Dunnit) | October 22, 1926 (Technically nine days later.) | Montreal, Canada | Famous escape artist and magician Harry Houdini claims himself invincible to blows to the torso. A fan sends several blows to the abdomen. He collapses onstage two days later, and dies in hospital a week afterward due to septic shock caused by a burst appendix irritated by the punches. |
323 | Vom-Ate-Dead (a.k.a Chunka Chunka Burnin' Love) | September 29, 2008 | Atlantic City, NJ | A female emetophiliac tries to get a boyfriend, but is dumped once they discover her fetish. She goes to a hot-dog-eating-competition, hoping to have sex with the winner. She ambushes him backstage and jams a finger down his throat, causing him to vomit on her face. She inhales a piece of undigested hot dog, causing her to choke to death. |
506 | Die-Drant | November 21, 2009 | Brentwood, CA | A prankster uses a mirror to reflect sunlight into the eyes of passing drivers in the hopes of causing an accident. He succeeds when the driver collides with a fire hydrant, which flies into the air and crushes the prankster's skull.
(NOTE: This death is based on the death of Humberto Hernandez, though Hernandez's death was a freak accident rather than the result of a practical joke.) |
284 | Hang Dunked | June 3, 1986 | San Francisco, CA | An egotistical bully hogs a basketball court. He makes a slam dunk and, to celebrate, hangs from the rim and pulls himself up through it. When he lets go, his necklace gets caught in the net and he is hanged. |
873 | Bad Max (a.k.a Sucked Off) | July 23, 2010 | Malibu, CA | A notoriously racist and sexist celebrity attempts to force his girlfriend into giving him oral sex, but she is too busy recording his abusive phone calls to sell to the press. The man sits in his Jacuzzi, and ends up eviscerated through his anus when he sits directly on the Jacuzzi's suction pump.
(NOTE: The beginning of this segment features a montage of clips from earlier segments, highlighting how most of the show's stories are about people dying as a form of karmic retribution for the idiotic and destructive decisions they make in life. The death itself was based on that of a six-year-old girl named Abigail Taylor, but, for personal, legal, and ethical reasons (and as implicitly acknowledged by the narrator), the victim was changed to a Mel Gibson-esque movie star.) |
Episode 31: Hurry Up and Die
Originally Aired October 26, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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957 | Drunk Die-er (a.k.a Early Harvest) | September 9, 2009 | St. Louis, MO | A drunk driver crashes his car and is mistakenly pronounced dead at the scene. When authorities find out he is an organ donor, they bring him to the hospital to remove his organs while he is still alive. The doctors never find out he is not dead yet and take out his heart, finally causing his death. (NOTE: According to the narrator, situations like this have happened before.) (NOTE 2: This death is based upon people who have had an autopsy done on them while they still were alive.) |
523 | Jersey Gore (a.k.a. Clean Sweep) | August 14, 2008 | Newark, NJ | An obnoxious man known as Nicky "The Predicament" (based on Jersey Shore's Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino) works on his car with extremely loud music playing while his wife constantly and angrily tells him to turn it down. He slides out from under his car down the driveway and into the path of a street sweeper he did not see or hear coming. He gets crushed under the wheels and is shredded by the bristles, leaving a bloody mess on the road. |
132 | Cast Offed (a.k.a. Boned Redneck) | October 3, 1996 | Purvis, MS | While using a log splitter to prepare firewood for upcoming cold weather, a drunk Southern man gets his arm caught in the machine and breaks it. He decides to save money by putting a cast on it himself, but he fails to set the bone properly and makes the cast too tight. When he cuts it off a month later, globules of bone marrow leak into his bloodstream and form a fat embolism in his heart, killing him. |
412 (NOTE: This is the fifth death given this number.) | Lesboned (a.k.a. Burning Loins) | June 9, 2008 | Parker Strip, AZ | A bisexual real estate agent notorious for having sex with her clients seduces a wealthy, lesbian prospective customer. After a tour of the house, pool, and eventually the laundry room, they strip and have sex on top of the dryer. Their movements cause its fuel line to come loose and the room fills with natural gas. When the water heater turns on automatically, it ignites the gas and sets off an explosion that kills both women. |
597 | Tapped Out (a.k.a. Rasslers) | June 16, 2005 | Rockford, IL | Two aspiring amateur wrestlers who have dreams of going pro assault each other with increasingly insane objects, including fluorescent light bulbs. During practice, one wrestler slashes his partner in the chest with a weed whacker. While the partner survives, the first wrestler collapses and dies from toxic shock caused by inhaling the mercury vapor from the broken bulbs and particles of mercury that entered his blood through earlier wounds. |
284 (NOTE: This is the second death given to this number.) | Mail Order Fried (a.k.a. Shock and Awww) | August 14, 2002 | Olathe, KS | An obnoxious mailman who has a second job as the target at the local carnival's dunk tank insults the customers with embarrassing secrets he culls from their mail. Over time, balls that miss the target repeatedly hit the fuse box for the tank's water heater and damage the wiring until it makes contact with the water, electrifying it. When one customer (a former professional baseball player who spent two years playing the game in Japan) hits the target, the mailman falls into the tank and is electrocuted. |
330 | Fecal Attraction | September 17, 2002 | Provo, UT | A Keith Richards-esque rock star and notorious addict freaks out after realizing that he has no drugs left, until one of his roadies tells him "There's a way to get high off your own ass." When he is no longer able to defecate, he finds a port-a-potty, sticks his head in, and gets high, but ends up getting his head stuck in the toilet and asphyxiates from lack of oxygen and excess of methane gas to his hemoglobin. |
Episode 32: Death Puts On a Dunce Cap
Originally aired November 2, 2010.
Death # | "Event" name | Date of death | Location | Circumstances of death |
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959 | Tenta-killed (a.k.a. Eaten Alive) | March 14, 2003 | Seattle, WA | An overprotective, traditional Korean immigrant father who aims to scare away his daughter's boyfriend (who is Westernized) invites him for a traditional Korean dinner. After the boyfriend eats live prawn and seaworms, the father requests for him to swallow a live octopus. Once the hopeful suitor declines, the father eats his own, only for the octopus' suction cups to attach themselves to the man's trachea, causing him to choke to death. |
268 | Orspasm (a.k.a. Cluster F**ked) | December 24, 1993 | Beaverton, OR | A woman who suffers from persistent genital arousal disorder is abused by her sadistic boyfriend, who takes pleasure in making her suffer involuntary orgasms. One day, as the couple climb up the stairs, the boyfriend pokes his lover in the back with a vibrating back massager. The woman goes into one of her spasms and ends up knocking her boyfriend down the stairs. The fall breaks his neck and severs his spinal cord, causing him to suffocate to death. |
61 | Furdered (a.k.a. Pitfall) | June 4, 2010 | Upper Peninsula, MI | A hunter in the Michigan wilderness dressed in the pelt of an animal travels through the forest. After climbing out of one of his own spike traps and falling inches away from a bear trap, he is shot by another hunter who mistakes him for an animal. The bullet enters the man's neck and exits his hip, and he bleeds to death. (Based on multiple hunting-related injuries, including the injuries of Paul Arnold and Walter O. Rouse. And based on the death of Harun Mamat.) |
398 | Vuvu...Whatever, He's Dead (a.k.a. Feelin' Horny) | September 21, 2009 | Tucson, AZ, | At a soccer match, a soccer-obsessed nuisance buys a vuvuzela and vigorously blows it, straining to blow harder with each successful sound. The pressure caused by blowing the horn nonstop causes a brain aneurysm. |
930 | Injecti-cide (a.k.a. Filler' Up) | January 11, 2008 | Monterey, CA | An elderly, former supermodel and beauty queen injects corn oil into her face to keep her skin looking fresh and beautiful as a substitute for expensive Botox injections. Eventually, the oil makes her bleed out from her eyes and lips and causes cell death in her heart and lungs. (NOTE: This may have been based on the case of Hang Mioku who, however, survived). |
220 | Scratch n' Snuffed (a.k.a. Buggered) | November 2, 2009 | Hattiesburg, VA | A politician (based on Mark Sanford) drops dead after being voted out of office, being humiliated by widespread news of a sex scandal involving visits to South America to see his Brazilian mistress, and going broke after his wife abandons him. When the politician was on one of these trips ten years earlier, he was bitten by a triatominae; the bite eventually caused him to develop Chagas' disease, which in turn led to a fatal cardiac arrhythmia. |
503 | Implo-dead (a.k.a. Smacked Down) | July 27, 2009 | Baltimore, MD | A crack-addicted couple on the run from the law for committing murder and robbery hide out in an abandoned building, not knowing that it is slated for demolition. When the crew sets off explosives to bring down the building, tons of falling rubble crush the couple to death. |
Episode 33: Young, Dumb, and Full of Death
Originally aired November 9, 2010
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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396 | Onesie & Donesie (a.k.a. In Fail Mercial) | December 7, 2008 | Orlando, FL | An accident-prone home shopping network salesman survives falling off a ladder and getting a piece of a samurai sword lodged in his chest (which miraculously caused no fatal damage). After returning to work from the hospital from the samurai sword incident, he advertises a flannel one-piece pajama. Still wearing the pajamas, he then advertises some aromatherapy candles. When the sleeve touches the lit candles he is engulfed in flames. The stage manager tries to put out the fire with an extinguisher, but the extinguisher clogs. The salesman dies from severe burns all over his body. (The two previous accidents are both based on real life incidents that eventually became viral videos from various Home Shopping outlets) |
203 | Hillary Snuffed (a.k.a. The Last Straw) | November 21, 2009 | Hollywood, CA | A former reality TV star, under the delusion that she's still famous, snorts cocaine at a party using a platinum coke straw. A man attempts to take the woman's picture as she's snorting cocaine, and treats the privacy invasion as a paparazzi attack. She calls in her bodyguard, who snatches the camera from the man and punches him in the face. The man falls on top of the reality show star as she's doing a line, and the coke straw gets lodged in her nose, puncturing her frontal lobe and causing a fatal brain hemorrhage. |
704 | Cruci-Fried (a.k.a. Seeing The Light) | July 19, 1978 | Chattanooga, TN | A phony miracle healer and minister (apparently based on Peter Popoff) removes the ground from a three-pronged electrical plug to a microphone amp in hopes of getting rid of an annoying hum emitting from the machine. During the service, he steps into a baptismal pool while holding the microphone and is electrocuted. (This is based on the death(s) of Leslie Harvey and/or Keith Relf.) |
742 | Hammer Head (a.k.a. Hammertime) | September 14, 2003 | Rochester, NY | A new janitor at an all-girls' preparatory school lurks outside with a video camera recording teenaged field hockey players as they practice. When one of the girls notices this, she tries to hit him with the field hockey ball. The janitor ducks out of the way and continues to film them—only to get the side of his skull crushed in by a hammer thrower who threw her hammer too far. |
478 | Board Stiff (a.k.a. Tony Hack) | August 9, 2009 | Chicago, Illinois | A skilled, yet washed-up skateboarder is out skating one day. His board goes over a rock, and he falls face first down a staircase into some wet cement. The impact of the fall knocks him unconscious. While unconscious, he inhales the wet cement into his trachea, suffocating him. |
47 (Note: This is the second death to be given this number) | Sumowed (a.k.a. Sumo You Didn't) | June 22, 2006 | Palo Alto, CA | A corporate leader who was only hired because his father owned the company leads an employee retreat. After failing to catch his volunteer during the trust fall exercise, he dresses up in a sumo suit, and sumo-wrestles an opponent (coincidentally, his opponent was the woman whom the man forgot to catch during the trust fall exercise). However, he set up the sumo ring too close to the edge of a cliff, and he is pushed off it by his opponent. He survives the fall because of his padded sumo suit, but ends up getting fatally hit by a Smart Car. |
345 | Bush Whacked | May 21, 2008 | Defiance, OH | A man addicted to survival nature shows sets out to film himself making a spring salad from allegedly safe plants, only to become violently ill after eating them. The actual ingredients of the salad were oleander, an herb that causes heart palpitations, foxglove, a gastrointestinal irritant that causes vomiting and diarrhea, and nature's most dangerous plant: hemlock, creating a trifecta of symptoms that kills him shortly afterwards. (NOTE: This death is possibly based on a scene from the film Into the Wild and the possible death of Christopher McCandless (as shown in the film).) |
Episode 34: Today's Menu: Deep Fried Death
Originally aired December 8, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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129 | Lawn of the Dead (a.k.a. Death By '70s) | May 5, 1978 | Allentown, PA | In the 1970s, a man dies during a barbecue when he gets distracted by a woman flashing her breasts after he threw a lawn dart into the air, which later falls through his skull, piercing his brain, and coming out the bridge of his nose. (Comedian Charlie Murphy guest stars in this segment, providing commentary on '70s culture. This is based on the deaths of three children in 1988, leading the C.P.S.C. to ban the sale of lawn darts.[5] Like "M-R-Ouch!" and "Bad Max", the victim was changed to an adult out of ethical concerns and respect for the children's families.) |
438 | Tongue Died (a.k.a. Metalhead) | September 4, 2008 | Detroit, MI | During the 2008 recession/housing crisis, a scavenger stealing metal from foreclosed homes and sells them for scrap is caught by an obese police officer and is chased. He succeeds in escaping the police officer but ends up falling into an open manhole (the lid of which was stolen by the scavenger earlier in the segment). The impact of the fall causes the man to bite off his tongue (which remains above ground) and break his neck, asphyxiating him. |
119 | Tube Snaked (a.k.a Tube Piped) | August 19, 2005 | Topeka, KS | An underwear-clad groupie throws out her struggling musician boyfriend after his record deal falls through and tosses out his clothes, his demo CDs, and his electric guitar. As the man drives away, the woman keeps her boyfriend's pet boa constrictor that almost strangles her to death. The woman successfully escapes its clutches, throws the boa on the grass, and goes back in the house to get drunk. The boa constrictor slithers back through a pipe on the side of the house used in expelling carbon monoxide. The constrictor gets stuck inside, causing a back-up of carbon monoxide, which kills the groupie, who mistakes her carbon monoxide poisoning for alcohol intoxication. |
673 | R.I.P.-PED (a.k.a. Juiced) | October 4, 2004 | Tarzana, CA | A 70-year-old man obsessed with body building relies on not only his exercise equipment, but his juicer to build and maintain his muscles. After years of overworking his juicer, the juicer stops, overheats, and explodes, sending the juicer's blade into his carotid artery. |
145 | Mary-nated | March 5, 1908 | Long Island City, NY | A couple who is oblivious to her notorious past and her disease hire Mary Mallon (a.k.a. Typhoid Mary) as their cook and die from typhoid fever four weeks later. |
802 | Gooed Riddance (a.k.a. Gag Reflex) | November 21, 2009 | Chicago, IL | When a group of women have a reunion they promised to have 10 years ago (one of which has become a mean girl and wants nothing to do with her childish friends anymore), they play the game Chubby Bunny. The more mature one, who wins just as before, later chokes when the marshmallows melt in her mouth and clog her trachea. (Based on the deaths of Janet Rudd and Catherine Fish.) |
259 | De-Throned | April 23, 2002 | Las Vegas, NV | A misogynistic biker forces a bar maid to be his personal "maid" to pay off a gambling debt. During her time, he intentionally makes messes for her to clean up, one of which is cleaning motorcycle parts with gasoline in the living room. The maid cleans up the gasoline by sopping it up in a rag, wringing it out in a bucket, and pouring the gasoline in the toilet, but forgets to flush. The biker comes home, throws down his beer can, and goes to the bathroom. As the biker is on the toilet, he smokes a cigarette and tosses it between his legs into the bowl. The methane gas from his flatuence gets ignited by the cigarette and the toilet blows up, rupturing the biker's pelvic arteries and causing him to bleed to death (based on an urban legend which was Busted by the Mythbusters in their Exploding Toilet episode, seven years before this episode of 1000 Ways aired.). |
Episode 35: Cure for the Common Death, Part II
Originally aired December 15, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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414 | Hydrau-licked (a.k.a Hubcapped) | May 2, 2009 | El Paso, Texas | An overly-protective low-rider competes against someone who he caught eyeing his girlfriend and wins the competition. But as he's celebrating, a loose spring from his car hits him in the chest and knocks him to the ground where his opponents still-bumping car crushes his skull and chest |
188 | Nun F***ed (a.k.a. Bum Chucks) | April 12, 2008 | Natick, MA | An inept martial arts rookie prepares to make a viral video showing off his karate skills in hopes of winning himself a girlfriend. He begins by trying to break boards, bricks and cinder blocks with his head, then starts to twirl nunchucks and accidentally hits himself in the head. The breaking attempts had weakened his skull, and the nunchuck hit fractures it, inflicting fatal brain damage. |
158 | Myth Busted (a.k.a. Tranq-Spanked) | May 3, 2006 | Pierce County, WA | An angry, friendless redneck, living out in the countryside, is constantly annoyed by the people who use a jogging trail on state park land near his property. To scare them off, the man dresses like Bigfoot and harasses them as they pass. One jogger notifies a park ranger, who believes in Bigfoot and shoots the "creature" with a tranquilizer dart meant to be used on large animals. The man soon dies from low blood pressure, as a reaction to etorphine in the tranquilizer. (This is the fifth death with a name based off a 21st century TV show, the others being "Jersey Gore", "Deadliest Munch", "Little Person, Big Death", and "Crib Your Enthusiasm".) |
304 | Radioactivate-dead (a.k.a. Red Scare) | March 24, 1993 | Los Angeles, CA | A former Russian spy is tracked by his former employers as he sells foreign documents to the U.S. government. Knowing one of the spy's daily routines is to buy coffee from the same stand, the vendor, himself a spy, routinely spikes it with polonium-210. Roughly a month later, the former spy dies of multiple organ failure due to acute radiation poisoning. (Note: This is based on the death of Alexander Litvinenko.) |
389 | Jelly Belly-ed (a.k.a. Swallow Wallows) | January 18, 2004 | Cairns, Australia | A group of American students take a tour of Australia (and a vacation) with their school friends. One of them is an immature, attention-starved young woman whose bad behavior stems from being ostracized earlier in life. After angering the rest of the students with a false shark scare, she goes for a swim, accidentally swallows an Irukandji jellyfish, stinging her trachea and swelling it shut. When she signals for help, everyone ignores her until it is too late, thanks to her earlier antics. (This is possibly based on the death of a 58 yr old tourist in 2002, however he reportedly had an existing condition that made the stings fatal).[6] |
276 | Die-Arrhea (a.k.a. Die-Fecta) | February 21, 2004 | Louisville, KY | An obnoxious, renowned jockey evicted from his hotel becomes desperate to win a horse race so he can retire for good, so he becomes anorexic and starts abusing illegal Chinese laxatives to lose enough weight to race. He surprisingly wins, but dies from massive dehydration, potassium deficiency, and renal failure from the laxatives he took and no fluids to replenish his electrolytes. |
122 | Balloon-A-Tic (a.k.a. Clown-i-lingus) | July 25, 2009 | Las Vegas, NV | A girl and her friends have a bachelorette party and hire a male stripper who dresses up like a birthday party clown and performs X-rated tricks. During his final act, he performs fellatio on a balloon. When he gets the balloon deep enough, he pops it with his stomach acid, blocking his air passage and choking him to death. |
Episode 36: Sudden Death
Originally aired December 22, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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435 | Coffin to Death (a.k.a. Holy Diver) | January 3, 1993 | Kyoto, Japan | Prior to a concert, the lead singer of a popular Japanese rock band decides to emerge out of a prop coffin filled with the steam from dry ice for a theatrical entrance. However, the lead guitarist (who is feuding with the singer) decides to steal the spotlight by performing an excessively long, 3-minute guitar solo on top of the coffin, trapping the singer inside the coffin and away from fresh air, killing him from lack of oxygen. |
194 | Poker Face | September 8, 1938 | Joliet, IL | An inmate on death row receives a deck of playing cards from a friend to use in building a pipe bomb so he can escape. He breaks a metal leg from his bed, packs it with torn-up cards and water, and sets it on his cell's heater. After waiting some time for it to explode, he picks it up only to have it detonate in his hands due to the sudden mixing of the water and the cards' flammable nitrocellulose coating. The prisoner dies from shrapnel injuries to his face. (Based on the death of William Kogut, except Kogut created a bomb to commit suicide, not to escape.) |
415 | Bed Buggered (a.k.a. Jerked Off) | October 14, 2004 | Columbus, OH | Two college roommates (one a jock, the other a geek) share a dorm room, with the latter continually being made to leave whenever the former brings a date to the dorm. One night, the geek finally brings a date to the room, and has sex with her on top of the bunk beds while the jock harasses the two of them from below. The movements of the couple cause the top bunk to fall on the jock and fatally crush him. (This is similar to the death of an Iowa toddler in 2010 which lead to a recall of a certain style of loft beds).[7] |
578 | Corset Killed Him (a.k.a. Of Corset Kills) | January 22, 2009 | New York, NY | An arrogant, overweight, doughnut-eating ballroom dancer uses a corset to make himself look thin, but laces it too tight. While arguing with his dance partner, the corset compresses his chest and fractures one of his ribs so that it punctures his heart, causing internal bleeding and cardiac arrest. (This is similar to the death of a woman from the UK in 2008).[8] |
692 | Gone Fission (a.k.a. WWM'D) | November 11, 2009 | Yemen | As two would-be terrorists construct a plutonium nuclear bomb, one of them accidentally drops a tungsten carbide brick on the radioactive core, causing a massive surge of radiation. Both men are overcome with extreme nausea and become bedridden, eventually dying of bacterial pneumonia and asphyxiation as their lungs fill with fluid. (This is based on the 1945 criticality accident that killed Harry Daghlian at Los Alamos. The narrator mistakenly calls the experiment "Demon Core," but that name would be applied to the plutonium core after another accident with it kills Louis Slotin nine months later.) |
63 | Falling Down on the Job (a.k.a. Destruction Worker) | June 7, 1998 | Boise, ID | A lazy construction worker uses a rope elevator designed for bringing tools to the upper floors of a building. On his way up, the rope snaps and he plummets to his death, when he hits the ground, he suffers multiple fractures and dies of hemorrhaging. (Based on an Urban Legend) |
888 | Ex-Squeezed (a.k.a. Scavenger's Daughter) | 1581 | London, England | A prisoner is sentenced to die on a torture rack, but he is so tall that the machine cannot stretch his body. His executioner, Sir William Skeffington, then invents the Scavenger's Daughter, a device that forces the man into a fetal position while two metal arms crush his ribs and lungs. The prisoner dies of blood loss and puncture wounds. (The Scavenger's Daughter was not invented by Sir William Skeffington in 1581, as he had died in 1535. It was actually invented by Sir William's son, Sir Lenoard Skeffington. Also it did not take place during the reign of Henry VIII as he had died in 1547, but it did take place during the reign of Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's daughter.) |
Episode 37: Dying to Tell the Story
Originally aired December 29, 2010.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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794 | African't | March 24, 1994 | Tanzania, Africa | A rich, spoiled man and his sister tour in the Serengeti, and get frustrated over how boring the safari is. They soon abandon their tour guide in search of some excitement (against the tour guide's warnings), and get very tired and dehydrated. They both pass out under a tree. Hours later, the man's sister wakes up to find that a colony of driver ants has eaten her brother alive from the inside out. The sister (who runs screaming into the wild) survives because the perfume she had on was treated with a chemical commonly used in insect repellent. |
645 | Amish-Tinguished (a.k.a. Jebe-Die-Ah) | October 31, 2005 | Philadelphia, PA | An Amish boy sent to the city as part of Rumspringa is coaxed into a Halloween party by guests who think the Amish boy's look is a costume. The boy is coaxed into a few drinks and becomes the life of the party, until he collapses and dies, unaware that he was born without an enzyme that aids in breaking down alcohol. |
416 | Trucked Up | August 2, 2006 | Ithaca, NY | A teenager shows off his car to his girlfriend, but his obnoxious cousin also shows off his new pickup truck. While standing in front of the truck, he activates the remote starter. He had forgotten to put the truck in park, and it slips into gear, knocking him to the ground and then crushing his skull with the tires. |
212 | Handi-Crapped (a.k.a Surfin' Turd) | July 19, 2010 | Malibu, CA | A rude surfer often parks his convertible in handicapped parking spaces. When confronted by a Vietnam War veteran who lost his leg, the surfer refuses to confront him, opting instead to drive away. The surfboard (which was placed sideways in his car) hits a street sign and severs the surfer's spinal cord from his vertebra, killing him instantly. (Based on the death of Worth Bingham, son of Barry Bingham, Sr.) |
169 | Chess Pain (a.k.a End Game) | January 1, 1977 | Leningrad, USSR | A Soviet chess master challenges a chess robot to a match, using a board fitted with electromagnets and metal pieces that respond to the robot's moves. The man sweats profusely under the stress of the game, and when he touches one piece, he is electrocuted due to the board not being properly grounded. (This death is based on Nikolai Gudkov's death).[9] |
315 | Little Chop Of Horrors (a.k.a Chop Shop of Horrors) | June 11, 2005 | Detroit, MI | A chop shop owner cheats two criminals out of a car, attempting to profit from its engine. As he works under the car to loosen the mounts, the chain holding up the engine breaks, dropping it onto his chest and crushing him. |
452 | 'Dis Still Killed 'Em (a.k.a Full Proof) | April 22, 1931 | Morgantown, WV | At the height of both the Prohibition Era and the Great Depression, a poor, Appalachian couple decide to make money by selling moonshine. They sample the first liquid produced by their still, not realizing that it contains high levels of methanol, which causes blindness and eventual organ failure. |
Episode 38: If You're Dead - Leave a Message and We'll Get Back to You
Originally aired January 5, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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501 | Hats All Folks! (a.k.a. Mad Hatter) | December 12, 1849 | Danbury, CT | A hat maker's constant exposure to mercury (which he uses to felt hats) not only drives him to insanity, but destroys his internal organs, causes metalicizing of the blood stream, destruction of the brain and death. |
937 | Tone Death (a.k.a. Over-I-Dose) | October 17, 2009 | Brooklyn, NY | An I-Dose dealer uses military subsonic equipment to amplify the hallucinogenic effects of his music for a new I-Dose file called "Satan's Jackhammer" and ends up dying from sonic pressure. |
877 | Caulk Blocked (a.k.a. Ass Full Of Caulk) | April 25, 1998 | New York, NY | A wannabe hip-hop queen and aspiring songwriter gets butt implants so she can get the attention of a male rapper who's into large butts on women. However, the surgeon she hired was a fraud, and her butt implants were made of common bathroom caulk instead of medical-grade silicone. The syringe the surgeon used accidentally hit an artery and sent the caulk into her circulatory system where it clogged her heart and led to cardiac arrest. (Note: This death is loosely based on Solange Magnano, though the substance that caused her embolism was never identified.) |
130 | Deaf Jammed (a.k.a. Wind-Owned) | October 19, 2008 | Detroit, MI | A car thief who targets women gets his windpipe crushed and the blood supply to his brain cut off after his deaf target rolls up her car window with his head still stuck in the window. |
448 | Homie-Cide (a.k.a. Drive-By Corpsing) | July 31, 2004 | East L.A., CA | A wannabe actor joins a Hispanic gang, The 12th Street Locos (a fictional gang), to get into character for an upcoming low-budget gang film. After surviving his final initiation and being accepted, he is struck by a cadaver thrown off an overpass by a rival gang, causing a skull fracture and fatal brain hemorrhaging. (Note: This is based on the death of a man from Ukraine, except the Ukrainian man was crushed by a suicidal woman instead of a corpse.) |
320 | OMG! SUV! R.I.P. (a.k.a Squeeze Play) | July 15, 2007 | Burbank, CA | A con artist specializing in filing frivolous lawsuits deliberately breaks his leg while trying to get hit by a blonde on her cell phone driving an SUV. She pulls over to help and finds him resting against the rear bumper of a car parked in front of her. When she accidentally knocks her SUV into neutral after getting back in to grab her cell phone, the car rolls forward and pins the man in between the two bumpers, crushing him to death. |
172 | Dead-dy Dearest (a.k.a Point Blank) | May 25, 1994 | Sandusky, OH | An overly-strict, controlling and cruel ex-Army soldier and single father threatens his daughter's new boyfriend with a handgun full of blanks when he thought that the boyfriend and his daughter were having sex, despite their insistence that they were just studying. The father scares the boyfriend by shooting at him as a prank and afterward, he attempts to calm the boyfriend and his furious daughter down by pointing the gun against his own head and firing. However, the pressure from the blank is forceful enough to crack his skull and kill him. (This is based on the deaths of several celebrities including Jon-Erik Hexum and Brandon Lee) |
Season 5
Episode 39: The One About Dumb People Dying
Originally aired February 8, 2011
Note: Starting with this episode, the death stories go through 2-3-2 mode per episode rather than 2-2-2-1 mode. Also, the trivia segments were added between commercial breaks.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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331 | Wet Dream | January 1, 1986 | Manhattan, NY | A man, who spent New Year's Eve at a party, snorting cocaine, donning women's clothes, and seducing two women into having sex with him, wakes up the next day, half-naked, smeared in make-up, and strapped to his water bed. As he screams, he kicks his stiletto-heeled feet, puncturing his water bed, which then leaks. The man keeps struggling until all the water from the leaking mattress engulfs him and he drowns. (Based on a similar scene from A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master) |
755 | Mary Lou Rectum (a.k.a Lady and the Trampoline) | February 12, 2010 | Colorado Springs, CO | A very bitter gymnast who lost her chances at being an Olympic star and her beleaguered partner practice in the gym for a Las Vegas show. After belittling her colleague on her trampoline skills, she attempts to dismount off the trampoline herself. Unfortunately, she lands on top of one of the supports for the parallel bars (which was left out by a worker trying to fix the bars) between her rectum and vaginal opening and fatally impales herself. (This death is based on that of Nina Hamnett, and loosely based on the executions of Vlad the Impaler.) |
365 | Kung Pao Pow!!! (a.k.a Exploding Wang) | May 10, 2003 | Tianjin, China | A Chinese crematorium worker steals the gold teeth from the body of a man who supposedly died from getting struck by lightning. In reality, the man was killed when a weather rocket launched in order to bring rain to drought-damaged land failed to detonate, fell back to Earth, and struck him in the chest. Once the cremation furnace is started, the rocket's explosive charge ignites and blows the hatch off with enough force to decapitate the worker. |
513 | Hot Shot Part D'uh (a.k.a. Ultimate Energy Drink) | April 2, 2006 | Phoenix, AZ | A couple return to their hotel room after stealing luggage from an airport. The man finds what appears to be a bottle of expensive rum in one of the cases (which belonged to a drug smuggler) and takes a drink, unaware it is actually liquid cocaine (a mixture of cocaine and kerosene). After drinking the concoction, the man suffers spikes in adrenaline and blood pressure and dies from cardiac arrest. (this death is similar to the death of Maximo Rene Menendez, who drank a soda laced with cocaine). |
701 | Steward-death | April 9, 1998 | 30,000 Feet Over The Pacific | An extremely irritable and apathetic flight attendant on her last flight before retirement annoys others with her rude behavior. Suddenly, the top of the plane (which was weakened from years of metal fatigue) cracks and the attendant is sucked out from explosive decompression. As she falls, the flight attendant is exposed to high-speed winds that shred her skin, suffocates from the atmosphere's lack of oxygen, and freezes from the extreme cold of being 30,000 feet in the air, dying before landing in the ocean. (This is based on the death of C.B. Lansing on Aloha Airlines Flight 243 in 1988.) |
274 | Squirelled Away | May 3, 2003 | Cooper's Creek, GA | A taxidermist, who regularly eats the meat of the animals he kills, dines on squirrel meat (served rare) without realizing that the animal was infected with rabies. He contracts the virus, which invades his brain and causes him to die a slow, painful death over the course of several days. |
870 | Fatally Gourd | October 12, 2007 | Moorpark, CA | A man and his buddies go pumpkin chunking using a homemade pumpkin cannon at his farm. Meanwhile, another man is attempting to steal pumpkins from the farm across the field where the pumpkins are supposed to land. One of the pumpkins from the cannon makes contact with the thief, and the stem of the pumpkin impales his heart, killing him instantly. (Note: This death is loosely based on the injury of Jacob Roloff, and features an uncredited performance by Mike Senese, host of Science Channel's Punkin' Chunkin' 2009 coverage, as one of the pumpkin launchers). |
Episode 40: Getting A Rise From The Dead
Originally aired February 16, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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298 | Sign Offed (a.k.a Spin Head) | September 21, 2005 | Ocean Beach, California | A sign spinner has been showing off his skills to impress a beautiful barista at a nearby coffeehouse. When a rival spinner shows up across the street, the two start trying to outdo each other and win the barista's attention. After the first spinner nearly gets hit by a passing car, he accidentally slashes his jugular vein with the edge of his sign (now jagged from repeated hits against the pavement) and bleeds to death. |
512 | Chef Boy-R-Dead (a.k.a Et Tu Fay) | March 14, 2004 | New York, New York | A sous-chef works hard to gain the trust of her domineering chef in an attempt to steal his PDA, which contains his recipes. When the chef leaves for the night, the sous-chef steals the PDA from his pocket. Hearing a noise, the sous-chef drops the PDA and squeezes herself inside the restaurant's dishwasher. The chef returns, gets his PDA, and leaves again. Soon afterward, another employee turns the machine on, spraying the sous-chef with hot water that scalds her to death. |
209 | Par for the Corpse (a.k.a Skin Game) | October 29, 2009 | Eugene, Oregon | A cemetery groundskeeper who enjoys playing golf uses the property for practice afte spraying a fungicide. Unaware that he is allergic to the chemical (chlorothalonil), he holds his golf tees in his mouth after using them; the fungicide eats away at his skin and causes organ failure. (Based on the death of George Prior.) |
206 | Dip N' Die (a.k.a Tongue in Cheek) | April 8, 2007 | Arizona Border | A vigilante who chews on tobacco is driving across the Arizona border in search of illegal immigrants when he runs over a giant rock. The jolt causes him to bite his tongue, and his genetic condition of erectile glossitis causes it to swell around his throat, choking him. (Based on accounts of an injury suffered by Allan Pinkerton; however, reports at the time gave contradictory information as to the cause of his death.) |
178 | Dead Fella (a.k.a Rico-Chet) | September 19, 2004 | Atlantic City, New Jersey | Two mobsters attempt to kill a third mobster who plans on testifying against them in court. They stand in front of his car at opposite sides and attempt to shoot through the windshield. However, the car has been outfitted with bulletproof glass, and one shooter's bullet ricochets into the other's carotid artery, killing him. (This death is based on the assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan.) |
555 | Double-O-Severed (a.k.a I Spy A Spy's Eye) | May 6, 2007 | New York, New York | A spy committing corporate espionage climbs down a hotel's air duct to install a listening device outside the room where an important meeting is to take place. His assistant nephew accidentally turns on the duct's fan, which catches the spy's rope and winds it up. He bleeds to death when the fan blades sever his legs. |
441 | Snakenstein | December 2, 1937 | Berlin, Germany | An unethical scientist interested in reanimation is only able to bring animal parts back to life, using chemicals and electric current. When he experiments on a rattlesnake carcass, a spasm in its muscles causes the fangs to drive into his neck, injecting him with a lethal dose of venom. (This segment features clips from Experiments in the Revival of Organisms.) |
Episode 41: Ready Or Not, Here Comes Death
Originally aired February 23, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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231 | Asphyxi-Asian(a.k.a Afrigat-D'oh) | August 12, 2006 | Tokyo, Japan | Contestants on a Japanese game show don scuba gear and swim through hoops while carrying cantaloupes. One of them dies from carbon monoxide poisoning, caused by truck exhaust fumes that were sucked into her air tank while it was being filled; the tank's filter failed to remove the exhaust. (This Way to Die begins with a POV of the narrator channel surfing through previous Ways to Die, stopping at the game show he's watching.) |
246 | Par-Gore | March 15, 2004 | Detroit, MI | While racing up the outside of a building with his friends, an arrogant parkour-obsessed teen pushes one of them out of the way in order to win. On the roof, he rolls to recover from his last jump and impales his neck on an exposed pipe, severing his spinal cord and paralyzing the muscles that control breathing. |
149 | Dill D'oh! (a.k.a Quite the Pickle) | December 5, 2006 | Kansas City, MO | A retired chemistry teacher who was sent to a nursing home by his greedy children who had him declared incapable of caring for himself just so they could get his money does demonstrations for the other residents (despite being reprimanded by a mean-spirited nursing home aide), including one in which he uses a pickle to conduct electric current. When the mean nursing home aide grabs the equipment to confiscate it, he completes a circuit that sends an electric shock through his heart and stops it. |
671 | Boobicide (a.k.a Racked) | February 27, 2000 | Hoboken, NJ | A vain stripper suffering from back problems from her polypropylene breast implants takes oxycodone and alcohol to relieve her pain. She then climbs into a reclining rack and flips herself upside-down to further relax her back. The stripper suffocates from her breasts falling on her face and being too intoxicated to react or right herself in time. |
677 | Boweled Out (a.k.a Swing Away) | June 13, 2005 | Youngstown, OH | A softball player's abdominal hernia flares up during a game, so he pushes it back into place and keeps playing, not realizing that he has ruptured a nearby artery. On his next swing, the hernia erupts again and he dies from internal bleeding. (Note: This is loosely based on the death of Jim Creighton, except Creighton ruptured his bladder, rather than a segment of his intestines.) |
412 (Note: This is the sixth death to be given this number.) | Goon Interrupted (a.k.a Chutes and Splatters) | December 18, 1998 | Mental Hospital | A hitman feigns insanity and is sent to a mental hospital after his trial for murder. He then attempts to escape from his fifth-floor ward by climbing down a laundry chute, but the weight of the laundry dumped onto him from higher floors causes him to lose his grip. He falls 50 feet and lands on a concrete floor, suffering multiple injuries and dying instantly. |
428 | Doggie Styled (a.k.a Dynamite Dog) | March 29, 1997 | Chester, GA | Two drunk duck hunters throw a lit stick of dynamite into a clump of bushes to flush out some ducks. Their dog, a yellow labrador retriever (who is telling the story), instinctively fetches the stick and brings it back, then runs off after an offscreen squirrel. The dynamite explodes, killing both hunters. (Loosely based on an urban legend in which the dynamite explosion kills the dog and sends the hunters' new truck to the bottom of a frozen lake.[10] This was busted by the MythBusters on their 2008 Alaska Special episode (the dynamite could not break the ice).) |
Episode 42: Grave Errors
Originally aired March 2, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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786 | Curl Up And Die (a.k.a Hair Die) | November 1, 1972 | Beverly Hills, CA | A hairstylist, known for seducing his female clients with Quaaludes and vodka and still under the influence of the cocktail from a fling moments before, begins to work on his next client. The hairstylist passes out from the drugs and lands on the floor with his neck on top of a heated curling iron. As the curling iron burns through the man's neck, the dead tissue blocks his trachea and he asphyxiates. |
281 | Who Ded? (a.k.a. Sore Looters) | September 16, 2005 | New Orleans, LA | Two college-aged women disguised as disaster relief workers for Hurricane Katrina rob a church. Upon stumbling into the flooded basement, they step into the water and are immediately electrocuted by a severed power line under the water. (Based on a similar scene from Hard Rain.) |
151 | Crack Piped (a.k.a. Tube Much Pressure) | January 2, 1903 | Manhattan, New York | Two tunnel-working scam artists, attempting to exploit the pneumatic tubing systems of the early banks, cut one of the tubes and stuff in a block of wood to catch the money capsules. As more capsules back up in the line and pressure builds, they pull the block out, causing the pipe to explode and inflict fatal shrapnel injuries to both men. |
753 | Thanks A-Clot (a.k.a. Dr. Doctor) | February 12, 2005 | Cebu Island, Philippines | A psychic surgeon who scams the sick into believing he can cure them touches the mucus of a leper with a runny nose. Some time later, he contracts leprosy, and dies of a lung clot. |
594 | Odds Are You're Dead (a.k.a. Morning Shift) | December 3, 2004 | Mercer County, NJ | A loan shark confronts a scissor lift operator over a debt. When operator refuses to come down, the shark cuts the hydraulic brake to the scissor lift. The lift comes crashing down on the loan shark and decapitates him. |
405 | Chemi-Killed (a.k.a. Down the Drain) | July 31, 2003 | Bethesda, MD | A lab assistant, enraged by the rejection from her married co-worker who had sex with her and regretted it, goes on a rampage in the laboratory, destroying his latest experiment. She grabs a flask of sodium azide and smashes it into a sink full of water. The sodium azide converts to hydrogen azide gas, which burns the skin off her face and destroys her lungs. |
327 | i-Boned (a.k.a Battery Dead) | June 12, 2009 | Cincinnati, OH | A cell phone addict annoying and infuriating others with her chatter at a movie theater dies when the defective battery in her phone short circuits and the phone explodes, sending shrapnel into her inner ear and brain. (Based on the death of a man around 50-years-of-age). |
Episode 43: Killing Them Softly
Originally aired March 9, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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894 | Scam Eye Am (Dead) (a.k.a. Killer Scam) | March 21, 2003 | Chicago, IL | After a Nigerian scam artist attempts to scam a man using the "wash-wash" scheme, his intended victim (described as being dim, but not with the lights completely out) catches on and runs up to the scammer's hotel room. He forces open the door, and the scam artist is standing behind it. The coat hook on the back of the door goes through his eye and pierces his frontal lobe. |
270 | Contact Die (a.k.a. Blinded Me With Science) | October 10, 2006 | New Britain, CT | A co-ed attempting to seduce her way through chemistry class distracts her nerdy lab partner, who is mixing ammonia and hydrochloric acid. As she leans over the flask, the gas fuses her contact lenses to her eyes. In the blurry distance, she notices a chemical wash station, but trips over a cord, slides across the wax floor and hits a wall, breaking her neck. |
427 | Six Feet Plunder (a.k.a. Grave Danger) | September 17, 2002 | Harrisburg, PA | A jealous man attempts to rob his wealthy brother's grave of the expensive jewelry he was buried with. After digging too close to the headstone, it topples on top of him, pinning him between the headstone and his brother's body and crushing him. (This is similar to the death of a 77 yr old man from Canada in 2008).[11] |
465 | Guns N' Noses (a.k.a Blood Diamonds) | December 14, 1992 | Sierra Leone | A ruthless warlord captures and kills a diamond runner, and loots him. He celebrates by snorting "Brown-brown". Unaware that he had left diamond dust on the tray he was using to line the cocaine, he snorts the mixture and the diamond dust tears up his arteries and travels through to his heart, causing him to bleed to death. |
95 | Frequent Dier (a.k.a. Mile Die Club) | November 2, 2006 | Richmond, VA | A couple attempting to join the mile high club go into the bathroom of a jumbo jet. When the plane hits turbulence, the couple are smacked around in the small room with his neck snapping and her brain being crushed against her skull. |
180 | Suck & Blown (a.k.a. Suck and Blow) | August 24, 2007 | Atlantic City, NJ | Two men attempting to siphon gas from a car, pull out an industrial vacuum to ease their workload. When the electric fan in the vacuum creates a spark, the gas ignites, causing the vacuum to explode, killing the men instantly. |
744 | Master E-Raced (a.k.a. Dishonorable Discharge) | April 11, 1945 (Technically some time in 1995.) |
Starts in Nuremberg, Germany Ends in Brooklyn, NY |
An ex-Nazi survives a gunshot to the head during World War II, with the bullet becoming lodged near a major artery in his brain. Fifty years later, he bumps his head against his refrigerator, jarring the bullet enough to sever the artery and cause a fatal hemorrhage. |
Episode 44: Better Them Than Us
Originally aired March 16, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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615 | Macdeath (a.k.a Peter Pan-Caked) | March 16, 1999 | Boise, ID | A retired dot com company millionaire and current narcissistic owner of a theater assigns himself as the lead in a play he's producing. While doing a flying scene the holster holding him up is unable to hold his weight, causing it to break. The frayed edge of the cord then unwinds and races through the system of pulleys at over 700 miles per hour, passing through the air and slashing the man's jugular vein. |
368 | Cloudy With a Chance of Pain | June 22, 2009 | Moscow, Russia | A Russian pimp is preparing to leave with one of his prostitutes. She gets in the car, but locks herself inside when the car is pelted with cement bricks from a failed cloud seeding operation. As the pimp struggles to get in the car, he is hit in the head by a chunk of cement and killed. (As mentioned in the article on cloud seeding, such incident did occur when a bag of cement failed to open properly, but no deaths or injuries occurred as a result). |
895 | Pop Goes The Cholo (a.k.a. Sin-Tu bated) | August 25, 2008 | Albuquerque, NM | Two street gang members take a third member to a back alley doctor to treat a bullet wound to the chest. The gang leader ends up pistol whipping the doctor into unconsciousness after losing patience with him. With the doctor out cold, the gang members decide to do the operation themselves, but fail after inserting the tracheal tube down the injured member's esophagus, rather than the trachea, and end up hemorrhaging the injured member's stomach by filling it with air and causing it to explode. (This death features the third instance of an interviewee being shown in shadow for criminal protection and the first time voice alteration is used, in the case of a gang doctor named Bennie Wilson) |
205 | Flame Retard-Ant (a.k.a. Stop, Drop And Die) | July 6, 2005 | Burnside, KY | A pyromaniac attempts to set a tree ablaze after dousing it with gasoline. Unfortunately, he gets gasoline on his pants and ends up in flames. However, he is quick to jump into the adjacent river, but the melting of his muscles and cartilage cause shock and paralysis. The man collapses into the lake and drowns. |
245 | Rocky Roadkill (a.k.a. Ice Fiend Man) | September 2, 2007 | Riverside, CA | A drug dealer doing business out of an ice cream truck is mugged by a meth addict. The driver manages to get away, but upon encountering a sharp turn, the freezer topples over and leaks chlorofluorocarbon into the truck. The dealer blacks out from inhaling the refrigerant and slams into a tree, the impact of which ruptures his aortic valve and causes death by exsanguination. (This is pretty much based on the death of actor Justin Mentell, except Mentell died in his sleep when his car hit two trees, and he was not wearing a seat belt.) |
404 | Straight To DVDead (a.k.a. Duel Personalities) | December 6, 2005 | Hollywood, CA | Two men are reenacting a 1775 Revolutionary War duel for a low-budget film. One man, upset that he did not get the lead role, plots to kill the other, so he slips a lead ball into the gun chamber to make the death seem like an accident. However, when he fires the gun, it explodes due to an excessive amount of gunpowder, blowing his hand off and sending shrapnel into his femoral artery, and he is killed from blood loss. |
348 | My Big Fat Greek Death (a.k.a. Brass Bulls) | 560 BC | Athens, Greece | Perillos of Athens, a metalworker, is attempting to impress King Phalaris with the unveiling of a new torture device: the brazen bull, which is meant to roast enemies that are placed inside. To test the device, Phalaris locks Perillos in the device and cooks him to death. (Based on historical accounts, but Perillos was freed from the bull and subsequently thrown from a hilltop to his death, whereupon Phalaris himself was thrown into the bull after being overthrown.) |
Episode 45: Dead Before They Know It
Originally aired March 23, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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317 | SP-Effed (a.k.a Blistering Vice) | April 26, 2004 | La Vegas, NV | A young woman who always borrows her roommates' belongings without asking mistakes psoriasis cream for moisturizer before stepping into her roommate's new tanning bed (which no one is allowed to use). The psoralen in the cream, activated by the tanning bed's ultraviolet radiation, gives her massive second degree burns all over her body and she collapses on her horrified roommate and dies of heart failure and severe dehydration. |
127 | Ji-Had It Coming (a.k.a. Terrorist Wedding) | September 24, 2006 | Afghanistan | An award-winning American reporter denounces her U.S. citizenship, converts to Islam, and marries a Taliban leader. She celebrates by firing off several rounds of an AK-47 into the air during her wedding to fit in with the crowd, but loses control of the gun and dies when one of the bullets hits a metal pitcher and ricochets into her skull, where it bounces inside and causes massive bleeding and immediately fatal wounds. |
264 | Crate and Buried (a.k.a. Air Maul) | August 15, 2004 | Darfur, Sudan | Two thieves in Sudan steal supply crates needed for refugees. As the men celebrate, they suddenly get crushed by a falling, two-ton supply crate that had a faulty parachute. |
458 | Lost In Transfusion (a.k.a. Cold Blooded) | May 16, 2002 | Chicago, IL | In order to beat a company drug test, a cocaine-addicted crane operator injects himself with blood that matches his type, stolen by his girlfriend who works as a hospital cook. However, he does not listen when she warns him to warm the blood before injecting it. He stores the blood in the refrigerator overnight before injecting it in the bathroom moments before his drug test. Once the blood enters his body, the man Is Killed instantly from fibrillation and tachycardia. |
678 | Ariva-Deadci | September 8, 2008 | Rochester, NY | A mobster on parole is granted permission to be on a work release program, but slacks off and orders his co-workers to do his work for him. When his parole officer visits him, the mobster tricks her into thinking that he is doing as he's told and moves a Dumpster. However, he gets distracted when he sees his co-worker talking to his parole officer about his job performance and forgets to lock the wheels on the Dumpster, which ends up rolling down the hill and pinning him against a second Dumpster. The mobster Is killed when the sharp end of the dumpster punctures his abdomen and extrudes his intestines from his body. (Loosely based on the death of Rodney Brown.)[12] |
402 | Miss-ur Head | March 8, 1925 | Marseille, France | A French criminal is executed via guillotine. His head is studied by a scientist out to prove that the guillotine is an inhumane form of capital punishment by showing officials that the victim who died still shows some signs of life after being decapitated. (This is one of the few deaths that is not based on stupidity or unusual circumstances. Instead, it is an experimental procedure and a means of capital punishment.) |
247 | Eye-Sick-Kill | November 29, 2008 | Cedar Springs, MI | A perverted stoner gets fired from his job as a mall Santa after two of his female elves report him for sexual harassment. As the man bangs on the door to get his boss to let him in, an icicle falls from the roof's edge. The man looks up just in time for the icicle to impale him in his eye and through his brain. (NOTE: This death is likely based on numerous deaths from falling icicles, including the case of five people from Samara, Russia dying in this fashion in 2008.)[13] |
Episode 46: Stupid Is As Death Does
Originally Aired March 29, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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219 | Chairway to Heaven (a.k.a. Ouch Potato) | November 20, 2003 | Milwaukee, WI | A selfish man who abandoned his family to "find himself" (a man even the narrator admits to wanting to kill himself for his selfish act) gets drunk with his friend while setting up his new house. He brings in a pilot seat from a Soviet fighter jet, unaware that it still works. He pulls the lever on the seat and is launched 10 feet into the air, crushing his skull against the roof. |
623 | Eye Swallow (a.k.a. Socket to Me) | February 14, 2008 | Berkeley, CA | An acrotomophiliac has sex with a woman who lost her arm in a car accident and has a glass eye. The woman puts her eye in a glass with water before continuing. When they are done, she runs to his shower and the man takes a drink from the glass with the eye, and chokes to death when he accidentally swallows her glass eye. |
255 | The Depart-Dead (a.k.a. Gangsta Trapped) | March 25, 1991 | South Boston, MA | A group of white, teenage wannabe-gangstas from South Boston play a drinking game called Edward Fortyhands, in which drinkers have beer bottles taped to their hands and they cannot do anything (smoke, urinate, leave the room, etc.) until the beer bottles are empty. One of them spits a half-lit cigar under a couch, which starts burning the flammable synthetic stuffing, releasing hydrogen cyanide into the room. Because they cannot open the door, they suffocate on the fumes. (This is based on the deaths of Dan Anderson and Margo Jones.) |
621 | Spyanide | April 17, 1943 | Norfolk, VA | A treacherous American spy working for the Nazis has a short meeting in a park. After that meeting, an American tries to return his notebook that he left behind. The spy thinks the American returning his notebook is out to get him and takes his own life by swallowing cyanide pills. (This is the first intentional suicide in the series, based on any number of suicides at the end of World War II where a cyanide capsule was used, including one that killed Adolf Hitler's wife, Eva Braun.) |
126 | Game Stopped (a.k.a. Game Over) | October 4, 2008 | Mattituck, NY | A video game addict plays for 60 straight hours trying to take down his opponents and become the highest-ranked player in the world. When his last opponent, a woman, beats him at the very last second, he furiously stands up, then drops dead, unaware that his leg veins had formed clots from being sedentary for so long and now the clots had moved into his heart and lungs. (Possibly based on the death of Lee Sung Seop, who died playing Star Craft for the same amount of hours. This is also the first death that shows how the person died that is not in the regular CGI format. It is instead shown as in the style of the original Donkey Kong video games.) |
305 | Moving Violation (a.k.a. The Long Haul) | July 9, 1994 | Evanston, IL | Two ex-cons hired as moving men are helping a woman move out of her house. One of the movers steals a glass crystal flower. While packing the boxes in the truck, the van accidentally moves forward, and the man who stole the flower gets crushed by a falling box, piercing the flower in his heart, killing him (This death bears a striking resemblance to a known urban legend where a young woman dies after a plastic Jesus statuette she was holding in her hand while driving pierces her chest and heart after being hit by a deployed airbag).[14] |
193 | Art Attack (a.k.a. Scrap-Nel) | June 11, 2006 | New York, NY | A pervert posing as a French artist in order seduce women gets rejected by one of his targets. In a rage, he punches a "sculpture" he had made from a butterfly bomb, that sends shrapnel into the man's body and kills him. (Based on the death of Paul Gauche, only Gauche died when he used a butterfly bomb as a malete.) |
Episode 47: That's "Mister Death" To You
Originally aired April 5, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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275 | Any Given Gunday (a.k.a. One in the Oven) | November 25, 2004 | Los Angeles, CA | A jersey chaser (a groupie who goes after professional athletes) likes to seduce professional athletes to steal their money, and ended up sleeping with a football player overnight. Due to paranoia, the football player kept multiple pistols secretly stashed in areas of his home, including the oven. When the jersey chaser went to cook him breakfast in the morning, she turned on the oven, which heated the pistol and caused it to fire a round into her skull. (This is based on a similar incident in 2008 where a 24 year old man's gun went off and injured two young boys; however both survived.[15]) |
592 | Descent Of A Woman (a.k.a. Mirror Mirror) | October 20, 2008 | Tucson, AZ | After a germophobe with obsessive-compulsive disorder falls off of a ladder, she smashes into a mirror and a mirror shard embeds into her armpit. When she removes the shard, it releases her axillary artery, and she hemorrhages and dies from blood loss. |
646 | Scarf-Face (a.k.a. Skinny Boned) | January 11, 2009 | Pakistani Border | A terrorist attempting to escape from prison abstains from eating for weeks so he can slip through the prison bars. After escaping, he gorges at a feast, and dies from refeeding syndrome. |
174 | Dog Dead Afternoon (a.k.a. Three Dog Night) | February 10, 2006 | Little Rock, AR | A dog thief uses a tranquilizer dart on a pitbull. When a security guard shows up, the thief waits for him to leave, but the guard falls asleep. When the guard awakes, the thief tranquilizes him, and the guard falls in front of the gate. Simultaneously, the pitbull awakes and attacks the now trapped thief, crushing his trachea. (In the episode, the would-be thief is named Vick, and the dog is named Michael - an obvious reference to notorious NFL quarterback Michael Vick, who was sent to jail for his role in a dog fighting ring.) |
213 | Crappy Ending | July 18, 2007 | Bangkok, Thailand | A tourist visits a "happy ending" massage parlor for sexual favors. During the session, however, he is unable to remain aroused and blames this on a strange buzzing sound within the walls. His frustrated masseuse removes an electrical outlet to check it out and flees in terror when an Asian giant hornet flies out and stings her client. The man kills the hornet but its pheromones attract the rest of the swarm, which proceed to sting the tourist to death.
(NOTE: A similar death was shown as Way To Die #199: Me So Hornet) |
439 | Chain Gang Banged (a.k.a Towed Away) | June 23, 2007 | Maricopa, AZ | A chain gang attempts to escape by hitching on a pickup truck passing by the road. When their chain gets wrapped around the truck's hitch, they get dragged along the ground and die from blood loss and multiple bone fractures. |
715 | Withdrawn (a.k.a. Lock and Exp-Load) | March 4, 2003 | Chicago, IL | A bank robber with a C-4 bomb collar around his neck holds up a bank. The teller flees for her car, but upon unlocking it, the bank robber's head blows off, because the remote control key and the bomb's detonator were set on the same frequency. (Based on the death of Brian Douglas Wells.) |
Season 6
Episode 48: Death, The New Black
Aired July 18, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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147 | Splat-Formed (a.k.a Dead as Disco) | September 5, 1977 | Harlem, NY | A cocaine dealer, who was also addicted to the drug he sold, goes to a disco to show off his moves and have fun. When he trips in his platform shoes, the spearheaded end of his male symbol necklace pierces his jugular vein, and he bleeds to death faster than normal due to the cocaine and dancing giving him a rapid heartbeat. |
325 | Who Fart-Dead?(a.k.a. Hot Boxed) | November 10, 2008 | Seattle, WA | A group of sorority pledges enter a sauna contest where whoever can stay in the sauna the longest gets to avoid Hell Week. One of them, a rich girl who tried to buy her way out of being hazed, went on a steady diet of beans and broccoli for a week, which gave her gas. She intentionally farts, making all of the girls run out in disgust. After farting out the competition (including an Ecuadorian transfer student who could handle the heat, but not the rich girl's gas), the rich girl wins, but ends up dying from severe dehydration, an extremely high body core temperature, and second and third degree burns all over her skin. (This is based on the death of Vladimir Ladyzhensky at the 2010 World Sauna Championships.) |
237 | Him-Paled (a.k.a Rubbed Out) | May 10, 2008 | Philadelphia, PA | An upskirter peeps on a woman by a street-side coffee vendor, but is caught by a construction worker. When he backs up after being startled, he is impaled in his neck by a reinforcing bar accidentally thrown from another construction worker on a building eight floors up. (This features the fourth instance of an interviewee being kept in shadow for criminal protection and the first of a possible fake name for a voyeur named Thomas J. Peepus.) |
309 | Jablowni (a.k.a. Rafted) | June 2, 2006 | West Deptford, NJ | An arrogant twenty-something who likes bodybuilding and mistreats his girlfriend orders her to inflate a pool raft. She quits, and he ends up inflating it with tire sealant (which contains a flammable chemical) and throwing it in the pool. When he gets on it, he accidentally puts down his cigarette on the raft, which the flammable raft explodes, flinging the man with enough pressure to smack his brain hard against his skull. |
213 (Note:This is the second death to be given this number) | Ass-Hoppered (a.k.a Bake Out) | April 20, 2010 | Humboldt County, CA | Two men in rural California attempt to grow marijuana for money, but end up smoking it all. The two get "the munchies," but having no food, one man decides to eat a grasshopper. Unknowingly allergic to a protein in the bug's exoskeleton, he goes into anaphylactic shock and dies when his throat swells shut. |
497 | Ball Sacked (a.k.a Sports Nut) | October 3, 2007 | Coalville, WV | An angry football coach (who was fired for cheating and has been reduced to working at a school in a backwater town) tries to toughen his team by using an outlawed drill called the Bull Ring. The teams' kicker delivered a fatal kick to the coach's groin due to lead inserts in his shoes. The kick shatters his pelvis and the coach dies of septic shock after a bone fragment punctures one of his kidneys. (This is similar to the death of 31-year-old Jovito Esplago in 2001.[16]) |
306 | Big Boned (a.k.a. Crushed by the Competition) | December 17, 2004 | Reno, NV | Two drunken insurance salesmen crash a beauty pageant for plus-sized women. One of the men heckles the contestants by mooing and making fat jokes. The three finalists step out on the end of the runway (which was not meant to hold their weight) to yell at him. The runway support snaps and all three women (who, when combined, weigh 997 pounds) fall on the heckler and crush him to death. (Possibly based on the death of a man who tried to storm a cockpit of a airplane in 2000, but was crushed to death by passengers jumping on top of him.) |
Episode 49: Death Be a Lady Tonight
Aired July 25, 2011 on Spike TV
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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745 | Half-Offed (a.k.a Taxi-Scab) | July 15, 2001 | Reno, NV | An obnoxious impatient executive bullies his way through a taxi line and steals the cab from a woman with several bags, demanding the ride is his. As he's arguing with the woman and the bellhop, a tow truck speeds by with a loose hook and the hook gets caught in the taxi's trunk, pinning the man against the cab and quickly bisecting him. |
459 | Smoke Stalked | March 8, 2004 | Holbrook, AZ | A psychotic ex-girlfriend stalks her newly-married boyfriend and his happy wife to the point of her invasions becoming threatening. Desperate to take their minds off the stalker, the couple go off an a weeks vacation, during which the stalker tries to break in through the chimney and gets stuck. Trapped for a week, she slowly dies of a mix of starvation, dehydration, and suffocation until her body's finally freed by her returning boyfriend, noticing her corpse is preventing him from starting a fire in the flue. (Based on the death of a doctor from the UK in 2010 who attempted to break into her lover's home.) [17] |
619 | Sudden Death (a.k.a Last Call) | July 21, 2006 | Emmett, MI | A fantasy football fanatic annoys everyone at a sports bar with his repeated yells at players and shouting out how many points they gained or cost him in his fantasy league. When he tries to change the shown game to another more favorable one, he triggers a bar fight and manages to slip off, only for a piece of a shattered beer mug to fly towards him and pierce through his neck and slicing his jugular vein and carotid artery, causing him to bleed out within moments and killing him from blood loss. |
271 | Raider of the Lost Narc | February 22, 2002 | Sterling, CO | A junkie, desperate for her fix, calls in a bogus 911 call, sending a hospital's paramedics speeding out. Hiding behind a dumpster and watching the ambulances head out, she quickly rushes in through the open garage door and pockets several bottles of morphine before trying to rush back out through the closing door. But, dropping one of the bottles, she reaches back to try and retrieve it and is crushed by the garage door, which had a broken safety shutoff switch. (This is possibly based on the death of Chicago resident Yneekah Garcia from 2009.[18]) |
324 | Bats All Folks (a.k.a Gone Batty!) | May 22, 2005 | Hohhot, China | An unscrupulous antiquities trader and tomb raider sneaks into a cave and steals a 1,000-year-old warrior statue, only to awaken a colony of bats. One of the bats bites the tomb raider in the neck, infecting him with the SARS virus, which kills him two weeks later. |
257 | Pimp My Death (a.k.a Curtain Call Girl) | April 3, 2005 | Washington, DC | A hooker charms her way into a desperate married man's hotel room on the pretense of finding him attractive. But when she reveals her profession and insists on $2,000 for the night, the man refuses to pay leading to her calling her boss. When the man arrives, she used their confrontation as a chance to take her 2 grand from the mans wallet, then tries to hide in the bathroom to be able to make her getaway, only for her boss to shove the man into her and causing her to fall into a marble sink edge and split her head open, killing her almost instantly. (This features the fifth instance of an interviewee being kept in shadow for criminal protection in the case of an escort named Natasha Noriega) (This is also the sixth death with a name based off a 21st century TV show, the others being "Jersey Gore", "Deadliest Munch", "Little Person, Big Death", "Crib Your Enthusiasm", and "Myth Busted".) |
370 | Drone Boned | November 5, 2008 | Korengal Valley, Afghanistan | A pair of terrorists who have killed American soldiers with rifles and homemade bombs hide out in an abandoned building. Meanwhile in Nevada, an American pilot (and former video game master) uses a predator drone to flush out the terrorists. The drone finds its way into the abandoned building and fires a missile at its target. |
Episode 50: Today's Special: Death
Aired August 1, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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406 | Weld Done (a.k.a All's Hell That Ends Weld) | May 25, 2009 | Scranton, PA | A woman lies about her welding experience so she can get a job. When her boss discovers she had lied, he fires the woman. To prove her welding ability, she welds her boss' car door shut and runs to her van. But she accidentally places her welding gear with the nozzle opened, filling the van with flammable gas. When she unlocks the van, the electric car battery causes a spark which ignites the gas inside the van and explodes on her. |
450 | That's A Morte! (a.k.a. Lust Poisoning) | June 25, 1580 | Verona, Italy | An Italian statesman suspects his wife of being unfaithful and puts her in a chastity belt to keep other men away from her. One of the woman's lovers comes up with a plan to slip off the chastity belt by soaking her in a tub of oil and water. The belt comes off and the two have sex. This process is repeated for several days, causing scratches on the woman's skin from the rust, which gives her a fatal tetanus infection. (This is based on the death of a Peruvian woman in 1987).[19] |
412 (This is the seventh death to be given this number) | Gang Banged (a.k.a Hit Me Baby) | September 8, 1928 | Little Italy, NY | A son of a black market booze dealer enters a steam room in a bathhouse with a gun hidden under a towel in order to kill the person who shot his father in the head. Two men inside the room seem to recognize the gunman, so one man asks his name. After the gunman reveals his name, he pulls out the gun, but slips on the seat and fires a bullet into a steam pipe. The man falls in front of the leaking steam pipe, which sends 350 degree steam out onto his face. The steam melts half of his face, and he dies instantly. |
326 | Smother-In-Law | March 5, 2007 | Muncie, OH | A meddlesome, shrewish, overweight mother-in-law angers her son's wife by nagging her about her son's food preferences. After getting slapped in the face, the wife leaves the kitchen. The mother-in-law tries to take a frozen pizza out of the freezer, but the box is wedged between other groceries, and the force of the mother-in-law's tugging sends the refrigerator crashing down on her. The sharp end of the freezer door pierces her throat while the rest of the refrigerator crushes her body. |
618 | DWI: Dying While Intoxicated (a.k.a Mow-ing Violation) | December 9, 2003 | Palm Springs, CA | A drunk divorcee is chosen by her equally drunk and equally divorced friends to go to the liquor store for more drinks, but the woman cannot drive due to an impounded car and a suspended license from a DUI charge. The woman decides to drive a riding mower instead. When she runs through a stop sign, a police officer pursues her. During the slow-speed chase, the woman tries to lose the officer by driving on a lawn. The woman hits a rock and falls off the mower. Too stunned and drunk to react in time, the mower runs the woman down, shredding her in seconds. (This is possibly based on the death of a monk from the UK in 2008.[20]) |
73 | Vertigo, Going, Gone (a.k.a Allergy Treason) | April 23, 1998 | Louisville, KY | When an ill-mannered, incompetent office worker gets fired, he vows revenge on his boss. He waits for her atop an oak tree, unaware that he's allergic to oak tree pollen. After missing the shot, the man's body goes into paralysis from his allergy and drops out of the tree, dying of a skull fracture. |
440 | Tea Bagged (a.k.a Speaker Trouble) | July 22, 2009 | Small Town, USA | A highly inexperienced female politician holds a rally to become mayor under the Tea Party ticket. In her excitement, the woman suffers a hemorrhagic stroke and collapses on the bayonet of her prop musket, which pierces her from under the chin through her brain. |
Episode 51: Eat Pray Die
Aired August 8, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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500 | Ich Bin Ein Stoner (a.k.a. Witch Hunt) | October 26, 1384 | Cochem, Germany | A medieval witch hunter goes mad after eating grains infected with ergot. The superstitious townspeople use a method that the witch hunter used on a village woman who was accused of witchcraft: pricking a mole on the accused's body (if it bled, the accused was innocent. If it did not, the accused was deemed a witch). The witch hunter's mole does not bleed and he is sentenced to death by stoning. The witch hunter is killed when a stone hits him in the stomach and ruptures his intestines and another stone cracks his skull. |
449 | Another Up The Butt Story (a.k.a. Buzz-Ted) | August 17, 2009 | Las Vegas, NV | A drunk bachelor attempts to rape a stripper (who was used as a human sushi bar) at his bachelor party. The stripper pushes him onto the toilet and he leans on the flush mechanism. Abnormally high pressure in the tank causes the porcelain lid to fly onto the floor and shatter, and the bachelor slips onto a shard of porcelain, piercing his colon and intestinal tract, and causing him to get killed from severe blood loss. |
189 | Poly-Ass-Turd (a.k.a. You're Fired!) | October 7, 2003 | Twin Falls, ID | A fraudulent self-help guru holds an outdoors seminar for people with low self-confidence, which includes a test in which the patients have to walk over a bed of hot coals. When a patient complains the coals are too hot, the guru attempts to prove them wrong and walk over them himself. However, he falls and is caught ablaze, with his polyester suit melting onto his skin causing fatal burns and dies. |
79 | Shoots & Ladders (a.k.a. See You Ladder) | May 9, 2004 | Melbourne, FL | After getting annoyed by his neighbor's barking dog, a miser shot it with a pellet from a slingshot. However, while putting the slingshot back in the attic, a screw from the ladder to the attic came loose and he slipped, falling backward and smacking his head against the hardwood floor. He soon is killed from brain damage that stopped his heart & prevented him from breathing. |
487 | E-I-E-I-Oww! (a.k.a. In Farm's Way) | June 1, 2005 | Pullman, WA | Two delinquents are sentenced to a work release program on a farm after they got caught for grand theft auto. One of the delinquents picks up a captive bolt pistol, thinking it is a pump to a milking machine. The farmer's daughter warns him not to play with it, but he points it at her saying that he wants milk. Still thinking that it's a pump, the delinquent uses the captive bolt pistol on his own chest, piercing his heart. (This is possibly based off Anton Chigurh's method of murder in the novel No Country For Old Men and its film adaptation).[21] |
769 | Bush Defeated (a.k.a. Wax On, Wax Off) | March 23, 1999 | Nelson County, Virginia | A woman with a large amount of pubic hair decides to get rid of it by clipping, shaving, and waxing it off herself after her boyfriend gets grossed out at it. She accidentally removed some skin while waxing, which allowed an infection of necrotizing fasciitis to kill her two weeks later from blood poisoning and organ failure. (This death is very similar to the one that coincidentally follows it numerically #770: "Face-Offed" from season one). |
419 | Skid Marked (a.k.a. Ghost Rider) | March 12, 2006 | St. Petersburg, FL | A group of car thieves are practicing "ghost riding the whip" (putting the car into gear and dancing alongside it) with a just stolen SUV. One of them attempts "The Circle", which involves making the car ride in a tight circle while standing atop it. However, the SUV hits a parking chock, throwing the rider off, and crushing his legs. He is unable to move out of the way, and before his companions can reach him, the car loops around and crushes his pelvis, stomach, lungs, heart, and then his head. (This is possibly based on the death of Davender Gulley in 2006.[22]) |
Episode 52: Wait, Don't Tell Me - You're Dead
Aired August 15, 2011 but first appeared on Spike's website July 26.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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804 | Fire In The Hole | July 16, 2002 | Florida State Prison | A Neo-Nazi jail inmate attempts to escape by having his painfully stupid (described as stupid even by neo-nazi standards) friend get himself arrested smuggling a hand grenade in through his anal canal. He has trouble getting it out after getting arrested, however, so the other man tries to pull it out. He accidentally pulls out the pin which makes the grenade explode. This kills them both instantly. |
65 | Somewhere Over the Railing (a.k.a. Bagged) | December 15, 2007 | Durham, NC | On a 24-hour-live web show, a prankster tries to get her friend to sit on a chair, unaware that it has an airbag under the seat. Because she has been pranked over and over, she declines and accidentally pushes her friend onto the chair and is launched over the stair railing, falls on her head, severing her neck and spinal cord, dying instantly much to the horror of her fellow prankster roommate. |
329 | Muffed Dive (a.k.a. High Die) | May 13, 2003 | Dubuque, IA | A former Olympic diver who was kicked off for abusing drugs now works as a manager at a municipal pool, is more interested in impressing MILFs and middle-aged divorcees than doing work. While out on a date with one of his targets, he shows off his diving, until he hits his head on a floating chlorine dispenser and dies from head trauma and the water filling his lungs and drowning him. |
328 | Treadkill | June 17, 2003 | Birmingham, AL | A voyeur spies on his hot next door neighbor and her boyfriend while exercising on his treadmill. He unknowingly increases the speed of the treadmill and falls, with his hoodie string catching on the cup holder. It tightened around his neck, cutting off blood and air from his brain. (This is similar to the death of Exodus Tyson.,[23] but similar to "Crib Your Enthusiasm, Bad Max, and M-R-Ouch!, the victim's been changed from an innocent 4-year-old girl to an adult voyeur out of respect for the Tyson family and for ethical and legal reasons) |
86 | Bush Whacked 2: South of the Border (a.k.a Fire Stuck) | July 29, 2007 | Juarez, Mexico | Two drug haulers who have stolen over $8 million worth of drugs from their drug lord attempt to hide from him in a nearby bush as he drives by. Unaware that the bush is actually Firestick, they become blind and irradiated from the acidic sap the bush secretes. Eventually they reveal themselves to the drug lord, who drives by. The drug lord's enforcer gets out and shoots both men. |
173 | Leave it to Seizure (a.k.a. Great Seizure's Ghost) | October 12, 2004 | Boston, Massachusetts | A stripper who pickpockets her customers has a grand mal seizure while dancing in her cage under the strobe lights. She dies when she bites the tip of her tongue off, swallows, and chokes on it. |
318 | Dia De Los Morons (a.k.a. Night of the Living Deadbeat) | October 31, 2009 | Kingsport, TN | Two trick-or-treaters decide to play pranks on people by vandalizing their property and shooting each other with silly string. After one lights a bag of dog feces on fire to leave on a neighbors' doorstep, he accidentally lights the silly string on his body. Adding to the polyester he's wearing, he is burned to death. |
Episode 53: Death - The Gift That Lasts Forever
Aired August 22, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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591 | Trip to the Maul (a.k.a. Love Is Blind) | September 10, 2003 | Bozeman, MT | After cheating on his wife on a camping trip with his mistress, a man develops vasoconstriction in the eyes during intercourse and goes blind. Stumbling out of the tent, he encounters a brown bear, which mauls him to death. (The second death to show similarity with that of Timothy Treadwell) |
826 | Gory Holed | October 16, 1995 | Trenton, NJ | An old man decides to go on an online sex chatroom and pose as a very young man attracting young girls. When he asks to see a picture of a girl that claims she's 18, his dial-up connection takes too long. To pass the time, he bounces up and down on his springing computer chair. After a few bounces, the cylinder in the chair snaps out and impales the man in his rectum, causing internal bleeding. |
468 | Died-Zilla | April 12, 2008 | Middlebury, VT | After snorting bath salts from her gift baskets for days on end, a bride-to-be (who had previously been in rehab for a drug addiction) gets hyperthermia due to the chemical MDPV in the bath salts, and collapses at the altar, much to the relief of her reluctant husband-to-be. |
334 | U.P.F'D | December 1, 2003 | Olympia, WA | A former mailman who was forced into early retirement now steals packages in front of peoples' houses. After stealing a box from the doorstep of a prominent judge, he opens it and gets hit in the face with anthrax that was set up on a jack-in-the-box-style mechanism. The bacteria kills the man a week later. (NOTE: This may be based on the events of the 2001 Anthrax attacks) |
992 | I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | August 22, 2002 | Cleveland, OH | A man suffering from fatal familial insomnia takes a night drive and accidentally hits and kills a pedestrian. After he gets home, he cleans his car and drives to a sleep clinic. Unable to be cured and frightened from hallucinating his victim's face, he lies awake for months and dies of a massive stroke. |
325 (NOTE: This is the second death given this number) | Kitchen Sunk | May 14, 2003 | Echo Park, CA | An untalented musician refuses to fix a clogged sink after being asked by his girlfriend. After his girlfriend comes back, he finally helps her. With no idea what to do, he turns on the garbage disposal. His long beard gets sucked into the disposal, pulling his face into the murky dish water, and drowning him. |
460 | Blast Call (a.k.a. Half-Dead) | March 11, 2009 | Chicago, IL | A penniless demolition worker drew a dartboard on his abdomen and had people pay to take shots at him so that he could pay for shots at the bar. After several shots of darts and alcohol, he finally fell over. Forgetting that he had a stick of dynamite - armed with a blasting cap - in his back pocket, the impact with the floor triggers an explosion that bisects him. |
Episode 54: Death: One Size Fits All
Aired August 29, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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190 | Handi-Crapped (a.k.a Getting the Shaft) | July 24, 2001 | Flint, MI | A man fakes an on the job injury attempting to sue his company. When he goes into his office to make a phone call, he did not lock the door all the way and his female secretary catches him in the act. She, eager to report him to their boss, runs to the elevator and he, furious over being caught, angrily follows her in his wheelchair, threatening to fire her if she says one word to their boss. Unfortunately for him, she makes it to the elevator and closes the doors. As the express car starts going up, he bashes through the doors and falls down the shaft, suffering massive trauma. |
293 (NOTE: This is the second death to be given this number) | Frost-Dead (a.k.a Freeze Died) | June 3, 2002 | Springfield, IL | A bumbling cryopreservation engineer who has been known to inject standard anti-freeze into his clients instead of the usual preservation material to prevent freeze damage, dies after breathing in pure liquid nitrogen from a tube that had come loose from a cryogenic tank he had failed to fix. |
242 | Slippery When Dead (a.k.a Sleeper-y Hold) | September 1, 1998 | Beaver Dam, KY | A feared oil wrestler performs illegal moves on her opponents for a $500 prize. A previous one wants a rematch and when the cheating wrestler goes to finish, she slips and the spike of the timekeeper's bell went into her brain, killing her instantly. |
163 | Drivers Dead | March 10, 2005 | Charlotte, NC | A very stressed-out and impatient driver's ed teacher who's wanting to retire badly, gets a woman student who's easily flustered and loses his patience with her. When the woman leaves to report the teacher to his supervisor for his abuse, he angrily bangs on the steering wheel, inadvertently deploying the air bag, which snaps his neck upon impact. |
881 | Slayer Cake (a.k.a Heart Baker) | April 13, 2006 | St. Charles, MD | The owner of a bakery hires her idiot brother-in-law out of desperation and regrets it after several days. After a display of poor work skills on his part, she fires him. Before he leaves, he makes slanderous cakes, slips, and falls on his icing dispenser, which squirts icing into his heart, and dies from a massive heart attack, much to the horror of his sister-in-law boss. |
240 | Miner Injuries | March 20, 1920 | Fayetteville, West Virginia | A bossy mine boss gets mad at two of his workers and gets to work himself. Three of the workers smell methane and one of the workers tries to warn the boss. The boss ignores them and continues to dig with a pick axe, but the blade of the pick axe cause a spark when it hits one of the rocks and ignites the methane, sending rocks into his skull. |
785 | My Chemical Romance (a.k.a Trashed) | August 8, 2003 | Bullhead City, AZ | A scamming couple posing as a toxic waste disposal company dump the biohazard at a local dump. When the boyfriend complains about dumping, his bitter girlfriend takes over and dumps the waste herself. She dies soon after tripping on a discarded toilet and gets a mouthful of the toxic sludge from the barrel, filling her lungs and killing her from a combination of drowning and poisoning. |
Episode 55: Cure for the Common Death, Part III
Airs September 30, 2011
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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106 | Y2Killed (a.k.a Harm-Ageddon) | December 31, 1999 | Pierre, SD | An overly supersticious man fears about Y2K, to protect himself, he locks himself in his basement, without any food, or water. After a few days, he dies out due to a combination of dehydration, starvation, and sepsis. due to the several bite marks he received while sleeping by the numerous rats in his basement at the time. |
272 | Toxoplasmised (a.k.a Brain Eaten) | July 21, 2002 | New York, NY | A man who works at a meat packing company gets infected with toxoplasmosis after he eats raw cow meat. The toxoplasmosis dosen't kill him but causes him to pass out while driving, and die in a car crash a week later. |
258 | Camped Out (a.k.a Ass is Grass) | March 21, 2001 | Upper Peninsula, MI | A man camping in the woods lights a campfire but forgets to put it out before he sleeps. As the man is sleeping in his tent, the grass around the campre ignites. Eventually, the fire travels to the man's tent, burning him alive. |
17 | Walked the Plank (a.k.a Jelly Beaned) | April 24, 1996 | Melbourne, Austrailia | A man who wants to live out his lifelong dream of becoming a pirate starts by raiding a cargo ship. The crew of the ship, however, see him as a nuisance rather than a threat. The push him off the ship and he falls into the sea, where box jellyfish proceed to sting him to death. |
260 | Taken For Granite (a.k.a B-Assaulted) | May 23, 1987 | Stone Mountain, GA | A mean chef decides to cook at his house. However, he dosen't know that the granite on the counter is infected with a radioactive ore and he dies from radioactive poisoning. |
134 | The Least Extreme (a.k.a The Most Extreme: Stpudity) | March 29, 2011 | The Amazon | A teenager is obsessed about watching a show called Extreme Stunts. He sets out to film himself doing a stunt from the show which includes sleeping one night in the amazon without any protection. He finds a comfortable place to sleep near a river. While the teenagers is sleeping, an anaconda comes out of the river and finds him. The anaconda then strangles him to death. |
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