The pilot episodes were executive produced and narrated by Thom Beers who also created the series, and directed, co-written, and produced by Will Raee and co-written by Tom McMahon.
The first two episodes are visually distinct from the rest of the series, as they were originally intended to be the only episodes. They both open with the words of the disclaimer displayed in white font on black background, while the voice-over reads:
"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..."
"But death...is everywhere. Most of us try to avoid it, others can't get out of its way..."
(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."
"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."
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. This pans right to trivia about a similar incident or related scientific fact, usually less than 30 seconds long, which is depicted entirely in comic formatting. The process repeats with the second story, which then cuts directly to commercial after the trivia. The third and fourth stories also follow this format. The fifth story follows suit, but instead goes directly to commercial after the trivia bit. The sixth story is also depicted, and then cuts to the real-life story segment, which does not employ the comic face. When the real-life story ends, the credits roll in red and yellow comic font on black/white-flecked background.
The second episode mimics the first, except that the first and second stories are so long on their own that they go straight to commercial after their related trivia. The third and fourth stories follow the prior pattern, only without the trivia bits; the fifth story then leads into the real-life story, both without trivia.
Pilot Episode 1: Life Will Kill You[]
Originally aired May 14, 2008.
Death #
"Event" Name
Circumstances of Death
208
Semi-cide
A man is run over and cut in half by an 18-wheeler while working under his car at a gas station. His upper body and legs were accidentally sent to separate hospitals and the man could not be saved as a result.
422
Constriction Accident
An intoxicated construction worker falls asleep at the wheel of a dump truck filled with sand. He accidentally activates the dumping mechanism and buries a co-worker under three tons of sand, killing him from crush asphyxia.
92
Fang Banged
A drunk man is shot at by his equally drunk brother. The drunk man miraculously dodges the bullet, but ends up dead when he falls on top of a rattlesnake that bites him near his heart.
832
Lesbocution
A woman recently dumped by her boyfriend decides to swear off men forever and goes home to have sex with her best female friend to celebrate her coming out as a lesbian. During the walk home, the woman takes off her high heels and steps barefoot into a puddle with a live wire in it; when she touches the metal light pole next to the puddle, she is electrocuted.
125
Love Bugged
A French, reclusive amateur entomologist and herpetologist dies from a black widow bite in a misguided attempt to build an immunity to its venom. He was later found eaten by his reptile pets by Parisian police officers. (This death is based on the death of Mark Voegel. )
640
Tumble Die
A repairman climbs into a broken industrial clothes dryer to repair it, after sending his assistant to shut off its circuit breaker. However, the assistant shuts off the wrong breaker, leaving the machine energized. The door closes and the drying cycle begins, killing the repairman from hyperthermia within minutes.
A man is deliberately locked in a walk-in freezer 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, 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. 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 perishes from heat exhaustion. (This is a based off the death of a man in Melbourne, Australia.)
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. In this case, it was a flock of vultures.
Season 1[]
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."
"The 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" echoes 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.
Season 1 Episode 1 / Episode 3: Unforced Errors[]
Originally aired Feb. 8, 2009. gówno
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
64
Habeas Corpse
May 1, 1998
Law Office Los Angeles, California
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. (Based on the death of Garry Hoy).
288
Chippin' Dale
August 11, 2003
Sonoran Desert Yuma, Arizona
Two men shredding limbs in a woodchipper are just about done when the last branch jams the woodchipper. Anxious to get to his house to watch TV, one of them irrationally tries to unjam the woodchipper with his foot, but his foot gets stuck and he gets shredded alive (This death is based on the death of Brian Morse).
226
Gasketballed
November 21, 1993
Ball State College Kenosha, Wisconsin
A young couple in college climb into a giant helium-filled basketball and their brains start dying. They realize they need to get out, but can't because they are unable find the zipper to open it. They eventually suffocate, due to the lack of oxygen. (This death could be based on the death of Jason Ackerman and Sara Rydman).
199
Me So Hornet
September 27, 1992
Boone Residence Lubbock, Texas
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, New Jersey
A sword swallower whose career is failing takes a bet to swallow an umbrella, only to accidentally hit the release button and cause it to lodge in his esophagus, closing off his trachea and causing internal bleeding and choking, killing him.
674
Killdo
January 31, 2004
Jennifer's Pad Roanoke, Virginia
A nymphomaniac shoves a peeled carrot up her vagina to use it as a dildo. A sharp edge on the carrot tears a small section of her vaginal wall, and the motion of masturbation forces air into the laceration, causing an air embolism in her bloodstream to rush to her heart where it becomes lodged, blocking blood flow and killing her.
Season 1 Episode 2 / Episode 4: Death Over Easy[]
Originally aired Feb. 8, 2009.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
316
Butt F***ed
December 22, 1978
Mobile, Alabama
A man falls asleep while smoking and sets himself on fire. He is rescued, taken to a hospital, and wrapped from head to toe in bandages soaked in burn medicine to treat his 3rd degree burns. Three weeks without a cigarette later, he bribes a nurse to let him outside for a few minutes. He smuggles a cigarette out and lights it, but the ashes from the cigarette ignite his bandages. As he struggles to put the fire out, his wheelchair rolls down the ramp and his oxygen tank explodes when the chair hits the bottom, incinerating him.
818
Frightmare
June 16, 1995
Fargo, North Dakota
A woman suffers from Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome brought on by an intense nightmare about a demonic dwarf choking her neck and, as a result, she dies.
97
Oprah Winfried
November 13, 1986
Folsom, California
An obnoxious former death row inmate whose sentence was changed 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. (This death is based on the death of Michael Godwin).
412
Em-Bear-Assed
April 17, 2001
Palmdale, California
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 brown bear for one of the participants and is mauled to death.
625
Midnight Choker
December 19, 2006
Gary, Indiana
A man impresses bar patrons by swallowing an 8-ball and then regurgitating it. He tries to repeat the trick with the slightly larger cue ball, but the increased size prevents the ball from passing back up his throat and he chokes to death.
269
Window Pained
August 23, 1998
Atlanta, Georgia
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 while trying to get out. The window breaks his neck between the second and third cervical vertebrae, killing him.
Season 1 Episode 3 / Episode 5: Dead and Deader[]
Originally aired Feb. 15, 2009.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
504
Wel-Dead
March 13, 2005
Long Beach, California
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
Aberdeen, South Dakota
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
Los Angeles, California
A man is shot through the shoulder and killed on New Year's Eve by a stray bullet fired into the air by revelers a few miles away.
385
Sh*t Faced
September 19, 1983
Sparta, Kentucky
An alcoholic recovering from throat surgery asks his wife to give him an enema consisting of sherry. The alcohol bypasses the digestive tract and is absorbed directly into his bloodstream unfiltered by the liver, causing alcohol poisoning.(An identical incident took place in Texas in 2004, earning the decedent the Darwin Award of the Year in 2007.)
197
Dead Eye
May 15, 1993
Glendale, California
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.
319
Domin-a-Dead (US);
Rubbered Out (UK)
February 27, 2006
Tonopah, Nevada
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's 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.
Season 1 Episode 4 / Episode 6: Death Gets Busy[]
Originally aired Feb. 22, 2009.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
610
Deep Fried
October 26, 1999
Akron, Ohio
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 into a vat of hydrochloric acid, which eats away at his flesh and internal organs. (Note: Possibly based on the death of Fernando Jimenez Gonzalez)
892
Gorgeous Gorge
May 2, 2004
New York, New York
A bulimic model orders everything from the room service menu in her hotel room and binges. When she goes to purge her meal, her stomach ruptures and she dies.
347
Re-Tired
June 4, 2005
Bakersfield, California
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
Carbondale, Illinois
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
Peachtree City, Georgia
Two dim-witted kitchen aides play by throwing cocoa powder at each other in a confined room. The powder fills the air and impairs the alveoli in their lungs and they are eventually asphyxiated.
629
Sex Ray
March 12, 2001
Jackson, Michigan
A man is having an x-ray of his head taken when the doctor and nurse begin having sex in the control room as the amused patient watches. The couple accidentally hit the exposure button repeatedly while having sex, eventually giving the patient a lethal dose of radiation.
Season 1 Episode 5 / Episode 7: The Lighter Side of Death[]
Originally aired Mar. 1, 2009.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
314
Dung For (a.k.a Sh*t Happens)
October 25, 1986
Aberdeen, Texas
A farmhand being chased by a farmer for attempting to have sex with his 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
San Francisco, California
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.
401
Abracadaver
November 12, 1995
Flint, Michigan
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. (Based on the death of Dr. Epstein.)
429
Weed Whacked
February 8, 2002
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Two stoners run out of marijuana, so they look for other things to light up. They unwittingly decide to smoke some poison sumac and die from flash pulmonary edema caused by its irritating fumes.
221
Rebel Without A Pulse
July 4, 1867
Anniston, Georgia
Soon after the end of 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
New Orleans, Louisiana
A man who wants to sport 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. (This is similar to an urban legend, involving a cucumber, that has been circulating since 1979.[3])
Season 1 Episode 6 / Episode 8: The Good, The Bad, and the Dead[]
Originally aired Mar. 8, 2009.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
770
Face Offed
December 21, 2007
Las Vegas, Nevada
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
Tres Piedras, New Mexico
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
Amarillo, Texas
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 from hypothermia and blood loss to move and dies of exposure.
312
Re-Formed
March 24, 1989
Pico, California
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. (This death is based on the death of Anastasio Figueroa.)
963
Fin-Ished
July 17, 2004
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
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. (This death is loosely based off the death of Harris Simwaba)
553
Butt Plugged
November 9, 2002
El Segundo, California
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.
Season 1 Episode 7 / Episode 9: Death Be Not Stupid[]
Originally aired Mar. 15, 2009.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
502
Gas-Hole
May 19, 2002
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. (NOTE:This death is somewhat based on the death of Allen Ingram.)
1
Ichiboned
November 21, 1987
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
Long Beach, California
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. (Note: Possibly based on the death of David Mayes)
734
Die It
June 12, 2003
Evanston, Illinois
A woman, desperate to lose weight, swallows tapewormlarvae. 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, California
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.
283
Deadliest Catch
July 17, 2000
Willard, New Mexico
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.
Season 1 Episode 8 / Episode 10: Cure for the Common Death, Part I[]
Originally aired Mar. 22, 2009.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
77
Red, White and Blew
July 4, 1983
Lawrence, Kansas
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.
756
Bank Ruptured
December 21, 1978
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, and he dies from internal bleeding during surgery.
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 six stories to his death. His friend follows suit and jumps out after him. (Note: This is based on the death of Li Xiao Meng.)
196
Radium Girls
January 5, 1920
U.S. Radium Corp.Orange, New Jersey
In the 1920s, a group of female factory workers are employed at a plant that uses radium-laced paint to create fluorescent watch faces. One day at work, the girls notice that the paint also glows when applied to their skin and lips. They begin using it as body paint to surprise their lovers during sex. The repeated applications of the radioactive paint eventually gives all the female workers bone cancer. A few have died from this cancer, but some survivors filed a lawsuit on the factory, leading to an overhaul in workplace safety rules.
638
Oz Holed
August 19, 2001
San Dimas, California
Two teenagers obsessed with rock legend Ozzy Osbourne snort fire ants in celebration of Ozzfest, believing in the urban legend that Osbourne had 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.
710
Tanked Girl
December 21, 1978
St. Augustine, Florida
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 from rapid decompression. (NOTE: A similar but wider-scale incident occurred on a Byford Dolphin submersible.)
Season 1 Episode 9 / Episode 11: Death: A User's Manual[]
Originally aired Mar. 29, 2009
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
117
Gut Busted
February 20, 1998
Naperville, Nevada
An obese man starts belching and flatulating constantly while on a date due to numerous peptic ulcers lining his stomach. Thinking the belching and flatulence 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
Seattle, Washington
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
Irvine, California
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
July 3, 1992
Monrovia, California
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, Florida
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 venoushemorrhaging in his skull after 48 hours.
201
Blown Job
August 11, 2007
Miami, Ohio
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.
Season 1 Episode 10 / Episode 12: I See Dead People (And They're Cracking Me Up)[]
Originally aired Apr. 5, 2009.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
447
Water Logged
August 12, 2007
New River, Arizona
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
Mesa, Arizona
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
Kobe, Japan
A nervous Japanese man waiting to meet his future boss dies when he accidentally headbutts him when the two men bow, which causes an unknown aneurysm inside the would-be employee's brain to rupture.
277
You're So Vein
July 5, 2007
Albuquerque, New Mexico
An inmate being executed by lethal injection initially doesn't 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
April 2, 2001
Jasper, Tennessee
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. (NOTE: This death is based on the death of Robert Puelo.)
403
Heart On
October 19, 2005
Tooele County, Utah
A man is electrocuted when he attaches jumper cables to a cow heart and uses it as a sex toy. At first, he attached the cow heart to a car battery, but when it didn't work for him, he tried hooking it up to a 110-volt wall socket, which is what caused the electrocution.
Escaped Deaths[]
This season featured a list of segments in which the survivors tell the tale of how they evaded death.
girl wears khaki pants then farts in it them==Season 2==
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 real-life scenarios of people escaping death shown at the ending were dropped to make room for more 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. 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").
Season 2 Episode 1 / Episode 13: Death On Arrival[]
Originally aired Dec. 6, 2009.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
948
Titty Titty Bang Bang
June 6, 2006
San Diego, California
A woman receives large breast implants so she can become a stripper after months of doing low-level temp work and not earning enough to support her dreams of being an actress. However, the plastic surgeon who gave her the implants wasn't licensed 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. (NOTE: This is based on a similar incident that happened to a woman named Irena D. Unlike in the show, however, she survived.[4][5])
714
Forked-Up
July 13, 2006
Chester, Pennsylvania
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.
During a hike in the desert, a nymphomaniac dumps her boyfriend after discovering that he can't 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 insude. 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 set off a bomb 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 when he swings the severed head in victory, the teeth of the head accidentally strike his thigh, causing an infection that kills him ten days later.(NOTE: This is based on the death of Sigurd the Mighty.)
444
Deadliest Munch
June 7, 2008
Stockton, California
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 the she chokes to death on it.
913
Dead Meat-Eorite
May 11, 2006
Woodland Hills, California
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.
Season 2 Episode 2 / Episode 14: Death Bites![]
Originally aired Dec. 9, 2009.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
451
Ass Phyxiated (a.k.a Plumper Humper)
April 6, 2005
Omaha, Nebraska
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. (NOTE: This death might be based on the death of Mikal Middleton-Bey.)
103
Work of Fart (a.k.a Farted Out)
March 5, 2005
Boston, Massachusetts
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 City, New York
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 Morton's Bad Day)
August 4, 2003
Macon, Georgia
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. (Note: This bears strong similarity to the death of Prince Popiel.)
105
French Fried
December 23, 1988
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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 IIfragmentation 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. The man is spared for two different reasons: The hole, which he was in, was below the level of the explosion and the dirt he dug up while digging acted as a shield from the blast.
186
Die-Agra
November 4, 2001
Darien, Connecticut
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. (Note: This bears a strong similarity to the death of Sergey Tuganov.)
Season 2 Episode 3 / Episode 15: Up With Death[]
Originally aired Dec. 16, 2009.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
485
M-R-Ouch! (a.k.a Nurse Case Scenario)
May 4, 2005
Peoria, Illinois
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. (Note: This bears strong similarity to the death of Michael Colombini, except the magnetic object that killed him was an oxygen tank.)
229
Succu Offed
July 19, 2008
Tucson, Arizona
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. (Based on the deaths of David Grundman and James Joseph Suchochi.)
432
Coming & Going (a.k.a Good Vibrations)
September 2, 1997
Palmdale, California
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 (Note: This is based on the death of a Brazilian woman).
89
Greased Is The Word
May 17, 2001
St. Louis, Missouri
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. (See the Behind the scenes clip, This is based on the death of David Zaback)
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 actually happened to former NHL goalie Clint Malarchuk during a 1989 game against the St. Louis Blues and Malarchuk's Buffalo Sabres and Richard Zedník of the Florida Panthers in a 2008 game against the Buffalo Sabres. Both survived their injuries and are still living today.)
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. (A similar incident took place in Russia in 2009, when a man reportedly tried to rape a raccoon, only to have the animal bite off his penis. In this case, the man survived.)
Season 2 Episode 4 / Episode 16: Putting a Happy Face on Death[]
Originally aired Dec. 30, 2009.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
712
Rub-A-Dubbed Out
August 27, 2004
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A man who has stolen a bag of groceries from a blindpregnant 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 PSIspray 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, New Mexico
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're 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, Florida
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 can't 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. (This is loosely based on the death of guitarist Jimi Hendrix)
332
Little Person Big Death
March 19, 2007
Houston, Texas
Two dwarfwrestlers 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
July 12, 2009
Tucson, Arizona
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.
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.
Season 2 Episode 5 / Episode 17: Bringing In The Dead[]
Originally aired Jan. 6, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
528
D. U. Die
August 4, 2000
Akron, Ohio
Two drunk men go for a drive in a station wagon. 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, Michigan
A belly dancer practicing for an upcoming competition in her home tries a move that involves wrapping one end of her sash around her neck and throwing the other end into the air. She accidentally hangs herself when the part of her sash in the air catches on a moving ceiling fan. (This is somewhat similar to the death of Isadora Duncan, who was killed in a freak accident in 1927 when the long silk scarf she was wearing became entangled in the open-spoked wheel and rear axle of the car in which she was a passenger.)
217
Suck Her Punched
October 4, 2007
Gary, Indiana
A cross-dressingboxer who gets angry when someone calls him a "lady" is nearly attacked by a rapist lurking in the alley behind a boxing gym, who doesn't know that his target is actually a man. 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, Tennessee
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 can't remember the combination. In a drunken rage, he kicks the safe, and cuts his big toe. The cut soon becomes infected, and he dies of sepsis two weeks later.
657
Dead Heat
February 25, 1998
Syracuse, New York
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, Hawaii
An Orthodox Jew who is obsessed with a hula dancer decides to stalk her, but she rejects him. His attempts to woo her by leaving food on her doorstep, surfing and serenading her are all in vain. After one last attempt to romance her fails, he gets depressed and drowns his depression in some alcoholic drinks. In his inebriated state, he takes part in a torch ceremony, where he catches himself on fire and is burned to death.
412
(NOTE: This is the second death on the show given this number.)
ReTired
(NOTE: This is the second death on the show given this name.)
April 27, 2001
Scottsdale, Arizona
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 on this occasion, he peacefully passes away. At the same time, a gangsterrobs a gas station. The old man's car's emergency brakes fail, and it starts rolling down a hill while the gangster is crossing the street, running him over.
Season 2 Episode 6 / Episode 18: Gratefully Dead[]
Originally aired Jan. 13, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
599
Mercury in Uranus
July 28, 1979
Norman, Oklahoma
A man who pleasures himself by shoving large items into his rectum is hospitalized multiple times to get them removed. On this particular occasion, a shampoo bottle gets stuck there. While left alone after the bottle is removed, he finds a drawer containing glass rectal mercurythermometers and shoves nine of them taped together up his anus. When startled by the doctor, the man jumps back on the bed and accidentally breaks the thermometers while they are still inside him, causing internal bleeding and mercury poisoning.
297
A Turn For the Purse
October 9, 2003
Dallas, Texas
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. He dies when he lands on his screwdriver, which punctures him in the chest and heart.
102
Dead Weight
March 9, 2002
Newton, Massachusetts
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, California
A teenage girl who had been in foster homes for most of her life is sent to live with an extremely devout Christian couple. They are almost immediately convinced that she is possessed by the Devil because of her tattoos, piercings, dark make-up, and interest in the Goth subculture, so they and a group of friends from church try to exorcise her. They tie her to the ground inside an enclosed tent and burn coal and incense during the exorcism, which eventually gives everyone in the tent carbon monoxide poisoning from inhaling the fumes. The daughter, who had a layer of fresh air above her, is the only survivor. She escapes and goes to the mall to meet up with her boyfriend, not caring about the fact that everyone around her was dead.
463
Smoke-A-Doped
October 14, 1997
Newark, Delaware
A man refuses to have sexual intercourse with his sex addict girlfriend due to her also being a smoker. The woman finds a box of nicotine patches in her bathroom and puts a month's worth of them all over her body so she can quit overnight. The excess of nicotine overloads the woman's systems and she dies of cardiac arrest.
655
Two Stoopid
March 15, 2005
Reno, Nevada and Portland, Maine
A drunken man puts a mattress on top of his friend's truck and rides it, but the cord slips from his grip and he flies off the truck at 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). At the same time, on the other side of the country, another drunk decides to bungee jump off of a cherry picker, but his bungee cord is too long, and he is killed when he hits the ground with an ample amount of rope to spare. In both cases, the men broke most of the bones in their bodies. (The bungee-jumping death is based on the death of Chandler Wandhehl )
204
Cream-ated
August 20, 2008
La Crosse, Wisconsin
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.
Season 2 Episode 7 / Episode 19: Come On, Get Deathy
Originally aired Jan. 20, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
113
Tanks for Nothing
December 7, 2006
St. Augustine, Florida
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 out of fear, leaving her to die from its venom. (Note: The snake used to portray the water moccasin was, in reality, a nonvenomous banded water snake.)
322
The Chokes On You
June 21, 2002
Nashville, Tennessee
A dwarf dates an abusive lover who wants him to make money. He tries to do a musical stand-up comedy act, but he isn't 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. She thought that it was a new act that was actually funny and laughed at it, not knowing about what happened until it was too late.
111
Back Broke Mountain
October 29, 2003
Los Angeles, California
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 over, the wife tries to get him to let go of her and accidentally knocks him over the edge instead, breaking many of his bones and killing him.
Note: A similar incident occured to [Potter], who fell down 1,000 feet off a cliff. Miraculously, he survived.*
120
Grateful Bed
November 7, 2008
Hollywood, California
A musician who is about to be evicted evades his angry landlord by soundproofing his apartment with empty egg cartons and hides behind his Murphy bed, but gets trapped. No one can hear him screaming for help because of the egg cartons, and he eventually suffocates.
479
Fore Head
June 19, 1998
Waterloo, Iowa
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's looking, a player hits a golf ball into the screen, which strikes the thief in the forehead, fracturing his skull and sending pieces into his brain.
333
Booty Trapped
January 17, 2007
Paso Robles, California
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 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, South Dakota
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 has a thought of morality and puts it in the man's drink instead. When the laxative takes effect, the man runs to the bathroom, but finds the only stall occupied by a couple having sex. Unable to get the couple to leave, the man runs outside in desperation and relieves himself in a garbage can, where he gets stuck. 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.
Season 2 Episode 8 / Episode 20: Death Watch[]
Originally aired Jan. 27, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
238
Washed And Fried
September 28, 2001
Simi Valley, California
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, California
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 angry with her and the two step outside to smoke cigarettes, with the woman's boyfriend lighting hers for her. The flame from his lighter sets fire to her hairspray-saturated hair and the woman dies from the fire burning her scalp so severely that it causes extensive brain damage.
539
Micro-Whacked
October 21, 1992
Pomona, California
A full-blown drug addict gets high off meth, cocaine, prescription drugs, and PCP one night. During his high, the man thinks 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.(NOTE: This death is based on the death of Philip Quinn, though instead of a microwave, Quinn put the lava lamp on a stove and there was no evidence of drug or alcohol use.)
088
Pussy Whipped
May 12, 2000
San Francisco, California
A closet cat-hater who is also allergic to cats begrudgingly agrees to look after his girlfriend's cat while she's out of town. In order to pass the time, he begins drinking heavily. As he gets more intoxicated and his allergies get progressively worse, he tries to kick the cat and misses. The rug he is standing on slides, causing him to lose his balance, hit his head and get knocked unconscious, and land face down in the cat's water bowl. The man eventually drowns after inhaling all the water in the bowl.
457
Blend-Dead
September 19, 1998
Austin, Texas
A woman tries to achieve longevity by eating healthy foods grown in her own garden and blended together in a smoothie. However, her landlord has been spraying rat poison in her garden when she isn't home. Unaware of her landlord's actions, 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. The woman eventually dies of a brain hemorrhage while exercising on her medicine ball.
116
Shanks for the Memories
June 19, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia
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, California
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 attempted to turn into his latest dish.
Season 2 Episode 9 / Episode 21: Waking Up Dead[]
Originally aired Feb. 3, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
662
Phone Boned
May 10, 2005
Kaisertown, New York
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.
521
Toilet Rolled
August 5, 2006
Kingman, Arizona
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, Arizona
An abusive British man trying to stop his soon-to-be ex-wife from leaving him climbs into the cargo bay of his wife's plane. The atmospheric temperature drops as the plane rises, and he eventually dies of hypothermia and asphyxia.
140
Bitch Zapped
June 16, 2001
Tampa, Florida
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, New Mexico
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, California
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, California
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.
Season 2 Episode 10 / Episode 22: You're Dead! LOL![]
Originally aired Feb. 10, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
198
Samurai Death Squad
July 17, 2009
Los Angeles, California
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, Texas
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. (This death is loosely based on that of Dr. Hitoshi Christopher Nikaidoh, except that Nikaidoh was decapitated rather than bisected.)
343
Smoked
July 1, 2004
Idaho Falls, Idaho
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, California
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, Florida
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, Minnesota
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, South Dakota
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.
Season 2 Episode 11 / Episode 23: Dead to Rights[]
Originally aired Feb. 17, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
118
Blown Job
(NOTE: This is the second death on the show given this name.)
April 21, 2001
La Jolla, California
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 instead by doing what she wouldn't 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, Kansas
A group of friends gather at one's house to watch professional wrestling. A newcomer, who met the host at an anger management class, starts picking fights with the other guests. 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, Pennsylvania
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, Washington
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, Nevada
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, California
Two Japanese-American teenagers attempt to engage in a katana battle after watching a samurai movie and playing samurai video games. One of them gets angry with the other for breaking his mother's favorite lamp, but the other one shows no remorse. When they take their fight outside, the one who broke the lamp attempts to land a deadly strike on his friend, but his katana slices through a low-hanging power line and he electrocutes himself.
236
Screwged
December 24, 1988
Lansing, Michigan
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.
Season 2 Episode 12 / Episode 24: Dead on Dead[]
Originally aired Feb. 24, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
101
Weenie Roast
July 20, 2001
Climax, Kansas
A group of men and women on a camping trip 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 when the urine makes contact with the fence, he is electrocuted.
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, California
A rugby team throws a beach party after losing another game. One of the players gets drunk in anger and the rest of the team abandons him for his bullying. In his drunken state, he throws a keg of beer onto a bonfire in an attempt to "warm up" the beer. When the keg heats up to a specific temperature, it explodes and the metal scraps cut through his body. (Based on the death of Sean Caselli)
321
Bad Assid
September 21, 2005
Downers Grove, Illinois
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's 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, Montana
A nature enthusiast chains himself to a tree in protest to it being cut down—and ends up getting mauled and eaten alive by a grizzly bear. (Based on the death of Timothy Treadwell)
Season 3[]
Season 3 Episode 1 / Episode 25: Death On A Stick[]
Originally aired Aug. 3, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
354
Blood Bath & Beyond
May 11, 2005
Queens, New York
A landlord uses a fiber optic scope to spy on young female tenants. After a while, he decides to drill holes into the ceiling to check out the woman above in her bathroom, drilling leaks in some pipes in the process. One day while spying on her, the above floor collapses from water damage combined with all the holes he drilled and the tub crushes his head.
418
Easy Slider
May 17, 2008
Henderson, Nevada
A couple finds a pool to hop into while the owners are away. A construction crew had been by earlier, and their tools were still lying around. After getting drunk and playing in the pool, the man takes out a tarp and prepares to slide in the pool, not noticing a nail sitting in the center of it. He then slides down the tarp and is disemboweled.
337
Mine Over Splatter
May 8, 1985
Da Nang, Vietnam
Three former Vietnamese soldiers are arguing about what is the best aphrodisiac. They decide to play Russian Roulette to settle the issue. When none of the men are killed, they start stomping on the floor in celebration and end up detonating an old land mine which was buried under their shack during the Vietnam War, blowing themselves up.
261
Gum's the Word
December 9, 2003
Palm Springs, California
A male nurse notorious for scamming elderly women out of their money and valuables makes a house call to a woman who wears dentures and has bad breath (which the male nurse discovers when she kisses him). Desperate to freshen his mouth, the nurse rushes into the bathroom and finds what he believes to be breath mints in the woman's medicine cabinet, but they turn out to be denture whitening tablets. To wash the taste of the tablets away, he drinks from a glass of water, not knowing it's liquid denture cleaner. The tablets and liquid eat away at his digestive tract and deprive his blood cells of oxygen, suffocating him.
378
Bird Brained
May 31, 2007
New York, New York
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
The inventor of the Spanish donkey is denounced as a heretic during the Spanish Inquisition. He is then placed on his own device and is slowly and painfully split in half through his pelvis.
87
Boys 2 Dead
June 23, 2009
Canoga Park, California
The members of a one-hit wonder boy band from the 1990s are now reduced to playing at bars and small clubs to uninterested audiences. On this occasion, the egomaniacal lead singer decides to do a stage dive after seeing a fan with a camcorder screaming his name. He jumps into the crowd but with no adoring fans to catch him, he falls to the ground and shatters his spinal cord, causing paralysis and shortly after dying from lack of oxygen while the rest of his bandmates finish the performance without incident.
Season 3 Episode 2 / Episode 26: Putting A Smiley Face On Death[]
Originally aired September 14, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
400
Fat-ality (a.k.a Fatty Splatty)
May 15, 2006
Austin, Texas
An obese man dreams of becoming a bodybuilder, but is too lazy to work out and doesn't have the money for a legitimate liposuction procedure. The man requests the aid of a friend to perform amateur 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 it's too late and the man dies from blood loss and shock.
608
Catch and Decease (a.k.a No Candiru)
June 17, 2008
Amazon River
A man in the Amazon hires a group of natives and abuses them while making them look for gold. He urinates in the river during one of his swims, and a candiru enters his penis and travels through his urethra. The man rips out the fish, along with much of the inside of his penis, and is eaten alive by piranhas attracted by the escaping blood, to the amusement of the natives.
278
Gas Holed (a.k.a Dr. Assman)
January 5, 2009
Palm Beach, Florida
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 failed to advise her not to eat anything for 12 hours. 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, New York
A Ukrainian immigrant seeking to join the Russian Mafia is asked by two mobsters to murder some people for not paying their loans. After doing so, the mobsters burn the Ukrainian's fingertips with sulfuric acid so that he will not leave fingerprints. To celebrate the Ukrainian 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. (This death is somewhat similar to the death of Sallie Redhead.)
55
Cardiac A-Breast (a.k.a Zapped Rack)
August 2, 2006
Galena, Illinois
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, Oregon
A nature-worshipping young woman 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. (Based on an urban legend that's been circulating since 1986.)
Season 3 Episode 3 / Episode 27: Stupid is as Stupid Dies[]
Originally aired September 21, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
444
(NOTE: This is the second death given to this number.)
Jaw Boned (a.k.a Chew Bomber)
July 4, 2004
Orangeville, Michigan
A young chemist becomes a meth addict and spends a great deal of time creating large batches of the drug, living off nothing more than a wad of chewing gum that he regularly dips in citric acid to keep it fresh. While doing so at one point, he mistakenly coats the gum in red phosphorus, then bites into it with enough force to trigger an explosion which blows off his lower jaw and sends his brain to the back of his skull where it bleeds out.(NOTE: This death is based on the death of Vladimir Likhonos, although the explosive chemical was never 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, California
A female nudistpainter 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, California
A senior sorority girl (and daughter of a Marine drill instructor) bullies her pledges into building a mud wrestling pit for an upcoming charity event. One of her pledges pushes the senior into the pit. The two girls fight until the other pledges drag the one pledge out of the pit. As the senior struts around in the pit, gloating over her victory, she steps into a sinkhole (which the mud put was unknowingly built on) and gets sucked below the surface, eventually dying of suffocation.
223
Offed the Hook (a.k.a Meathead, Meet Hook)
July 17, 2003
Black Rock, Oregon
A survivalist armed with a gun, a chain and a meat hook is survives getting electrocuted after trying to poach electricity, and almost got strangled to death on a chain while trying to lift an elk carcass. But then dies after tripping in a ditch and getting stabbed in the throat with his own meat hook while walking home to his trailer.
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, Michigan
A drunken football fanatic goes to a game half-naked in freezing weather. Since his skin is painted blue, no one is able to see that he is freezing and he is too drunk to tell anyone that he needs help and he ends up dying of hypothermia.
517
Tongue Tied
April 16, 2006
Long Beach, California
A group of teens play a game where two of them kiss while in separate moving cars. One couple's tongue piercings get caught together, and they are unable to free themselves. A forklift passes between the cars, and they are decapitated.
Season 3 Episode 4 / Episode 28: Dead Wrongs[]
Originally aired September 28, 2010
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
179
Pam Caked!
October 19, 2007
Beaumont, Texas
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 and the other girls come to her aid. Before the captain can gloat, she steps in front of the banner and gets trampled by the football team as they run through it. (Note; A similar incident has been videotaped, but in this case the cheerleader survived being trampled without injury.)
124
Bibli-killed (a.k.a E-I-E-I-OWW)
June 6, 2006
Hancock, Iowa
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, forcing them to hide in a grain silo. One of the men uses a lighter to see where they are, and 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 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 the rectums of any student who misbehaved in his class). The eel crawls up the chef's 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, California
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 the glow stick fluid the other ravers are smearing all over their bodies, causing phenol poisoning.
557
D-Parted (a.k.a Blade Sunner)
September 20, 2008
Reno, Nevada
A woman attempts to seduce a construction crew. One 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 addict (and somewhat compulsive hoarder)'s wife leaves him after he throws out everything in her vanity to make room for his pornography. Unfazed, he continues to feed his addiction, but forgets to eat and drink. Because he has been hoarding so much X-rated material over the years, he gets trapped in his own house, collapses on the floor from dehydration, and dies.
156
Hard Balled (a.k.a Jock Shocked)
April 2, 2006
Durham, North Carolina
A lacrosse player and a cruel 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.
Season 3 Episode 5 / Episode 29: Fatal Distractions[]
Originally Aired October 5, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
507
Golden Die-Angle (a.k.a Four By Gore)
April 8, 1996
Laos
A Golden Triangledrug 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 and obese man arrives at a Chinese restaurant for an all-you-can-eatbuffet. After already eating at other restaurants, he has a high content of MSG building up in his body. After eating most of the buffet's food and angering the staff and other patrons, the man finally leaves, but has a heart attack on the way out of the restaurant due to so much MSG in his system.
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, killing him.
929
Turtle Waxed (a.k.a Turtle Shelled)
August 17, 2010
Mojave National Preserve
A married couple who are also animal poachers 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 his head, breaking through his skull. (Note: this death is likely based on the Greek legend of the death of Aeschylus)
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 environmentalist neighbor's organic soil to manage her anxiety, unknowingly consuming a mixture of compost and her neighbor's feces. She ends up contracting a virulent strain of E. coli, but foolishly believes her E. coli poisoning is influenza. After three days, the E. coli bacteria spreads throughout the woman's body and kills her.
342
Die-Brator (a.k.a Pink Tingler)
May 1, 1998
San Francisco, California
After a seminar, an extremely misandristic, sociopathic leader of a violent, fringe feminist party returns to her hotel room to find a vibrator from her lover, unaware that it's really a 1000-kilo-volt taser that resembles a vibrator. She inserts it into herself and activates it, causing cardiac arrest from the electricity.
Season 3 Episode 6 / Episode 30: The End is Weird
Originally Aired October 19, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
723
Bot-ily Harm (a.k.a. Mod Man)
July 25, 2002
Austin, Texas
A teenage boy obsessed with building robots and annoying his parents 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, cutting off two of his fingers, followed by 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
May 17, 2008
Tarzana, California
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. Since the woman is on top of the transformer and not touching the ground, she is unscathed.
14
Harry He-Done-Y (a.k.a Harry Hou-Dunnit)
October 22, 1926
Montreal, Canada
Famous escape artist and magician Harry Houdini claims himself invincible to blows to the upper body. A fan sends several blows to the abdomen before he can get ready, and he is hospitalized two days later. He dies a week after that 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, New Jersey
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, California
A prankster is reflecting sunlight off of a mirror at passing drivers on the road, hoping to cause an accident. When he succeeds, the driver collides with a fire hydrant, which flies into the air and comes back down on the prankster, crushing his skull.
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, California
A notoriously racist and sexist celebrity (based on Mel Gibson) 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: This was based on the death of Abigail Taylor, but for personal, legal, and ethical reasons, the incident was portrayed as happening to an abusive adult celebrity rather than a 6-year-old girl.)
Season 3 Episode 7 / Episode 31: Hurry Up and Die[]
Originally Aired October 26, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
957
Drunk Die-er (a.k.a Early Harvest)
September 9, 2009
St. Louis, Missouri
A drunk driver gets into a crash 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 isn't dead yet and finally take out his heart, which finally causes him to die.
523
Jersey Gore (a.k.a. Clean Sweep)
August 14, 2008
Newark, New Jersey
An obnoxious man known as Nicky the "Predicament" (apparently based on Mike "The Situation" from the MTV reality series Jersey Shore) 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 didn't know was coming because his music was muffling the noises. He gets crushed under the wheels and is shredded by the bristles.
132
Cast Offed
October 3, 1996
Purvis, Mississippi
A drunk Southern man decides to cut logs for the upcoming cold nights, breaking his arm in the process. In order to save welfare money, he decides to create his own cast for his arm. However, he does not set the bone back in place properly and he makes the cast too tight. When he takes off the cast one month later, the fat globules from his bone marrow enter his bloodstream and collect in his heart and he dies of a fatal fat embolism.
412 (NOTE: This is the fifth death given this number.)
Lesboned (a.k.a. Burning Loins)
June 9, 2008
Parker Strip, Arizona
A seductive real estate agent seduces a wealthy lesbian. After a tour of the house, pool, and eventually the laundry room, they start to have sex on top of the dryer. Their movements cause the fuel line to get disconnected and the room fills with natural gas. The water heater soon ignites the gas, killing them both.
597
Tapped Out (a.k.a. Rasslers)
June 16, 2005
Rockford, Illinois
Two aspiring amateur wrestlers who have dreams of going pro assault each other with increasingly insane objects, one of them being fluorescent lights. Later during the fight, the person who got hit with them succumbs to mercury poisoning and toxic shock.
284 (NOTE: This is the second death given to this number.)
Mail Order Fried (a.k.a. Shock and Awww)
August 14, 2002
Olathe, Kansas
An obnoxious mailman at a carnival reads other people's mail for material for insults. When several mail recipients find out, the man is forced to sit onto a dunking booth, and they try to dunk him. Several balls hit the wires for the water heater, causing them to come undone and dip into the water. A ball finally hits the target, causing the man to fall in and get electrocuted.
330
Fecal Attraction
September 17, 2002
Provo, Utah
A celebrity drug addict runs out of drugs, so he improvises with homemade jenkem. When he is no longer able to defecate, he goes to a port-a-potty, sticks his head in and gets high. When he is finished and attempts to leave, he is unable to get his head out and the methane clogs his blood's hemoglobin, asphyxiating him.
Season 3 Episode 8 / Episode 32: Death Puts On a Dunce Cap[]
Originally aired November 2, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
959
Tenta-killed (a.k.a Eaten Alive)
March 14, 2003
Seattle, Washington
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, Oregon
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, where the man dies of suffocation from a severed spine and neck.
61
Furdered (a.k.a Pitfall)
June 4, 2010
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
A hunter in the Michigan wilderness dressed in the pelt of an animal travels through the forest. After climbing out of one of the spike traps he set, and falling inches away from a bear trap, the hunter stops at a stream, where he is shot in the head by the rifle of a fellow hunter, mistaking him for an animal due to the pelt.
398
Vuvu...Whatever, He's Dead (a.k.a Feelin' Horny)
September 21, 2009
Tucson, Arizona
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, which kills the man.
930
Injecti-cide (a.k.a Filler' Up)
January 11, 2008
Monterey, California
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 Botox injections (which she cannot afford). Eventually, the corn oil clogs up her heart and lungs and the woman dies from suffocation. This may have been based on the case of a Korean woman named Hang Mioku who, however, survived.
220
Scratch n' Snuffed (a.k.a Buggered)
November 2, 2009
Hattiesburg, Virginia
A politician's (based on Mark Sanford) life falls apart after losing an election, getting divorced, and being humiliated by widespread news of a sex scandal involving visits to South America to see his Brazilian mistress. When the politician was on one of these trips, he was bitten by a triatominae, which, in ten years' time, infected him with Chagas disease, killing him on the day of his election loss and divorce.
503
Implo-dead (a.k.a Smacked Down)
July 27, 2009
Baltimore, Maryland
A cocaine-addicted couple on the run from the law for committing murder and robbery hide out in an abandoned building. On demolition day, a worker places plastic explosives around the building, unaware that there are people inside. When the worker finishes placing the explosives, he leaves and sets off the explosives. The building collapses, crushing the couple with over a hundred tons of falling rubble.
Season 3 Episode 9 / Episode 33: Young, Dumb, and Full of Death[]
Originally aired November 9, 2010
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
396
Onesie & Donesie (a.k.a In Fail Mercial)
December 7, 2008
Orlando, Florida
A very clumsy shopping network salesman handling a samurai sword tries to demonstrate its durability by swinging it down on a table. A piece of the sword breaks off and non-lethally lodges in his chest. After returning to work from the hospital, he advertises a flannel one-piece pajama. Still wearing the onesie, he advertises some aromatherapy candles. When the sleeve touches the lit candles and he is engulfed in flames, the fire extinguisher runs out of water, and he burns to death.
203
Hillary Snuffed (a.k.a The Last Straw)
November 21, 2009
Hollywood, California
A former reality star snorts cocaine at a party using a platinum cocaine straw. A paparazzo attempts to take her picture, causing her bodyguard to attempt to confiscate the camera. In doing so, the man falls on the reality star, causing the straw to go into her brain through her nostril, puncturing her frontal lobe and leading to death of a brain hemorrhage.
704
Cruci-Fried (a.k.a Seeing The Light)
July 19, 1978
Chattanooga, Tennessee
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.
742
Hammer Head (a.k.a Hammertime)
September 14, 2003
Rochester, New York
A new janitor at a preparatory school lurks outside with a video camera recording girls as they participate in field hockey. His lack of attention to his surroundings prevents him from noticing a stray ball thrown by students practicing their hammer throw. The ball hits him in his temporal lobe, shattering his skull.
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, California
A corporate leader, who got the job only because his father owned the company, leads a retreat for employees. After failing to catch his volunteer during a trust exercise, he dresses up in a sumo suit, and sumo-wrestles an opponent. However, he set up the sumo ring too close to the edge of a cliff, and he is pushed off it by his opponent (ironically, the same volunteer he failed to catch during the trust exercise). He survives the fall down the cliff because his sumo suit provided cushioning. When he gets up, he is promptly fatally hit by a Smart Car in the road at the bottom of the cliff.
345
Bush Whacked
May 21, 2008
Defiance, Ohio
An amateur outdoor survivalist obsessed with survival shows believes that he can make a salad of inedible wild plants, eating it afterwards. The actual ingredients of the salad were oleander, an herb that causes heart palpitations, foxglove, a gastrointestinal irritant that causes vomiting and diarrhea, and hemlock, creating a trifecta of symptoms that kills him shortly afterwards.(Possibly based on a scene from the film Into the Wild.)
Season 3 Episode 10 / Episode 34: Today's Menu: Deep Fried Death[]
Originally aired December 8, 2010. Comedian Charlie Murphy guest stars in this episode.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
129
Lawn of the Dead (a.k.a Death By '70s)
May 5, 1978
Allentown, Pennsylvania
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.
438
Tongue Died (a.k.a Metalhead)
September 4, 2008
Detroit, Michigan
During the 2008 recession, a neighborhood scavenger who steals metal from foreclosed houses 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 that another scavenger stole the lid from. The impact of the fall causes the man to bite through his tongue and break his neck, asphyxiating him.
119
Tube Snaked (a.k.a Pipe Snake)
August 19, 2005
Topeka, Kansas
A drunk woman dies when her ex-boyfriend’s pet boa constrictor (that almost strangles her to death) slithers into a pipe that lets carbon monoxide out of her house and falls asleep there, blocking the pipe and releasing the carbon monoxide into the house. She soon dies from carbon monoxide poisoning, believing that she was just drunk.
673
R.I.P.-PED (a.k.a Juiced)
October 4, 2004
Tarzana, California
A 70-year-old man obsessed with body building relies on not only his exercise equipment, but his juicer also to gain his muscles. One day, 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, New York
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, Illinois
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. (Note: Possibly based on the deaths of Catherine Fish and Janet Rudd.)
259
De-throned (a.k.a Bowel-ed Over
April 23, 2002
Las Vegas, Nevada
A misogynistic biker dies when his personal "maid" (a cocktail waitress forced to do housework for the biker to pay off a gambling debt) pours spilled gasoline into the toilet but forgot to flush. When he throws a lit cigarette into the toilet, the combination causes it to explode and the biker dies from the ruptured veins in his pelvis.
Season 3 Episode 11 / Episode 35: Cure for the Common Death, Part II[]
Originally aired December 15, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
414
Hydrau-licked (a.k.a. Hubcapped)
May 5, 2009
El Paso, Texas
A group of low-riders gather for an exhibition. One driver, while tweaking his car's hydraulic system, gets jealous of the others ogling his girlfriend and angrily challenges them to a hopping competition, not noticing that a nut has come loose from his car's suspension spring. He wins but as he celebrates his victory, the loose spring flies out, hits the man in the chest, and knocks him under his rival's still hopping car, where his head is crushed.
188
Nun F***ed (a.k.a Bum Chucks)
April 12, 2008
Natick, Massachusetts
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 cinderblock attempt had weakened his skull, and the last hit fractures it and inflicts fatal brain damage.
158
Myth Busted (a.k.a.Tranq-Spanked)
May 3, 2006
Pierce County, Washington
An angry, friendless redneck living out in the countryside, lives next to a state park which is famous for its jogging trail. To keep people out of sight, the man dresses like Bigfoot to scare joggers. Earlier, a woman reported him to a park ranger (who is a Bigfoot believer) and shot him with a tranquilizer pistol, meant for large animals. The man later dies from low blood pressure, as a reaction to etorphine in the tranquilizer.
304
Radioactivate-dead (a.k.a. Red Scare)
March 24, 1993
Los Angeles, California
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. Among the group of kids was an immature, attention-starved young woman who acted out her behavior as a result of her 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.
276
Die-Arrhea (a.k.a. Die-Fecta)
February 21, 2004
Louisville, Kentucky
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, Nevada
A girl and her friends have a bachelorette party and hire a clown who 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.
Season3 Episode 12 / Episode 36: Sudden Death[]
Originally aired December 22, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
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, Illinois
An inmate on death row receives a deck of playing cards, which, during the 30's, were coated with highly flammable nitrocellulose, planning to mix the cards with water to create an explosion through his cell's wall, and escape the prison. Upon putting the mixture inside a hollow bed leg, and the leg on top of a heater, the inmate is surprised to see his homemade explosive still intact, and picks up the bomb, in the process, fully merging the heated nitrocellulose and water together, creating the desired explosion, sending shrapnel from the bed leg and cards into the inmate's head.(Note: This is based on the death of William Kogut, only Kogut created the bomb to commit suicide, not as a device for a prison escape.)
415
Bed Buggered (a.k.a. Jerked Off)
October 14, 2004
Columbus, Ohio
At a college, two roommates, one a football player, the other a geek share a dorm room, with the latter continually being "sexiled" whenever the former brings a date to the dorm. One night, the geek finally brings a date to the room, and engages in intercourse with her on the top level of a bunk bed, while the football player waits on the lower bed. As the jock grows jealous about his roommate's date, the top bunk crashes down on top of the football player, crushing his skull and making his brain bleed inside itself.
578
Corset Killed Him (a.k.a. Of Corset Kills)
January 22, 2009
New York, New York
An arrogant, slightly overweight, doughnut-eating ballroom dancer uses a corset to make himself look thin, but ties it too tight. While arguing with his dance partner, the corset compresses his chest and one of his ribs break, puncturing his heart, causing internal bleeding, and cardiac arrest.
692
Gone Fission (a.k.a. WWM'D)
November 11, 2009
Yemen
Two would-be terrorists die when they are exposed to radiation when one of the terrorists accidentally drops a brick of tungsten on a plutoniumnuclear bomb they were building. They then are overcome with extreme nausea, then they are bed ridden, and finally die of bacterial pneumonia and asphyxiation from their lungs filling with fluid.(Note:This is similar to the Demon core related deaths of Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. and Louis Slotin).
63
Falling Down on the Job (a.k.a. Destruction Worker)
June 7, 1993
Boise, Idaho
A lazy construction worker uses a rope elevator designed for bringing tools to a higher level of a building. On his way up, the rope snaps and he plummets to his death, when he hits the ground, it causes his bones to break and dies of hemorrhaging.
888
Ex-Squeezed (a.k.a. Scavenger's Daughter)
1581
London, England
A prisoner is sentenced to die on a torture rack, but doesn't when it's found that he's too tall for it. 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, and he dies of blood loss and puncture wounds.
Season 3 Episode 13 / Episode 37: Dying to Tell the Story[]
Originally aired December 29, 2010.
Death #
"Event" Name
Date of Death
Location
Circumstances of Death
794
African't
March 24, 1994
Tanzania, Africa
A spoiled man and his sister tour in the Serengeti, and get frustrated at their tour guide due to the lack of excitement. They soon abandon their tour guide, and get very dehydrated. They both pass out, and a colony of driver ants eat the man alive. His sister survives due to the fact that the perfume she put on before the trip contained a chemical used in insect repellent.
645
Amish-Tinguished (a.k.a. Jebe-Die-Ah)
October 31, 2005
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An Amish boy going through the tradition of Rumspringa comes across a Halloween party. After being coaxed into a few drinks, the boy gets drunk, passes out, and subsequently dies from alcohol poisoning, due to lacking an enzyme in the body that breaks down alcohol.
416
Trucked Up
August 2, 2006
Ithaca, New York
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, California
A young man often parks his convertible in handicapped parking spaces without a placard. When confronted by a war veteran who lost a leg, he peels out of the lot, but the surfboard in his car hits a handicapped-parking sign and bounces back into his neck. The impact breaks his neck, severing his spinal cord from his brain stem and 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 man 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.
315
Little Chop Of Horrors (a.k.a Chop Shop of Horrors)
June 11, 2005
Detroit, Michigan
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, West Virginia
During Prohibition, a couple decides to try to make money selling moonshine. They sample the first liquid produced by their still, not realizing that it contains high levels of toxic methanol. The couple then goes blind, and then they both die from organ failure caused by the formic acid that has built up in their bodies due to metabolism of the methanol.
Season 3 Episode 14 / 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
501
Hats All Folks! (a.k.a. Mad Hatter)
December 12, 1849
Danbury, Connecticut
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, New York
An I-Dose dealer uses military subsonic equipment to amplify the hallucinogenic effects of his music and ends up dying from sonic pressure.
877
Caulk Blocked (a.k.a. Ass Full Of Caulk)
April 25, 1998
New York, New York
A wannabe hip-hop queen gets butt implants so she can join a male rapper's crew. However, the surgeon she hired was a fraud, and her butt implants were made of common bathroom caulk instead of silicon. The caulk soon finds its way to her bloodstream, where it causes an embolism near her lungs and asphyxiates her.
130
Deaf Jammed (a.k.a Wind-Owned)
October 19, 2003
Detroit, Michigan
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 and he is unable to signal her.
448
Homie-Cide (a.k.a Drive-By Corpsing)
July 31, 2004
East L.A., California
A wannabe actor wants to join a Hispanic gang to get into character, after he passes the initiation, he leaves and gets crushed by a cadaver thrown off an overpass by a rival gang, causing a skull fracture and brain hemmorhaging. (Note: This bears strong similarity to the death of a man from Ukraine, except that he was crushed by a suicidal jumper.)
320
OMG! SUV! R.I.P. (a.k.a Squeeze Play)
July 15, 2007
Burbank, California
A con artist deliberately breaks his leg after trying to get hit by a woman. She pulls over to help him, rested behind a car that's parked in front of her. When she accidentally leaves her SUV in neutral after getting back in to grab her cell phone, the car rolls forward and pins the man in between the cars, crushing him to death.
172
Dead-dy Dearest (a.k.a Point Blank)
May 25, 1994
Sandusky, Ohio
A controlling and cruel ex-Army single father threatens one of his daughter's boyfriends with a handgun full of blanks when he thought that the boyfriend and his daughter were having sex. The father scares the boyfriend by shooting at him. Afterward, he attempts to calm the boyfriend and his horrified and enraged 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 off the deaths of several celebrities including Jon-Erik Hexum and Terry Kath)
Season 4[]
Season 4 Episode 1 / Episode 39: The One About Dumb People Dying
Airs February 8, 2011
Episode 39: The one about people dying
Originally Aired February 8, 2011
331
Wet Dream (Note: This is the second death to be given this name)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, and dies before she even lands in the ocean.(Based on The Death of C.B lansing)
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.
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
A sign spinner has been showing off his sign spinning skills, advertising a coffee house for a month to impress a beautiful barista. A rival spinner then shows up across the street and has impressed the female employee with his skills. This leads up to both sign spinners trying to outdo each other. The first spinner (who narrowly avoids getting hit by a car) gets his jugular vein slashed from the jagged edge of exposed corrugated plastic from the arrow part of his sign due to it being hit on the pavement so many times, and he bleeds to death.
A sous-chef steals the PDA of her boss (a head chef) which contains recipes that the sous chef wants for herself. While trying to escape her boss, she hides in an industrial dishwashing machine. The dishwasher, seeing the closed door, turns on the machine. The sous-chef dies from the extreme heat and hot water which melts her skin and boils her organs.
A cemetery worker who loves playing golf and disrespecting the graves sprays a fungicide on the lawns. Unaware he was allergic to thisfungicide, he kept holding his golf tees in his teeth, causing the fungicide to eat away at his skin and cause organ failure. (Based on the death of George Prior.)
A border patrol officer who chews on tobacco is driving across the Arizona border when he runs over a giant rock. As he ran over it, he bit his tongue, and due to his genetic condition of erectile glossitis, his tongue began to swell around his throat, choking him. (This death is based on the death of Allan Pinkerton.)
Two mobsters attempt to take out a third mobster who plans on ratting the other two out to the police. They stand in front of his car at opposite sides and attempt to shoot through the windshield. However, the windshield is made from bulletproof glass installed by the police, and when one of the mobsters shoots at it, the bullet deflects off at the perfect angle and enters the other mobster's neck through the carotid artery, killing him. (This death is based on the assassination attempt on U.S. PresidentRonald Reagan.)
A spy committing corporate espionage climbs into an air vent to install the bug by the hotel suite which an important meeting was taking place. His assistant nephew accidentally starts spinning the fan at the entrance of the vent, pulling the rope around the spy. The fan eventually severed the spy's legs, and caused him to bleed out.
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.
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 cordand paralyzing the muscles that control breathing.
A retired chemistry teacher living at a nursing home does demonstrations for the other residents, including one in which he uses apickle to conduct electric current. When one of the workers grabs the equipment to confiscate it, he completes a circuit that sends an electric shock through his heart and stops it.
A stripper with huge breast implants takes oxycodone and alcohol to relieve her back 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.
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.)
A hitman feigns insanity and is sent to a mental hospital after his trial. 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.
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 a famous urban legend portraying a similar mishap in which the dog dies along with a new vehicle sunk to the bottom of the lake). [6]
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 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.
Two women disguised as disaster relief workers for Hurricane Katrina attempt to 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.
Two scam artists attempting to exploit the pneumatic tubing systems of the early banks, shoved a block of wood in the tubes to catch the money capsules. When the tubes jammed, the men tried to force the capsules out and the pressure ended up causing it to explode, blowing shrapnel into the men.
A psychic surgeon who scams the sick into believing he can cure them touches the mucus of a leper. Some time later, he contractsleprosy, and dies of a lung clot.
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.
A lab assistant, enraged by the rejection from her married co-worker, goes on a rampage in the laboratory. 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.
A female cell phone addict annoying and infuriating others with her chatter at a movie theater dies when the defective battery in her phoneshort circuits and the phone explodes, sending shrapnel into her inner ear and brain.
After a Nigerianscam artist attempts to scam a man using the "wash-wash" scheme, his intended victim 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.
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.
A jealous man attempts to rob his wealthy brother's grave of the expensive jewelry he was buried with. After digging too close to theheadstone, it topples on top of him, pinning him between the headstone and his brother's body and crushing him.
A ruthless warlord captures and kills a diamond runner, and loots him. He celebrates by snorting "Brown-brown". Unaware that he had left diamonddust 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.
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.
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.
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.
The narcissistic owner of a theatre 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.
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.)
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 intubation 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)
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.
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.
Two men are reenacting a 1775 Revolutionary War duel for a movie. One man, upset that he didn't 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 dies from blood loss.
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.)
A girl who always borrows her roommate's belongings without asking accidentally mistakes psoriasis cream for tanning oil before stepping into her roommate's new tanning bed. The psoralen in the cream gives her massive second degree burns all over her body and sears her heart.
An American woman turned terrorist celebrates with the Taliban by firing off several rounds of an AK-47 into the air during her wedding, but loses control of it. One round ricochets off a metal pitcher and strikes her in the forehead, killing her instantly.
Two thieves in Sudan steal supply crates needed for refugees. As the men celebrate, they suddenly get crushed by a falling supply crate that had a faulty parachute.
In order to beat a company drug test, a cocaine-addicted crane operator injects himself with blood that matches his type, stolen from a hospital by his girlfriend. However, he doesn't listen when she warns him to warm the blood before injecting it. He stores the blood in the refrigerator overnight before injecting it, and as a result, it causes ventricular fibrillation and tachycardia.
After a convict on parole is ordered to take out the trash at his new job, he smarts off to the supervisor. When the parole officer comes to check up on him, he is taking out the trash as asked. However, he forgets to lock the wheels on the dumpster, which starts to roll down a slope, crushing the convict against another dumpster, thus piercing his abdomen and extruding his innards. (May be based on the death of Rodney Brown who was crushed to death when a dump truck he was operating slipped out of gear and rolled backwards, pinning him between a dumpster and a gate). [7]
A French criminal is executed via guillotine. His head is studied by a scientist to see if and how long it stays alive after it is severed. (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.)
A perverted stoner gets fired from his job as a mall Santa. Because of his intoxicated state, he doesn't hear what his boss says and starts banging on the door to get his boss to tell him what he said. While banging, an icicle falls from the roof's edge and the man looks up just in time for the icicle to impale him in his eye and through his brain (likely based on numerous deaths from falling icicles, including the case where different five people were killed in 2008 in the Russian city of Samara) [8]
A selfish man who abandoned his family to "be himself" 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.
A man with acrotomophilia has sex with a woman who has a glass eye and who lost her arm in a car accident. 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.
A group of teens play a drinking game called Edward Fortyhands, in which drinkers have beer bottles taped to their hands and they can't 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 can't open the door, they suffocate on the fumes.
An 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, although it can be based on any number of suicides at the end of World War II where a cyanide capsule was used or spies working behind enemy lines and taking their life to avoid capture.)
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 girl, 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 Seung Seop, who died playing StarCraft for the same amount of hours. This is also the first death that shows how the person died that isn't in the regular CGI format. It is instead shown as a Donkey Kong-esque format.)
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Moving Violation (a.k.a. The Long Haul)
July 9, 1994
Evanstown,IL
Two con-movers 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). [9]
A pervert who pretends to be a French artist to seduce women gets rejected by one of his targets. In a rage, he punches a "sculpture" that he had made, which was made from a butterfly bomb, that sends shrapnel into the man's body and kills him. (Based on the death of Paul Gauci, only Gauci died when he used a butterfly bomb as a hammer.)
A "jersey chaser" (the sports equivalent to a groupie) accompanies a football player home and has sex with him. The next morning, the jersey chaser prepares him breakfast. The football player kept guns in hidden places around his house out of fear that someone would come after him for his money. Not knowing that there's a gun in the oven, the jersey chaser had the oven preheated to 400 degrees, causing heat to build up pressure in the loaded gun. When the chaser opened the oven, the gun shot her in the head with the bullet exiting out the back of her skull.
A woman with obsessive-compulsive disorder frequently cleans the inside of her house. While trying to dust off a cobweb, the woman falls off the small stepladder and lands on top of a mirror, breaking it. She survives the fall, but notices a glass shard from the mirror sticking out her armpit. She pulls it out, and bleeds to death, as the glass shard was embedded in her axillary artery.
A terrorist, imprisoned for blowing up a police station, starves himself for weeks so he can lose enough weight to escape prison by squeezing through the bars. Welcomed back by his terrorist brethren, they provide the criminal a large feast. The criminal eats too much way too fast, and dies of multiple organ failure caused by refeeding syndrome.
A thief targets a pit bull to steal for illegal dog fights. The thief shoots the pit bull with a tranquilizer gun and prepares to steal it, but is stopped when he sees a security guard. When the guard approaches the pit bull's pen, the thief shoots him with the tranquilizer gun and the guard collapses on the door and shuts it. As the thief tries to escape, the pit bull wakes up and bites the thief's neck, puncturing his carotid artery and crushing his windpipe.
While at an erotic massage parlor, a man orders a "happy ending," but can't ejaculate due to a strange buzzing noise from somewhere in the room. The masseuse checks the electrical outlet and an Asian giant hornet flies out and stings the man. The man swats the hornet, and is soon attacked by a swarm of Asian giant hornets, killing him with their venom.
A couple of prisoners from a chain gang attempt to escape in the back of a pickup truck. When the truck approached a stop sign, they knock out the guard and hop on the back to freedom. As the pickup truck drives off, it hits a speed bump. The prisoners fall onto the road. With their ankle chains caught in the towing hitch, the prisoners die from being dragged along the road, incurring severe head trauma and internal damage.
A bank robber pretending to be a victim in another's bank robbing scheme holds a bank hostage after revealing a bomb around his neck. Two policemen arrive, and the bank robber threatens to blow himself up if the police come any closer. One of the bank tellers panics and runs out to her car. As she activates her car alarm (which coincidentally is on the same radio frequency as the bank robber's neck bomb), the bank robber's bomb detonates and his head explodes. (This death is based on the death of Brian Wells.)