1000 Ways to Die (season 1)
The TV show 1000 Ways to Die aired on the cable channel Spike.
Season | Episodes | Premiere date | Finale date |
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1 | 12 | May 14, 2008 | April 5, 2009 |
2 | 12 | December 6, 2009 | February 24, 2010 |
3 (2010) | 42 | August 3, 2010 | February 29, 2012 |
3 (2011) | – | – | – |
3 (2012) | – | – | – |
4 | 8 | March 12, 2012 | July 15, 2012 |
Season 1
The first two episodes of Season One served as the series' two-episode pilot. They were executive produced and narrated by series creator Thom Beers, and directed, co-written, and produced by Will Raee and co-written by Tom McMahon. Both episodes begin with the following disclaimer:
"The stories you are about to see are true and based on actual events. Names have been changed to protect the identities of the deceased."
"WARNING: The deaths portrayed in this show are real and extremely graphic."
The disclaimer then cuts to a scene of a city at night, followed by images of various manners of death, either from episodes or file footages, while the voice-over reads the monologue, which appears in "comic-book" style (comic font inside yellow boxes, as in a comic book):
"The human body is remarkably resilient..."
(Note: in the following sentence, only the ALL CAPPED words are illustrated in large, red "Sin City"/"comic" font; the rest are only heard) "Every day we fight a new WAR against GERMS, TOXINS, INJURY, ILLNESS, CATASTROPHE and Calamity."
"The fact that we survive at all is a miracle..."
"Because, every day we live...""We face 1000 WAYS TO DIE."
The first story begins with the opening screenshot drawn as a comic, which fades to the live action. The narrator gives an account of the story as it unfolds, describing the circumstances leading up to the death and details of the death itself. The story is interspersed with expert testimony from physicians and scientists about the science of the death (what happens to the body, etc.). The story ends with another comic screenshot, over which the "Way to Die # " and the nickname for the death is typed over the image in black and red "True Crimes"/"Sin City"/"comic" font.
Episode 1: Life Will Kill You
Originally aired May 14, 2008.
Death # | "Event" Name | Circumstances of Death |
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208 | Semi-cide | A man is run over and cut in half by an 18-wheeler while working under his car in a parking lot. His upper body and legs are accidentally sent to separate hospitals, making the medical crew lose some time. The man dies of pain and exsanguination. |
422 | Constriction Accident | A construction worker who comes to work drunk arrives with a hangover. He accidentally activates the dumping mechanism and buries a fellow worker under three tons of sand, killing him via crush asphyxia. |
92 | Fang Banged | A drunk man is shot at by his equally drunk brother. When he ducks to avoid the bullet, he falls onto a rattlesnake, which bites him near his heart, and he dies from the venom. |
832 | Lesbocution | After being involved in a series of bad relationships, a woman decides to become a lesbian. While going home to have sex with a female friend to celebrate her coming out, the woman takes off her high heels, steps barefoot into a puddle with a live wire in it and is electrocuted. |
125 | Love Bugged | A reclusive French amateur entomologist and herpetologist is bitten by his black widow spider in a misguided attempt to build an immunity to its venom. Electing to ride out the symptoms of his latrodectism, he suffers a fatal heart attack, knocking over his reptile tanks as he collapses. The released animals then feed on his corpse for a fortnight before it is found by police. |
640 | Tumble Die | A repairman is accidentally trapped inside an industrial clothes dryer and dies of being battered around and excess heat within minutes causing hyperthermia. |
Episode 2: Hard Lives, Easy Deaths
Originally aired May 21, 2008. Note: This is the first episode not to feature the death of a female.
Death # | "Event" Name | Circumstances of Death |
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293 | Freeze Died | A man working at a mafia-owned South Philadelphia meat packing company is purposely locked in a walk-in freezer out of revenge for stealing cuts of meat and getting his employer's 17-year-old granddaughter pregnant, dying several minutes later because of profound hypothermia. |
713 | Dive Bombed | A group of friends fly themselves home from Cabo San Lucas in a private plane shortly after going scuba diving. At 12,000 ft, they all suffer from decompression sickness and crash, causing the plane to explode and kill 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 dead body is later found by grave robbers, after he has suffocated. Shortly before his death, the brother tried to claw his way out with his fingers, wearing them down to the bone and peeling off his fingernails. |
606 | Wet Dream | A German librarian and ichthyologist who wants to live like a fish constructs a fish suit out of waterbed material and attempts to use it. Unfortunately, the suit is so constricting, that he cannot get into the water fast enough. It also renders him unable to sweat, and he starts suffering from massive hyperthermia before dying of heat exhaustion just inches in front of the lake. |
112 | Fur Burger | In the 2nd century, one method of execution was wrapping the victim in freshly killed animal skins, tying them to a tree, and leaving them to be eaten alive by whatever carnivore happened to be in the area (in this case, a flock of vultures, despite the fact they are scavengers). |
Shot months after the pilot, the remaining episodes of the first season were executive produced by Thom Beers who also created the series. Season One was written and directed by Tom McMahon. The third episode also debuted a new narrator, actor Ron Perlman, instead of Beers, who previously narrated the pilot episodes.
The episodes in the rest of Season One, while maintaining the "tongue-in-cheek" story-telling aspect of the first two shows, vary in formatting compared to the pilot. The "comic-book" styling is completely gone, as are the trivia bits between segments. Each episode opens with a voice-over by the narrator giving brief summaries of upcoming deaths, accompanied by clips. This fades to a more ominous version of the previous disclaimer: white wording on black background, while a deeper, echoing voice-over reads:
"WARNING: The deaths portrayed in this show are real and extremely graphic."
"Names have been changed to protect the identities of the deceased.""Do not attempt to try ANY of the actions depicted."
"YOU WILL DIE!" (the word "DIE" reverberates ominously).
The disclaimer then cuts to animation depicting human figures encountering various deaths, while the voice-over reads (Note: only the ALL CAPPED words are illustrated):
"Death...is everywhere. Most of us try to avoid it, others can't get out of its way. Every day we fight a new war against GERMS, TOXINS, INJURY, ILLNESS, and CATASTROPHE."
"There's a lot of ways to wind up dead. The fact that we survive at all is a miracle, because every day we live, we face.... 1000 WAYS TO DIE."
This introduction cuts to a screenshot of the "victim", framed by gray grainy film art, and information appears as being typed out onto screen: "DATE" and "LOCATION" (Typing in the ¨Dirty Ego¨ font) . 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 yellow and red text in the "True Crimes" font. Two stories are shown in this manner, then an outro to the commercial says, "Coming up:" followed by brief, clever descriptions of upcoming deaths. This is usually repeated twice. After the last commercial break, the real-life story is shown, followed immediately by the end credits, which appear as white spray-painted bold letters on a grainy film background, backed by heavy metal music.
Episode 3: Unforced Errors
Originally aired February 8, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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64 | Habeas Corpse | May 1, 1998 | Law Office Los Angeles, CA | Trying to impress a new female workmate, a bumbling lawyer runs head-on into a window on the fourteenth floor of his office to prove it is unbreakable, a stunt he had done multiple times with no injury. Unfortunately, on his second attempt, he inadvertently crashes through the window with his watch, shattering it into pieces and causing him to fall to his death. (This death was based off the death of Garry Hoy.) |
288 | Chippin' Dale | August 11, 2003 | Sonoran Desert Yuma, AZ | Two men are shredding tree branches in a woodchipper when one branch jams the machine. Anxious to go home, one of the men foolishly tries to unjam the woodchipper with his foot, but his foot gets stuck in the machine and his entire body is quickly shredded to pieces, much to his friend's horror as he's showered into the man's blood. |
226 | Gasketballed | November 21, 1993 | Ball State College Kenosha, WI | A young couple in college climbs into a giant helium-filled basketball. Although they enjoy it at first, they begin to find it difficult to breathe in it after a while. Realizing that they need to, they try to get out, but cannot because they are unable to find the zipper to open it. They eventually suffocate to death due to the lack of oxygen. |
199 | Me So Hornet | September 27, 1992 | Boone Residence Lubbock, TX | A man doing lawn work is confronted by his wife for sex and agrees, but she says he has to get rid of a hornet's nest first. After failing to get it down with a rake, he gets a paintball gun and shoots the hornets' nest, knocking it to the ground. As a result, the hornets sting him repeatedly out of self-defense and the man dies from anaphylactic shock due to an unknown allergy to the hornets' venom. |
952 | Dumbrella | January 13, 2007 | Wood's Carnival Barnegat, NJ | A sword swallower trying to perform despite dwindling audiences and an unstable economy takes a bet to swallow an umbrella. However, the release button is accidentally hit in the process and the umbrella is lodged in his esophagus. This closes off his trachea and causes internal bleeding, choking him to death. |
674 | Killdo | January 31, 2004 | Jennifer's Pad Roanoke, VA | While eyeing a handsome grocery store clerk, a woman gets the idea to use a peeled carrot as a dildo during her nightly masturbation session. While she is using the carrot during her session, a rough cut slices her vaginal wall, letting air into her circulatory system. An air bubble travels to the woman's heart, blocking blood flow, and kills her from an air embolism. |
Episode 4: Death Over Easy
Originally aired February 8, 2009.
Title reference: A play on the saying "eggs over easy".
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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316 | Butt F***ed | December 21, 1978 | Mercy Care Mobile, Alabama | A man falls asleep while smoking and sets himself on fire. He is rescued, taken to the hospital, and wrapped from head to toe in bandages soaked in burn medicine to treat his 3rd-degree burns. After 3 weeks in the hospital without a cigarette, he bribes a nurse to let him outside for a few minutes. He smuggles a cigarette out and lights up, but the ashes from the cigarette ignite his bandages. As he struggles to put the fire out, his wheelchair rolls down the ramp, and at the bottom, his oxygen tank explodes, causing 4th degree burning all over his body and killing him. |
818 | Frightmare | June 15, 1995 | Alexi's Apartment Fargo, ND | A woman suffers from SUNDS (Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome), and dies in her sleep from cardiac arrhythmia, brought on by an intense nightmare (from which she could not wake up) about a demonic Freddy Krueger-like dwarf strangling her. |
97 | Oprah Winfried | November 12, 1986 | Folsom Prison Folsom, CA | An obnoxious former death row inmate has his sentence commuted from execution into the electric chair to life without parole, much to his lawyer's disgust. He then celebrates by watching The Oprah Winfrey Show on his TV while sitting on the metallic toilet of his prison cell, only for the TV reception to go off. Desperately, he tries to fix it, only to inadvertently grab the exposed wire of the TV cord, and is ironically electrocuted to death. |
412 | Em-Bear-Assed | April 16, 2001 | Mojave Desert Palmdale, CA | A drug addict under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms comes across a group of furries in animal costumes engaged in an orgy around a campfire in the desert and attempts to join in, but is rejected. He mistakes a nearby mother brown bear for one of the participants, and not realizing she is real until it is too late, the man is brutally mauled to death. |
625 | Midnight Choker | December 18, 2006 | Jack's Bar Gary, IN | At a bar, a biker impresses fellow bikers of his motorcycle club as well as bar patrons by swallowing a billiard ball (the 8-ball in particular) and then bringing it back up. He tries to repeat the trick with a cue ball, but the larger-diameter size of the ball prevents him from pushing the ball back up his throat, and he chokes to death. |
269 | Window Pained | August 22, 1998 | Su Su's House Atlanta, GA | A peeping tom spies on a woman dancing around her house in lingerie. He partially enters a window to get a better look, but gets spotted and accidentally hits the window support. The window breaks his neck between the C2 and C3 vertebrae, killing him.
(This has the first instance of an interviewee being kept in shadow for criminal protection, in the case of a voyeur named "Nick".) |
Episode 5: Dead and Deader
Originally aired February 15, 2009. Note: This is the second episode not to feature the death of a female.
Title reference: Spoofs the 1994 movie title Dumb and Dumber.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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504 | Wel-dead | March 13, 2005 | House of Steel Long Beach, CA | An adrenaline addict working at a metal shop connects a welder to his ear piercings to administer an electric shock and adrenaline rush. He turns the voltage on the welder to the maximum setting, and the electricity disrupts his natural electrical rhythms, causing cardiac arrest. |
230 | Trailer Trashed | May 1, 1979 | Roger's RV Park Aberdeen, SD | A newly married man attempts to unclog his new RV's toilet with bleach since other attempts to unclog it are unsuccessful. The bleach reacts with the sewage to form chlorine gas, which suffocates him to death. |
171 | Nite Capped | December 31, 2003 | Echo Park Los Angeles, CA | A group of revelers celebrate New Year's Eve by shooting a stray bullet into the air. Unfortunately, the bullet comes back down and hits a man in the shoulder several miles away. The bullet goes through his shoulder and pierces his heart. |
385 | Sh*t Faced | September 19, 1983 | Dunkeler's Home Sparta, KY | An alcoholic who can't drink because of a recent throat surgery asks his wife to give him an enema consisting of sherry through his rectum. The alcohol bypasses his digestive tract and is absorbed directly into his bloodstream unfiltered by the liver, resulting in alcohol poisoning that kills him. |
197 | Dead Eye | May 15, 1993 | Milhouse High Glendale, CA | A high school P.E. 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 | February 27, 2006 | The Kitty Patch Tonopah, NV | A 32-year-old virgin goes to a brothel looking to have sex with a hooker. There, he chooses between a Pocahontas-like prostitute and a hooker in a French maid costume before he is finally chosen by a dominatrix, who makes him wear a latex suit and a ball gag as she is punishing him by whipping him with a riding crop. Unfortunately, however, the man soon suffers from an allergic reaction to the latex suit (which he was unaware he had), and is ultimately left by the dominatrix because she thinks he was groaning from pleasure, not pain due to his cries of distress being all muffled out by the ball gag. In the aftermath, because he is chained to the bed post, he desperately tries to try free himself, only to fail miserably, and the man ends up dying from anaphylaxis. |
Episode 6: Death Gets Busy
Originally aired February 22, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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610 | Deep Fried | October 26, 1999 | Tool & Die Works Akron, OH | A metal shop worker with serious anger issues is fired after his boss and co-workers grow tired of the man's outbursts. When he returns to work to get revenge on his boss, the latter shoves the former in self-defense into a vat of hydrochloric acid, which melts away at the former employee's flesh and internal organs. |
892 | Gorgeous Gorge | May 2, 2004 | Beechwood Hotel New York, NY | A supermodel who uses bulimia to keep herself thin orders everything on the room service hotel menu and stuffs her face with food. When she goes to the bathroom to throw it up, her stomach ruptures from a too high food intake, and she dies from peritonitis. |
347 | Re-Tired | June 4, 2005 | Ted's Tire Service Bakersfield, CA | A porn addict reads a dirty magazine while inflating a truck tire. Utterly distracted by the magazine, the man forgets to keep an eye on the tire. After a while, the tire and rim explode from over-inflation, lodging pieces of shrapnel from the rim into his brain. |
652 | Botoxicated | August 16, 1998 | Debbie's House Carbondale, IL | A woman desperate to get rid of her wrinkles hires an inexperienced doctor to administer Botox in her home. The man unknowingly injects pure botulinum toxin into her face, resulting in intense pain and paralysis. While she is lying in a hot tub trying to relax, the woman's entire body becomes paralyzed, she slips underwater to the bottom of the hot tub and drowns. |
498 | Choke-A-Lot | March 27, 1975 | Homefood Cafe Peachtree City, GA | Two dim-witted kitchen aides play by throwing cocoa powder at each other in a confined room. The powder impairs the alveoli in their lungs and they asphyxiate to death. |
629 | Sex Ray | March 12, 2001 | St Jude's Hospital Jackson, MI | A man is having an x-ray of his head taken when the doctor and nurse begin having sex in the control room, much to his amusement. They accidentally hit the exposure button repeatedly while having sex, eventually giving the patient a lethal dose of radiation, which fries his brain. |
Episode 7: The Lighter Side of Death
Originally aired March 1, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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314 | Dung For | October 25, 1986 | Lucky Days Ranch Aberdeen, TX | After getting caught having sex with the farmer's daughter, a sleazy farmhand gets angrily chased by the farmer with a pitchfork before the farmhand hides in a manure truck. To his bad luck, a load of manure is dumped on the farmhand, suffocating and crushing him to death. |
622 | Brain Worms | December 21, 1978 (Note: This is the second death on this date) | General Hospital San Francisco, CA | A couple eat live snails and ingest Angiostrongylus cantonensis, parasites that travel through their bloodstreams to their brains, where they feed on their brain matter until the couple dies, with the man revealing to his girlfriend that he's a closet homosexual just before the two die. |
401 | Abracadaver | November 12, 1995 | Shyrock Theater Flint, MI | A second-rate magician attempts to perform the famed "bullet catch trick". He taps the pistol (loaded with blanks) with his wand, not noticing that a piece of it has broken off and fallen into the barrel. When his ex-girlfriend assistant fires the blank in his direction for the illusion, the piece is propelled into his neck, severing his jugular vein, and he dies from exsanguination. |
429 | Weed Whacked | February 8, 2002 | Diablo Desert Fort Wayne, IN | Two stoners run out of marijuana, so they look for other things to light up. They unwittingly decide on North America's most toxic plant, poison sumac, and are killed from flash pulmonary edema caused by its irritating urushiol fumes. |
221 | Rebel Without A Pulse | July 4, 1867 | Stonetop Canyon Anniston, GA | Soon after the American Civil War, a Confederate deserter is ordered to be executed via firing squad. All of the shooters fire, and although they all miss the soldier, the intense fear of being shot kills the soldier from a heart attack. |
510 | Kill Basa | August 16, 1996 | The Brig Disco New Orleans, LA | A man who wants to impress women with a "large package" uses surgical tubing to tie a 12-inch kielbasa sausage to his upper thigh. However, he ties the sausage 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 of a pulmonary embolism at a night club when it dislodges from the artery and reaches his heart. |
Episode 8: The Good, The Bad, and the Dead
Originally aired March 8, 2009.
Title reference: A spoof of the 1966 movie title The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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770 | Face Offed | December 21, 2007 | The Excalibur Paradise, 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). The bacteria in her blood stream breaks through a pimple on her face and starts eating away at her face, eventually killing her from sepsis. |
47 | Re-Coiled | May 28, 1994 | Jake's Domain Tres Piedras, NM | A survivalist living alone in the wilderness is going to the bathroom, during which time a snake coils itself around his rifle. When he goes to pick the rifle up afterwards, the startled snake pulls the gun's trigger, shooting the man in the chest. |
301 | Sucked Offed | February 3, 2000 | Buffalo Lake Amarillo, TX | An escaped female convict hides from police for forty-five minutes in a 55 °F (13 °C) lake full of leeches. When she comes out of the water, she is too weak from hypothermia and blood loss to move, and dies of exposure. |
312 | Re-Formed | March 24, 1989 | Acme Shipping Pico, CA | A thief hides in a dumpster, which is then emptied into a garbage truck. When more garbage is emptied on top of him, the thief is trapped and the load of garbage is compacted, crushing him. |
963 | Fin-ished | July 17, 2004 | Lake Havasu Lake Havasu City, AZ | A woman catches a fish for the first time. As she pulls it from the water, it flies through the air and lodges in her throat. The design of the fish's scales prevents her from pulling it out, and she chokes to death. |
553 | Butt Plugged | November 9, 2002 | Imperial Highway El Segundo, CA | A newly released convict 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 the truck for talking back to him, the can is activated, soaking the con's rectum with the spray and fatally eating it away. |
Episode 9: Death Be Not Stupid
Originally aired March 15, 2009.
Title reference: A spoof of the poem Death Be Not Proud by John Donne.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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502 | Gas-hole | May 19, 2002 | Glacier National Park West Glacier, MT | A wanted drug dealer hides out in the wilderness. Wanting to get drunk but having no booze (and not wanting 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. However, he is unable to keep it down, and when he vomits it back up onto his campfire, he is engulfed in flames and gets quickly burned to death. |
1 | Ichiboned | November 21, 1987 | Tanaka Residence Tokyo, Japan | A young, shy Japanese couple that has been married for seven years are too nervous to consummate their marriage. One evening, after a bottle of plum wine, they decide to try again after many years of avoiding sex, and this time succeed. Unfortunately, their hearts are not physically ready for the physical and hormonal exertion from engaging in intercourse, and they both die from fatal heart attacks after achieving simultaneous orgasms. |
518 | Jake N' Baked | December 15, 1990 | H.A. Metal Works Long Beach, CA | A narcoleptic metal worker falls asleep in a curing oven. When a friend/co-worker locks him in and turns the oven on to 600 °F for 12 hours, not knowing the man is in the oven, he is burned alive. |
734 | Die It | June 12, 2003 | Darlene's House Evanston, IL | A woman who is desperate to lose weight swallows tapeworm larvae. They eat everything she does, and eventually breed, spread throughout her body and start consuming her internal organs, killing her. |
499 | Pained Gun | September 20, 2006 | Simi Valley, CA | A pair of high-school boys film themselves doing drive-bys on people with a paintball gun as part of a hare-brained plot to become viral video stars on YouTube. When it malfunctions, the gun shoots the CO2 canister at 200 mph into the larynx of one boy, breaking his neck. (This features the youngest person to have been killed in the whole series.) |
283 | Deathliest Catch | July 17, 2000 | Laguna del Perro Willard, NM | An easily agitated electrician tries his hand at fishing to calm his nerves, but is frustrated by being unable to make a catch. He strings a 12,000 volt electrical wire into the lake to kill the fish, but accidentally steps barefoot off the wooden boat seat onto the metal of the boat floor, electrocuting himself to death. |
Episode 10: Cure for the Common Death
Originally aired March 22, 2009.
Title reference: Play-on words to the saying "Cure for the Common Cold".
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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77 | Red, White and Blew | July 4, 1983 | Happy's Trailer Park Lawrence, KS | A group of rednecks attempt to celebrate the Fourth of July by launching a firework from a homemade launcher. When it fails to work, one of them looks down the barrel of the launcher and the firework explodes in his face, shattering his skull into his brain. (Note: this clip features a Wilhelm scream) |
756 | Bank Ruptured | December 21, 1978 (Note: this is the third death on this date) | Chateau Cousteau Bordeaux, France | A man with the eating disorder pica syndrome 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 and undigested metal objects into his abdomen. |
66 | Guitar Zeros | July 23, 2005 | Beijing, China | Two Chinese factory employees with a passion for heavy metal music spend their nights doing air guitar along with other rock movements and listening to loud music while jumping back and forth on their beds in their apartment. 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, unwilling to live life without him, gives one last "warrior yell", then follows suit and jumps out after him.
(This is the first episode in the series to feature an intentional suicide. It also features a Wilhelm scream). |
196 | Radium Girls | January 5, 1920 | U.S. Radium Corp. Orange, NJ | In the 1920s, a group of women who work at a factory that uses paint containing radium to create fluorescent watch faces notice that the paint also glows when applied to their skin. They eventually expose themselves to huge amounts of radiation after repeated applications (mostly using the radioactive paint as glow-in-the-dark body paint for their lovers during sex). While most of them died from bone cancer, the survivors filed one of the first successful workers' rights lawsuits against the company and won, leading to increased safety standards in American workplaces. |
638 | Oz Holed | August 18, 2001 | Bonelli Park San Dimas, CA | Two teenagers obsessed with rock legend Ozzy Osbourne snort fire ants in celebration of Ozzfest, believing an urban legend that Osbourne had supposedly done the same with fellow rocker Nikki Sixx. The ants immediately latch onto their nasal passages and trachea and proceed to bite and sting them repeatedly, causing swelling and eventual suffocation. (This features the first, and only, time one of the interviewers actually makes an appearance in the segment itself, with animal trainer Jules Sylvester coming out and chastising the two dead teenagers about what led to their death.) |
710 | Tanked Girl | December 21, 1978 (Note: this is the fourth death on this date) | Decompression Chamber St. Augustine, FL | A female scuba diver waits in a decompression chamber after making an emergency swim back to the surface. A maintenance worker, not knowing the room is occupied, releases the pressure of the room, causing her body to instantly explode. |
Episode 11: Death: A User's Manual
Originally aired March 29, 2009.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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117 | Gut Busted | February 20, 1998 | Bucket-O-Wings Naperville, NV | An obese man starts belching constantly while on a date due to numerous peptic ulcers in the lining of his stomach rupturing, which mortifies his date. Thinking the belching is simply due to gas, he asks his date to punch him in the stomach to help stop it. Instead, the impact causes his stomach to burst, leaking acid into his abdomen. |
417 | DestRoid | October 24, 2003 | Gould's Gym Seattle, WA | A body builder who uses anabolic steroids and human growth hormones on a daily basis suffers a heart attack due to cardiomyopathy caused by the steroids. |
78 | Text Dead | August 19, 2005 | Rigfield Plaza Irvine, CA | A man is texting his girlfriend while driving, asking about where she should be picked up. Unaware that their 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 | Cross River Links Monrovia, CA | An Irishman on a golf course in the United States is recovering his ball from the rough when a rat runs up his pant leg, scratches his leg, and urinates on him. The urine seeps into the scratch, causing leptospirosis, which kills him a week later. |
222 | Car Jacked | June 5, 2004 | Manatee, FL | A car thief attempts to steal a muscle car by descending from the garage ceiling by a rope. His leg becomes tangled in the rope, leaving him suspended upside down. Unable to free himself, the thief eventually dies from rising blood pressure and multiple strokes caused by the venous hemorrhaging in his skull after 48 hours. |
201 | Blown Job | August 11, 2007 | Miami, OH | A disgruntled, alcoholic clown, who ironically was coulrophobic as a child, drives to a birthday party for his next job. When he stops short in front of the party, a canister of CO2 rolls up against his seat, inflating a giant balloon while he is still in the car. He is too drunk to sense the danger until it is too late, and the balloon presses him against the windshield, suffocating him. |
Episode 12: I See Dead People (And They're Cracking Me Up)
Originally aired April 5, 2009. Note: This is the third episode not to feature the death of a female.
Title reference: Popular quote from the 1999 movie The Sixth Sense.
Death # | "Event" Name | Date of Death | Location | Circumstances of Death |
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447 | Water Logged | August 12, 2007 | The Reservoir New River, AZ | A college student jumps from a cliff into a lake and hits the water at such an angle and speed that water rushes into his rectum, rupturing his large intestine. He passes out from massive internal bleeding and pain before drowning. |
302 | Funny Boned | January 19, 1997 | Lindsey's Pub Mesa, AZ | An easily amused man suffers cardiac arrest after laughing for 36 hours straight over an unknown (and unmentioned) punchline to a joke. |
72 | Bowed Out | November 21, 1995 | Owanda Steel Corp. Kobe, Japan | A nervous Japanese man and his future boss bow to each other. They accidentally bump heads, which causes an unknown aneurysm inside the would-be employee's brain to rupture. |
277 | You're So Vein | July 5, 2007 | Statesvillee Prison Albuquerque, NM | An inmate being executed by lethal injection is initially unaffected by 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 and angrily tosses a chair and breaks the window, scaring the witnesses away. But before he can do any more harm, the poison takes effect and spreads through his body. |
85 | Doggie Style | April 2, 2001 | La Paz Liquor Store Jasper, TN | A drunk shoplifter flees a convenience store with just a hot dog. He shoves it down his throat and chokes to death on it. |
403 | Heart On | October 19, 2005 | Hillendale Ranch Tooele County, UT | A mentally unstable man attaches jumper cables to a cow heart he bought from a slaughterhouse and tries to use it as a sex toy. At first, he attaches the cow heart to a car battery, but when it is not enough for him, he hooks it up to a 110-volt wall socket and is electrocuted. |
Escaped Deaths
This season featured a list of segments in which the survivors tell the tale of how they evaded death.
Episode | Date of Story | Location | Survivors |
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Speedway Kills | February 11, 1990[1][2] | Daytona Speedway Daytona Beach, FL | Paramedic Mike Staley |
Para-Shot | October 9, 2005[3] | Siloam Springs, AR | Parachute Jumper Shayna Richardson |
MotorcyKilled | July 12, 1998 | Lake El Mirage San Bernardino, CA | Motorcycle Racer Ron Cook |
Hell-i-C**kter | April 11, 1989 | Milwaukee, WI | Helicopter Pilot Benjamin Moore |
Hawaiian Death | January 25, 1993 | Oahu, HI | Tourist Hugh Alexander |
Car Blown | August 12, 2000 | Spanaway Speedway Tacoma, WA | Stock Car Racer Mike Easley |
Boat offed | February 24, 1985 | Firebird Raceway Firebird Lake, AZ | Drag Boat Racer Sunny Moon |
Gulf Up | February 20, 1991 | USS Roosevelt Persian Gulf | Aviation Boatswain Mate J.D. Bridges |
Plane Crashed | November 23, 1996 | Comoros, Indian Ocean | Plane Crash Survivors |
Sky-die-ver | April 23, 2003 | Skydive DeLand DeLand, FL | Skydiver Chris Colwell |
D**k Sucked | May 5, 2005 | Mexico City, Mexico | Producer/Actor Sergio Mayer |
I Flipped Offed <*> | January 29, 2003 | Punta Gorda, FL | Snake Handler David Weathers |
References
- "Paramedic (Mike Staley) Accident - 1990 Daytona ARCA 200". Atfreeforum.com. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
- "Cars Crash But Race Continues". Orlando Sentinel. 1994-10-02. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
- "Pregnant Skydiver Survives Parachute Malfunction". Fox News. 2005-12-13. Archived from the original on 2014-03-07. Retrieved 2014-02-22.