1000 Ways to Die (season 1)

The TV show 1000 Ways to Die airs on the cable channel Spike. New episodes air on Monday nights at 10/9C, beginning on March 12, 2012, with the Season 4 premiere.

Season	Episodes	Premiere date	Finale date
1	12	May 14, 2008 (2008-05-14)	April 5, 2009 (2009-04-05)
2	12	December 6, 2009 (2009-12-06)	February 24, 2010 (2010-02-24)
3 (2010)	42	August 3, 2010 (2010-08-03)	February 29, 2012 (2012-02-29)
3 (2011)	–	–	–
3 (2012)	–	–	–
4	8	March 12, 2012 (2012-03-12)	July 15, 2012 (2012-07-15)

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
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 medic crew lose some time. The man dies of pain and he bleeds out.
422	Constriction Accident	A construction worker who comes to work drunk arrives with a hangover. He accidentally activates the dumping mechanism and buries the fellow worker under three tons of sand and dies from crush asphyxia.
92	Fang Banged	A drunk man is shot at by his equally drunk brother. When he ducks, he falls onto a rattlesnake, which bites him near his heart 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 and steps barefoot into a puddle with a live wire in it and is electrocuted.
125	Love Bugged	A reclusive French amateur entomologist and herpetologist is bitten by his black widow spider in a misguided attempt to build an immunity to its venom. Electing to ride out the symptoms of his latrodectism, he suffers a fatal heart attack, knocking over his reptile tanks as he collapses. The released animals then feed on his corpse for two weeks before it is found by police.
640	Tumble Die	A repairman is accidentally trapped inside an industrial clothes dryer and dies of being battered around and excess heat within minutes 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
293	Freeze Died	A man working at a mafia-owned South Philadelphia meat packing company is deliberately locked in a walk-in freezer out of revenge for stealing cuts of meat and getting his employer's 17-year-old granddaughter pregnant, and dies of hypothermia.
713	Dive Bombed	A group of friends fly themselves home from Cabo San Lucas in a private plane shortly after going scuba diving. At 12,000 ft, they all suffer from decompression sickness and crash, causing the plane to explode and 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 corpse is later found by grave robbers, having succumbed to suffocation. Shortly before the brother's death, he tried to claw his way out with his fingers, wearing them down to the bone.
606	Wet Dream	A man who wants to live like a fish constructs a fish suit out of waterbed material and attempts to use it. The suit is so constricting, however, that he cannot get into the water fast enough, and he dies from heat exhaustion.
112	Fur Burger	In the 2nd century, one method of execution was wrapping the victim in freshly killed animal skins, tying him to a tree, and leaving him to be eaten alive by whatever carnivores happened to be in the area (a flock of vultures in this case).

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". The stories are played out as in the "Pilot Season", but end as they began, with a different screenshot of the "victim" (this time, they are usually dead), again framed in grainy film art, over which the "Way to Die # " and the nickname for the death typed over the image in black, yellow and red "True Crimes"/"Sin City"/"comic" font. Two stories are shown in this manner, then an outro to the commercial says, "Coming up:" followed by brief, clever descriptions of upcoming deaths. This is usually repeated twice. After the last commercial break, the real-life story is shown, followed immediately by the end credits, which appear as white spray-painted bold letters on a grainy film background, backed by heavy metal music.

Episode 3: Unforced Errors

Originally aired February 8, 2009.

Death #	"Event" Name	Date of Death	Location	Circumstances of Death
64	Habeas Corpse	May 1, 1998	Law Office Los Angeles, CA	Trying to impress a new female workmate, a lawyer runs head-on into a window on the fourteenth floor of his office to prove it unbreakable, a stunt he had done multiple times without any injury. Unfortunately, on his second attempt, the window gives way and he falls to his death. (This death was based off the death of Garry Hoy.)
288	Chippin' Dale	August 11, 2003	Sonoran Desert Yuma, AZ	While two men are shredding tree branches in a woodchipper, one of the branches jams the woodchipper. Anxious to go home, one man 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.
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 get out, they try to, 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 hornet's nest, knocking it to the ground. The hornets attack him and he dies from anaphylactic shock due to an unknown allergy to hornet venom.
952	Dumbrella	January 13, 2007	Wood's Carnival Barnegat, NJ	A sword swallower trying to perform despite dwindling audiences and an unstable economy takes a bet to swallow an umbrella. 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 and choking, killing him.
674	Killdo	January 31, 2004	Jennifer's Pad Roanoke, VA	While eyeing a handsome grocery store clerk, a woman gets the idea to use a peeled carrot as a dildo during her nightly masturbation session. While using the carrot during her session, a rough cut slices her vaginal wall, letting air into her circulatory system. An air bubble travels to her heart, blocking blood flow, and the woman dies from an air embolism.

Episode 4: Death Over Easy

Originally aired February 8, 2009.

Title reference: A spoof to the saying "Eggs over Easy".

Death #	"Event" Name	Date of Death	Location	Circumstances of Death
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.
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 about a demonic dwarf strangling her that she could not wake up from.
97	Oprah Winfried	November 12, 1986	Folsom Prison Folsom, CA	An obnoxious former death row inmate whose sentence was commuted to life without parole (much to the disgust of his lawyer) is watching The Oprah Winfrey Show on his metallic prison toilet and is electrocuted when he grabs an exposed portion of the power cord in an attempt to fix his TV reception.
412	Em-Bear-Assed	April 16, 2001	Mojave Desert Palmdale, CA	A man under the influence of magic mushrooms comes across a group of furries in animal costumes engaged in sexual encounters around a campfire in the desert and attempts to join in, but is rejected. He mistakes a nearby mother brown bear for one of the participants and is then mauled to death.
625	Midnight Choker	December 18, 2006	Jack's Bar Gary, IN	A biker impresses fellow 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 asphyxiates.
269	Window Pained	August 22, 1998	Su Su's House Atlanta, GA	A peeping tom spies on a woman dancing around her house in lingerie. He partially enters a window to get a better look, but is spotted and accidentally hits the window support. The window breaks his neck between the C2 and C3 vertebrae, killing him. (This has the first instance of an interviewee being kept in shadow for criminal protection, in the case of a voyeur named "Nick")

Episode 5: Dead and Deader

Originally aired 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
504	Wel-dead	March 13, 2005	House of Steel Long Beach, CA	An adrenaline junkie working at a metal shop connects a welder to his ear piercings to administer an electric shock and adrenaline rush. He turns the voltage on the welder to the maximum setting, and the electricity disrupts his natural electrical rhythms, causing cardiac arrest.
230	Trailer Trashed	May 1, 1979	Roger's RV Park Aberdeen, SD	A newly married man attempts to unclog his new RV's toilet with bleach since other attempts to unclog it are unsuccessful. The bleach reacts with the sewage to form chlorine gas, which suffocates him 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, killing him.
385	Sh*t Faced	September 19, 1983	Dunkeler's Home Sparta, KY	An alcoholic recovering from throat surgery asks his wife to give him an enema consisting of sherry. The alcohol bypasses his digestive tract and is absorbed directly into his bloodstream unfiltered by the liver, causing alcohol poisoning and he later dies.
197	Dead Eye	May 15, 1993	Milhouse High Glendale, CA	A high school physical education teacher demonstrates the javelin and makes an impressive throw. Running to retrieve the javelin, he turns around and yells to the class, only to impale himself through the eye on the javelin when he turns back around, driving it into his brain.
319	Domin-a-Dead (a.k.a. Rubbered Out)	February 27, 2006	The Kitty Patch Tonopah, NV	A 32-year-old virgin looking to have sex with a hooker is chosen by a dominatrix, who makes him wear a latex suit and a ball gag as she is punishing him. The man soon has an allergic reaction to the latex suit (which he was unaware he had), and ends up dying because he is chained to a bed post and his cries of distress were muffled by the ball gag and the dominatrix thought he was groaning from pleasure, not pain. (This is the first death on the show with an alternate title.)

Episode 6: Death Gets Busy

Originally aired February 22, 2009.

Death #	"Event" Name	Date of Death	Location	Circumstances of Death
610	Deep Fried (a.k.a. Deep Fried Bastard)	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 up, her stomach ruptures from eating too much food intake and she dies.
347	Re-Tired	June 4, 2005	Ted's Tire Service Bakersfield, CA	A porn addict reads a dirty magazine while inflating a truck tire. Distracted by the magazine, the man forgets to check on the tire. After a while, the tire explodes from over-inflation, lodging pieces of shrapnel from the metal tire rim into his brain and killing him.
652	Botoxicated	August 16, 1998	Debbie's House Carbondale, IL	A woman desperate to get rid of her wrinkles hires an inexperienced doctor to administer Botox in her home. The man unknowingly injects pure botulinum toxin into her face, resulting in intense pain and paralysis. While lying in a hot tub trying to relax, the woman's entire body becomes paralyzed and she slips underwater 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 are asphyxiated 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. 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
314	Dung For (a.k.a. Sh*t Happens in the previews; Done For)	October 25, 1986	Lucky Days Ranch Aberdeen, TX	A farmhand on the run from his boss for hitting on the farmer's daughter hides in a manure truck. A load of manure is dumped on the farmhand, suffocating and crushing him.
622	Brain Worms	December 21, 1978 (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 bleeds to death.
429	Weed Whacked (a.k.a. Whacked)	February 8, 2002	Diablo Desert Fort Wayne, IN	Two stoners run out of marijuana, so they look for other things to light up. They unwittingly decide on North America's most toxic plant, poison sumac, and are killed from flash pulmonary edema caused by its irritating urushiol fumes.
221	Rebel Without A Pulse	July 4, 1867	Stonetop Canyon Anniston, GA	Soon after the American Civil War, a Confederate deserter is ordered to be executed via firing squad. All of the shooters fire and miss the soldier. However, the intense fear of being shot causes the soldier to die 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 at a night club.

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
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. She eventually dies 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 and killing him.
301	Sucked Offed (a.k.a. Son of a Leech)	February 3, 2000	Buffalo Lake Amarillo, TX	An escaped female convict hides from police for forty-five minutes in a 55 °F (13 °C) lake full of leeches. When she comes out of the water, she is too weak to move from hypothermia and blood loss, and dies of exposure.
312	Re-Formed	March 24, 1989	Acme Shipping Pico, CA	A thief hides in a dumpster, 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 (a.k.a. Plugged Up)	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
502	Gas-Hole (a.k.a. Confusing Beverages)	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 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. However, he is unable to keep it down, and when he vomits it back up into his campfire, he is engulfed in flames.
1	Ichiboned	November 21, 1987	Tanaka Residence Tokyo, Japan	A young, shy Japanese couple that has been married for seven years are too repressed to even consummate their marriage by making love. One day, after a bottle of plum wine, they try again, and this time succeed. Their hearts are not physically ready for such a shock, however, and they both die from cardiac arrest after achieving simultaneous orgasms.
518	Jake N' Baked	December 15, 1990	H.A. Metal Works Long Beach, CA	A narcoleptic metal worker falls asleep in a curing oven. When a friend/co-worker locks him in and turns the oven on to 600 °F for 12 hours, not knowing the man is in the oven, he is burned alive.
734	Die It	June 12, 2003	Darlene's House Evanston, IL	A woman who is desperate to lose weight swallows tapeworm larvae. They eat everything she does, and eventually breed, spread throughout her body, and start eating her internal organs, killing her.
499	Pained Gun	September 20, 2006	Simi Valley, CA	A pair of high-school boys film themselves doing drive-bys on people with a paintball gun as part of a hare-brained plot to become viral video stars on YouTube. When the gun malfunctions, one of the boys shoots the canister of CO2 at 200 mph into the larynx of his friend, which breaks his neck and kills him. (This features the youngest person to have been killed in any of the stories to date)
283	Deadliest Catch	July 17, 2000	Laguna del Perro Willard, NM	An easily agitated electrician tries his hand at fishing to calm his nerves, but is frustrated by not being able to make a catch. He strings a 12,000 volt electrical wire into the lake to kill the fish, but accidentally steps barefoot off the wooden boat seat onto the metal of the boat floor, electrocuting himself.

Episode 10: Cure for the Common Death, Part I

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
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 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 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 gives one last "warrior yell", then follows suit and jumps out after him. (This is the first episode in season one to feature an accidental death, followed by a suicide).
196	Radium Girls	January 5, 1920	U.S. Radium Corp. Orange, NJ	In the 1920s, a group of women who work at a factory that uses paint containing radium to create fluorescent watch faces notice that the paint also glows when applied to their skin. They eventually expose themselves to huge amounts of radiation after repeated applications (mostly using the radioactive paint as glow-in-the-dark body paint for their lovers during sex). While most of them died from bone cancer, the survivors filed one of the first successful workers' rights lawsuits against the company and won, leading to increased safety standards in American workplaces.
638	Oz Holed (a.k.a. Oz Gone Wild)	August 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 interviewees actually makes an appearance in the segment itself, with animal trainer Jules Sylvester coming out and chastising the two dead teenagers about what led to their death.)
710	Tanked Girl	December 21, 1978 (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 diver is in the room, releases the pressure of the room, causing her body to instantly explode.

Episode 11: Death: A User's Manual

Originally aired March 29, 2009.

Death #	"Event" Name	Date of Death	Location	Circumstances of Death
117	Gut Busted	February 20, 1998	Bucket-O-Wings Naperville, NV	An obese man starts belching constantly while on a date due to numerous peptic ulcers lining his stomach. Thinking the belching is simply due to gas, he asks his date to punch him in the stomach to help stop it. Instead, the impact causes his stomach to burst, leaking acid into his abdomen and killing him.
417	DestRoid	October 24, 2003	Gould's Gym Seattle, WA	A body builder who uses anabolic steroids and human growth hormones on a daily basis dies of a heart attack due to cardiomyopathy caused by the steroids.
78	Text Dead	August 19, 2005	Rigfield Plaza Irvine, CA	A man is texting his girlfriend while driving, asking about where she should be picked up. Unaware that the two's paths are about to meet, the man accidentally runs over his girlfriend in his pickup truck when she unknowingly steps out in front of it.
210	Pissed Off (a.k.a. Not So Happy Lad)	July 3, 1992	Cross River Links Monrovia, CA	An Irishman on a golf course in the United States is recovering his ball from the rough when a rat runs up his pants leg, scratches his leg, and urinates on him. The urine seeps into the scratch, causing leptospirosis, which kills him a week later.
222	Car Jacked	June 5, 2004	Manatee, FL	A car thief attempts to steal a muscle car by descending from the garage ceiling by a rope. His leg becomes tangled in his rope, leaving him suspended upside down. Unable to free himself, the thief eventually dies from rising blood pressure and multiple strokes caused by the venous hemorrhaging in his skull after 48 hours.
201	Blown Job (a.k.a. Blown Away)	August 11, 2007	Miami, 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 and he suffocates.

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
447	Water Logged	August 12, 2007	The Reservoir New River, AZ	A college student jumps from a cliff into a lake and hits the water at an angle and speed that causes water to rush into his rectum, rupturing his large intestine. He passes out from massive internal bleeding and pain and drowns.
302	Funny Boned	January 19, 1997	Lindsey's Pub Mesa, AZ	An easily amused man dies of cardiac arrest after laughing for 36 hours straight over an unknown (and unmentioned) punchline to a joke.
72	Bowed Out	November 21, 1995	Owanda Steel Corp. Kobe, Japan	A nervous Japanese man and his future boss bow to each other. They accidentally bump heads, which causes an unknown aneurysm inside the would-be employee's brain to rupture, and he dies.
277	You're So Vein	July 5, 2007	Statesvillee Prison Albuquerque, NM	An inmate being executed by lethal injection initially does not react to the chemicals that were injected, because the strap restraining his arm is acting as a tourniquet. When his restraints are undone, he confronts the witnesses and angrily tosses a chair and breaks the window, scaring the witnesses away. But before he can do anymore, the poison takes effect and spreads through his body, finally killing him.
85	Doggie Style (a.k.a. Eat and Run)	April 2, 2001	La Paz Liquor Store Jasper, TN	A drunk shoplifter flees a convenience store with just a hot dog. He shoves the whole thing down his throat and chokes to death on it.
403	Heart On	October 19, 2005	Hillendale Ranch Tooele County, UT	A mentally unstable man attaches jumper cables to a cow heart he bought from a slaughterhouse and tries to use it as a sex toy. At first, he attaches the cow heart to a car battery, but when it does not work for him, he tries hooking 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
Life Will Kill You	February 11, 1990	Daytona Speedway Daytona Beach, FL	Paramedic Mike Staley
Hard Lives, Easy Deaths	October 9, 2005	Siloam Springs, AR	Parachute Jumper Shayna Richardson
Unforced Errors	July 12, 1998	Lake El Mirage San Bernardino, CA	Motorcycle Racer Ron Cook
Death Over Easy	April 11, 1989	Milwaukee, WI	Helicopter Pilot Benjamin Moore
Dead and Deader	January 25, 1993	Oahu, HI	Tourist Hugh Alexander
Death Gets Busy	August 12, 2000	Spanaway Speedway Tacoma, WA	Stock Car Racer Mike Easley
The Lighter Side of Death	February 24, 1985	Firebird Raceway Firebird Lake, AZ	Drag Boat Racer Sunny Moon
The Good, The Bad, and the Dead	February 20, 1991	USS Roosevelt Persian Gulf	Aviation Boatswain Mate J.D. Bridges
Death Be Not Stupid	November 23, 1996	Comoros, Indian Ocean	Plane Crash Survivors
Cure for the Common Death, Part I	April 23, 2003	Skydive DeLand DeLand, FL	Skydiver Chris Colwell
Death: A User's Manual	May 5, 2005	Mexico City, Mexico	Producer/Actor Sergio Mayer
I See Dead People (And They're Cracking Me Up)	January 29, 2003	Punta Gorda, FL	Snake Handler David Weathers

The following deaths are those only seen in Germany:

• 743 - "Totgeschissen" (June 11, 1990, in Boone, North Carolina) - a man dies when he contracts salmonellosis when a bird (in which he was trying to shoo) poos on him.
• 133 - "Broke-Back Cowboy" (April 12, 1996, in Lassen County, California) - a modern cowboy on a horse dies when his horse stumbles upon a molehill, causing him to hit the rocky ground.
• 93 - "Mein Wille geschehe-sofort" (March 4, 1988, in Catalina Avalon Ballroom, Catalina, California) - a man dies from cardiac arrest when he drinks champagne and dances, causing his heart to fail.
• 200 - "Ein letzter Angriff" (November 10, 1992, in Los Angeles, California) - a man dies when he sees his own reflection in a mirror - and thinking it was an enemy, runs into it, causing bleeding.
• 434 - "Ein toller Aufhanger" (January 28, 2009, in Atwater Village, California) - a man dies after he hangs from a tree, causing despair and eventual heart attack.
• 256 - "Gefundenes Fressen" (May 11, 1984, in Caballo, New Mexico) - a woman dies after being eaten by a crocodile during a Christian retreat.
• 364 - "Gewollt statt gekonnt" (January 29, 2009, in White Plains, New York) - a man dies after he smashes a bar bottle after a confrontation with a man now dating his (the man who smashes the bar bottle) girlfriend. One shard is deeply embedded, and the toilet paper (used as a bandage) causes it to hit an artery.
• 909 - "Schluss und Schlussplaydoyer" (April 4, 1999, in Jackson, Florida) - A dumb lawyer dies in the courtroom when he shoots himself on the leg (using an evidence gun). (Based on the death of Clement Vallandigham).

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