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Episode guide. Play trailer Documentary Comedy Horror. Creator Thom Beers. Top credits Creator Thom Beers. See more at IMDbPro. Episodes Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Trailer Photos Top cast Edit.

Alisdair Simpson Narrator U. Thom Beers. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Often recreated in a fast-paced, very tongue-in-cheek manner, the stories were based on actual events, but dramatic license was liberally used. Voice-over-narration provided background information on each death. The deaths were recreated in a variety of ways including witness testimonials, historical tidbits, scientific expert analysis, graphic computer-generated imagery animation, interviews, live-action recreation, and even actual footage, when available.

Each death ended with a title which was a pun, often based on some popular word or phrase. Did you know Edit. Trivia By the end of its run, the series had only covered about five-hundred deaths.

Goofs In the segment "Dead Eye", the title card states that the incident took place in , yet after the gym teacher is impaled through the eye on the javelin, one of the students takes a picture with his cellphone. The narrator provides the background information of each death story using popular figures of speech. Now follow your favourite television celebs and telly updates. Republic World is your one-stop destination for trending Bollywood news.

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Written By. Where to watch Ways to Die? The Christian boy who died when a meteorite shot through his chest. Sure, he was a bit awkward, and attempting to push his religion at a drunken frat party wasn't the best way to make friends, but he seemed like a genuinely decent kid who was just trying to socialize. The obnoxious girl who died from Irukandji syndrome one of the most painful ways to die after swallowing a jellyfish.

She was only that way because she had a friendless childhood and she spent the last minutes of her life feeling her throat swell up, all the while getting painfully stung to death from the inside, with no one to help her because they thought she was faking it.

The girl who dies after her breast implants explode from high-altitude air pressure on a plane. Her only crime was getting cheap implants from a Back-Alley Doctor , as a result of her wanting bigger assets. Same deal with the woman who got phony butt implants so she can get with a rapper and suffered an embolism from the bathroom caulk going through her body.

The only thing she did wrong was not to go to a legitimate plastic surgeon. The secretary from "Blown Job" She refuses to give her boss a blowjob to receive a promotion in return, so she drowns her sorrows in energy drinks. When she finds out that her boss gave the promotion to a male employee who was willing to go down, she confronts him about it The woman having a long-distance sex play with her husband in which he is tied up.

A crook enters the house, robs her and when he talks to her, his halitosis makes her choke on her own vomit. She did nothing except being kinky for her husband.

In the meanwhile, the robber goes scot-free. Non-death example with an unsympathetic accounting worker who vowed revenge on his former boss for firing him even though it was HIS lack of sympathy towards others and incompetence that cost him his job in the first place by climbing up an oak tree and attempting to kill his boss surreptitiously when she exits the building.

The tables are turned, however, when the former worker suffers vertigo from his allergic reaction to oak pollen causes him to fall off the tree and the impact of hitting the ground causes paralysis that kills him instantly.

Disrupting The Theater : One story features a woman who never stopped talking on her cell phone wherever she went and didn't give a shit about whether or not other people were annoyed about it.

She then goes to a movie theatre where she pisses off all the moviegoers until her phone explodes from a faulty battery and shrapnel gets lodged in her brain, dying from it minutes later. Distracted by the Sexy : "M-R-Ouch! An armed drug addict breaks into the hospital looking for drugs, and he holds up the night-shift nurse. She gives him the drugs, but the drug addict holds her up even more.

The nurse calms the addict down and then distracts him by stripping down to her bra, panties, and stockings, while at the same time leading to the MRI room. But then the addict starts to tremor, then starts flying head-first into the MRI machine, killing him. The addict had a metal plate screwed onto his skull beforehand.

He's distracted when the prettiest girl on campus walks by and doesn't notice when a ball bounces off a wall and back at him, causing commotio cordis. Does Not Like Men : The Psycho Lesbian who sticks a taser in her vagina thinking it was a vibrator from her girlfriend.

When a woman working at an accounting firm finds out her abusive manager is only pretending to be injured, she immediately heads upstairs to report it to the higher-ups. Dog Walks You : An unemployed woman who reluctantly takes a dog-walking job gets pulled by a pack of dogs and gets fatally nailed in the head when she slams into a tree.

Don't Try This at Home You Will Die! Naturally, part of the disclaimer at the beginning of the show. And as if that's not enough to hammer the point home, they also flash an "Idiot Alert" when someone on screen does something so dangerous and idiotic that imitating their actions will not only get you killed, but you will deserve it for being so stupid.

She was the second in command in a restaurant but was only there to steal her boss' recipes. Drinking on Duty : The steamroller operator who gets drunk on the job. He forgets to set the roller's brake when climbing down to go use a nearby port-a-potty. Need I tell you what happens next? A dump truck driver shows up for work hungover and accidentally buries a co-worker in sand while said co-worker was digging a ditch.

Driven to Suicide : A lackluster Japanese rockstar from the same band as the one featured in "Coffin To Death," which featured his bandmate getting suffocated inside a coffin that contained dry ice commits seppuku after realizing how much of a failure he is. Drugs Are Bad : "Tone Death": An audio programmer creates a type of drug by using subsonic frequencies, the listening of which through stereo speakers could produce highs similar to LSD.

While creating a new batch using military-grade hardware, though, the powerful subsonic frequencies liquefied his organs. At the end of the day, he was so hopped up on ludes and booze that he passed out on his curling iron, burning his trachea to a crisp.

He snorts lines of Brown Brown off a surface he had previously placed diamonds on, mixing the drug with microscopic diamond filaments that shred their way throughout his circulatory system. After running out of the "main ingredient" to make jenkem, he resorts to sniffing waste from a port-a-potty and dies from the high amount of methane. While everyone is high on the drug, she chokes a bit on some soot from a campfire and reaches for a thermos to wash it out. The problem? The thermos had boiling-hot water in it, which inflames her epiglottis and chokes her.

His perspiration causes the LSD to be absorbed into his system, enough to cook his brain. Hilariously winning death ensues. Another one involved a drug dealer at a rave who decides to sample his own merchandise , and finds a kiddie pool where people are playing in glowstick fluid. He's so high he decides to inject the luminescent dye directly into his bloodstream.

Drunk Driver : In "D. Die", a drunken motorist suffering from a bout of car-sickness sticks his head out the window to puke In "Drunk Die-er" a serial drunk driver has an accident and was mistakenly declared dead on the scene, the paramedics discover that he's an organ donor, and his organs were harvested from him while he was still alive.

Tropes E to F. Ear Ache : "Info-Pain-Ment" had an aggro exercise equipment salesman die from getting stabbed in the ear with a big piece of bamboo. Eaten Alive : In "Vermin-ated": A thief becomes stuck in a pipe and a swarm of rats that eat their way through his brain. Later, his skeleton is seen flowing down the river. Said alligator instead views her as a snack and devours her. They rest under a tree and an army of driver ants eats the man from the inside out while he's passed out.

The woman was only spared because her perfume contained a compound that repels insects. Edutainment Show : Despite the low-brow concept, you can actually learn a thing or two from this show whether it be medical like refeeding syndrome or historical like the story of the Radium Girls Ejection Seat : In "Chairway to Heaven", a deadbeat, selfish dad purchases one as furniture for he and his fat loser friend's new guy pad.

Unbeknownst to him, the seat still had a live ejector rocket in it and when he pulled the ejection handle, he was sent flying through the roof and his skull was crushed. Elegant Classical Musician : A case features a beautiful and talented violinist who doubles as The Klutz. She dies when she falls down her house's stairs and hits her head on the wall for not using her hands to block her fall as she didn't want to damage them, being a violinist.

Energy Weapon : One death involves a CIA operative melting a terrorist's brain with an experimental laser rifle. After experimenting on his death ray and attempting to heat a can of beans, it explodes , knocking the geek out and he lands forward into the path of his death ray, which burns his skull and cooks his brain. Epic Fail : Special mention goes to the terrorists who blew themselves up.

Epileptic Flashing Lights : A stripper who likes to pickpocket her customers has a grand mal seizure though she dies when she bites her tongue off and chokes on it while cage-dancing in "Leave It To Seizure" thanks to strobe lights flashing above her. Even Evil Has Standards : In "Vat's All Folks," two ex-cons are hired to help a crooked cemetery boss get rid of some bodies and resell the burial plots.

Once they realize the bodies would be dissolved in hydrofluoric acid, the ex-cons refuse to go along with the plan and leave. The waiter accepts the money but puts the laxatives in the jealous guy's drink instead after having a pang of conscience. In "Cock A Doodle Die" the crowd there loved watching roosters beat each other to death, but if someone cheated they would not hesitate to kill them.

Everything's Messier with Pigs : "Pigging Out" involves a prize boar finding an unconscious man who tried to steal his semen , and eating him alive. Evil Poacher : Mr Chao, who walks through parks looking for animals to capture and smuggle, dies when an eagle drops a tortoise onto his skull, similar to the legend of the death of Aeschylus. The hit was arranged over the phone, so there was no way for the assassin to know the man he would kill was his client when he ordered a prostitute, who turned out to be his wife.

Explosive Decompression : Although the writers confused this trope with a fatal case of the bends, "Tanked Girl" is an example.

That episode's death might have been based on the Byford-Dolphin Diving Bell Incident, even though the actual circumstances were absolutely nothing like what we see on the show and was changed for budgetary reasons "Steward-Death" is based on the Aloha Flight incident. Explosive Leash : A bank robber tries to use one on himself. It doesn't end well. Being careless while doing so is a surefire way to lose your life.

Expy : The following are "alternate universe" stories showing jerkass celebrities based on real celebrities who so far haven't gotten any karmic retribution for the heinous acts they've committed. In "Bad Max" , Max represents Mel Gibson this alternate death, however, was justified, as a six-year-old girl was really the victim of having her intestines sucked out through her anus while in a Jacuzzi. Even the narrator stated that the death did happen in real life, but the victim was not the Mel Gibson expy named Max In "Apocalypse Harley" , Harley represents Charlie Sheen.

The " Hollywood Hitman " from the same episode is clearly based on Colonel Kurtz. On the other hand, Hiro Tanaka, the dude that "Pukey" Suki tried to get to puke on her with fatal results is an obvious expy of Big Eater Takeru Kobayashi. In this case, though, she is the one who dies. Eye Scream : "Dead Eye": An arrogant gym teacher throws a javelin and ends up getting it through his eye. They later get a shared hallucination where the Saguaro tells them they will be punished for their crime.

They run screaming as one stoner falls on an Agave plant and is pierced through the heart while the other stoner runs into another Saguaro cactus and gets speared in the eye. She then spends the last few minutes of her life running around in blind panic before slipping on a wax floor and breaking her neck.

Enter the angry scam victim, who shoves open the door and accidentally? Works well enough until the bowling ball shatters, and a shard of the ball goes through the cameraman's eye into his brain, piercing the medulla oblongata and terminating organ control. As she falls, the model impales herself through the eye on a lighting post. One brother trips and gets antlered in the eye and brain by a stuffed deer head. Ring a Ding Dead: A hipster goes to a garage sale early to get the good stuff.

While there, he tries to steal a ring an heirloom which the garage sale man has been looking for. During a fight to get it back, a secret is learned about the ring: it was a loaded ring gun and one of them accidentally sets the ring off into the hipster's eye. Face Death with Dignity : A rarity for this show, but not unheard of. Failed a Spot Check : The criminal from "Greased Is The Word," who was planning to rob a jewelry store and failed to notice he went through the wrong door Fanservice : Every episode manages to get at least one woman in her underwear, a bikini, or some other skimpy clothing.

Justified that this show airs on Spike TV a channel dedicated to "men's entertainment" , so Fanservice is pretty par for the course. Lampshaded in "Pipe Snaked" the story of the bitchy groupie who threw out her wannabe rocker boyfriend, almost got strangled by his pet boa constrictor, then suffocated in her home from carbon monoxide poisoning after the boa took shelter in the exhaust when the narrator points out that the groupie seemed to live in her underwear.

Fan Disservice : If pretty girls appear Just ask: The sexy scuba diver who escaped dying from the bends — and ends up dead in her decompression chamber after a maintenance man accidentally turned off the pressure gauge.

The sexy divorcee who went out to flirt with the construction-workers only to be sliced in half by a concrete-saw. The immature girl on vacation in Australia who was stung in the throat by a miniature jellyfish and lay there sputtering and dying on the beach with no one to help her because they think she's faking it to get attention.

The lesbian who choked on her lover's candy thong. The lesbian couple who accidentally blew up the laundry room and themselves while having sex on the dryer. The body-painted anorexic model who passed out from not eating and impaled herself on a set light. The thieving stripper who went into an epileptic seizure and swallowed her own tongue during her cage dance.

The gold-digger who was crushed by the bags of money she kept from her rich, old geezer husband during a small earthquake. The wannabe stripper whose phony Gag Boobs which were little more than water balloons with dissolved oxygen inside of them exploded while she was on an airplane.

The five strippers posing as college cheerleaders who all electrocuted themselves on a frayed wire while washing a Dirty Old Man 's van. And if the pretty girl doesn't die? Someone in her surroundings will die. Likely because they were distracted by her looks. Just ask The long-legged girl with no panties under her miniskirt who was the target of another peeping tom The nurse working the night shift when a drug addict tried to do a hold-up, which she distracted via stripping to get closer to the MRI so that she could turn it on and disarm him - and ended up killing him with it when a metal plate on his skull ended up being drawn to the MRI as well.

The nurse who had sex with her doctor in front of their x-ray patient and kept bumping the x-ray machine's button, repeatedly blasting the patient on the exam table with dose after dose of radiation. The Farmer's Daughter who had sex with two false preachers, who are then blown up as they hide in a grain silo and light up a candle while running away from the girl's grandmother.

And another farmer's daughter who was caught in a similar predicament, only with one dude and her father. The dude hid in the manure truck and was crushed to death when a load was tossed on him. Farts on Fire : "Work of Fart": A college student training for a fraternity farting contest accidentally sets his own coach on fire by letting one rip near an open flame.

Fat Bastard : One fat man dies from his ulcerous stomach ripping open after he asked his girlfriend to alleviate his constant burping by punching him in the stomach, and another has a heart attack caused by the MSG in ten! Although a real life MSG overdose would at worst make you mildly ill, and even ten plates likely wouldn't be close to OD levels assuming there was even MSG in the food to begin with - considering restaurants now avoid it due to its completely unevidenced negative reputation.

One tries to stop being a Fat Bastard by way of a do-it-yourself liposuction. It didn't work. The food critic who died when he swallowed a plastic toothpick from a martini, which lodges itself in his stomach lining was both fat and a complete bastard especially since his scathing reviews led to many restaurants shutting down.

The phony Gulf War veteran was fat, a bastard for tricking people into thinking he was hurt in combat and died of a poor diet, no exercise, and having maggots eat at his infected bedsores. The narcissistic owner of a theatre company in "Macdeath" who takes the lead role in his own play is put on a harness held by pulleys. The wire breaks due to him being too heavy for it to resist, hanging him upside down and slashing his jugular as it went.

Fingore : In "Bot-ily Harm", a teenaged genius who used his robotic inventions to annoy his mom makes a robot with motion sensors from his Mom's Roomba. His bladed robot started up when the boy dropped a screw and picked it up.

The robot went into attack mode and sliced off his fingers, cut his leg, and eventually went for his stomach. As for the death itself, see Gargle Blaster The Yakuza leader who cuts the finger off an incompetent karaoke singer, then swallows it whole only for him to choke on it, and die when his bodyguard improperly gives him the Heimlich maneuver. But she loses control of her gun, and one of the bullets bounces off a metal pitcher and hits her in the head.

Flatline : Used in a few deaths whenever the victim is in a hospital bed, such as the one about the Russian spy who was poisoned with a polonium isotope as punishment for defecting or the showgirl who suffered from a flesh-eating virus after cutting herself with a rusty razor. Foregone Conclusion : The opening makes it quite clear: people are gonna get snuffed.

Foreign Queasine : The Overprotective Dad in "Tenta-killed" exploits this, trying to drive away his daughter's suitor with some traditional Korean cuisine: live seafood.

Found Footage Films : "Weed Whacked" is shown entirely through recovered footage that two stoners recorded of their attempt to get high after running out of weed. They start smoking any random plant they find in the desert until they take a hit of the wrong green. From Bad to Worse : Some victims were in benign or simple situations that were beyond their control. One guy was Japanese guy meeting a prospective employer who hit his head while bowing, accidentally rupturing a brain aneurysm, killing him.

Tropes G to H. Gag Boobs : A temp worker who decides to become a stripper after realizing she'll never be an actress gets a sub-par boob job from a hack plastic surgeon and boards a plane It's not pretty. Then there's the story of another stripper with huge implants who uses alcohol and Oxycontin which shouldn't be mixed together in the first place to alleviate her back pain.

She died when her jugs fell over her face and suffocated her made worse by the fact that she was so wasted on booze and Oxycontin that she couldn't react to it. Gag Penis : The subject of "Wedding Crasher" has one of these.

Gang Initiation Fight : An actor joins a gang in order to help him get into character for a part, and has to endure the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown version of this trope.

Gargle Blaster : "USSR-Dead": A Ukrainian immigrant joining the Russian Mafia accidentally drinks sulfuric acid the same acid that was used to burn his fingerprints so no one could link him to any crimes while celebrating his initiation. So do the other members of the Mafiya cell. All of them die as their innards dissolve. Gasshole : The belching man in "Gut Busted," due to his stomach breaking down. Also the name of the story where a surgeon with a butt fetish operates on a stripper who ate a chili dog prior to her rectal operation because the doctor failed to tell her that rectal operation patients can't eat anything 12 hours prior to said operation and whose fart sets fire to his cauterizer, which burns his lungs completely.

The narrator dubs the two guys who tried to suck gasoline out of a car with an industrial vacuum as two examples of this. The snobby, rich sorority pledge in "Who Fart-Dead? Gold Digger : In 'Rhymes with "Rich"', a gold-digging personal trainer tries to get into the pants of a married businessman, but ends up accidentally breaking her neck while trying a clean-and-jerk weightlifting exercise. In '"Booty Trapped"', a gold-digger ends up meeting her fate when an earthquake makes the money bags in her personal vault she keft out of her old rich husband's reach fall on top of her, killing her by asphyxiation.

Gorn : When it's described what happened, and it got gorier each season. To put it in a nutshell, this is an incredibly gruesome and gory TV series, and definitely one of the most violent ever made, going on par with the likes of American Horror Story and Hannibal.

Gory Discretion Shot : The reenactments for the most part, although indiscretion seems to be more common, and we now see actual decapitations, eviscerations, and so forth.

Tilting her head up to cough, she has her head ripped off by the bumper of an oncoming vehicle. Green-Eyed Monster : Pamela is this in "Pam Caked" towards Amber when she becomes popular with the cheerleading squad. This eventually leads to her demise. Grievous Bottley Harm : Deconstructed in "Wanted Instead", where the victim tries to do this to scare people in a bar, and predictably gets his hand cut with the glass shards.

He dies when a shard is deeply embedded in his hand and causes internal bleeding. Groin Attack : The zoophilic Russian soldier who tries to rape a raccoon after getting cockblocked by a fellow soldier.

The raccoon bit off the private's privates. The guy who whizzed on the electric fence —with obvious and unlikely consequences.

Implied in "Tree Mugger", where a grizzly bear is stated to have "ground down on" the victim's "root" while mauling him to death. The heretic priest named Father Gomez got his groin split in two on his own invention during the Spanish Inquisition as punishment for building the device in the first place, though this is more Karmic Death Hoist by His Own Petard.

The lesbian Straw Feminist in "Die-brator" inadvertently gives one to herself after she mistakes the taser her girlfriend sent to her as a gift for a vibrator.

The Portuguese man treating Brazilians like slaves and forcing them to pan for gold. While swimming in the Amazon River, he stops to urinate and gets a candiru fish to lodge into his urethra. As if that wasn't disturbing enough, he rips the still lodged candiru out and therefore, the inside of his penis , spilling out blood that attracts a school of piranhas that eat him alive.

The episode has a shot of him lying on the ground, smoke curling around his crotch. The bitter gymnast who dismounted off a trampoline — and lands on top of one of the supports for the parallel bars.

The force was enough to rip her rectum and vaginal opening and cause fatal damage. Doubles as Impaled with Extreme Prejudice. Taken Up to Eleven with the abusive football coach who died of sepsis after the star kicker of his team kicks him in the crotch — with cleats that have lead insets in them the force of which sent a bone fragment into his kidneys. Usually, when men get kicked in the groin, they wish they were dead. In this case, there was no wishing.

Or there was and it got granted. Half the Man He Used to Be : "Semi-cide": A man working under his truck is run over and cut in half by another truck driver who didn't see him. Happily Married : The Japanese couple in "Ichi-Boned", but they never decided to consummate their marriage because the two of them are too nervous about the act!

One night, they finally decide to throw caution to the wind, and both Go Out With A Bang smiling after suffering simultaneous heart attacks. Have a Nice Death : The show can be called a tribute to the trope. Henpecked Husband : The shrewish wife of one of these gets killed in a lawnmower accident. Ron : There is a God. Tropes I to K.

An idiot gets the bright idea to try and survive in the woods after watching a wilderness survival program on TV. He tries to eat a mixed salad of wild vegetation he found in the woods , containing a deadly trio of oleander which played havoc on his heart , foxglove which made him retch violently , and hemlock which scrambles your brain.

A rich couple end up dying from some spoiled food. They should've known better than to hire Typhoid Mary as their chef. In a case of "I Drank What? While sampling the "foreshot" the toxic-byproduct-heavy initial runoff , they ingest methanol, which causes them to go blind, then shuts down their organs. Another one from the "I Drank What? It turns out to be liquid cocaine a concentrated mixture of cocaine and kerosene that a drug smuggler was sneaking into the country.

He drank a massive overdose of the drug and died. Also from the "I Drank What? Only, it's not vodka they're drinking—-it's the sulfuric acid he used to erase his fingerprints, courtesy of the senile bartender who got the two clear liquids confused.

To be fair, the two bottles looked exactly the same. Another from the "I Drank What? It seems harmless until you realize that the flasher is so allergic to peanuts that ingesting anything with a trace of peanuts in it can kill him. The taxidermist who ate squirrel meal — from a squirrel that was infected with rabies.

The marijuana farmer who ate a grasshopper — and died from an allergic reaction to the insect's exoskeleton. Subverted in the story of the Lady Drunk who went to her recovering alcoholic husband's sobriety party and made an ass of herself. While foraging for edible mushrooms is a culinary version of Russian Roulette if you don't know what you're doing, inkcap mushrooms are actually harmless — unless you wash them down with alcohol which she did when she spiked the fruit punch with vodka and drank the whole thing after stuffing her face with inkcap mushroom pizza, much to the horror and disgust of everyone at the party.

I Just Shot Marvin in the Face : "Abracadaver": A magician and his lovely assistant fail to do the "catch a bullet in your teeth" act, as the magician accidentally put a piece of his magic wand into his assistant's gun, thus getting shot in the process. The guy died from the pressure of the blast traveling down the barrel of the revolver and cracking him in the temple. He drops the pistol, but picks it up by the trigger, and shoots himself in the head.

I Love Nuclear Power : A pair of Yemeni terrorists try to construct a nuclear weapon by using tungsten rods to focus radiation from a plutonium core.

One of the terrorists, however, accidentally touches one of the rods with the core, causing a massive burst of radiation to be unleashed, destroying their immune systems and killing them only a few days later. This is based on the "Demon Core" experiment that killed scientists in and I Was Beaten by a Girl : Happens to a gamer who played a video game tournament for 60 hours straight. When he stood up to throw a fit, the clots in his legs from sitting on his ass for almost three days rush to his lungs and kill him.

You know, it's just like Taylor : I would do him in a gay way. Conrad : Yeah! That's cool. Narrator : Palmer was a disgusting pervert who squeezed himself After a tiring day of self-abuse, he had a nice sleep Ta-ta, freak! Dieter thought he had cheated death.

But the former Nazi had no idea death could be so patient. Tropes L to N. Laser-Guided Karma : A lot of victims are struck by this. As karma would have it, he takes the spiked drink instead.

A Karmic Death as usual ensues. Lethal Chef : The incompetent baker in "Slayer Cake" was almost a literal example of this, accidentally giving a customer the wrong flavor of cake, causing them to have a severe allergic reaction that put them in the hospital.

Lethally Stupid : Many idiots are killed by other idiots. The scissor lift collapses onto him, decapitating him. Locked in a Freezer : One of the deaths from the first season. A butcher from South Philadelphia is left to freeze to death in a meat locker as payback for stealing cuts of meat and getting his boss's granddaughter pregnant. Many ways to die are plausible enough, but the gory effects commonly depicted simply would not happen in many cases.

So, for instance, impaling the back of your head on a high-pressure water spigot would be fatal, but it wouldn't make Your Head A-Splode ; the water would simply start exiting out through the path of least resistance, most likely back out from the entry wound itself.

Mad Scientist : In "Snakenstein", a German scientist from the late s experiments with reanimating body parts from recently deceased animals. When experimenting with total bodily reanimation on a rattlesnake, the snake bites him. The Mad Hatter : A 19th century hatter who lives up to the trope name from constant exposure to mercury Mailbox Baseball : One story revolves around a young couple who often go around smashing the mailboxes of their neighbors.

One neighbor, who happened to be a retired steelworker, decided to reinforce his mailbox to make it bat-proof. When the couple return, the guy is unable to knock over the mailbox, and his repeated attempts lead to his bat splintering and a piece of it lodging in his heart, killing him.

Make It Look Like an Accident : The egocentric amateur actor from "Straight to DVDead" tried to kill the other guy playing the protagonist this way to have the role for himself. Unfortunately for him, he got his hand blown up and his femoral artery lacerated by gun shrapnel because he put too much gunpowder into his prop gun. In "Lac-Toasted", a flasher does his usual routine to a group of new mothers