"WARNING: The deaths, which are real and extremely graphic, portrayed in this show are based on tragic scenarios, from movies and make-up deaths."
"Names, which in some episode segments, have been changed to protect the identities of the deceased."
"Do not attempt to try ANY kinds of horrified actions depicted."
"OR ELSE YOU'LL DIE!" (the word "DIE" reverberates ominously).
NOTE: Death segments have never been the same. Also, These bad words are very dangerous on some segments and some details.
"1000 Ways to Die" -- Repeated Segments[]
| Death # | "Event" Name | Taken from | Circumstances of Death |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 (Note: This is the second death to be given this number) | Sumowed (aka Sumo You Didn't) | Young, Dumb, and Full of Death -- Segment 6 | On June 22, 2006, in Palo Alto, CA. A corporate leader who was only hired because his father owned the company leads an employee retreat. After failing to catch his volunteer during the trust fall exercise, he dresses up in a sumo suit, and sumo-wrestles an opponent (coincidentally, his opponent was the woman whom the man forgot to catch during the trust fall exercise). However, he set up the sumo ring too close to the edge of a cliff, and he is pushed off it by his opponent. He survives the fall because of his padded sumo suit, but ends up getting fatally hit by a Smart Car. |
| 105 (Note: This is the second death to be given this number) | Backseat Die-er (aka Paddle Me) | Wild Wild Death -- Segment 6 | On March 1, 2003, in West Plains, MO. A paramedic who has been fired several times for gross incompetence and getting high on hospital drugs takes another job and gets high again by inhaling nitrous oxide. In his intoxicated state, he begins playing with the ambulance's defibrillator and electrocutes himself. |
| 213 (Note: This is the second death to be given this number) | Ass-Hoppered (aka Bake Out) | Death, The New Black -- Segment 5 | On April 20, 2010, in Humboldt County, CA. Two men in rural California attempt to grow marijuana for money, but end up smoking their stash. The two get "the munchies," but having no food, one man decides to eat a grasshopper. Unknowingly allergic to a protein in the bug's exoskeleton, he goes into anaphylactic shock and dies when his throat swells shut, which creates asphyxiation. |
| 246 (Note: This is the second death to have this number) | White Wetting (aka Flay-Ote) | Locked and Low Dead -- Segment 6 | On December 4, 2005, in Woonsocket, RI. A drug addict who smoked PCP-laced cigarettes wreaks havoc at a local grocery store, where he plays bowling with the paper towels, knocks over several displays, and declares himself "The Meat Man" while wandering through the deli section. When his mischief attracts the store security guard, he is chased through the store, slips, and slides into a stack of beer kegs, which fall on him and crush his skull (the pain of which the addict couldn't feel because of the anesthetic effects of the PCP). |
| 284 (Note: This is the second death to be given this number) | Mail Order Fried (aka Shock and Awww) | Hurry Up and Die -- Segment 6 | On August 14, 2002, in Olathe, KA. An obnoxious mailman who has a second job as the target at the local carnival's dunk tank insults the customers with embarrassing secrets he culls from their mail. Over time, balls that miss the target repeatedly hit the fuse box for the tank's water heater and damage the wiring until it makes contact with the water, electrifying it. When one customer (a former professional baseball player who spent two years playing the game in Japan) hits the target, the mailman falls into the tank and is electrocuted. |
| 293 (Note: This is the second death to be given this number) | Frost-Dead (aka Freeze Died) | Death: One Size Fits All -- Segment 2 | On June 3, 2002, in Springfield, IL. A bumbling cryopreservation engineer who has been known to inject standard anti-freeze into his clients instead of the usual preservation material to prevent freeze damage, dies after breathing in pure liquid nitrogen from a tube that had come loose from a cryogenic tank he had failed to fix. |
| 325 (Note: This is the second death to be given this number) | Kitchen Sunk (aka Sinking Feeling) | Death – The Gift That Lasts Forever -- Segment 6 | On May 14, 2003, in Echo Park, CA. An untalented musician refuses to fix a clogged sink after being asked by his girlfriend. After his girlfriend comes back, he finally helps her. With no idea what to do, he turns on the garbage disposal. His long beard gets sucked into the disposal, pulling his face into the murky dish water, and drowning him. |
| 330 (Note: This is the second death to be given this number) | Paper Or Spastic (aka Green Grosser) | Star Death: The Last Generation -- Segment 5 | On February 24, 2002, in Crook, OR. An extremely obnoxious, ill-tempered grocery shopper tries to swindle a store cashier, then screams at the manager when the cashier calls him in. During this argument, the scarf she is wearing (and trying to shoplift) gets caught in the checkout stand's conveyor belt and strangles her to death. |
| 355 (Note: This is the second death to be given this number) | Bowled Over (aka Exploding Bowling Ball) | Think Globally, Die Locally -- Segment 5 | On January 23, 2008, in East L.A., CA. A group of hipster filmmakers are out one day recording themselves on a high-speed camera in the hopes of creating popular viral videos, when one gets the idea to film things being dropped from 80 ft. above them. With the cameraman on the ground, they drop a bowling ball, which shatters, sending a large shard in through the eye of the cameraman. The shard severs his medulla oblongata and he dies of organ failure. |
| 412 (Note: This is the second death to be given this number) | ReTired (aka Old Man ReTired) | Bringing In The Dead -- Segment 7 | On April 27, 2001, in Scottsdale, AZ. An elderly man goes through his daily ritual of getting into his classic Chevy car and reminiscing about his life while sitting in the driver's seat, but one day, he dies. At the same time, a gangster robs a gas station. The old man's car's emergency brakes slip, and it starts rolling down a hill while the gangster is crossing the street, running him over. |
| 412 (Note: This is the third death to be given this number) | S**t Canned (aka Canned Trashed) | Come On, Get Deathy -- Segment 7 | On May 2, 2005, in Sioux Falls, SD. A jealous man attending the wedding of the woman he loved (who is getting married to another man) plans to ruin her day by paying a waiter to slip an extra-strength laxative into her drink. The waiter, after having a pang of conscience, slips the laxative into the man's drink instead. During the toast, the man downs the spiked drink and rushes to the bathroom. After finding the only stall occupied by a couple having sex who refuse to leave, he relieves himself in a trash can outside, but has trouble getting out. The trash can falls and sends the man rolling down a rough hill. He dies of multiple bone fractures and skull trauma. |
| 412 (Note: This is the fourth death to be given this number) | Hair Today, Dead Tomorrow (aka Rug Munched) | Stupid is as Stupid Dies -- Segment 2 | On May 1, 1968, San Francisco, CA. A female nudist painter lapses into a coma and dies after months of digestive problems caused by her trichophagia. At the morgue, the coroners discover a trichobezoar in her intestines, which was clogged with enough hair and undigested food to cause intestinal rupturing and internal bleeding. |
| 412 (Note: This is the fifth death to be given this number) | Lesboned (aka Burning Loins) | Hurry Up and Die -- Segment 4 | On June 9, 2008, in Parker Strip, AZ. A bisexual real estate agent notorious for having sex with her clients seduces a wealthy, lesbian prospective customer. After a tour of the house, pool, and eventually the laundry room, they strip and have sex on top of the dryer. Their movements cause its fuel line to come loose and the room fills with natural gas. When the water heater turns on automatically, it ignites the gas and sets off an explosion that kills both women. |
| 412 (Note: This is the sixth death to be given this number) | Goon Interrupted (aka Chutes and Splatters) | Ready Or Not, Here Comes Death -- Segment 6 | On December 18, 1998, at the Mental Hospital. A hitman feigns insanity and is sent to a mental hospital after his trial for murder. He then attempts to escape from his fifth-floor ward by climbing down a laundry chute, but the weight of the laundry dumped onto him from higher floors causes him to lose his grip. He falls 50 feet and lands on a concrete floor, suffering multiple injuries and dying instantly. |
| 412 (Note: This is the seventh death to be given this number) | Gang Banged (aka Dead Bang) | Today's Special: Death -- Segment 3 | On September 8, 1928, Little Italy, NY. A son of a black market booze dealer enters a steam room in a bathhouse with a gun hidden under a towel in order to kill the person who shot his father in the head. Two men inside the room seem to recognize the gunman, so one man asks his name. After the gunman reveals his name, he pulls out the gun, but slips on the seat and fires a bullet into a steam pipe. The man falls in front of the leaking steam pipe, which sends steam heated to 350 °F (177 °C) onto him. The steam melts half of his face, and he dies instantly. |
| 444 (Note: This is the second death to be given this number) | Jaw Boned (aka Chew Bomber) | Stupid is as Stupid Dies -- Segment 1 | On July 4, 2004, in Orangeville, MI. A once-promising chemist has now become a drug addict who spends his days making crystal meth in the garage of his house and chewing on a 6-day-old piece of gum that he regularly dips in citric acid to keep it moist and fresh. In the man's drug-addled rush, he accidentally dips the gum in red phosphorus instead. The force of his chewing causes it to explode, blowing off his jawbone and making his brain bleed out on the table. |
Visit the 1000 Ways to Die website at: www.spike.com/shows/1000-ways-to-die.