"Bad Hair Day", Way to Die #300, is the second death to be featured in "Death Watch", which aired on January 27, 2010.
Plot[]
A woman named Betty on a double date with Suzy refuses to let her boyfriend, Joe make out with her, fearing her beehive hairstyle (popular in the 50's) will be ruined. Finally, he gets frustrated with her and the two step outside to smoke cigarettes, with Joe lighting hers for her cigarette. Only one problem: back in the 1950's, hairspray contained alcohol and other flammable substances, causing Betty's hair to burn hotter as pizza oven and longer. The flame from his lighter sets fire to her hair, saturated with hairspray. Betty dies when the fire spreads to her scalp, burning her skull and cooking her brain, becoming one of the most painful deaths seen in this series.
"In an instant, Betty's hair became a towering inferno."
Transcript[]
(Starts with a 57 Bel-Air parking on a hill overlook the Los Angeles cityscape)
Narrator: In the 1950s, going parking was the hep thing to do.
Suzie: Come here loverboy!
Narrator: Betty and Susie had a double date with a couple of swell guys. Susie was fast and hot. Betty was not. All she cared about was her hair.
Betty: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're ruining my hair!
Susie: You ever been to third base?
(Joe gets frustrated at Betty's fussiness as Susie and her date hit third base. It then flashes back to Betty applying hairspray to her beehive hairdo)
Narrator: Back then, the beehive was all the rage. And Betty had a colossal one. Held aloft by can upon can of hairspray. That night, Betty's B-52 was flying high. But all her date Joe wanted to do, was get in her cockpit.
Betty: Ow, watch it!
Joe: Come on baby, I'm about to blow.
Narrator: Joe had enough of Squaresville.
(Joe exits the driver's side of the car)
Narrator: If this chick didn't put out, he was gonna get; real gone.
(Betty exits the car as well, still touching her hairdo as Joe lights up a cigarette)
Narrator: Joe took his frustration out, on a smoke.
Betty: You got another one of those?
(Joe hands her a cigarette before starting his Zippo as Betty goes in toward the flame. She puffs up to ensure it gets lit, and the backflash from the flame lights up her hair also, Joe walking back in shock as Betty starts screaming in horror)
Narrator: In an instant, Betty's hair became a towering inferno. Back in the 50s, Hairspray contained alcohol and other highly flammable propellants, causing her hair to burn up hotter and longer.
Narrator: Betty's brains were cooking inside her skull.
(Flashback)
Betty: Watch the hair!
Narrator: Betty wouldn't give it up and then she lit it up. All because of her killer hair.
Interviewees[]
- Dr. Pavel Bindra - Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Quotes[]
"Come on, baby, I'm about to blow!" -Joe beginning to get tired of not getting any action from Betty. "You got another one of those?" -Betty asking Joe for a cigarette, right before her hair is set ablaze.
Trivia[]
- This death takes place exactly 46 years before Mail Order Fried and 52 years before Jersey Gore.
- Betty's death is similar to Cub's injury in Happy Tree Friends TV episode, "As You Wish", Giggles' death in Happy Tree Friends web series episode, "Stealing the Spotlight", Flaky's death in Happy Tree Friends web series episode, "This is Your Knife", Sub-Zero (Bi-Han)'s Death in Mortal Kombat (2021), Quan Chi's Death in Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge, and Pop's death in Happy Tree Friends TV episode, "Every Litter Bit Hurts".
Segment Nicknames[]
- Hair-Don't
- Inferno'd
- Hair-Y Death
- Burning Hair
- Flaming Hair
- Hair on Fire
Foreign Names[]
- Mal Día Para el Cabello (Bad Hair Day) - Latin American Spanish dub
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