"Bowled Over", Way To Die #355, is the fifth death to be featured in "Think Globally, Die Locally", which aired on March 19, 2012.
Plot[]
Jared and his three friends are hipsters and students in a film class, hoping to jumpstart their career with viral videos. They start by filming their friend, a girl, chugging beer in slow motion. Two of guys then throw objects off an 80 foot overpass, while Jared and the girl film them below. The two guys first throw a watermelon, a television and then a bowling ball off the overpass. While the first two objects shatter without harm, unfortunately, the bowling ball shatters and sends a piece of shrapnel flying towards Jared. The shrapnel pierces his eye and severs his medulla oblongata (which controls organ function). Jared dies instantaneously of internal hemorrhaging and organ failure.
Transcript[]
Narrator: From 80 feet above, the ball drops... and the poser film makers bowl... a perfect... strike.
(Recap, Bittersweet Ending is playing)
Narrator: It's a pretty cynical bunch here over here on 1,000 Ways to Die. We're not about to shed any tears for one dead hipster. We'll let her do it.
Girl: YOU KILLED HIM!!!!!!!!
Cast[]
- Benjamin James - Jared (lead: intended victim)
- Nicole Sykes - female hipster (lead)
- Chaz Maas - hipster (lead)
Trivia[]
- This is the second death to be filmed at the LA River viaducts in Los Angeles, the first was "Homie-Cide".
- This death is also known as "Exploding Bowling Ball" on the Spike TV website.
- Jared's death is similar to that of Toothy's eye injury before death in Happy Tree Friends web series episode: "Eye Candy" and Handy's eye injury in Happy Tree Friends web series episode: "Spare Me".
- The name of the segment is extremely close to, but not similar to the Thomas the Tank Engine episode, Bowled Out
Foreign Names[]
- La Bola Asesina (The Killer Ball) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Morte Lenta (Slow-mo Death) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Und . . . Schnitt! (And… Cut!) - German dub
- Bolazo (Bowling'd) - European Spanish dub
- Bola ka hilaman hulot kaun (The Ball get Through Right Eye) - Lazoran dub
Segment Nicknames[]
- Exploding Bowling Ball (Spike TV)
- Pinhead vs. Bowling Ball
- Hipster Homicide
- Spare Me, Please
Goofs[]
- Continuity: During the CGI sequence, it said that Jared died instantly, but you can clearly see him screaming in pain and moving for a brief period of time after being hit in the eye.
- Continuity: The dropped television set disappears, when the bowling ball gets dropped to the ground and shatters.

























