Bowled Over

Way to Die #355
Bowled Over
Name of the death is a pun on the phrase and term "bowled over"
Narrator: "It's a pretty cynical bunch over here at 1000 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!"
Information
Date	January 23, 2008
Location	East L.A.
Episode this death was featured in	Think Globally, Die Locally
Deaths
Previous	Blood Bath & Beyond Namas-dead (Production order)
Previous	Blood Bath & Beyond Namas-dead (Production order)
Next	Teri-Yucky Hacked Off (Production order)
Next	Teri-Yucky Hacked Off (Production order)

"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.

Gallery

The male hipsters reacting in shock over what they see

Jared screams in complete agony before succumbing to injuries, leading to his unfortunate demise

"YOU KILLED HIM!!!!!" - The female hipster calling the male hipsters out from below for causing Jared's unfortunate death by their negligence

Behind The Scenes