Bringing In The Dead[]
"It's time to say goodbye to a few who just didn't see it coming: A beer-blitzed barfer, a hell of a belly dancer, a punchy boxer, a shredding rabbi, a safe-cracking cracker, a spice girl lover, and a blind driver. Their misfortune is our good luck on the next episode of 1000 Ways to Die."
"1000 Ways to Die" Episode 17.
Originally aired January 6, 2010.
Title reference: Spoofs the popular hymn Bringing In the Sheaves
-- This is the Original Episode --
D. U. Die[]
Way to Die #528
Larry
On August 4, 2000, in Akron, OH. Two drunk men go for a drive in a station wagon. While driving at 60 miles per hour, the driver starts to get carsick. He leans out the window to vomit, causing the car to swerve toward the edge of the street, and is decapitated when his head slams into a mailbox.
Belly'd Up[]
Way to Die #146
Natasha
On June 18, 2001, in Ann Arbor, MI. While practicing for an upcoming competition, a belly dancer wraps a scarf around her neck and throws the tail end of it into the air, where it catches on a moving ceiling fan and strangles her.
Suck Her Punched[]
Way to Die #217
On October 4, 2007, in Gary, IN. A rapist lurking in the alley behind a boxing gym attacks a woman in a blue cocktail dress, not knowing that his target is actually a male boxer who cross-dresses to calm down from his workouts and gets extremely angry whenever someone calls him a "lady." The boxer defends himself by punching the rapist with a powerful right [1] to his temple. The would-be rapist's brain compresses and bleeds out inside his skull, causing him to pass out and die due to blood loss and severe brain damage.
Jack 'n Croaked[]
Way to Die #177
Jasper
On October 10, 1911, in Lynchburg, TN. Whiskey distiller Jack Daniel samples the taste of his family brew and keeps asking his workers to perfect it. He gets drunk in the process, but finally makes the perfect batch. He decides to update his family recipe, which is stored in a safe, but is so drunk that he cannot remember the combination. In a drunken rage, he kicks the safe, and damages his big toe. The cut soon becomes infected, and he dies of sepsis two weeks later.
Alt names - The Jack Daniel Story
Trivia: This segment has also been used for "Top 100 Deaths".
Dead Heat[]
Way to Die #657
Brett
On February 25, 1998, in Syracuse, NY. A woman is cooking for her new boyfriend and forces him to smell some exotic, imported spices, not knowing that he has asthma. The asthmatic's inhaler soon runs out of medicine, and he dies of a massive asthma attack.
Alt names - Asthmatic Spices
Poi Vey[]
Way to Die #96
Sheldon
On May 18, 1989, in Honolulu, HI. An Orthodox Jew who is obsessed with a hula dancer decides to stalk her, but his attempts to woo her by leaving poi kreplach on her doorstep, serenading her on a ukulele, and taking up surfing are all in vain. After one last attempt to romance her fails, he drowns his sorrows in mai-tais. In an inebriated state, he takes part in a torch ceremony, where he catches on fire and burns to death.
Alt names - Aloha-Ha-Ha
Trivia: In the German version, this death is replaced with Easy Slider, which didn't even come out until season 3, August 2010.
ReTired[]
Way to Die #412 (Note: This is the second death to have this number)
Shuggy and Arthur
On April 27, 2001, in Scottsdale, AZ. An elderly man named Arthur goes through his daily ritual of getting into his classic Chevrolet/Chevy car and reminiscing about his life while sitting in the driver's seat, but after 80 years of life, he peacefully passes away from natural causes sitting in his car. At the same time, a lifelong criminal named Shuggy robs a gas station, after knocking out an unnamed store clerk with a single high punch in order to find something to steal. The old man's car's emergency brakes slip, and it starts rolling down a hill while Shuggy is crossing the street, running him over, breaking both of his leg bones and neck bones, killing him.
Note: This is the second death to be given this name.
Alt names - Old Man ReTired
Cleane-Dead Solution[]
Way to Die #308
On July 7, 1998, in Cherry Hill, NJ. A woman is in an abusive relationship with her husband. She is taking dishes out of the dishwasher when he starts screaming at her to do more. She begins to mop the floor. When the man comes back in drunk, he berates her again. She tells him that she wants a divorce. He charges towards her, slips on the wet floor, and falls onto a knife that was facing up in the dishwasher. The knife pierces his heart, killing him.
(This death is absent from the US version)
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