"Chippin' Dale", Way to Die #288, is the second death to be featured in "Unforced Errors", which aired on February 8, 2009.
Plot[]
Tiny and Dale are two tree removal workers clearing brush in the 110-degree heat of the Sonoran Desert. It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it; they just wish it wasn't them. They get the last of the branches to the top of the hill and the last job before heading home: chipping the branches. However, the last branch gets stuck. The two are anxious to get home, sip a case of cold ones and catch a cage match back at Tiny's. Dale tries shoving the branch through with his feet, and in the process, learns the hard way: a machine made to destroy tree limbs can also destroy human limbs. Dale is sucked into the chipper, until he is reduced to nothing more than ground chuck/minced meat and sending him to heaven, much to the horror of Tiny as he gets a blood shower from his shredded remains. After the incident, Dale's pieces were all over the fence and some were on the grass.
Transcript[]
Narrator: Clear in brush in a 110-degree heat,
Tiny: Oh, jeez, it's sure it's hot!
(Tiny & Dale take some branches to collect)
Narrator: it's a dirty job. But someone's got to do it. Tiny and Dale just wish it wasn't them.
Tiny: (Sighs of heat)
(Tiny cleans his sweat with the glove)
Narrator: The less than dynamic duo get the last of the branches to the top of the hill. Just one job left: chipping.
(Dale starts the woodchipper, Cut in Two Part B (Reconstructed) is playing, they start chipping branches; CGI shows how the woodchipper works)
Narrator: As machines go, a woodchipper is a low-tech brute. Branches can fit in, spinning blades grind them up, and woodchips get spit out. But it's never easy with these 2. The last branch gets stuck.
(Dale tried to unblock the branch with a broom, but couldn't, so he decides to unblock it in an idiotic way)
Narrator: There's a case of cold ones in a cage fight winning for the back in tinies. It was time to man-up. Dale tries forcing the branch through with his feet.
(As Dale kicks the branch, he accidentally chipping himself)
-Dale: Ah! Ah!! F**k! (Screams)
-Tiny: God!! What are you doing?!! What are you doing?!!
Narrator: Dale finds out the hard way. A machine made to destroying tree limbs...
Dale: HELP ME!!
Narrator: can also destroy human limbs.
-Tiny: (Screams)
-Dale: (Screams) HELP ME!! HELP ME!!
Dr. Khyber Zaffarkhan: Unfortunately, he probably did feel everything that was going through him.
-Dr. Khyber Zaffarkhan: Starting with the toes and the foot, just chewing through the tissue, ripping muscle from bone, tearing apart bones itself...
-Dale: (Screams)
-Narrator: Dale gets turned into ground chuck. Tiny gets a bloodbath. Is there a lesson to be learned from all this carnage? If you're this stupid, maybe you deserved to die. (UK: Don't put your feet into a wood chipper.)
Cast & Interviewees[]
- Billy Tyler - Tiny (Lead)
- Dr. Khyber Zaffarkhan - Physical Medicine & Rehab
Trivia[]
- Dale's death is similar to that of the deaths of Lifty and Shifty in the "Happy Tree Friend" episode, "Meat Me for Lunch".
- If one reads Dale's lips, he says "Oh, f**k!" as he's shredded by the machine.
- It is unknown where Tiny went after Dale's demise.
- When Tiny and Dale throw some branches into a pile at the beginning, you can clearly see the shadow of the camera.
- Why didn't Tiny turn off the machine? No one knows. It even shows a clip of the power handle which was covered in blood but still functional.
- This is similar to the death of Steve bus emu in Fargo
- The company that created the wood chipper is named "Beers". This may be a reference to Thom Beers, the original narrator of the show.
- There is no CGI skeleton model showing how he died, however some fans can recreated but sadly these of the models were privated by Thom Beers.
- Might be based on an actual death in Colorado in 2005 and another death in 2006 in Pleasant Prairie. Link: https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/man-killed-in-wood-chipper-identified Second link: https://journaltimes.com/news/local/kenosha-man-s-death-calls-attention-to-need-for-wood/article_03c3ff1e-1cb0-5424-9b97-9184d21f4453.html
- This is also based on the death of Jesús Contreras-Benitez, here’s the link to the article explaining the death: https://abc7news.com/amp/menlo-park-tree-trimmer-dies-jesus-contreras-benitez-redwood-city-wood-chipper-death/12321826/
- Tiny calls Dale "Jesse" at the very beginning of the skit despite himself and the narrator never calling him that again.
- This happened twice in a treehouse of horror
- This death was Runner-Up B in the "Deathiest Death" category in the Death By Request: Special episode.
- This happens in Deadpool 2 where a character named zeitgeist was going to parachute with the rest of his team and due to high winds the parachuting they flew everywhere and zeitgeist landed in a woodchipper feet first.
- Joseph Manire was killed in a similar way.
- This death takes place 1 year before Ruffed Up and 4 years before Blown Job (201).
- On march 1, 2000, a man died in the same way.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Wood Shredder
- Chip N' Dale (The Deathies)
Goofs[]
- In one scene Dale's ear muffs are missing, but they reappear in the next scene.
Foreign Names[]
- Triturando a Dale (Shredding Dale) - Latin American Spanish dub
- A Pedacitos (In Pieces) - Mexican Spanish dub
- Irse por las Ramas (Going off by the Branches) - Latin American Spanish dub (The Deathies)
- Picadillo a lo Dale (Mincemeat of Dale) - Spanish dub
- Restlos kleingekriegt (Completely small) - German dub
- Triturador de Burrice (Stupidity Shredder) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Yaz Kunaklato, Sanuhatin Rama (The Unexpected, Demised Branch) - Lazoran dub