"Corset Killed Him", Way to Die #578, is the fourth death featured in "Sudden Death", which aired on December 22, 2010.
Plot[]
An arrogant, ill-tempered, overweight, doughnut-addicted ballroom dancer named Esteban uses a corset to make himself look skinny, but he, unbeknownst to him, laces it too tight this time. He dances with Yolanda, his dance partner, and acts as her teacher. After many failed attempts, Esteban starts a argument with Yolanda, and eventually, she is sick and tired of him. This causes her to leave Esteban speechless. Not only it was because he was at a lost for words, but also he couldn't breathe. The corset compresses his chest and fractures one of his ribs so that it punctures his heart, causing internal bleeding and cardiac arrest, killing him by the time he collapses onto the floor, sending the arrogant dancer to hell.
"It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out what happens when a blowhard like Esteban runs out of air. He dies!"
Transcript[]
(Esteban dancing tango with his female student)
Narrator: Do you feel like we do here on "1000 Ways to Die"? Ballroom dancing is for girly men. That's why we're delighted to have quif in our death scope. His name is Esteban, and he's a total "donut hole"...
(Speaking of that, Esteban is seen eating donuts, Period Death is playing)
Narrator: And that's his problem. The once felt manswer eats more d-nuts than a whole squad of cops. To keep up appearances,
(Esteban uses the corset to keep his shape, Dreamy Dark Comedy is playing)
Narrator: the vein huffster resorted to sucking it in with a Corset.
Carmen Palumbo: The history that we know the most about the corset is from 1820 to 1910. But we believe that it's been around thousands of years, um... to structure the shape of a woman's body. As far as men wearing corsets... It is not as common uh... back then as it is now uh... they're definitely more, but we don't get a lot of people coming in trying on corset.
([] is playing)
Narrator: The tight lacing turned the normally uptight Esteban,
(Esteban continues to teach the tango dance with another student, [] is playing)
Narrator: into a machismo monster.
Esteban: Here, here, and go! Mira! (Look!)
Narrator: His poor partner, Yolanda, wore the fit of his hissy-rant tirades.
Esteban: (Spanish accent) What you do, Yolanda? You can do nothing!
([] is playing)
Yolanda: It's not me, it's you!
Esteban: I'm the champion!
Yolanda: You make me sick!
Narrator: Finally she had enough...
Yolanda: I've had it!
(Yolanda walks out as Esteban mocks her)
-Narrator: How dare she walk out on the once great Esteban? He was speechless...
-Esteban: Blah, blah, blah, blah!
(Esteban turns red-faced and opens his shirt)
Narrator: And not because he was at a loss for words, he couldn't breathe.
(Esteban breathes heavily, [] is playing)
Narrator: His too-tight Corset was preventing his rib and diaphragm from expanding. His lungs struggled for oxygen...
(Esteban continues struggling to breath)
Narrator: It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out what happens when a blowhard like Esteban runs out of air...
(Esteban collapses to the floor as blood pours from his mouth)
Narrator: He dies!
(Future Worlds Music (but deleted) is playing, X-Ray Corset squeezes the chest, suffocates the human, the rib fractures, punctures the heart)
Jason Romero: In this case, he's compressing his lungs and the pressure from the corset against his ribs... created a fracture, the rib then broke and being curved... went inward, and unfortunately, it was in the right position to puncture his heart. This caused massive internal bleeding and uh... cardiac arrest.
(Recap, Spooky Ending is playing)
Narrator: Esteban was an egotistical, pear-shaped, two-stepping prick.
Esteban: You can do nothing!
Yolanda: It's not me!
Narrator: Does it make us happy on 1000 Ways to Die when a jerk like this bites it?
(Esteban collapses to the floor, flashback to Esteban ties his corset, back to his death)
Narrator: Of... corset... does.
Segment Description[]
Description as seen on Spike TV (now Paramount Network) website
- "A chubby tango dancer wears an extremely tight corset. Unable to breathe, he falls and cracks one of his ribs, which punctures his heart."
Alternative Name[]
- Also known as "Of Corset Kills" on the Spike TV (now Paramount Network) website
Trivia[]
- Many women have died from corsets, especially Kitty Tyrrell.
- The Spike TV website description makes a mistake when it says that it was the fall that killed Esteban, when in reality, he was dead before hitting the floor and it was the corset that broke his ribs and punctured his heart.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Of Corset Kills (Spike TV)
- Corset Kills
- Killer Corset
Foreign Names[]
- Morir Encorsetado (Dying in a Corset) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Muerto por el corsé (Dead by a Corset) - European Spanish dub
- Killerkorsett (Killer Corset) - German dub
- Ar Espartido (Sparse Air) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Kaputalitinan Corseta (Disappointing Corset) - Lazoran dub
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