"Dead Mime ☺", Way to Die #211, is the sixth death to be featured in Death Takes A Vacation, which aired on November 14, 2011.
Plot[]
A mime named Marcello liked to harass other people, but they hate him, thinking that it is annoying. He buys a pickle from a nearby stall. When Marcello eats the pickle, he chokes on it to death, possibly due to being mute for a long period of time. When a pedestrian saw Marcello choking, more people, who came towards him, started clapping and laughing, thinking that was part of the act, and nobody was there to help him. Thus, resulting in Marcello’s death due to lack of oxygen from choking on the piece of the pickle that he ate.
Transcript[]
(Marcello mimes, Surreal and Dark Death is playing)
Narrator: Do you like mimes? If you answered "yes" then turn the channel and go watch something on PBS. But the rest of ya, check it out: you're gonna like this one...
([] is playing, Marcello strolls around, starts annoying people)
Narrator: Marcello, thought by wearing that stupid outfit and performing his lame-ass mime shtick, he had a license to annoy.
Man with sunglasses: Go back to France, mime.
([] is playing)
Dr. Lano Woodley: A person is extremely frustrated ran mimes, because they do not have any kind of verbal relation at all, and...because we view them as a visible in society... it gives them license to invade anybody's personal space.
([] is playing)
Narrator: Marcello was pulling out all the mime classics: Stuck in a box, the rope-pull... But nothing was working.
Man: I hate mime.
([] is playing)
Narrator: Marcello finally snapped. And cross the mime-line. He went from simply annoying...
(Trippy String Death is playing, Marcello mocks the madam in walker, air gropes woman's chest, steals the hat and flees)
Narrator: to insulting, to inappropriate, to harassment.
(Later, Marcello rests, Comedy Death and Taxidermy is playing)
Narrator: Even passive-aggressing mimes have to eat, time for lunch.
(Marcello eats a pickle, Baroque Death Groove is playing)
Narrator: Like all mimes, Marcello made no money. All he had to eat was one...dill...pickle.
(After swallow it, Marcello chokes himself)
Marcello: (Coughs)
Narrator: Now what? He's choking.
Audience: (Laughs)
Narrator: But look, people are laughing.
(Marcello tries to help himself, but the audiences are amusing by his act, Trippy String Death is resuming)
Tim Pool: Dude, that's sick!
(People starts giving money in Marcello's hat)
Narrator: The audience loves it. Maybe he's onto something.
(Marcello suffocates, dies, the audience applause)
Narrator: Hmmmmm, maybe not.
(Medical Device Death is playing, CGI human eats the pickle and swallows, the pickle mimes, the human coughs, pickle mime is stuck, dies with the human)
David Svoboda: With the complete airway obstruction with this pickle, he was unable to... let air in, or passively let air out. With a lack of oxygen being able go to the lungs and then to your blood, and then oxygen and blood to the brain, you will soon die after, due to lack of oxygen.
(Recap of Marcello harassing people, [] is playing)
Narrator: Marcello may very well have been the world's most obnoxious mime...
Man: I hate mime.
(Marcello chokes on a pickle, the audience gives money to him and claps)
Narrator: but he finally got a crowd with his new routine called, "I'm not pretending to choke on a pickle! I really am! And, now I'm... dead!"
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Wesam Keesh - Marcello the Mime (lead:intended victim)
- Tim Pool - Pedestrian
- Dr. Lando Woodly - Psyschologist
- David Svoboda - EMT
Trivia[]
- This is a similar death to The Chokes On You as both victims are comedians and both choked on something they were using. However, the victim in this segment was annoying.
- In the CGI, the pickle in Marcello's throat is doing the stuck in a box bit.
- This is the only death with an emoji.
- Ironically, this death is similar to that of Mime's from the Happy Tree Friends episode, Happy Trails Part 1, where he chokes to death on a peanut after Lumpy hits a bump on the road.
- This is similar to the death of Tommy Cooper.
- This is the only segment that mentioned another TV channel, PBS in this case, that was changed in the Latin American Spanish dub, mentions the public television.
- Marcello's death is similar to that of Nutty's death in Happy Tree Friends TV series episode, "As You Wish".
- Tim Pool, who portrayed the pedestrian who said "Dude, that's sick!", is a famous YouTuber who, as of typing, has 1.33M subscribers. He also has a few other channels.
Foreign names[]
- Mimo Muerto🙂 - Latin American and Spanish dubs
- Ausgegurkt - German dub