"Dead On Arrival", Way to Die #614, is the fifth death featured in "Death Takes A Vacation", which aired November 14, 2011.
Plot[]
Garcia was a drug dealer who found an interesting way to smuggle his homemade LSD, dipping a t-shirt in 2,000,000 worth of illegal hallucinogen, putting it on, and going through airport security.
Garcia was going to take a flight from San Francisco to Portland with enough acid to fry the minds of the entire state of Oregon, in theory his plan could have worked but for Garcia, it was not working, he didn't take into account that the sweat would cause him to absorb the LSD through his skin, he became nervous and began to sweat, began to hallucinate, act crazy and say things like "Gary is Cat Man".
Garcia had not yet gotten on the plane, but his trip had already begun, he began to hallucinate terrifying things like that a guard had the face of a pig while the guard tried to calm him down, the more paranoid Garcia became, the more he sweated, until he absorbed 100,000 dose of LSD, the guards held him down, told him to calm down and Garcia hallucinated that one had the face of an old man and the other the face of a murderous clown and he panicked, the guards threw him to the ground, his heart rate accelerated to 280 beats per minute, his blood pressure increased to the strike zone which caused his arteries to burst, his heart could explode and his temperature became so high that his brain boiled inside his skull which caused it to leak and stop working, killing him in a horrible way and sending this drug dealer to Hell, leaving the guards and passengers confused by his death.
Narrator:Garcia was a drug smuggler who wanted the whole world to trip out on his homemade LSD, but then he screwed up... and wound up taking the ultimate trip... death.
Transcript[]
(Recap, Epic Rock Piece is playing)
Garcia: Gary is Cat Man.
Narrator:Garcia was a drug smuggler who wanted the whole world to trip out on his homemade LSD, but then he screwed up... and wound up taking the ultimate trip... death.
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Troy Alexander - Garcia (lead: intended victim)
- Pat Well - Interviewee (Airline Executive)
- Dr. Faryl Saliman Reingold - Interviewee (Occupational Therapist)
Segment Nickname[]
- Acid Washed (Spike TV)
- Arrivi-Dosage
- Tie Die
- Dead Garcia
Foreign Names[]
- Viaje A La Muerte (Death Trek / Journey to the Death) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Un Mal Viaje (A Bad Trip) - Spanish dub
- Morto ao Chegar (Dead on Arrival) - Brazilian dub
Trivia[]
- The CGI graphics show a pinball machine "tilted" (Normally, during computer pinball, "tilts" happen when you play the game too hard.)
- Franklin Ruehl, who was an interviewee in Reef Stew, Booby-Zapped, and Cult Evaded, makes a cameo when glancing at the dead body of Garcia. He's also shown in the intro card
- This death is not to be confused with the Season 2 episode Death On Arrival.
- The Latin American Spanish dub called the death "Viaje a la Muerte". It could be a pun on Star Trek, known as "Viaje a las Estrellas".
- The introcard is Garcia's first-person view.
- This is the last death interview by Dr. Faryl Saliman Reingold.
- The description of the death in the CGI is gruesome. His arteries and heart would blow up and his brain would basically boil inside him, which is likely an overstatement due to poor education about substances.
- Despite the narrator stating that Garcia used "100,000 times the lethal dose of LSD", there are no confirmed deaths from LSD toxicity, just the symptoms caused by or actions taken during the high or "trip."
- The segment description says Garcia died after getting poisoned with chemicals, this is because LSD, shorthand for Lysergic Acid Diethylamide is a chemical. Garcia didn't die from the drugs themselves, but from the stress created by the fear and hallucinations.
Segment Description[]
- "A man named Garcia dies after getting poisoned with a chemical on his clothes." (German Version)
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