"Die It", Way to Die #734, is the fourth death featured in "Death Be Not Stupid", which aired on March 15, 2009.
Plot[]
Darlene had a very overweight problem. She tried many diet solutions, including eating cabbage, grapefruit, even chocolate (no idea how that is supposed to work), but nothing worked. She tried one more solution after ordering tapeworm larvae online. She swallows the worms whole, and they make their way into Darlene's intestines. They ate everything that she ate. 3 weeks have passed since then, and Darlene had dropped 4 dress sizes. However, the worms weren't finished--they eventually reproduced all over her body. 2 months later, Darlene started to feel a little ill, and she lost sixty pounds. Because of her so-called "diet", she died on her couch after talking to her friend on the phone. Darlene finally dropped to a size-8 dress, which unfortunately, was also the last thing she wore before succumbing to her internal injuries.
Transcript[]
Narrator: Darlene finally fit in a size 4 dress. Too bad she wore it...at her funeral.
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Rebekah Zetty - Darlene (lead: intended victim)
- Christine Mulhern - Louise (lead, voice only)
- Kirk Fitzhugh - Himself (Museum Curator)
Trivia[]
- Fact: You can't swallow tapeworms to lose weight, because it's not a good strategy. It's an awful strategy. If you want proof, this story is the best example of why it is a bad idea.
- For some reason, the size that the narrator in the UK version says in the doggerel is twice the size the US narrator says; this is because, according to the different size charts, the difference between the US Size and UK Size for clothing is 4. A size 4 dress in the United States is equal to a size 8 dress in the United Kingdom. The reason some non-English dubs don't use the size charts, only use the size of the dress.
Segment Nickname[]
- As the Tapeworm Turns
- Dead-lene
- A Turn For the Tapeworms
Foreign Names[]
- Tenia Mortal (Mortal Tapeworm) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Dieta Solitaria (Solitary Diet) - European Spanish dub
- Dieta (Diet) - Mexican Spanish dub
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