"Die Laughing", Way to Die #195, is the eighth and final death featured in "Putting a Happy Face on Death", which aired on December 30, 2009.
Plot[]
Jimmy, a hazmat removal worker, hates his job, but enjoys getting high off nitrous oxide (laughing gas). Jimmy experiments with a gas mask, hooking it up to a tank of nitrous oxide and pumping it full of the stuff. Wanting to take his high to the next level, he dons his Hazmat suit and connects it to the nitrous oxide tank which fills up automatically. After a few minutes of breathing in nothing but laughing gas, he suffocates and dies.
Interviewees[]
- Dr. Steven Kim - Himself (Biochemist)
Trivia[]
- It is based on this Darwin award.
- This death is slightly similar to Funny Boned, but the death causes are different. In Funny Boned, however, Chuck died by a heart attack while in this case Jimmy died by suffocation. Of course, both victims died while laughing.
- This takes place a day before Ass Phyxiated at the same location.
- This is also the final deleted death to end with not a single person surviving by the end of the story after Paintful Death. Coincidentally, both deleted deaths involve toxins of some sort, and while in the latter, the victim is generally good individual who is a boxing trainer and an artist with his problem of not reading the instructions of the spray paint mechanism, the victim in here however, despite being a Hazmat removal worker, prefers to get voluntarily intoxicated by nitrous oxide, which is strongly against the rules, policies and regulations regarding Hazmat removal workers under the code of conduct.
Goofs[]
- Errors in geography: In the German dub of the series, it said that this death took place in Omaha, Nevada, despite Omaha being actually in Nebraska. This mistake happens again in Fat Man In A Little Swing.
Segment Nicknames[]
- The Last Laugh
- Gas-tly Mistake
- Gone Laughing
Foreign Names[]
- Totgelacht (Laughing dead) - German dub
Gallery[]
Date and Location in English Version. (Custom Made)
"I hate my job." - Jimmy's regret of being a hazmat removal worker, preferring to do something that he by right SHOULD NEVER have done.
Jimmy appearing to be like "wait a minute" as he finds an even "better" solution to be intoxicated by nitrous oxide even further
That's when he knew....
.... he messed up as he suffocates from being overwhelmed by laughing gas
"The impact is the hardest. The nitrous oxide has used up the oxygen in the suit and Jimmy goes black forever. This laugh was unfortunately Jimmy's last." - Jimmy's deserved demise for doing what a hazmat removal worker is NOT allowed to do: getting voluntarily intoxicated by nitrous oxide