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"Fatally Gourd", Way to Die #870, is the seventh and last death featured in "The One About Dumb People Dying", which aired on February 8, 2011.

Plot[]

Dwayne and his buddies go pumpkin chunking using a homemade gasoline-powered pumpkin cannon at his farm. The cannon can launch the pumpkin far harder than the usual slingshots, at a rate of about 400 miles per hour, enough to obliterate anything in its path when launched (such as, as presented, one of his scarecrows), and is considered a somewhat dangerous method as the cannons could explode on their users. They, however, avoid the reaper this time around. Meanwhile, another man named Luther is stealing pumpkins from the farm across to sell on the black market. However, Luther chose the wrong farm to pick a pumpkins, or at the very least, a very, VERY bad time to pick pumpkins from Dwayne's farm, as he was right in the middle of the shooting range. Luther ducks down and avoids the first few shots but just as he stands up to make his escape, one of the pumpkins from the cannon makes contact with Luther, and the pumpkin, stem-first, is impaled deep into his chest, killing him instantly and sending this bad boy to hell.

You want another slice of that, Luther?

Transcript[]

(Recap, What goes up is playing)

Narrator: Dwayne and his buds were just a bunch of good 'ol boys getting some yucks. Luther was just a bad boy making some illegal bucks. When Luther met Dwayne, it gave us a good idea for a new show: 1000 Ways to Pie! You want another slice of that, Luther?

Goofs[]

  • Factual Error: When Luther gets hit, he falls flat on his back like a sack of potatoes; when with the initial impact, he should have been sent flying backwards.
  • Continuity: The CGI render shows the pumpkin exploding, but it stays in one piece in the live footage.
  • Revealing Mistake: At the very end, Luther blinks despite the fact he died with his eyes closed.

Interviewees[]

  • Chris Weisbart - DIY Technology Expert
  • Dr. Michael Kurtz - Medical Practitioner

Segment Nicknames[]

  • Pumpkin Die (Spike TV)
  • Scumpkin Scumbat

Foreign names[]

  • Calabaza Fatal (Fatal Pumpkin) - Latin American and Spanish dubs
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Fatally Gourd
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