"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[]
As fall arrives, we think of the changing color of the leaves, Thanksgiving and of course... pumpkin chunking.
Dwayne and his boys liked nothing more than picking up the leftover pumpkins from Dwayne's farm and launch them with his homemade launcher (a pumpkin cannon consists of a barrel in which the pumpkin and something that disperses gas is placed, what Dwayne and his boys did was very dangerous because they filled the barrel with a flammable compressed gas, set it on fire which generated an explosive expansion that expelled whatever it was at a very high speed, you launch a 10 pound pumpkin at about 400 miles per hour, up to 1 mile, destroying whatever is in its path, like a scarecrow).
Dwayne and his rednecks friends were too drunk to notice the man who was in the field stealing his pumpkins, Luther, was a criminal from the next county, every fall he made money by sneaking into farms, loading his truck with stolen pumpkins and selling them to the fools of the city.
But on that occasion, Luther chose the wrong farm to steal pumpkins, Dwayne and his boys started throwing pumpkins and they started heading towards Luther so he threw himself on the ground to take cover, gas fueled pumpkin launchers are extremely dangerous, have exploded and killed their users, Dwayne and his buds placed a pumpkin, Luther stood up to escape, the lit torch was placed in the launcher and the pumpkin shot out at 100 miles per hour and hit Luther, the pumpkin hit in the chest, penetrated the man's chest wall and the stem went through his ribcage and reached his heart, his heart explode and he died instantly, sending this pumpkin thief to hell.
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?
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 Spanish and Spanish dubs
- No Bagaço (In the pulp) [An expression that means "to be in a terrible state."] Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Der Killerkürbis (The Killer Pumpkin) - German dub
- Nakiwasanilat Kalabasa (Resulted Pumpkin) - Lazoran dub
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