"Gone Green" Way to Die #612, is the first death featured in season 5 finale: "Locked and Low Dead", which aired February 29, 2012.
Plot[]
A rich socialite named Sharon and her best friend Julie were having a party for St. Patrick's Day, Sharon was planning to wear a 100-year-old green dress that cost $3000 and she revealed that she stole it since she didn't plan to pay for it, what Sharon didn't know was that the dress was knitted with the Paris Green dye, (which was currently out of use because it had copper acetoarsenite, which was used as rat poison in the Parisian sewers), at the party Sharon started flirting with Steve, her friend Lauren's boyfriend and stole him, so Lauren took revenge on them by giving them a champagne bath and the others joined her, the next morning everyone woke up hungover and Sharon saw that She had green skin and vomited the greenness of what she drank, the champagne bath soaked the dress and her body absorbed a lethal amount of copper acetoarsenite, killing her like the rat she was and sending the shameless thief to hell to which she belonged.
Transcript[]
Sharon: (Whimpers)
Narrator: Sharon had no scroplist. And she had no marbles. But she found that even on St. Patty's Day, it ain't easy... being green.
Segment Nickname[]
- Pretty Poison Dress
- Fashion Victim (on Spike TV website)
- Cham-Pain
- Dress Of The Greens
Trivia[]
- In the CGI segment, the victim was shown wearing a Party St. Patrick's hat, though it wasn't shown in the rest of the segment.
- The doggerel quote spoofs the song Kermit the Frog sings (It's not that easy bein' green).
- During the quote, Steve said "Gross bitch!" as a one liner. However, it was edited out.
- Originally, Sharon was suppose to vomit in a glass pitcher. But, Paul broke the glass pitcher which had shut down production for 30 minutes while the crew cleaned up the broken glass and the prop was switched to a green hat.
- It is based on the arsenic dress.
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Carrie Diaz - Fashion Historian
- Dr. Khyber Zaffarkhan - Interventional Pain Physician
- Adventure Paul - Steve (Uncredited)
- Jessica Lee Wrabel - Sharon (lead: intended victim)
Foreign names[]
- Verde de Envidia (Green of Envy) - Latin American and Spanish dubs
- Es grünt so grün (It's so green) - German dub
- Katihkuhlan Verdo (Delicate Green) - Lazoran dub
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