"Gas-Hole", Way to Die #502, is the first death featured in "Death Be Not Stupid", which aired on March 15, 2009.
Plot[]
Cisco was on the lam, he robbed a bank in Missoula and fled on his Harley to Glacier National Park. He had enough money for his dream project: A new meth lab. It was time to celebrate and cheap bourbon never tasted better.
Unfortunately for Cisco, he accidentally smashes his bottle of bourbon on a rock, much to his anger as he throws his broken bottle onto the ground. With his mugshot all over Montana, Cisco couldn't return to West Glacier to get more booze.
Wanting to get drunk, he siphons the gasoline from his motorcycle, thinking he can drink it because it contains ethanol, the form of alcohol found in almost all forms of booze.
However, he is unable to keep it down, and when he vomits it back up into his campfire, he is engulfed in flames, causing him to be burnt to a crisp. Cisco should have known that gasoline doesn't just contain ethanol.
Transcript[]
Narrator: Cisco is on the lam. He robbed a bank in Missoula and escaped to the Montana wilderness on his Harley.
Now he's got enough money for his dream project: A new meth lab. It was time to celebrate.
Cheap bourbon never tasted so good.
(Cisco accidentally breaks his bourbon bottle)
Cisco: (SCREAMS IN ANGER)
Narrator: Oops!
With his mugshot all over the state by now, it's not like Cisco can waltz back into town for more booze.
Desperate enough to try anything for a high, he turns to the only thing he truly loves: His Harley, more specifically, the gas tank.
Dr. Kim Henderson: Gasoline is a pretty complex mixture and has a hundred different hydrocarbons on it, including things like benzine and toluene which are very toxic, but this also includes ethanol.
Narrator: Cisco had heard that Ethanol is another name for alcohol.
He reasoned that, since cars can be fueled by booze, he can get drunk off the gasoline in his Harley.
He was wrong, the only high you'll get from drinking gas is the one called "Death".
Dr. Kim Henderson: If one were to drink gasoline to try to get the effects of ethanol, what they will get instead is, probably, an immediate response from their stomach, such as vomiting.
Narrator: Instead of a buzz, Cisco feels like a buzzsaw is ripping through his stomach. He's finally getting it. Gasoline is good for cars, not people.
Robbing a bank, bad idea. Drinking gasoline, even worse. Puking his deadly firewater into an open fire, the worst idea he ever had. One wonders if any of this ran through Cisco's dim brain while he was doing his best imitation of a marshmallow. Who cares? One less meth-dealing biker to worry about.
Trivia[]
- It is one of the four deaths that was shown in the intro of "Dead and Deader" that were later added in newer episodes. The other three are Re-Coiled, Jake N' Baked, and Abracadaver.
- Not to be confused with Way to Die #278 (which involved a patient farting a fireball down a doctor's throat.)
- The actor who portrayed Cisco later portrayed Roger (Eve's husband) from Shop 'Till You Drown.
- Gary Allen Banning died in a similar way.
Cast & Interviewees[]
- Tony Snegoff - Cisco (lead: intended victim)
- Dr. Kim Henderson - Toxicologist
Segment Nickname[]
- Confusing Beverages
- Fire Vomit
- Stroke Hangovers
- Ethanol-ated
Foreign Names[]
- Tonto que Bebe Gasolina (Fool Drinking Gasoline) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Gas-rrafón [Pun between the word "Gas" and the word "Garrafón" (Bad quality drink)] - European Spanish dub
- Por Gasolina (By Gasoline) - Mexican Spanish dub
- Tankowanie do pełna (Full refueling) - Polish voice-over
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