"Gasketballed", Way to Die #226, is the third death to be featured in "Unforced Errors", which aired on February 8, 2009.
Plot[]
Meet Jack and Sally. They love having sex, just like any other college student, horny. Then all of a sudden, Jack sees something - a giant basketball. It was left there from yesterday's pep-rally, but both of them want to go in there because they can have not only sex privately, but also have fun.
It was Sally who was the first to see the inside. It looked very cool. They decided to go in through the zipper. Soon, they were having fun. Jack's voice was so funny and both of them found out this was a great place indeed.
Unfortunately, after several minutes, they needed fresh air - the helium of the ball was getting the better of them. But disaster struck - the magic zipper was no-where to be found. Soon, they both suffocate of lack of oxygen, sending the couple to heaven.
"Once they locked themselves in their funhouse, it was only a matter time before their fun turned to none."
Transcript[]
(Jack & Sally having sex on the tree, [] is playing)
Narrator: Jack & Sally are like any other college sophomores...
Jack & Sally: (Giggle)
Narrator: horny.
Sally: (Giggles)
Narrator: By the looks of it, Jack's barking up the right tree. But then...
([] is playing, Jack sees a thing behind the tree)
Narrator: a vision appears.
Jack: Check this out.
Narrator: Across the campus green, something draws them like moths to a flame: a giant basketball.
-Sally: Oh my god.
-Narrator: A leftover from yesterday's pep rally.
(Both check on the giant basketball)
Sally: You have to get inside of it.
Narrator: The perfect place for a once in a lifetime quickie.
Sally: Find me a hole, find me a hole.
([] is playing)
Narrator: Sally finds the way in and pulls its zipper down faster than Jack's fly.
-Narrator: A peek inside leads to a surprising discovery.
-Sally: (Laughs)
Sally: (On helium) This is so cool! (Giggles)
([] is playing)
Narrator: Their party balloon is filled with helium.
Jack: Go in!
Sally: (On helium) Oh yeah! (Laughs) Oh my god.
(They go inside of the balloon)
Jack: (On helium) Nooooo!
Narrator: Once inside their laughing gas chamber, Sally and Jack are feeling no pain.
Sally: (On helium) (Laughs)
Jack: (On helium) (Echoes) We're in a giant basketball.
([] is playing)
Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael: The thing we get when we go in the operating room, so they're actually going under anesthesia, slowly getting anesthetized,
-Sally: (On helium) (Laughs)
-Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael: shutting down brain function, at the same time, they're asphyxiating. And it's gonna slowly produce a disordered neurotransmission in the brain, and shut higher order centers in the brain off.
(Jack & Sally are still having fun in the giant basketball)
Narrator: At first, it's all fun and games, but after a while, their lightheaded helium buzz became something else.
Jack: (On helium) (Coughs) Woo!
Narrator: Something... a lot worse.
Sally: (On helium) I feel so weird.
(Baroque Death is playing)
Jack: (On helium) Yeah... I think er... (Coughs) we should probably get... some air really quick.
Narrator: These 2 college kids should've hit the books a little harder. A helium-only environment might be fun to play in. You just can't live in it.
(Jack tries to find the zipper but completely loses it)
Narrator: Jack and Sally spend their last moments disoriented, unable to find the magic zipper...
Jack: (On helium) Keep looking! (Coughs)
Narrator: .. finally succumbing to the lack of oxygen.
Jack & Sally: (On helium) (Cough)
Narrator: Once they locked themselves inside their funhouse, it was only a matter time before their fun turned to none.
(Jack & Sally die, failed to escape from giant heliumed basketball)
Interviewees[]
- Micheal Hanson - Jack (Lead: Intended victim)
- Martha Mintz - Sally (Lead: Intended victim)
- Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael - Neurologist
Trivia[]
- In the foreign versions, the names of the victims are Jason and Sarah. Likely a reference to the victims of their death that this death is based on.
- The names (In the US Version) are a reference to the Nightmare Before Christmas.
- It is based on the deaths of Jason Ackerman and Rydman Sara.
- This death was Runner-Up A in the "Death During Sex" category in the Death By Request: Special episode.
- This is the first death to have teenagers die.
- This is also the First Unisex death.
- The "magic" zipper was seen near their dead bodies.
- Jack and Sally's deaths are similar to that of Giggles' death in Happy Tree Friends TV series episodes, "Junk in the Trunk".
- There is no Ball State College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. There is a Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Love in Basketball
- Balling Out (Of Oxygen)
- Deflated Dreams
- Airball of Death
Foreign Names[]
- Ahogados Dentro de un Balón (Drowned Inside a Ball) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Gasketball - Latin American Spanish (The Deathies) and Mexican Spanish dubs
- Balón-Gas (Ball-Gas) - European Spanish dub
- Balón Gaseoso (Gas Ball/Gassy Ball) - European Spanish dub (The Deathies)
- Exitus mit Edelgas (Exitus with Noble Gas) - German dub
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