"Info-Pain-Ment", Way to Die #185, is the fifth death featured in "Crying Over Spilled Blood", which aired on July 15, 2012.
Plot[]
A workout fanatic named Gunther creates his own line of home fitness equipment made out of bamboo. Gunther has hired some old buddies, Harold and Lloyd, to film the commercial, but gets frustrated with them and when his bamboo barbell snaps, Gunther storms off, leaving the cameraman and his other buddy alone. They then discover a bamboo exercise bench, one of them decides to mess with it, yelling in a silly caveman voice: Gunther likes the muscles! Gunther want more muscles!! much to the cameraman's amusement. Not long afterwards, Gunther comes back and asks them if they were making fun of him and if he looks funny. The tension of the exercise bench causes a piece of bamboo to fly off and impale Gunther through in his right ear and brain, causing his brain to shut down, killing him almost instantly sending him to Heaven, much to the shock to his friends.
Transcript[]
Narrator: While Gunther goes off to calm down, Harold and Lloyd check out his next creation.
Narrator: Gunther knew bamboo does have the tensile strength of steel, but he didn't account for the all-conquering power of stupidity. BAM! BOO! You're... dead.
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Jerry TerHorst - Gunther (lead: intended victim)
- Frank McDonough (Botanist; Only in German version)
- Dr. Duncan McBride (Neurotrauma Surgeon)
- Sethward Allison - Lloyd (lead)
Trivia[]
- Also called "Boo Flex" on the Spike TV website.
- The segment was happened on the same day as Titty Titty Bang Bang and Bibli-killed.
- This is the second death to have a "Gunther" die, the first is Toe Jammed.
Goof[]
- One of Gunther's buddy uses an iPhone, which wasn't released before 2007.
- When Gunther caught the cameraman of teasing him, he still has his headphones on. But after the bamboo snapped, the next shot shows his headphones have vanished.
- The German version has a plot hole during Frank McDonough's interview as it shows Gunther breaking the bamboo barbell out of anger despite previously showing it break when he was lifting it.
Foreign Names[]
- Muerte-Merciales (Death-Mercials) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Publidoloroso (Adverpainful) - European Spanish dub
- E o Bambu? [A quote from a Brazilian joke popularized by this moment in TV] (What about the bamboo?) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Tödlich fit (Deadly fit) - German dub
- Informesyal Drezaku na Sakinang (Death by Falling Infomercial) - Lazoran dub
- Zrobiony w bambusa (Made in Bamboo) - Polish voice-over (old)
- Zrobiony w bambus (Made in Bamboo) - Polish voice-over (new)
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