"Mexi-can't", Way to Die #477, is the sixth death featured in "Crying Over Spilled Blood", which aired on July 15, 2012.
Plot[]
Dan attempts to break his friend Jarret out of a Mexican jail after the latter was arrested for making a pass on the mayor's 13-year-old daughter and learns that his cellmate wants to rape him. Dan hatches a plan to break Jarret out of jail. He attaches one end of a heavy-duty cable to his open-top car and the other end to the bars on the wall in an attempt to rip the bars off of the wall. However, instead of ripping the bars, the cable snaps with such force that it decapitates Dan, killing him instantly, ending his rescue mission as a failure, much to the horror of Jarret.
Transcript[]
([] is playing)
Narrator: Not much happens in this sleepy little Hell hole south of the border.
(A car reverses)
Narrator: That is until Dan rolls into town.
([] is playing, Mexican sleeper wakes up, does nothing but sees Dan gets out of the car)
Narrator: His buddy Jarret's in jail for making a pass at the mayor's 13-year-old daughter.
Dan: Psst!
(Demented and Disturbed Death is playing)
-Jarret: Dude, you gotta get me out of here! My cellmate, he wanted to oil me up and lick me and he told me I had pretty eyes and he wanted to take a shower with me!
-Dan: That's disgusting!
Narrator: Jarret needs to get out of the slammer. Dan's a man with a plan.
Dan: Trust me, you got it all figured out. I saw this in a movie once, alright? I'll be right back.
([] is playing, Dan runs toward his car, gets a cable)
-Narrator: Dan takes some heavy duty cable and he hitches it up to 350 horses.
-Jarret: Go, go, go!
(Dan starts the engine, tries to get Jarret out of the cage)
Dan: Come on, come on... Come on, c'mon, c'mon...!
Narrator: Something gives...but it's not the jail bars.
(The cable snapped, hits right to Dan's neck)
Dan: (Moans)
(Dan is decapitated, two sleepers look at his head; CGI shows the cable snapping, Medical Malpractice Death is playing)
David Svoboda: When the cable snapped back with such incredible force, it severed the spine, decapitating him like a weed whacker to a dandelion on the front lawn.
(Recap of Dan rescuing Jarret, [] is playing)
Jarret: Dude, you gotta get me out of here!
Narrator: Dan tried to spring his friend from jail, but it didn't work out.
(The cable snapped, hits right to Dan's neck)
Dan: (Moans)
-Jarret: (Screams) Oh my god...
-Narrator: Jarret stayed put.
(Sleepers get back to sleep, like nothing surprising happened)
Narrator: And Dan went head over... wheels.
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Nathan Wellman - Dan (Lead; Intended victim)
- Peter James Bockman - Jarret (Lead)
- David Svoboda - Himself (EMT)
Segment Nicknames[]
- Jailbroke (Spike TV)
- Broke Out
- Detached Freedom
- Heads Will Roll
- Mortality in Mexico
- Cell Block Buster
Foreign Names[]
- México Mata (Mexico Kills) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Cableado (Wired) - European Spanish dub
- Use a Cabeça (Use Your Head) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Główka pracuje (Head Works) - Polish voice-over
- Tot wie Drahtseil (Dead as a Wire) - German dub
- Dekapitado kutan Bulikad (Decapitated by Wires) - Lazoran dub
Trivia[]
- Also called "Jailbroke" in the Spike TV's website.
- Likely based on the death of Welsh racing car driver J.G. Parry Thomas.
- This is the second death to have the word "Can't" in their title. The first was "African't".
- This is one of 2 deaths caused by cable; the others is Macdeath.
- The description for this death on the Spike TV website mistakenly says that Dan and Jarret are brothers.
- El Cabong isn't a real city in Mexico, but a fictional one.
- El Cabong takes its name from "El Kabong", the masked alter-ego of Quickdraw McGraw,
- Dan's death is similar to that of Disco Bear's death in Happy Tree Friends TV series episode, "Ipso Fatso".
- This is the last decapitation death in the series.
- Dan's car has an Arkansas license plate, suggesting that Dan and possibly Jarret are originally from Arkansas.
- Before Dan gets Jarret out of the cell, when he says he's seen this in a movie before, he must have seen Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where Ron Weasley and his brothers save Harry with the jumper cable and successfully break the window bars.
Goofs[]
- Continuity: Before Dan touches the cage, Jarret's hands are shown, but the next cut, Jarret's hands aren't shown yet.
- Continuity: When Dan is decapitated, his head falls to the passenger seat. By the next shot, his head flies out of the car.
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