"Par For The Corpse", Way to Die #209, is the third death featured in "Getting A Rise From The Dead", which aired on February 16, 2011.
Plot[]
Jim was the groundskeeper of a cemetery, who had a no respect for the dead and had been using the cemetery as his own personal golf course. One day, Jim had developed a high fever and blisters appeared on his hands, arms, and face. Believing he had the flu, he laid down under a tree and took a nap. When he woke up, his blisters became lesions, causing the skin to peel off his face. Jim had sprayed the grass at the cemetery with a very powerful fungicide. Unbeknownst to Jim, he was allergic to the fungicide and over the time he was combining work and play, his golf tees had contracted the chemical several times. His habit of gnawing on the tees caused the allergy to kick in. The fatal allergic reaction causes his organs to burn and fail. He tried to get help from a young couple making out but they believed him to be a zombie and fled in terror. Jim then falls over the railing where the couple were making out and dies, sending this disrespectful and imbecile golfer to hell.
Transcript[]
(The couple kissing in the graveyard, [] is playing)
Narrator: Beware! The graveyard of terror.
(Far from that, a living dead walks by, gets close to the couple)
Narrator: What evil lurks around every tombstone?
Jim: (Zombie noise)
Narrator: It's, the living dead!
(The couple flee from the zombie)
Man: Come on!
Goth girl: (screams of horror)
(The disk scratches, turns out it ain't living dead, [] is playing)
Narrator: No, actually that's a nearly dead guy named Jim. How did he get like that?
(Let's go back to the start...)
Narrator: Jim worked in a cemetery. But all he really wanted to do was play golf.
(Jim pins on grass)
Narrator: So he combined work and play.
(Jim shoots golf ball to John Mannus' headstone (1947-1999))
Narrator: On his dead man's golf course, Jim had traps,
(Jim shoots on the empty grave)
Narrator: and hazards.
(Jim shoots one of the flowerpot on Charles Charles' headstone)
Narrator: But Jim was just another hack who showed a complete lack of respect for the occupants.
(Jim pees behind Nanarro's headstone)
Narrator: Then one day, Jim had a high fever and blisters appeared on his arms, hands and face.
(Even Jim looks sick, he continues to play golf like a complete moron)
Narrator: Thinking it was the flu. He went to sleep it off.
(Jim sleeps, later, this happens... Countdown to Madness is playing)
Jim: (Groans)
Narrator: But when he woke, his blisters had become festering lesions.
(Jim bleeds out, tears his nose skin out)
Jim: (Screams of pain)
(Jim walks to people for help, [] is playing)
-Jim: (Coughs)
-Narrator: He tried to get help,
Man: Let's go, come on!
Narrator: but he would never make it.
(The couple flee from the zombie)
Goth girl: (Screams of horror)
Narrator: Jim went from the living dead...
(Jim climbs up the low fence, falls, dies)
Narrator: To the dead dead.
(The cause of Jim' dead is..., [] is playing)
Narrator: When Jim sprayed the ground the day before, he was using a powerful fungicide for the first time. He didn't know it, but he was one of 1 in 10 people with a severe allergy to fungicide. His habit of gnawing on his golf tees, finally did him in.
Dr. Boyd Flinders: After ingesting chlorothalonil, they very commonly use fungicide. He had a cute allergic reaction to it,
(CGI human bites the ingested tees, fungicide touches the tongue, burns it, connects to the vein and lungs, burns the skin, groans, the organs also burn, struggles to move, dies)
Dr. Boyd Flinders: causing like symptoms. The next phase, is a necrotizing type of skin slough for dermatitis, it's a very rapid. Within an hour, your skin can start to just slough off and peel away. Not only on the exterior, but also on the inside of your body. You can actually choke off your own windpipe and die from asphyxiation.
(Recap of couple kissing while Jim sprays, [] is playing)
Narrator: In the Graveyard of Horror, see Jim spray,
(Jim plays golf)
Narrator: see Jim play,
(Jim shoots one of the flower pot on Charles Charles' headstone, Jim tears his nose skin off)
Narrator: see Jim...
Jim: (Screams of pain)
(Jim walks for help)
Narrator: Die! (Echo)
(Jim climbs up the low fence, falls, dies)
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Alec Tomkiw - Jim (lead: intended victim) (Uncredited)
- Erin Marie Hogan - Goth Girl (Lead)
- Dr. Boyd Flinders - Himself (surgeon)
Trivia[]
- This death takes place 6 years after Back Broke Mountain.
- The episode starts and ends as a parody of grindhouse-style zombie films.
- This death is loosely based on two real life deaths of the same nature.
- George M. Prior - died in a similar way to Jim in the segment. However, George was a Navy Lieutenant and not a groundskeeper.
- Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro - drummer, songwriter, composer, producer, who was the original drummer and one of the founding members of the American rock band Toto, which he served from its formation in 1977 until his death on August 5, 1992. Similar to Jim, Jeff fell ill after spraying insecticide in the yard of his Hidden Hills home in West Hills, California, and died that evening at Humana Hospital-West Hills. While initially believed by the media and fans to be caused by pesticide allergy according to doctors in Humana Hospital, the coroner's office officially listed his cause of death to be a heart attack from atherosclerosis (occlusive coronary artery disease) due to his longtime cocaine use in the 1980's.
- The death card ends in black and white.
- DestRoid also did this.
- CGI groans like Bernie did in Forked-Up.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Skin Game (Spike TV)
- Zombie Golf
- Playing In The Funeral
- Scored Out
- Funeral Fight
Foreign Names[]
- Par para el Cadaver (Par For The Corpse) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Par para la Tumba (Par For The Tomb) - Spanish dub
Gallery[]
Behind The Scenes[]
