"Pretty Fly for a Dead Guy", Way to Die #680, is the first death to be featured on "Tweets From the Dead", which originally aired on March 26th 2012.
Plot[]
Egon was a nerd who hated insects and dedicated his life to exterminating them, his house was full of insect repellent, fly paper and jars with insects to torture and kill them, Egon amplified the war by turning a wall of his house into a leaf giant fly paper using a super glue he made called cyanoacrylate, it was so strong that he could glue two of his fingers together, upon finishing, Egon witnessed his masterpiece, when suddenly a mosquito appeared, as if trying to make fun of him, Egon tried to kill him with a fly swatter but he tripped over the bucket of super glue and fell against the wall, Egon got stuck and fell in a position where he was immobilized, he tried to scream for help but no one heard him, 2 days later, Egon was so weak that he lost control of his bodily functions and began to urinate and defecate uncontrollably, the insects began to appear and climb on Egon while he suffered, after 1 week, Egon died of dehydration and the insects arrived, the flies were attracted by rotting meat and excrement, they began to lay eggs in the excrement, the worms devoured his corpse and the domestic beetles, leaving this Insect Exterminator like a skeleton and sending him to heaven where he wouldn't have to worry about bugs again.
Transcript[]
(Roll over, Mozart is playing)
Egon: I hate all bugs.
Narrator: Say hello to Egon. He's grown into a Full-Time Bug Terminator.
Egon: (Holds up jar full of bugs) I don't know if I have time to kill all of you. Torture most, Yes.
Narrator: He's about to escalate his war. He's turning an entire wall of his house into a giant sheet of flypaper, by using a super high strength glue of his own making.
Egon: I peed myself (crying)
Narrator: After a week of being pinned to the wall, Egon succumbs to dehydration... and the bugs move in.
(Recap)
Egon: I hate all bugs.
Narrator: Egon wanted all bugs to be gone. But then his super fly paper turned into die paper. In the end, he went from a no-fly zone to Meet the Beatles.
Cast & Interviewees[]
- Joseph Russell - Egon (uncredited/lead: intended victim)
- David Sivits - Chemist
- Jules Sylvester - Wildlife Expert
Trivia[]
- This death is slightly similar to Love Bugged.
- This death was the first to be narrated by Joe Irwin who (according to 1000 Ways To Die fans) sounds like a DJ at an easy listening radio station.
- This is the only death flagged on YouTube on the Spike TV (now Paramount Network) channel. (we pretty sure that was Viacom 2005 version did that)
- Egon could be a reference to Egon Spengler, a character from the Ghostbusters franchise.
- This is the only death where the CGI section already has the death victim.
- Despite the name being a pun on the song Pretty Fly (For a White Guy), the deathcard didn't put parentheses around "For a Dead Guy"
- 9 Years later a Darwin Award was given the same name (Although the death was not related the flys, instead being about aircraft) https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2021-04.html.
- This death also takes place South Korean boy group SHINee debut 2 years later.
- This death takes place 3 years after Smother-In-Law, 4 years after Tread Marked. and 102 years after Mary-nated.
Segment Nickname[]
- Lord of the Flies (Spike TV)
- Butter-Died
- Venus Die-Trapped
Foreign Names[]
- Mosquita Muerta (Dead Mosquito) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Mosqueado (Mosqui-pissed) - Spanish dub
- Die Körperfresser kommen (The Body Eaters Are Coming) - German dub
- Mosca Morta (Dead Fly) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Mosca que parar, Que deshidrata (Fly to stop, That dehydrated) - Pluto TV Spanish dub
- Kuerpo hyakus Möska (Flies by the Body) - Lazoran dub, 2019
- Moskito 'ta Samalanan (Mosquitos at Trace) - Lazoran dub, 2024
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