"SP-Effed", Way to Die #317, is the first death featured in "Dead Before They Know It", which aired on March 23, 2011.
Plot[]
An arrogant woman named Shelly is always borrowing her roommates' belongings without asking: clothes, food and beauty products. When one of her roommates buys a tanning bed (which no one is allowed to use), she decides to use it, but before going in, she puts on her roommate’s moisturizer.
It turns out what Shelly thought was moisturizer, was her roommate’s psoriasis medication. It contained psoralen, which was sensitive to the UV light. That night, she feels pain in her face, which she mistakes for a sunburn, and takes some painkillers before sleeping it off.
The next day, Shelly wakes up all burnt and weak. The light from the tanning bed gives her massive second degree burns over her body, heart failure, hypovolemic & cardiogenic shock, and severe dehydration, killing her, but not before she collapses and falls into the arms of her horrified roommate and dies, sending the roommate from hell to hell.
Exactly why you should ask before taking.
"She collapsed into her roommate's arms... dead, from heart failure."
Transcript[]
Roommate #1: Shelly, have you seen my little black dress?
Shelly: No.
Roommate #1: Who took my ice cream?
Roommate #2 Shelly! Did you take my painkillers?
Roommate #2: (Screams)
Narrator: She collapsed into her roommate's arms... dead, from heart failure.
(Recap, Death by Bells is playing)
Narrator: Shelly was a deadbeat who borrowed, used and ate her friends out of house and home.
Roommate #1: Who took my ice cream?
Narrator: It's fitting to see that the roommate from hell wound up burnt to a crisp!
Roommate #2: (Screams)
Foreign Names[]
- Crocante (Crispy) - Brazilian Dub
- Achicharrada [Used term to a burned person or thing] - Latin American Dub
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Guerin Piercy - Shelly (lead: intended victim)
- Mele Ihara - Psoriasis Roommate
- Dr. Marc Kern (clinical psychologist)
- Dr. Vyshali Rao (cardiologist)
Trivia[]
- This is based off an urban legend and Janet Stanley's death.
- If one looks carefully at the ice cream cup that Shelly is eating, it bears a striking resemblance to the ice cream cups from the brand Häagen-Dazs.
- This death also takes place 1 years before listing Tipranavir. Cetuximab and Bevacizumab Listed in the same year. 19 years listing after Ofloxacin.