"Snake du Jour", Way to Die #142, is the seventh and final death to be featured in "Death Watch", which aired on January 27, 2010.
Plot:[]
Chef Wang is the head chef of an illegal underground restaurant. Why is it illegal? The foods he cook are made from endangered and protected animals. He told his assistant that his tonight's dish is a king cobra.
"Before Chef Wang had a chance to cut into his cobra, it got loose..."
He crawls on the floor and tried to capture the angry venomous snake. While attempting to catch it by charming it in order to get his attention, the angry venomous snake bites him in the face through his skull, leaving Chef Wang screaming in pain. His assistant is left completely horrified to see the infection across his face, which ironically looks like a snake's head, after he falls into a coma and dies from the snake venom, sending him to hell where he will never cook another endangered and protected animal again.
Transcript[]
Narrator: You never know what can be found behind an unmarked and unremarkable storefront. In this case, an illegal and underground restaurant.
Wang: Good evening, ladies, gentlemen. Tonight, we have very special ingredient. I surprise you. Ha ha!
Narrator: Chef Wang's recipe for success? Endangered and illegal species smuggled in from around the world. His twisted clientele shell out thousands for a chance to sink their teeth into anything teetering on the brink of extinction.
Female customer: I think he's out of his mind.
Male customer: Yeah, but he cooks up a mean panda bear.
(Cut to a sepia-tone montage of various endangered animals)
Narrator: Black-market animals are big business. Every year up to 30,000 primates, 2 to 5 million birds, and 10 million reptiles are sold illegally. It's the third largest illegal trade in the world, rivaled only by guns and drugs.
(Back to Wang over his wok)
Assistant: Boss, what special ingredient tonight?
Wang: Tonight, we serve a king cobra!
Assistant: Ohh!
Narrator: Before chef Wang had a chance to cut into his cobra, it got loose.
(The cobra starts slithering a bit before raising its hood in a defensive posture)
Jules Sylvester: The king cobra is the longest venomous snake in the world. If he's up, hooded at you, he's giving you a warning: "Piss off."
Wang: Oh, very tricky snake.
Jules Sylvester: The hood is designed to scare you, make itself look very fearsome, and it works 99% of the time.
Assistant: Be careful boss.
Wang: I'm very careful!
(Cobra hisses at Wang)
Wang: Come on, little devil. Gonna catch you. Gonna make a good dish.
(The cobra then bites Wang right on the cheek as he screams in pain, the whole dining room standing up to see what's going on.)
Jules Sylvester: Fangs are designed like a hypodermic needle. They're hollow or grooved. When they bite, these venom glands squeeze, and they can pump a copious amount of venom into you.
Narrator: Tonight's main dish had injected the chef with a powerful neurotoxin, headed straight for his nervous system, it began to switch off all his vital functions. Including his ability to see, hear, and breathe. It also kickstarted a fast moving, necrotizing infection across his face.
Jules Sylvester: Within 20 minutes, you asphyxiate, and your heart stops, and, uh, you're done, son.
Narrator: As the saying goes, "you are what you eat." In chef Wang's case, he is exactly what he should be....dead.
Interviewees[]
- Michael Lehr - Wang (lead: intended victim)
- Jules Sylvester - Animal Expert
Quotes[]
"I'm very careful! Come on, little devil. Going catch you. Going to make good dish. *After being bit* No! No!" -Chef Wang attempting to recapture the Cobra, right before it strikes at him with two fangs worth of karma.
Trivia[]
- This is the death where the person is named Wang (Chef Wang). The other ones are Well Chung (Wang-Chung, the fatal victim from Well Chung) and Kung Pao Pow (Wang, the deceased Chinese with gold tooth stolen by Mr. Chung, the fatal victim from Kung Pao Pow!!!).
- This is similar to the death of Ali Khan Samsudin.
- This death is similar to Tanks For Nothing since both victims were bitten in the face by a snake.
- The actor who played Wang also played Feng in Guitar Zeros
- Wayne Roth died of a cobra bite.
- A Chinese chef named Peng Fan died from a spitting cobra bite.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Recipe for Disaster
Foreign Names[]
- Serpiente del Día (Snake of the Day) - Latin American Spanish dub
Gallery[]
