"Splat-formed", Way to Die #147, is the first death to be featured in "Death, The New Black", which aired on July 18, 2011.
Plot[]
T-Bone was a small-time dealer and a cocaine addict who embodied the spirit of the 1970s, one night, T-Bone was at a nightclub and he consumed so much cocaine that his heart would explode, he thought that if he danced he would be out of danger, T-Bone began to dance and did it quite well but he lost his balance, fell and the male symbol on his necklace crossed his neck, cutting his jugular vein and carotid artery and since he had consumed cocaine and he was dancing, his heart rate increased a lot and bled to death faster than normal, killing him and sending him to hell.
Transcript[]
Narrator: T-Bone was a small-time coke dealer…
T-Bone: Enjoy your night, man.
Narrator: …who embodied the 1970s: big hair, big shoes, and disco.
(T-Bone snorts coke)
Narrator: In the 70s, cocaine use had reached an epidemic level.
T-Bone: I'm feeling good.
Narrator: Big cities were flooded with cheap cut-down coke that caused thousands of users to overdose.
Rev. Daina House: In the 70s, drugs were glamorous.
T-Bone: (Laughs)
Rev. Daina House: They were in every club. It was... dangerous, but we didn't feel dangerous. We had the disco balls and the bell-bottom pants and the high platform shoes and the sparkly shirts. That was a part of the fun of it.
(Disco Death is playing (fast))
T-Bone: (Snorts coke) Hahahaha, feeling good...!
(T-Bone starts dancing)
Narrator: Tonight, T-Bone had done so much cocaine, his heart was ready to blow. T-Bone thought he could boogie his way out of trouble.
Female Singer: (Singing) Disco death, disco death!
Narrator: He fired up his platforms and burned up the dance floor.
(The song speeds up)
Narrator: Finally, the big pimpin' coke dealer didn't die from an overdose...
(T-Bone falls, the spearheaded end of his male symbol necklace pierces his jugular vein, everyone at the party are in shock)
Female Singer: (Singing slowly) Disco death, disco death!
Narrator: …but he did die in “vein”. As in... jugular.
(Flashback of T-Bone's death, after T-Bone bend his ankle, the CGI shows the same position)
Narrator: He lost his balance and crashed hard with his bling slicing through his neck.
(Then the CGI human trips and falls, the male symbol necklace pierces his jugular vein)
Dr. Rob Shapiro: When he hit the floor, the male symbol with the spear tip on the end of it, penetrated his neck, lacerating his jugular vein and his carotid artery.
(Replay of T-Bone snorts coke, dancing and trips)
-Dr. Rob Shapiro: The normal resting heart rate is approximately 70 per minute. But given the fact that our victim was on cocaine and he was dancing, his heart rate would have been significantly increased. This increased cardiac activity...
-(Ding)
(Back to the CGI, the human bleeds to death)
Dr. Rob Shapiro: …would have caused him to bleed out that much quicker.
(Recap of T-Bone snorts coke, dancing, trips)
Narrator: For T-Bone, life was just a party. He danced to the beat and put on a show.
(View of T-Bone bled to death)
Narrator: Now, he's a deadbeat, and that's... fo' sho'. Can you dig it?
(After the deathcard theme...)
Female Singer: (Singing) Disco death, disco death!
Interviewees[]
- Collin Alfredo St. Dic - T-Bone (Lead: Intended victim)
- Rev. Daina House - Miss January 1976
- Dr. Rob Shapiro - Surgeon
Trivia[]
- Also called "Dead as Disco" on the Spike TV website.
- At the end of the death card theme, we can hear the "Disco Death" of this death's dance song.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Dead as Disco (Spike TV)
- Demise Floor
- Disco Death
- Club Cutthroat
- 70s Snuff
Foreign names[]
- Todes tanz (Death dance) - German dub
- Plataforma Mortal (Deadly Plataform) - Latin American Dub
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