"Tea Bagged", Way to Die #440, is the seventh death to be featured in "Today's Special: Death", which aired on August 1, 2011.
Plot[]
Musket Mary, a mayoral candidate with no political knowledge (and parody of Sarah Palin) gives an energetic speech to her followers and political rivals, the latter seeing her as an insane woman. During the speech, she carries a prop rifle, waving it around. While letting out an energetic howl, Musket Mary suffers a hemorrhagic stroke due to her high-energy yelling, and, during the stroke, impales herself through the chin on the tip of her bayonet, piercing her brain, much to the shock of the audience, and sending her to heaven.
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Nicole Yvonne - Musket Mary (Lead: Intended victim)
- Gustavo Arellano - Newspaper Editor
- Dr. Boyd Flinders - Surgeon
Alternative Description[]
- "A Tea Party “mama grizzly” is firing up her fellow patriots when her wired microphone causes a speaker tripod to tip, and she is crushed by the amplifier." (Spike TV website)
Trivia[]
- This is the first death in which the recap is shown as a news report.
- Further updates: "Man falls into gigantic reptile vagina... he is dead... Mike Tanaka administers first sasquatch wedding... man is killed by sasquatch... Two UFO hunters die from rectal bleeding during what sources claim was a routine anal probe... 85 year old Idaho man died this morning of what doctors call a 'Long Life Syndrome.' Chicago area couple wedding recept--" (deathcard plays)
- The description for this death on the Spike TV website mistakenly says that Mary's wired microphone causes a speaker tripod to tip, and she is crushed by the amplifier.
- This death happens on the exact same date as North By Northwasted.
- Prop goof - When Mary falls over after impaling herself, the bayonet very clearly slips off her head.
- It is heavily implied that Musket Mary was a member of the Republican Party (or GOP) until her death, due to certain factors:
- She is a parody of the famous American politician Sarah Palin, one of the most prominent members of the Republican Party and whose main political achievements are being mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (1996-2002) and being the 9th governor of Alaska (2006-2009).
- Her political motto was "Liberty or Death", one of the main political mottos used by Republican Party candidates whether in municipal elections or in more important elections (such as gubernatorial elections or the United States presidential election).
- Her campaign speech (which is shown to be an energetic, incendiary speech that targets her political rivals as its main targets) closely mirrors the speeches of some of the Republican Party's most prominent politicians, such as Donald Trump (the 45th president of the United States) and Ron DeSantis (the 46th governor of Florida).
- The narrator of 1000 Ways to Die, Ron Perlman, mentions that Musket Mary was a popular figure in the local branch of the Tea Party Movement (the Tea Party Movement is an important movement within the Republican Party that advocates mainly for economic conservatism).
- Her supporters carried signs that expressed views that are typical of members of the Republican Party (such as "Socialism is not Freedom").
- Although it is not said exactly where this death occurred (since the town shown in this scene in question is only known by the generic name of "Small Town, USA"), it is implied that this town is located somewhere in the US Midwest, as in the recap of this death, Ron Perlman mentions that Musket Mary died during a Midwest political rally.
- The Midwestern United States (the region where this death occurred) is made up of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Speaker Trouble (Spike TV)
- Bayonetted
Foreign Names[]
- No Conservada (Not Conserved) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Sobredosis de Patriotismo (Overdose of Patriotism) - European Spanish dub
- Língua Afiada (Sharp Tongue) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Kandidato tumusahiralan Insanidad (Candidate between Insanity) - Lazoran dub
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