"The Day the Magic Died", Way to Die #336, is the fifth death featured in "A New App Called Death", which aired on April 2, 2012.
Plot[]
Sergio was a failed magician who owned a magic shop and dedicated his career to finding the trick that would make him a star, one night he was closing up his shop when he was attacked by Rocky and Dashawn, they were a couple of drug addicts who attacked elderly people to feed their habit and Sergio was the unfortunate victim that night, Rocky and Dashawn tied up and gagged Sergio in a rocking chair and began playing with the magic gadgets, then they found Sergio's money and also G4 (also known as snow powder, a super absorbent polymer that absorbs up to 500 times its own weight in liquid, if you put it in a glass of water it immediately turns into a jelly, which is why magicians use it), Rocky and Dashawn thought the G4 was cocaine and these fools snorted it up their noses and it went down their throats, the gel solidified and blocked their airways, they couldn't breathe, they suffocated and... died, sending these drug addict criminals to Hell, then Sergio managed to untie himself and free himself.
Interviewees[]
- Ken Lyle - Sergio (lead)
- William Guirola - Rocky (lead: intended victim)
- William Barney - Dashawn (lead: intended victim)
- Dan Ray - Magician (Only in German version)
- David Sivits - Chemical Engineer
Transcript[]
Trivia[]
- This death is combined with American Died'ol on the Spike TV website.
- The segment name is a pun on "The Day the Music Died", a name given to the tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson on February 3, 1959. It was also taken from the Don McLean song American Pie.
- The German name for this death when translated to English, is the same for Way To Die #401.
- In the CGI, the Battlespire moan is used.
- The actor who played Sergio also played Anatoli in Radioactivate-dead
Segment Nickname[]
- Death Spell
- Magic Killed Them
Foreign Names[]
- El Día en que Murió la Magia (The Day the Magic Died)- Latin American Spanish dub
- Abrakadaver (Abracadaver) - German dub
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