After hearing that there’s a second season of this disgusting show, I can now rest assured that I am not the most morbid person alive.
Where you been? There’s a third season with its last four episodes airing weekly starting December 22, and they’ll still have about 800 deaths to explain.
I’d also assume that whatever they have that passes as “fact-checkers” aren’t all that thorough in their checking. That is, “we saw it on the internet” is more than likely good enough for them to claim that a story is “real”.
I assume a major decision factor is how quickly they can come up with explanatory puns. A story of a guy asphyxiating on a McNugget would be irresistible, for example, if they can call it “Chicken-Choked!”
A guy who likes using a vibrating shower head on his dick who ends up slipping in the shower and dying of head injuries suffered from “Stimulatio!”
A woman basketball player who tries over and over to make a dunk, training relentlessly, taking steroids etc. succeeds, hangs on the hoop in victory, shatters the backboard, then bleeds out from the flying glass? “Rim Job!”
A woman who tries a threeway between two male bodybuilders gets rammed forward by one hard enough to suffocate on the erection of the other… “Dirty Sandwich!”
They pretty much write themselves.
I’ve always been of the theory that the cause of death is legit but the stories are entirely made up.
I caught the one where a drunken hobbyist was impaled by his own R/C glider. It pinged my bullshit meter so I checked a few R/C message boards, including one that was frequented by the guy the show hired to both fly the plane and portray the drunk.
Their consensus was that there was no record of it ever happening, and that it was physically impossible.
I always try and think of the clever pun they’re going to use before they use it. I think I’m something like 1-for-50.
The one I got was the guy at the pool party who was hit by a tiny meteorite. “Dead Meat-eorite”.
That’s the best part of the whole show in my opinion. I loves me some good puns
The one where the guy tied a 12" kielbasa to his leg which gave him a blood clot—“Killbasa” classic.
I’m waiting for the guy who gets killed by a vegetable harvester.
Tossed Salad!
I know lots of people who are stupid enough to try this. …and yeah, it could easily be fatal.
Seems to be pretty much the case, yeah.
While I agree with your general point, I have looked her up, and that apparently happened last year. (If it happened at all - I can only find a few references, all leading back to a single site, the trustworthiness I have no idea on.) The story has been floating around for a long time before that. At least back as far as 1988. snopes doesn’t have a page on it, but mentions it in passing in the article about exploding inflatable bras, including a quote from Designing Women (the episode aired in 1988) that specifically mentioned implants, instead of an air bra.
Well no duh. A lot of these people did die in stupid ways, but the stories have been beyond dumbed down to the point of being obnoxious. I’m interested in the way they died, not the terrible acting, the stupid music, the way they portray every victim to be a hick/jerk/bad person that deserved what they got.
Yeah, but watching good people get splattered isn’t nearly as funny. I feel bad for the guys who die in industrial accidents through no fault of their own, but the convenience-store robber who gets run over by the car “driven” by an old man who has suffered a fatal heart attack… that’s comedy!
Have any of you ever heard of “Ripley’s Believe it or Not”?
This 1000 Ways thing is in THAT tradition. Exaggerated half-truths, or outright fantasy…
i do agree with earlier posts that 1000 ways to die does embellish, but i think some of the weirdest ones are either real or based on a real event where the person DIDN’T die. check it out:
Just a relevant anecdote here, I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is the town where the one about the hockey player with the slashed throat was set.
A couple years ago there really was a hockey player who fell on the ice and had his jugular accidentally slit by the blade of a skate. However, the part about him having a reputation for being mean was pure embellishment, and in the actual even he did not die, because he somehow had the presence of mind to skate over to his team bench and was saved by fast medical intervention. You could call it a brush with death though, of course.
One episode involved “terrorist”[?] playing with the critical masses of Plutonium. I believe that it was a twist on Louis Slotin who was a Canadian physicist who accidently irradiated himself when a screwdriver slipped jamming two Pu hemispheres together during a criticality test which released a slew of neutrons and gamma rays. I guess teh terrorist make for a more satisfying result.
The premise of the show bores one quickly; but the cleaver lines used at the end of the show… like the trailer trash hubby who’s going to get some from his wife if he would just take care of a hornet’s nest with the inevitable result…
“Me so Hornet”
It’s pure “well it coulda happened” shenanigans. The first two clips I saw where the artist dies from a butterfly bomb he made a part of his sculpture and the ejection seat as a recliner death are so over the top they would have been all over the news, and they weren’t.
People have died from mishandling old butterfly bombs, but nothing approaching the drama in the show.
In India many houses have fans suspended from iron hooks in the concrete ceiling or wooden beams. Suicide by hanging is not uncommon. However a fan pulling one off one’s feet sounds implausible. In many of the stories one wonders how they learn the details.
My boyfriend’s seven year old watches this show, much to my consternation. I was relieved to hear (from his own words) that he thinks it’s a sort of cautionary show. A “stupid things not to do or you will die” sort of deal.