# Fake Corpses = FUNNY! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 13, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879 "2002-06-13T16:42:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/1 "2002-06-13T16:42:50Z")
Well [MTV](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020613/od_uk_nm/oukoe_leisure_mtv_suit_1) has really outdone themselves this time. I don’t necessarily agree with the $10 million figure, but I do agree that it was a totally irresponsible and ludicrous. Don’t any adults work at MTV? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/2 "2002-06-13T16:50:50Z")
I agree with you. Sounds like they’re basically taking Candid Camera and making it meaner and nastier - and, of course, less funny. I don’t blame them for wanting to go for cheap laughs, but even the dimmest bulbs should have realized this was a huge lawsuit waiting to happen. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/3 "2002-06-13T17:46:47Z")
MTV is worse than a child that just won’t learn. I hope the couple get the $10MIL clams. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/4 "2002-06-13T17:51:37Z")
[I have a fake corpse I keep in my living room](http://pw1.netcom.com/~heliboy/bob.jpg). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GopherGod72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@GopherGod72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GopherGod72)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/5 "2002-06-13T17:56:55Z")
um… thats gross Johnny. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/6 "2002-06-13T17:59:06Z")
Really? Why is that? 😕 Anyway, you never know when some filmmaker might need to rent a corpse. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/7 "2002-06-13T18:06:54Z")
I remember once, a long time ago, I saw this little promotional film of a band playing their music on MTV. It was kinda cool. Too bad that idea didn’t catch on… * * * Jesus was in a coma. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/8 "2002-06-13T20:44:56Z")
WTF…you WANT them to get the 10 Mil? And just make the U.S. an even _more_ litigous country than it already is? That’s a preposterous amount of money. They should be lucky if they get 1% of that; frankly if they were really butthurt about it they should have a laywer file an injunction or something against MTV rather than demand money ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/9 "2002-06-13T20:56:33Z")
This is the paragraph that sent me into a Margaret Dumont fainting spell: “_Harassment_ is not the first reality show to land MTV in legal trouble. Two teenage girls sued the network in April, 2001 after they were sprayed with human excrement by performers billed as the “Shower Rangers” during the taping of a program called _Dude, This Sucks._” ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/10 "2002-06-13T21:38:50Z")
\ > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > [I have a fake corpse I keep in my living room](http://pw1.netcom.com/~heliboy/bob.jpg). _Nice_ corpse! Did you make it yourself? My diy corpses tend to come out a lot less juicy-looking. I currently have a fake mummy in the corner of my living room–all of my others are in storage right now. \ A $10 million lawsuit is, IMNVSO, is not the appropriate response here. We need MTV Survivor, in which all the MTV execs are stripped naked, turned loose in a desert, and everyone they’ve pissed off is armed with serious firepower and sent after them. The winner (last surviving exec) wins a (relatively) painless death. **Eve** , it was that same paragraph that really pushed my piss-off buttons, too. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/11 "2002-06-13T21:48:04Z")
\ Not a bad corpse, Johnny! Did you make it yourself? \ Ranchoth ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/12 "2002-06-13T21:49:33Z")
**Balance** : No, I didn’t make it myself. I bought it from a Halloween shop a couple of years ago after Halloween. I keep meaning to make my own corpses, but I need a workshop. Actually, I’d like to have my own severed head (I have some alginate around somewhere) so I can put it in a tray of (fake) ice (that I would make myself). Or maybe I’d put it on a stick. But it takes room to work and at least two pair of hands to really do the good stuff. Once I relocate (whenever _that_ will be!) I’ll have the space and hands. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/13 "2002-06-13T22:02:09Z")
I would have been really pissed if this had happened to me, but I don’t think I’d have sued. However, if I was sprayed with human excrement, I’d sue. Not only is that disgusting, it’s extremely dangerous and unhealthy. Do you know how many diseases can be contracted from contact with human excrement? Jman ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/14 "2002-06-13T22:09:01Z")
They deserve some sort of compensation, but 10 million? Fucko Off 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/15 "2002-06-14T01:14:27Z")
Come on people. You ask for an exorbitant amount and then accept the settlement. Isn’t that how it works? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/16 "2002-06-14T02:26:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > **Balance: No, I didn’t make it myself. I bought it from a Halloween shop a couple of years ago after Halloween. I keep meaning to make my own corpses, but I need a workshop. Actually, I’d like to have my own severed head (I have some alginate around somewhere) so I can put it in a tray of (fake) ice (that I would make myself). Or maybe I’d put it on a stick.** Too bad you didn’t visit the Halloween store around my place after last Halloween–A 50% off clearence sale, and at least THREE different varieties of severed heads, none more expensive than about $15! It was amazing. I was going to buy one, and decopage a photo of Osama’s face to it, and impale it on a guidon pole. Alas, my finances had chosen JUST that instant to die on me, so all I could afford was a prop flintlock. ☹ Ranchoth ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/17 "2002-06-14T02:38:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*Isn’t that how it works? \*\* Usually. The big dollar figure is to make sure MTV takes it seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/18 "2002-06-14T03:17:33Z")
> [@](#): > > THREE different varieties of severed heads Actually, I mean my _own_ head. A likeness of myself. Ooh, I could have fun with that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/19 "2002-06-14T03:38:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jman \* > \*\*I would have been really pissed if this had happened to me, but I don’t think I’d have sued. However, if I was sprayed with human excrement, I’d sue. Not only is that disgusting, it’s extremely dangerous and unhealthy. Do you know how many diseases can be contracted from contact with human excrement? > > Jman \*\* No, I don’t. How many? ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-corpses-funny/113879/20 "2002-06-14T04:46:47Z")
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