I think we need to do this.
We can do “Horrible Ways People Have Died”
Besides your vast wealth of knowledge of HWPHD, I envision a very stately narrator, explaining some HWPHD and when a death occurs we cut to a shot of you, on a fainting couch holding a lorgnette, then with a shocked expression you pull them down and look into the camera and say “HORRIBLE!”
What do you say?
Molasses Flood reenacted with Army Men? Or maybe those Homie Dolls?
What else could we do dopers?
Well, I heard about this one guy who got shot while he was falling off a building 'cause he was trying to kill himself…
What would be a good MythBusters paradoy.
I think the Walrus and the Carpenter go after Thor.
Or Dirty Jobs and the host breaks up with people for you.
“Eating shit; now that’s a dirty job.”
An episode of Mythbusters where they test the frog-in-boiling-water and poodle-in-a-microwave myths.
The American Chopper guys try to put together a Big Wheel right out of the box.
Your link doesn’t work. So I have to ask what “HWPHD” is before I can play…
I changed the thread title to be more descriptive.
I can’t access the site at work: I’ll look at it tonight.
Do I get to peer through my lorgnette, Lovey Howell-like, when I go “horrible?”
(Hmmm . . . Vic Morrow . . . Jayne Mansfield . . . Peg Entwistle . . . Albert Dekker . . . )
It’s short for the phrase that immediately preceded it: Horrible Ways People Have Died.
They’ve already said they won’t test the poodle myth because of the danger to the animal.
Why do you want to put Shannen Doherty out of another job?
Oh, that’s just absurd. Did they avoid testing the myths of the hammer breaking surface tension saving the guy because it might hurt someone? Or thye myth about being catapulted over the border? Or being saved by using a sheet of plywood as a parachute/hang glider?
No – they used “Buster” as a substitutre human being.
So why not use a pig corpse, as they did with the Dead-Body-in-the-car myth? Or, better still, why not build a “Buster the French Poodle” mannequin? They’d love that. It’s an excuse to craft body parts out of foam and cast it in Ballistic Gelatine and built replica internal organs and a non-metal armature for stuffing in a microwave. Heck, they’d do it both ways.
That’s why it would be a parody. Make it look like they are testing the bloodiest, most disgusting myths, and actually carrying them out.
“While Kari’s off to the second-hand electronics store to find a suitable microwave, Adam pays a visit to the local animal shelter.”
“They didn’t have any poodles, but I was able to get a litter of six English springer spaniel puppies that are the same size as the poodle in the myth, so that should be perfect.”
“So, poodle in the microwave; busted, plausible, or confirmed?”
“Well, based on our testing, I have to say this is completely plausible; and damn good eatin’.”
Ah, I didn’t realize you were offering that as a parody.
I cannot image a more horrible way to die than jumping out of a window on the 100th floor while engulphed in flames and smoke.
How about being burnt alive atop a pile of damp wood for something you didn’t do while the entire village looks on and cheers?
You would be looking off camera, at a television, then you pull down the lorgnette and look at the camera and say “Horrible!” then raise then and go back to intently watching the show.
I wonder if Cartooniverse can shoot it?
There needs to be a careful product placement in the background such as an SDMB book.
Or maybe for Mythbusters, … Is Cecil real?
Ow! Ow That hurts!
Fortunately, this show isn’t opposite the “World’s Ugliest Dog Competition” on Animal Planet [Fri. 9 P.M.]. 
Must-Eve TV…
But testing the frog-in-boiling-water is ok?