# overheard urban legend - munchkin suicide **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-urban-legend-munchkin-suicide/515754 "2009-10-30T18:30:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-urban-legend-munchkin-suicide/515754/1 "2009-10-30T18:30:31Z")
At lunch today, minding my own business, I overhear a conversation between a group of people and the topic of “The Wizard Of Oz” comes up, which leads to the comment that the movie has a scene showing one of the munchkins killing himself. It was all I could do to refrain from blurting out, “That’s an urban legend. The scene in question is a large bird. Check snopes.” At least one of them finally said, “It’s probably just a rumor that isn’t true.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-urban-legend-munchkin-suicide/515754/2 "2009-10-30T18:58:28Z")
Is it true that Shirley Temple was a member of Pink Floyd when the death occurred? ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-urban-legend-munchkin-suicide/515754/3 "2009-10-30T19:55:19Z")
Made me think of [this](http://xkcd.com/250/) ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-urban-legend-munchkin-suicide/515754/4 "2009-10-30T20:00:54Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Is it true that Shirley Temple was a member of Pink Floyd when the death occurred? I heard it was Judy Garland. She bought her way into the band – hence “oh buy the way (in); (the) witch one’s Pink.” And, of course there’s that whole synching thing. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-urban-legend-munchkin-suicide/515754/5 "2009-10-30T21:31:27Z")
Hmpfh. Check the Archives, the Master has spoken on this one: [Can a Munchkin be seen committing suicide in The Wizard of Oz? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1063/can-a-munchkin-be-seen-committing-suicide-in-em-the-wizard-of-oz-em) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-urban-legend-munchkin-suicide/515754/6 "2009-10-30T23:12:42Z")
Ridiculous. Everyone knows that the munchkin in question lived a healthy life as an artist, where he mostly added subtle penises to Disney posters and popularized the grafitti “Killroy Was Here.” He later impregnated Jamie Lee Curtis, who has a penis, and they had twins - one grew up to play Mikey, the Life cereal boy who died by mixing Coca Cola and Pop Rocks, and the other played Cha-Ka on Land Of The Lost, then the sidekick from Wonder Years, and later became Marilyn Manson. Since his death he splits his time haunting the set of Three Men And a Baby, and A Toys 'Я Us in Sunnyvale, CA.