A to D (Ass Shove, Bait-and-Switch, Deadly Gas, Distracted by the Sexy, Drugs Are Bad) | E to K (Fan Disservice, High-Voltage Death, Hoist by His Own Petard, Karma Houdini) | L to S (Stuff Blowing Up) | T to Z (Tap on the Head, Too Dumb to Live)
Being a show about people dying in often gruesome ways, there are numerous cases in which the Victim of the Week plots or creates something against a target only for said machination to backfire and kill them instead. Therefore, it warrants 1000 Ways to Die its own Hoist by His Own Petard page.
- "Tali-Bombed": A pair of dimwitted terrorists got blown up by their own bomb when they forgot about daylight savings time while setting the device's GPS-based timer.
- "Back Broke Mountain" During the lowest point of his marriage, a man schemed to claim his wife's insurance and spend the money on his girlfriend on the side by shoving her off a cliff under the guise of taking her picture. He didn't count on his wife shoving him over in self-defense, resulting in the man falling to his death.
- "Inquisi-Torn": Father Gomez, a fifteenth-century priest, invented the Spanish Donkey only to be deemed a heretic for it during the heyday of the Spanish Inquisition. Therefore, he became the first victim of his own invention and was torn apart as a result.
- "Cock-A-Doodle Die": A cheating cock fighter going by the name of "Maldito" wins his latest fight by attaching razor blades to his rooster's feet. When his rival found out about it, he announced it to the crowd and they all ganged up on the cheater until he fell to the ground, but Maldito's rooster beats the mob to it by slicing both the bastard's jugular veins and carotid arteries in a fit of panic.
- "Bot-ily Harm": A teenage robot builder installs a Roomba's microprocessor in an attack robot with motion sensors, which after getting a screw loose and somehow turning itself on, detects him trying to pick up said screw and slices him up to death.
- "Golden Die-angle": A ruthless guard hired to protect an opium farm sets up barbwire as a security measure. When a pair of thieves show up in the field, the guard, known for decapitating trespassers, takes to his ATV armed with his machete. The guard loses the two thieves and drives right into his own barbwire trap, which winds up decapitating him.
- "My Big Fat Greek Death": Perillos of Athens invented and created the "brazen bull" for King Phalarus to impress him and secure himself a comfortable living. Instead, he becomes the brazen bull's first victim because of Phalarus' unpredictable behavior.
- "Dog Dead Afternoon": A dogfighter named Vick tries to steal a pitbull named Michael after using a tranquilizer gun on it, only to have a security guard show up during the job. So he tries to wait for the guy to leave, instead of just leaving when the guard falls asleep. The guard comes over to close the door to the dog pen and sees Vick, who shoots a dart at him. The guard falls asleep in front of the cage door and then Michael wakes up, mauling Vick to death.
- "Less is Mormon": The leader of a polygamist cult triggers one of several traps set up to keep unwilling wives in and intruders out while chasing a runaway bride; a spring-loaded board that shoots up and punctures his lungs and heart.
- "Sun Burnt" features a sociopathic nerd making a death ray that used a parabolic dish and tin foil to reflect solar heat into a laser. His attempt to cook a can of beans ended with his head getting a shiny new hole in it, thanks to his laser.
- "Kill Bill & Billie" has a man named Bill who hires a hitman to follow his ex-hooker wife, and if she's cheating, kill both. The husband himself hires a hooker...the wife. As a result, the hitman shoots the bickering couple in each of their heads.
- "Rife-Ill": A sniper sent by the Taliban to rub out a US agent who attempts to turn over one of their mullahs for information against them, but he misses the shot. Furthermore, the bullet ricochets into a turret and then off a stone wall before finally nailing the sniper in the heart.
- "Withdrawn" has a bank robber who straps a bomb collar around his neck, and pretends to be a hostage to secure a defense should the police get involved. He made sure to use a live bomb for good measure, but when one of the tellers unlocked their car, the keyfob sent a signal that the collar's detonator picked up, and triggered the bomb. Resulting in the robber losing his head in the blast.
- "A Turn For The Purse": There was a man who tried to steal an ex-hooker's purse with a screwdriver, and as he gets away on a bike, he hits a flagstone and stabs himself in the chest with the screwdriver.
- "Dough!!!": A man sexually harassing his newly hired baker says if she can swallow a spoonful of cinnamon (it is nearly impossible to do this, as the cinnamon will dry out your throat), she doesn't have to date him. Sure enough, she coughs it up... into his face, making him stumble into a dough mixer, which crushes his skull.
- "Straight to DVDead" has an egocentric amateur actor with a criminal record who plotted to actually kill the guy playing the protagonist in a low-budget movie so he can get the role instead, taking advantage of both playing a duel scene at the moment. However, he made the mistake of loading excess gunpowder into his prop gun and when he pulled the trigger at the scene's climax, he got his hand blown up and a large shard of gun shrapnel lodged in his thigh, cutting the femoral artery and killing him in seconds.
- "Ich Bin Ein Stoner" had the head of a German village use an idea to see if the accused was a witch. He’d find a mole on the accused and prick it with a needle. If it didn’t bleed, the accused would be sentenced to death by stoning. After eating ergot, a hallucinatory fungus, he started freaking out, and the townspeople used his science on him to see if he was a witch. The mole found did not bleed, and he was accused of being a witch and was sentenced to stoning.
