One Thousand Ways To Die / Tropes L To S

1000 Ways to Die tropes index
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)

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• Lampshade Hanging: "WHOSE IDEA WAS IT TO PUT A SPIKE ON THIS BELL?!" A host for a female wrestling match asks after a woman slips and gets impaled.
• Laser-Guided Karma: A lot of victims are struck by this.
• Last Disrespects: In "Dead Eye" after the Jerkass coach is stabbed in the eye by his own javelin, one of his students is very amused and takes a selfie with his corpse.
• Laxative Prank: Happens in "S**t Canned," where Murph tries to do this to the bride at a wedding. As karma would have it, he takes the spiked drink instead. A Karmic Death as usual ensues.
• Lethal Chef: The incompetent baker in "Slayer Cake" was almost a literal example of this, accidentally giving a customer the wrong flavor of cake, causing them to have a severe allergic reaction that put them in the hospital.
• Lethally Stupid: Many idiots are killed by other idiots.
• Life Will Kill You: Death #1000, "Premature Endings", emphasizes that ultimately, everyone will someday die, and there is not and likely never will be a way to escape this. The death in the segment is that of a man who, after a long and fulfilling life, passes away peacefully of old age with his daughter by his side.
• Loan Shark: A pair attempts to extract $10,000 from a worker in "Odds Are You're Dead." The worker is on a hydraulic lift, so one shark cuts the hydraulic line. The scissor lift telescopes onto him, decapitating him.
• Locked in a Freezer: One of the deaths from the first season. A butcher from South Philadelphia is left to freeze to death in a meat locker as payback for stealing cuts of meat and getting his boss's granddaughter pregnant.
• Lucky Bastard: The burglar in "Chucked Up" breaks into the home right when the only person there at the time Bound and Gagged herself for a private web show, and is thus completely helpless to stop him from robbing the house.

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• Machete Mayhem:
  • Ting, the opium farm guard and victim from "Golden Die-angle" wields a machete to decapitate trespassers while chasing them down on his ATV.
  • The titular victim from "Apocalypse Harley" wields a machete in his confrontation against the Hollywood Hitman while high on a combination of cocaine and tiger blood. However, Harley ends up doing the hitman's job for him by tripping and falling on his machete in his drug-addled frenzy.
• Made of Plasticine: This is where most of the show's Artistic License – Biology stems from. Many ways to die are plausible enough, but the gory effects commonly depicted simply would not happen in many cases. So, for instance, impaling the back of your head on a high-pressure water spigot would be fatal, but it wouldn't make Your Head A-Splode; the water would simply start exiting out through the path of least resistance, most likely back out from the entry wound itself.
• Mad Scientist: In "Snakenstein", a German scientist from the late 1930s experiments with reanimating body parts from recently deceased animals. When experimenting with total bodily reanimation on a rattlesnake, the snake bites him.
• The Mad Hatter: A 19th-century hatter who lives up to the trope name from constant exposure to mercury... then dies of mercury poisoning.
• Mailbox Baseball: One story revolves around a young couple who often go around smashing the mailboxes of their neighbors. One neighbor, who happened to be a retired steelworker, decided to reinforce his mailbox to make it smash-proof. When the couple return, the guy is unable to knock over the mailbox, and his repeated attempts lead to his bat splintering and a piece of it lodging in his heart, killing him.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: The egocentric amateur actor from "Straight to DVDead" tried to kill the other guy playing the protagonist this way to have the role for himself. Unfortunately for him, he got his hand blown up and his femoral artery lacerated by gun shrapnel because he put too much gunpowder into his prop gun.
• Mama Bear:
  • A stoner runs afoul of a literal one in "Em-Bear-Assed".
  • In "Lac-Toasted", a flasher does his usual routine to a group of new mothers... not knowing they're members of an underground all-female fight club. However, it's not the beatdown they give him that kills him; it's the breast milk he drank, which contained traces of peanuts, a food he was deathly allergic to.
• Man on Fire:
  • A group of huffers (drug addicts who get high off the toxic fumes in common household items, like paint, glue, and anything from aerosol cans) finds a box containing jars of industrial solvents and one of them has the brilliant idea to soak his clothing with the chemicals. Feeling a chill as the chemicals draw away his body heat, he then asks one of the other brain trusts if he has a light. Appropriately, the story receives the title "Huffington Toast".
  • Then, there's "Poi Vey," about an Orthodox Jew who moved to Hawaii and was obsessed with a hula dancer, only to get shot down by her. The man gets drunk and stumbles into a torch ceremony — where he is burned alive.
  • "Bad Hair Day": A woman from the 1950s who gets her bouffant set on fire while smoking a cigarette with her boyfriend, causing the fire to eventually burn her brain and boil it inside her skull. It doesn't help that she slathered hairspray on it hours before the date.
  • "Dia de Los Morons": A couple of obnoxious teenagers coming drunk from a Halloween party proceed to annoy an old man before TP'ing his house, stomping the jack-o'-lanterns in his yard, and dousing each other in silly strings. When they topped it off with a burning dog poop bag, the solvents of the silly string on the boy's skeleton costume catch fire right as he lit it up, engulfing him in flames as it was made of polyester.
  • In "Butt F***ed," a chain-smoker has just suffered third-degree burns from accidentally setting his house on fire. He is wrapped in bandages coated with flammable ointment. But he cannot resist one more smoke and has the nurse sneak his wheelchair outside. He lights the cigarette, and some ashes land on the bandages. They set fire to the ointment, and all the bandages burn. The flames spread to the oxygen tank, which explodes, and the man lights up for the last time in his life.
  • "Flame Retard-Ant": The pyromaniac who accidentally set his pants on fire. He managed to put the fire out by jumping into a lake, but by then, the fire had already eaten through his muscles and cartilage, and he collapsed in the water and drowned.
  • The coach who got set on fire in "Work of Fart" when his protegé cut one apparently didn't know to stop, drop, and roll.
  • In "Poly-Ass-Turd", a conman sets up a new age healer seminar to demonstrate walking on fire. When it didn't go too well with his clients, he demonstrates walking on fire himself. He catches himself on fire causing deep lethal burns due to his polyester suit. The others couldn't put the fire out.
  • "Onesie & Donesie": A klutzy salesman/pitchman who always got hurt while shilling products meets his end when the adult-sized onesie he was wearing and pitching caught fire from the aromatherapy candles he showed off as a giveaway. The poor sod writhed in agony while a showman fruitlessly tried to douse him with a broken fire extinguisher until he died.
  • "Tunnel Vision" has a cheesesteak vendor make a Molotov cocktail and toss it at a competing vendor, only to accidentally set his own arm and leg on fire with it. In his attempts to put the fire out, he runs head-first into a wall painted to look like a tunnel entrance and shatters his skull.
• Man Versus Machine: "Chess Pain" saw a Soviet grandmaster pitted against a computer known as the Comrade 5000.
• Marshmallow Hell:
  • "Ass Phyxiated", where a chubby-chasing weight-loss salesman suffocates while having sex with a fat woman.
  • "Boobicide" features an odd case of self-inflicted death by Marshmallow Hell: a stripper with inhumanly large jugs drinks alcohol with downers and lays in an inverting bed to ease her back pain, only to wind up in a haze due to her booze-pill cocktail and suffocate on her meat pillows.
  • The story of the drunk insurance salesman who crashes a beauty contest for plus-sized women (euphemistically called an "inner beauty pageant") and gets crushed by the three finalists who fall off a section of the stage that wasn't meant to hold 997 pounds of anything, human or otherwise.
• Mean Boss:
  • The wannabe gangsta-rapping Chinese jewelry factory owner in "Grilled," who makes his workers keep long hours, pays them nothing, and forces them to listen to his sad attempts at rapping. The workers get their revenge on him by making him a set of fake gold teeth lined with rosary peas -- which contain the highly toxic substance, abrin.
  • The Portuguese dude who goes to the Amazon to search for gold and abuses the natives he hired. He then went into the river to pee and got a candiru stuck in his junk. Pulling it out didn't help either. All it did was attract piranhas that eat him alive, much to the delight of the poor Brazilian slaves who had to deal with him.
• Messy Maggots: One segment is centered around a morbidly obese, wheelchair-bound con artist who lives in complete squalor. His lack of cleanliness is so bad that maggots have infested his kitchen, and have spread to the point where they're starting to feed off of his bedsores. Surprisingly, it's not his lack of hygiene that kills him. Instead, he drops dead from massive heart failure due to his junk food diet and lack of exercise.
• Mile-High Club: A horny couple tries to join, only for the festivities (and their lives) to be cut short by some bad turbulence.
• Misplaced Wildlife: One segment is about a drunk Russian soldier who tries to screw a raccoon. What a raccoon — which is native to North America — is doing in Russia is never explained.
• Mistaken for Undead: That's not a zombie; that's just a golf-playing cemetery worker suffering from a bad allergic reaction to fungicide he sprayed on the grass in "Par For the Corpse".
• Mob Debt:
  • One story features an Italian man who is being forced to dig his own grave by some mobsters after failing to pay back the money he borrowed from them. Fortunately, he inadvertently unearths and flings an unexploded WWII hand grenade at the mobsters' feet, killing them while his intended grave sheltered him under the shockwave.
  • Another story features a pair of loan sharks who prey on gambling addicts, with one of their clients being a worker on a scissor lift who borrowed ten grand from them. Not wanting to wait for their money any longer, one of the loan sharks decides to cut the hydraulic cable to the lift, only for it to collapse on top of him and kill him.
• Moe Greene Special: A guy who likes to steal from yard sales gets shot in the eye by a gun disguised as a ring in "Ring-A-Ding Dead".
• Mood Whiplash: At first, it seems things were going down a Downer Ending path with "Homie Invasion": Brad was dead after his wife failed to resuscitate him and the burglar got away with the stuff he stole. ... but then we immediately jump into the second half of this story: Brad came back to life (thanks to the Lazarus Syndrome) and scared the burglar, which caused him to fall off of Brad's second-floor balcony, smash his head on the ground, and die. There's a reason this half is called "Homie's Dead".
• Morally Bankrupt Banker: One of these is killed by broken glass in "Sky Scraped".
• More Dakka: A hold-up man who was planning to rob a jewelry store entered a gun shop by mistake. The shop's customers and clerks — all legally armed and acting in self-defense — put several rounds of ammo into his center of mass, killing him. Can also be considered an instance of More Baka on the part of the dimwitted robber.
• The Mountains of Illinois: This show is filmed in Los Angeles, so this is bound to happen for all of the outdoor scenes. For example, one scene that supposedly takes place in Detroit has palm trees.
• Mugging the Monster: Sometimes the victim dies because they pick on the wrong people.
  • In "Suck Her Punched", a rapist attacks a male boxer, mistaking him for a woman due to the boxer wearing women's clothes to calm down after a workout, thinking "she" would be an easy mark. However, the moment the rapist calls the boxer a "lady", the boxer snaps letting the rapist know that he's no lady and gives the rapist a right cross in the temple so strong that it causes the rapist's dim brain to compress inside the skull and bleed out.
  • In "Wrin-Killed", a purse snatcher gets his windpipe crushed when he targets a sweet little old lady who has thirty years of experience in Tae Kwon Do.
  • In "Greased Is The Word", a criminal plans to rob a jewelry store but ends up in the gun shop next door due to his pantyhose mask making it hard to see. When he tries to hold up the place, he gets filled with lead by both the staff and the customers.
  • In "Lac-Toasted", a flasher decides to flash three new mothers out on a walk. These mothers happen to be MILFs (Mothers I'd Like to Fight), members of an underground women-only fight club, and they gang up and beat the fuck out of him. But this isn't what kills him. What kills him is the fact that during his 'show', he snatched some of their bottles of "mother's milk" and drinks them. One of the mothers happened to have been eating a lot of peanuts recently, and the protein found its way into her breast milk. Add in the fact that the pervert happened to have a deadly allergy to peanuts, and you can pretty much do the math.
  • "Hi-Jacked Off" features a carjacker who tries to steal a truck, not knowing one of the occupants is a former female boxer. The woman punches him in the face, causing him to fall on a tire nozzle ass-first and explode from the resulting inflation of his intestines.
• Multiple Gunshot Death: The robber from "Greased Is The Word" mistakenly enters a gun store and is shot to death by the staff and a couple of customers when he tries to hold them up.
• Murphy's Bullet:
  • In "#178: Dead Fella", two hitmen try to kill a mafioso who has betrayed the group, but the reinforced glass from the car deflects all of the shots... and one of these shots kills the hitman who shot it.
  • In "#171: Night Capped", a drunken redneck shoots into the air and kills an Innocent Bystander who was a mile away.
• Mushroom Samba: Distorted senses lead to distorted judgment, such as diving into an empty pool, trying to screw a bear thinking it's a human in a fursuit, running into cacti, running into a big-screen TV, sticking your head out of a sunroof just as a bird swoops down and lands in your mouth, setting your friend (or yourself) on fire, staying in an overheated hot tub, mainlining glowstick fluid at a rave, microwaving a lava lamp, shocking yourself with a defibrillator, or going berserk in a grocery store and getting crushed by beer kegs.
• My Beloved Smother: In Smother in Law, one of these bitch-slaps her son's wife (who seriously considers stabbing the fat cow but instead walks out of the kitchen) and nags her about food. Then she tries to get some frozen pizza from the fridge... but she's so brusque while pulling the wedged pizza box that the fridge falls on her.

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• Nazi Grandpa: An elderly fugitive Nazi dies in "Master E-Raced" by bumping his head on a refrigerator, causing a bullet to the head he took decades earlier to become dislodged and sever a major artery in his brain.
• Neck Snap: Some deaths occur when the victim breaks their neck, breaking their vertebrae and severing the spinal cord.
  • 'Rhymes With "Rich"': A Gold Digger who posed as a personal trainer for a rich couple seeks to break them up by praising the husband's efforts while picking on the wife. When she finally makes the husband get an erection in the middle of lifting barbells which drives his angry wife away, she celebrates by lifting the barbell over her head only for it to fall on the back of her neck, severing her spinal cord and windpipe.
  • "Crib Your Enthusiasm": An infantilist who throws a tantrum after his wife, who is roleplayed as his mom, leaves the room. When he throws his stuffed bear in the middle of his fit, he tries to reach out for it from his adult-sized crib only for the drop gate to fall on top of his neck and break it.
• Nerds Are Virgins: Implied with the easily-seduced nerd in "Contact Die", who's described as "sexually inexperienced".
• Never Mess with Granny: A purse-snatcher in one story found this out the hard way after trying to jack the purse of an old lady who happened to be a 30 year Tae Kwon Do practitioner. A darker example than most, because the beatdown accidentally killed him.
  • In "Greased Is The Word", an old woman is among the customers at the gun shop who riddle a would-be-robber with bullets.
• Never Smile at a Crocodile: The woman whose church leader encouraged her to wade into a nearby pond to meet "brother alligator". It didn't end well.
• Never Trust a Title: Despite the show being called 1000 Ways to Die, the total number of deaths in the series overall was 497
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • The pompous, bigoted, abusive movie star named Max, who dies when his jacuzzi sucks out his guts through his anus. This is actually based on the death of Abigail Taylor, but since the actual victim was a six-year-old girl (and not many people would be cool with that), they redid the story so it happens to a Jerkass Mel Gibson Expy (the narrator even says that the victim of the story wasn't a bastard of a Hollywood actor, but he was made the victim because, in the beginning, the narrator states that there are people out there who deserve to be punished by karma but haven't been yet).
  • Averted with the death of Harry Houdini, which gets the unusually high number of 14 due to his fame.
  • Same for Jack Daniel's death (from sepsis after kicking his safe in a drunken rage after finally finding the perfect recipe for his whiskey), although he is called by his birth name Jasper.
  • Another episode also gave us Nicky "The Predicament" being ground up by a street sweeper.
  • Remember the politician who keeled over after suffering a heart attack from bug bites containing viral fecal matter as a result of his repeated trips to Brazil to hook up with his mistress? Yeah, this guy is an Expy for South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who was disgraced after he disappeared for days while on a supposed hiking trip only to turn up in Buenos Aires, where he was cheating on his wife. The difference between this story and Real Life is Sanford is still alive.
  • "Belly'd Up" is loosely based on the death of Isadora Duncan, who was strangled by her own long scarf.
  • "Poker Face" is based on the death of William Kogut, who constructed a pipe bomb in the same fashion as in the show, only Kogut used the pipe bomb to kill himself, not in a plot to break out of prison.
  • The mad hatter who died of mercury poisoning in "Hats All Folks!" looks like Johnny Depp's character from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010).
  • "Dead-dy Dearest" is inspired by the death of actor Jon-Erik Hexum, who accidentally killed himself by firing a blank into his head.
  • "Spyanide" is based on the death of Adolf Hitler's wife, Eva Braun, who killed herself with a cyanide tablet just before Hitler shot himself in the head.
  • A dogfighter named Vick is killed by a pit bull named Michael. Ron Perlman even says Michael and Vick with the 'and' being rather quickly spoken.
  • One episode featured a clear expy of Phil Spector, complete with a gun, a reputation for ripping off all the musicians who worked with him in the 1950s and 1960s, and wild, curly afro.
  • Then there's "Harley" in "Apocalypse Harley," an obvious Charlie Sheen expy (so obvious that it gets a little painful). The "Hollywood Hitman" in the same segment also counts, as he's very similar to Marlon Brando — more specifically, Brando's performance of Colonel Kurtz.
  • The drug smuggler who tries to smuggle LSD by dying his T-shirt with it (then goes nuts going through airport security and dies) looks like Russell Brand. It may or may not have been a coincidence (or a Take That!).
  • "Dead Fixe" is based on the death of Sherwood Anderson, who got peritonitis after accidentally swallowing a plastic toothpick.
  • Musket Mary, the Tea Party spokeswoman in "Tea Bagged", is clearly based on Sarah Palin. There's even a scene where she's shown to have crib notes written on her hand, which the real Sarah Palin was caught doing years prior.
  • "Hillary Snuffed" features a Hilary Duff expy who dies from having a platinum cocaine straw lodged into her nose while she was snorting coke.
  • "Caulk Blocked" features an African-American rapper who's known for making music about women's rear ends, obviously a take-off on Sir Mix-a-Lot.
• No OSHA Compliance: Some of the deaths featured on the show were on-the-job fatalities that could have been prevented if one or more of the persons involved had followed some basic, common-sense safety rules. For example, if you work in a factory that makes use of a large curing oven, always make sure nobody is in said oven before you shut the doors and turn on the timer (doubly so if one of your co-workers is a narcoleptic and may have fallen asleep inside.)
• Not Enough to Bury: A lot of the deaths leave very little of the victim behind, especially if the death was caused by an explosion.
• Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon:
  • "Abracadaver": Dolph Scott, aka "The Great Dolphino," a second-rate stage magician, decides to perform the dangerous "catch the bullet" trick to close his act, with his angry ex-girlfriend, Mandalite, as his Lovely Assistant. While Dolph hid the real bullet inside his mouth and put a blank round in the gun held by Mandalite, it was all for naught as the tip of his wand dropped a shard into the cannon while he waved it, resulting in Dolph getting his jugular punctured from the impact.
  • "Straight To DVDead": An egocentric actor named Jim attempted to kill the guy playing the protagonist in a low-budget movie so he could get the main role instead, by sneaking a real lead ball into his prop gun, right before their duel scene. However, when the moment came, Jim ended up blowing his hand mid-recording instead because he overloaded gunpowder into the gun. Moreover, a piece of gun shrapnel lodged into the bastard's thigh, cutting the femoral artery and killing him in seconds.

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• Obfuscating Disability: The second "Handi-crapped" features a supervising accountant who pretends to have been paralyzed in an on-the-job injury so he can bilk millions out of the company he works for.
• Obfuscating Insanity: "Goon Interrupted" is about a hitman who pretends to be crazy so that instead of going to prison, he goes to a mental hospital, which (in theory) would be easier to escape from.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: A mother-in-law from hell ends up getting crushed by a refrigerator in "Smother-in-Law".
• Obsessive Sports Fan:
  • "Vuvu... whatever, he's dead.": The victim was an obnoxiously annoying soccer fan named José who bought a vuvuzela and proceeded to blow it with all his might whenever his team scored a goal. The constant blowing eventually caused him to suffer an aneurysm and die.
  • "Sudden Death": The victim was so obsessed with fantasy football and caused a ruckus in a bar while keeping tabs on his score. It escalated when he changed the channel, which caused a Bar Brawl that ended in someone breaking a bottle with one of the shards flying into the victim's neck and killing him.
  • "Fansicle": An obnoxious football fan went out of his way to show loyalty to his team by attending games hours before they started, painting his whole body with the team's colors, and getting drunk. However, an arctic front arrived at the last game he attended while he was wearing nothing but shorts and body paint and drunk, causing him to die of hypothermia by the time the game ended.
• Of Corset Hurts: "Corset Killed Him": A vain professional tango dancer attempts to hide his beer gut by wearing a corset. He ends up cinching it too tight, and the pressure on his torso causes one of his ribs to fracture and puncture his heart, causing him to die from massive internal bleeding.
• Off with His Head!:
  • "D. U. Die": A Drunk Driver suffers carsickness and pukes outside the car's window while his equally-drunk friend takes the wheel for him. He was so busy puking he didn't notice the mailbox in his way, causing him to smash his head against it with such force it decapitated him.
  • "Road Killed": A hippie chick going to a hemp convention runs over a raccoon and tries to use CPR on it. Tilting her head up to cough, she has her head ripped off by the bumper of an oncoming vehicle.
  • "Tongue-Tied": Two teens driving separate cars lean out the window to kiss, only to get decapitated by a forklift in the road.
  • "Golden Die-Angle": A Laotian guard for a drug lord's farm chases after two poppy thieves, but ends up decapitated by the very barbed wire fence he used as a security measure.
  • "Kung Pao Pow!!!": A greedy crematorium worker steals the gold teeth from a corpse said to be of a man who died from getting struck by lightning. He wasn't killed by lightning, the man was actually killed when a weather rocket launched in order to bring rain to drought-damaged land refused to detonate, fell back to Earth, and struck him in the chest. When the corpse was put in the furnace, the rocket's warhead ignites and blows the hatch off with enough force to decapitate the worker.
  • "Odds Are You're Dead": A loan shark cuts the hydraulic line on a scissor lift, which collapses onto his neck and decapitates him.
  • "Miss-Ur Head": A criminal in early 20th century France is executed by the guillotine, with a doctor in attendance to his execution to study the effects of a freshly lopped-off head to prove that consciousness is maintained briefly after beheading, making the guillotine an inhumane form of capital punishment.
  • "Withdrawn": (see Your Head A-Splode below)
  • "Mexi-Can't": A man tries to break his friend (who was arrested for hitting on the mayor's 13-year-old daughter) out of jail in a small Mexican town by using his car to rip the window bars out. He hooks a steel cable from his bumper to the bars and drives forward, but the cable snaps and decapitates him.
• Only One Finds It Fun: In "Boys 2 Dead", the washed-up boy band still has one fangirl cheering them on and recording them in a dive bar full of people who hate them. The delusional lead singer takes a fatal stage dive, to the poor girl's horror.
• Out with a Bang:
  • "Lesbocution": A woman who just got dumped by her boyfriend decides to become a lesbian and celebrate by having sex with her female best friend (whom she had a crush on since junior high). On the way home, the woman takes off her high heels and leans against a metal traffic light pole — just as she steps into a puddle with a fallen electrical wire in it.
  • "Smoke-a-Doped": A sex addict puts an entire pack of nicotine patches on her body to quit smoking after her boyfriend (who hates smokers) threatens to stop having sex with her.
  • "Vegged Out": A woman who uses a zucchini to practice fellatio — and ends up getting it lodged in her throat after getting hit in the face by a hoe (The garden tool, not the other kind).
  • "Die-Agra": man dies of a Viagra overdose because his wife slipped some in his beer, his mistress slipped some in his water, and the man himself took some before he skipped out on his wife to see his mistress.
  • "Chucked Up": A woman acting out a bondage fantasy with her husband via a webcam, chokes on her own vomit due to her mouth being duct-taped shut and being sickened by a robber with halitosis.
  • "Sex Ray" is an odd example, as none of the participants having sex died, but an onlooker. The man was inside a hospital, having a brain scan taken using radiation. In a nearby room, a nurse and the doctor start having sex, accidentally hitting the power button for the radiation machine...
  • "Erecto-Phobia": A man dies after having sex with three girls while sporting wood that just wouldn't quit — caused by a wandering spider whose venom causes erections in males before poisoning them.
  • "Domin-a-Dead": A 32-year-old virgin on his first sexual experience with a dominatrix dies from a full-body allergic reaction from his latex gimp suit.
  • "Les-Boned": A bisexual, nymphomaniac home seller gets it on with a prospective buyer (who's a lesbian) in the laundry room, noticing a bit too late that there was a gas leak, and that gas leak resulting in an explosion when the hot water boiler went on.
  • "Hertz So Good": An exhibitionist couple (the male in the couple sporting a new Prince Albert piercing) gets it on top of an old transformer. The Prince Albert the guy is sporting causes electricity to shoot through his member and electrocute him. The girl remains safe, since she was sitting on the transformer and not touching the ground, thus not completing a circuit.
  • Subverted in "Bed Buggered", where a nerd, who suffered the agony of being "sexiled" (read: kicked out of a dorm room or apartment by a roommate who needs a place to have sex with his partner) when his jock roommate landed some tail, finally got some of his own. While doing his girlfriend, the jock tried to hit on her. Unfortunately for the jock, the top bunk (where the nerd and his girlfriend were doing the nasty) falls on top of and crushes him.
  • "Ass-phyxiated": A weight-loss pill salesman with a fetish for fat women suffocates to death when his morbidly obese "client" passes out on top of him from an orgasm.
  • "Deadliest Munch": A lesbian chokes to death on her girlfriend's candy thong.
  • "Boris Bititoff": A drunken Russian soldier attempts to have sex with a raccoon after he fails to score with a female soldier. It bites his penis off and he bleeds to death.
  • "Vom-Ate-Dead": An emetophiliac (A sexual deviant who gets aroused by vomiting or being vomited on) tries to pursue the winner of a hot dog eating contest. She forces him to throw up by sticking her fingers down his throat and accidentally gets a piece of unchewed hot dog lodged in her throat.
  • "Crappy Ending": A tourist gets stung to death by Asian giant hornets while visiting a "happy ending" parlor in Bangkok.
  • "A Trip To The Maul": A cheating husband goes blind from vasocongestion (going blind from sexual intercourse) after having sex with his mistress. He wanders around in confusion and literally walks right into a brown bear. The bear mauls him to pieces.

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• Parking Payback: A jerk surfer took a handicapped parking spot to the displeasure of a disabled veteran; a disabled rights activist said that when he sees this, he usually leaves a "nice note" on the car with his key.
• Passed in Their Sleep: In "Sh*t Faced", an alcoholic man recovering from a throat surgery dies in his sleep from alcohol poisoning after he convinces his wife to give him an alcohol enema.
• The Peeping Tom:
  • Appears in "Window Pained", when one sticks his head in a woman's window while peeping on her, and has his neck broken when the window closes on it. Then again in "Blood Bath & Beyond", with a landlord who likes to drill holes in his walls and ceiling to watch the women in adjacent apartments, and is killed when water damage causes the ceiling to collapse and a bathtub to fall on him.
  • Subverted in "Flame Retard-Ant". The episode's subject initially seems like he's going to the woods to peep on teenagers making out, but he's actually there to start some fires.
• Pervy Patdown: In "Fire in the Hole", a prison guard squeezes a Neo-Nazi inmate's nuts while patting him down, taunting him that he'll get plenty of that in prison.
• Pinball Projectile:
  • In "Rife-Ill", a Taliban sniper takes himself out with one of his own rounds after it missed his target, and ricocheted off a nearby building and a turret on a nearby Humvee before hitting him in the chest.
  • "Dead Fella" has two Mafiosi attempting to whack a would-be rat. One of them fires on the target's car with a silenced pistol... but between the silencer slowing the bullet and the rat's car having bulletproof glass windows, the shot bounces off the window and nails the other in the carotid artery, killing him in seconds.
  • "Ji-Had It Coming": A former US journalist who converted to Islam and married a Taliban leader participates in her wedding's celebratory fire, but she loses control of the AK-47 she was holding, resulting in one of the projectiles ricocheting off a metal pitcher before nailing the bride in the head. Furthermore, the bullet didn't have enough velocity to exit and bounced off every side of her skull like a pinball machine.
• Piss-Take Rap: Done by a Chinese sweatshop owner in "Grilled". It's one of the many reasons his long-suffering employees hate him.
• Plot Allergy: Some of the victims die from allergic reactions to certain stuff.
  • "Spit-ill": Louise, a kissing stand owner who stole from the money jar destined for charity kisses her high school crush, Johnny, on the lips and dies from an allergic reaction to oil from sunflower seeds, which he kept chewing well into adulthood.
  • "Sneeze Bag": Melissa worked for a selfless politician named Robert Stone, but it turns out she's a spy sent by the opposing candidate Bumgardner to set Stone up and ruin his image. Melissa roofies Stone, strips down to black lingerie, and calls the paparazzi over to finish him off by making the poor guy look like he had sex with her. However, as they walk in front of the paparazzi, the camera flashes trigger an unusual allergic reaction in Melissa, caused by a rare condition named ACHOO^note Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst syndrome, causing her to die from a bleeding heart from the consecutive sneezes.
  • "Ass-Hoppered": Darryl and Eugene, two aspiring weed dealers, get high on their stash before they can even sell it. As the marijuana causes them to have munchies, Eugene eats some grasshoppers, which triggers an allergic reaction he didn't know he had. As a result, Eugene's throat swells up from anaphylactic shock and dies from asphyxiation.
  • "Lac-toasted": An exhibitionist named Gordon terrorizes a group of moms and drinks from the baby bottles they throw at him until the three of them beat his ass down. Gordon dies from an allergic reaction to peanuts since the breast milk in one of the bottles he downed earlier on was laced with peanuts.
  • "Bush Whacked 3: Waxed Off": A short-tempered woman named Nancy went to a Thai spa and her constant complaints drove them to give her a free bikini wax to get her off their backs. When one of the waxing strips catches fire and burns Nancy's pubic hair, the masseuse puts it out only for the smoke to reach the sprinklers, which go off on the place, causing the redhead to panic and make a break for it as she suffered from aquagenic urticaria, a rare condition that makes her allergic to water. She fails to get out in time and dies from anaphylactic shock.
  • "Par for the Corpse": A cemetery groundskeeper named Jim had no respect for the dead buried there and used the cemetery as his golf course. One day, he develops blisters and a high fever, which he mistakes for the flu, and sleeps off. However, he wakes up and finds his blisters become lesions that threaten to peel off his skin. It turns out he sprayed a strong fungicide on the cemetery grounds, which Jim was unknowingly allergic to. Whenever Jim played golf at the cemetery, the golf tees became soaked in the fungicide, and his habit of gnawing on them was what triggered his allergy. After he scared off a young couple while screaming for help, he finally dies from multi-organic failure.
  • "Domin-a-Dead": A 32-year-old virgin is pulled in by a Dominatrix, who encases him in a latex gimp suit while she whips him. However, the poor sod was allergic to latex but she mistook his muffled painful noises for pleasure moans, causing him to die a slow, painful death from anaphylactic shock.
  • "Me So Hornet": A redneck named JT shoots down a hornet nest with a paintball gun after his wife, Trixie, threatened to withhold sex from him. The nest falls into JT's feet and the hornets sting him, triggering an allergic reaction he didn't know he had and killing him of an anaphylactic shock.
  • "Vertigo, Going, Gone": A sociopathic and incompetent accountant gets fired from his job for his Jerkass attitude and plots to kill his former boss in revenge. He climbs an oak tree in front of the office building, assembles a single-shot bolt-action rifle, and waits for his former boss to exit the building and shoot her. However, his oak pollen allergy sends him into sneezing fits and eventually induces vertigo on him, causing him to miss the shot and fall off the tree. The ensuing pressure on his cervical spinal cord caused him paralysis and subsequent death.
• Plot-Inciting Infidelity: "That's A Morte!" is set in 1500s Italy and centers on a married woman named Caterina, who cheats on her husband while he's away on business trips. He finds out and puts a chastity belt on her to keep her from cheating before going on a long business trip. Her lover tries to unlock the belt with a knife, but he pours in a tub of olive oil and water, which allows her to slide off the chastity belt and have her affairs for weeks. However, the water caused the belt to become rusty and Caterina's habit of putting the belt back on to fool her husband caused the cheating wife to contract tetanus. By the time the husband returned, Caterina was in the final stage of tetanus and died from asphyxia after the spasms contracted her larynx.
• "Pop!" Goes the Human: Percy from "Hi-Jack Offed" dies after a truck's air brake hose goes up his rectum from falling backwards and inflates him until he explodes.
• Porn Stash: Leads to a porn addict's death when he can't navigate through his collection of porn and dies of dehydration in "Pornicated".
• Present-Day Past:
  • In the episode featuring the death of a gym teacher who impaled himself in the eye with his own javelin, the students in his class take a picture of his corpse with a camera phone before running off. The story took place in 1993, well before the days of camera phones, and cell phones in general, being commonplace among teenagers and most of the general population.
  • "Kill Basa" (about a guy who ties a kielbasa to his leg with surgical tubing for four hours) also has a camera phone showing up in 1996.
  • The gun store incident (in which a petty thug accidentally sticks up a gun shop instead of a jewelry store and gets shot by the customers and clerks, who were all legally armed and acting in self-defense) takes place in 2001, yet there was a sign showing a Blu-ray logo, which would require the story to be set in mid-2006 at the earliest.
  • In "Tali-Bombed", set in 2005, one of the terrorists says his favorite American celebrity is Miley Cyrus. Miley Cyrus wasn't famous until 2006 when Hannah Montana premiered on the Disney Channel.
  • "Die-rect TV" is set in 2009, even though the 1000 Ways To Die episode the couple was watching was "The End Is Weird", which didn't air until 2010.
  • The lifeguard in "Muffed Dive" comments "I can't wait for the next Olympics...London, 2012, I'm so there!" True when the episode first aired, in 2011... but this segment takes place in 2003, two years before London was even awarded the 2012 Olympics in the first place!
• Prima Donna Director: One of these gets killed by a remote-controlled airplane in "North By Northwasted".
• Psychic Surgery: Honesto, the victim from "Thanks A Clot," was a Filipino pickpocket turned Con Man who poses as a psychic surgeon after learning it in jail, which consists of hand sleights with animal organs to make it more believable. This earns Honesto a ton of money since his marks are superstitious farmers, but his luck runs out when he "treats" a man with leprosy and gets stricken with the disease from touching the patient's mucus. When his assistant finds out, he leaves and never comes back. Eventually, as the disease thickens his blood, a dying Honesto crawls out of the bed clutching his now-useless money before a clot enters his lungs and kills him.
• Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Ashley from "Smoke Stalked", who stalked her ex-boyfriend (who was now married and wanted nothing to do with Ashley) to the extreme. While the ex-boyfriend and his wife were on vacation, Ashley decided to break in by climbing through the chimney. She gets stuck and slowly dies of dehydration, starvation, and suffocation. When the couple returns, they find Ashley's lifeless, desiccated body and freak out.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Benny, the victim from "Die-drant", is an immature asshole who likes pulling (often lethal) pranks on people for his own sick amusement.
• Punny Name: Generally the names of just about all of the deaths. Occasionally, some of the commentary leading up to the deaths.
• Pyromaniac: One of these gets himself killed in "Flame Retard-Ant". When he accidentally sets himself on fire, he jumps into the water to put it out but goes into shock due to the water's cold temperature and drowns. Unusually, the episode points out that in real life, arsonists are rarely motivated by pyromania.
• Pyrrhic Victory: There are quite several people in this show who have won a competition, but in the process, lost their lives.
  • The Alpha Bitch hazing sorority pledge master in "Mudder Sucked". After being pulled into a mud wrestling pit by one of the pledges, the Alpha Bitch nearly beats the pledge into unconsciousness, having the other pledges pull her out. The Alpha Bitch was gloating over her victory, but she started to sink into the mud pit and died from suffocation. It turns out the pledges unknowingly built the mud wrestling pit on top of an underground sinkhole.
  • The Alpha Bitch in "Gooed Riddance". After beating out her friends in "Chubby Bunny" (the objective is to cram as many marshmallows in your mouth as you can while saying "Chubby Bunny"), the marshmallows melted in her mouth and formed a seal in her larynx, causing her to choke to death.
  • A Jerkass horse jockey in "Die-arrhea". After being evicted from his apartment, he was forced to live in the horse stables. Normally, other horse jockeys would give a helping hand, but they refused to in his case because of his history of being a bastard. He trains to win one last race as a "screw you" to the other jockeys by being bulimic and taking illegal Chinese laxatives to be lighter. He won the race, but then he dies from renal failure, potassium deficiency, and dehydration.
  • A Spoiled Brat rich sorority pledge in "Who Fart-Dead". The sorority pledges had to compete to see who can stay in a boiling hot sauna the longest. The winner gets to skip "Hell Week". The rich pledge prepared by eating beans and broccoli and drove all the other contestants out with her rampant flatulence. She had no time to celebrate her victory as she dropped dead from second-degree burns, hyperthermia, and dehydration.
  • A teenager who accidentally swallowed a lit firecracker in a game of Chicken in "Chicken Boned". The narrator even discusses what the trope actually means.

Q

• Quicksand Sucks: "Mudder Sucked" has a sorority sister Alpha Bitch die when she's pulled under by the mud-wrestling pit she had the pledges prepare. Justified in that the pit was accidentally made over a sinkhole, so there's considerably more depth to the sucking part than in most quicksand pits.

R

• Raging Stiffie: One of the effects of the venom of the Brazilian wandering spider (a.k.a. the banana spider). In "Erecto-phobia", a dude who gets bitten by it tries to use said stiffie to cheat on his girlfriend... then dies while having sex with the third girl of the day.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Sexual predators tend to get especially horrible deaths.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Devon the amputee from "Eye Swallow".
• Recycled Premise: "Pimp My Death" and "Recap-shunned" both have their victims killed after someone knocks into them after being shoved.
• Rhymes on a Dime: If Ron Perlman isn't closing a death with a pun or two, expect him to finish with a quick poem. He even quotes from the Gospel of Matthew after two fake preachers die in a grain silo explosion.
• Road Apples: In "Weed Whacked," the Narrator reveals that the two late stoners who searched for plants they could get high on were willing to smoke horse droppings to get their desired buzz.
• Rule of Cool: The show might not have the stones to admit it, but it positively subsists on this, considering the dubious nature of some of the stories told.
  • Carbon monoxide deaths. We started putting sulfur in the odorless gas a while ago (at least for house and car emissions) so that people would realize that they are in danger by the smell of rotten eggs.
  • Absinthe isn't actually any worse than other types of alcohol. It was banned during the temperance movement because of false scares, propaganda, and misinformation spread about it which was finally made known in the 2000s. Granted this was acknowledged in the segment pointing out this propaganda was caused by the pesticides used on the ingredients contaminating the drinks.
  • A couple of the stories were also disproved by MythBusters (like the urban legend that peeing on an electrical fence will kill you) and Snopes (the explosive breast implants).
• Running Gag: 412 has been used as the number of a death far too many times (7 as of July 2012) to be an oversight of the people who put the numbers on the deaths.
• Russian Roulette: A group of Viet Cong veterans plays and all of them live...until their celebration triggers an old landmine buried beneath the shack they were in.

S

• Sassy Black Woman: Chantal, the woman featured in "American Died-Ol".
• Saw It in a Movie Once: In "Mexi-can't", this is the victim's reasoning for tying a cable to his friend's jail cell bars and trying to rip them out through pulling them with his car. Not only does it not work, it slices the victim's head clean off.
• Scary Scorpions: A scam artist posing as a health inspector gets fatally stung by an Arizona bark scorpion in "Mastur-Bitten".
• Scary Stinging Swarm:
  • "Me So Hornet": A man shoots a hornet's nest with a paintball gun to impress his trailer trash wife, and gets stung multiple times by the enraged swarm of insects. The fact that he was allergic to hornet stings (and never knew it) was also a contributing factor in his death.
  • "Crappy Ending": A sex tourist visiting a happy-ending massage parlor in Thailand gets attacked by a swarm of Asian Giant Hornets that were living in the parlor's wall after the first one he killed emitted a pheromone that alerted the others into action.
• Scatterbrained Senior: Boris, the bartender working for the Russian mob in "USSR-Dead", mistakes a bottle of sulfuric acid for a bottle of vodka and ends up killing his employers.
• "Scooby-Doo" Hoax:
  • Deconstructed in "Myth Busted". A man in the Pacific Northwest isn't happy about a path near where he lives becoming a popular jogging trail, so he decides to scare off joggers by dressing as a bigfoot. But this attracts the attention of a "bigfoot believer" park ranger who, thinking he's the real deal, shoots him with a tranquilizer dart — one that contains a chemical lethal to humans.
  • In "Ghost Busted", the two perverted ghost hunters searching an abandoned brothel get scared off by a ghost; actually the property owner, who dressed as a ghost to scare off intruders. Unfortunately, one of the ghost hunters runs over the other in his car.
• Self-Damaging Attack Backfire: In "Cleane-Dead Solution" an abusive husband forces his wife to clean the house every day. After she demands a divorce he rushes to hit her but slips on the just-washed floor and lands on the dishwasher, where his chest collides with a knife, killing him.
• Series Fauxnale: "Sor-Dead Affair" was intended to be the final episode on the series, as the last segment in the episode is Way to Die #1000 "Premature Endings", which features an old man who dies in a hospital bed of natural causes next to his adult daughter, after living a long, fulfilling life and always supporting his loved ones. The narrator goes on and talks about how the viewer should not act recklessly like the rest of the idiots on the show who got killed, and instead watch the show from their homes and try to die peacefully like the old man. Unfortunately, this episode was aired as the penultimate episode, and then the show got renewed for another season.
• Sexy Coat Flashing: In "Lac-Toasted," a man does this to a trio of new mothers... not knowing they're members of an all-female fight club. While he survives the beating they give him, he dies because during his "show", he drank breast milk laced with peanuts, which he was violently allergic to.
• Sexy Santa Dress: Carol, the victim from "Electro-cutie," wears this kind of dress at a company's Christmas party to charm the CEO into making her a full-time employee.
• Sexy Soaked Shirt: In "Hose Whipped," a group of female animal-rights protesters wearing white T-shirts and denim shorts get hosed by Lenny, a rent-a-cop who couldn't become a cop because he was too dumb to pass the police exams.
• Shock-and-Switch Ending: Subverted. The show has a segment where the victim is a man whose home gets broken into and the thief throws him off the balcony. Then we see the usual recap and the screen that numbers and names the death: "Homie Invasion"... then a record scratch happens and the narrator quips "Wait, it cannot end like this!". Turns out the man suffered from Lazarus Syndrome and raised up after a moment. He wandered back into his house and, when the thief sees him alive again, he gets so scared he ends up falling over the same railing. The screen is shown again, though now the death is renamed "Homie's Dead".
• Shout-Out:
  • The hitman in "Kill Bill and Billie" bears a strong resemblance to Agent 47.
  • The intro card to the segment "Caved In" says it took place in Encino, California, which references a movie that also starred a caveman.
  • The literal Mad Hatter who died of mercury poisoning in "Hats All Folks!" looks like Johnny Depp's character from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010).
  • The softball player who dies of a ruptured hernia in "Boweled Out" is named Casey.
• Shown Their Work: "Fansicle" has an obnoxious football fan paint himself blue, get drunk, annoy the patrons, and die of hypothermia when an arctic front comes in. Heavy amounts of alcohol do, in fact, accelerate hypothermia due to inhibiting thermoregulatory mechanisms.
• Slashed Throat: "Cock-A-Doodle-Die" has a cockfighter with a rooster that was outfitted with razors on his talons to get an edge in fighting. His opponent finds out and the audience encircles him which freaks out the chicken he was holding. While flapping about, the rooster slashes his owner's throat in one swoop.
• Slumber Party: A group of women who were Childhood Friends attend one of these as a vow to reunite ten years after leaving the summer camp.
• Small Name, Big Ego: The egotistical leader of a washed-up boy band from "Boys 2 Dead." Unsurprisingly, his ego eventually leads him to his demise.
• Smoldering Shoes: When the terrorists from "Tali-Bombed" blow themselves up, a smoking combat boot is all that's left of one of them.
• Smoking Hot Sex: The sex-addicted young woman who covered her body in a month's supply of nicotine patches because her boyfriend didn't like her lighting up after sex and she wanted to quit faster.
• Smug Snake: Quite a lot of the people who die on this show are overconfident bastards who think they got the upper hand, only for death to show them who’s boss. One such example is Ramone, a cocaine addicted crane operator, from “Lost in Transfusion” who manipulates his girlfriend, a cook at a hospital, to steal a bag of blood matching his so he can dilute his own to pass a full blood analysis style drug test. His girlfriend warns him not to inject it into his body when cold but he was too coked up to listen. He then injects the cold blood into his body while arrogantly muttering “Suckers!” under his breath. The cold blood of course gives him a heart attack and Ramone dies. The medical expert even states that even if he were to have payed attention, it would not have even worked in the first place.
• The Social Darwinist: One of the experts in the show, Stefan Timmermans, points out deaths caused by stupidity as "examples of Social Darwinism."
• Soda-Candy 'Splosion: "Bubbled Out" features two brothers who try this mix inside their stomachs, downing an entire liter of soda each before swallowing a packet of Mentos. Their stomachs burst from the built-up pressure as jets of soda shoot from their mouths, killing them in seconds.
• Sore Loser: In "Ten-Ass, Anyone?", a short-tempered tennis player loses a match. He gets angrier than ever before, and tries to kill the ref with a broken racket.
• Sound-Effect Bleep: In "Pipe Snake," when the groupie throws out her ex-boyfriend's guitar, she calls him an "asshole." The last part of the word was obscured by an electric guitar chord.
• Soundtrack Dissonance:
  • Some commercials promoting new episodes seem to use this technique. For example, one commercial has two teens being decapitated by a stack of boxes... while The Chords' "Sh-Boom" played in the background.
  • "Gone Green" has a woman vomiting green slime and dying of copper acetoarsenite poisoning from wearing a Paris Green dress with appropriately dramatic music. The CGI quickly plays much goofier music.
• Southern-Fried Genius: Amos in "Dead Necked" is a law school valedictorian from Alabama. His cousin Cannon plays a prank on him by inviting him to a redneck-themed party, in which Cannon is killed by a deep-fried turkey shooting out from its pot and hitting him in the face.
• Space Whale Aesop: Basically the whole show in general. Any wrongdoing you commit will kill you!
• Spoiled Brat: The victim from "Trucked Up" is an obnoxious rich kid named Todd, whose parents gave him what he wanted. He interrupted his cousin Leonard's date with his girlfriend by showing off his pick-up truck. When Todd shows off his car's remote starter, which he installed against the manufacturer's warning, it suddenly lurches forward and runs the brat over, crushing his head and pulverizing his brain under its wheels. It turns out Todd mistakenly set his 8-ball shifter into gear while he showed it off to Leonard and his girlfriend.
• Spinoff: 1000 Ways To Lie (about history's greatest frauds and scams). It got canceled after one episode.
• Stealing from the Till: Louise, the victim in "Spit-ill," ran a kissing booth at a local town charity and stole money from the jar. However, her thievery comes to an end when she kisses her high school crush, Johnny, who retained his old habit of chewing sunflower seeds, which she's allergic to.
• Stealing the Handicapped Spot: The first "Handi-crapped" begins with a Jerk Jock surfer parking his convertible in a handicapped space. When a disabled veteran gets out of his car to confront him about it, the surfer tries to drive away, but the surfboard in the backseat collides with the handicapped sign, pivots and strikes him in the neck, severing his spine.
• Stealth Pun: The woman who died in "Electro-cutie", which takes place in the Christmas season, is named Carol.
• Stimulant Speedtalk: In "Micro-Whacked", Dennis the junkie tried a random combination of drugs every night, including cocaine and crystal meth. After taking a drug cocktail that drastically slows down his perception of time, Dennis is shown talking on the phone at high speed. The Narrator even comments that people couldn't keep up with him. Astonishingly enough, it's not the drugs that kill him, but his attempts to make his lava lamp go faster by heating it up in a microwave, resulting in an explosion.
• Stock Footage: The video game in "Game Stopped" ^note The one about the gamer who dies of blood clots in his legs after sitting for nearly three days trying to be the next video game master, only to be defeated by a girl is later on being played by the teen in "Hack Attack" ^note The one about the computer hacker who hacks into his own pacemaker and gets killed when his bratty gamer neighbor is playing video games with a wireless controller.
• Stock Scream:
  • The Wilhelm scream is heard when the victim of "Red, White & Blew" is shown dying from a firework backfiring in his face.
  • In the second "Handi-crapped", the Howie scream is heard when the victim pushes through the elevator door and falls to his death.
• Stocking Mask: Deconstructed in "Greased is the Word". The victim wore one of these when trying to rob a jewelry store, but it blocked his vision and he ended up in a gun shop instead. The fact that he was wearing it over a baseball cap may have had something to do with it.
• Stripped to the Bone:
  • In "Catch and Decease", piranhas eat a man who abused his slaves who were forced to help him find gold in the Amazon. By the end of the segment, his skeleton is seen flowing down the river.
  • In "I Spy A Dead Guy", a guy goes down a garbage chute to escape a security guard, but ends up in the incinerator. With the flames being 3,000 degrees, it burned him right down to the bone before he could feel any pain.
  • Implied of the victim in "Butt F***ed". One of the hosts says that fourth-degree burns (when the victim crashed into the oxygen tanks while still burning) only leave the bone, and even then the bone will disappear if the fire isn't extinguished as soon as possible.
• Stuck in a Chimney: One of the Asshole Victim casualties is an insane ex-girlfriend that kept stalking her boyfriend and his new beau, and that tried to get into the man's house via the chimney while they were away on vacation in order to live in and (probably) eventually catch them when they returned. Unfortunately, she got stuck in said chimney and died of dehydration... and the corpse was found by the lovebirds when they came back home and turned on the chimney, setting the corpse on fire.
• Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks: "Caulk Blocked" features a rapper whose discography is full of these. One woman, knowing how much he loves the female posterior, goes to a Back-Alley Doctor to get her butt enlarged. She manages to get his attention with her new bottom, but she dies of an embolism shortly after thanks to the quack plastic surgeon accidentally injecting some of the caulk into her bloodstream.
• Stupid Crooks: Many of the victims depicted on the show are criminals who failed to properly plan out their schemes.
  • The crooked bank teller working with the robber from "Teller She's Dead" instructed the robber to turn on the fire suppression system after locking her in the vault to summon rescue workers. She didn't realize that the fire suppression system at that particular bank used carbon dioxide instead of sprinklers so the money wouldn't be ruined, and she suffocated to death.
  • The robber from "Greased Is The Word" thinks he's walking into a jewelry store when he's actually walking into the gun shop next door due to his stocking mask making it hard to see. When he tries to stick up the clerks, he gets fired upon by everyone in the store.
  • The gangsters from "Pop Goes The Cholo" attempt to operate on their wounded comrade after knocking out the Back-Alley Doctor who was originally going to perform the operation. They insert the tracheal tube into the esophagus instead of the trachea, and fill the wounded man's stomach with air until it explodes.
  • The shoplifter from "Doggie Style" grabs a hot dog while fleeing from the store. He tries to eat the whole thing in one bite and ends up choking on it.
• Sub-Par Supremacist: "Fire in the Hole" is about two neo-Nazis, one of whom is an idiot who can't stop mangling the gang's slogans.
• Super Window Jump:
  • "Habeas Corpse": The lawyer who jumps through the window of his building's 40^th floor to prove said windows are unbreakable. It didn't work because his watch hit the window. It does bear mentioning, though, that he'd done it multiple times before to freak out new hires.
  • In "Wedding Crashers", a man interrupts his ex-girlfriend's wedding by stripping naked and showing off his penis to show her what she's missing out on. As he's running out of the church, he mistakes a window for an open door and jumps through it, and promptly dies from massive blood loss.
• Swallowed Whole: In "Tenta-killed", a Korean-American man tries doing this to an octopus to prove a point to his daughter's boyfriend, but it refuses to go down and ends up choking him to death.