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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- Take That!:
- Especially in the later seasons — the crew loves taking the piss out of anyone contemptible, such as perverts, thieves, fools, addicts, drug abusers, and bullies. Concurrent with the rise in gore.
- The last death of the episode "The End Is Weird" involves a violent, sexist, anti-Semitic, egotistical movie star who makes abusive phone calls to his girlfriend named Max. The death is very brutal, and they begin and end it with Ron Perlman talking about Karma Houdinis that need to be punished.
- In the same episode, the segment "Die-Drant" featured a major asshole (who didn't suffer from any abuse as a baby and wasn't mentally unstable; he was just an immature prick) who wanted to cause people to crash by reflecting light off of a mirror into the driver's eyes. He gets his wish when one driver does run into a fire hydrant, only for said hydrant to brain him.
- "Dog Dead Afternoon" has a dogfighter named Vick killed by a dog named Michael.
- "Tea Bagged" (the story of an inexperienced female politician who got stabbed with the bayonet of her prop musket after having a stroke during a rally) is based on Sarah Palin (with some Michelle Bachman in the mix).
- "Apocalypse Harley" features a Charlie Sheen-esque TV actor going into a drug-and-tiger-blood-fueled craze and killing himself when he trips and falls on his machete.
- "Hillary Snuffed" features a Hilary Duff expy who dies of having a platinum cocaine straw lodged in her nose.
- The writers were not subtle about their hatred of Jersey Shore, often killing parodies of the people on that show like "Jersey Gore" and "Jablowni"
- In "Dead Mime ☺", where the narrator asks the audience if they like clowns...
Narrator: If you answered yes, then you should change the channel and watch something on PBS.- "Die-brator" features a Straw Feminist group named "Centuries of Women" or C.O.W for short, which is meant to be a potshot on the National Organization of Women (NOW).
- Tear Off Your Face:
- "De-Faced": Wilbur, a dimwit husband, falls face-first into a snowplow he was warming up due to carbon monoxide poisoning (and getting drunk off his ass). It is not pretty.
- "DWI: Dying While Intoxicated": A divorcee named Jessica is drunk and needs to go get more booze. However, a recent DUI arrest had her car impounded and license suspended. Jessica resorts to driving a lawnmower, and in her drunken state, she destroys a lot of lawn ornaments and catches the attention of a cop. Jessica tries to evade him by going off-road, but she hits a rock and gets thrown off the mower which turns and comes back for Jessica, slicing off her face, cutting off some of her fingers, and making cuts all over her entire body.
- The Tease: One of these tries to turn two brothers against each other and ends up getting killed by flying gravel in "Pebble Bitched".
- Teeny Weenie: Donny, the victim from "Kill Basa" was a partygoer with a complex about his small size after years of being laughed out of both the locker room by men and the bedroom by women. Therefore, he uses surgical tubing to tie a 12-inch kielbasa sausage to his upper thigh before going to a nightclub. While he gets to impress the women (and some men) at the party with his "sausage", his celebration is cut short as the tubing is too tight, cutting off his circulation and forming a clot in his leg that travels to his lungs, killing him of a massive pulmonary embolism.
- Tempting Fate: Some deaths are the result of this. For example, the father in "Dead-dy Dearest" demonstrates that his blank-loaded gun is harmless by putting it to his head and pulling the trigger. He gets killed by the pressure from the gun.
- Testosterone Poisoning:
- The insane pervert who tries to use "Bessie" the electrically stimulated cow heart as a sex toy.
- The weightlifter who tries to bench-press an I-beam and drops it on his throat.
- The Chinese heavy metal fan who slipped and fell out his bedroom window — with his roommate and fellow rocker jumping out after him.
- The Bruce Lee wannabe who wanted to make a viral video to get a real woman and not have to settle for the blow-up doll he had in his garage. He winds up breaking his skull by trying to crush boards and concrete with his head, then smacking himself in the face with nunchucks.
- The cyclist-hating sports doctor runs two cyclists off-road in a testosterone-fueled rage, and as he is distracted by arrogance, he doesn't see that he is heading for a rebar on the back of a truck and impales himself in the forehead.
- Those Wacky Nazis: One neo-Nazi gang member tries to bust himself and his boss out of the joint by smuggling a hand grenade up his ass in "Fire in the Hole". The boss tries to remove the grenade, but only succeeds in pulling out the pin. Both of them die in the resulting explosion.
- 'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain: Deconstructed in "Master E-raced". In the last days of World War II, an SS officer is shot in the head by an American soldier but survives. However, the bullet was lodged next to a major artery, so when he bumps his head on his refrigerator decades later, he dislodged the bullet and severed the artery.
- Toilet Humour: Quite a lot, usually involving farts.
- Tongue Trauma: In "Tongue Died", a scavenger who steals metal from foreclosed houses bites off his tongue when he falls into an open manhole trying to escape from a cop. To add insult to injury, it was the manhole whose cover he stole previously.
- To the Pain: Once a segment gets to the actual dying part, medical experts will pop in to explain how the death will happen and what the body experiences and what the person will feel while dying if at all, all the while the segment is going in the background with CGI displays of the human body subjected to the injury(ies) of the segment.
- Toad Licking: "ReToaded" has a pair of amateur adventurists who go on a quest to find the Colorado River Toad to experience the ultimate high, but unfortunately end up licking a Poison Arrow Frog, which did give them the ultimate high but at the cost of their lives.
- Trampled Underfoot:
- "Lady and the Trampled": A biker rips off a female dancer's top and causes a riot in which his fellow bikers trample him as they gang up on her and the other dancers.
- "Pam-caked!": A jealous cheerleader captain who "accidentally" let the new girl on the team fall ends up run down by the entire football team as they charge out onto the field.
- Translation Convention: In stories set in countries where English isn't the native language, the characters will still be depicted speaking English instead of their native tongue.
- Treadmill Trauma: "Treadkill" involves a perverted treadmill runner who spies on his neighbour while running. He winds up getting too distracted by the fanservice that he trips and gets himself hung by his tracksuit's lace which gets caught in the machine.
- Turbine Blender: "Double-O-Severed" features a corporate spy who is forced to bring his incompetent nephew as a lookout while he plants a bug in a ventilation shaft. He uses a pipe to jam the fan outside the vent, but his nephew accidentally dislodges it and the spy gets sucked in, getting his legs shredded and promptly bleeding out.
- Typhoid Mary: Mary Mallon (the real name of the Trope Namer) appears in the story "Mary-nated" in which she inadvertently kills a rich couple by infecting them with typhoid fever with the contaminated food she cooked.
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- Undignified Death: The other point of the show.
- Undiscriminating Addict: Dennis from "Micro-Whacked" is a chronic druggie who tried a random cocktail every night, using any and every drug he could find to get high. After taking a cocktail of painkillers, antidepressants, cocaine, and crystal meth, it drastically slowed down his perception of time. While Dennis surprisingly doesn't die of an overdose, he bites it when he puts a lava lamp inside his microwave, which explodes in his face.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: If you want to find a woman to rape, then the outside of a gym where boxers train is not a good idea. The fact that your victim can likely defend herself pretty well notwithstanding, there's also the chance that she just might turn out to be a male crossdresser who goes off when someone calls him a 'lady'.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Sometimes played straight, mostly averted: often, unless the victim was really a douche, the bystanders nearby will usually react with the appropriate amount of shock.
- Notably, there was one where the Jerkass leader of a washed-up boy band believes that there is a bigger crowd than normal and stage dives onto the floor. After a few seconds, the rest of the band continue their routine as the crowd inspects the man. A Funny Moment.
- Then there's the punk who threatened a woman with a screwdriver and tried to make off with her purse on a bike, only to fall over his bike and stab himself in the heart. The woman he stuck up comes along just to take her purse back.
- There's also the teens firing paintball guns at people from a car. Among their targets was an old lady, who caught up with them and started smacking the driver with her purse after the CO2 canister on his gun flew off and broke the second guy's neck.
- A clown who doesn't take kindly to the "Infernal Clown Posse" ruining the image of clowns goes to one of their concerts and tries to crash it, only to get electrocuted trying to unplug a large wire. ICP's response? "IN! YOUR! FACE!"
- A band of old musicians watches their senile ex-producer get blown up after accidentally shooting his oxygen tank. After the explosion, they just keep playing the song they were singing before the incident.
- A nagging wife kills herself while showing her Henpecked Husband the right way to mow a lawn. He calmly takes a drink from her martini and remarks "There is a God."
- Unwilling Suspension:
- In "Car Jacked", a car thief tried to steal a rich man's muscle car and got into his garage by descending from the ceiling. Then his leg got tangled in the rope and he ended up hanging upside down for several hours, which killed him in the end.
- In "Boobie-cide", a stripper with GINORMOUS boobs uses a reclining bed to hang upside down and relieve her backache. Thing is, once she does it while drugged and drunk, and her boobs smother her to death while she's upside down.
- In "Xmas-turbator", a man decorates his house with an unreasonable amount of Christmas decorations to irritate his neighbors (made worse by the fact that he's doing this in early November). He falls off the roof and is caught by a rope he was using. The combination of the increased blood pressure in the brain and banging his head on the side of the house causes internal bleeding and death.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Appear several times in the show. For example, in "Teller She's Dead", after locking her accomplice in a bank vault, robber trips the fire alarm so she will be freed faster. This activates the carbon dioxide based fire suppression system in the vault, suffocating the accomplice to death.
- Urban Legends:
- MythBusters actually debunked
the boob-related death twice. This leads to many of the other less well-known deaths and situations becoming suspect on whether they're possible or actually happened. On the other hand, it's explicitly stated in that "death" that the implants were effectively water balloons made by a quack, not the real deal. MythBusters de-bunked the myth using real breast implants, but never bothered to test fake ones. - They also managed to bust the death involving whizzing on the electric fence, which really doesn't help the show's credibility.
- Regarding the story of "Mudder Sucked" (about the sorority girl who drowns in a sinkhole after beating a pledge in a mud wrestling contest), they also busted the quicksand myth.
- On the other hand, the MythBusters have also proven the plausibility of some of the other deaths, like:
- "Micro-Whacked": It is an EXTREMELY bad idea to try and speed up a lava lamp by putting it in the microwave or on a stovetop, as it WILL explode.
- A mostly empty beer keg thrown onto a bonfire will also explode.
- MythBusters actually debunked
- Urine Trouble: The ski instructor having sex with one of his students reveals to her that he has urolagnia (a fetish for being peed on) and invites her to go to the bathroom on his chest, which wouldn't be a problem if his student didn't pee on him while he was lying on an electric blanket with a frayed wire. They both got electrocuted.
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- Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Most of the deaths that actually did happen tend to be recreated in very exaggerated and prurient ways, often because the victims of the actual deaths were completely innocent (i.e., the Mel Gibson-esque movie star who got his internal organs sucked out of his anus when he sat on a hot tub drain while forcing his girlfriend into giving him oral sex happened to a six-year-old girl named Abigail Taylor, but for ethical, moral, and legal reasons, they made it happen to a Jerkass adult who deserved to be punished). Just goes to show you that Even Evil Has Standards. Averted with "Sh*t Faced": that was, almost word-for-word, based on the death of Michael Warner, a man from Lake Jackson, Texas, who died of alcohol poisoning due to an alcoholic enema.
- Villain Song: In "Grilled", a Chinese sweatshop owner does a gangster rap number about how horrible a boss he is.
- Volcanic Veins: One of the stories is about a drug dealer who tripped out at a rave and injected glow stick fluid into his veins. He had this effect for several minutes and became the center of attention... and then he dropped dead.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: "Pukey" Suki is an emetophiliacnote so we see her induce a couple of men to vomit and the vomiting is displayed on-camera with no attempt to hide it.
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- The War on Straw
- Wardens Are Evil: Well, "evil" may be a rather strong word, but the warden in "War-done" is a harsh tyrant who even goes so far as to steal from his prisoners.
- Wet Cement Gag: This is the fate of a skateboarder in "Board Stiff" when he inhales the wet cement after falling face-first into it and suffocates to death.
- What a Drag: "Chain Gang Banged": A couple of chained-together convicts attempt to jump into the bed of a moving truck, but they miss the bed and their chains get caught on the truck's hitch, causing them to be dragged until they die from multiple bone fractures and internal injuries.
- What Does She See in Him?: We are left to wonder how some of the couples in this series got together in the first place. For example:
- In a What Does He See in Her? case in "Bitch Zapped". Ron, the husband of an abusive wife named Marcie, is forced to mow the lawn and generally be her errand boy. When Marcie gets frustrated because Ron is not mowing the lawn "properly," she decides to show him "how to mow the lawn," by not paying attention where she's going and runs over the cord of Ron's ARC welder, sending 200 amps into her body, causing death by electrocution.
- Lucy to Seth in "Orspasm". Seth intentionally made her orgasm for his own sadistic, perverted pleasure despite knowing the pain it put her through, and he ends up dying when he pokes Lucy with a massager while on the stairs, causing her to accidentally knock him down, breaking his bones and neck.
- Bill and his wife, Billie in "Kill Bill & Billie". The segment starts off as yelling about how they hate each other. Bill calls a hitman against Billie, if she's seeing another man, then kill them both. However, he's not faithful himself as he calls three hookers per week and this week, he calls a fourth hooker who turns out to be Billie. As they start yelling like at the beginning, the hitman comes and kills them both before they can even notice.
- What Does This Button Do?: In "Chairway to Heaven", a man who ditched his family to hang out with his buddy in their guy pad gets a pilot seat to tie the whole room together. While sitting on it, he curiously pulls the big, red-and-green lever on the bottom, which ejects him into his own ceiling.Rule of thumb: whenever someone asks "what does this lever do," never, ever pull it.
- Where's the Kaboom?: In "Poker Face", a hitman in prison makes an improvised bomb to blow a hole in the wall that he could use to escape. When it doesn't go off, he picks up the bomb and it blows up in his face. Turns out, him picking it up gave the ingredients the final stir they needed to properly mix.
- White-Dwarf Starlet: Seedra from "Inject-icide", an elderly former beauty queen who injected her face with corn oil as a cheap substitute for Botox (as she couldn't afford the actual treatments). Some of that got into her bloodstream, and then it started leaking out of her face...
- Wholesome Crossdresser: In "Suck Her Punched", a rapist stalking the area around a gym accidentally targets one of these... who happens to be a boxer.
- Wilhelm Scream: In "Red, White, and Blew."
- World of Ham: Considering the ridiculously exaggerated doses of Fanservice, stupidity, and gruesome deaths, this is a given.
- Woman Scorned: One of these shows up in "Chemi-Killed", destroying the laboratory where she works after her co-worker regrets having had sex with her. While tossing stuff around, there's a chemical reaction coming from an experiment flask thrown in a sink full of water, and that ends up killing her.
- Would Harm a Senior: The mugger in "Wrin-killed" has no problem with punching an old woman in the face. Unfortunately for him, she happens to be an expert in Tae Kwon Do and quickly turns the tables on him, and one of her punches ruptures his trachea, causing him to die of suffocation.
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- X-Ray of Pain: In each segment that showcases someone's death, an x-ray of the victim shows what happens to the organs as the person dies. Often paired with medical experts that explain what happens.
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- Yet Another Stupid Death: Every death ends with a pun, some more hilarious than others.
- Your Head A-Splode:
- "Rub-a-Dubbed-Out": A lowlife running from the cops after stealing a sack of groceries from a blind pregnant woman gets himself locked inside a car wash. The manager, not knowing someone was in there, turned on the machinery and the hapless crook became disoriented from being sprayed and buffeted by the array of hoses and spinning brushes. He finally stumbles backward and impales the back of his skull on a high-pressure water nozzle... with messy results.
- "Jaw Boned": (see Stuff Blowing Up above)
- "Die-drant": An immature prankster blinds a driver with a mirror, causing the car to hit a fire hydrant. The hydrant flies off... and through the man's head, splattering what little brain he had all over the wall of his house.
- "Withdrawn": A bank robber (obviously based on Brian Wells) wears a C4 bomb collar around his neck to convince the tellers and cops that he was being forced to commit the heist. When one freaked-out teller deactivates her car alarm to get away from the madness, she unknowingly activates the collar's remote blast cap (which was on the same frequency as her alarm remote), causing it to explode and take the robber's head clean off. Well, not exactly clean, but you get the picture...Random cop: Cancel the bomb squad, send in the meat wagon.Narrator: Roger that.
