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* ArtisticLicense: The episode where the virgin at the brothel is literally grabbed and pulled in to the dominatrix's dungeon. Obviously, she forgot to set a safeword (or, given he was gagged, a safe gesture), but sex workers, like any other workaday stiff, tend to have an aversion to soliciting extra work for themselves. In addition, sex workers know full well the boundaries around active & enthusiastic consent, as they rely on them too for protection in their jobs.
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** "Suck Her Punched": A rapist attempts to rape a cross-dressing male boxer. The boxer instead punches him in self-defense.

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** "Suck Her Punched": A rapist attempts to rape a cross-dressing male boxer. The boxer instead punches him in self-defense. This results in the rapist dying almost instantly as the crossdresser is a strong boxer who punched a normal man in the head, resulting in fatal brain damage.
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** "Suck Her Punched": A rapist attempts to rape a cross-dressing male boxer. The boxer instead punches him in self-defense.
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** Remember those NSFW animations that show females [[{{Squick}} having sexual intercourse with horses]]? Well, "Dead Me Stallion" shows what would happen if it was attempted in real life. Namely, the female's uterus gets damaged by the horse's long... ''member'', causing internal bleeding and death from exsanguination. And now you know one of the reasons why beastality is illegal.

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** Remember those NSFW animations that show females [[{{Squick}} having sexual intercourse with horses]]? Well, "Dead Me Stallion" shows what would happen if it was attempted in real life. Namely, the female's uterus gets damaged by the horse's long... ''member'', causing internal bleeding and death from exsanguination. And now you know one of the reasons why beastality is illegal.
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** "Rife-Ill" also tries to avert this, by stating that the Taliban assassin's WeaponOfChoice is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMillan_Tac-50 McMillan Tac-50]], but the actual weapon shown [[MisidentifiedWeapons is not one]] (rather, it's the more famous Barrett M82).

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** "Rife-Ill" also tries to avert this, by stating that the Taliban assassin's WeaponOfChoice preferred firearm is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMillan_Tac-50 McMillan Tac-50]], but the actual weapon shown [[MisidentifiedWeapons is not one]] (rather, it's the more famous Barrett M82).

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** "Scarf-Faced": A terrorist starved himself to escape his prison cell. When he meets up with his terrorist cell, he gorges himself on food, which is not a good idea after starving yourself for so long (The technical term is "refeeding syndrome").

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** "Scarf-Faced": A terrorist starved himself to escape his prison cell. When he meets up with his terrorist cell, he gorges himself on food, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome which is turns out to not be a good idea after starving yourself for so long long]] (The technical term is "refeeding syndrome").


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** "Scarf-Faced": A terrorist starved himself to escape his prison cell. When he meets up with his fellow terrorists, he gorges himself on food, only to drop dead seconds later. As it turns out, because he starved himself for so long, by stuffing his face with food, he ended up risking something called "refeeding syndrome".

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* ObfuscatingDisability: "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.

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* ObfuscatingDisability: 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.



** "Cardiac A-Breast": An AttentionWhore who decided to wear a metal bra to a party gets struck by lightning that was drawn to it.



* SpaceWhaleAesop: Basically the whole show in general. Any wrong-doing you commit will kill you!

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* SpaceWhaleAesop: Basically the whole show in general. Any wrong-doing wrongdoing you commit will kill you!



* StealingTheHandicappedSpot: "Handi-Crapped" begins with a JerkJock surfer parking his convertible in a handicapped space. When a disabled veteran gets out of his car to confront him about it, the surfer [[DirtyCoward 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.

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* StealingTheHandicappedSpot: "Handi-Crapped" The first "Handi-crapped" begins with a JerkJock surfer parking his convertible in a handicapped space. When a disabled veteran gets out of his car to confront him about it, the surfer [[DirtyCoward 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.



** In "Handi-crapped", the Howie scream is heard when the victim pushes through the elevator door and falls to his death.
* StockingMask: Deconstructed in "Greased is the Word". The victim wore one of this when trying to rob a jewelry, but it blocked his vision and ended up in a gun shop instead.

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** In the second "Handi-crapped", the Howie scream is heard when the victim pushes through the elevator door and falls to his death.
* StockingMask: Deconstructed {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "Greased is the Word". The victim wore one of this when trying to rob a jewelry, but it blocked his vision and he ended up in a gun shop instead.
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** "Washed and Fried": 5 strippers pose as college cheerleaders doing charity car washes. While washing the van of a perverted widower, none of the women notice that the buffer they're using has a frayed wire that's dangerously close to a puddle. All five of them get shocked and drop dead.

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** "Washed and Fried": 5 Five strippers pose as college cheerleaders doing charity car washes. While washing the van of a perverted widower, none of the women notice that the buffer they're using has a frayed wire that's dangerously close to a puddle. All five of them get shocked and drop dead.
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-->'''Narrator:''' If you answerd yes, then you should change the channel and watch something on PBS.

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-->'''Narrator:''' If you answerd answered yes, then you should change the channel and watch something on PBS.
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* MadeOfPlasticine: This is where the show's [[invoked]]{{Critical Research Failure}}s stem 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 YourHeadASplode; the water would simply start exiting out through the path of least resistance, most likely back out from the entry wound itself.

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* MadeOfPlasticine: This is where most of the show's [[invoked]]{{Critical Research Failure}}s stem ArtisticLicenseBiology 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 YourHeadASplode; the water would simply start exiting out through the path of least resistance, most likely back out from the entry wound itself.

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** "Sh*t Faced": An alcoholic who can't ingest alcohol due to a recent throat operation persuades his wife to feed it to him through an enema bag. Because the alcohol wasn't ingested through the mouth, it bypasses his liver and goes straight into his bloodstream, bringing his BAC to a whopping 0.57 (0.4 is the usual threshold for coma/death), and later killing him from alcohol poisoning.

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** "Sh*t Faced": An alcoholic who can't ingest alcohol due to a recent throat operation persuades his wife to feed it to him through an enema bag. Because the alcohol wasn't ingested through the mouth, it bypasses his stomach lining and liver and goes straight into his bloodstream, bringing his BAC to a whopping 0.57 (0.4 is the usual threshold for coma/death), and later killing him from alcohol poisoning.poisoning.
** "Tapped Out": Two wannabe wrestlers go at each other with fluorescent light bulbs and a weed whacker, only for the one who was using fluorescent light bulbs to drop dead, because the lights he was using contained mercury vapor, which he inhaled when the lights were broken on his chest and entered his bloodstream through the staple wounds on his chest.
*** Also, the other wrestler gets his chest torn open by a weed whacker, but actually survives. In reality, a weed whacker will leave cuts and bruises if used on a person, but as painful as it is, it normally doesn't mean instant death.
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** "Sh*t Faced": An alcoholic who can't ingest alcohol due to a recent throat operation persuades his wife to feed it to him through an enema bag. Because the alcohol wasn't ingested through the mouth, it bypasses his liver and goes straight into his bloodstream, bringing his BAC to a whopping 0.57 (0.4 is the usual threshold for coma/death), and later killing him from alcohol poisoning.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Sometimes, there will be a twist on how a character will die:

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* BaitAndSwitch: Sometimes, there will be a twist on either how a character will die, or ''who'' will die:



** "Cream-ated": A man who was abused as a child by his deranged uncle wearing a cow costume develops a fetish for drinking milk straight from a cow's udder. You'd think that would eventually end up killing him (as drinking milk straight from the cow can kill you via salmonella), but instead, the cow kicks his head in and causes fatal brain damage.



* BackFromTheDead: In "Homie's Dead", a robber who seemingly beat to death one of the people in the house he had broken into gets a nasty surprise when the dead man suddenly revives due to the miraculous medical phenomenon of Lazarus Syndrome, in which blood circulation suddenly resumes minutes after stopping. The shock from this event caused the robber to fall over a balcony to his death below.

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* BackFromTheDead: A rare realistic example. In "Homie's Dead", a robber who seemingly beat to death one of the people in the house he had broken into gets a nasty surprise when the dead man suddenly revives due to the miraculous medical phenomenon of Lazarus Syndrome, in which blood circulation suddenly resumes minutes after stopping. The shock from this event caused the robber to fall over a balcony to his death below.


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** "Cream-ated": A man who was abused as a child by his deranged uncle wearing a cow costume develops a fetish for drinking milk straight from a cow's udder. Subverted in that instead of dying of salmonella poisoning from the unpasturized milk, he dies when the cow kicks his head in and causes fatal brain damage.
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** "Phlegm Phatale": An Internet couple agree to meet in the real world. The man, a germophobe, uses a neti pot to cleanse his sinuses beforehand. However, because he either refused to or didn't have access to a source of distilled water, he decided to use tap water. Unfortunately, the bathroom sink is ''not'' a source of distilled water, and he ends up with a parasite that destroys his brain because he used contaminated water to clean his sinuses.

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** "Phlegm Phatale": An Internet couple agree to meet in the real world. The man, a germophobe, uses a neti pot to cleanse his sinuses beforehand. However, because he either refused to use or didn't have access to a source of distilled water, he decided to use tap water. Unfortunately, the bathroom sink is ''not'' a source of distilled water, and he ends up with a parasite that destroys his brain because he used contaminated water to clean his sinuses.
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** "Phlegm Phatale": An Internet couple agree to meet in the real world. The man, a germophobe, uses a neti pot to cleanse his sinuses beforehand. However, because he either refused to or didn't have access to a source of distilled water, he decided to use tap water. Unfortunately, the bathroom sink is ''not'' a source of distilled water, and he ends up with a parasite that destroys his brain because he used contaminated water to clean his sinuses.
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* ILoveNuclearPower: A pair of Yemeni terrorists try to construct a nuclear weapon by using tungsten rods to focus radiation from a plutonium core. One of the terrorists, however, accidentally touches one of the rods with the core, causing a massive burst of radiation to be unleashed, destroying their immune systems and killing them only a few days later. This is based on the first of the two "Demon Core" experiments that killed scientists in 1945 and 1946.
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* ILoveNuclearPower: A pair of Yemeni terrorists try to construct a nuclear weapon by using tungsten rods to focus radiation from a plutonium core. One of the terrorists, however, accidentally touches one of the rods with the core, causing a massive burst of radiation to be unleashed, destroying their immune systems and killing them only a few days later. This is based on the "Demon Core" experiment that killed scientists in 1945 and 1946.

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* ILoveNuclearPower: A pair of Yemeni terrorists try to construct a nuclear weapon by using tungsten rods to focus radiation from a plutonium core. One of the terrorists, however, accidentally touches one of the rods with the core, causing a massive burst of radiation to be unleashed, destroying their immune systems and killing them only a few days later. This is based on the first of the two "Demon Core" experiment experiments that killed scientists in 1945 and 1946.
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* ChiliConCarnage: In "Chili Today, Dead Tomorrow", a dumb tourist tries to stomach a ghost pepper at a Native American Trading Post, but couldn't handle the heat. He accidently then gulps down a whole jar of rattlesnake venom after mistaking it for water. He soon died from the poisonous venom.
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* PinballProjectile: 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.


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** The intro card to the segment "Caved In" says it took place in Encino, California, [[Film/EncinoMan which references a movie that also starred a caveman]].
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** Remember those NSFW animations that have females having sexual intercourse with a horse? Well, "Dead Me Stallion" shows what would happen if it was attempted in real life. Namely, the female's uterus gets damaged by the horse's long... ''member'', causing internal bleeding and death from exsanguination. And now you know one of the reasons why beastality is illegal.

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** Remember those NSFW animations that have show females [[{{Squick}} having sexual intercourse with a horse? horses]]? Well, "Dead Me Stallion" shows what would happen if it was attempted in real life. Namely, the female's uterus gets damaged by the horse's long... ''member'', causing internal bleeding and death from exsanguination. And now you know one of the reasons why beastality is illegal.
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** Remember those NSFW animations that have females having sexual intercourse with a horse? Well, "Dead Me Stallion" shows what would happen if it was attempted in real life. Namely, the female's uterus gets damaged by the horse's long... ''member'', causing internal bleeding and death from exsanguination.

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** Remember those NSFW animations that have females having sexual intercourse with a horse? Well, "Dead Me Stallion" shows what would happen if it was attempted in real life. Namely, the female's uterus gets damaged by the horse's long... ''member'', causing internal bleeding and death from exsanguination. And now you know one of the reasons why beastality is illegal.
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** Remember those NSFW animations that have females having sexual intercourse with a horse? Well, "Dead Me Stallion" shows what would happen if it was attempted in real life. Namely, the female's uterus gets damaged by the horse's long... ''member'', causing internal bleeding and death from exsanguination.
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** "Info-Pain-Ment": A fitness trainer hawks a new bamboo-built home gym on TV. When he breaks a barbell and storms off in frustration, the cameraman plays with the equipment and mocks the trainer. When the trainer catches his cameraman mocking him, a piece breaks off and impales the trainer through the ear and brain. The trainer failed to realize that bamboo is actually a type of ''grass'', and it's a lot more fragile than it looks.
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* DeadlyPrank: "Smoked" has two guys who spend all day smoking cigarettes, one guy is sick of his friend mooching cigarettes off him so he loads them into a shotgun shell to fire them in his mouth thinking he'd just choke on them. He learns the hard way it's not the bullets that kill it's the velocity they're shot out at.

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* DeadlyPrank: "Smoked" has two guys who spend all day smoking cigarettes, one cigarettes. One guy is sick of his friend mooching cigarettes off him him, so he loads them into a shotgun shell to fire them in his mouth mouth, thinking he'd just choke on them. He learns the hard way it's not the bullets that kill kill; it's the velocity they're shot out at.
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* CantHoldHisLiquor: UpToEleven. An Amish youth on ''rumspringa'' went to a Halloween party, and tried alcohol for the first time. He died because his body lacked an enzyme to ''digest it'' and got poisoned.

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* CantHoldHisLiquor: UpToEleven. An Amish youth on ''rumspringa'' went to a Halloween party, and tried alcohol for the first time. He died because his body lacked an enzyme to ''digest it'' and got poisoned.



** Taken UpToEleven with the abusive football coach who died of sepsis after the star kicker of his team kicks him in the crotch -- with cleats that have lead insets in them (the force of which sent a bone fragment into his kidneys). Usually, when men get kicked in the groin, they wish they were dead. In this case, there was no wishing. Or there was and it got granted.

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** Taken UpToEleven Exaggerated with the abusive football coach who died of sepsis after the star kicker of his team kicks him in the crotch -- with cleats that have lead insets in them (the force of which sent a bone fragment into his kidneys). Usually, when men get kicked in the groin, they wish they were dead. In this case, there was no wishing. Or there was and it got granted.

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* DisproportionateRetribution:
** Yes, many of the people portrayed on the show were [[TooDumbToLive idiots]] and/or [[AssholeVictim assholes]], but in some of their cases, the horrible way they died was probably far in excess of what they deserved to have happened to them.

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* DisproportionateRetribution:
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DisproportionateRetribution: Yes, many of the people portrayed on the show were [[TooDumbToLive idiots]] and/or [[AssholeVictim assholes]], but in some of their cases, the horrible way they died was probably far in excess of what they deserved to have happened to them.
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** "Smoked": See DeadlyPrank above.
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* DeadlyPrank: "Smoked" has two guys who spend all day smoking cigarettes, one guy is sick of his friend mooching cigarettes off him so he loads them into a shotgun shell to fire them in his mouth thinking he'd just choke on them. He learns the hard way it's not the bullets that kill it's the velocity they're shot out at.
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* HateSink: Many of the show's characters are some morally bankrupt, like con artists, petty thieves and gangsters, but then there's Max, a successful movie star who yells at everyone around him, is a flat-out racist, and tries to coerce oral sex from her before he has his insides sucked out of him through his ass by a jaccuzi's water intake.

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* HateSink: Many of the show's characters are some morally bankrupt, like con artists, petty thieves and gangsters, but then there's Max, a successful movie star who yells at everyone around him, is a flat-out racist, and tries to coerce oral sex from her his girlfriend before he has his insides sucked out of him through his ass by a jaccuzi's Jacuzzi's water intake.

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** "Dead-dy Dearest": The narrator mentions at the end that the victim's daughter will have to go to therapy after seeing her father accidentally kill himself. Even if they were abusive, watching a family member die right in front of your eyes ''will'' traumatize you.

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** "Dead-dy Dearest": An OverprotectiveDad scares his daughter's boyfriend by firing a blank revolver, then attempts to shoot himself in the head to prove that the gun doesn't have real bullets in it. The guy died from the pressure of the blast traveling down the barrel of the revolver and cracking him in the temple. Also, the narrator mentions at the end that the victim's daughter will have to go to therapy after seeing her father accidentally kill himself. Even if they were abusive, watching a family member die right in front of your eyes ''will'' traumatize you.



** "Dead-dy Dearest": An OverprotectiveDad scares his daughter's boyfriend by firing a blank revolver, then attempts to shoot himself in the head to prove that the gun doesn't have real bullets in it. The guy died from the pressure of the blast traveling down the barrel of the revolver and cracking him in the temple.

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