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The narrator is The Grim Reaper himself.
The reason why he knows about all these deaths is because he actually IS Death. The whole show is actually him recounting some of the weirdest, dumbest, or most entertaining deaths he has witnessed during his career. Like most portrayals of him, he's not a bad guy at all and is just doing his job, albeit with his own twisted sense of humor. That's why he condemns the actions of all the bad people who have died, and discourages listeners from being reckless and stupid like the victims in his narratives.

The narrator is Xibalba.
That voice is unmistakable. And just because he promised La Muerte he wouldn't meddle in the lives of mortals doesn't mean he isn't allowed to joke about those who bring about their own demise through their own stupidity.

The narrator is Muslim.
At the end of "Scarf-face", he is heard praising Allah.

Leonard inherits Todd's truck after his death in "Trucked Up".

The narrator is Death from Horrible Histories.
The Death from that show is delighted from the many stupid ways people have died, and there's certainly plenty of that here.

If there is a reboot of this series and they decided to revive the escaped death segments, here are the possible people to be covered.
  • Darren "IShowSpeed" Watkins: Lit a firework inside his house which burnt it down.
  • Harrison Okene: Spent underwater on the boat for three days.

     Possible reboot deaths 
  • A safecracker is crushed by a falling safe or accidentally lights up a flammable gas with his blowtorch.
  • A drug-addicted or alcoholic art forger falls face first into a paint bucket and drowns.
  • An abusive art critic is crushed by a falling painting.
  • A cheating gambler chokes on casino chips.
  • A pedophile chokes on the USB chip holding his porn after swallowing it to avoid police finding it.
  • An abusive baseball coach is accidentally struck by a baseball bat.
  • A temperamental chess player snaps his neck on a chessboard or chokes to death on chess pieces.
  • A KKK leader is crushed by a falling cross.
  • A Neo-Nazi marching with a tiki torch accidentally sets himself on fire and runs into the path of a truck. Alternatively, his buddy attempts to stomp out the flame and kicks him to death.
  • While running from a bank heist, a Wild West outlaw is run over by a stagecoach.
  • An invasive paparazzi photographer hangs himself by his camera strap.
  • A corrupt fisherman has his neck tangled in a fishing line and either drowns or is strangled to death.
  • A political extremist fires a pistol at a rally and is trampled to death in the ensuing chaos.
  • A dictator is accidentally shot by his bodyguard trying to protect him during an assassination attempt.
  • A wine smuggler is crushed by a wine rack or slashes his throat on a broken wine bottle or glass.
  • After spotting police entering the school, a pedophillic schoolteacher tries to run away, but falls to her death.
  • A Cartel body disposer falls inside his own acid vat.
  • A right-wing activist attempts to jump atop a float on a pride parade, but falls and is crushed by the float truck's wheels.
  • A rioter storming into a government building is struck and killed by a falling flagpole.
  • A drug smuggling helicopter pilot lands awkwardly, causing the helicopter blades to sever the head of a Cartel hitman.
  • Someone starting a fight in a library is crushed by a falling bookshelf.
  • A bitter ex-lover swallows and chokes to death on their rival's engagement ring.
  • A domestic abuser falls on and breaks a framed family photo or has one thrown at them and slashes their throat on the shards.
  • A bunch of morons play baseball with glass beer bottles until a shard flies and hits somewhere critical.
  • Having seemingly killed his girlfriend, a man digs a pit to bury her. When she comes back to life, he is so shocked that he stumbles into the hole and breaks his neck.
  • A Serial Killer disposes of his victim's body in a bonfire. When someone spots him, the murderer accidentally falls into the fire and burns to death.
  • A group of pledges decide to prank the Alpha Bitch sorority president by spiking her drink with laxatives. She has a fatal allergic reaction to the laxatives.
  • A jerk sabotages a zipline, causing the rider to fall right on top of him. The rider survives, he doesn't.
  • A newspaper editor who abuses his employees falls into a printing press and is crushed.
  • During a race, a skier attempts to knock his rival down. He accidentally falls into a snowblower and is shredded.
  • After sniping his target from a tree, a hitman climbs down in a hurry, leaving his rifle up top. As he reaches the bottom, the rifle falls down on him and cracks his skull.
  • On the glass roof of an opera house, a hitman tries to snipe his target. He misses several times, the glass breaks and he falls to his death onto a piano.
  • Two school shooters begin their rampage at the same time and run into each other. They shoot at each other and are both fatally wounded, becoming the only casualties of their shooting.
  • After a brutal bank robbery, a gang of bank robbers try to escape in a car. Their gateway driver drives recklessly and crashes the car into a malfunctioning cement truck, causing the cement mixer to spill wet cement into the car and suffocate them.
  • A ninja impales himself on a rake while infiltrating a shogun's house.
  • An ecoterrorist "spiking" trees with nails is crushed by a falling tree.
  • A rapist movie producer visits a film set of a dilapidated house to harass an actress. When he tries to assault her in a room, the floorboards give out and he falls to his death.
  • A Jerk Jock:
    • bullies a disabled student by pushing and dragging him down a slope. The jock trips, falls in front of the wheelchair and is run over.
    • throws a kid's bicycle on the roof. As he taunts the kid, the bicycle falls off and lands on the jock's head, killing him.
  • A violinist beats his classmate with his violin. It snaps and a splinter gets the assailant in the neck.
  • A jewel thief:
    • uses a sedative syringe on a guard but trips and accidentally impales herself in the heart.
    • infiltrates a ball and steals a cocktail meant for a wealthy businessman, which turns out to have been poisoned.
    • sneaks into a museum and finds herself in a room filled with gold statues. While pocketing them, she knocks into a shelf and is crushed by a falling gold statue.
    • runs after being spotted at a history museum. She trips and crashes into a Ming vase, lacerating her throat on the shards.
  • An anti-vaxxer barges in on a vaccination and snatches the syringe, accidentally falling and stabbing herself in the neck.
  • A prankster swats someone to film a prank, harass someone or get revenge. While hanging around the prank site, he is struck by a police car or mistaken as armed and shot.
  • A nerd finds his laptop broken and throws it at a wall in front of him in rage. It falls back and hits him in the face.
  • A Triad boss is crushed by a falling birdcage.
  • A junkie falls into a fountain and drowns.
  • A Cartel boss falls into a cocaine grinder.
  • Two bank robbers manage to escape to the Maldives and celebrate their victory with drinks. One of them passes out in the water and drowns.
  • A Sore Loser rushes on stage and wrestles a trophy away from the winner or presenter. The loser trips and hits their head on the heavy trophy.
  • A COVID-19 conspiracy theorist hawks their homemade cure, which poisons them.
  • While groping her student, a piano teacher accidentally knocks the support beam of the piano lid and brings it onto her head, breaking her neck.
  • A date rapist brings his unconscious victim to a bedroom and starts kissing her. He reacts to the peanut oil on her lips and suffers a fatal allergy.
  • An abusive Education Mama canes her daughter for failing a test. The daughter fights back, grabbing the rattan cane, breaking it and accidentally driving it into her mother's neck.
  • After getting seen, a burglar rushes towards the closing gates of a house he is robbing. He doesn't make it in time and has his neck or torso crushed.
  • A Mad Scientist creating a bioweapon is killed over his hazmat suit is torn, exposing him to toxic gas.
  • A pair of rednecks attempt to rape a girl at their farm, but her sister, armed with a shotgun, comes to the rescue and puts the two men on the run. One of the rapists:
    • runs neck first into barbed wire.
    • runs neck first into an electric fence.
    • runs into a swamp, where he is eaten by an alligator.
    • runs into a scarecrow. His buddy trips behind him and impales himself on the broken stand.
  • A man attacks an annoying homeless man in the subway. During the fight, the assailant slams his own head on a pole and cracks his skull.
  • The Chikan creeps on girls on a Japanese subway until one of them, a Karate champion, fights back and kicks him in the neck, snapping it.
  • A street gang leader is crushed by a falling basketball hoop pole.
  • A Mafia hitman hits his head on a lamppost during a high speed chase.
  • A Pedophile Priest is crushed by a falling church chandelier.
  • At a British boarding school, a bully steals a girl's clothes while she is showering in a locker room. While running away with the girl's clothes, the bully falls and impales herself in the heart with a utility knife hidden in the showering girl's shirt.
  • A casting director attempts to extort an actress into sex. When the actress pushes him, the casting director accidentally impales himself in the neck with his pen.
  • A far-right militia leader gives an inspiring speech to his loyal followers while waving around a sniper rifle. He accidentally discharges it and it blows his head off.
  • A Cartel boss inspects a storage room full of cocaine. An earthquake causes the bricks to collapse and he dies of an overdose.
  • A gang of Cartel hitmen prepare to execute a witness through necklacing. They accidentally light themselves on fire and their would-be victim escapes.
  • Caught, a pickpocket swallows a stolen wristwatch and chokes to death on it.
  • A rogue spy jumps from a plane to infiltrate a building. He opens his parachute too early and is spun around erratically. He crashes through a skyscraper window, lacerating his neck on a glass shard.
  • A man kidnaps a young woman intending to rape and murder her, but she escapes. He chases her on foot across a road but is struck and killed by a car.
  • A penniless drunk passes out in a pail of rainwater and drowns.
  • A quack posing as a plastic surgeon accidentally injects botulinum toxin into his bloodstream.
  • A pirate is trapped underneath the sails of his collapsing ship and drowns.
  • While trying to steal cattle, a rustler falls off his horse and is trampled to death by the cattle.
  • A fugitive hides in the car trunk of their accomplice as they drive away. The accomplice is caught and attempts to drive away from the cops, and the fugitive is either killed through being tossed around in the trunk or being shot through the trunk by the police.
  • A drunk, incompetent sushi chef eats raw unprepared pufferfish and dies from poisoning.
  • A stage magician invites a heckling woman on stage and pulls her skirt off. When the woman covers herself with a curtain, she accidentally pulls the whole curtain down. The curtain rod strikes the magician in the head and kills him.
  • A dictator and his goons enters a political dissident's home. He forces the dissident to stand on a stool, puts a noose around his neck and attempts to hang him in his old farmhouse. The beam breaks and falls on the dictator's head.
  • Alexander Hamilton is fatally shot in his duel with Aaron Burr.
  • A Corrupt Corporate Executive is assassinated by a hitman who disguises as a surgeon and deliberately cuts his arota.
  • After losing a chess match, a player takes his loss very poorly, jumping around and screaming. He falls off another table and lands on a metal queen piece which impales him through the eye.
  • A man roofies his date's drink, but she wisely swaps the glasses, excuses herself to the bathroom and runs out on him. He passes out in his filled up cocktail glass and drowns.
  • A crook robs a minimart, but is attacked by a bystander and ends up crashing into a glass fridge and lacerating his neck on the shards.
  • On a 19th century Mississippi riverboat casino, a man attempts to rape a woman in a bathroom, but is caught and jumps overboard. He either drowns, is bitten by a cottonmouth, is eaten by an alligator or is caught in the paddlewheel and crushed.
  • The irresponsible owner of an aggressive dog that they allow to run free and terrorize the neighbourhood, having killed one neighbours cat and hospitalized another neighbour's child, insists on bringing their dog everywhere with them, and takes the dog on a vacation. Wanting to find a place to walk their dog, they go into a jungle, walking the dog without a leash and allowing it to harrass wildlife, until the dog decides to try and go after a tiger. The tiger easily overpowers the dog and the panicking owner rushes in to try and save the dog, only for the tiger to turn on them instead. As the dog runs off, the owner is mauled to death by the tiger.
  • A bully decides to taunt one of his victims one last time when they try to commit suicide by jumping off a ledge, only for said victim to land on him and break his spine.
  • Someone decides to crash the funeral of their hated rival to initiate Last Disrespects, only to be chased by his angry family and mourners. While trying to escape, he is:
    • crushed by the casket after knocking it over.
    • cracks his skull when he falls and lands head-first on a tombstone.
    • struck and killed by a hearse.
  • A vehemently anti-vegan conservative pundit dies on air of a stroke brought on by his meat-only diet.
  • A haughty chef serves a customer rancid food for making demands he refuses to commit to out of ego, only to get the food vomited in his own face that makes him stumble onto an open grill.
  • In prehistoric Australia, one tribe member jumps the gun during a hunt only to:
    • Be bitten by a sleeping Megalania he disturbed, which poisons him with its venomous bite.
    • Be kicked by one of the kangaroos in question, the giant Protocoptodon
  • After he blows a hockey game, an out of shape Sports Dad angrily confronts his son while he's still on the ice and the fight escalates, and due to the son being in way better shape, he overpowers him, bfore accidentially slicing his throat with his blades.

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