Friday, May 7, 2010

1,000 Ways To Die

The Spike Channel is a "men's channel." In the afternoons, it shows crime drama like CSI and so - with salacious commercials for it's prime time shows.

1,001 Ways to Die is a series that recreates the stupid ways that people have died over the years.

From Wikipedia:
1000 Ways to Die is a documentary television series that premiered on May 14, 2008 on Spike. The program recreates unusual deaths and includes interviews with experts who describe the science behind each death. Up until season 3, the final story of each episode showed actual footage of dangerous situations that almost ended in death, along with interviews with people involved in the situations.

1000 Ways to Die takes a frivolous approach to death with its presentation of recreated detrimental stories derived from myths and real-life incidents. Screenshots are shown conducted in a comic-like form of the date and location before an event, much of which are for the most part, seemingly nonsensical and outlandish fashions of death. They are explained and mostly ridiculed with sarcasm by the narrator, simultaneously while experts elaborate the science of the situation with a diagram being used to methodically play it out. Following each occurrence, it is labeled with a comical phrase that pokes fun at the incident.

Just what is needed. Teenage boys watching this garbage and laughing at it, growiming more and more immune to the tragedy that is someone dying before their time.

And it's been going on for three seasons. Tragic.

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