


Names were changed to avoid lawsuits, but the stories are based on actual events - mostly. Many of the people die because of stupid mistakes, some die as a result of their own misconduct, and some 3rd party innocent victims die because someone else did something so stupid that the poor victim's death probably kept the other stupid person from killing themselves through pure incompetence in being alive.

In a lot of these cases, you're not surprised the person died, you're surprised that they lived as long as they did.Īt the end of all first season episodes, for the last item, the show is completely inverted, and instead of showing someone dying, they show someone who miraculously survives an event which, under normal circumstances, they should not have lived through. Act of True Love: "Ichiboned" has themes of this a newlywed Japanese couple are deeply in love and want to "connsumate" their relationship, but both of them are so repressed that they almost never have the chance.Acid Pool: Deep Fried (the man who got fired for his Hair-Trigger Temper gets tossed into a vat of acid in self-defense when his boss tries to fight him off) and Acid Washed AKA Vat's All Folks (a crooked cemetery owner slips into a hydrochloric acid bath when he tries to toss a dead body into it after his workers - who were both ex-convicts - refuse to do it).Acceptable Breaks from Reality: Yes, some of the stories featured on the show are baloney, but they're still pretty damned funny.419 Scam: A guy pulling off one of these scams gets killed in "Scam I Am (Dead)" when he takes a door hook to the eye.These segments can usually be distinguished by changes in video quality, as they use actual footage taken with personal recording devices at a lower resolution than the show.
