

How about the gunstore incident (in which a petty thug accidentally sticks up a gun shop instead of a jewelry store and gets shot by the customers and clerks, who were all legally armed and acting in self-defense) in 2001, where there was a sign showing a Blu-Ray logo.The story took place in 1993, well before the days of camera phones (and cell phones in general) being commonplace. On the episode featuring the death of a gym teacher who impaled himself in the eye with his own javelin, the students in his class take a picture of his corpse with a camera phone before running off.Adult Baby: Barnaby (the infantilist who got his neck broken from the oversized drop-gate crib he built) in "Crib Your Enthusiasm.".Acceptable Breaks From Reality: Yes, some of the stories featured on the show are baloney, but they're still pretty damned funny.Tropes used in 1000 Ways to Die include: A-E The main difference is that the Darwin Awards emphasize the " stupidity" aspect, whereas 1000 Ways usually favors the " got what they deserved" variant (though there are a lot of stories in both this show and "The Darwin Awards" in which the victim was Too Dumb to Live). See also the Darwin Awards, which are based upon essentially the same thing. It's not known for sure if it's a permanent change. Ron Perlman took over as narrator when the first season began regular weekly airings in February 2009 starting with "Tweets of the Dead", Joe Irwin assumed narrating duties (Perlman's voice is still used in the disclaimer and title sequence). The series aired two pilot episodes on Spike in May 2008, with Thom Beers (owner of Original Productions, the company that produces the series) narrating.

The final story of each episode, up until season one, shows actual footage of dangerous situations that almost ended in death, along with interviews with those involved, who survived. Each episode also includes commentary from various experts on the science behind the deaths. Names were changed to avoid lawsuits, but the stories are based on actual events- supposedly. Spike TV's 30-minute anthology of people dying in spectacular, gruesome and often stupid ways.
