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does this show ever take itself seriously?


seriously, this is so *beep* hilarious....every single thing about it is funny..this is like pineapple express meets the comedic final destination...horrible, oblivious acting...comical deaths, and so-called "expert analysis" from....how does North America eat this up? I'll laugh hard if anyone takes this show seriously...I just hope I'm not the only one finding this show *beep* hilarious.....

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No, this *beep* intentionally comical. The narrators constant joking is a pretty clear indicator of that.

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What they are doing is taking a show about a negative, serious subject -death- and giving the subject a lighthearted approach. If they just presented death as the kind of subject it really is, people would be too creeped out to watch it. Especially with deaths like the guy who got trapped in a sewer pipe with the rats that ate right through his head. So this way, they can have creepiness and morbidity with the extra stuff to make it easier for people to keep watching. They get more ratings and Spike can't justify canceling it.

Besides, some ways to die are just funny anyway, such as the guy in bed, asphyxiated by the unconscious fat lady on top of him. They said his face was right between her boobs. What a way to go... if you like fat chicks!

Sometimes though, there were stories I really wish they just didn't do, such as the one mentioned above. They already had similar asphyxiations, so they should have been good enough.

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Are foriegners, just naive and stupid, and always in the habit of generalizing Americans,all the time and BELIEVE that ALL Americans sit on their asses watching Reality TV all day(Britian has it's share, and maybe even France)listen to Britney Spears, or GAGA etc. or pay attention to all that other teeny bopper bubble gum crap put out by popular media? I've seen some of the shows that come out of Britian or Univision and I'm not always impressed either, but I don't generalize about foriegn peoples either or, think they're all naive and stupid and don't hate them because of their leader that I didn't like (blame it on BUSH HAR HAR). To answer your question, I think this show is a laugh riot.

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Yes it would be too disturbing to watch without the humor. They take real deaths that happened and make their own story out of it. None of the stories are real just the deaths. This show is funny, but some of the deaths still mess with my head.

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