Best/funniest opening death?
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KatrinaW — 9 years ago(April 18, 2016 02:12 PM)
or the old guy who drives up to Fisher and Sons in his finest suit, ready to die.
That was my favorite. I'd like to think that I would plan my funeral in advance, to save my family the trouble. And this was definitely one of the more peaceful deaths on the show.
The worst one was Gabriel's little brother. I had to fast-forward though that one; now that I have a son, I can't even begin to imagine the effect of that poor little boy's death. -
ebonyruffles — 9 years ago(May 24, 2016 06:21 PM)
I can't remember all of them, but the lady in the bubble bath, whose cat accidentally knocks her electric rollers into the tub. She's being electrocuted, thrashing around in the water & the cat is nonchalantly grooming himself.
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planet17 — 10 years ago(November 06, 2015 05:23 PM)
Funniest is probably the woman thinking the dolls were angels. But there are a lot "memorable" deaths. The guy shooting his co-workers and killing himself was probably the most impactful/shocking death of the show.
But I love that they have funny ones, sad ones, crazy ones, tragic ones -
baileythedog — 10 years ago(November 06, 2015 06:27 PM)
But I love that they have funny ones, sad ones, crazy ones, tragic ones
Yeah, good point, they covered a lot of different emotions and scenarios with those opens. I was also just thinking of that one where a little girl and her father let free a rehabilitated bird and it sets off a chain reaction of events from the bird crapping on an actor's ski cap to the actor using the restroom at a convenience store to the actor causing an overflow in the toilet to the convenience store guy having to mop up his bathroom to him calling his wife to complain about his overflowing toilet to the wife going outside of her kitchen so she can get better reception and finally to the wife being killed by one of the "Boeing Bombs" of frozen toilet ice falling from the sky and knocking her out.
I think I put that one in the "funny" category. -
planet17 — 10 years ago(November 11, 2015 01:58 PM)
I don't remember that death. Shame on me.
But yes, I like that they have crazy deaths, peaceful deaths, tragic deaths, natural deaths All kinds. It gives you the feeling that anything could happen at any moment. -
Audrey_L — 10 years ago(December 30, 2015 06:53 AM)
One of my favorites was that lady who was making breakfast and her husband wouldn't shut up about his boring work story and she just whacks him over the head with the pan lmaoo
I wanted to write about this one too.
Daydreaming subverts the world. ~ Raoul Vaneigem
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daverindone — 10 years ago(January 06, 2016 05:15 AM)
Plus David and Nate were lamenting that she said he was "boring", both sadly realizing that they, too, may be boring.
Others were good as they lead you in a different direction. As the pudgy woman watching an overly fit guy drop dead of a heart attack. Or Mitzy appearing to choke while the girl's aunt gets killed by her golf ball only seconds later. -
alzanden-1 — 10 years ago(January 09, 2016 09:14 PM)
Mine was the guy running in the mountains, stopped to check his pulse and bam, gets taken out by the mountain lion.
Side note, despite there being a death at the beginning of each episode, and the fact that I binge watched it after the series was done, I still quite often thought to myself, now who the hell are these people, at the start of the episode. -
crawen77 — 10 years ago(January 20, 2016 12:03 PM)
I haven't watched this show since it aired,It's one of my all time favorites.
But I am sitting down to re-watch it now. I can vaguely remember laughing my ass off when Santa on the motorbike waving to some kids then getting hit by a truck or something!? Am I right? I will post when I finished watching it again if I have a new favorite. -
cpoet — 9 years ago(June 04, 2016 07:57 AM)
I like the ones where some unexpected rando dies instead of the person you're waiting for.
But I did love seeing that woman enjoy a peaceful breakfast after clocking her chatty husband with the frying pan.
I see now that the death-opener costs them the chance to do a "Previously, on SFU" clip to remind viewers about story points from long-ago episodes, but it's totally worth it. When the show started, in 2001, we'd rarely seen such an unorthodox approach and it put a lot of butts into seats, just to see who was going to bite it that week. -
jpmontague — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 01:56 PM)
By far the least amusing of the deaths, but the most moving for me, was the baby dying of SIDS in the first season. I watched this only a few weeks after my baby son had come from hospital having been born premature, so naturally the SFU death played on my fears at the time. The way it was filmed was so just inevitable, so dreadfully hard to understand, so terribly sad and yet, strangely, almost beautifully peaceful in the way the baby's vision of its mother fades to the white light of death. I still get choked up just thinking of it.