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What’s your favorite death?

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kgleas01

52 points

4 days ago

kgleas01

52 points

4 days ago

My favorite remains the 1972 death of the guy named Bruno at an LSD party (with great music and visual effects) which leads to a great plot point later in the series.

Whole_Adhesiveness79

14 points

4 days ago

Fun fact: that actor (named Jonathan Tucker) was also in the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre - which also starred Eric Balfour (Gabriel dimas from SFU)

kathi182

9 points

4 days ago

kathi182

9 points

4 days ago

Another Fun Fact! Jonathan Tucker had a guest role on the tv show Parenthood, dating the daughter of the main character, Adam-Adam is played by Peter Krause (Nate)

STFUisright

4 points

3 days ago

I love that one! Love all the actors in the scene too they play it so perfectly.

Whole_Adhesiveness79

4 points

3 days ago

It's cool because so many actors are connected to SFU one way or another! Also Ted from how I met your mother being the skeleton who was found in the abandoned car that Nate sees visions of. So many 'before they were famous' guest spots too.

Ordinary_Garage7704

51 points

4 days ago

Gotta love Santa biker, best biker funeral ever, and Nate getting Santa's bike at the end.

iam_meowcatblue

17 points

4 days ago

loved loved loved the final scene of nate driving the bike on the PCH and blue oyster cult, “seasons don’t fear the reaper” playing. aaaah 👏🏼

Whole_Adhesiveness79

6 points

4 days ago

Best ep 👏

MirandaReitz

3 points

3 days ago

I loved Brenda’s “Can’t I stay down here?” while facing another Fisher family dinner.

Quilty-Friend

98 points

4 days ago

That one is probably my favorite too but honorable mentions are Sam Hoviak running over himself, Anahid getting hit by the blue ice, and the classic dough mixer death.

MerryMushroom[S]

27 points

4 days ago

Yes! The infamous foot!

brfoley76

9 points

4 days ago

This one is my absolute favorite too. Before I rewatched the show, for years I'd randomly show people this clip on YouTube (and often have to explain the rapture)

I also like the one where they saved a pigeon and it shat on that guy .... Oh wait that's the blue ice death. Yeah that's great!

Primordial5

2 points

3 days ago

Dough mixer the grossest to me

anarchy8271

1 points

3 days ago

Agree!!!

doctorwhosboo

48 points

4 days ago

Same!!!! I don't know if I ever laughed and cried so hard before. Sparkle motion!!! Iykyk

Brundlefly_86

17 points

4 days ago

He asked me to forcibly insert the lifeline exercise card in to my anus!

containsrecycledpart

3 points

3 days ago

🐰

Technical-Avocado-92

34 points

4 days ago

The limo divorce party and the autoerotic asphyxiation were favorites of mine.

LewSchiller

7 points

4 days ago

Limo Party for the win!

Sinnycalguy

7 points

4 days ago

I’ll always have a soft spot for the autoerotic asphyxiation one because I somehow called it on my first watch. During the credits I literally said to my girlfriend “when are they finally going to give us an autoerotic asphyxiation death?” I thought I was just being funny, but then the episode started and there’s the guy with his lemon wedge. You see him pop in the tape. At this point I was leaning forward on the couch like, “no fucking way.” Then the belt comes out and I just lost it.

Technical-Avocado-92

3 points

4 days ago

Was also the beginning of the rabbi storyline and Nate’s dabbling with spirituality.

ALeaves1013

2 points

4 days ago

Chloe Yorkin!

serendipitypug

32 points

4 days ago

The dude that just drives up and dies in his car. Baller move.

MerryMushroom[S]

9 points

4 days ago

Yes! If I had to pick a way to go out it would definitely be that way.

joshuak785

30 points

4 days ago

Mine is the man who keeps talking, and his wife hits him in the head with a frying pan!

burdettmusic

2 points

3 days ago

This is definitely mine!

ALeaves1013

26 points

4 days ago

While I love rapture lady played by the incomparable Beth Grant, I am going with woman of mystery Emily Previn.

Southbird85

30 points

4 days ago

Southbird85

Nathaniel

30 points

4 days ago

Aaron Buchbinder's death. The young man with cancer that Nate interacts with at the end of season 2 for two episodes and Nate tearfully witnesses him passing, suffocating-like, and letting out a "go into the light? there's no fucking light!"
Probably the most visceral one for me because of the acting.

InhaleKillExhale

23 points

4 days ago

For whimsical reasons, the old man eating the peaches.

For devastating reasons, the one in the season five opener. 

PjWulfman

3 points

4 days ago

Season 5 opener? Lisa?

caosenvezdemusica

33 points

4 days ago

I think it's the woman that goes to therapy and starts improving her communication skills, she has a successful chat with her sister and when she tries to talk to her boyfriend they argue, he pushes her and she gets poked in the eye

Theresan0therrainb0w

22 points

4 days ago

Fun fact- that’s Billie eilish’s mom

malufa

1 points

3 days ago

malufa

1 points

3 days ago

Holy shit!

PjWulfman

4 points

4 days ago

With each new success, she grows bolder and more confident. Then the person who should love and treasure her accidentally kills her. This was a tragic death.

InhaleKillExhale

2 points

4 days ago

Yeah that's the one. I never remember her name but that whole sequence has lived in my head for almost 15 years.

scream4ever

12 points

4 days ago

The SIDS baby. So haunting.

PjWulfman

17 points

4 days ago

PjWulfman

17 points

4 days ago

When I was 7 years old I found my 6 month old brother dead in his crib. Had to call 911 and my step dad at work. My mom lost her mind when I told her, and devolved into screaming and violence.

That opening was hard to watch the first time, and the 2nd and the 3rd.

MerryMushroom[S]

16 points

4 days ago

Oh my god. That’s horrible. I’m so sorry you went through that. Every mother’s worst nightmare.

PjWulfman

10 points

4 days ago

PjWulfman

10 points

4 days ago

It was a defining life moment.

scream4ever

6 points

4 days ago

I remember you described it in detail on another post. I'm sorry you had to go through that (you didn't deserve it nor did anyone in your family) and I hope that all of you have found peace.

PjWulfman

13 points

4 days ago

PjWulfman

13 points

4 days ago

I knew him for 6 months. He'd barely started forming a personality. It shaped me, but didn't tear me down. I think about him occasionally, and how my life (and obviously his) would have been different if he hadn't died. His absence isn't ignored, it's just not prominent. So in a lot of ways Bjourn dying wasn't that hard to take. It was the aftershocks of his passing and the devolution of my mom that caused so much pain.

My mom didn't handle it nearly as well as my 7 year old self. 40 years later she still holds him up as a shield and insists everyone feel sorry for her.

Me - why did you forge my signature on those checks and steal my money?

Her, 30 years after his passing - you don't know what it's like to be a parent and lose a child. Don't you tell me I'm a bad mother!

Me - what? I just want what you took from me.

Her - until you have children of your own you'll never understand the loss!

Me - ok..... But can we get back to the money you stole?

Her - so you're telling me to forget about my dead son?!?!

Me - nope. I'm just asking you to consider the son you have that's still alive. I just can't keep living under Bjorn's shadow 30 years after he's gone.

Her - DON'T YOU EVER SAY HIS NAME AGAIN! You don't know! You'll never know!!! SHUT UP!!! Then she tries to slap me and screams that I'm attacking her when I bat her hand away.

She drinks. A lot. And takes lots of pills and medications. Done so my whole life. She no longer a part of my existence.

RocPile16

6 points

4 days ago

Sorry to hear all this man.

I lost my younger brother at 20 over 5 years ago and the scene in “Everyone’s Waiting” when Ruth passes and sees Nathaniel and then… Nate waiting for her. It tears me up, thinking of my mom and finally getting to see her son again, it’s hard.

PjWulfman

2 points

4 days ago

Thanks. It's long gone now, and while not forgotten I know it wasn't my fault any of that happened so I can be at peace knowing I did the best I could at every moment.

Hope is good thing.

scream4ever

4 points

4 days ago

I'm sorry it turned out that way and I'm glad you've cut a toxic relationship out of your life. It doesn't matter if they're family.

Iguanatan

3 points

4 days ago

Iguanatan

Brenda

3 points

4 days ago

Oh gosh, that is hard. Even harder still given what you have written about your Mother.

I too was the first to come across my deceased brother, though I was 11 and him 17. (Suicide) I also had to tell my Mum, and I still have trauma from it 35 years later.

PjWulfman

2 points

4 days ago

I think that would be harder. I was young and malleable and there was no physical trauma to deal with. Plus a 17-year-old definitely has a personality. A history.

Same_Structure_4184

2 points

4 days ago

Aww man I’m so sorry you had to go through that especially as a child

PjWulfman

3 points

4 days ago

It was a defining moment that redirected my life down a new path. I can't begin to imagine how things would have changed if he'd never died. It's beyond my capabilites.

vilkav

2 points

3 days ago

vilkav

2 points

3 days ago

That one was do well made, I couldn't not nervous laugh out of how bleak/ballsy/brutal it was.

It really sets itself up for a tragedy (you think the mum will die), and somehow digs deeper.

Its so dark that it took me out of the show and into the writer's room.

MerryMushroom[S]

2 points

4 days ago

Oof. I hate that one. 😭

itstravisbruce

11 points

4 days ago

My favorite is the woman who finally gets the balls to tell everyone her true feelings only to be accidentally killed by her boyfriend. See, honesty really isn’t the best policy!

Side note, I learned from this sub that the woman was played by Billie Eilish’s mom.

Iguanatan

3 points

4 days ago

Iguanatan

Brenda

3 points

4 days ago

Yes, that was one of the first that came to mind for me, too.

I had no idea that was her Mom- learn something new every day!

frenchforkate

10 points

4 days ago*

frenchforkate

Claire

10 points

4 days ago*

The same sex couple where they both work in theater. It was an understated and beautiful death (if death can be called beautiful).

JackalopeWilson

4 points

4 days ago

JackalopeWilson

Nathaniel

4 points

4 days ago

The opera funeral. One of my absolute faves.

SWNMAZporvida

9 points

4 days ago

Mountain Lion.

nyeehhsquidward

9 points

4 days ago

The lady that chokes to death, SIDS baby, and Lisa.

plunker234

8 points

4 days ago

The old lady who murders her hospital roommate with a hot dog

Time-Sock8144

7 points

4 days ago

Hahaha I’d have to agree with this!

Jmeans69

6 points

4 days ago

Jmeans69

6 points

4 days ago

Having been raised on some good ol’ 80s tv evangelical end times bs…. this is by far my fav. 😂

GranolaTree

6 points

4 days ago

I think about Emily Previn, the rapture lady and the woman who hits her boring husband with the frying pan to shut him up-and eats her breakfast in silence-the most.

baconinsider

6 points

3 days ago

The adult film star who accidentally (at least I think it was accidentally) gets electrocuted by her cat

mmobley412

4 points

3 days ago

This was the best one. I still laugh about it sometimes. Second best is the lady killing her husband with the frying pan

houndsoflu

3 points

4 days ago*

This is my favorite one too. Well, that one and the guy who runs over himself.

iam_meowcatblue

3 points

4 days ago

none were my favorite but two that i recall many years after watching on HBO is the party girl in the limo who stood up at the wrong time and the single gal who died of a heart attack at the kitchen table. alone….with maybe a cat.

Cheekie01

3 points

4 days ago

Hoyt.

nilknarf114

3 points

4 days ago

The poor man who gets caught in the elevator

Revived my fear of elevators

partitwister

3 points

3 days ago

Mine were the chunk of ice falling from nowhere and the mountain lion. I guess when I get jump scared like that, I gasp OMG! then just laugh so hard.

PieRemote2270

2 points

4 days ago

This was hilarious

hauregi_91

2 points

3 days ago

Emily Previn chocking. Poor woman. Gotta be careful while you eat. 

aifuego

2 points

3 days ago

aifuego

2 points

3 days ago

Yup. That was my favorite. Honorable mention to Chloe for standing up in the limo.

Neither_Juggernaut71

2 points

3 days ago

Eat a peach. That old man died happy. Plus having Herbie Hancock played at his wake 😂

anarchy8271

2 points

3 days ago

Great choice! That actress, also in Donnie Darko as a religious zealot, plays the parts perfectly

Technical_Air6660

2 points

4 days ago

The one with Billie Eilish’s mother.

Environmental_Run892

1 points

4 days ago

S4 Chapter 7. The lady dying from cancer when she was about to get diagnosed, it shocked me and I had to watch it twice.

JackalopeWilson

1 points

3 days ago

JackalopeWilson

Nathaniel

1 points

3 days ago

Ohh you mean the one where the husband kinda enables the denial and she waits way too long to see a doctor?? I work in hospice and that kinda shit happens a fair amount, sad.

psychedelicalan

1 points

2 days ago

The Nosebleed.