View Full Version : Lame TV character deaths.
Neighbours would have to the masters at this.
Latest chapter came last night, with the demise of Dionne.
Just married, driving into the sunset, busy having a pash, when a T intersection comes at them real fast, they smash through the sign, skid about 50 metres across grassland, then over a cliff and plunge forwards about 80 metres into the sea. It seems that this will be her watery grave. On the road, they looked to be doing about 75 clicks, so how, with about 50 metres of braking on the road, followed by smashing through a sign, skidding across another 50 metres of grassland, they still had the speed to fly about 80 metre through the air to the water beats me.
This was out there, but maybe not as much as the death era known as "inexplicable heart attack the day they are discharged from hospital" This happened at least twice:
-Some guy was taken out by a car on the way to stop his girlfriend from getting a abortion. Turned out to be fine, was about to check out of hospital when he had a heart attack and died. He was about 19.
-A chick (Cody??) was hit in her house by a stray bullet fired by a drug gang getting busted in Ramsay St. Survived this, spent a week in hospital, and was about the be discharged when she was struck by the heart attack and died. She was early 20's.
I am sure there are more....Home and Away must have served up a few.....which is the lamest??
Mr. Snrub
30 Jul 2003, 10:47
E Street must have had a few as well. Just before it got axed when the ratings were really bad, I seem to remember them having a major disaster every few episodes (or so it seemed) - from bush fires to a wild dog pack. There'd have to be some pretty lame deaths with all that going on.
Originally posted by Mr X
Neighbours would have to the masters at this.
Latest chapter came last night, with the demise of Dionne.
But is she dead or will they just not find her body ?
This allows her to do a Harold Bishop and comeback in 5 years. :D
BTW,the wedding was at Werribee mansion and the accident looked like it was not far from it in Werribee South [I think],so were the police that attended the cops from Blue Heelers,who also do a lot of filming around there ? :p
Mr. Snrub
30 Jul 2003, 12:36
I think Home and Away would have to be kings of the dodgy post-death appearances. Although the Harold Bishop comeback comes close. The mysterious motorbike rider who guided Angel to the hospital after Shane's death...Bobby appearing out of the fridge when Ailsa went crazy...Ailsa appearing to Alf when *he* went crazy - great moments in Summer Bay history.
Noddy Holder
30 Jul 2003, 12:48
The worst ever was in "Dallas" when Bobby Ewing(Patrick Duffy)was killed in a car accident then to bring him back six months later they made everything that had happened since the accident a dream of his wife Pamela(Victoria Principal) - lame :rolleyes:
crudbucket
30 Jul 2003, 13:49
Nah, what about when Krusty the Clown flew his aeroplane into a mountain only to turn up later as a fisherman ?
Originally posted by Mr. Snrub
I think Home and Away would have to be kings of the dodgy post-death appearances.
I remember when they were trying to come up with ways to kill Shane aka Dieter Brummer...
First they had him and Travis get involved with some shady types on a boat - because his brother the cop was crooked? i can't remember - and they had to escape by jumping into the water where they were fired upon...
Then they had Shane get absolutely cleaned up while on his motorbike but he survived that...
In the end he died of septicemia or tetanus or some other ailment because he cut his finger on the wire around the veggie patch Travis was building...
How sad... :D
Beffery
30 Jul 2003, 17:03
One of the worst Neighbours deaths would have to be Joe Mangle's wife.. I can't remember her name... she was shot by duck hunters while she was protesting against them. That'll teach those greenies!
Another one is Phil Martin's wife.. wasn't she pushed off the top of a building??
Jars458
30 Jul 2003, 17:30
Originally posted by Beffery
One of the worst Neighbours deaths would have to be Joe Mangle's wife.. I can't remember her name... she was shot by duck hunters while she was protesting against them. That'll teach those greenies!
Another one is Phil Martin's wife.. wasn't she pushed off the top of a building??
Great call.
Daphne
Good bless her and all who wanted to sail in her.
Originally posted by Beffery
One of the worst Neighbours deaths would have to be Joe Mangle's wife.. I can't remember her name... she was shot by duck hunters while she was protesting against them. That'll teach those greenies!
Another one is Phil Martin's wife.. wasn't she pushed off the top of a building??
Kerry Bishop,Harold's daughter,was Joe Mangel's wife.
Macca19
30 Jul 2003, 19:57
Originally posted by Beffery
Another one is Phil Martin's wife.. wasn't she pushed off the top of a building??
Didnt she go crazy and she jumped by herself? They went to some murder mystery night and she jumped off the top of the church tower thing.
Stealth bomber
30 Jul 2003, 23:33
Maude Flanders.
Falls to her death from the top of a grandstand after being hit in the face with a flying t-shirt.
GoEagles
30 Jul 2003, 23:52
Home and Away has served up some rippers!
Stephanie (African Girl) who died by falling off a rock face whilst rock climbing (at Stewarts Point?) with Liam and Chloe
Shane Parish (Dieter Brummer) who died of blood poisoning after cutting his finger whilst helping Travis set up a pig-pen
Bobby appearing out of Ailsa's fridge was very kooky, as was Tom Fletcher's death when he had a heart attack whilst driving Steven to soccer training.
My North
30 Jul 2003, 23:54
Originally posted by Beffery
Another one is Phil Martin's wife.. wasn't she pushed off the top of a building??
Phil Son Michael i thing was his name might have pushed her off. They did not get along
Beffery
31 Jul 2003, 10:13
Bouncer ate rat poison.. may he rest in peace :D
GFC MAD!
31 Jul 2003, 19:45
Originally posted by JUBJUB
But is she dead or will they just not find her body ?
This allows her to do a Harold Bishop and comeback in 5 years. :D
Of course she would have survived!
You cant imagine she would sink to her death when she has got those man-made boobies which would float her to safety! ::D :D
Originally posted by GFC MAD!
You cant imagine she would sink to her death when she has got those man-made boobies which would float her to safety! ::D :D
Why didn't she just grab a hold of the great inflatable toad?
Asgardian
1 Aug 2003, 01:33
Thankfully I've never seen any of the modern day soaps (still wash myself with pumice, lol....:D )
At the other end of the scale was a character dead in an old TV series called "Division 4". It was channel 9's answer to Homicide on channel 7.
Please forgive any technical errors I make, it would have to be at least 25 years since I have seen the episode in question.
Anyway.........., A character played by Alwyn Kurts, naturally a very old man, had just been released from a very long stretch in prision. He goes back to the only place he really knows, that is the old neighbourhood where he was the stand over tough guy, breaking bones if they didn't pay up, disappearing people if they continued not to pay up, generally terrorising the whole neighbourhood. He used to force women to cook for him, especially to make Lamingtons, he'd eat them, and then rough up the woman just so she'd get no smart ideas. All in all a thoroughly unlikable criminal.
Cut to modern times when he's released from prison, now a broken, broken-down old man who struggles to move, and is generally pathetic. Moves back to his old stamping grounds, tries to get work by doing odd jobs for the locals, but they all remember him, more importantly they all still hate him. Suffice to say they now try to make his remaining days a living hell.
- offer him small jobs then refuse to pay
- when he goes from one room to another they'd slam doors on his fingers
- if he was up on a chair or ladder they'd kick it out from under him
- symbolically the worst was when one of the old ladies offered to make him some of his favourite Lamingtons, he sat down, started to eat, suddenly starting to gag, for when the woman baked the Lamingtons, she tipped in several boxes of salt.
Gathering neighbours forced him to continue eating.
Life like that is not living, so he decided on suicide, we see his body hanging, lifeless, all while the community is overjoyed.
This was a moving episode, feeling sympathy for a persecuted old man, or feeling justice had finally been down ?
I honestly don't know.