Replacing a snowman nose with a stick of lit dynamite.Throwing a live grenade into a fireplace, causing the house to explode and set fire.Plowing a Barbie Power Wheels Car through a wall.Sticking his foot under a Christmas tree causing his foot to get caught in a bear trap.Filling up a lifeboat with gasoline and then shooting it with a flare gun, causing the liftboat to explode.Defusing a plastic explosive only to drop it down a dorade vent which leads to the cruise liner's engine room, detonating it causing the cruise liner to take in water and forcing everyone to abandon ship.

Drinking a vial of hydrochloric acid that causes him to throw up fire.

Mentioning that his body has been completely numb since he stopped a lava flow at Mount Pinatubo with his face.

Getting attacked by a shark after pouring a bucket of chum on his body.

Tossing a lit match at his wife to light her cigarette when she's also covered in cooking oil.

Using a magnifying glass as a tanning mirror, and using cooking aerosol as tanning oil.

Roasting a marshmallow using his index finger.

Lighting a paper mural which causes the chemistry lab on the other side of the wall to explode, blowing up the school.

Plugging in a projector while standing barefoot in a tub of water causing him to get electrocuted.

Setting a fish tank on fire using bottle filled with gasoline.

Using a propane torch and a flint striker to ignite a wood shingle roof.

Lighting a match after sneezing out the pilot light on a stove, burning down a house.

Mentioning that he's spontaneously combusted more than once.

Sticking his hand onto an active stove.

Mentioning he's been struck by lightning 19 times, and that he is starting to enjoy it.

Electrocuting himself by sticking a meat fork into an outlet.

Mentioning that he's caught fire so many times that he can't feel it anymore.

Spraying lighter fluid on the floor and then dropping a tobacco pipe on it, setting a section of the floor to catch fire.

She has a loving relationship with Bill and shares his masochism and taste for unusual demonstrations.Įxamples of Fire Marshal Bill's destruction Home Safety

His immortality also lends itself to long life as he apparently performed the same standard of service as a fire marshall on the Titanic as, in his own words, ''Unsinkable' my good eye!'īill has a wife named Ashley who appears in the third sketch where the couple is on a cruise vacation. I am a fire marshal!'' before the expected destruction.Īlthough almost every sketch sees him maimed or otherwise seriously injured (in more than one sketch, only his head was left), Bill never died and always appeared among those forced out of the destroyed structure.

The climax of the sketch always occurred when he would perform an act involving explosives which would inevitably destroy the set, typically sending people running for their lives as he said another catchphrase, some variation of, ''Don't worry, folks. The typical execution of the sketch is for Fire Marshall Bill to appear unexpectedly and then show how unsafe ordinary activities are by engaging in off-the-wall, dangerous activities, normally accompanied by his catchphrase, 'LEMME SHOW YA SOMETHIN'!' Examples include where he warned against drinking a cocktail on a cruise liner because it would be dangerous if one was holding a vial of hydrochloric acid in their other hand. 2 Examples of Fire Marshal Bill's destruction.

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