"fly like Superman, and he also mentions the ""three stooges"" ward. Lance Murdoch is a parody of famous daredevils such as Evel Knievel and Matt Murdock, the alter ego of the Marvel Comics superhero Daredevil. Bart's attempt to jump over Springfield Gorge is a reference to Knievel's 1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, Idaho, with a Skycycle X-2. Bart appearing at Springfield Gorge in the distance is based on Omar Sharif's entrance in ""Lawrence of Arabia"". In its original American broadcast, ""Bart the Daredevil"" finished 20th in Nielsen ratings for the week of December 3–9, 1990,"
"of steel, aluminum and fiberglass, the customized motorcycle weighs about 300 pounds. During his career, Knievel may have suffered more than 433 bone fractures, earning an entry in the ""Guinness Book of World Records"" as the survivor of ""most bones broken in a lifetime"". However, this number could be exaggerated: his son Robbie told a reporter in June 2014 that his father had broken 40 to 50 bones; Knievel himself claimed he broke 35. Although Knievel never attempted to jump the Grand Canyon, rumors of the Canyon jump were started by Knievel himself in 1968, following the Caesars Palace crash."
"short on the embankment of the far side of the lake. Thrown from the bike, he suffered severe spinal cord injuries that left him permanently paralyzed. Bob founded ""Bob Gill Awareness Foundation"" and resides in Tampa Bay, Florida. Bob Gill (daredevil) Bob Gill is the world-record holding motorcycle stuntman. He was one of the few jumpers to disdain the use of a landing ramp. His career was cut short in 1974 when he landed short on a world-record attempt to jump the wide Appalachia Lake in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. Bob began as a motorcycle racer in 1962. Unsatisfied with"
"jump, he tried to come to a quick stop because of a short landing area. Knievel reportedly suffered a broken back and a concussion after getting thrown off and run over by his motorcycle, a Harley-Davidson. Knievel returned to jumping in November 1973, when he successfully jumped over 50 stacked cars at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. For 35 years, Knievel held the record for successfully jumping the most stacked cars on a Harley-Davidson XR-750 (the record was broken in October 2008). His historic XR-750 is now part of the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Made"
"Knievel crashed while attempting to jump 13 Pepsi delivery trucks. His approach was complicated by the fact that he had had to start on pavement, cut across grass, and then return to pavement. His lack of speed caused the motorcycle to come down front wheel first. He managed to hold on until the cycle hit the base of the ramp. After being thrown off, he skidded for . Knievel broke his collarbone, suffered a compound fracture of his right arm, and broke both legs. On March 3, 1972, at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California, after making a successful"
"at New Hampshire International Speedway. That same year, Danger signed a contract for a Daredevil Showdown with Robbie Knievel for a Pay-Per-View but the event never happened because in July 1992, a practice jump went awry and Danger crashed into a three-foot retaining wall at Hudson Speedway in New Hampshire breaking 17 bones and remaining in a coma for over a month. When he recovered, his memory was gone. After recovering, Danger created the Doug Danger Motorcycle Stunt Spectacular, Legends Stunt Show, a thrill show that included various motorcycle jumps, firewall crashs, wheelie show, and automobile stunts. He partnered in"
"Bob Gill (daredevil) Bob Gill is the world-record holding motorcycle stuntman. He was one of the few jumpers to disdain the use of a landing ramp. His career was cut short in 1974 when he landed short on a world-record attempt to jump the wide Appalachia Lake in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. Bob began as a motorcycle racer in 1962. Unsatisfied with the money he was making as a racer, he switched to jumping full-time in 1970. After several long jumps, including one jump 152 feet over the Cajun Canyon in Louisiana, he jumped over a set of Ryder trucks"
"Rohm also broke a vertebra and had his head held in a metal halo drilled into his skull. Steve Trotter Steve Trotter (born November 13, 1962 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a daredevil who is the youngest person to have gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He is one of only a few people to have performed the stunt twice. He has also performed other illegal stunts. Trotter always sought to make a floating death-defying journey over Niagara Falls. He planned for several months and decided upon the month of August to perform his stunt. Upon arriving in Niagara,"
"three of legendary daredevil Evel Knievel's most famous jumps without injury in record-breaking fashion while in Las Vegas. Pastrana was born on October 8, 1983. His grandfather, Alan Pastrana, played as a quarterback from 1965 to 1968 at the University of Maryland, which Travis Pastrana also attended. On June 11, 2003, 19-year-old Pastrana was seriously injured when he crashed his Corvette into a tree in Davidsonville, Maryland. Pastrana has won three motocross racing championships: the 2000 AMA 125cc National championship, the 2001 125cc East Coast Supercross Championship, and the 125cc Rose Creek Invitational. Pastrana also raced in the 2000 Motocross"
"mph barrier on either a motorbike or car at Pendine Sands. In September, 2016, Eisenberg crashed on a turbine-powered motorbike at 234 mph at Elvington Airfield, Yorkshire. He was presumed dead on the scene and airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary. Eisenberg broke 11 bones in the crash, including his pelvis, hip and femur. As of July, Eisenberg said he had ""90% recovered"". Eisenberg said a strict exercise and nutrition programme was responsible for his recovery. As of September 2017, Eisenberg appears to have fully recovered. On the anniversary of the crash, he returned to Elvington Airway, Yorkshire, to race on"
"of his death. He is best known today for his unsuccessful October 1979 attempt to jump the Saint Lawrence River in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental, where he took the place of stuntman Ken Carter. He suffered significant injuries including a broken back, but survived. Carter's years of planning for the ""Superjump"", and Powers's failed attempt were the subject of a 1981 documentary called ""The Devil at Your Heels"", directed by Robert Fortier and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. According to some sources, Powers was substituted at the last minute for Carter, without Carter's knowledge, because the jump's"
"Evel Knievel Robert Craig Knievel Jr. (October 17, 1938 – November 30, 2007), professionally known as Evel Knievel (), was an American stunt performer and entertainer. Over the course of his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps; in 1974, he failed an attempted canyon jump across Snake River Canyon in the Skycycle X-2, a steam-powered rocket. Knievel was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999. He died of pulmonary disease in Clearwater, Florida, in 2007, aged 69. Knievel was born on October 17, 1938, in Butte, Montana, the first of two children of Robert E."
"1971, Bob Addis set the unofficial World Record for ""Stalagmite Sitting"", staying atop the ""Warclub"" formation for 15 days, 23 hours, and 34 minutes with assistance from his ""bucket man"" Bob Leibman. The Greenbrier East Band provided in-cave fanfare for Bob's descent and shaky return to solid land from the top of the formation. In 1992, the ""Weekly World News"" reported that Lost World Caverns was the home of ""Bat Boy"", and claimed that he was captured by the FBI in the caverns, where he reportedly survived by eating his weight in live insects every day. The ""walking"" tour section"
"the handlebars to be ripped out of his hands as he tumbled over them onto the pavement where he skidded into the Dunes parking lot. As a result of the crash, Knievel suffered a crushed pelvis and femur, fractures to his hip, wrist, and both ankles, and a concussion that kept him in the hospital. Rumors circulated that he was in a coma for 29 days in the hospital, but this was refuted by his wife and others in the documentary film ""Being Evel"". The Caesars Palace crash was Knievel's longest attempted motorcycle jump at . After his crash and"
"that he is best remembered. In the Alps he was involved in a six-day struggle through a storm near the summit of Mont Blanc which killed seven climbers, cajoling others to survive. In the 1970s and 80s he took part in a number of Himalayan expeditions. In 1976 he made the first ascent of Trango Tower with Joe Brown. Two years later on an expedition to The Ogre, he and Clive Rowland saved the lives of Doug Scott (who had broken both legs) and Chris Bonington (who had broken several ribs) on a gruelling seven-day descent from close to the"
"of the canyon from which it had been launched. If he had landed in the water, by his own admission, Knievel likely would have drowned, due to a jumpsuit/harness malfunction which kept him strapped in the vehicle. As it was, he survived the failed jump with only minor physical injuries. Psychologically, however, Knievel is believed to have ceased to be as confident in himself as he had been up to that time. Since the 1974 launch, seven daredevils have expressed interest in recreating the jump, including Knievel's two sons, Robbie and Kelly. In 2010 Robbie announced he would recreate the"
"Space Cowboy (performer) The Space Cowboy (real name: Chayne Hultgren) is a world record-breaking sideshow, street, and freak show performer born in Byron Bay in Australia on 13 April 1978. Hultgren is 'Australia's most prolific record breaker' and as of July 2016 he holds 44 official 'Guinness World Records' for his unusual skills. Some of his records include: 'Most chainsaw juggling catches on a unicycle', 'Most weight dragged with hooks in the eye sockets', 'Most targets hit with throwing knives in one minute', 'Most swords swallowed underwater', 'Most blowtorches extinguished with the tongue in one minute (temperature of flames reached"
"autopsy found no trace of drugs. His manager, of a similar height, noted the balcony railing ends below his hips. Rick Genest Rick Genest (August 7, 1985 – August 1, 2018) was a Canadian artist, actor, and fashion model. He was also known as Zombie Boy. Genest was born in Châteauguay, Quebec. Before he had any tattoos, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He was on the surgery waitlist for six months, during which he contemplated his own life and possible death, before undergoing the surgery with minimal complications. Genest currently holds the Guinness World Records for the most"
"Andreas Mihavecz Andreas Mihavecz is an Austrian from Bregenz who holds the record of surviving the longest without any food or liquids. His ordeal is documented in the Guinness World Records. On 1 April 1979, the then 18-year-old bricklayer's apprentice was put into custody in a holding cell for being a passenger in a crashed car and completely forgotten about by the three policemen responsible for him. Each of them thought that the two others had already freed Mihavecz. They also ignored the pleas of his worried mother, who was concerned for what might have happened to her son. As"
"Bello Nock Bello Nock (born April 13, 1970), often known simply as ""Bello"", is an American daredevil and circus performer. Nock has been featured in the ""Guinness Book of World Records"" for his highwire walk over a cruise ship. He has performed several stunts in New York City, including rappelling off of Madison Square Garden and hanging from a helicopter over the Statue of Liberty. Nock performs without the traditional clown makeup. Nock's signature look revolves around his foot-tall strawberry blonde hair. Nock was included in ""Time"" Magazine's list of ""America's Best Artists and Entertainers. His theater show, ""Bello Mania"","
"Daniel Browning Smith Daniel Browning Smith, also known as The Rubberboy (born May 8, 1979), is an American contortionist, actor, television host, comedian, sports entertainer, and stuntman, who holds the title of the most flexible person in history, owning a total of seven ""Guinness World Records"". Smith owes his flexibility to the genetic condition hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. Smith was born and raised in Meridian, Mississippi, United States. He has one sister and one brother. He was inspired by contortionists since the age of four, giving him the dream of becoming the world's best one. At this time, Daniel began to"
"of the falls. His boat flushed out of the falls, but his body was never found. On September 27, 1993, John ""David"" Munday, of Caistor Centre, Ontario, completed his second journey over the falls. On October 1, 1995, Robert Douglas ""Firecracker"" Overacker went over the falls on a Jet Ski to raise awareness for the homeless. His rocket-propelled parachute failed to open and he plunged to his death. Overacker's body was recovered before he was pronounced dead at Niagara General Hospital. Kirk Jones of Canton, Michigan, became the first known person to survive a plunge over the Horseshoe Falls without"
"difficult to get insurance, especially in the United States where his stunt work is contractually limited. Chan holds the Guinness World Record for ""Most Stunts by a Living Actor"", which emphasizes that ""no insurance company will underwrite Chan's productions in which he performs all his own stunts"". Chan has been injured frequently when attempting stunts; many of them have been shown as outtakes or as bloopers during the closing credits of his films. He came closest to death filming ""Armour of God"" when he fell from a tree and fractured his skull. Over the years, he has dislocated his pelvis"
"Darwin Award for his death. Charles Stephens (daredevil) Charles Stephens or Demon Barber of Bedminster (1862 – 11 July 1920) was an English barber and daredevil. Stephens was the first person to die attempting to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He is also the third person and second man to attempt this stunt. A barber living and working in Bristol, Stephens started performing stunts to support his family, which included his wife, Annie, and their 11 children. Charles moved to Ferndale in the Rhondda Valleys where he worked as a barber. After calling the stunt a ""cool commercial"
"waist down, but survived. She continued working for the airline, holding a desk job. Vulović holds the official record in the ""Guinness Book of Records"" for the highest fall survived without a parachute. Vulović received the Guinness prize from Paul McCartney. A major celebrity in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Vulović was a frequent guest on major Yugoslav television shows such as ""Maksovizija"" by Milovan Ilić Minimaks, up until the 1990s. Vulović attended annual commemorations at the crash site, until they were stopped in 2002. The daughter of the firefighter that saved her bears her name, as well as"
"Jason was suffering from a concussion in 2005 and didn't make the final, finishing 10th overall. Still involved in the skate community, Ellis has recently performed Skate Demos alongside Tony Hawk, is a perennial X-Games competitor in the Mega Ramp competition, and was the host of the annual 'Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Huckjam'. In 2001, Ellis set the Guinness World Record for the biggest drop on a skateboard, jumping into a 70-foot skateboard ramp. However, this record was broken in 2006 by fellow professional skateboarder Danny Way at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Café. Ellis formerly trained in the Team Quest"
"to dislocation and skin which is easily bruised. While many people with hEDS have severe muscle and bone pain alongside a range of autonomic nervous system and endocrine problems, Smith experiences only moderate pain. Daniel Browning Smith Daniel Browning Smith, also known as The Rubberboy (born May 8, 1979), is an American contortionist, actor, television host, comedian, sports entertainer, and stuntman, who holds the title of the most flexible person in history, owning a total of seven ""Guinness World Records"". Smith owes his flexibility to the genetic condition hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. Smith was born and raised in Meridian, Mississippi, United"
"62, Weston succumbed to Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in Hayward, California. In 1999, her life story was sold to Goldie Hawn Productions. Roller Derby ceased operations in 1973 and as a result the most famous female skater in the sport was never inducted into its Hall of Fame. In 2004, the skater/fan based Roller Derby Hall of Fame based in Brooklyn, New York, corrected this oversight. Joan Weston Joan Weston or Joanie Weston (January 20, 1935 – May 10, 1997), known as the ""Blonde Bomber"", ""Blonde Amazon"", ""Golden Girl"", and ""Roller Derby Queen"", was a U.S. athlete and was the most famous"
"a loud scream from Osman followed by a crash resembling a tree breaking in half. Dan Osman Daniel Eugene Osman (February 11, 1963 – November 23, 1998) was an American extreme sport practitioner, known for the dangerous sports of free-soloing, rock climbing without ropes or other safety gear. He participated in rope free-flying or rope jumping, falling several hundred feet from a cliff then being caught by a safety rope, for which his record was over . He lived a bohemian lifestyle, working as a part-time carpenter and living in Lake Tahoe, California. He was the subject of several rock"
"records for both cars and buses. He's known as ""king of the Harley"" and he's had some really bad falls with 42 broken bones, to date. Bubba attempts jumps over objects that include helicopters with blades in full rotation as he earns big dollars for big jumps to support his family."" After 21 years of performing professional stunt riding for Buell Motorcycles and Harley-Davidson Motorcycles, Blackwell retired on August 15, 2015. Blackwell said of his planned retirement that he accomplishing all of his dreams and enjoyed fatherhood over stunt performing. He announced his jump the weekend of August 15, 2015"
"worked extensively with the Hull Truck Company over a five-year period with John Godber, most recently in Godber's ""Up 'n' Under"" in 2010. Crossley broke the world record for lifting the Dinnie Stones, on 1st May 2018. The time of 34.58 seconds, smashed the previous record. James Crossley (bodybuilder) James Crossley (born 12 June 1973) is an English bodybuilder and actor. He is best known for his part as Hunter in the TV series ""Gladiators"" from 1993-2000. James was considered the 'Ultimate Gladiator' after competing against fellow male gladiators in 1999, with Ace coming second. During this competition, James dislocated"
"record at 41 feet. On Sunday, March 10, 1996, outside the Oasis hotel and casino in Mesquite, Nevada, Laswell attempted to jump over a pedestrian bridge by driving up a steep ramp on a Honda CR500 motorcycle. As he made the jump and became airborne, he was blown off course in mid-air. Crosswinds and excessive speed pushed Laswell to the left of the landing ramp. Laswell then flatlanded from high and crashed to the concrete below. According to witnesses Laswell tried to steer his bike away from the crowd. Laswell had been trying to break his personal best of high"
"Charles Stephens (daredevil) Charles Stephens or Demon Barber of Bedminster (1862 – 11 July 1920) was an English barber and daredevil. Stephens was the first person to die attempting to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He is also the third person and second man to attempt this stunt. A barber living and working in Bristol, Stephens started performing stunts to support his family, which included his wife, Annie, and their 11 children. Charles moved to Ferndale in the Rhondda Valleys where he worked as a barber. After calling the stunt a ""cool commercial proposition"", Stephens went over the"