Awesome / Celebrity Deathmatch

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• Conan O'Brien curbstomping Bill Maher. All while Bill Maher's attempts at humor are met with silence.
• Hanson vs. the Spice Girls. The winner: Marilyn Manson, who cut down the lighting rig over the ring with a chainsaw, crushing everyone (save for Mills who dove out of the ring just in the nick of time).
• Nick Diamond vs. Zatar the Alien.
• Another one for Nick in "Nick's Return": Having been in a coma for 2 episodes, he forces himself awake after hearing on TV that the producer's Jerkass of a son will replace him if did a good enough job subbing for him that night.
  • It gets better! Once he's awake, Nick broke said TV (probably in anger), stole an ambulance, drove back to the stadium, KO'ed said son via headbutt, and went back to work in time for the episode's main event, "Marilyn Manson vs. Garth Brooks".
    Nick: Nobody sits in my chair.
• Nick and Johnny fighting Sam Donaldson because he tried to take over their show by claiming they were dead in "A Celebrity Deathmatch Special Report".
• The next episode, with blink-182 and 98 Degrees, is one big CMOA, mainly because it has the two bands fighting in huge ass Gundam-esque robots for most of the episode.
• Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards breaking up Jerry Seinfeld's fight with Tim Allen... to kick the crap out of Jerry for ending their show.
  • Bonus points for Richards's speech.
• Pamela Anderson was getting beaten easily, then her opponent, RuPaul, decided to flirt with Pam's husband at the time, Tommy Lee. Pam doesn't take this well and starts beating up RuPaul like she was born to do it!
  • From the revived episodes: Pamela Anderson kicking Tommy Lee's ass because he gave her hepatitis
• Madonna kicks Michael Jackson into a pit of hydrochloric acid. Not only does Michael survive, but is also completely unharmed aside from having his plastic surgery removed.
• David Spade is coming back from being curb-stomped by Steven Seagal to win the match by slingshotting Scottie Pippen's championship ring through Segal's head.
• When Rodney Dangerfield had been on the receiving end of Don Rickles' insult humor in the "Roast Match" where said humor led to laying blows, it was a Batman Gambit intended for Don to burn through his material too soon, opening the way for Rodney to lay down a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown and come back from behind to win.
• Marilyn Manson killing Charles Manson in a gruesome way fit for such a monstrous person.
  • Heck, even the name of the move he used to do so is awesome; The Tunisian Skeleton Pull of Death.
• The second Anne Robinson threatens to kill a puppy (to force him to surrender the fight), Bob Barker goes apeshit, knocks the puppy out of her grasp, and then proceeds to disembowel her with his bare hands! Holy crap, don't piss off Bob Barker!
  Nick: Holy mother of no children! He took her ovaries!
• Even if it didn't end well for him^note He got disqualified for desecrating the American Flag, James van der Beek killing Saddam Hussein. What better way to dispose of America's enemies than by beating them to death with an American flag?
  • From the same episode, the fight between George Washington and Abraham Lincoln was badass for the sheer spectacle of watching the USA's two most iconic figures duke it out. They're so evenly matched that the fight ends in a draw, and so tough that they both survive being decapitated. Of note is when Teddy Roosevelt (Lincoln's cornerman) discovers Richard Nixon helping Washington cheat and dispatches him personally via his trope-naming weapon.
• Mills Lane fighting Judge Judy blindfolded and winning handily after she attempts to usurp his role as referee.
• The duel between Generals Lee and Grant. There was a whirlwind of steel, the end of which saw the match be decided by a fatal thumb war.
• Nostradamus somehow managed to avoid getting pulled to the present by the time machine (after foreseeing that he would lose to John Edwards) and instead sent a letter in his place.
• From the show's first Halloween Episode, The Undertaker vs. Captain Doody, a demon possessing Nick's son, Nicky Jr. Undertaker manages to exorcise Doody out of Nicky with a Tombstone Piledriver!
• Yes, a lot of fans consider her a Replacement Scrappy, but you got to admit, Debbie "re-killing" Zombie!Stacy Cornbred in the second Halloween special was pretty awesome.
  Debbie: Now stay dead, bitch!
• Yes, the revival wasn't that great, but the Ashton Kutcher vs. Bruce Willis fight did have one thing going for it; Demi Moore rappelling down into the ring and beating the shit out of both of them, all because Ashton had to go and put his foot in his mouth.
  Ashton Kutcher: Look at me! I can get any woman in Hollywood I want! I could dump Demi and have a date the same night!
  Bruce Willis: (smirks) Pal... you just made a big mistake.
• Also from the revival, Adam West defying the odds and defeating his younger and hipper replacement Christian Bale, proving the old man's still got what it takes to be Batman after all these years.
• Ronald Reagan interfering in the match between Boy George and Don Johnson in the 80's flashback episode. Sure, it's mostly because he thought George was a woman and he got angry at Johnson for hitting her, but considering how petty Johnson's grievance was, it's still very much this trope.
  Johnson: Mr. President, that's no lady, that's Boy George!
  Reagan: She can call herself whatever she wants, but that doesn't give you the right to hit her! Not on my watch, Mr. Gorbatchev! *cue asskicking*
  • Also, Reagan's finishing move.
    Reagan: It's bedtime for Bonzo! *jumps off the turnbuckle and crushes Johnson's skull*
• Sherlock Holmes killing Jack the Ripper by tightening the killer's overcoat against his body, impaling him with the many blades he kept hidden within.
• The one and only Groucho Marx (with some help from his brothers) beating John Wayne and making him look like a fool in the process.
• Sean Connery vs Roger Moore was as awesome as a Mirror Match between two different versions of James Bond could be.
• Ozzy Osbourne killing Rob Zombie almost immediately and using dark magic to turn him into a zombie slave was damn cool. Sure, it backfired on Ozzy once the literal Rob Zombie turns against him out of hunger for human flesh, but Ozzy still manages to defeat him regardless.
• The entire battle between Robert De Niro and Al Pacino has the two battling while in-character as their most famous roles. The first round has Jake LaMotta pull a Victory by Endurance by taking Michael Corleone's punches until the latter's fist is worn down to the wrist; toward the end, Al Capone manages to put down Tony Montana with a baseball bat to the head.
• Joe Pesci Vs Napoléon Bonaparte; The entire fight was set up as a joke about how short the two were despite being an actor specializing in tough guys and a conquering ruler respectively, complete with having them fight with toys. Napoleon pulls out an unexpected win with something completely unrelated, namely his secret weapon; Le Hand Du Stank! As a combination of Napoleon being The Pig-Pen (since he's from 18th century France), and his iconic hand-in-jacket pose, his left hand has a lethal Touch of Death that leaves Pesci begging for mercy before Napoleon pins him to the mat with lawn darts and kills him.
  Pesci: No! No, please! Not LE HAND!!!