Trivia / Celebrity Deathmatch

• Actor Leaves, Character Dies: The reason Stacy was killed off; her VA was leaving the show. (In fact, even in-story she managed to make a small inside joke before she bit it, which suggested it happened because of the stress over her contract negotiations.)
• Contest Winner Cameo: Done at least twice. The first time, the contest winner had his spleen ripped out by John Tesh after he requested it, feeling that it would be an honor. The second time, the contest winner's soul was sold to the Devil by the hosts in exchange for the souls of the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, who fans had requested to fight each other (they had both been killed in previous matches — the Backstreet Boys by the Beastie Boys, and *NSYNC by KISS).
• Distanced from Current Events: In "Where's Lohan?", 50 Cent shoots The Game. Shortly before the episode aired, The Game's brother had actually been shot. The Game's father criticized MTV for airing the episode.
• Fake Brit: Whenever British people turn up, they always have Cockney accents. Even if they're the Gallagher brothers (from Manchester), Ozzy Osbourne (from Birmingham) or the Spice Girls (variously from Hertfordshire, Yorkshire and Merseyside).
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: iTunes has made all the episodes of the revival and over a hundred fights from the original run available, but still, nearly half of the material from the first four seasons (including almost all of the commentary and storylines between the fights) can't be accessed legally. Some content has been put back up on YouTube after Viacom's lawsuit against them failed.
  • To make things a little bit better, six known CDM tapes were released: a supposedly "Greatest Hits" tape (consisting of 7 fights that are far from the show's "greatest hits"), and three compilation tapes (called "Celebrity Deathmatch: Round 1", "Round Two", "Round 3/Divas of Devastation", "Round 4", and a rare "Round 7"). Also a WAY better compilation DVD: The Knockout Collection.
• The Other Darrin: During the 2006-07 revival, Johnny Gomez, Nick Diamond, and Mills Lane were all recast. In the latter's case, this was every bit justified as the real-life Lane had suffered a stroke a few years earlier and obviously couldn't reprise his role.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: Due to a couple of phony edits on The Other Wiki, the episode "Parody vs. Comedy," which included the fights "Miley Cyrus vs. Jamie Lynn Spears," "T.I. vs. Danielle Harris," and ""Weird Al" Yankovic vs. Marlon Wayans" was taken as fact by several people on some CDM fan forums.
• Troubled Production: "The Battle for Celebrity Deathmatch", a four-part online saga from Eric Fogel, talks about the troubles and stress of getting the show pitched to MTV who were pretty confused about the concept, as well as actually getting the show's production facility assembled.
• Uncanceled: Though fans cried foul when it wasn't the revival they were expecting.
  • It was scheduled for a second uncancellation, this time with Eric Fogel back on the team, until Fogel announced via Twitter that MTV had stopped production on the re-boot.
• What Could Have Been: The show originally ran before the rise of Reality TV, gossip blog culture, and celebrities who got famous through social media and YouTube and the revived version that aired for a brief time didn't even cash in on this. Who knows what we could have seen if the revival was done well enough to stay on the air for more than two (nine episode long) seasons?
  • The Scifi Spectacular episode was to have a battle between William Shatner vs. Patrick Stewart. However despite even the approval of William Shatner himself, Paramount (a sister company of Viacom) pulled the plug on the idea because they weren't happy with the creators mocking their "million dollar franchise". Still it wasn't all bad, we ended up getting Nick Diamond's popular fight against Zatar the Alien instead.
  • The show was cancelled before it could air the final episodes of season four, which would've included fights portraying Dwayne Johnson, Robin Quivers, Bow Wow, Snoop Dogg, and a fight between Al Capone and Blackbeard. It was also supposed to reveal that Stone Cold was the actual father of Debbie's baby.
  • The show was scheduled to be Uncancelled (again), with Eric Fogel back on the team. Had MTV not cancelled production, these ideas may very well could've seen the light of day. Leaked images online revealed a concept pilot of a fight between Katy Perry and Taylor Swift that more closely resembled the animation style of the original series.

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