History Trivia / CelebrityDeathmatch

** 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.

** To make things a little bit better, four 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" and a rare "Round 7"). Also a WAY better compilation DVD: The Knockout Collection.

* NamesTheSame: One of the commentators happens to be called Nick Diamond. [[Literature/DiamondBrothers No relation to Herbert "Tim Diamond" Simple's far more competent younger brother.]]

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Due to a couple of phony edits on Wiki/TheOtherWiki, the episode "Parody vs. Comedy," which included the fights "Music/MileyCyrus vs. [[Series/Zoey101 Jamie Lynn Spears]]," "{{Music/TI}} vs. Creator/DanielleHarris," and "Music/WeirdAlYankovic vs. Creator/MarlonWayans" was taken as fact by several people on some CDM fan forums.

* McLeaned: 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.)

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Due to a couple of phony edits on Wiki/TheOtherWiki, the episode "Parody vs. Comedy," which included the fights "Music/MileyCyrus vs. [[Series/Zoey101 Jamie Lynn Spears]]," "{{Music/TI}} vs. Creator/DanielleHarris," and "Music/WeirdAlYankovic vs. [[Creator/TheWayansFamily Marlon Wayans]]" was taken as fact by several people on some CDM fan forums.

* TheOtherDarrin: During the 2006-07 revival, Johnny Gomez, Nick Diamond, and ([[TheDanza 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.

* TheOtherDarrin: During the 2006-07 revival, Johnny Gomez, Nick Diamond, and Mills Lane were all recast. In Mills' case, his voice actor ([[TheDanza Mills Lane]]) had a stroke and couldn't reprise his role.

* ActorAllusion: Brought up in the press conference for Creator/JerrySeinfeld vs. Creator/TimAllen, with Creator/MichaelRichards, Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus and Creator/JasonAlexander, when a journalist refers to Richards as Kramer:
-->'''Michael''': Hey, buddy, my name is Michael Richards; Kramer is just a character I play.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The show's original run is this to the late '90s and early '00s. From promoting tennis star Anna Kournikova and actress Elizabeth Hurley as the internet's top two pinups, to billing the long-separated Creator/BruceWillis[=/=]Creator/DemiMoore and Creator/TomCruise[=/=]Creator/NicoleKidman as two of Hollywood's biggest power couples (back before anybody knew who Creator/AshtonKutcher and Creator/KatieHolmes were), to featuring a fight between UsefulNotes/BillClinton and Kenneth Starr to finally settle the [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Lewinsky scandal]], it is impossible for ''Celebrity Deathmatch'' to escape the turn-of-the-New-Millennium time period in which it aired. The show's pop culture reference-based humor grew dated fairly quickly, and many of the celebrities featured are now far past their fame. To children of the '00s and beyond who don't have a decent understanding of the minutiae of the era's pop culture, most of the jokes will fly over their head.
** The relaunch that aired on [=MTV2=] likewise dates itself to the mid-'00s. The first episode alone is built entirely around parodies of the long-canceled and largely forgotten reality shows ''The Simple Life'' and ''Series/VivaLaBam'', while other fights are about such TurnOfTheMillennium ephemera as ''Series/TheOsbournes'', ''Series/PimpMyRide'', [[Series/DaAliGShow Ali G]], {{crunk}} rap, Music/BritneySpears' and Creator/DaveChappelle's [[CreatorBreakdown public meltdowns]], and the [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Major League Baseball]] steroid scandal. One fight did reflect how the aforementioned Bruce Willis and Demi Moore had broken up... with the fight being between Willis and Ashton Kutcher, Demi's new lover (a relationship that ended in 2013), who was by then famous for hosting ''Series/{{Punkd}}''.

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Due to a couple of phony edits on Wiki/TheOtherWiki, the fights "Music/WeirdAlYankovic vs. [[Creator/TheWayansFamily Marlon Wayans]]" and "{{Music/TI}} vs. Creator/DanielleHarris" were taken as fact by several people on some CDM fan forums.

** At one point during the show's first run, there was talk of a movie.

* ActorAllusion: Brought up in the press conference for Jerry Seinfeld vs. Tim Allen, with Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss and Jason Alexander (who all [[InkSuitActor voiced their clay counterparts]]), when a journalist refers to Richards as Kramer:

** The relaunch that aired on [=MTV2=] likewise dates itself to the mid-'00s. The first episode alone is built entirely around parodies of the long-canceled and largely forgotten reality shows ''The Simple Life'' and ''Series/VivaLaBam'', while other fights are about such TurnOfTheMillennium ephemera as ''Series/TheOsbournes'', ''Series/PimpMyRide'', [[Series/DaAliGShow Ali G]], {{crunk}} rap, Music/BritneySpears' and DaveChappelle's [[CreatorBreakdown public meltdowns]], and the [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Major League Baseball]] steroid scandal. One fight did reflect how the aforementioned Bruce Willis and Demi Moore had broken up... with the fight being between Willis and Ashton Kutcher, Demi's new lover (a relationship that ended in 2013), who was by then famous for hosting ''Series/{{Punkd}}''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The show originally ran before the rise of RealityTV, gossip blog culture, and celebrities who got famous through [[FriendingNetwork social media]] and Website/YouTube and the revived version that aired for a brief time didn't even cash in 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 show's original run is this to the late '90s and early '00s. From promoting tennis star Anna Kournikova and actress Elizabeth Hurley as the internet's top two pinups, to billing the long-separated Creator/BruceWillis[=/=]Creator/DemiMoore and Creator/TomCruise[=/=]Creator/NicoleKidman as two of Hollywood's biggest power couples (back before anybody knew who Creator/AshtonKutcher and Katie Holmes were), to featuring a fight between UsefulNotes/BillClinton and Kenneth Starr to finally settle the [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Lewinsky scandal]], it is impossible for ''Celebrity Deathmatch'' to escape the turn-of-the-New-Millennium time period in which it aired. The show's pop culture reference-based humor grew dated fairly quickly, and many of the celebrities featured are now far past their fame. To children of the '00s and beyond who don't have a decent understanding of the minutiae of the era's pop culture, most of the jokes will fly over their head.

** The show was scheduled to be {{Uncancelled}} (again), with Eric Fogel back on the team. These ideas may very well could've seen the light of day but MTV cancelled it.

** The relaunch that aired on [=MTV2=] likewise dates itself to the mid-'00s. The first episode alone is built entirely around parodies of the long-canceled and largely forgotten reality shows ''The Simple Life'' and ''Series/VivaLaBam'', while other fights are about such TurnOfTheMillennium ephemera as ''Series/TheOsbournes'', ''Series/PimpMyRide'', [[Series/DaAliGShow Ali G]], {{crunk}} rap, Music/BritneySpears' [[CreatorBreakdown public meltdown]], and the [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Major League Baseball]] steroid scandal. One fight did reflect how the aforementioned Bruce Willis and Demi Moore had broken up... with the fight being between Willis and Ashton Kutcher, Demi's new lover (a relationship that ended in 2013), who was by then famous for hosting ''Series/{{Punkd}}''.

** The show is scheduled to be {{Uncancelled}} (again), with Eric Fogel back on the team. These ideas may very well see the light of day.

** The show's original run is this to the late '90s and early '00s. From promoting tennis star Anna Kournikova and actress Elizabeth Hurley as the internet's top two pinups, to billing the long-separated Creator/BruceWillis[=/=]Creator/DemiMoore and Creator/TomCruise[=/=]Creator/NicoleKidman as two of Hollywood's biggest power couples (back when Creator/AshtonKutcher and Katie Holmes were the stars of what were then brand-new TV shows in their first seasons), to featuring a fight between UsefulNotes/BillClinton and Kenneth Starr to finally settle the [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Lewinsky scandal]], it is impossible for ''Celebrity Deathmatch'' to escape the turn-of-the-New-Millennium time period in which it aired. The show's pop culture reference-based humor grew dated fairly quickly, and many of the celebrities featured are now far past their fame. To children of the '00s and beyond who don't have a decent understanding of the minutiae of the era's pop culture, most of the jokes will fly over their head.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: From promoting AnnaKournikova and ElizabethHurley as the internet's top two pinups, to billing the long-separated Creator/BruceWillis[=/=]Creator/DemiMoore and Creator/TomCruise[=/=]Creator/NicoleKidman as two of Hollywood's biggest power couples (back when not many people knew Creator/AshtonKutcher or Creator/KatieHolmes, even), to featuring a fight between UsefulNotes/BillClinton and Kenneth Starr to finally settle the Lewinsky scandal, it is impossible for ''Celebrity Deathmatch'' to escape the turn-of-the-New-Millennium time period in which it aired. The show's pop culture reference-based humor is extremely dated and many of the celebrities featured are now far past their fame. To Millennials who don't have a decent understanding of late-1990s pop culture, this show is a hard watch.
** The relaunch that aired on [=MTV2=] likewise dates itself to the mid '00s, and will likely see the same fate as the original series. The first episode alone is built entirely around parodies of the long-canceled and largely forgotten shows ''The Simple Life'' and ''Series/VivaLaBam'', while other fights are about such TurnOfTheMillennium ephemera as ''Series/TheOsbournes'', ''Series/PimpMyRide'', [[Series/DaAliGShow Ali G]], crunk rap, Music/BritneySpears' public meltdown, and the [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Major League Baseball]] steroid scandal. One fight did reflect how the aforementioned Bruce Willis and Demi Moore had broken up... with the fight being between Willis and [[Series/{{Punkd}} Ashton Kutcher]], Demi's new lover (a relationship that ended in 2013).

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XleEd25mzg The Scifi Spectacular episode]] was to have a battle between Creator/WilliamShatner vs. PatrickStewart. However despite even the approval of Creator/WilliamShatner 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.

** It's currently scheduled for a second uncancellation, this time with Eric Fogel back on the team.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Including TaraStrong (as ParisHilton), JohnDimaggio (as ChrisFarley, [[Series/{{AmericanChopper}} Paul Tetul Sr.]], and [[Series/{{VivaLaBam}} Don Vito]]), MarkHamill (AsHimself), ScottMenville (as [[Series/{{VivaLaBam}} Bam Margera]]), and [[Series/{{SaturdayNightLive}} Dean Edwards]] (as SpikeLee and Scottie Pippen).