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* 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.
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** 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")."Round 7"). Also a WAY better compilation DVD: The Knockout Collection.
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** To make things [[SarcasmMode better]], only three known CDM tapes were released: a supposedly "Greatest Hits" tape (consisting of 7 fights that are far from the show's "greatest hits"), and two compilation tapes (called "Celebrity Deathmatch: Round 1" and "Round Two").
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** To make things [[SarcasmMode better]], only three 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 two three compilation tapes (called "Celebrity Deathmatch: Round 1" and 1", "Round Two").Two" and a rare "Round"). Also a WAY better compilation DVD: The Knockout Collection.
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* 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:
-->'''Michael''': Hey, buddy, my name is Michael Richards; Kramer is just a character I play.
-->'''Michael''': Hey, buddy, my name is Michael Richards; Kramer is just a character I play.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XleEd25mzg The Scifi Spectacular episode]] was to have a battle between Creator/WilliamShatner vs. LeonardNimoy. 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.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XleEd25mzg The Scifi Spectacular episode]] was to have a battle between Creator/WilliamShatner vs. LeonardNimoy.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.
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** To make things [[SarcasmMode better]], only three known CDM tapes released: a supposedly "Greatest Hits" tape (consisting of 7 fights that are far from the show's "greatest hits"), and two compilation tapes (called "Celebrity Deathmatch: Round 1" and "Round Two").
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** To make things [[SarcasmMode better]], only three known CDM tapes were released: a supposedly "Greatest Hits" tape (consisting of 7 fights that are far from the show's "greatest hits"), and two compilation tapes (called "Celebrity Deathmatch: Round 1" and "Round Two").
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** To make things [[SarcasmMode better]], there are only three CDM tapes released (to this troper's knowledge): a supposedly "Greatest Hits" tape (consisting of 7 fights that are far from the show's "greatest hits"), and two compilation tapes (called "Celebrity Deathmatch: Round 1" and "Round Two").
** To make things [[SarcasmMode better]], there are only three CDM tapes released (to this troper's knowledge): a supposedly "Greatest Hits" tape (consisting of 7 fights that are far from the show's "greatest hits"), and two compilation tapes (called "Celebrity Deathmatch: Round 1" and "Round Two").
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: 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. Fortunately, a lot of the stuff Some content has been put back up on Website/YouTube after Viacom's lawsuit against them failed.
** To make things [[SarcasmMode better]],there are only three known CDM tapes released (to this troper's knowledge): released: a supposedly "Greatest Hits" tape (consisting of 7 fights that are far from the show's "greatest hits"), and two compilation tapes (called "Celebrity Deathmatch: Round 1" and "Round Two").
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One of the best examples of this trope. 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.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One of the best examples of this trope. 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.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: To think that this show's glory years were ''before'' The show originally ran before the rise of RealityTV, gossip blog culture, and celebrities who got famous through [[FriendingNetwork social media]] and Website/YouTube... Website/YouTube and what's worse, 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?
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Including TaraStrong, JohnDimaggio, MarkHamill, ScottMenville, and Dean Edwards.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XleEd25mzg The Scifi Spectacular episode]] was to have a battle between [[Franchise/StarTrek Captain Kirk and Captain Picard]].Creator/WilliamShatner vs. LeonardNimoy. 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.
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** [[http://www.awn.com/blog/celebrity-deathmatch-those-nagging-questions-finally-answered-part-1 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XleEd25mzg The Scifi Spectacular episode]] was to have a battle between [[Franchise/StarTrek Captain Kirk and Captain Picard]]. 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.
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* FakeBrit: Whenever British people turn up, they ''always'' have Cockney accents. Even if they're [[Music/{{Oasis}} the Gallagher brothers]] (from Manchester) or the Spice Girls (variously from Hertfordshire, Yorkshire and Merseyside).
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* ContestWinnerCameo: 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 Music/BackstreetBoys and *NSYNC, who fans had requested to fight each other (they had both been killed in previous matches -- the Backstreet Boys by the Music/BeastieBoys, and *NSYNC by KISS).
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One of the best examples of this trope. 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).
** 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).
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: To think that this show's glory years were ''before'' the rise of RealityTV, gossip blog culture, and celebrities who got famous through [[FriendingNetwork social media]] and Website/YouTube... and what's worse, 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 a season?two (nine episode long) seasons?
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** [[http://www.awn.com/blog/celebrity-deathmatch-those-nagging-questions-finally-answered-part-1 The Scifi Spectacular episode]] was to have a battle between [[Franchise/StarTrek Captain Kirk and Captain Picard]]. 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 the Alien as a consolation.
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** [[http://www.awn.com/blog/celebrity-deathmatch-those-nagging-questions-finally-answered-part-1 The Scifi Spectacular episode]] was to have a battle between [[Franchise/StarTrek Captain Kirk and Captain Picard]]. 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 as a consolation.instead.
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** [[http://www.awn.com/blog/celebrity-deathmatch-those-nagging-questions-finally-answered-part-1 The Scifi Spectacular episode]] was to have a battle between [[Franchise/StarTrek Captain Kirk and Captain Picard]] .Picard]]. 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 the Alien as a consolation.
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** [[http://www.awn.com/blog/celebrity-deathmatch-those-nagging-questions-finally-answered-part-1 The SciFi Scifi Spectacular episode episode]] was to have a battle between [[Franchise/StarTrek Captain Kirk and Captain Picard]] . 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 the Alien as a consolation.
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** The SciFi Spectacular episode was to have a battle between [[Franchise/StarTrek "Captain Kirk Vs Captain Picard"]] .Kirk and Captain Picard]] . 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 the Alien as a consolation.
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* The SciFi Spectacular episode was to have a battle between Creator/WilliamShatner and Creator/PatrickStewart. As a [[Franchise/StarTrek "Captain Kirk Vs Captain Picard"]] style fight. However despite even the approval of 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 the Alien as a consolation.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: To think that this show's glory years were ''before'' the rise of the Internet, {{Myspace}} and Website/YouTube celebrities, Perez Hilton and TMZ...and what's worse, 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 a season?
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: To think that this show's glory years were ''before'' the rise of the Internet, {{Myspace}} RealityTV, gossip blog culture, and Website/YouTube celebrities, Perez Hilton celebrities who got famous through [[FriendingNetwork social media]] and TMZ...Website/YouTube... and what's worse, 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 a season?season?
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* TheOtherDarrin: During the 2006-07 revival, Johnny Gomez, Nick Diamond, and Mills Lane were all recast. In Mills' case, he his voice actor ([[TheDanza Mills Lane]]) had a stroke, so he was no longer able to voice himself.stroke and couldn't reprise his role.
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* FakeBrit: Whenever British people turn up, they ''always'' have Cockney accents. Even if they're [[Music/{{Oasis}} the Gallagher brothers]] (from Manchester) or the Spice Girls (variously from Hertfordshire, Yorkshire and Merseyside).
* HeyItsThatVoice: The last two seasons featured much more well known voice actors, including TaraStrong and JohnDimaggio.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: 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. Fortunately, a lot of the stuff has been put back up on YouTube after Viacom's lawsuit against them failed.
** To make things [[SarcasmMode better]], there are only three CDM tapes released (to this troper's knowledge): a supposedly "Greatest Hits" tape (consisting of 7 fights that are far from the show's "greatest hits"), and two compilation tapes (called "Celebrity Deathmatch: Round 1" and "Round Two").
* TheOtherDarrin: During the 2006-07 revival, Johnny Gomez, Nick Diamond, and Mills Lane were all recast. In Mills' case, he had a stroke, so he was no longer able to voice himself.
* UnCanceled: As it turned out, [[SeasonalRot not the best idea]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: To think that this show's glory years were ''before'' the rise of the Internet, {{Myspace}} and YouTube celebrities, Perez Hilton and TMZ...
* HeyItsThatVoice: The last two seasons featured much more well known voice actors, including TaraStrong and JohnDimaggio.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: 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. Fortunately, a lot of the stuff has been put back up on YouTube after Viacom's lawsuit against them failed.
** To make things [[SarcasmMode better]], there are only three CDM tapes released (to this troper's knowledge): a supposedly "Greatest Hits" tape (consisting of 7 fights that are far from the show's "greatest hits"), and two compilation tapes (called "Celebrity Deathmatch: Round 1" and "Round Two").
* TheOtherDarrin: During the 2006-07 revival, Johnny Gomez, Nick Diamond, and Mills Lane were all recast. In Mills' case, he had a stroke, so he was no longer able to voice himself.
* UnCanceled: As it turned out, [[SeasonalRot not the best idea]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: To think that this show's glory years were ''before'' the rise of the Internet, {{Myspace}} and YouTube celebrities, Perez Hilton and TMZ...
