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@@fentimablader That spiderman one was so weird. There was a lot of crazy stuff going on with Spider-Man at that point and that one just got lost in the shuffle.
Heck, Celebrity Deathmatch even made an episode featuring Ron Jeremy that was too spicy for MTV2. Instead that episode was only shown at Adult Bars and Strip Clubs.
I specifically remember visiting my stepdad's parents house in Florida for the week. They had different cable channels and different things On Demand, and I randomly stumbled on the show. First episode I saw the one with Gwen Stefani vs Missy Elliot. It was bizzare to say the least, but I thought it was brilliant and I'm glad I found it.
I remember stumbling on it one day in the living room TV, which had Direct TV. The gore got me fucked up, but like, it was the 2000’s. Gore was everywhere. It wasn’t like any other gore. You literally had someone inflate their tits until their eyeballs popped out. I actually don’t know if that really happened, but probably.
In an interview I did with actor David Wills (Captain Falcon in the F-Zero anime, Fergy Fudgehog in Viva Pinata, and general 4Kids guy), told me he was one of the many voices in this show, in his VO debut. According to him, MTV sent over faxes of characters to audition for and he would audition over the phone, where they’d let you call 3-4 times to get it right. Wills voiced Hugh Grant, Nicolas Cage, members of N-Sync, KISS, and several others over the course of two years. They misspelt his name in the credits.
In the late 90s and early 2000s there was a very few people that would do a lot of voice work. Which is awesome because it meant the same people that were forced to do the crap that 4kids made them do got to do fun stuff like this. Or at least funner, or maybe it's just a job to them I don't know.
According to Weird Al's website, he didn't even KNOW they had him in an episode pretty much until it aired. Makes sense cuz considering Al's relationship with MTV, he would probably have done it.
weird al wouldve but he was working on his kids show at the time and knowing how much studio interference there was there over it not being kid friendly/educational enough i feel like theyd complain abt iy
The reason isn't discussed because it's both forgotten and depressing as hell. The worst ending ever where MTV basically says eef it and becomes a channel of nothing but reality shows. A piece of me definitely died the day that happened.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Could you imagine if in an alternate timeline, MTV instead became place known for adult animation and I mean like good adult animation not Family Guy clones
@@kittykittybangbang9367 I can only imagine if they kept evolving how good they could have been unfortunately we'll never know not in this time line anyway. I have to say though they were consistent right to the end even as the ax was about to fall on animation on MTV they still had cool stuff like clone high. I mean the animation world in general has completely changed in the last 20 years. The big boys like Nick and cartoon Network have lost most of the glory they once had. Now it's almost exclusively about streaming.
miss cleo, who was in the video game, said in an interview that she told her kids that if they ever got mad at her, they could play the game and kill her in it
Fun fact: The actor who played Macaulay Culkin in CDM went on to played Jimmy Hopkins in the video game "Bully." Also, apparently MTV2 aired a short live animation block of Nicktoons consist of Spongebob, Invader Zim, the original Ren and Stimpy show, and Kappa Mikey. I wish I can found a promo that proves that.
funny you mention Kappa Mikey as that show at one point was gonna be part of the MTV Animation line-up before being cancelled and rebooted as a kids show instead.
@@MrDmoney156 that I'm aware of. The pilot that was pitch to MTV is uploaded by the executive producer of Kappa Mikey. I'm curious if anyone recorded Kappa Mikey want it was on MTV2.
I do remember watching SpongeBob and Ren and Stimpy on MTV a long time ago. I'm not sure if it was an animation block or not. I also don't remember watching Invader Zim or Kappa Mikey. I was a kid back then, so I probably wouldn't have thought about it anyway lol
Clone high getting major controversy for their portrayal of ghandi while Celebrity Death Match slips by without any complaints is like Kakuto Chojin being abandoned because of its use of music with religious chants while so many games before used the same track.
Damn, I didn't realize how violent this was. I remember getting pissed at my parents for not letting me watch this when I was like 4 or 5. As an adult, I completely understand. Holy shit, those "fatalities" look gruesome.
i remember my local MTV running this on weekdays at 11 PM. i saw more than a few episodes (mostly season 3) and i can confirm, Eric Fogel and the guys could make some disturbing shit with those clay models.
A kid in elementary school and I became friends for the last three months of the semester because of this show. We wouldn't hang out after school but during composition/reading, we would talk about this show. Sadly, we both went to other schools for high school and never knew each other last names. Wherever you are dude, I hope you're doing great.
Went I went over to my cousin's house in 1999 to 2000, they had cable and just about everything without restrictions... So no one told me to stop watching this. The one I remember to this day was the Britney Spears vs. Christina Aguilera, and Dolly Parton vs. Jennifer Lopez, where they had blow up boobs and butts (You can see a frame of it in the video), and with the Spears/Aguilera fight, there was a joke about them looking exactly the same because they had similar schick's at the time. Ah, my youth was magical.
This was lightning in a bottle. You just had to be there. Some of my most treasured memories from third grade to sixth grade just happened to be Thursday nights at 10pm. My dad was savvy enough to tape almost every episode for me (you could program the VCR as a primitive TIVO). It was a bonding experience; my dad would grill some steaks and we’d watch it at dinner (and we’d take bets). God, the 90’s/2000 was such a beautiful time to be a kid.
I remember setting timers to record Conan O'Brien's show on blank VHS tapes we had laying around. And A few of my favorite tapes had a UPN showing of 60s Adam west Batman, Judge Dredd/The Blob/Tank Girl, and a Michael Jackson special that had a mix of live concert footage and music videos. Shit was wild. Never gonna be like that again.
As a latino, seeing Celebrity Deathmatch as a kid was the same as seeing the Mad animated show on Cartoon Network. A bunch of artists and references that unless they were internationally popular I wouldn't understand, yet I enjoyed them both
He has a song with the word spastic, which is a offensive word in UK, he didnt knew that when the song was released, so he apologized after find that spastic was offensive in the UK.
This show used to terrify me as a kid due to the fake gore. Now that I'm older, I have an appreciation for the hard work that goes into claymation and other forms of animation as well.
I'm still watching the video, but I really do appreciate the use of Tusk's Theme when referring to the Butt Bowl. Tusk's theme gives off that Monday Night Football feel.
@@RebelTaxi I would love owning new updated remastered Deathmatch videos on Blue Ray's addition collector sets cause that would be so exellent. now one Deathmatch we never got to see in full Ga Ga vs Madonna a feud between poser against Vogue ster a title idea I came up with. I would like the fights to be longer more blood and have them allowed to say anything that they want to at anytime. this is why many love Home Box Office no restrictions or boundaries just fun killings and deaths.
"Good fight, and good night" is an oddly fitting way to describe the show's production if you think about it And wow, this Score guy really put in some solid VO work, props to him too! My favorite thing isn't even an episode, but what a cool guy Manson is for commissioning a whole MV
It's impressive that Celebrity Deathmatch was already using digital cameras for claymation considering that Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit which was a high-budget 2005 film still used 35mm film. Meanwhile, Celebrity Deathmatch was made in the '90s and they already have digital cameras. I do like 35mm film better but it says how Celebrity Deathmatch got so much faith when they got digital cameras before the kings of claymation Aardman.
I’d get the creators of Robot Chicken to pick it up for Adult Swim. If there’s anyone with enough experience in stop motion, sketch comedy, and celebrity parodies to do the show justice, it’s them. Or allow the people who made that fan animation to continue the series on RUclips. They seem to have enough potential.
I would have loved to have seen a comic/game con type special where they had Scott Pilgrim LITERALLY vs. The World, in which Scott and the gang take on all challengers in and out of the arena for some agreed upon time limit or something.
I guess the reason why they dont show or rerun the original 90s celebrity deathmatch episodes was due to music licensing issues or issues with celebrities likenesses
I always hear people wanting a Wiz vs Boomstick Death Battle, but I think the two of them going up against the Celebrity Death Match announcers would be a way better fight.
There was a bit about the 50 Cent vs. The Game match in the revival that The Game's father really didn't like that the episode showed the Game getting "shot" by the bullets that hit 50 Cent. Something about losing another child from being shot so it hit close to home.
That hasn't stopped the episode from being viewable on streaming. Frequently, these controversial reactions only increased viewership and notoriety for the show.
Would paid for it, ngl. I wanna see those toxic k-pop stans getting angry on Twitter bc they saw their precious Idols dying in gruesome ways by another random celebrity. 🤣
God. This was the show that turned me off of the idea of violence and gore in claymation for years just because of how grotesque it looked when they did it. I had to wait for Robot Chicken to make me change my mind about that.
One time I met an crew member from the show, I believe he made puppets and sets and what not. It was very cool to here about how hectic yet enjoyable/rewarding it was to work in the MTV animation department at that time.
I had that ps2 game. Horribly unbalanced, but still playable made for the best paying among my siblings and my dad and I. Had to ban Miss Cleo from play for her one hit KO though.
YES! FINALLY CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH IS GETTING RECOGNITION! REBELTAXI I LOVE YOU! I grew up with this show since I was 9 years old I miss it so much, when I talk about it no one remembers it which is a huge shame as it was such an original idea and the animation was really good for stopmotion back in the day. You also got ScorePN? I love that RUclipsr.
Fun fact: Tunde Adebimpe the lead singer of the band TV on the Radio was an animator for Celebrity Deathmatch in the early going of the show. He wound up putting his stop motion skills to use after the show directing the music video for Yeah Yeah Yeahs' song Pin.
I was obsessed with this show as a teen. I remember checking MTV2's schedule every week to see when it'd be on again so I could record as much episodes as possible. I'd say I managed to record a good 75% of the whole series. Great review, man, really took me back.
Holy shit I watched this so much when I was a kid and loved it. How did it completely evaporate from my brain, this is like a vietnam flashback of memory.
The first match I ever saw was Lucy Lawless vs. Calista Flockhart. I remember being completely caught off guard with the fight's ending. It had me dying! Also makes me really wish this show would receive a complete series release on home media.
I still buy disposable cameras to take creepy photos, when the film gets damaged it can look ridiculously cool. I actually ended up with these summer camp haunted photos.
You know, if this show ever comes back again, I bet they’re going to have Marilyn Manson squashed in the first episode because of how bad he’s been revealed to be.
I fondly remember watching the reboot in 2007 and having to hide it from my mom because it was so violent and I knew she'd throw a fit of she found out about it. But I loved it.
"What did the real celebs think of CDM?" Correct if you may, didn't CDM have brief RL segments in which they interviewed some of the celebrities featured the show? I personally remember they interviewed Tommy Lee, Mick Foley and THE Stone Cold himself.
I think Death Battle is the spiritual successor to Celebrity Deathmatch. Hell, even Wiz and Boomstick are kinda like Johnny Gomez and Nick Diamond respectively.
Oh yeah, I love Celebrity Deathmatch! It was fun to see celebrities fight each other to the death (in claymation). I sometimes reminisce of past episodes b/c I remember them vividly. Kevin Bacon 7 Degrees of Separation fight, 98 Degrees vs Blink 182, even Michael Jordan vs Dennis Rodman. Can you imagine seeing Lil Nas X vs Nas? Run the Jewels vs Wu Tang Clan? Michael Fassbender vs Benedict Cumberbatch?
As much as I'd love for this series to make a comeback, there's still the question of whether or not it can find a new audience whilst reeling in the old fans as that's what the network would want. Apart from the fact that Celebrity Deathmatch is very much a product of its time, there's also the fact that companies are very averse to controversy these days (ex. the crap that happened with Avalanche Software). Sure, you could get: Vin Diesel vs Dwayne Johnson, Kristen Bell vs Drake Bell, Jeff Dunham vs Lena Dunham, Zendaya vs Bella Thorne, Dan Nainan vs Russell Peters (among others), Billie Eilish vs anyone, Lena Heady vs Jerome Flynn, or even Amanda Palmer vs [too many names to list]. However, considering part of the show's charm is the fact that it doesn't hold back, they'd probably go with something like Harvey Weinstein vs Bill Cosby with Louis CK taken down as collateral. That matchup would undoubtedly cause more than a few fists to shake. Plus, a lot of the celebrities featured in CD were associated with MTV one way or another, and e-fame has arguably eclipsed traditional fame.
I don't honestly remember any individual episode as being the thing that scarred me for life because regardless of that I kept watching... This show tapped into a very dark side of my personality that really enjoyed it even if it disgusted me on every other level
As seen with this show and Death Battle, the idea of pitting people against each other is a very popular idea. Also I wouldn’t mind seeing you cover Death Battle sometime.
@@Falcovsleon21 the fighters have less of a reason to fight, they stopped including the weaknesses, the stats and research suck, they’re horribly biased and the fights have gotten boring
There needs to be a Celebrity Deathmatch Internet Division...RUclipsrs and people of our ilk, aka e-celebs have their own petty beefs and to see them fight in the squared circle to the death in claymation would be amazing!
I had good times watching this show! (oh, and for those of you who weren't there, when the cow says "fancy a shag?" It's a line from Austin Powers, which was hot at the time...)
I had a gamer informer magazine that talked about the celebrity death match video game. I remember Anna Nicole, Lance Bass, Marilyn Manson and others said the loved the series so much. Anna Nicole was really happy one of her attacks was squirting breast milk.
I remember watching celebrity deathmats when MTV was doing a marathon of it and I was like this looks pretty fun and I wonder finding some of the older stuff on RUclips. It really seems like the people who remain it had a good time with it and it would be interesting to see it come back
this channel is the one way i manage to get a glimpse of the golden age of mtv, as i was a wee baby at the time. thanks for continuing to enlighten us pan, you damn legend.
In hindsight, the fights featuring real wrestlers were more like deathmatches than actual deathmatches in wrestling...... ......because someone actually died
this show was my jam as a kid! i was too young to know who most of the celebrities were but i sure loved seeing them kill each other in grotesque cartoony fashion.
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we want more videos of reviews on shows from MTV like "Wildboyz", "Viva La Bam" & "Jackass"
Does anyone know where I can watch the early seasons of this show? Paramount + only has seasons 5-6.
Thanks pan... You always brighten my shittiest days
I'm happy you mentioned death battle :)
Celebrity Deathmatch : One of the few MTV cartoons successful enough to have way more than 13 episodes
I agree I love this series when I was watching it as a teenager do you have a favorite episode
Too bad it was celebrity death match
And have a shitty PS2 game too. Why hasn’t the Nerd reviewed that?
clone high and spider-man: :/
@@fentimablader
That spiderman one was so weird.
There was a lot of crazy stuff going on with Spider-Man at that point and that one just got lost in the shuffle.
Celebrity Deathmatch is literally the embodiment of early 2000s edgy newground animations.
that was a beautiful and wonderful time
Heck, Celebrity Deathmatch even made an episode featuring Ron Jeremy that was too spicy for MTV2. Instead that episode was only shown at Adult Bars and Strip Clubs.
@@nyanpirethecat2257 interesting
Yep. But back when the the internet wasnt a thing for everyone it was amaxing but i can see it being antiquated today.
@@nyanpirethecat2257 Was that the one where he fought Tommy Lee?
“One human life is equal to Ten boy band members “
- Pan Pizza (2021)
As a kid I always thought the commentators were mario and luigi when they're not being plumbers.
(ᕒᗢूᓬ*)
Does that make Stacey Cornbrad princess peach?
I thought I was the only one
Happy to see I'm the only one who thought that as a kid.
That made my day lol
I specifically remember visiting my stepdad's parents house in Florida for the week. They had different cable channels and different things On Demand, and I randomly stumbled on the show. First episode I saw the one with Gwen Stefani vs Missy Elliot. It was bizzare to say the least, but I thought it was brilliant and I'm glad I found it.
yooo fortnite man
I remember stumbling on it one day in the living room TV, which had Direct TV.
The gore got me fucked up, but like, it was the 2000’s. Gore was everywhere.
It wasn’t like any other gore. You literally had someone inflate their tits until their eyeballs popped out. I actually don’t know if that really happened, but probably.
@@Aflay1 same
Hello italk
In an interview I did with actor David Wills (Captain Falcon in the F-Zero anime, Fergy Fudgehog in Viva Pinata, and general 4Kids guy), told me he was one of the many voices in this show, in his VO debut.
According to him, MTV sent over faxes of characters to audition for and he would audition over the phone, where they’d let you call 3-4 times to get it right.
Wills voiced Hugh Grant, Nicolas Cage, members of N-Sync, KISS, and several others over the course of two years. They misspelt his name in the credits.
You could say this was "B-4" 4Kids! Hehe!
@@VigilanteLulu Haha, clever!
In the late 90s and early 2000s there was a very few people that would do a lot of voice work. Which is awesome because it meant the same people that were forced to do the crap that 4kids made them do got to do fun stuff like this. Or at least funner, or maybe it's just a job to them I don't know.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu To some it was just a job, but talk to most anyone who was an actor at 4Kids, and they usually say how much fun it was to work there.
@@TheCartoonGamer8000 he also voiced Espio from the 4kids dub Sonic X 2003-2006.
According to Weird Al's website, he didn't even KNOW they had him in an episode pretty much until it aired.
Makes sense cuz considering Al's relationship with MTV, he would probably have done it.
He doesn't swear. I wonder if the studio would've changed the script to accommodate
@@zantorfromconversationtheg5725 can't see why not honestly
weird al wouldve but he was working on his kids show at the time and knowing how much studio interference there was there over it not being kid friendly/educational enough i feel like theyd complain abt iy
MTV's animation history isn't talked about nearly enough in this community glad to see someone discussing this
The reason isn't discussed because it's both forgotten and depressing as hell. The worst ending ever where MTV basically says eef it and becomes a channel of nothing but reality shows. A piece of me definitely died the day that happened.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Could you imagine if in an alternate timeline, MTV instead became place known for adult animation and I mean like good adult animation not Family Guy clones
I would love to see him talk about the MTV Spiderman show
In this house we Stan The Head.
@@kittykittybangbang9367
I can only imagine if they kept evolving how good they could have been unfortunately we'll never know not in this time line anyway.
I have to say though they were consistent right to the end even as the ax was about to fall on animation on MTV they still had cool stuff like clone high. I mean the animation world in general has completely changed in the last 20 years. The big boys like Nick and cartoon Network have lost most of the glory they once had. Now it's almost exclusively about streaming.
miss cleo, who was in the video game, said in an interview that she told her kids that if they ever got mad at her, they could play the game and kill her in it
That's honestly a good way to deal with that.
not to offend Cleo or anything (i don't even know her), but i suppose that could be a reason to play that godforsaken steaming pile of shit of a game.
Fun fact: The actor who played Macaulay Culkin in CDM went on to played Jimmy Hopkins in the video game "Bully."
Also, apparently MTV2 aired a short live animation block of Nicktoons consist of Spongebob, Invader Zim, the original Ren and Stimpy show, and Kappa Mikey. I wish I can found a promo that proves that.
funny you mention Kappa Mikey as that show at one point was gonna be part of the MTV Animation line-up before being cancelled and rebooted as a kids show instead.
@@MrDmoney156 that I'm aware of. The pilot that was pitch to MTV is uploaded by the executive producer of Kappa Mikey. I'm curious if anyone recorded Kappa Mikey want it was on MTV2.
Why does this show have so much interesting trivia
I do remember watching SpongeBob and Ren and Stimpy on MTV a long time ago. I'm not sure if it was an animation block or not. I also don't remember watching Invader Zim or Kappa Mikey. I was a kid back then, so I probably wouldn't have thought about it anyway lol
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I never got tired of hearing Mills Lane
"LEZZZZZ GYETT IT OOON!" as a kid
"I'll allow it."
Never expected you to be here
I've always heard Captain Tenneal with that phrase.
What's your favorite episodes
Damn Conner, I havent heard of you in a long time, I remmeber back when you were just a lil jontron clone, glad to see you're still making vids.
Clone high getting major controversy for their portrayal of ghandi while Celebrity Death Match slips by without any complaints is like Kakuto Chojin being abandoned because of its use of music with religious chants while so many games before used the same track.
Damn, I didn't realize how violent this was. I remember getting pissed at my parents for not letting me watch this when I was like 4 or 5. As an adult, I completely understand. Holy shit, those "fatalities" look gruesome.
i remember my local MTV running this on weekdays at 11 PM. i saw more than a few episodes (mostly season 3) and i can confirm, Eric Fogel and the guys could make some disturbing shit with those clay models.
A kid in elementary school and I became friends for the last three months of the semester because of this show. We wouldn't hang out after school but during composition/reading, we would talk about this show. Sadly, we both went to other schools for high school and never knew each other last names. Wherever you are dude, I hope you're doing great.
This feels like something you’d see in a family guy cut away gag when the griffins are watching tv
I'm still pissed by the match between Weird Al vs. Al Gore. Weird Al should've won that match.
I love how dry and emotionless the creators are in interviews about something so outlandish and ridiculous
Went I went over to my cousin's house in 1999 to 2000, they had cable and just about everything without restrictions... So no one told me to stop watching this.
The one I remember to this day was the Britney Spears vs. Christina Aguilera, and Dolly Parton vs. Jennifer Lopez, where they had blow up boobs and butts (You can see a frame of it in the video), and with the Spears/Aguilera fight, there was a joke about them looking exactly the same because they had similar schick's at the time. Ah, my youth was magical.
I’d say MTV was ahead of it’s time, but that implies that time has had any effect on MTV to begin with.
I mean it really was. Especially early MTV.
Just like any subversive media, bureaucracy caught up with it and the pull of the mighty dollar was ever greater than any artistic integrity.
This was lightning in a bottle. You just had to be there. Some of my most treasured memories from third grade to sixth grade just happened to be Thursday nights at 10pm. My dad was savvy enough to tape almost every episode for me (you could program the VCR as a primitive TIVO). It was a bonding experience; my dad would grill some steaks and we’d watch it at dinner (and we’d take bets).
God, the 90’s/2000 was such a beautiful time to be a kid.
Thats because that was the decade you were a kid.
@@girlykyuu1185 well, yeah. Everything is better when you're a kid. Let me feel old, lol.
I remember setting timers to record Conan O'Brien's show on blank VHS tapes we had laying around. And A few of my favorite tapes had a UPN showing of 60s Adam west Batman, Judge Dredd/The Blob/Tank Girl, and a Michael Jackson special that had a mix of live concert footage and music videos. Shit was wild. Never gonna be like that again.
@@kolbykauffman4180The dude who replied is prolly nostalgic about Flappy Bird.
As a latino, seeing Celebrity Deathmatch as a kid was the same as seeing the Mad animated show on Cartoon Network. A bunch of artists and references that unless they were internationally popular I wouldn't understand, yet I enjoyed them both
Latino is such a broad term, and that is not something that's exclusive to Latinos.
Same xd
@@SirBlackReeds I mean, no duh it's not exclusive to Latinos but he's relating his personal experience so it's relevant to mention.
I think weird al didn’t come to the show due to his character swearing. As far as I’ve found he’s never sworn on a song or appearance
He has a song with the word spastic, which is a offensive word in UK, he didnt knew that when the song was released, so he apologized after find that spastic was offensive in the UK.
@@satorikomeiji1161 What’s the meaning behind ‘Spastic’ in the UK? It’s always been used as another word for ‘crazy/hyperactive’ here in the US.
@@trika91 It means retard in the UK
He did say "ya cheap bastard!!!!" In his song dont download this song.
Geez, if that's the case they must've not cared enough to change the words around to get him on.
15:06 The show would later do Mary-Kate vs. Ashley Olsen (who were 14), and a 10 year old Haley Joel Osment fighting an adult Macaulay Culkin
It's really impressive what they pulled off with such a small studio in a TV weekly schedule.
This show used to terrify me as a kid due to the fake gore. Now that I'm older, I have an appreciation for the hard work that goes into claymation and other forms of animation as well.
I'm still watching the video, but I really do appreciate the use of Tusk's Theme when referring to the Butt Bowl. Tusk's theme gives off that Monday Night Football feel.
EXACTLY. Yeah. That's the vibe his song gives
@@RebelTaxi I would love owning new updated remastered Deathmatch videos on Blue Ray's addition collector sets cause that would be so exellent.
now one Deathmatch we never got to see in full Ga Ga vs Madonna a feud between poser against Vogue ster a title idea I came up with. I would like the fights to be longer more blood and have them allowed to say anything that they want to at anytime. this is why many love Home Box Office no restrictions or boundaries just fun killings and deaths.
@@RebelTaxi
Please someone bring this back I'm being you ot anyone I love it.
take celebreties who's done actual horrendous things like R Kelly, Manson and such and just let them fight a real deathmatch
Celebrity Deathmatch had an episode called "Clash of the Trashy Titans". That might interest you.
@@ivanmartin1457 I think he meant in real life.
Manson's dead dude. Hope you already knew that.
*Edit: Wrong Manson I guess.*
"Good fight, and good night" is an oddly fitting way to describe the show's production if you think about it
And wow, this Score guy really put in some solid VO work, props to him too!
My favorite thing isn't even an episode, but what a cool guy Manson is for commissioning a whole MV
It's impressive that Celebrity Deathmatch was already using digital cameras for claymation considering that Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit which was a high-budget 2005 film still used 35mm film.
Meanwhile, Celebrity Deathmatch was made in the '90s and they already have digital cameras. I do like 35mm film better but it says how Celebrity Deathmatch got so much faith when they got digital cameras before the kings of claymation Aardman.
Those were video cameras, not digital. The frames were captured on a computer in Premiere I think.
As someone who was born in 2004, seeing all these celebrities a lot of whom I don't recognize just feels like a time capsule
I was born in 1999 and I know most of these yikes I feel old
Young buck
"He looks like the other child I disowned"
THE FIRST KID DIDN'T GET LEFT IN A TARGET CONFIRMED
Pan never had a kid, that's a running joke he does.
@@wisconsinking323 Puts the wooooo in wooooosh
@@Protomorfid Dude, Pan even confirmed it on his podcast that him and one of his ex's never had a kid. It's a running joke.
I’d get the creators of Robot Chicken to pick it up for Adult Swim. If there’s anyone with enough experience in stop motion, sketch comedy, and celebrity parodies to do the show justice, it’s them. Or allow the people who made that fan animation to continue the series on RUclips. They seem to have enough potential.
I’ll never forget the Halloween episode where Kiss fought N*SYNC and the wolf man fought Frankenstein
Or how The Undertaker beat the literal Hell out of a child
@@phantomofmalus7054 A possessed child.
Brendan Fraiser vs. The Mummy was solid too.
“Before Death Battle, Epic Rap Battle, and Cartoon Beatbox Battle”
Damn bro you named every Smash Brothers clone.
Now I want an episode of pan talking about Beavis and Butt-head for an hour
Me too. Mostly because I've been rewatching old B&B clips lately.
YES PLEASE
Leave it to Pan to make me have a lot of respect and appreciation for a show I had previously only known through shitty youtube clips from 2009.
I remember me and my cousin discovered this show a few years ago when we watched the Beavis and Butthead match. We loved it
I would have loved to have seen a comic/game con type special where they had Scott Pilgrim LITERALLY vs. The World, in which Scott and the gang take on all challengers in and out of the arena for some agreed upon time limit or something.
This show was the nuts back in the day. Never see it back in this day and age.
This is like Robot Chicken, but with celebrities instead of pop culture.
This was one of those shows my mom didn't want me watching. So naturally I watched it as much as humanly possible.
My baby brother,friends and then 15 year old self LOVED Celebrity Deathmatch during 1998-1999.
Mills Lane wasn't just a referee. Apparently, he's a judge too. A legal one.
This looks like what my nightmares look like.
Apparently, Wierd Al had his fight played during one of his concerts! I love that man's humor!
I guess the reason why they dont show or rerun the original 90s celebrity deathmatch episodes was due to music licensing issues or issues with celebrities likenesses
SO FUCKING UNDERRATED with a lot Great rewatchable fights and Creative finishing moves
And Love it how Stone Cold became a Reoccurring Side Character
Uh oh… Pan Pizza animation history video… these are always really good
I agree.
I always hear people wanting a Wiz vs Boomstick Death Battle, but I think the two of them going up against the Celebrity Death Match announcers would be a way better fight.
India when Celebrity Deathmatch pokes fun at Gandhi :”That’s ok”
Also India seeing clone high doing the same thing:”NOW THAT’S GOING TOO FAR “!!!!
There was a bit about the 50 Cent vs. The Game match in the revival that The Game's father really didn't like that the episode showed the Game getting "shot" by the bullets that hit 50 Cent. Something about losing another child from being shot so it hit close to home.
That hasn't stopped the episode from being viewable on streaming. Frequently, these controversial reactions only increased viewership and notoriety for the show.
The fact that Steve Austin's biggest problem that his character can't flip people off is perfect
They should bring it back.
So many possibilities and matchups.
Also, it would be great for Paramount Plus.
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But it's very much a product of its time. Not to mention that companies are very adverse to controversy these days.
George Michael vs Paul Reubens was a crazy fight lmao
ngl, i'd like to see a K-Pop episode of Celebrity Deathmatch, it would be hilarious xDD
Me too
Would paid for it, ngl.
I wanna see those toxic k-pop stans getting angry on Twitter bc they saw their precious Idols dying in gruesome ways by another random celebrity. 🤣
God. This was the show that turned me off of the idea of violence and gore in claymation for years just because of how grotesque it looked when they did it. I had to wait for Robot Chicken to make me change my mind about that.
A copy of the videogame version of this has been collecting dust in my local used games store. I say to myself that one day I’ll buy it. One day...
I won it for free on ps1 from a redemption machine at D&B in the late 2000’s
One time I met an crew member from the show, I believe he made puppets and sets and what not. It was very cool to here about how hectic yet enjoyable/rewarding it was to work in the MTV animation department at that time.
19:46 I've known that animated company that worked on Jojo's Circus that aired on Playhouse Disney (now called Disney Junior)!
Love the timing and visual gags, especially the bit when they cut back to Marv Albert saying “lets see that again!” in a loop
I had that ps2 game. Horribly unbalanced, but still playable made for the best paying among my siblings and my dad and I. Had to ban Miss Cleo from play for her one hit KO though.
YES! FINALLY CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH IS GETTING RECOGNITION! REBELTAXI I LOVE YOU! I grew up with this show since I was 9 years old I miss it so much, when I talk about it no one remembers it which is a huge shame as it was such an original idea and the animation was really good for stopmotion back in the day. You also got ScorePN? I love that RUclipsr.
12:45 ZONE continues to be an influence in Pan's taste
Fun fact: Tunde Adebimpe the lead singer of the band TV on the Radio was an animator for Celebrity Deathmatch in the early going of the show. He wound up putting his stop motion skills to use after the show directing the music video for Yeah Yeah Yeahs' song Pin.
It just feels so surreal to remember that MTV at one point had animated shows.
(Also 100% agree, this show terrified me with the gore haha)
If you think that's crazy, wait till you hear that they used to play music.
I was obsessed with this show as a teen. I remember checking MTV2's schedule every week to see when it'd be on again so I could record as much episodes as possible. I'd say I managed to record a good 75% of the whole series.
Great review, man, really took me back.
Do you still have the episodes?
Holy shit I watched this so much when I was a kid and loved it. How did it completely evaporate from my brain, this is like a vietnam flashback of memory.
The first match I ever saw was Lucy Lawless vs. Calista Flockhart. I remember being completely caught off guard with the fight's ending. It had me dying! Also makes me really wish this show would receive a complete series release on home media.
I still buy disposable cameras to take creepy photos, when the film gets damaged it can look ridiculously cool. I actually ended up with these summer camp haunted photos.
We live in a timeline where the show got green lit because it did well at the Superbowl premier
You know, if this show ever comes back again, I bet they’re going to have Marilyn Manson squashed in the first episode because of how bad he’s been revealed to be.
And they're gonna apologize for the Kobe Bryant fight because he's been exonerated/and or is now dead.
@@eatatjoes6751 That fight was not really an issue as he wins, but's is funny how is missing all the basquets shots
Are people really surprised about Marilyn Manson?
@@turtleofpride4572 plenty of other industrial metal guys are fine, dunno why anyone would assume Manson’d be different
thank god they got gremblo to voice himself
I fondly remember watching the reboot in 2007 and having to hide it from my mom because it was so violent and I knew she'd throw a fit of she found out about it. But I loved it.
The Reboot didn’t come until 2016.
"What did the real celebs think of CDM?"
Correct if you may, didn't CDM have brief RL segments in which they interviewed some of the celebrities featured the show? I personally remember they interviewed Tommy Lee, Mick Foley and THE Stone Cold himself.
I think Death Battle is the spiritual successor to Celebrity Deathmatch. Hell, even Wiz and Boomstick are kinda like Johnny Gomez and Nick Diamond respectively.
13:18 I'm with you on that. I love when cartoons get giant robots in their episodes. Seriuosly, where was I when this aired!?
If they were to bring back Celebrity Death Match, it'd be really cool to bring in Lee Hardcastle to do some of the animation.
I like how Donny and Marie Osmond spotlight their fictional appearance on the show. They praised it.
Claymation and cartoony gore are a match made in Heaven
if CDM came back today, Nick Cannons finisher would be all his kids attacking the other celebrity! lol
Oh yeah, I love Celebrity Deathmatch! It was fun to see celebrities fight each other to the death (in claymation). I sometimes reminisce of past episodes b/c I remember them vividly. Kevin Bacon 7 Degrees of Separation fight, 98 Degrees vs Blink 182, even Michael Jordan vs Dennis Rodman. Can you imagine seeing Lil Nas X vs Nas? Run the Jewels vs Wu Tang Clan? Michael Fassbender vs Benedict Cumberbatch?
Yeah, I'm definitely gonna have these scenes stuck in my head for a while...
This brought back a cursed memory that was buried in the recesses of my memory. I haven’t heard of this in over a decade
My art teacher in highschool worked on this show! Coolest art teacher I ever had.
As much as I'd love for this series to make a comeback, there's still the question of whether or not it can find a new audience whilst reeling in the old fans as that's what the network would want. Apart from the fact that Celebrity Deathmatch is very much a product of its time, there's also the fact that companies are very averse to controversy these days (ex. the crap that happened with Avalanche Software). Sure, you could get: Vin Diesel vs Dwayne Johnson, Kristen Bell vs Drake Bell, Jeff Dunham vs Lena Dunham, Zendaya vs Bella Thorne, Dan Nainan vs Russell Peters (among others), Billie Eilish vs anyone, Lena Heady vs Jerome Flynn, or even Amanda Palmer vs [too many names to list].
However, considering part of the show's charm is the fact that it doesn't hold back, they'd probably go with something like Harvey Weinstein vs Bill Cosby with Louis CK taken down as collateral. That matchup would undoubtedly cause more than a few fists to shake. Plus, a lot of the celebrities featured in CD were associated with MTV one way or another, and e-fame has arguably eclipsed traditional fame.
I don't honestly remember any individual episode as being the thing that scarred me for life because regardless of that I kept watching... This show tapped into a very dark side of my personality that really enjoyed it even if it disgusted me on every other level
As seen with this show and Death Battle, the idea of pitting people against each other is a very popular idea.
Also I wouldn’t mind seeing you cover Death Battle sometime.
Death Battle turned to shit
@@crackerjack0349 yee
Hot take: The only good DB was TJ vs Balrog
@@crackerjack0349 Like hell it did!
@@Falcovsleon21 the fighters have less of a reason to fight, they stopped including the weaknesses, the stats and research suck, they’re horribly biased and the fights have gotten boring
Never thought I'd see someone like Score PN collaborate with a big RUclipsr like you. Cool shit.
There needs to be a Celebrity Deathmatch Internet Division...RUclipsrs and people of our ilk, aka e-celebs have their own petty beefs and to see them fight in the squared circle to the death in claymation would be amazing!
I had good times watching this show! (oh, and for those of you who weren't there, when the cow says "fancy a shag?" It's a line from Austin Powers, which was hot at the time...)
I had a gamer informer magazine that talked about the celebrity death match video game. I remember Anna Nicole, Lance Bass, Marilyn Manson and others said the loved the series so much. Anna Nicole was really happy one of her attacks was squirting breast milk.
I remember watching celebrity deathmats when MTV was doing a marathon of it and I was like this looks pretty fun and I wonder finding some of the older stuff on RUclips. It really seems like the people who remain it had a good time with it and it would be interesting to see it come back
One the greatest series ever, I wish MTV would bring it back for new episodes
MTV Celebrity Deathmatch walked so Death Battle could run .
this channel is the one way i manage to get a glimpse of the golden age of mtv, as i was a wee baby at the time. thanks for continuing to enlighten us pan, you damn legend.
I love the fact that stone cold's issue was that his clay counterpart only had 4 fingers and cannot flip the bird lmao
Never get tired of how RebelTaxi addresses the ad break - genuinely feels more respectful than just shoving a midroll in wherever RUclips recommends.
Ikr, plus I like it how he makes it feel like a commercial break
In hindsight, the fights featuring real wrestlers were more like deathmatches than actual deathmatches in wrestling......
......because someone actually died
I mean, say that to Nick Gage?
this show was my jam as a kid! i was too young to know who most of the celebrities were but i sure loved seeing them kill each other in grotesque cartoony fashion.
some of the epic fights that would come out of modern celebrities if they brought it back
definitely a highlight of my childhood. I honestly can't believe it got made with how gorey it was, and it aired during the day too.