The Theme Team League shall appear here. It is manually updated so won’t be updated as often as the main scoreboard – typically once a month.
3 December – No change in the top five as it remains anyone’s game in the final weeks…
Pos | Team | Theme | Points |
1. | Pazuzu Bad Boys | Unsavoury characters | 62 |
2. | They think it’s all over | Scottish football | 61 |
3. | #1 Hits | UK chart toppers | 59 |
4. | God’s Gonna Gettem | G names | 58 |
5. | Sudden Death | Football | 56 |
6. | Deutschland verabschiedet sich! | Germans | 55 |
7. | Sportspeople I Think Might Die in 2023 United | Athletes | 53 |
8. | Last Christmas | Christmas-associated celebs | 47 |
9. | Baby Kissers Taking a Big Sleep | Politicians | 45 |
10. | House Of Soon To Be With The Lord | Politicians | 44 |
11. | St. Peter’s Warblers | Musicians | 43 |
=12. | Great Gig in the Sky | Musicians | 42 |
=12. | KICKING BUCKETS INSTEAD OF BALLS | Footballers | 42 |
=12. | Nearly Dead Kennedys | Kennedy Center honorees | 42 |
=15. | BYE-BYE BORING BROADCASTERS 2023 | Broadcasters | 41 |
=15. | Thats 70’s Mixtape | 70s musicians | 41 |
17. | Musical chairs | Musicians | 38 |
18. | CRT to DOA | TV presenters | 36 |
=19. | 20 Crooners Croakin’ | Crooners | 35 |
=19. | Exiting The Stage | Stage stars | 35 |
=19. | No More Expenses | UK MPs | 35 |
=22. | Clerically Dead | God botherers | 34 |
=22. | Space Wasters | Lice | 34 |
=24. | Pazuzu 5 Points | Nonagenarians | 33 |
=24. | Rushing to Tim Horton’s for Maple Donuts | Canucks | 33 |
=24. | Well Done If You Got These at Home | Pointless | 33 |
27. | Body with No Arms No Legs Floating in Ocean | Bobs | 31 |
=28. | Dead Leaders | World leaders | 30 |
=28. | THE FINAL WHISTLE | Sportspeople | 30 |
=30. | CLOG POPPERS | Popsters | 29 |
=30. | The Dead Kennedys | Kennedy Center honorees | 29 |
=32. | MST3K Massacre | MST3K subjects | 28 |
=32. | Rolls Off The Tongue | Interesting names | 28 |
=32. | Who’s laughing now? | Comedians | 28 |
=35. | A Brush (or more) with the Law | Ne’er do wells | 26 |
=35. | Dead Continent | Asians | 26 |
=35. | OAPs | Political fossils | 26 |
=35. | The DOA Tour | Golfers | 26 |
=39. | Apollogies For Still Living | Astronauts | 25 |
=39. | Can’t Think of a Music Pun | Musicians | 25 |
=39. | Lt. Colonel Kilgore’s Ultimate Surf Party | Vietnam figures | 25 |
=39. | Nice! | Jazz musicians | 25 |
=39. | One More Knight | Knighted people | 25 |
=44. | …and its goodnight from him | Rons, Ronalds, Ronnies etc. | 24 |
=44. | Funk Pop a Roll | Musicians | 24 |
=44. | Jocks Away | Scots | 24 |
=44. | The Survivors | Last survivors | 24 |
=48. | ALLITERATIVELY ALIVE NO MORE | Alliterative names | 23 |
=48. | Old As Dirt | Centenarians | 23 |
=48. | Slippery Soap | Soap actors | 23 |
=51. | Dropping Aitches | H-surnames | 22 |
=51. | Kennedy Driving School | Politicians | 22 |
=53. | Gray Panthers | Centenarians | 21 |
=53. | Hell to the Chief | World leaders | 21 |
=53. | The Politicorpses | Politicians | 21 |
=56. | Drop Dead Diva | Extravagant women | 20 |
=56. | Dying Donkeys | US Democrats who ran for President | 20 |
=56. | Hispanics and Lati-no’s | Hispanics | 20 |
=56. | Laughing in the face of Death. | Funny people | 20 |
=56. | Literarily Dead | Literature Nobel laureates | 20 |
=56. | The Sick-Bed of Cuchulainn | The Irish | 20 |
=56. | Vive la France… et la mort | The French | 20 |
=63. | Jane’s Antique Wrinklies | Old ladies | 19 |
=63. | Pulling up the Daisies | Authors | 19 |
=65. | Comedy Cremations | Comedy actors | 18 |
=65. | Dick Smith’s OzEDeath List | Aussies | 18 |
=65. | Grappling with Mortality | Wrestlers | 18 |
=65. | He’s Not The Family Guy | Family Guy voices | 18 |
=65. | The Talking Dead | TV hosts | 18 |
=70. | Hits Of 36 Years Ago And Hits Today | 1987 UK Top 30 hits | 17 |
=70. | Nobel Notables | Nobel laureates | 17 |
=70. | Peace, Drugs, and Death | 1960s counterculture figures | 17 |
=73. | Bibliogryphon’s Bookworm Food | Authors | 16 |
=73. | Cashier Number 91 please! | 1930 babies | 16 |
=73. | He’s Making A List, He’s Checking It Twice | Identical names to popular DDP picks | 16 |
=73. | In The Hole! | Golfers | 16 |
=73. | Not Gone Yet, But Still Forgotten | Obscurities | 16 |
=73. | Pop goes the Wurzels | Popsters | 16 |
=73. | Ruling The Afterlife | World leaders | 16 |
=73. | The Fat Lady’s singing… | Opera | 16 |
=81. | A Bottle of Lucozade and the warm blanket | 70s actors | 15 |
=81. | ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERNS FRONT | Western actors | 15 |
=81. | Criterion Afterlife Edition | Acclaimed actors | 15 |
=81. | Just in Case | If even more shit hits the fan in Russia… | 15 |
=81. | Last of The Summer Winos | Last of the Summer Wine | 15 |
=81. | Oh Ronnie, Where Art Thou… | Reagan associates | 15 |
=81. | Once Shaggable, Now Baggable | Old ladies eyecatching in their heyday | 15 |
=88. | Alternative in Death – The Right Deadlihood Award | Recipients of the Alternative Nobel Prize | 14 |
=88. | Dying of Pretentiousness | Snooty types | 14 |
=88. | Rockers who Rolled to the graveyard | Rockers | 14 |
=91. | Gay-Tes Of Heaven | Gays | 13 |
=91. | Kiddyfiddler Harriers | Paedos | 13 |
=91. | Syndication Zombies | US actors in eternal reruns | 13 |
=94. | Buying Max Yasgur’s Farm | Folkies | 12 |
=94. | Complications from a fall | Dictators and other world leaders | 12 |
=96. | Boom, Boom, Out go the lights | Blues and beat musicians | 11 |
=96. | Death to all but metal and Dame Shirley Bassey | Rockers and their nan | 11 |
=96. | Keeping the band alive!! | Last standing of their band | 11 |
=96. | Oscar Strikeouts | Oscar nominees | 11 |
=96. | There is nothing like a dame | Dames, without their boss this time | 11 |
=101. | Ashes to Ashes XI | Cricketers | 10 |
=101. | DCAU Demises | DC Animated Cinematic Universe | 10 |
=101. | Decaying Orbit-uaries | Space types | 10 |
=101. | Decomposing Blubber | Lardarses | 10 |
=101. | Easy Peasy Japanesey | Japanese people | 10 |
=101. | Formula Fatality | F1 | 10 |
=101. | On yer bike! | Grand Tour winning cyclists | 10 |
=101. | Passing of the Passed | Celebs the team runner passed by in the street | 10 |
=101. | snooker loopy c*NTS are we | Snooker | 10 |
=101. | Tik Tok… It’s Time | Tik Tok stars | 10 |
=101. | Waiting for Ugo | Midlands footballers | 10 |
=112. | She’s a Dead Skate, Charlie Brown | Ice skaters | 9 |
=112. | Thanks for being a Sport | Sportspeople | 9 |
=112. | The Retched pong of Brit sit-com | British sitcoms | 9 |
=115. | A Chris Goodbye | Chrises | 8 |
=115. | Fireball’s Play Your Cadavers Right | Gameshow hosts | 8 |
=115. | Weird with a Beard | Bearded men | 8 |
=115. | YOU’LL DIE LAUGHING | Comedians | 8 |
=119. | The Elders of Reality TV | Older reality TV stars | 7 |
=119. | The Masked Dier | Masked Singers | 7 |
=121. | batstarlord of the whotreklock | Nerd shows | 6 |
=121. | Francis Of Wrestle-Easy 2023 | Wrasslers | 6 |
=121. | Great Gig In The Sky Encore | More musicians | 6 |
=121. | Gris Gris | Reduplicated names | 6 |
=121. | M6 Toll(ed) | Midlands | 6 |
=121. | Miscreants | Criminals | 6 |
=121. | Not Going in a Black Cab | EastEnders | 6 |
=121. | One Century Is Enough, Madam! | Centenarian women | 6 |
=121. | Shake, Rattle, Roll Over and Play Dead | 50s/60s rock and pop | 6 |
=121. | sid and marty coffin | Sid and Marty Krofft | 6 |
=121. | The Dead Parrots Society | Comedians | 6 |
=121. | The Gallifrey Regeneration Game | Doctor Who | 6 |
=121. | The Writing’s On The Wall | Singers | 6 |
=134. | American As Apple Pie | Hispanics | 5 |
=134. | Lost of the Lost | Actors in lost media | 5 |
=134. | Lullabye-bye of Broadway | Broadway | 5 |
=134. | Made In Detroit | Michiganders | 5 |
=134. | MAGA Hit List | Trump non-fans | 5 |
=134. | Poor Little Ghoul | US charttoppers | 5 |
=134. | Willie Spence Memorial Deathsquad | Georgians on this team’s mind | 5 |
141. | All Death Is Consolation | Artists | 4 |
=142. | 80s Babies 20s Cadevers | 1980s births | 0 |
=142. | Acting as in the Twenties | Food names | 0 |
=142. | All these moments will be lost | Sci-fi actors | 0 |
=142. | ARTHUR’S THEME | World leaders | 0 |
=142. | Come on Karma, Where’s the F@@king Justice | Evading justice for how long? | 0 |
=142. | Complete Phallusies | Names with shlong slang in them | 0 |
=142. | DDP 2063 | Hits for the distant future | 0 |
=142. | Dead And Dusted 2 | 70s musicians | 0 |
=142. | Dead Beats | Musicians | 0 |
=142. | Five Minute Bell Ends | Five-minute bell ringers (a cricket thing) | 0 |
=142. | Gone Solo | Surviving halves | 0 |
=142. | Great-Dead Britons | Brits | 0 |
=142. | Hoosier Deaddy?? | Indiana wants them | 0 |
=142. | International Dying Festival | This DDP team contains YTPMVs/MADs | 0 |
=142. | IT’S A COP-OUT 2023 | Coppers | 0 |
=142. | Kiwi fruit sundae | New Zealanders | 0 |
=142. | Laugh-in to the Grave | Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In | 0 |
=142. | No Mr Bond Villain, I Expect You To Die!!! | Bond villains | 0 |
=142. | Norman Lear and All His Friends | Norman Lear and actors in his many sitcoms | 0 |
=142. | Oui Oui Baguette | French people | 0 |
=142. | Perfect 10 | Celebs with 10 letters in their names | 0 |
=142. | Political Correctness Gone Mad | Politicians | 0 |
=142. | Punk is Dead | Punk musicians | 0 |
=142. | Rappers Delight | Rappers | 0 |
=142. | Sad Last Days | National Enquirer “near death”s | 0 |
=142. | Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel | Batman | 0 |
=142. | Saturday Night Dead | Saturday Night Live | 0 |
=142. | Scrubber Out | Porn stars | 0 |
=142. | Softly Softly Catchee Monkey(pox) | Softly, Softly cast members | 0 |
=142. | Special:RandomInCategory/Living_people | The 20 best picks of 4000 randomly generated Wikipedia bios | 0 |
=142. | The 27 Club | 27 this year | 0 |
=142. | The Gang joins the DDP | It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia | 0 |
=142. | The Right to Die | Republicans | 0 |
=142. | The Ukrainian Actuary | Russian military | 0 |
=142. | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, DIE | Actors in TTSS adaptations | 0 |
=142. | Trans Girls Hit squad’s hit list | T*RFs | 0 |
=142. | Turn Off That Telly and Go to Bed! | US TV | 0 |
=142. | Unpersons | Big Brother participants | 0 |
=142. | Well, Somebody Ate All The Pies | Fatsos | 0 |
=142. | Where are all the Garys and Simons? | Garys and Simons | 0 |
=142. | Who Goes Before the 5-0 Arrives? | Under 50s | 0 |
=142. | Wishing (I Had an Obituary of You) | 80s musicians | 0 |