diff --git a/panda/src/event/eventQueue.cxx b/panda/src/event/eventQueue.cxx
index 84f3def637..98b178d28a 100644
--- a/panda/src/event/eventQueue.cxx
+++ b/panda/src/event/eventQueue.cxx
@@ -51,14 +51,6 @@ queue_event(CPT_Event event) {
   #ifdef OLD_HAVE_IPC
   mutex_lock lock(_lock);
   #endif
-  #if 0
-  // This is just some paranoid debug code.  I had a problem where 
-  // one of the events was going null while it was in the queue.
-  size_t limit = _queue.size();
-  while (limit--) {
-    nassertv(!_queue[limit].is_null());
-  }
-  #endif
   if (_queue.full()) {
     event_cat.error()
       << "Ignoring event " << *event << "; event queue full.\n";