diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/BUILD b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/BUILD
index a2c2eb308ab..02d388ecbca 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/BUILD
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/BUILD
@@ -65,8 +65,6 @@ go_test(
         "scheme_test.go",
     ],
     deps = [
-        "//vendor/github.com/google/gofuzz:go_default_library",
-        "//vendor/github.com/spf13/pflag:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/github.com/stretchr/testify/assert:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/github.com/stretchr/testify/require:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta:go_default_library",
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/scheme_test.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/scheme_test.go
index 0b76b5d7118..16bd7b4f98c 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/scheme_test.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/scheme_test.go
@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
-	"github.com/google/gofuzz"
-	flag "github.com/spf13/pflag"
-
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/conversion"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema"
@@ -33,8 +30,6 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/diff"
 )
 
-var fuzzIters = flag.Int("fuzz-iters", 50, "How many fuzzing iterations to do.")
-
 func TestScheme(t *testing.T) {
 	internalGV := schema.GroupVersion{Group: "test.group", Version: runtime.APIVersionInternal}
 	internalGVK := internalGV.WithKind("Simple")
@@ -460,17 +455,6 @@ func TestUnversionedTypes(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// TestObjectFuzzer can randomly populate all the above objects.
-var TestObjectFuzzer = fuzz.New().NilChance(.5).NumElements(1, 100).Funcs(
-	func(j *runtimetesting.MyWeirdCustomEmbeddedVersionKindField, c fuzz.Continue) {
-		// We have to customize the randomization of MyWeirdCustomEmbeddedVersionKindFields because their
-		// APIVersion and Kind must remain blank in memory.
-		j.APIVersion = ""
-		j.ObjectKind = ""
-		j.ID = c.RandString()
-	},
-)
-
 // Returns a new Scheme set up with the test objects.
 func GetTestScheme() *runtime.Scheme {
 	internalGV := schema.GroupVersion{Version: runtime.APIVersionInternal}