diff --git a/direct/src/distributed/DistributedSmoothNodeBase.py b/direct/src/distributed/DistributedSmoothNodeBase.py
index 461587037a..8b981d3ef9 100755
--- a/direct/src/distributed/DistributedSmoothNodeBase.py
+++ b/direct/src/distributed/DistributedSmoothNodeBase.py
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ class DistributedSmoothNodeBase:
         pass
 
     def delete(self):
-        pass
+        # make sure our task is gone
+        self.stopPosHprBroadcast()
 
     ### distributed set pos and hpr functions ###