The Osbournes

Believe me, when I first heard about The Osbournes, I was rolling my eyes. Here goes another rich rock star, being trailed around by cameras. But after having seen several episodes, it's well worth it!

They say they are the picture perfect model of the disfunctional family, and that everyone in US can relate to them, and I agree (but not about the US thing, i'm from Asia)! All the cursing and screaming between Jack and Kelly, Kelly or Jack fighting with Sharon or Ozzy. Especially "disagreements" between Ozzy and Sharon are HILARIOUS. It makes me you think that your crazy family is not the only one in this world. Take away the silliness, and you've got a loving family.

Even though the show is *sometimes* a pain because of the frequent bleeping and Ozzy's hard to understand accent, I had fun watching this show. I didn't know how real this funny reality TV could be!

I don't know if the reality show is fake or real since the last episode of the Osbournes, but besides this doubt that intrigues me, I liked a lot the reality show. I mean, who never had the curiosity of watching the life of a famous actor/actress or singer,with all that glamorous life of living in a mansion in Beverlly Hills?And is even funnier to see one of your favorite rockstars, who declares himself to be the ''prince of darkness'' cleaning the dog's poop,since it is the kind of situation you never imagine him to deal with. The only thing I stay sad for ,is the fact that The Osbournes only has 4 seasons, and I would love it to have more. Now, I am just waiting the second and third seasons to arrive here in Brazil.( I already have the first one)

I must say that when I saw the promos for this show it looked *interesting*, but I thought SURELY I'd get bored after the first episode. Not true! This is the funniest darn show I've seen ever on TV, and that includes old favorites like Cheers, Frasier, Roseanne and Murphy Brown. Forget that it's the best show on cable, it's the best show on TV, period! And this from a 37 year old who should be ashamed of themself for watching something like this. :)

Funny, irreverant, rude, crude, disgusting (all the close-ups of the dog's poo). It's all of that, and more. I've never laughed as hard as I have over a family's problems like I have for the Osbournes champagne problems (Kelly losing Ozzy's gold card when she wasn't even supposed to have it, or throwing fruit and hams at their noisy next door neighbors). I also love the way Kelly went shopping in Beverly Hills with her mother wearing pink, fuzzy slippers. Only in Hollywood.

Then of course there was the episode where Ozzy is absolutely AGHAST that Sharon wants to use bubbles in his stage show. ("Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm Ozzy f*%$ing Osbourne! The prince of f*&$ing darkness man! I won't do it!"). Ozzy seems to bumble through every situation while Sharon lays down the law. That episode where he keeps wanting to leave when they are busting the kids for smoking pot and having fake ID's comes immediatley to mind.

This is reality television at it's best. Forget Survivor, Temptaion Island, Fear Factor and The Real World. Forget Must See TV on NBC on Thursdays, now it's Must See TV on MTV at 10:30 on Tuesdays. This is the new milenium of reality television! Watch this show! You'll be awfully glad you did.

I keep seeing early 00's reality tv on Hulu, but MTV needs to release this to HBO Max! This is a reality show I would rewatch. It's like a time capsule. They were hilarious! Hard to believe this was so long ago and their kids are all in their 40's, or close to it.

Everyone is saying (on older reviews) that THE OSBOURNES needs to be streaming, and here it is, the day after Ozzy Osbourne died, and it's on Amazon... has been a few weeks actually... but now it must be getting more views than ever...

It's fun to watch, kind of like a rock star version of The Munsters, and the kids are funny and offbeat while Sharon is the perfect b-word-wife who has a heart of gold...

But there's a sad element watching, in retrospect, because it's been known since 2023 that Ozzy has had Parkinsons, which was diagnosed in 2003, which means he had it during this show...

And from episode one, the Parkinsons really shows... you can see it VERY clearly in his gait, and his trembling hands, which, originally, when this came out, it was as if Ozzy did too many drugs, or perhaps was suffering DT's... so people laughed about how he moved around, not knowing what we know now...

However, HE IS FUNNY, a kind of dry Peter Sellers quality combined with a Columbo-esque ability to hide a true genius that helped invent a brand of music called Heavy Metal (while Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin INFLUENCED metal, Sabbath INVENTED IT OUTRIGHT)...

So watching THE OSBOURNES is fun and addictive like reality shows are supposed to be... And it's obvious why it was such a smash hit way back when...

Yet it's now equally sad knowing what's known, and seeing what's completely and painfully obvious now.