The skits involving a pair of grade-school-aged Osbournes acting like foul mouthed brats during a movie, and Ozzy farting his way through a dance routine in leotards were also just stupid. Another bit where the Osbournes worked at a fast-food drive-thru, screaming things like "are you fucking deaf?" at the customers also seemed to show the family's contempt for the same working Joes who made them so rich.
In the worst example of this, a clearly planned "random" selection of an audience member to receive a marriage ultimatum from his girlfriend fell particularly flat. After the poor sap painfully accepted, a WWE style ceremony followed (anyone remember when wrestling did the gay marriage story a few years back?). Here again, the sole point seemed to be just to ridicule common folk, showing a strange and rather spiteful side of the Osbourne clan that I must have missed back when they were stumbling and swearing their way through dogshit on MTV.
Fox has reportedly ordered a five episode trial run of the Osbournes Reloaded. This writer for one, will be amazed if it makes it that far. Speaking of those fifteen minutes...
Article comments
1 - Tom Johnson
You're a brave man to have made it all the way through the whole episode, Glen. I could hardly make it through the clip/trailer on YouTube. "Painful" and "embarrassing" were the two words that sprung immediately to mind. "Gross" was the one that came a bit later when I thought about it some more - not gross in the sense that it was it was gross-out, but simply gross. Ozzy needs to recede into the shadows for a while and let people forget this humiliating period of his life. He doesn't to be the "prince of fucking darkness" his whole life, but he also doesn't need to be the new Bozo the clown.
2 - Melissa
I know this show wasn't the great success it was supposed to be, but I love The Osbournes. What you say about them shouting at the customers, that is just the way the Osbourne family act. It isn't really how they are and not a true representation of the people they are. They are very warm and lovely people, but they do act it up for the camera. At the end of the day it was a television show and they were just acting. The name of the show should give it away really. Loud and dangerous, exactly!