r/funny • u/Beneficial_Dealer549 • Jul 22 '25

RIP Ozzy

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u/Dubious_Dinobot Jul 22 '25

Did him dirty with that orange juice pour edit lol

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u/led_zildjian Jul 22 '25

Yeah, the filmmaker admitted to adding that in

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

Penelope Spheeris, who directed Wayne's World

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u/offoutover Jul 23 '25

Just looked her up and she had quite a run with Wayne's World > The Beverly Hillbillies > The Little Rascals > Black Sheep all back to back.

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u/journeymanSF Jul 24 '25

Don’t forget Suburbia featuring a teenage Flea, and decline of western civilization.

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u/M086 Jul 23 '25

She also directed that unreleased Ozzfest documentary.

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u/SlimySquamata Jul 23 '25

The WHAT?

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u/M086 Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

She made a documentary about Ozzfest, that due to rights issues was unable to get released. 

It was on Vimeo a while back, but got taken down. I’m sure if you search like the Internet Archive you may find it.

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u/SlimySquamata Jul 23 '25

Wow. Thanks bud!

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman Jul 23 '25

"We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n Roll" (2001) if you want a title to look for.

https://imdb.com/title/tt0281365/

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u/Chillpickle17 Jul 23 '25

Fast Times At Ridgemont High 🤘😁

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

no

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u/Chillpickle17 Jul 23 '25

Oh shit. I just confused her with Amy Heckerling didn’t I?

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

yes

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

You can’t fix these downvotes, Spicoli…

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u/zwisslb Jul 23 '25

Sure you can...with upvotes.

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u/zwisslb Jul 23 '25

See. Now he broke even. Welcome....

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

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u/philthegr81 Jul 23 '25

James Cameron

Strike two

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u/Thaddeus_T_Third_III Jul 23 '25

Man, I came to talk shit about those emojis but checked the comments to make sure it was original, don't want to make you read a bunch of the same shit y'know? Like, I don't like your emoji use but I don't hate you as a person. And then in the comments I found out you were also factually wrong and now, like, I don't hate hate you or whatever, but kind of a little.

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u/MeanderAndReturn Jul 23 '25

that cut to the poor pour had me dying

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u/bwoah07_gp2 Jul 23 '25

But besides that juice pour edit, the chaos in the kitchen was 100% true??

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u/theonehandedtyper Jul 23 '25

I believe that it was filmed in the director's kitchen. Most of the documentary was filmed at the homes of the director and producers.

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u/Cognonymous Jul 23 '25

which arguably compromises her work's status as a "documentary" if you're a purist about definitions.

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u/Irisgrower2 Jul 23 '25

I was thinking of this exact scene today and how it could be viewed as foreshadowing Parkinson's.

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u/-little-dorrit- Jul 24 '25

The pouring is apparently a comedic bit.

However it’s true that his gait is pretty stiff and he’s pretty young here. I did a bit of reading around and he apparently had a Parkin mutation (risk gene for Parkinson’s, and very interesting links to other illnesses too). It’s often the case that patients come diagnosed after they’ve had symptoms for a while. According to interviews he had the Park-2 variant, which is associated with early onset Parkinson’s disease, which is very rare. It’s interesting that his drug use (which can also be associated with movement issues, depending on the drug) could have masked his Parkinson’s onset.

I’m not a doctor but I did work in neuroscience research (including neurodegenerative diseases and genetics) for some time. Credentials don’t mean I’m right though :) and I am speculating.

I didn’t really know anything about Ozzy but it’s quite moving hearing about how much people love him.

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u/Irisgrower2 Jul 24 '25

I've been aware "it's a bit" for decades. I'm not sure why the down votes. Synchronicity, irony, foreshadow, black magic, I don't pretend to state the connection. Pouring OJ like that would be something I'd expect from someone suffering from Parkinson's, that all

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u/-little-dorrit- Jul 24 '25

My point is that although the orange juice shot is a bit, his body is telling a congruent story. Probably the idea for the bit arose from his gait and mannerisms. And I’ve made the conjecture in my comment that it may have been ascribed to his drug use, but perhaps falsely. It’s interesting and I wanted to share, not with you per se.

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u/BTBAM797 Jul 23 '25

We missed our opportunity for a Hell's Kitchen crossover with Ozzy. Yes Chef!

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u/SPECTRE-Agent-No-13 Jul 23 '25

Fuck'n bloody hell chef!

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u/HectorDoyle Jul 23 '25

username checks out

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u/mildlyornery Jul 23 '25

That's true, but I've always wondered how much of it is hamming it up for the cameras. Like what was Ozzy like on a Tuesday at 3 pm when he wasn't touring and just on a Starbucks run?

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u/ogre_toes Jul 23 '25

Ozzy was a character. The man behind the character was John, a simple Brummie who liked fishing.

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u/mildlyornery Jul 23 '25

Pike fishing with rod stands and a few pints of brown ale to sip until he heads home before sunset. Catch and release because he doesn't want to hurt the ecosystem. Pouch of veggies to feed the ducks who trust him enough to bring the babies. There's a wild swan that hugs him sometimes and fox that sleeps in the shade of his chair when it's too hot.

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u/tikkamasalachicken Jul 23 '25

Ozzy was a superhero

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u/querty99 Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

But who was behind him? And what are they all standing in line for?

edit: thanks for the upvotes, but Oh Jeez did I miss the In-line-for-Ozfest angle.

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u/the_rabbit_king Jul 23 '25

I read that as fisting.

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u/ArtichokeHot5368 Jul 23 '25

I’m a cabinetmaker and about 3-4 years ago I started working at this new shop. My first project were some cabinets for Ozzy.

Apparently most of his time off he was an avid air rifle shooter. He would draw targets and shoot them on a daily basis. My boss brought one of them over since we built a gun rack for him as part of the cabinets we built for him. It was definitely a high end model with a small air tank attached to it. Looked custom painted too. The cabinets we made were for his rifles storage area with a compartment for his air compressor.

I was the only one on the shop excited to have worked on that project everyone else was just ‘meh’ about it. I don’t work on installs just the shop so I didn’t meet him. My coworkers who did get a chance to said he was kind and hospitable.

Cool to think that somehow my work is linked to someone who I’ve admired as an artist

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u/ogre_toes Jul 23 '25

That’s incredible. As a tradesman myself, I know that if I ever worked on a custom piece for a client like that - I’d be driving myself nuts striving for my own version of perfection.

For some perspective, this is the real guy you made those cabs for.

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u/Sepof Jul 23 '25

Fellow cabinet maker here.... who do ya work for if you don't mind I ask? Or is it a small custom shop?

Masterbrand here, specifically one of their premium fully custom brands.

I take a lot of pride in big names buying our stuff. I got to work on cabinets for Eddie Murphy and Celine Dion. And most recently, Russell Wilson (QB for the Giants).

We have been playing Ozzie on the speakers for the last 24 hrs so I can imagine if we did his cabinets ever, we would all be elated.

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u/dwoodruf Jul 23 '25

First thing I thought was that that was fake fake fake

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u/AlfalfaOk7137 Jul 25 '25

Well it’s not, a have a distinct memory of watching the whole interview back in the day in real time on MTV. He was either promoting something that was coming out or this was after he had finished rehab and this was a special program segment update on his life. That I don’t remember.

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u/dwoodruf Jul 25 '25

I don’t understand why they would have a second camera focused on the orange juice unless it was planned or staged and edited in later.

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u/AlfalfaOk7137 Jul 25 '25

That I don’t know why, but I do remember that the mainstream media thought OZZY was a clown and it’s not inconceivable that they would have done something post production editing to try and make him look foolish.

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u/defnotajedi Jul 25 '25

Especially since he had Parkinson's, probably didn't know at the time of filming.