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Am I the only one that can't stand this show? I've seen it a couple of times, and while it's vaguely amusing watching a brain-fried Ozzy, his sailor mouthed wife and his spoiled-rotten kids, I still get the sense that Ozzy is the butt-end of the whole gag. It's not as if we are supposed to laugh along with Ozzy and his family, but at him (and that joke runs it course real fast). Plus, the show has got this whole narcisstic Real World vibe going on which I find particularly loathsome.

And this article has it wrong. Led Zeppelin didn't invent the heavy metal genre. They influenced it, yes, but they didn't invent it. Heavy metal simply did not exist until Black Sabbath came along with their first album. So Ozzy isn't so much the looney uncle of metal, as is he is a co-founder, along with Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward.

At him instead of with him? Heck no!

This show is so like my family it's not even funny. Ozzy reminds me of my dad so much. I love the fact that he is a famous musician, yet he and the rest of his family are just normal people like the rest of us. I think the whole thing is great, and it just increases my respect for his music. Talk about the best thing to happen to MTV and television in general in a long time. I hope they release it on DVD after it ends its run :)

Change the channel if you don't like it.

And this article has it wrong. Led Zeppelin didn't invent the heavy metal genre.

Exactly, Led Zeppelin was more "heavy" blues than metal early on. Whereas Black Sabbath was something totally different altogether at the time. The Wizard remains one of my all-time favorite songs.

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