Best joke ever! I totally thought Jack killed the dog and Kelly moved out! Wow! Congrats to the Osbournes and MTV for making fun of the show itself with its season finale.
Umm. I’m confused.
Were they implying that the WHOLE SERIES was staged?? I mean, it’s one helluva series-ending twist, but I’m not really sure what they were driving at, during the credits.
And didn’t I hear that one of their dogs ran away, right around the end of filming? Don’t recall if it was Millie or not.
(Best line of the series: “Oh no, I’m stuck on the [beep]ing Weather Channel again…JACK! SHARON! KELLY!”)
That’s what I thought initially. And if that’s true - wow. How awesome.
I totally agree with the OP that this episode was the best joke ever! I totally bought that Jack killed the dog!
Eh. I didn’t think killing Minnie was funny, even after it turned out not to be true. I just felt sad for Ozzy and Sharon, bad for Jack, and then I felt jerked around when it turned out to all be a big joke. Good for them for fooling me, I suppose, but…
well, I missed it- but two things I also missed from this season that were supposed to happen-
where was the kid whose Mom had died from colon cancer who
moved in with them?
did the older daughter (Aimee?) ever make an appearance?
That was more confusing than The Matrix. Was it all an act? Or was that final gag, with the bloopers of a famous first-season line* filmed to suspend our disbelief, an act? Was the entire show a realistic fake, or a faked reality? I was pondering that last night.
FriarTed, Robert Murcado has been living with the family. I am unsure about Aimee.
[sub]*“I love you more than life itself…but you’re all fuckin’ nuts!”[/sub]
I didn’t see it and probably won’t have the chance to anytime soon. Could someone explain why people are wondering if the whole series is a hoax? Is it just because they lied about the dog thing? What’s the deal with the blooper thing at the end?
Well, I have no idea if the whole series was faked or not. Clearly, Sharon still has cancer. No way would any network fake that, and pretend it’s real. Well, maybe Fox…
But that’s the thing. They pulled away the false veil of reality and showed the truth of it, or at least part of the truth. It’s like “The Usual Suspects”…how much was a lie, and how much really happened? No way to know, for sure. Brilliant, brilliant ending.
And I’m positive that the first-season bloopers were not re-shot, unless they found a way to make Jack age a year younger…
The “blooper” clip at the end of this episode is a FAKE.
Meaning, they faked the appearance of him flubbing his “line” by using editing and re-dubbing of the original scene.
I was really suspicious when I first watched it, so I re-watched it several times frame by frame on my Tivo. His hand and eye movements, as well as the camera framing is EXACTLY the same in each supposed “take”.
It is the same clip played over and over, edited slightly differently with the background laughter and some of his mumblings dubbed over, and the clapboard shot edited into the clip several times.
Anyone who has this on tape or Tivo–watch for yourself, it is CLEARLY faked.
Now, why would they do this? I’m confused by this as well. I mean, clearly the vast majority of the show is not faked. If it is, then the whole family deserves Emmys for the best acting I’ve ever seen on TV. And the “writers” would deserve awards as well.
I’m anxious to hear the explanation as to why they threw that phony blooper clip in at the end and why they would want to make some people think that the show was entirely fake. It seems quite a few people were fooled by this.
I never took it to mean that the whole series was faked. I thought it clearly meant only the final episode was fake.