When Ozzy Osbourne died at the age of 76 last week, he left behind an incredible legacy.
He was a rock legend, a family man, a philanthropist, and for a time, one of the world's first reality TV stars.
'The Osbournes' introduced the Black Sabbath frontman to a new generation back in 2002 - my 9-year-old self included - and fans the world over fell in love with the softer, sillier side of the godfather of heavy metal.
Over the show's four seasons, Ozzy became a television producer's dream. Between touring and making music, he could be found yelling at one of the family's 13 dogs, going to war with the neighbours and attempting to prevent his kids from doing drugs… without being too much of a hypocrite.
There were far too many iconic moments to cover them all, but here are some of my personal favourites.
10 of Ozzy Osbourne's best bits from 'The Osbournes':
Ozzy falls off a chair
Does what it says on the tin, really. While backstage at a show, Ozzy heads off for some alone time in his dressing room and promptly falls backwards off his chair. Classic slapstick comedy at its best.
Ozzy vs the remote
You can take the boy out of Birmingham… but you'll never get him used to his Beverly Hills mansion. Ozzy just can't get his head around the high-tech remote that runs his home, and finds himself stuck on the weather channel.
"You've got to have a computer now to turn the f*cking TV on and off," he says. "I press one button and the shower starts. What is this? Where am I, man? The nightmare continues."
Ozzy goes to the dentist
He wasn't totally sober during filming of 'The Osbournes', but Ozzy's ant-snorting benders were definitely behind him.
That meant he got his kicks other ways, like by going to the dentist and getting completely off his tits on nitrous gas. The best bit is watching Ozzy try to rinse and spit after his procedure.
Ozzy begs his kids to behave
However unorthodox a father figure he might have been, Ozzy clearly adored his kids.
Despite his own chequered past, he asks Jack and Kelly not to do anything illegal before they hit the streets of Hollywood, imploring them: "Don't drink, don't take drugs tonight, please."
"And if you have sex, wear a condom," he adds, causing a look of pure mortification to cross Kelly's face.
Ozzy throws a log at the neighbours
One of the show's most dramatic storylines was The Osbourne family's war with their next-door neighbour, who they accused of keeping them awake by blasting loud techno music into the night.
Sharon leads the initial charge, even throwing a Christmas ham over the fence, but eventually Ozzy steps in with a large log, which he hiffs at the house, breaking a window - rock 'n roll.
Ozzy vs bubbles
Ozzy's wild stage antics famously involved him throwing raw meat at audiences and biting the head off a bat, but if Sharon had her way, there would have also been bubbles.
A visit to the stage of an upcoming Ozzfest gig gave rise to a great Ozzy quote in response to a bubble machine that was set up on stage.
"Oh, come on Sharon, I'm f*cking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of f*cking Darkness," he says.
"Evil? Evil? What's f*cking evil about a butt-load of fucking bubbles, man?"
Ozzy vs the cat
The Osbourne home was a madhouse for many reasons, but the countless animals that lived there caused much of the mayhem.
In one of Ozzy's many run-ins with his pets, he warns off a cat who is eyeing up some chicken. (Sidebar, did Ozzy cook?)
"F*ck off, Guy, Gus, Jim, Bill, whatever your name is," he tells it.
"Because your name's gonna be 'dead' if you touch this chicken."
Ozzy is the beer thief
A moment that's seen a huge resurgence recently due to how quintessentially 'Ozzy' it is sees the man of the house intercept his wife to question her on the whereabouts of his beer.
"Someone has been in my room and taken my beers away from my room," Ozzy says, looming out of the darkness.
"I don't think so, darling," Sharon coos reassuringly. "Who would do that? Who's the beer thief? You are! You're the beer thief!"
Ozzy goes fishing
After unsuccessfully attempting to build a fire pit outside the family's Malibu beach house, Ozzy decides it's time for some night fishing… using cheese.
"Fish like cheese, sometimes…some fish like cheese," he tells the cameras before venturing waist-deep into the surf.
"Fucking ocean, stop!"
Ozzy tries a Listerine strip
This moment is one of my absolute favourites. It's got it all - Ozzy's unique sense of humour, general bemusement with everything around him and his one-of-a-kind dynamic with his beloved wife.
Sharon offers Ozzy a Listerine strip - the kind that dissolves on your tongue - knowing full well he'll hate it. She tells him it's a new kind of gum.
"What is it, cyanide?" he asks before trying it. "You're winding me up. It's fucking stamp. There's nothing there. It's fucking crap, it's disappeared."
Sharon eventually tells him, "It's just meant to freshen your breath", but this only angers Ozzy more.
"Well, it's not gum then, you lied to me!" he explodes.
"I wanted you to try it. I don't like it," she admits.
"Oh, thanks a lot then, you c*nt," he says on his way out.
Thank you, Ozzy, for the music, the mayhem and the laughs. We miss you already.
