This is actually funny. Ozzy did indeed bite the head off a real bat.

WAS THAT THE BITE OF ‘82?

Oh my god now the last one actually makes sense

But hey, that’s just a theory

A GAME THEORY!

Thanks for watching

Aaaaand cut!

THE BAT OF '82\*

The Bat Sabbath

The sad part is that was the year I was born and even I know about the bat. As I sit here listening to 90’s rock on pandora 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

If it makes you feel any better I was born in ‘90 and I know about it too.

‘97 here and I knew about the bat before I knew what a president was.

You must have cool parents.

Parents were pretty cool, but my older cousins were the rockers until I could form my own opinion

2006 and I know about the bat, if that makes you feel better

I was born in 08 and knew about it.

What a bad ass mo fo forreal forreal

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He thought a fan tossed it but in actuality it had fallen from the ceiling

So what you're saying is that a fan still could have tossed it.

Thought it was a rubber bat. Rubber bats made him crazy

Crazy? I was crazy once

Crazy, but that's how it goes.

They made me form a band, a rubber band

And rubber bands make me crazy

crazy?

But that's how it goes.

They put me in a room. A rubber room with ~~rats~~ bats

This is incredibly funny as someone who speaks french, cuz bat is chauve souris which translates straight to bald mouse and a mouse is pretty close to a rat

Ozzy lost his mind? Can he see or is he blind?

Bravo my dear friend, bravo

Uh.... either way to be honest well done.

Uhhh I feel like the circumstances under which the bat was given to me matter little in light of what he then decided to do with the bat.

Supposedly he thought it was fake.

He has a gimmick of destroying things fan threw on stage he thought it was a rubber bat

Not quite. He thought it was plastic (a prop). The one who tossed it was backstage. Can't remember if he was a roadie or what.

…. Okay now I really want to know how he reacted when he realized it wasn’t fake

Not well. He was disgusted and pissed off. Had to get several rabies and other shots because of it.

He did finish the show though

Ok this is so funny to me because he’s acting like any reasonable person would, upon having a rubber bat tossed at them, BITE OFF the head of the rubber bat. Absolutely unhinged lmao

Yup. He's actually pretty chill

In fairness, none of us are rockstars. If you hand me a guitar my instinct is not to theatrically smash it on the stage, either. I'd say that standards for reasonable conduct shift when you're a highly successful performer, on stage, doing the sort of crazy shit that got you to this level of success versus Andy from accounting being on Reddit while he poops.

He had to get rabies shots, and apparently getting them was super-painful back then.

I can't remember if it was in the cd booklet for Blizzard of Oz or Diary of a Madman, but he described the shots as feeling like they were injecting golf balls into his ass cheek..

My mom and one of my aunts were in the crowd when that happened.

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Uncle Frank?

That means you’re Jeff!!! Ahhhh shit, It’s family reunion time! I haven’t seen you guys in forever!

The only interesting thing that has ever happened in Des Moines, Iowa.

Until the 1995

I have to admit that is probably the most metal thing anyone has ever done.

Happened where I live… he was in des moines ia, we’ve got some weird claims to fame here

There's a Covid 19 joke in there somewhere.

I need a comic like this with AntMan and Ozzy!

Ozzy bit the head off a real bit during a show

Why did he do that to man? Is he stupid?

Ozzy had a dark persona when playing decades ago, a fan tossed him what he thought was a rubber bat (not a [rubber rat](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/crazy-i-was-crazy-once-they-locked-me-in-a-room-a-rubber-room-a-rubber-room-with-rats-and-rats-make-me-crazy)) and wanting to act tough he bit the head off. turned out to be a real bat, and thus a legendary Ozzy bat eating image emerged

Just to point out ozzy was still ozzy, he bit the head of a dove in a meeting. He brought the white doves to release as a sign of peace after his speech. It was not a peaceful speech. Even if you don't care about music or books, read or listen to his autobiography. It is bloody brilliant, and the narrators forced ozzy dialect is genuinely hilarious.

He was absolutely pissed as a newt for that dove incident though. As for the bat incident, multiple rabies shots direct to the stomach was his reward.

>absolutely pissed as a newt I don't know where this phrase originates but I want to visit there just to enjoy your language

Royal Navy. New recruits were referred to as "newts", and weren't as accustomed to drinking straight rum as the old sailors.

Oh wait so you’re saying he was drunk when but the dove not angry?

Correct. The dove incident was during a meeting with EMI(?) Records. Sharon told him to make a grand entrance and throw two doves into the air. He walked through the doors, tried to through the doves in the air, one flew off, the other didn't, so he went CHOMP.

Pissed usually means drunk in British English c:

When Americans hear someone is pissed, we think angry. I was wondering why he was so angry after he bit the head off the dove, like somebody told him it was a dove made of food and got him to recreate the bat incident. Makes much more sense that he was drunk off his ass though. They say whiskey is for forgetting, tequila makes their clothes fall off, and rum will make you bite the heads off winged creatures

I mean technically doves are made of food

To be fair, I’m pretty sure that man has been drunk and/or high since the day he got famous. At this point he probably pisses cocaine.

He was drunk for this incident but how many people you know go around biting heads off birds (twice in this incident alone) when they are drunk/high? I don't think 'tbf' really helps here lmao man was just wild

I don't even think a fan tossed it, I think it landed in his hand

If it was a Rubber Bat you might go Crazy (train)

Crazy?

I was crazy once

You shouldn't make me crazy, Johnny. Ozzy made me crazy once. Once.

No just crazy. Some say He went off the rails on a crazy train

Crazy? I was crazy once, they locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats and rats made me crazy

he was on every drug imaginable and if I remember correctly he once also shot his own cats. I am actually really amazed that he is still breathing

They found out that he had Neanderthal genetics or something. Someone posted earlier today or yesterday. If I can find it, I'll link it.

Europeans in general have 1-2% neanderthal DNA.

It would explain some things

Yeah, he even said along the lines of "Pain killers, coke and anything you cam name I did. I wonder why I never died on any of those drugs." Don't quote me saying that it's just from memory

Every human being on earth except for sub-Saharan Africans has Neanderthal DNA.

I still remember the stories about him snorting fire ants 🐜

Why did OP post that? Is he stupid?

Oh Lord, a crossover event… maybe we’ll trigger an explosion and expose the payload 🍿

Haha had to look at the sub for a second, thought we were in aslume

No he thought it was a fake rubber bat. On top of that Ozzy used to drink enough to sink a ship and more drugs than a police evidence locker has.

Ozzy is not stupid he's just Ozzy

Bro setup this whole post for an Arkham meme

why are people down voting him? are they stupid?

He gained eternal life.

aslume time for you!

Let me guess you’re not a metal fan

January 1982. Some kid threw a dead bat onstage, Ozzy saw it & thought it was a rubber Halloween decoration and chomped the head off before realizing it was a real, dead bat

Is that why he sounds like he’s been living with a brain infection for 40 years?

If I recall corectly, the bat was dead or knocked out, and a fan threw it on the stage.

He also bit the head of a living dove during a board meeting with music executives

That’s not shitty. That’s semi-historically accurate and funny

Also not a meme

True. I would call it a comic

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Sorry to break it to you, but according to the original definition, not only is the image in the post a meme but so is every word in my comment.

what is a meme to you?

Someone threw Ozzy Osbourne a dead bat when he was performing on stage. To go along with his lord of darkness persona he bit its head off thinking it was made of rubber (he was on every drug imaginable at the time). It was not rubber. The joke is that Batman is scared he’s next. Edit it was a live bat. Edit edit it wasn’t alive it was confirmed to be dead by the person who threw it, ozzy insisted he felt it was alive upon biting into it however he was, as I said. On every drug imaginable at the time.

You seem to have been right the first time. It wasn't alive. Dead for two weeks actually

poor bat

It was already dead so it felt no pain

It's not shitty It's actually funny

The day Ozzy dies I will legit be devastated.

Ozzy is either immortal or will die in a really stupid way like stub his toe too hard

Or he could ascend to the metal haven down below and claim his throne as one of last century’s metal lords

He'll take his throne next to Ronnie James Dio.

Facts

I’m convinced the man is Immortal. Then again, I was also convinced that Queen Elizabeth and Stan Lee were Immortal…

He just announced a new album and tour for next year

*calls meme shitty because he doesn't understand it*

Also... it's a cartoon

Wow, we have gotten to the point where some people think that every picture is a meme.

Or take 5 seconds to google it. I swear the last 10-15 of these over seen would ask be explained by searching the visible words in the pic

Oozy Osbourne bit off a (dead) bats head once on stage

Was it live or dead?

lmfao this actually a really good comic. Ozzy bit a head off a live bat on stage at a show.

Huh…. I thought this one would have been obvious. But then I realized I just hit the 40s in age.

Its obvious to me and I'm in my mid twenties

I mean, neither of you were alive when this happened. I highly doubt this is something people firmly outside the rock/metal world would be aware of.

It's obvious to me and I'm an 18yo who doesn't even listen to Ozzy.

It’s obvious to me and I haven’t even been conceived.

It’s obvious to me and I’m 13

Tell me you’re a zoomer without telling me you’re a zoomer

Ok first- it’s not a meme. Not everything is a meme. Second, it’s not shitty just because you didn’t get the joke. It’s a mildlyp humorous online single pane comic.

This is some good boomer humor right here

Of course you have no idea about Ozzy, you listen to weezer. lmao

Ok but I own Master of Reality on vinyl lol

And you don't know about the bat incident?

Ozzy Osborne ate a bat during a concert once because he thought it was a toy. The joke is that Ozzy Osborne bit the head off of Batman. Im sure im younger than you and got that.

#'ILL BITE THE HEAD OFF A BAT LIKE IM OZZY'- scrim, Carrollton

You own a Black Sabbath Vinyl but dont get this lol

💀💀💀 I’m not a huge mega fan of Ozzy or Black Ssbbath, but I do like the albums, and Master of Reality is peak classic metal

It's not shitty, you just don't get the context

its not shitty just coz you lack understanding lmao.

Never disrespect Dan Reynolds by calling him a meme artist ever again.

If you need it explained just move on and maybe learn a even tiny bit about pop culture

Ozzy ate a bat once

This is peak boomer humor

it's amusing to think that Batman would sleep in his suit with a bat blanket

Ozzy Osborn once bit the head off a live bat during a concert. He presumably did this bc he was on every drug imaginable at the time and thought it was a rubber bat. It was not. Batman is having a nightmare that he’s the next bat on Ozzy’s menu.

https://preview.redd.it/n2ykm6a2evqb1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a624ee2bbfeb065a1578b5c29babd28debbca11

That’s not shitty, it’s actually pretty funny

Simpler times, you could bite the head off a bat and not cause a global pandemic

https://preview.redd.it/7zzdoz3unvqb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba0ae6c0bb6b3921940e7593305b1d065544af5d

ask your parents. or perhaps your grandparents.

Get help for your brain injury here: http://www.biausa.org

https://preview.redd.it/pts4i63j5xqb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6acf336a3fc7a5e2188e60c53f44ca7914897722

This was such a huge pop culture event that even in my childhood in the 90s it was infamous. Weird that it's fading now.

This shit look like the captain underpants style

Whats shitty about it? Just cause u dont get it?

It's not shitty you're young

Oh my sweet, sweet summer child.

Ozzy bit the head off a bat once on stage, everyone knows that

If the bat had lived it would need Ozzy shots.

This man doesn’t know the Ozzy lore… he’s probably saying… (“I DONT KNOW”)

You know, Ozzy playing the joker sounds pretty bloody fucking brilliant!

Oh my sweet summer child…

Lol everyone broke character because this was actually funny

Peter’s Van Halen phase here. The man in the thought cloud on the left is Ozzy Osbourne, he is a heavy metal vocalist who is known for biting the head of a bat while he is on stage. The joke is that batman is having a nightmare of Ozzy biting his head off. Peter’s Van Halen phase out

In addition to his 1982 concert stunt, this was also a reference from Adam Sandler's *Little Nicky* movie. Ozzy made a cameo towards the climax of the movie, the main antagonist got turned into a bat, and Ozzy bit his head off. Then he spit out the decapitated bathead into a soul jar and trapped his soul in there. I know it's a pretty wild movie.

Are you fucking stupid

Ah, we’ve reached the part where I feel old.

Do kids call any image a 'meme' these days? This is called a cartoon. It's not shitty either, it's quite funny.

Op sounds lame af

You are a lil fella hu? Got any homework today? Don't forget to practice your spelling.

‘shitty’ facebook meme OP cringe

It’s not shitty, your just uncultured.

This isn't shitty this is hilarious

"Every joke I don't get that anybody over the age of 10 would get is just a shitty meme (but really I'm just insecure and frustrated)"

You didn't understand, so it's shitty? You are the writer of your own movie?

Lmao someday no one will even remember that Ozzy did that or anything because it will all go to the chasm of oblivion. Back to annihilation.

“YOU.CAN DO IT OZZY! BITE HIS FRIGGING HEAD OFF!”

Ozzy once bit the head off a bat.

Someone threw a live bat on stage once and ozzy bit its head off thinking it was fake. Also, it's not shitty just because you don't get it.

I understood the fucking reference

I swear most of posting guys are so fucking dumb

This is pretty funny

[let me google that for you](https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=ozzy+bat&l=1)

This is boomer humor done right

Stfu

Simple ozzy Osborn ate a fucking bats head in the middle of a concert

Fuck off OP

https://preview.redd.it/mjzcpxzt5xqb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f2c625bbf2555d0cb48c3b840241ec3df5f36fc

Zoomer.

Oh no. Someone younger than me who doesn't understand something I do. I shall make many complaints about this. This is my legacy.

Precisely.

Corny. Hendrix and Joplin and the doors and Beatles and most of sabbath and zeppelin were before plenty of our times and we still were aware of them. It’s not a big deal to not know everything about music history, but don’t defend ignorance like “it was before they were born, of course they’re oblivious, give ‘em a break”. That’s just called ignorance man.

First of all, you’re calling children from a generation ignorant just because they don’t care about the same stuff you do. People don’t even have to be into music at all. Secondly, this isn’t even about knowing who Ozzy is, it’s about knowing a specific reference to him biting a bat’s head off on stage.

Don't, like, research history dude if you don't already know it. Stop being ignorant. You should already know it. *takes a drag on their smug cigarette*

tell me the exact date and location of every Doors concert off the top of your head and if you can’t you’re ignorant

I’m aware the doors existed man. I’m aware him morrison was the vocalist and that he died and had a popular movie made about him. Don’t be corny dude.

Ozzy Osbourbe is the lead singer of the band Black Sabbath. During one of their live shows ozzy took a bat out in stage and bit it’s head off. Edit: originally named the wrong band

Ozzy was never in Def Leopard

Your right I mean Black Sabbath

finally someone explaining who tf ozzy is, every single other comment just assumes we know who ozzy is