Hulk Hogan and Ozzy Osbourne careers crossed paths in this forgettable film

You can point to their respective family-centered reality shows, "The Osbournes" and "Hogan Knows Best" for manifestations of this fact. Hogan's show would not have existed without the success of "The Osbournes," truly a cultural phenomenon on MTV. As the RC Cola version of such an entity, "Hogan Knows Best" aired on VH1. The shows succeeded as curiosities for lookey-loos. Seeing Ozzy and Hogan "living their lives" felt odd, like seeing your teacher at the grocery store in elementary school times 1,000. 

These shows existed because people wanted to gawk at Hogan and Ozzy. Well, and because they/their families wanted to make money and get attention and bolster their careers. Both Kelly Osbourne and Brooke Hogan ended up with wholly-unjustified, nepotism-laden musical careers because of these reality shows.

Ozzy and Hulk would show up in whatever random nonsense, and it would engender the reaction that such random nonsense is supposed to in the minds of the creative forces involved. Hogan would show up in "Muppets in Space" or "American Dad" or voice a character in an Adult Swim show because "Hulk Hogan voices a character" is the quintessential first-draft idea for an Adult Swim show. Ozzy would pop up in "The King of Queens" or "Goldmember" or what have you. This led to some personal curiosity. Had the Hulkster and The Prince of Darkness ever appeared in the same work of popular culture? It turns out, the answer is "yes," and the answer is...

That's right, both Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan lent their voices to the 2011 movie "Gnomeo & Juliet." If you were wondering, yes, they also got Dolly Parton. Somehow, those three so-hard-to-book celebrities found the time to lend their voices to this retelling of "Romeo & Juliet."

Osbourne voiced Fawn, a deer statue. Hogan provided the voice of the announcer in an ad for a product called Terrafirminator. Notably, Ozzy also returned to voice Fawn in the 2018 sequel "Sherlock Gnomes." Hogan did not return. Maybe it was because he simply wasn't needed. Maybe it's become in the interim some stuff happened. It's not like Ozzy had the cleanest reputation himself, to be fair.

Both Hogan and Osbourne were celebrities whose very existence sufficed as a joke in the eyes of many, including casting decision makers. And yet, only the late director Kelly Asbury had the vision to cast them both in the same movie. A movie about sentient lawn gnomes with a character named Mankini Gnome.