Dennis Quaid's epic outburst really wasn't a cry for help after all.

According to Entertainment Weekly, all the footage of Quaid yelling at and berating a room full of people on the set of an upcoming production earlier this week was really all just part of a skit for "Funny or Die."

The start of the video finds a bevy of on-the-spot news anchors covering Quaid's meltdown. He soon berates one man dressed in a head-to-toe penis costume as "Dopey the D**k," and brands a nearby basket full of kittens as "p*****s."

Later, when he steps in an actual pile of horse manure, Quaid exclaims this is "horsesh**."

Initially, many speculated that notorious prankster and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel may have somehow been involved. Kimmel once infamously convinced some media members that there was a wolf freely roaming the halls of athletes' dorms at the Sochi Olympics.

Earlier this year, Quaid's Academy Award-nominated brother, Randy, suffered a similar meltdown that appeared to be far more real.

In what the Daily Beast describes as a "strange homemade video," the "Independence Day" star ranted against everyone from Rupert Murdoch, to Warner Brothers, to the New York Post. He wrapped the video by simulating sex with his wife while she wore a Murdoch mask.

Quaid and his wife, Evi, also once claimed "a shadowy group of Hollywood spooks were out to get them." Around that same time, the two were charged with cheating a Southern California hotel out of $10,000 and resisting arrest in Texas.

The couple is now stuck in Canada, unable to return to the States because a slew of felony arrest warrants await them. They are now rumored to be in the midst of suing Secretary of State John Kerry in hopes the legal action might pave the way for their return.

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