_UHF_ (Weird Al's, that is)

Richards as the kiddie show host, I now realize, is perhaps one of the best moments of sheer what-the-fuck comedy out there. Like his ad break about Corn Flakes. "This is pretty good waterme...tastes like poop."

Other revelations via the commentary -- the Channel 8 building is actually the Hewlett-Packard headquarters in Tulsa, the fish on Wheel of Fish had been essentially rotting in a lit, hot, non-air conditioned stage for eight hours before filming...

I have now just remembered the weiner twinkie. Good god.

Commentary proves he still sounds like him, though.

Weird Al: "I wonder where Emo is right now."
Emo: "I'm RIGHT beHIND YOU!"

My mother gave me a spatula for christmas last year because of this movie. And don't dare ask anyone in my brothers house 'whats in the box?'.

I am in awe.

Wasn't that the whole point? A fairly recent interview with some utter joy:

O: Did you watch Survivor?

EP: No, I didn't. I don't watch TV much. Was Survivor good?

O: I found myself watching it against my will.

EP: There you go. See, you've got to say... Well, it's funny, because my mom was watching Touched By An
Angel, and I came into the living room and said, "Why are you watching this?" I look at it, and there's a
little black kid and he's an orphan and he's donated his kidney to a little baby that's born without a head
and there's violins and I'm crying my eyes out for three seconds. So, TV, they know what they're doing.
They know all the tricks.

O: Who gets your endorsement for the presidential election?

EP: That's a tough question. I think they're both hellbent on taking away our liberties. I would have to
say that if you choose of two devils, you've got to pick the most incompetent one. I think Gore is very
intelligent, so you don't want to choose him. I think Bush is one of those cute little fumbly Disney devils
from the film Hercules with his pitchfork, and he's always getting into shenanigans. He's the one I would
have to choose, because he's like the cute little fumbling devil, and he'll probably even make things
better; that's how fumbling he is. So I would have to vote for Bush. It's a tough question. I'm reminded
of H.L. Mencken's line—this is from back in the Harding election, I think—where he likens the American
populace to a fellow who's at a banquet, and there are all the wonderful foods of the world on top of the
banquet table, and he's under the table feasting on the flies. I don't believe that, of the 280 million
people in the country, these are the best two guys we could come up with. Either of these guys wouldn't
have made the last six, so I don't get it.

look up!

look down!

say hello to MISTER FRYING PAN!
*cue cartoon style WALLOP in face*

plus a gross moment where a kid gobs right in weird al's face, and its all dripping off his nose and blechhh....
?

remembering the frying pan bit still cracks me up

"FREE TOY INSIDE! FREE TOY!...Kids, don't let your mom see you doing this!"

My god I loved this film as a kid. Me and my friends must've watched it at least 20 times. I should see it again.

i always LOVED THE LOVE stanley had for his mop.

"Do you not know the Dewey decimal system?!"

"He's back! And this time he's mad!

GANDHI 2

No more Mr. Passive Resistance!"

A friend of mine saw wierd al in a bar with hot chicks around him. He goes "Hi wierd al!" WA: "hi." friend: "you suck!" WA: "syracuse gotta love this place!" Em, just a boring anecdote.

this movie is utterly classic. second to big lebowski as one of the most quotable movies.

this used to be my favorite movie. my best friend and I brought spatulas to school for an entire year -- it was funny until she started hitting me with one.

This is a great Mandee story. (And a great story period.)

http://thedissolve.com/features/oral-history/817-an-oral-history-of-weird-al-yankovics-uhf/

SPATULA CITY!
WE SELL SPATULAS
– AND THAT'S ALL!

And now here's an even MORE extensive oral history:

http://www.avclub.com/article/we-got-it-all-uhf-oral-history-weird-al-yankovics--215579

This was a surprise:

Yankovic: [Cream’s Ginger Baker] came in to audition for the role of the “Change? You got change?” guy. And he came in and he read, and he was okay. But he just wasn’t as good as Vance [Colvig Jr.], who wound up doing the part. But it was a bit surrealistic for me and Jay, you know, who were big Cream fans, to have Ginger Baker come in for this movie.

Levey: Oh my God, do I remember that. As a child of the ’60s, Cream was probably second only to The Beatles as being my favorite band. I was a giant Creamhead. And when I heard that Ginger Baker was going to come in and read for that role, it was one of the most surreal experiences of my life. I didn’t know where to put that. The fact is, he just wasn’t right. I guess it’s like the Crispin Glover thing. I dreaded the idea of saying no, having to turn him down for the role. He wasn’t an actor, but he was just trying all kinds of things, and his agent saw the listing for this and saw it was a small enough role. He could’ve conceivably worked. It was just Vance, who had worked with Spike Jones, was just a bull’s-eye. So there was no reason to go elsewhere, you know?

Yeah, lots of fun/random details. Also thought the whole section with Watanabe and Levey weighing in on comedy and stereotypes was pretty good.

This is great! LOL at Michael Richards having Bells Palsy. "Hey Weird Al I have Bells Palsy for the next foreseeable while, wanna get someone else or what?" "No let's roll with it!"

They made the right choice with casting the "Change?" guy, he was just perfect, like he was born to play a bum.

Lol, I looked at Vance Colvig Jr.'s filmography at IMDb, and it lists 23 roles for him, including "Bum", "Wino", "Old Man", "Alcoholic Man", "Old Man" (again), "Bum" (again!), "Bum" (third time!), and "Wino" (again!!). So I guess that really was his forte...

This is such a great read.

Weird that Joel Hodgson and Crispin Glover were almost in this.

The vibe in the Joel Hodgson part is really weird. He seems pretty down on it, and they seem down on him.

I rewatched this with my wife the other day and it really doesnt hold up imo.. and I rented this like 15 times as a kid.