FIRST TIME WATCHING | UHF (1989) | Movie Reaction

FIRST TIME WATCHING | UHF (1989) | Movie Reaction | I Love Spatulas!

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Thanks to Granny Christi & Grandaddy Patrick, the Mrs checks out Weird Al's UHF (1989) for the first time. Here's her reaction.
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@danielmitchell8165 2 жыл бұрын

"SUPPLIES!!" best, most well delivered joke in the movie, and this just one of a ton of them.

@RetroRobotRadio 2 жыл бұрын

UHF is the ultra high frequency band of television. Basically all the channels above 13.

@motodork 2 жыл бұрын

And channels eight and nine would not be UHF.

@ThePharaz 2 жыл бұрын

@@motodork No, Channels 2-13 are VHF and 14-69 are UHF.

@arandomnamegoeshere 2 жыл бұрын

UHF channels were largely small / local or break-out networks. It was a wild time of expansion. Crazy stuff would show up in those frequencies. And it was great. If you could get it. Now we have KZfaq.

@bjgandalf69 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePharaz Actually, the FCC allocated bandwidth for channels up to 83 until they decided to sell the bandwidth to the cellular carriers in the early 2000s.

@johnsensebe3153 2 жыл бұрын

More specifically, analog broadcast channels.

@hackerx7329 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite gag will forever be the supplies closet just for how it hit the audience completely out of nowhere.

@danielmitchell8165 2 жыл бұрын

Like i said earlier, best joke in the movie.

@Hiraghm 2 жыл бұрын

The Beverly Hillbilly's song is a parody of Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" which used the same cutting edge graphics. The original Dire Straits song was inspired by the musician watching a couple of appliance movers complaining about how easy musicians have it.

@cuffzter 2 жыл бұрын

Which is also where the derogatory language came from, not from Knopfler himself. Also Knopfler required to play the guitar on Weird Als satire cover to allow him to do it.

@StCerberusEngel 2 жыл бұрын

And those cutting edge graphics of the day were done by Ian Pearson and Gavin Blair, cofounders of Mainframe Entertainment, the production company behind the first computer animated TV series, ReBoot.

@MrTech226 2 жыл бұрын

Weird Al gotten an ok from Mark Knopfler if Mark can played the lead on his guitar

@Psilocybin77 Жыл бұрын

To this day seeing poodles flying out a window never fails to make me laugh. The actor who played Raul was killed in a car accident during filming and they were unable to film a scene where the poodles get revenge on Raul. A sad story, but what a memorable role in one of the funniest movies ever made. UHF was dedicated to him. RIP Trinidad Silva.

@deg6788 9 ай бұрын

I never knew this 😢😢....thanks for elaborating

@pickmeasinner 4 ай бұрын

Your comment came across to me like you _often_ see poodles flying out of windows! 😂

@Baldarq 2 жыл бұрын

Conan the Librarian has always stuck with me since I saw this movie when it came out. The moment he cuts the kid with late books in half...reminds me of my old high school librarian.

@STOCKHOLM07 2 жыл бұрын

Spatula City finally found a customer.

@TheKrensada Ай бұрын

Most people don't appreciate a good spatula.

@PriceFamPrime 2 жыл бұрын

As a teen, I memorized the Spatula City dialogue and would periodically use the PA system in the grocery store where I worked to announce it as if it were serious. People rarely noticed.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

Only slightly related, but Tim Heidecker, the comedian of "Tim & Eric" fame, recorded an entire country album about drinking pee. It's quite good, too (the songs, I mean), and it's all on KZfaq under the band name "The Yellow River Boys". The relevance being that the comments under the songs are filled with people who have snuck it into the rotation at various country-themed chain restaurants/bars where they work, and it's apparently almost never noticed, which is especially hilarious because it absolutely isn't subtle.

@punchfisttop 2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome Richard! Me and my BFF would quote it all the time as well!!! "Get your tenth spatula for only a dime!"

@Acme1970 2 жыл бұрын

That's when your really having fun at work.

@ChicagoDB 2 жыл бұрын

17:51 “today, we’re teaching poodles how to fly”…I laughed so hard for about 90 seconds that it hurt!

@Hiraghm 2 жыл бұрын

The "These Floors are Dirty as Hell" speech was a spoof of the famous speech by Howard Beel in "Network" where he gets up in his pajamas, soaking wet from walking through the rain, and on international TV rants about how things suck, and people need to get off their asses stick their heads out the window and shout, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" And they do.

@thrakkorzog75002 2 жыл бұрын

Fun Story, Rush Limbaugh had the Spatula City commercial as his on hold music for people who called in to his show. So people would call Rush, give their 2 cents, then ask what the hell is up with spatulas, since nobody saw this movie.

@mokefish8126 2 жыл бұрын

I loved this movie growing up. And I still say "Spatula City" at least once a week. Ask my wife!

@windsaw151 2 жыл бұрын

The "supplies" joke was probably the most lost-in-translation joke for every translation ever!

@jeffreymcmahon3627 2 жыл бұрын

After such 80s comedies as a Christmas Story and Police Academies, I instantly got that one

@DamonCzanik 2 жыл бұрын

Twinkie hot dog. Yay! I feel old for knowing what UHF is.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

I mean, you probably are, but so are a lot of us, and we'll all be, sooner or later. This ride don't go backwards.

@macedindu829 2 жыл бұрын

Same. Watched this many a time with my cousin and several of my friends. Smugly felt, and still feel, I was on the ground floor of Michael Richards appreciation.

@seanodonnell8001 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: The Dire Straits only let Weird Al parody their song Money for Nothing on the condition that some of them got to play it with him. So that's actually Mark Knopfler and Guy Fletcher in the video with Al.

@ralphschmitt5859 2 жыл бұрын

When Raul shakes the ant farm and says..."They're Really Mad Now" My daughter and I have been using that quote with each other for decades now. LOL!

@brianoconnell6459 Жыл бұрын

Fun fact, not only did Weird Al get permission to spoof Money For Nothing as Beverly Hillbillies, but members of Dire Straits and even Sting got into it.

@Hiraghm 2 жыл бұрын

The actor who plays Kunah (the karate / wheel of fish guy) was in a sweet little comedy with Michael Keaton called "Gung Ho". He plays a well-meaning auto-plant manager caught between both sides in a culture-conflict. Also starring Mimi Rogers, George Wendt, John Turturro, Clint Howard, Rance Howard and directed by Ron Howard. You might want to add it to your list of movies to react to.

@beandean23 2 жыл бұрын

Though not a movie, he was also in ER.

@Hiraghm Жыл бұрын

It's a good little comedy. I didn't like it at the time because... we were living through the era of Japan, Inc. But since then I began to appreciate it.

@dvl3435 2 жыл бұрын

The talk show you referred to like Springer, was Geraldo when a Klan member threw a chair at him during a fight. Pre-Springer.

@finishin.my.coffee8780 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Trinidad Silva, the "Teaching Poodles How To Fly" guy. He was killed by a drunk driver on his way home from the set during the making of this movie.

@paladinrose 2 жыл бұрын

UHF = Ultra High Frequency

@DCFCfanatic 2 жыл бұрын

Raul, the animal guy was from my home town. He died before this movie came out, drunk driver killed him. the theater was packed by people that knew him on the day it came at our local theater. friends and family of his. every time he was on screen they would go crazy and cheer. I had no clue why people were going nuts until I went to buy some popcorn and some guys were talking to the theater owner about him. I went back inside and told my dad and he already knew.

@davevannatta985 2 жыл бұрын

While watching the Mrs.get scared watching horror movies,watching her watch comedies is just as much fun

@ExUSSailor 2 жыл бұрын

Trinidad Silva, who played Raul, was supposed to return to appear in the telethon scenes, but, he was tragically killed in a car accident before he could.

@aceldamia9114 2 жыл бұрын

At the time of this movie, it was illegal to own more than one station in a market, yes, but only for like another decade. The current law allows someone to own up to two stations in a market, with some conditions. It's called a duopoly.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't a duopoly be if there were only two stations/owners in the market?

@blacktronlego 2 жыл бұрын

George's glasses with the two bars across are known as 'Aviator' style glasses. I think my favourite gag is Kuni and the karate school's 'Supplies!' UHF is the abbreviation for Ultra High Frequency, which is what non-cable TV was broadcast on. Some radio was on UHF channels some on Very High Frequency (VHF). I don't know where it originally comes from but I've seen another parody of 'we don't need no stinking badges!' Although of course they made it 'badgers' for this film.

@vaughnzimmerman355 Ай бұрын

The other parody is, I believe, in Blazing Saddles.

@blacktronlego Ай бұрын

@@vaughnzimmerman355 I don't think the one I saw was 'Blazing Saddles'. I can only suppose it was well known enough to be parodied many times.

@jean-paulaudette9246 2 жыл бұрын

Kristi & Patrick, my gratitude is exceeded only by my respect for your taste and sophistication! Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!

@kj7124 2 жыл бұрын

That long pause by Mr. after the “is it like wrestling?” question. Hahaha 🤣 thinking how do I put this? ….

@brianoconnell6459 Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, another fun fact: The mad scientist was originally cast for Joel Hodgson (of MST3K fame). He declined the role, and the rest is history.

@josemuse4119 Жыл бұрын

I apologize in advance if these comments were already made. I believe most of the movie was shot in and around Tulsa, Oklahoma. A shopping mall with an attached hotel was built during the town's economic boom but by the time it was completed, the economy crashed. The mall was only half occupied, so the production company was able to convert individual stores into movie sets and the hotel served as accommodations for the cast and crew. The movie was fairly low budget but when it screened for test audiences, it was the highest scored film in Orion Pictures history. Orion was in middle of a slate of under performing films, so they scheduled "UHF" as their summer blockbuster. Sadly, it flopped and Orion would sell most of their assets less than a year later. "UHF" was not the cause of the Orion's demise but it was one of many flops that ended Orion's run.

@darthphayde508 2 жыл бұрын

An under rated gem of a film, right up there with the Naked Gun, Airplane & Hot Shots films.

@phil8821 2 жыл бұрын

This one's my nr 2 right after Blazing Saddles.

@3DJapan 2 жыл бұрын

"his hair was short in this movie" That was his 80s look, mustache and all.

@clg0003 Жыл бұрын

One actor that gets overlooked in this movie is Anthony Geary, who plays Philo the station engineer. Geary is better known as Luke Spencer on General Hospital. GH retired Luke several years ago, so most Millennials and maybe some Gen Xers don't recognize him.

@_Jay_Maker_ 10 ай бұрын

Totally. The guy was a legend in daytime TV and seeing him in this film really enlightens him as a stand up guy.

@kevincopelan5334 2 жыл бұрын

Michael Richards played a similar character in the show Friday's. It was ABC's answer to Saturday Night Live back in 1980.

@tommyzDad 2 жыл бұрын

The only episode I saw of *Fridays* was the one with DEVO as the musical guest.

@petervenkman69 2 жыл бұрын

Guess you guys need to go down the "Weird Al" rabbit hole... I know that isn't a movie but... As for the Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies song... yes it was a Weird Al song, it was based on Money for Nothing by Dire Straits, what is interesting about this is that Mark Knopfler (the original songs write/singer/guitarist) and Guy Flethcher (Original Synth player) from Dire Straits insisted on doing the guitar and synth respectively on this track. Everyone makes a big deal about how artists agree to let Al parody them, or how Michael Jackson let Al use the "Bad" set for "Fat" but I think the original artists actually insisting on performing with Al takes the cake. And if you don't know about Mark Knopfler, he is considered one of the greatest guitarists of all times.

@paulcole3204 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately Trinidad Silva (Raul) was killed at the age of 38 in a car accident with a drunken driver in Whittier, California right after he filmed his segment.

@JW666 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Those fish where real. They where bought at a fish market, where hanged and tested so it could spin properly at 6:am and they started filming at 4:30 pm, and this was on a hot summer day with no air condition. Can imagine it was no pleasent smell.... My favorite character was definitely Stanley, a role that was written for Michael Richards, but another actor they would also have considered for the role was Christopher Lloyd (would have been different, but I think that could have worked too). Crispin Glover (George McFly from Back to the Future) was offered the role of Dr. Philo, but he was more interested in playing the crazy car-salesman. Both Weird Al and the director didn't think he was fitting so they skipped him entirely. Crispin would have definitely been perfect as Dr. Philo and I think he could have worked as the car-salesman, but the actor playing him in the movie was so perfect! Sly Stallone was actually asked to to do a cameo as the helicopter pilot on the Rambo-scene, but he couldn't do it because of schedule problem. Many great spoofs, but I really like the Money for Nothing-spoof song of the Beverly Hillbillies, really love Weird Al's parody songs =)

@JasonZakrajsek 2 жыл бұрын

*were

@VorpalBunnysRevenge 2 жыл бұрын

Weird Al also used that "cool car" in his music video for "It's All About the Pentiums".

@jasoncar1469 2 жыл бұрын

It's a Nash Metropolitan

@FluxNomad678 2 жыл бұрын

The badger thing is an obscure reference to an old movie The Treasure of the Seria Madre. I think some bad guys lying a bluffing as the law said "We don't need no stinking Badges.".

@lukefish4875 2 жыл бұрын

Blazing Saddles.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

I dunno about "obscure", although it is definitely a bit more esoteric of a ref than others. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is still considered a must-see classic for cinema buffs, right up there with "Casablanca". It's a great psychological drama of sudden riches and the paranoia and mistrust that come with them. Pretty much any show doing a similar theme is likely basing it on "Madre". There was a whole Fallout DLC based on it not too far back; whichever the one was before the disastrous MMO Fallout 76. You're right about the circumstances of the quote. Bandits are claiming to be cops, and when they're asked for their badges, that's their response.

@Hiraghm 2 жыл бұрын

Blazing Saddles.

@kennethv5250 2 жыл бұрын

that line also comes from a scene in Blazing Saddles

@StCerberusEngel 2 жыл бұрын

@@lukefish4875 Blazing Saddles was parodying The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and every reference since has taken the line from there.

@Mr.Batsu12 2 жыл бұрын

Trivia: The amazing Dr. Demento makes a cameo appearance in this movie. After Michael Richards has the kid drink from the fire hose the camera cuts back to Richards asking the audience to applaud. Dr. Demento is the older guy with glasses and salt & pepper graying hair and beard. Dr. Demento hosted an extremely popular comedy radio show and is one of the main people to help introduce Weird Al to the world. Back in the mid 80s I made sure every Sunday night I listened to Dr. Demento with my tape recorder ready so I could copy songs from his show.

@dwc1964 2 жыл бұрын

hail, fellow Dementite and/or Dementoid! I remember listening to the show when he had some student from Cal Poly in the studio playing his accordion while another guy pounded out a beat on the case, and history was made!

@ericdwills14 2 жыл бұрын

I still have my cassettes from the 80's that I taped off the radio.

@wbrownshadow 2 жыл бұрын

Dr Demento was also the guy in the scene you see Richards spraying whip cream into his mouth

@oaf-77 2 жыл бұрын

Listen to his Christmas album every year

@crewchief5144 2 жыл бұрын

"There comes a time in every man's life when he has to look the potato of injustice RIGHT in the EYE." -2021 has spoken

@falcon048 2 жыл бұрын

But the thing about a potato is that...it has many eyes, all over. Which eye do you look at? O_O

@gallendugall8913 2 жыл бұрын

I love this movie, but it is a very '80s movie about '80s pop culture. For example, pretty sure no one today remembers the insane hysteria over the Gandhi movie. A lot of that kind of "you had to be there" humor in this.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe not the hype, but the Gandhi movie is still a classic, and you don't really need to know the uproar or even the movie to get the joke; you just have to have a basic knowledge of who Gandhi is and what he did. I think they did a really good job making the references both relevant then and also general enough to stand up over time. Aged a lot better than some of the later "Scary Movie" sequels and similar parodies that were pretty specific in their refs.

@runshouse 2 жыл бұрын

The kid spitting in Georges face... That scene made me laugh for a solid 2 years when I saw it when it came out, I was 10 years old.

@claymccoy 2 жыл бұрын

You can see the kid hiding his face with his hand giggling after spitting.

@WeerdMunkee 7 ай бұрын

As the story goes, when Al called up Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits and asked him permission to parody Money For Nothing, Knopfler said yes, but only under the condition that he'd get to re-record his guitar track for it. 🙂

@73jefft 2 жыл бұрын

Weird Al also has a mock documentary called The Compleat Al which is also hilarious - I think it might be a little hard to track down though.

@claymccoy 2 жыл бұрын

It's available on DVD.

@peadarruane6582 Жыл бұрын

When I saw this film for the first time I pulled a stomach muscle and couldn't stand up straight walking home from my friends place.

@shanester1832 2 жыл бұрын

This movie was the perfect vehicle for Weird Al's comedy, I love it. It was overshadowed in a jam packed blockbuster summer and hurt his movie aspirations. You don't hear from him for a while and he'll drop something awesome out of the blue. The kid's still got it!

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

Al's very big on the improv/alternative comedy circuit. Scott Aukerman, founder and former owner of the EarWolf podcast network, has him on all the time, as do many other shows. Very much a comedian's comedian.

@pete_lind 2 жыл бұрын

Best part was , The Kipper kids , Bette Midler husband Martin von Haselberg and Brian Routh , two men in masks doing weird noises .

@grife3000 2 жыл бұрын

This is 1989, no one knew what a "Jerry Springer Show" was, including Jerry. The archetypes back then were "Geraldo" (altho this show was a little more tame) and "The Morton Downey, Jr Show" which was what Jerry had to have copied. Before it morphed into a "we're not even pretending to be halfway real" show where the panel and audience would get into a fight every single segment.

@davevannatta985 2 жыл бұрын

Philo is played by Anthony Geary who is mostly famous for playing Luke on the soap opera General Hospital

@tempsitch5632 2 жыл бұрын

He puts the ‘Luke’ in ‘Luke n Laura’.

@WeerdMunkee 7 ай бұрын

The guy that plays the kiss-ass reporter who trips Noodles the cameraman and says, "Awww, did I do that?" is the same guy that played "Jambi", the genie with his head in a box on Pee Wee's Playhouse....Meka Leka Hi Meka Hiney Ho!! 😆

@elijahvincent985 2 жыл бұрын

YAY for Twinky Hot dog!!! Fun fact: the homeless guy is Pinto Colvig Jr., son of the actor Pinto Colvig who was the first man to have played both Pluto and Goofy in the original Mickey Mouse cartoons by Walt Disney starting in 1932! And they were aiming for a plain old PG rating on account of its' lack of swearing and no inappropriate sexual content but the gory scene of the cut thumb upped the rating to its' current and honestly unfair PG-13.

@johnmarcey7176 Жыл бұрын

Wasn’t he the first bozo the clown as well?

@bruuno77 2 жыл бұрын

Random trivia- the weird looking two guys doing their weird act during the telethon are the "Kipper Kids" who were a long running act who just did weird things like that. One of them has been married to Bette Midler for almost 40 years now.

@jollyrodgers7272 Жыл бұрын

UHF was Ultra High Frequency radio-tv broadcast, was in the upper numbers on the old analog dial, and had shorter range, more interference by weather and aircraft, so used by cheaper local tv stations but not always just the PBS stations. The Beverly Hillbillies spoof was actually a Dire Straits music video spoof as well of their big hit Money For Nothing from 10 years earlier - and "Badgers? Badgers! We don't need no stinking badgers!" was a spoof of a spoof - Blazing Saddles spoofed Treasure of The Sierra Madre, where originally Alfonso Bedoya said, "Badges, we don't have no badges - We don't need to show you no badges!" to Humphrey Bogart. Too many parodies to list, but you probably got most.

@tonycardone990 2 жыл бұрын

After watching this movie for the first time many years ago I actually tried the twinkie hotdog with the cheese. It's really freaking good. It has to be an uncooked or slightly warmed hotdog though. Fully cooked ones the grease and sponge cake don't mix well. But that's just my opinion everybody likes their own thing.

@menolikey_ 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for including the penny joke in your edit lol. I quote "wow thanks mister" so often loooooool

@MrBigPicture835 2 күн бұрын

This comes from the days when you twisted a knob to change channels. UHF frequencies are used for both analog and digital television broadcasts. UHF channels are typically given higher channel numbers, like the US arrangement with VHF channels (initially) 1 to 13, and UHF channels (initially) numbered 14 to 83.

@Countfoscolikesmice 2 жыл бұрын

As a former assistant junior manager in training intern at Spatula City, I endorse the twinkie/hotdog combo...but with the cheese.

@tsogobauggi8721 2 жыл бұрын

Conan The Librarian is the best part of this movie. :)

@DOSv622 2 жыл бұрын

The FCC has rules that govern ownership of broadcast TV stations and usually a company or individual is not allowed to own more than one broadcast TV station in a market. You mentioned Ted Turner, other than the broadcast TV station he owned in Atlanta his stations were only on cable which the FCC has no rules over ownership.

@Horatio.Mantooth 2 жыл бұрын

First time I've seen the guy without a bowl of popcorn

@sagaofsarahrose 2 жыл бұрын

Mr.'s laughs in this just...so good.

@mtdreams72 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve actually seen Weird Al in concert twice. So entertaining. I love this movie but my wife definitely rolls her eyes when I watch it. She does enjoy it to a point but not the way I do lol. Sounds familiar lol

@had1toomany114 2 жыл бұрын

Raul was definitely my favorite. I haven't seen this movie in 20 years, but I remembered and was waiting for that part.

@animefan25 Жыл бұрын

Sadly, Raul's actor passed away after the film was released.

@kristinaschlegel2680 2 жыл бұрын

I love that you guys get it. This movie was comedy/parody gold. Thanks so much for bringing back some hilarious memories.

@1972myc 2 жыл бұрын

Twinkie Hot Dog: YES, Like the McGridle from McDnalds

@StCerberusEngel 2 жыл бұрын

UHF stands for Ultra-High Frequency. It was basically your locally-owned, independent stations, where the VHF band (Very-High Frequency) was your network affiliates (ABC, NBC, etc.) Ian Pearson and Gavin Blair did the CGI animation for the Dire Straights video Money for Nothing, which is parodied with The Beverly Hillbillies in this movie. They would later co-found the studio Mainframe Entertainment and create the first fully CGI animated TV series, ReBoot in 1994. The "Stinking Badgers" line, most people know from, and is probably in reference to Blazing Saddles due to the way it's phrased. However, it originates in the classic Bogart-starring film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which btw, is worth watching to be sure. Don't worry about your laundry. Forget about your job. Just crank up the volume and yank off the knob!

@jasoncaldwell5627 2 жыл бұрын

Twinkie hotdog sounds great! Killer on Kings Hawaiian Bread too!

@mcnasty6971 2 жыл бұрын

A couple of scenes in this were filmed a mile from my house as a kid in Tulsa, OK. Spatula City was a Warehouse Market grocery store and the bar scene was at a local bar about 2 miles away from Spatula City. My friends and I rode our bikes to the locations in hopes of seeing Weird Al. Never did though :(

@vicjr74 2 жыл бұрын

Badgers!? We don't need no stinking badgers! Classic! 🤣🤣🤣

@o.b.7217 Жыл бұрын

*"Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!"*

@TheGosslings Жыл бұрын

This is one of the greatest movies ever made. It still holds up today.

@fanatical27 2 жыл бұрын

The buy 9 and get 1 for a penny is a jab at the old Columbia Record Club introductory offer.

@mildheadwound 2 жыл бұрын

This guy was seriously concerned... by how many times he crossed his arms... She really loved it, of course, because it is brilliant!

@BMams83 2 жыл бұрын

I literally saw this movie when I was 3, and it was on Beta-max!

@Tommy1977777 2 жыл бұрын

Lol I remember BetaMax! The old VHS tapes, too.

@tempsitch5632 2 жыл бұрын

Poor Beta. Truly superior to VHS but lost the competition due to better marketing.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

@@tempsitch5632 It was more that, despite Sony getting to market a year before VHS, they only had a 1-hour tape. VHS hit with a 2-hour, which was long enough for a movie or a sporting event without a tape-change. Sony took *years* to come out with a Beta tape of the same length, because they seemed to believe they could dictate terms to the market. They were, uh, wrong.

@tempsitch5632 2 жыл бұрын

@@IcyTorment You have no idea what you are talking about. “Higher quality tape speed”. LOL

@resonanttotality8322 2 жыл бұрын

VHF - Shortwave Radio frequency UHF - Really Shortwave Radio frequency

@r66fplaysgames Жыл бұрын

Actually VHF is Very High Frequency & UHF is Ultra High Frequency.

@wbrownshadow 2 жыл бұрын

Another fun story i had been to one of Weird Als concerts and we say right behind the area they usually cordoned off for friennds and family me and the Club i was in.. Anyways right in front of me sat down Miss Victoria Jackson (Terry) she was so sweet when i asked for her autograph in his permanent record album book… and then later autographs from him and the band

@johnnym7575 Жыл бұрын

This was a real treat. Thanks guys. I haven't seen this in at least thirty years but it all came crashing back. haha. This VHS tape got a lot of use at my house. The highlight for me is Kevin McCarthy as RJ Fletcher. He plays evil villain so well. It's always great to see him pop up in things. His IMDB is impressive. He acted pretty steadily for seventy years. Also, I can't watch that spatula city commercial without realizing I could easily spend hours browsing in there.

@samswords9993 2 жыл бұрын

Favorite movie for many years. Our family quotes it all the time!

@doktor_ghul 2 жыл бұрын

No doubt about it, my favorite character is Philo, the alien mad scientist from the planet Zarkon. He reminds me so much of myself in earlier days...of course, now, I'm close to sixty and considerably stranger, but it's still one of my favorite films. If Yankovic ever wants to do a sequel , I'd suggest having Philo assigned to an orbiting station around Earth, observing the Terran " information age " and keeping in touch with his friend George Newman, who has become one of the most bizarre KZfaqrs out there, and is finding himself missing the old days at U-62. By the end of the film, Philo has downloaded himself into the world wide server network and become the Internet, and George is flying Philo's station off into space ( with a large quantity of junk food aboard, since he can't be without his twinkie and weiner sandwich ), and becoming the equivalent of the Doctor from DOCTOR WHO, only stranger.

@WeerdMunkee 7 ай бұрын

It did used to be illegal to own two television stations in one town, but those days are LONG gone! It all changed in 2002.

@garylee3685 2 жыл бұрын

There used to be an FCC rule where a company couldn't own two stations in the same market. UHF stands for ultra high frequency, TV station channels 14 and up were UHF and stations 2-13 were very high frequency- VHF. Since HDTV this a dated title.

@DaneofHalves Жыл бұрын

Shaking the ant farm like an etch-a-sketch was funny times 😁

@Smileybeeblevrox 2 жыл бұрын

I recommend, Let It Ride, Running Scared (80s buddy Cop comedy takes place around Christmas) Black Christmas, Scrooge(1970 Albert Finney musical version)

@Mauther 2 жыл бұрын

An aficionado of both the Twinkie hot dog and Spatula City? You sir married well.

@contrabardus Жыл бұрын

The Knopfler bros of Dire Straits actually prefer the Weird Al parody to their own original song recording of Money for Nothing. They both played the guitar parts for the track, and felt they played better on the parody version. They viewed it as a chance to revisit the song, and it's actually a little different than the original track because of this.

@McPh1741 2 жыл бұрын

I loved this movie when it came out. Growing up in the 80’s, Weird Al was the shit. One of my favorite songs is “Christmas at Ground Zero”. I forget just how sexy Fran Drescher was in the 80’s and 90s. Her real voice matches her looks too.

@visionaryventures12 2 жыл бұрын

The chair throwing was a parody of Geraldo’s show featuring the KKK.

@stephonix616 2 жыл бұрын

My family and I still buy each other spatulas because it truly is the best way to say “I love you” 😆😆❤️

@marleybob3157 2 жыл бұрын

Let's get one thing straight - it is not a Twinkie hot dog. Weird Al was very specific. It is a "Twinkie Wiener Sandwich".

@OneThousandHomoDJs Жыл бұрын

19:25 -- the guy with the beard and glasses behind Stanley is Dr. Demento, who gave Al his first break.

@antkemp 2 жыл бұрын

Twinkie with a jalapeño hotdog is kinda good. Also I was very high when I ate it. So I’m not a good reference

@Hum0ng0us 2 жыл бұрын

The guy who played Kevin McCarthy's son was the guy who played Jambi on Pee-Wee's Play House who was also a street tough on Seinfeld.

@Dilirium23 2 жыл бұрын

Love this movie. It was filmed in Tulsa, OK which I grew up around, so I have been in "Big Edna's Burger World" and seen almost every other location they used.

@salenstormwing 2 жыл бұрын

"THESE FLOORS ARE DIRTY AS HELL AND I'M NOT GUNNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!" is a great line, but I love "SUPPLIES!" because of how stupid it is.

@oaf-77 2 жыл бұрын

From ‘Network’ (1976)

@Chamomileable 2 жыл бұрын

One of my top 10 movies of all time. So damn funny and so damn underrated.

@johncampbell756 2 жыл бұрын

Back when TV had dials, you would have two. One dial was 1-13 (VHF - very high frequency) and 14-51 (UHF - ultra high frequency). We never tried the UHF know growing up. I'd avoid the Twinkee hotdog. The local ad parodies are too accurate. I prefer Stanley to Kramer. Was never a Seinfeld fan. Noodles went through worse in the fantastic film Foul Play. Never was an Emo Phillips fan. (The saw victim) On the clown house, the hinges are painted on the left, but the door opens to the right. Good catch. I never noticed that. Wheel of Fish. "Stupid! You're so stupid!" And later a favorite joke, "Supplies!" "Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!" So many references in this film. It used to be illegal to own two channels in one town.

@RiffingReligion 2 жыл бұрын

I was about to point this out. Also, it should be noted that in order to use the UHF dial, you had to turn the VHF dial to "U". Back when I was a kid, our local Fox affiliate was actually a UHF station, so I did watch UHF from time to time.

@johncampbell756 2 жыл бұрын

@@RiffingReligion I was in the NY Market, so all the main networks, plus PBS (13) were on VHF. The Philadelphia stations didn't reach us, but my college used the Philly channels and was surprised to learn they had some real channels up there, but by that point, we had basic cable.

@thrakkorzog75002 2 жыл бұрын

@@RiffingReligion And in order to get the UHF channels to come in properly you had to bend the rabbit ears in unusual ways, put your left hand in, sacrifice a virgin, (That's what it's all about), then you could watch the kind of movies MST3K makes fun of.

@doublemonkey4833 2 жыл бұрын

Always loved this film, love Raul's Wild Kingdom, there was meant to be more segments with Raul (including a venegful flying dog) but sadly the actor playing Raul was killed by a drunk driver before they filmed the rest of his scenes. Also, yay to the Twinkie Weiner Sandwich. :P

@DCFCfanatic 2 жыл бұрын

Trinidad Silva was his name. I'm from his home town and the guy was loved by a lot of people here. I remember when UHF premiered in our local theater the place was packed with a bunch of his friends and family that still live here. Every time he would come on screen they would go crazy and cheer him on. I was a kid when I was there in the theater watching it and I was confused why so many people were going nuts when he would pop up on screen. It wasn't until I went out to buy some popcorn that I overheard some people in the lobby talking about him. I remember going back inside and telling my dad about it, but he already knew. don't know why he didn't tell me.

@doublemonkey4833 2 жыл бұрын

@@DCFCfanatic It's nice to hear he was well loved and people were cheering him on. He did a great job in the film. :)

@olewyrdd 2 жыл бұрын

BADGERS?!? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGERS!

@ChicagoDB 2 жыл бұрын

He was great on “Hill Street Blues”

@floo1373 2 жыл бұрын

@@olewyrdd Is that from Treasure of Sierra Madre?

@TravMaxAdventures 2 жыл бұрын

Absolute comedic gold. Raul’s Animal Kingdom and Kunis Karate were top notch. The turtles being suction cups and the “badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers.” scenes kill me. And then Kuni popping out of the supplies closet yelling “SUPPLIES!” 😂😂😂😂☠️

@falcon048 2 жыл бұрын

You know how Weird Al spoofs songs. This movie was meant to spoof popular movies and TV shows. Hence the Lost Ark, Rambo, Close Encounters, etc. However, the song about the Beverley Hill Billies was a spoof of Dire Straight's "Money For Nothing" video. The genius is how close Al got to perfectly mimicking that video. Also, and not too many people catch this joke in the video, but Weird Al was spoofing all the camera cuts. Every bar seemed to preceded a camera cut to a new camera angle. The lead singer in the video catches on to the fact that the camera angle keeps changing and he wants to find it and eventually has to grab the camera to ensure that it stays still so he can deliver the final line. :) The entire movie is a time capsule of late 1980s. I saw this when it came out and rented it constantly on VHS before owning on VHS, DvD, Bluray and if it ever releases on 4K. To be fair, the impact of this film is based largely on growing up with all the things he spoofed.

@jeffburnham6611 2 жыл бұрын

If you've ever seen the Dire Straits video of Money For Nothing, then you'll easily recognize the animation and other effects of Weird Al's Beverly Hillbillies.