Emo Phillips is great. Favourite joke: "I prayed to God to give me a bicycle, then I realised God doesn't work that way, so I stole bicycle and prayed for forgiveness."

I suspect one of the secrets to Weird Al's longevity is that he's one of the most normal people in the music industry. No, seriously.

Not only has he lasted longer than the acts he parodies, but the band still has all of its original members. No one has left, died, or been replaced. The same 5 guys for almost 40 years.

1989 was also the release of the hit musical epic "Creating Rem Lezar" UHF never stood a chance...

Jay: "July 4th, time for the Halloween attire."

The old dvd for UHF has one of the greatest commentary tracks ever recorded. It opens with the Orion logo, and Al singing new lyrics to the music... "Orion... Orion... Is Bankrupt... Noooow"

There’s one random joke in this film that’s stuck with me for some reason: the blind man trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube and just passing it off to his friend like “is that it?”

The best part of the commentary track is Al explaining why they hired the guy who says the line "Guns don't kill people, I do." "It's cause he could make this face right... here."

The best review for this movie actually came from Al himself: "It's kinda like PURPLE RAIN, except it's intentionally funny."

As Homer Simpson once said: He who is tired of Weird "Al" is tired of life.

Weird Al's got a gift for identifying "classic" media before it has time to lose immediate cultural relevancy.

Many times over a couple decades my wife and I would include a spatula in the Christmas gifts for each other. "There's no better way to say, 'I love you" than the gift of a spatula."

My favorite joke was in Weird Al’s commentary. At the part with the buried limbs sticking out, he was like, “We had to pay the interns a little EXTRA that day. I’M JUST KIDDING. We paid them what we usually pay them.”

That Monty Python clique went to everyone's high school.

I was at a Weird Al show in Denver in the late 90's. During the show he did a gag where he reached in his pants, pulled out a pair of boxer shorts, and threw them in the audience. Long story short, I still have Weird Al's underwear.

I remember the guy playing Raul passed away during the making of the movie so he hadn't finished all his scenes but they rearranged things to make it work in the editing because he was so great and funny that it wasn't right to leave him on the cutting room floor.

Michael Richards has more chemistry with his mop than most couples in modern films.

Weird Al is like the Mr. Rogers of music. No one could ever hate this man, and I would fight those who do.

Re: "Where did they find that guy?!" playing the homeless man, that's Vance Colvig, character actor and voice actor who was on Yogi Bear and played Bozo the clown. His father Pinto Colvig originated Bozo, Pluto, and Goofy.

Weird Al's most important rule when making parodies is that it has to be funny even if you don't know what he's parodying. That's the key to UHF's old corny jokes still working today

Sad fact: The Hispanic animal guy was supposed to have a much larger subplot in the movie, but his actor died before they could film the rest of it. Also, Spatula City got referenced in the 3DS game Project X Zone 2.

I love Weird Al's intro to the deleted scenes on the DVD. "These are the scenes that were deleted from the final cut of the movie. Why were they deleted? Because they SUCK!"

"What better way to say I love you than with a gift of a spatula?" Kills me every time.

This movie influenced me & my best friend in middle school so much that WE DID IT FOR REAL! Obviously we didn't own a UHF station but we took his dad's VHS camcorder and made a bunch of parody shows. His uncle worked at a local public access TV station and our silly shows were on the air! And our Star Trek parodies were good enough that we won regional TV awards & they were distributed to public access stations all over the Pacific NW. We accepted awards in Portland, Yakima, & Salt Lake City. We owed a lot to Weird Al & this movie for inspiring us. While other kids in school were doing drugs & getting drunk- we were producing TV spoofs. It was the best time in my youth.

Weird Al on Best of the Worst would be the greatest thing to ever happen.

re:View is the modern day equivalent of having a friend in college who tells you about that weird movie that's gonna be on TV at 1am.

RE: "Seems like a genuinely good guy." A bartender friend of mine was working a club where Weird Al played. He said after the show, he went to his tour bus to do meet-and-greets with the fans so the employees could start cleaning up inside sooner (rather than wait for all of that to resolve).

UHF is one of my favorite movies EVER

Jay talking about UHF and drinking leinenkugel's is the most Midwestern thing I've seen

So basically, Weird Al will be showing up on BotW soon. I'm ok with that.

Eagerly awaiting Jay and Josh’s Re:View of “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”

I went to a screening of this that featured a Q&A with Weird Al and Jay Levey, it was a lot of fun. One of the best questions was from a kid, he asked about Anthony Geary 's role as Philo - 'the guy who played the alien.' Both Jay and Al said they were skeptical of him as first when the casting agent suggested him because he was a soap actor but he ended up being great and a lesson to both of them about judging people before getting to know them. Weird Al also answered some stuff about his music including a question about what his least favorite song was. He eventually figured out it was probably "Girls Just Want To Have Lunch" which he begrudgingly wrote after the label begged him to spoof Cyndi Lauper.

Jay's film-nerd haircut is really coming in, hes a year away from getting tenure

That bit about “comedy nerds”-oof. I felt that. I believe even John Cleese addressed this when he said Monty Python was underrated in the UK and overrated in The U.S.

I think that Weird Al's secret is that he's just a really, really good musician and (song)writer who also happens to have a good sense of humor, and is just happy doing his thing without any need of forcing anything or "expanding" or whatever.

I loved this movie since I was a kid. I loved Yankovic’s music and style. My father had shown me that he was an extra in the “Celebration” scene. He’s the dude who looks like a chick in the red shirt behind R.J Fletcher. He had told me that when he lived in Tulsa for a bit, they asked a bunch of people if they want free beer to just pretend to celebrate. I’m glad it’s getting Re:Viewed.

For the longest time when people referred to "emos" I thought they were talking about people who idolized Emo Philips. I'd ask my younger friends what these "emos" were they were talking about and they would say "they often have straight black hair with bangs that fall in their eyes, they dress weird and are over emotional" I thought how nice Phillips was making a comeback with the younger crowd.

Emo holding up a residual check for $0.30...holy shit! That’s both hilarious and sad at the same time.

So we're just going to skim over, "Ghandi II?" That's probably the funniest thing I've ever seen or even contemplated. "he's back and ready to kick ass!"

Jay is serving major “college Shaun for Boy Meets World” vibes, and I am HERE for it

Jay looks like a grown up teenwolf that's just about to head off to win a bowling tournament.

I feel like this movie predicted the creation of Adult Swim.

Loved this film as a kid. Weird Al is immortal haha.

Re: Weird Al being a good guy, 25 years ago, some college classmates happened to secure time backstage with him to film hijinks for their cable access show. My friend did a lighthearted Q&A that Yankovic seemed born to take ("A *blank* a day keeps the doctor away." "A...a shot of B12"). The other one, though, made Al recite lines from a script he'd written for a "film" that would never get off a camcorder. It dragged on and on as the kid kept feeding lines. Yankovic played along. The whole time. Waited until the ordeal was done, not a single negative expression. Thanked the kid and resumed being Weird Al.

I like how J got the reputation for liking the darkest horror films but his taste in comedy is the same as my dads lol

Jay is getting into his Kurt Russell 80s phase.

A movie so good the kid Conan cuts in half is still smiling.

The animal show is great. "Where did you find this guy?" "I thought you hired him!"

Evil Boss Man - "And take the ridiculous thing off!" Man with the silly hat - (frowns and removes mustache) lol I had forgotten about that gag.

Jay lookin like a character pulled out straight from the big lebowsky

In the Netherlands the movie was called "The vidiot from UHF"

Emo will always be known as "Shannon" from Home Movies to me.

The homeless man was Vance Colvig Jr, the son of Pinto Colvig, the original voice of Goofy

I got to meet Weird Al in Atlanta for a meet and greet thing. I only got to say about a paragraph to him before I left, but for those 30 seconds, he listened to me with a smile on his face as I told him how much of a musical inspiration he's been for me. They say to never meet your heroes, but if Al is one of them, you should definitely try to if you get the opportunity.

Weird Al is one of the most underappreciated talents ever. The guy is a genius.

I love watching red letter media reviews for movies I've always considered watching, but never watched on my own. There have been multiple times where watching the RLM first has actually caused me to watch the actual movies

To this day "Supplies" is one of my all time favorite gags in any movie.

I still use the Spatula City jokes when my wife suggests we go somewhere that me and our kids don't want to.

Love how Josh pantomimes turning a cranky dial when trying to remember how many UHF stations there might be. Nostalgia!!

I saw Weird Al live in Folsom back in 2017, hands down the best vocalist I've ever seen. He was so good we thought it was lip sinking but then he went off script and blew our minds even further.

“Orion, Orion, is bankrupt, now!” -Weird Al singing along to the Orion films logo at the start of the UHF commentary track

jay didn’t have time to change shirts after his team’s bowling practice

Orion released Silence of the Lambs like 2 years later.

I quit at the 7 minute mark so I can go find a copy to watch. I’ll come back after.

Badgers?! BADGERS?!! .....WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' BADGERS!!

Elvira gets hit on the head. Guy she's got her eyes on comes over to see how she is. Guy: "How's your head?" Elvira: "I haven't had any complaints"

I watched UHF for the first time last night, and it was one of the most insanely dumb things I've ever watched, but I'll be damned if it wasn't hilarious and well-written.

“It is so dense. Every scene has a gag effect in it.” - George Lucas

Something non-musicians rarely realize about Weird Al: He's actually a really, *really* good instrumentalist, musician and composer. His "Genius in France" is a Zappa-parody... being able to *play* music like Zappa's takes *serious* chops! A good number of the greatest drummers (and guitarists, percussionists, keyboardists) became that good and prolific among other things through being part of Zappa's bands. So - being able to play it: Serious chops! But writing an homage track that actually matches Zappa's own music in terms of inventiveness, complexity, virtuosity, fun and many other dimensions.... I didn't think it could be done, and it hasn't been done nearly this well before or since.

*Reads cue card* "Hi, this is Cy Greenbloom president of Spatula City. I like their spatulas so much I bought the company."

"Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers". A parody of a parody, Al has always been amazing and changed my life when my parents took me to see him in 97.

My friend and I watched this movie as kids, and the bit where he’s sculpting his mashed potatoes and says, “This MEANS something...” was fucking hilarious to us. It seemed so random because neither of us had seen Close Encounters.

Jay wearing clothes 3 months ahead of his time

Two things: 1) I am proud to say that I actually saw this film in a theater in 1989 here in New York. I did not know I was witnessing the death of a studio. 2) I want Jay's bowling shirt.

Weird Al is such a genuine and love-able guy. His music deserves way more credit for how talented he and his band are and they always put on a great live show.

This movie will always be on my top 10 list. This is one I can put on any day of the week and find myself sitting and laughing through the whole damn thing.

I still sing the Spatula City jingle to this goddamn day.

I'm here without nostalgia because I was born in 2001, and I can say the movie definitely holds up. It's still one of my favorite comedies of all time. Also, who else wanted "Ghandi II" to be a real movie?

Still waiting on that Twin Peaks: The Return re:View, Jay.

years from now when we can have guests back on RLM we need a Weird Al ep of BotW.

The fact that Tom 'tache' Selleck was wanted to play Indiana somehow makes Weird Al even funnier as Indiana.

I think every high school had a group of kids who endlessly quoted Monty Python.

Seeing you guys do a video on this got me so excited, I have so much nostalgia for this film and having watched it recently, it still holds up.

I actually got to see Emo perform last year. He's still a great act.

The guy who played RJ's son and Jombi also has a Seinfeld connection. He was a half of that mean gay couple that was always chasing Kramer around.

Oh my god, his face when he has to take the mustache off, awwhhh

UHF was that movie I watched over and over as a kid and a teen, showing it to like every friend I could. I finally got to see Weird Al perform live for his Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Vanity Tour, and Emo Phillips opened for him and it was just the most surreal, wonderful night. I can't believe he played an EXTENDED version of Albuquerque live, it was like 50% longer. Just an amazing performer.

My favorite gag from UHF is the blind guy with a Rubik's Cube, making an adjustment and holding it up to the guy next to him "is that it", "No." Reminds me of how projects get run sometimes.

The best character was "blind guy with a rubix cube." "NOPE!....Is this it?....NOPE......Is This it?...NOPE!.....Is th-"

Hearing Jay talk about Mystery Science Theater, even if briefly felt weird, RLM sort of reminds me of a modern day MST3K, It's even based out of the midwest.

Thank you for doing a re:View episode on my one of my favorite movies. I used to go to my best friend's place almost every day growing up and we would have a VHS of this movie (I guess his dad recorded it when it was playing on HBO) playing in the background all the time. We quote this movie literally every conversation we have together, to this day. His VHS's (usually crappy bootleg recordings) of UHF, Terminator 2, Commando, Predator, Tales from the Crypt Keeper, Blind Fury, Hard to Kill, Hot Shots, and Total Recall were always on rotation.

Either Jay started a Halloween themed Bowling Team (great), or the last few months have addled his brain to the point that he now thinks it's always Halloween (also pretty good).

Oh man. There was this One guy in my high school, that was quoting Monty Pythons "Nobody's expecting the Spanish inquisition" sketch ALL the time.

Jay's hair is about to reach its final form!!

Town Talk With George is also strongly referencing Morton Downey Jr, who would absolutely browbeat his own guests like that, and the set directly references it as well with the square pattern on the back wall.

This is one of the best episodes of re:View. Thank you, guys.

"These floors are dirty as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!!"

Just when I was needing something to watch, perfect timin’

My oldest son and I watched this last year. I hadn't seen it in 30 years, first time for my son. I almost died on the "Supplies!" moment. I had totally forgotten most of the film, and that just set me off laughing. Definitely a cult classic!

I envy the person who has never seen UHF and will do so for the first time due to this video.