UHF

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One of my favorite movies is UHF by “Weird Al” Yankovic. Yeah, I know the humor is somewhat silly, but I really enjoy it - I own the DVD and watch it from time to time. Emily and I usually enjoy a lot of the same movies and like to watch movies together, but she can’t stand to watch UHF so it’s one of the movies in my collection that I watch by myself.

Besides starring Weird Al, the movie co-starred several well-known actors like Kevin McCarthy, Sue Ann Langdon, Victoria Jackson and Billy Barty, as well as unknowns Fran Drescher and Michael Richards. Fran would later go on to success in her TV show The Nanny, and Michael became “Cosmo Kramer” in Seinfeld, but when UHF came out in 1989, they were both unfamiliar to most movie and TV audiences. Set in a low-budget UHF television station, the movie was co-written by Weird Al and was a showcase for his off-the-wall brand of humor, and although there were high hopes for the movie’s success, it was released during a summer that saw the release of Back To The Future II, Batman, Ghostbusters II, Honey I Shrunk The Kids and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Unfortunately but understandably UHF did poorly at the box office, however, in the years since its release UHF has become a cult classic and it is currently available on DVD. I highly recommend it… even if Emily doesn’t.