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UHF

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UHF	label	UHF
UHF	page	UHF
UHF	comment	UHF is a 1989 movie starring "Weird Al" Yankovic, written by Al and his manager Jay Levey (who directed). Al plays George Newman, a young man with an all-too-fertile imagination adrift in life. After getting himself and his friend and roommate Bob fired from yet another job due to excessive daydreaming, he is appointed by his uncle Harvey as manager of Channel U62, a local UHF television station that Harvey won in a poker game.George and Bob soon discover that U62 is near-abandoned, with a support staff of four, almost no reception to speak of, and nothing but stale reruns for programming. With optimistic enthusiasm, George tries to revitalize the station's schedule, but quickly realizes that the channel is already pretty much destined for bankruptcy; the local airwaves are dominated by Channel 8, a network affiliate VHF station whose owners are card carrying villains with good publicity.The station's fortunes change when, in a fit of pique, a depressed George carelessly puts station janitor Stanley Spadowski (Michael Richards) in charge of the channel's morning kids' show; to everyone's surprise, Stanley's Cloud Cuckoolander antics become an instant hit across all demographics. Emboldened and flush with new ad revenue, George unleashes the full force of his creativity with a line of unique, oddball shows to fill out the rest of the schedule, with Stanley as their flagship superstar. These moves quickly catapult U62's ratings to #1 in town — which prompts Channel 8 head honcho R.J. Fletcher (played by sci-fi B-movie legend Kevin McCarthy) to take them down by any means necessary...Like Weird Al's music, the film focuses its comedy on oddball humor and satire, parody, and pastiche of pop culture. Released in 1989 at the height of Weird Al's popularity, the film was expected to be a summer blockbuster, buoyed by enthusiastic test screenings. Unfortunately, the movie opened on July 21 and was surrounded by nearly a dozen other summer blockbusters playing at the same time.note Specifically, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Ghostbusters II, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Lethal Weapon 2, Batman (1989), Licence to Kill, When Harry Met Sally..., Do the Right Thing, and Weekend at Bernie's As a result, UHF barely broke even at the box office and was relegated to obscurity, until eventually finding itself as a Cult Classic thanks to home video and cable showings.For information on the movie's soundtrack and Al's sixth studio album, go here.
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UHF / int_11630eaa	type	The Gambling Addict
UHF / int_11630eaa	comment	The Gambling Addict: Uncle Harvey, who regularly plays the horses and poker— the latter got him the station, and the former nearly resulted in him selling it to R.J. Fletcher.
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UHF / int_11d671f6	type	Stopped Caring
UHF / int_11d671f6	comment	Stopped Caring: George, after he's lost Teri and is about to lose U-62. He even gives his kid's show to his wacky janitor Stanley (who has never been on television before) before walking off to begin Drowning My Sorrows. Luckily, putting Stanley on-air turns out to be the be the best move he's ever made.
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UHF / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
UHF / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Spoofed in two of George's fantasy sequences. In his Indiana Jones fantasy sequence, the boulder follows him for untold miles, before flattening him with absolutely no blood. In his Rambo fantasy sequence, where he sweeps an automatic rifle along a line of Mooks on a hillside. A moment later, they bloodlessly collapse simultaneously. Also during the Conan the Barbarian spoof; Conan splits a patron bloodlessly in half for a late book.
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UHF / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
UHF / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: In-universe: as Stanley's set gets more elaborate as he rises in popularity, the original clubhouse referred to in the title is still included off to the side of the main action.
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UHF / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
UHF / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: This is how Bob and George (no, not those ones) lose their jobs at Burger World.
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UHF / int_1787e703	type	Candid Camera Prank
UHF / int_1787e703	comment	Candid Camera Prank: One of the many parody shows mentioned in the movie, and an especially mean-spirited one. The short clip we see from the show is of the fat cameraman tripping an old lady as she walks out of a store.
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UHF / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
UHF / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Bob and Teri's last names (Steckler and Campbell), and the names of two of Fletcher's thugs (Frankie, the head thug, and Eddie, the killer thug). (Teri previously had the last name Moore, and Pamela had the last name of Taylor.) All of this was provided by Al in the DVD commentary. The quiet & corpulent camera guy was named "Burt Reynolds" (according to an early script, it was "Bert", with an "E"), and in earlier scripts, there was a guy, Roger Dickson ('The Bowl-O-Rama Casanova') who kept hitting on Teri when George wasn't around; Morris Beckman, Uncle Harvey's accountant; and Noodles MacIntosh had a dominatrix named Rock Sands for a girlfriend.
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UHF / int_19862f70	type	Sinister Car
UHF / int_19862f70	comment	Sinister Car: When the time comes for Uncle Harvey to pay Big Louie the $75'000 he is owed or pay the ultimate price, a huge black Cadillac limousine with tinted windows arrives on-sight baring a B LOUIE license plate which the crowd actually parts to allow it to make it's way directly to Uncle Harvey. Once George gives Big Louie the money through a rolled-down window, the Cadillac departs.
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UHF / int_1ab65185	type	That Reminds Me of a Song
UHF / int_1ab65185	comment	That Reminds Me of a Song: "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies."
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UHF / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
UHF / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Dr. Demento appears for a split second during a montage of Channel 62's shows, getting whipped cream sprayed into his mouth by Stanley (this was actually a portion of a larger scene that was cut, but was put in to provide Dr. D a cameo). The Kipper Kids, a performance art duo, appear during the telethon doing a strange song-and-dance routine to the tune of 'The Umbrella Man' (though this scene was cut so heavily that in the actual film it seems like they are just making repetitive noises instead of singing a full song). Emo Philips is the accident-prone high school shop teacher that George interviews.
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UHF / int_1bd153de	type	Shouting Shooter
UHF / int_1bd153de	comment	Shouting Shooter: In the Rambo parody.
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UHF / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
UHF / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Not the film, but the DVD itself, with Al goofing off behind the menus, becoming increasingly annoyed when you try to look at special features on the wrong side of the disc, and, during the commentary track, he gets up and steps into frame three times, once to snark "They're coming through the window! [Beat] Told You!", and the second time to get one of the other commentators a doughnut, as well as to come back with the doughnut.
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UHF / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
UHF / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: The clumsy shop teacher, Joe Earley, with a table saw, during George's interview with him.
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UHF / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
UHF / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Invoked by George when it looks like the station is going under and he is about to lose yet another job after his girlfriend dumped him, but Bob calls him on it, saying he doesn't drink; George says he's been meaning to start.
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UHF / int_21bde5e8	type	The Tooth Hurts
UHF / int_21bde5e8	comment	The Tooth Hurts: Teri accidentally hurts one of her patients when she hears George making (theoretically) romantic noises at her live on air.
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UHF / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
UHF / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Implied with R. J. Fletcher's son, who occupies an executive position under his father despite his general incompetence, though R. J. still treats his son as nastily as the rest of his employees. Played straight with Harvey Bilchik. He installs his nephew as station manager despite his total lack of experience. George does prove himself capable later, and the station was on the verge of bankruptcy anyway.
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UHF / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
UHF / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: During one scene, George mentions in Philo's earshot that he wishes that they could spy on R.J. Fletcher. Later, he's seen installing a ridiculously large camera system into R.J Fletcher's roof, the presence of which, as well as the fact Philo controls it, is what allows them to broadcast his Motive Rant. The single coin Fletcher gives to the homeless guy winds up being his undoing, being rare and valuable enough to pay for the last couple hundred shares of stock in Channel 62. Stanley's treasured mop. It gets taken from him after he gets fired from Channel 8, but then later he spots it in the storage room where he's being kept hostage, causing him to go into a berserk fury and escape.
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UHF / int_2319aa2e	type	All or Nothing
UHF / int_2319aa2e	comment	All or Nothing: In the end of the Wheel of Fish segment, the prize box is shown to be empty.
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UHF / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
UHF / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Raul's subplot got aborted due to Trinidad Silva's death during filming. This makes it seem as if his entire quite expensive storyline (lots of live animals) was nothing but a set-up for a lame "stinkin' badges" pun - which is arguably even funnier.
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UHF / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
UHF / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Noodles trips R.J.'s son during the Humiliation Conga: "Awwwwwwww, did I do that? Oopsy!" Because that's what happened to Noodles earlier.
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UHF / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
UHF / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Stanley's mop.
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UHF / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
UHF / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Although he's technically a Greater-Scope Villain, Big Louie is a spooky unseen loanshark/crime boss (similar to Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget) with a detachable meat-cleaver hand. Also, Evil Sounds Deep applies to him as well.
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UHF / int_265112ff	type	Creator's Apathy
UHF / int_265112ff	comment	Creator's Apathy: Parodied In-Universe with Gandhi II, in which the original classic is given a cheesy action sequel that directly opposes everything about the original film and Gandhi's way of life. Instead of a Hindu, ascetic, passive resistance icon, he's a steak-chomping, high-rolling, gun-toting, shit-talking street vigilante with martial arts skills. (Indiasploitation?)
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UHF / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
UHF / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Look very closely at the model railroad town in Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse: the model movie theater is playing "Slime Creatures from Outer Space" (a song on Al's album Dare to Be Stupid). Also, next door is a Belvedere Hotel, possibly but not-too-likely a reference to a teenage Al's "Belvedere Cruising".
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UHF / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
UHF / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: In the scene in the guys' apartment at the beginning of the movie, you can still hear Kuni's karate students smashing through windows and him calling them stupid while George and Bob talk. In the scene for the revamped Town Talk, panning through the apparent horrible show guests, which include Neo-Nazi, a Dominatrix, a Klansman, a little girl with blond pigtails and who carries a creepy smile, and an axe-wielding expy of Jason Voorhees, all the above get into a combined fight except for... the Dominatrix who just calmly gets out of her chair, walks away from the fighting, and watches the chaos unfold from a safe distance!
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UHF / int_2717a55e	type	Bizarre Alien Psychology
UHF / int_2717a55e	comment	Bizarre Alien Psychology: Philo apparently spends his entire life inside U-62, and can make radioactive materials out of common household items - which he demonstrates on air, essentially providing a blueprint for nuclear materials to anyone in the area with a television. To top it off, his mission on Earth was apparently to work at a UHF station until it was brought back to life, which is certainly a unique quest.
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UHF / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
UHF / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: The original DVD release of the movie is double-sided, with a widescreen version of the movie and some DVD Bonus Content on one side, and a Pan and Scan version and different bonus content on the other. However, the menu for both sides lists all of the bonus content. Select something that isn't on the side you're on, and Weird Al will walk on screen and explain that you need to flip the disk over to watch that. Keep selecting the same option, and Weird Al will get increasingly irate, culminating in yelling, "It's on the other side!"
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UHF / int_29c480a3	type	Good News, Bad News
UHF / int_29c480a3	comment	Good News, Bad News:
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UHF / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
UHF / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Neither station mentioned in the film are given proper call letters. Channel 8 is just "the network affiliate (for which network is never mentioned. As detailed below, Tulsa's actual channel 8 is an ABC station) downtown", and U62 is simply "a UHF station".
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UHF / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
UHF / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: George Newman, his Uncle Harvey, and Pamela Finkelstein (given that Pamela is played by Fran Drescher, it's not that ambiguous).
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UHF / int_2bef2bda	type	Laugh with Me!
UHF / int_2bef2bda	comment	Laugh with Me!: When R.J. Fletcher starts laughing, the two managers under him realize, after a short pause, that they'd better start forcing themselves to nervously laugh along with him.
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UHF / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
UHF / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: The "Killer Thug" is implied to be this.
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UHF / int_2e7d6711	type	Enemy to All Living Things
UHF / int_2e7d6711	comment	Enemy to All Living Things: Raul. Sadly, had Trinidad Silva not died during filming, we would've seen the poodles get their revenge. Crazy Ernie, who threatens to club a seal if nobody buys one of his cars soon.
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UHF / int_326bcf35	type	Most Common Card Game
UHF / int_326bcf35	comment	Most Common Card Game: The bad guys guarding Stanley Spadowski spend their time playing jacks and making string figures. Al mentions in the commentary that there was also a scene of them playing Candyland which was cut (you can still see the board on the table).
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UHF / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
UHF / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Bob during the latter half of the film, with Stanley largely taking over.
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UHF / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
UHF / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Fletcher gives a homeless man a penny, sarcastically saying "Don't spend it all in one place". This comes back to bite him, because the homeless man also had coin collecting skills, and the penny was a very valuable rare one. The man also takes his advice and, after buying his Rolex, he spends the rest of his money on UHF stock and saves the station.
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UHF / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
UHF / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Philo the station engineer and secretly a shape-shifting alien.
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UHF / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
UHF / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Or in this case, Stanley's Simpleton Voice. During the scene where George and Stanley mope outside the station after Fletcher claims ownership, listen carefully to Stanley asking, "Is there anything I can do to help?"
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UHF / int_38bf28e3	type	Engineered Public Confession
UHF / int_38bf28e3	comment	R.J. Fletcher's Engineered Public Confession is remarkably similar to one given by Andy Griffith as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes in A Face in the Crowd: On the DVD's behind-the-scenes audio commentary on this scene, Al mentions:
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UHF / int_3a41f8f9	type	Rare Money
UHF / int_3a41f8f9	comment	Rare Money: The penny that Fletcher gives to the beggar turns out to be a rare 1955 doubled die penny, which is worth thousands of dollars even in well-worn condition.
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UHF / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
UHF / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Fletcher's goons get completely obliterated by Kuni and his crew.
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UHF / int_3da9eaea	type	Raiders of the Lost Parody
UHF / int_3da9eaea	comment	Raiders of the Lost Parody: The opening scene. Weird Al in adventurer attire grabs the Oscar, sets off a booby trap, and runs away from a boulder that follows his every turn, past several famous world landmarks.
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UHF / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
UHF / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: "Hey, wait a minute! You guys aren't from the pizza place!" ...After Stanley's already been handcuffed, blindfolded, and kidnapped.
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UHF / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
UHF / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: When George delivers to Channel 8 a package intended for R.J. Fletcher that ended up at his own station by mistake, Fletcher threatens to have the law on him for stealing his mail, and then accuses him of trespassing when George tries to explain that he was just returning it.
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UHF / int_40652d02	type	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You
UHF / int_40652d02	comment	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: R. J. Fletcher's Engineered Public Confession ends with "But there is one good thing about broadcasting to a town full of mindless sheep: I always know I've got them exactly where I want them!"
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UHF / int_4159744	type	The Magic Poker Equation
UHF / int_4159744	comment	The Magic Poker Equation: Surprisingly averted given this is such a delightfully silly movie. Harvey is shown winning a pot with two pair - a strong enough hand, but not outrageous - and he wins U-62 by shrewdly bluffing with a couple of sevens.
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UHF / int_435dfcc7	type	Computer-Generated Images
UHF / int_435dfcc7	comment	Computer-Generated Images: The entire Beverly Hillbillies dream sequence.note Which features a parody of "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits. Moreover, it's the song's official music video as well.
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UHF / int_4389e368	type	Actionized Sequel
UHF / int_4389e368	comment	Actionized Sequel: Parodied with the commercial for Gandhi 2, an actionized sequel to Gandhi of all things. In this version, Gandhi is a jet-setting vigilante who beats up hoodlums, drives a Ferrari, eats steak and... you know... isn't dead.
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UHF / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
UHF / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Evoked hilariously in the beginning sequence. The Satipo expy is run over by a freight train out of nowhere when he flees the Hovitos Temple.
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UHF / int_44990492	type	Parody Commercial
UHF / int_44990492	comment	Parody Commercial: Contains a number of commercials for various U62 shows and original films, including "Gandhi II", "Conan the Librarian", and "Wheel of Fish", as well as a few businesses, such as "Spatula City" and "Crazy Eddie's Used Car Emporium". The audio for some of these commercials was included on Weird Al's UHF album.
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UHF / int_4675960	type	I'm Your Worst Nightmare
UHF / int_4675960	comment	I'm Your Worst Nightmare: George says this during his Rambo-parodying fantasy ("during" to him, but shown back in the real world).
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UHF / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
UHF / int_469e3e2f	comment	George does this In-Universe, when in a depression from Teri leaving him. He describes the Road Runner cartoons as the Coyote being sad and pathetic, and the road runner being cruel and mocking the coyote for his pain.
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UHF / int_46b3ec7c	type	Fun Personified
UHF / int_46b3ec7c	comment	Fun Personified: Stanley.
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UHF / int_46ee4d3	type	Eye Take
UHF / int_46ee4d3	comment	Eye Take: The cameraman who's always eating a sandwich gives one after Joe Earley cuts off his thumb.
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UHF / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
UHF / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Used to depict George as Rambo blowing things up; lampshaded (as with everything else) during the DVD commentary by Al ("And here's our stock footage festival.")
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UHF / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
UHF / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: "Friday night. 10 o'clock. $75,000. In cash." Nothing about Big Louie's demeanor or Harvey's reaction suggests this deadline is optional.
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UHF / int_4a35344c	type	Media Watchdog
UHF / int_4a35344c	comment	Media Watchdog: The FCC appeared at the end of the movie, revoking channel 8's license— ostensibly for being late on renewing it, but primarily because of R.J.'s Engineered Public Confession. Strangely, they seem to have no problem with U62 running shows about stripping or bestiality.
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UHF / int_4a8c4e5f	type	Big "WHAT?!"
UHF / int_4a8c4e5f	comment	Big "WHAT?!": Just when Uncle Harvey is about to head out the door, Aunt Esther (no, not that one) receives a phone call from George telling her about his proposal to sell the station to R.J. Fletcher:
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UHF / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
UHF / int_4d044580	comment	During one scene, George mentions in Philo's earshot that he wishes that they could spy on R.J. Fletcher. Later, he's seen installing a ridiculously large camera system into R.J Fletcher's roof, the presence of which, as well as the fact Philo controls it, is what allows them to broadcast his Motive Rant.
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UHF / int_4e4fa32c	type	The Ahnold
UHF / int_4e4fa32c	comment	The Ahnold: Conan the Librarian has a distinct Schwarzeneggerian accent whenever he speaks.
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UHF / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
UHF / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: R.J. Fletcher.
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UHF / int_503fa644	type	Hollywood Economics
UHF / int_503fa644	comment	Hollywood Economics: While $75,000 isn't chump change, especially in 1989, it's treated as an insurmountable obstacle at first by people who are running what is, by that point, the #1 station in their market. They seem to run non-stop original programming and films at their own expense and have plenty of sponsors and commercials to support them. Basically, if they can afford to get Gorbachev over to do some mud wrestling, they can probably come up with $75,000. Of course, a dramatic last-minute telethon is much more entertaining than watching a television station manage its assets for an hour, so Rule of Drama and Rule of Fun rightly win the day.
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UHF / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
UHF / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: George's blueberry daiquiri (and Bob's beer).
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UHF / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
UHF / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Stanley really wanted to get his mop back.
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UHF / int_57a70347	type	Homing Boulders
UHF / int_57a70347	comment	Homing Boulders: The Super-Persistent Predator in the Indy Escape (also see the respective entries).
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UHF / int_58777f81	type	Spoofs "R" Us
UHF / int_58777f81	comment	Spoofs "R" Us: A fake ad advertises "Plots R Us", a service that offers funeral plots, along with "plenty of free parking" and a salad bar.
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UHF / int_599ad6d5	type	Contrived Clumsiness
UHF / int_599ad6d5	comment	Contrived Clumsiness: One of the jerkasses (in this case, his own son, Richard) from R. J. Fletcher's station trips the little cameraman, Noodles Macintosh for U62, and sarcastically chimes "Oopsie!" Later, Noodles enacts his revenge by doing the same thing to Richard, except this time, the trip ends in a mud puddle.
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UHF / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
UHF / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The quiet & corpulent camera guy was named "Burt Reynolds" (according to an early script, it was "Bert", with an "E"), and in earlier scripts, there was a guy, Roger Dickson ('The Bowl-O-Rama Casanova') who kept hitting on Teri when George wasn't around; Morris Beckman, Uncle Harvey's accountant; and Noodles MacIntosh had a dominatrix named Rock Sands for a girlfriend.
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UHF / int_5e7163c9	type	Alternative Character Interpretation
UHF / int_5e7163c9	comment	Alternative Character Interpretation: George does this In-Universe, when in a depression from Teri leaving him. He describes the Road Runner cartoons as the Coyote being sad and pathetic, and the road runner being cruel and mocking the coyote for his pain. Then there's Mohandas Gandhi...the butt-kicking, gun-shooting, steak-chomping, lady-shagging, crime-fighting, vigilante action flick hero!
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UHF / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
UHF / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: The U-62 camera man is hinted to be this. He's a very large man (played by one of the guys in Weird Al's Fat video) who's seen eating a big sub sandwich while operating the camera during the "Joe Early" scene, and guzzles an entire pot of coffee by himself (straight from the carafe, mind you) during the telethon. In fact, there is not a single shot of him where he's not holding some type of food or drink.
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UHF / int_6023a9bc	type	Bloody Hilarious
UHF / int_6023a9bc	comment	Bloody Hilarious: In the first Town Talk segment, when the wood shop teacher cuts his finger off while demonstrating a machine.
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UHF / int_61375e57	type	BigDamnKiss
UHF / int_61375e57	comment	Big Damn Kiss: George and Teri reconcile with each other with a passionate kiss when the studio is saved.
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UHF / int_617204d8	type	Echoing Acoustics
UHF / int_617204d8	comment	Echoing Acoustics: Utilized when Philo introduces himself in "Secrets of the Universe".
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UHF / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
UHF / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Stanley, who is a world-class Cloudcuckoolander but also a remarkably diligent janitor and, eventually, the top star in his television market by a country mile. Ditto for George, who can't hold down a normal job to save his life but (with a HUGE boost from Stanley) eventually turns a borderline derelict UHF station into a huge success in relatively little time. In both cases, their quirkiness proves to be an asset as their town apparently can't get enough absurd programming.
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UHF / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
UHF / int_627264e0	comment	At the climax of the film, Fletcher has arrived and unplugs the countdown clock, going "This party is over, Mr. Newman!" (with George glaring at him). Harvey then notices something. "You can say that again." Big Louie has arrived on schedule, and they're still short of their goal.
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UHF / int_62a2d3d7	type	Sequelitis
UHF / int_62a2d3d7	comment	Sequelitis: In-Universe, there is Gandhi II, which spoofs how some sequels get everything wrong about the original film.
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UHF / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
UHF / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: One scene has a brief shot of the U-62 Fall Schedule, which includes shows like The Flying Pope, Wonderful World of Phlegm, and Bestiality Today. When Richard Fletcher and the thug are at City Hall, the truck behind them is actually the satellite truck from the real-life channel 8 in Tulsa, KTUL, an ABC station; ironically, the channel 8 logo used in the film mirrors the one used by another ABC station in Dallas, WFAA, since 1996. If you look at the "Transmitter Status" screen in Philo's lab, one of the lines of text reads "Q36 Explosive Space Modulator"; that's the component that Marvin the Martian often needed but lacked in the Looney Tunes cartoons when he tried to destroy the Earth. You can see it best when Stanley is barricading the doors in Fletcher's office and Philo's engrossed in an experiment.
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UHF / int_651a8540	type	Indy Escape
UHF / int_651a8540	comment	Indy Escape: Parodied in a dream sequence with a dauntless boulder. Averted since he doesn't escape, but rather is killed.
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UHF / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
UHF / int_65bc92fc	comment	Five-Temperament Ensemble: Harvey (choleric), Teri (melancholic), George (phlegmatic), Stanley (sanguine), and Bob (leukine).
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UHF / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
UHF / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: R.J. Fletcher has a grand old time with these. His son takes a few cracks at it too, and has quite possibly the most pathetic evil laugh you will ever hear.
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UHF / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
UHF / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: (on the DVD Commentary, Al lampshades these gags by declaring "CUT TO!...") From Uncle Harvey saying "no way" about George becoming the manager of a TV station, to George and Teri on their way to the station for the first time. Before that, George asks where Uncle Harvey is. His aunt responds that he's at a very important last-minute business meeting. Cut to Uncle Harvey with some guys playing poker. A package meant for Channel 8 (Fletcher's station & lair of doom) arrives at Channel 62 (George's UHF station) by accident. George offers to deliver it personally to Fletcher. Pamela warns "...he's not the nicest guy in the world." After George scoffs and says "You just have to know how to talk to those guys..." CUT TO Fletcher berating his son about a pencil (see Abusive Parents example above).
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UHF / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
UHF / int_697b5232	comment	In the scene for the revamped Town Talk, panning through the apparent horrible show guests, which include Neo-Nazi, a Dominatrix, a Klansman, a little girl with blond pigtails and who carries a creepy smile, and an axe-wielding expy of Jason Voorhees, all the above get into a combined fight except for... the Dominatrix who just calmly gets out of her chair, walks away from the fighting, and watches the chaos unfold from a safe distance!
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UHF / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
UHF / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: Stanley fights off the thugs at channel 8 using his mop and a staple gun. And during the revamped Town Talk, one audience member can be seen in the back hoisting a boulder.
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UHF / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
UHF / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: Uncle Harvey's loan shark Big Louie, who despite not being the main villain of the film, makes it very clear that he means business whenever he's onscreen.
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UHF / int_6a7fe2ed	type	Caught Monologuing
UHF / int_6a7fe2ed	comment	Caught Monologuing: George manages to pull victory from the jaws of defeat, thanks to R.J. Fletcher's need to not only win, but berate his opponents for even dreaming of going against him. While Fletcher is busy taunting the crowd for trying to save a fly-by-night UHF station, George manages to get enough money and pay off Uncle Harvey's gambling debt, right under his nose.
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UHF / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
UHF / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Being #1 in the market, apparently, as Fletcher literally has hired goons on hand to kidnap Stanley in the hopes of undermining the telethon. Fletcher is a Corrupt Corporate Executive that seems to be on the brink of full-on supervillainy.
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UHF / int_6bab4b2e	type	Like a Duck Takes to Water
UHF / int_6bab4b2e	comment	Like a Duck Takes to Water: Once George puts his mind to it, his overactive imagination lends itself well to running a TV show, coming up with all kinds of crazy shows.
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UHF / int_6ebb6b43	type	Died During Production
UHF / int_6ebb6b43	comment	Raul just vanished from the film after the "stinking badgers" scene. Justified by his actor getting killed during filminginvoked.
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UHF / int_6f2bab6e	type	Eating Pet Food
UHF / int_6f2bab6e	comment	Eating Pet Food: George accidentally feeds dog biscuits to Bob during filming of a Product Placement segment during the kids' show. As Bob is in character as "Bobbo the Clown", he has to fake a smile even as he's grossed out by the taste of the "cookies" he's eating.
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UHF / int_6f4af3e5	type	AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle
UHF / int_6f4af3e5	comment	AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: Uncle Harvey mispronounces "Rodeo Drive" note a famous high-end Los Angeles shopping district, as "Ro-DEE-Oh" (like the event with bulls and horses) instead of the proper "Ro-DAY-Oh".
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UHF / int_70c73c20	type	TheUnseen
UHF / int_70c73c20	comment	The Unseen: The only thing we see of Big Louie is his right hand, which turns out to be a prop hand. He later twists it off and puts a meat cleaver in its place.note In the commentary, Al mentioned wanting a reveal scene where it turned out Big Louie was really Merv Griffin.
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UHF / int_70d8269d	type	Excuse Plot
UHF / int_70d8269d	comment	Excuse Plot: It's a vehicle to get "Weird Al" Yankovic's style of parody into the realm of movies and television. In case you couldn't tell.
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UHF / int_714741cc	type	Like Reality, Unless Noted
UHF / int_714741cc	comment	Like Reality, Unless Noted: The town. It's a normal city with normal people watching their normal Channel 8... but when you see the odd content being aired on Channel 62 and realize that all these people and things must have been out there already before they got TV shows, it makes you wonder what anyone found weird or odd about George at the beginning of the movie. This is a world where getting blasted in the face with a fire hose is so awesomely fun that children will show up at a kid show just to be able to win the chance to experience it. Despite being oft censor-happy U.S. television (in regards to nudity & explicit sex), shows like Strip Solitaire & Bestiality Today can be aired on a non-cable network with no controversy or FCC fines. A weird Mad Scientist guy even if he's a space alien can make seriously radioactive material with stuff found around the house (a cut scene reveals that it involves Jello, an eggbeater & a microwave) and TEACH THIS to folks at home on his science show! A weird guy in a grungy apartment can manage to have a show (which appears mysteriously) where he basically commits various acts of animal cruelty, manages to make it darkly hilarious, and gets absolutely no public outrage or Animal Control visits. A large, fat, very mean woman can toss two grown men 100 or so yards easily, karate students can crash though windows and fall 2 stories with no injury, and a very weird shop teacher treats a severed thumb and serious blood loss like a very mild annoyance. Though in the film's defense, no one else treats that last bit as casually as the victim does. Satan is a real flesh & blood person and appears on a trashy talk show. There are stores dedicated to spatulas (not kitchen ware, only spatulas) and people give them as gifts to loved ones like they're flowers and candy. Funeral homes with salad bars (unless the place has a separate kitchen, the implications are disturbing). An eccentric young man, after a breakup, basically breaks into his ex's apartment, leaves a bunch of over-the-top heart-shaped mementos (among them a massive glowing sign) begging her to take him back... and manages to win her heart rather than creeping her out. See the YMMV page for the Fridge Brilliance conclusion to this.
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UHF / int_7204fa60	type	George Jetson Job Security
UHF / int_7204fa60	comment	George Jetson Job Security: Seemingly everyone at Channel 8. Stanley is fired on the flimsiest of pretexts despite being an excellent (if eccentric) janitor, and when proof of his innocence surfaces mere moments later, nobody cares and he's still tossed out on the street. A few minutes later, Fletcher then "fires" George for stealing mail (despite the fact that George is literally there to bring it to him), until George points out the minor detail that he doesn't even work there. The entire office completely freezes up when George addresses Fletcher casually, suggesting this is business as usual.
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UHF / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
UHF / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Uncle Harvey, though his wife treats him this way for good intentions. After dismissing his wife's suggestion that George be made manager of U62, he is strong-armed into doing so off-screen and when he later tries to sneak out of town to sell the station to RJ behind George's back, she loudly orders him back inside with the tone of an irate mother and he meekly walks back inside, despite being halfway inside a taxi.
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UHF / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
UHF / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: Broken into two roles. Stanley lives for being a humble janitor even after becoming famous as a show host (and God help you if you try to take his mop from him). Philo's the somewhat spacey engineer of this run-down station who proves to be a damn sneaky bastard when needed, a Mad Scientist, and definitely an alien.
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UHF / int_75e2bf23	type	Chiaroscuro
UHF / int_75e2bf23	comment	Chiaroscuro: Provided by a darkened office & a TV's glow during the scene where R.J. Fletcher & his Thugs plot to kidnap Stanley.
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UHF / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
UHF / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: The "Head Thug" played by David Proval (named Frankie in some deleted scenes). He's this sort of "Intense Italian Mobster" kind of guynote His actual ethnic heritage is Romanian-Jewish, but he grew up in a neighborhood that has predominantly Italian cultural influence. (subverted a bit in the cut scenes; when it comes to bugs, he turns into a screaming ninny). The "Killer Thug" (named as Eddie, also in the deleted bits) might qualify as well. If he wasn't in a family-friendly comedy film, he would likely be Nightmare Fuel. Instead, he's just an over-eager guy with a creepy face.
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UHF / int_77a495f1	type	Historical Badass Upgrade
UHF / int_77a495f1	comment	Historical Badass Upgrade: Gandhi II. He can punch through torsos, and carries a machine gun into restaurants.
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UHF / int_792b66e2	type	Periphery Demographic
UHF / int_792b66e2	comment	Periphery Demographic: In-universe, this is what turns around U62's fortunes.
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UHF / int_792fef74	type	Cute, but Cacophonic
UHF / int_792fef74	comment	Cute, but Cacophonic: Pamela Finklestein (she's played by Fran Drescher, after all).
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UHF / int_79503ae9	type	Stout Strength
UHF / int_79503ae9	comment	Stout Strength: Big Edna, who can carry two grown men at once and toss them practically into the atmosphere.
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UHF / int_79b16b48	type	Japanese Ranguage
UHF / int_79b16b48	comment	Japanese Ranguage: "Supplies!"
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UHF / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
UHF / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Big Louie.
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UHF / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
UHF / int_7d89315b	comment	RJ Fletcher's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the town is notoriously this. "Festering bowl of dog snot"?
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UHF / int_7f9b12a6	type	Chairman of the Brawl
UHF / int_7f9b12a6	comment	Chairman of the Brawl: Happens quite a lot in the revamped Town Talk.
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UHF / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
UHF / int_7febc23b	comment	Fletcher's Establishing Character Moment:
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UHF / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
UHF / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The human version... during the "Town Talk" promo, a bunch of weird guests are on the panel. They are, in order, a Neo-Nazi, a Dominatrix, a Klansman... a little girl with blond pigtails... and an axe-wielding expy of Jason Voorhees. Then subverted because the little girl is implied to be an Enfant Terrible with a perpetual Slasher Smile.
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UHF / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
UHF / int_816a4e80	comment	Stanley waves his mop like a Star Wars light saber, complete with the sound effects.
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UHF / int_8238b7ba	type	Bizarre Gambling Winnings
UHF / int_8238b7ba	comment	Bizarre Gambling Winnings: Harvey wins a failing TV station at poker and, having no better idea what to do with it, hires his nephew George as manager.
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UHF / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
UHF / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Kevin McCarthy's performance is really hammy. Michael Richards also plays it up in a few scenes.
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UHF / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
UHF / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: While the movie is zany enough, did anyone really expect Philo to be revealed to be an alien?
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UHF / int_82ff8b68	type	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care
UHF / int_82ff8b68	comment	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care: Exaggerated with Raul, who keeps ducks in dog crates and a monkey in his dresser drawer.
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UHF / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
UHF / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: Upon learning that George is not an employee when he brings his package over, Fletcher threatens to have him arrested for trespassing if he doesn't leave. This would only be possible if George already had been legally banned from the premises for a serious reason (harrassment, assault, theft, etc) and all the police would actally be able to do is escort George out of the building while chastising Fletcher for wasting their time.
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UHF / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
UHF / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Although the station's location is never mentioned, it is clearly filmed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with several landmarks making appearances. There's an entire fan page listing these locations. Al lists off the addresses for many of the locations as they appear during his commentary track.
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UHF / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
UHF / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Raul just vanished from the film after the "stinking badgers" scene. Justified by his actor getting killed during filminginvoked. Bob is George's sidekick for the first half of the movie and is in almost every scene with George, but after reminding Fletcher that it's illegal to own two TV stations in the same town, he pretty much vanishes from the movie and isn't seen again until Fletcher literally pulls the plug on the telethon and even then, he's only shown among the other station employees being disappointed.
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UHF / int_86c2af02	type	Cartridges in Flight
UHF / int_86c2af02	comment	Cartridges in Flight: Actually justified in that it's an Imagine Spot George is having, but the fired bullet he catches in his teeth is still in its shell casing.
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UHF / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
UHF / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: "And take that ridiculous thing off!" Not the silly hat, but the fake mustache you can't even tell is fake. Weird Al helpfully explains why this is funny in the commentary track (though he's obviously kidding).
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UHF / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
UHF / int_87bb6874	comment	His "festering bowl of dog snot" tirade to Teri when she attempts to talk him out of continuing his feud with George provides Philo with the perfect spycam-footage by which to reveal Fletcher's contempt to the public, as well as the FCC (see below) and destroy his Villain with Good Publicity status.
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UHF / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
UHF / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: George is clearly the apple of his aunt Esther's eye. (His actual parents are never seen, for whatever reason.) Good thing, too, as it not only gets him the job at U-62 to begin with, but Esther's chiding of Harvey buys George just enough time to put together the telethon that saves the station.
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UHF / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
UHF / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: R.J. Fletcher. First his true beliefs about the community are revealed, making him the most hated man in the city; then he loses his contract because a random homeless person purchased enough stock to save U-62; gets his license revoked due to his failure to pay his dues on time, and being denied the usual mere fines and late fees due to his abhorrent attitude being outed to the public; gets called a "worthless slobbering pig" by Pamela, who overheard the revoke; gets kicked in the nuts by an old lady; learns that the one coin he gave the already mentioned homeless person was what caused his downfall; and the homeless man was able to get the same watch that Fletcher wanted. Weird Al states in the commentary that he put this in because he doesn't like it when a movie has a Karma Houdini.
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UHF / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
UHF / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: George bursts in like a badass to save Stanley from his kidnappers and winds up getting himself captured in seconds. Why? Well, the "bursting in like a badass" part was as far as he thought it through.
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UHF / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
UHF / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: The shop teacher on "Town Talk" who reacts with sheepish embarrassment when he chops his thumb off with a table saw.
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UHF / int_93c35299	type	Made of Bologna
UHF / int_93c35299	comment	Made of Bologna: A promo for the in-universe TV series Conan The Librarian shows Conan splitting a teen in half lengthwise for returning a borrowed book late. The shot is brief, but reveals only reddish meat within the victim.
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UHF / int_94721d54	type	Your Favorite
UHF / int_94721d54	comment	Your Favorite: The "Twinkie Wiener" sandwich, a hot dog cut into a Twinkie and topped with spray cheese, offered by Al to his friend Bob. These remain Al's Trademark Favorite Food in Real Life, though as a vegetarian he uses tofu dogs now.
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UHF / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
UHF / int_964ea66c	comment	A-Team Firing: Taken to a ludicrous extreme in the Rambo sequence.
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UHF / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
UHF / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: R.J. Fletcher serves as the primary one, while Big Louie serves as the Greater-Scope Villain.
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UHF / int_9820c37a	type	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
UHF / int_9820c37a	comment	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: R.J. Fletcher.
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UHF / int_9838d681	type	DudeMagnet
UHF / int_9838d681	comment	Dude Magnet: Pamela, as both Philo and Bob seem rather sweet on her.
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UHF / int_99156d7e	type	Head Desk
UHF / int_99156d7e	comment	Head Desk: George bangs his head against a bar when he's at his lowest.
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UHF / int_9a5eca2e	type	Mob Debt
UHF / int_9a5eca2e	comment	Mob Debt: A light use of the trope: Nobody is in danger of dying or losing body parts, but George and company will lose U62 if they can't raise enough cash to buy the station before George's uncle sells it to Fletcher to cover gambling debts.
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UHF / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
UHF / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Big Louie, the loan shark/potential crime boss, who drives the plot by forcing Uncle Harvey to repay a horse-gambling debt. One has to wonder if he was even aware of U62 outside of him pulling up through the crowd and his limited interaction with George — he never even met Fletcher.
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UHF / int_9bb0dcc5	type	Saving the Orphanage
UHF / int_9bb0dcc5	comment	Saving the Orphanage: Well, the television station.
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UHF / int_9be2ef69	type	Rule 34
UHF / int_9be2ef69	comment	Rule 34: Believe it or not.
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UHF / int_9c4a7090	type	Springtime for Hitler
UHF / int_9c4a7090	comment	Springtime for Hitler: An unintentional example; George and Bob do their best to run the station, even though it faces demolition with a $75,000 gambling debt to Big Louie incurred by George's Uncle Harvey, who gave them the deed to the station. When Uncle Nutzy's Clubhouse is at its lowest point, George resigns and hands the show over to Stanley Spadowski, who quickly turns it into a ratings smash and becomes a celebrity. But after Stanley is kidnapped, the telethon's donations don't come in as quickly, which leads George to rescue Stanley from Channel 8, leading to a last-minute rally which is helped by a hobo who ended up with a rare double-die coin that was worth enough money to buy the remaining stocks and save the station. Putting George in charge ultimately worked out for the best; Harvey originally planned to shutter the station, only for his wife Esther to overrule him and make him keep the station and put George in charge. If George hadn't been made manager, R.J. Fletcher would've continued to rule the local TV market with an iron fist, Uncle Harvey would've been at the mercy of Big Louie and U-62 would've gone bankrupt.
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UHF / int_9d70c212	type	Sassy Secretary
UHF / int_9d70c212	comment	Sassy Secretary: Pamela Finklestein.
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UHF / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
UHF / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: After realizing he forgot his date with Teri, George rushes to the nearest phone, which starts ringing right as he was about to grab it. He winces, knowing that he's about to get chewed out.
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UHF / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
UHF / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "A U! H! F! Station!"
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UHF / int_a0412c52	type	Gun Nut
UHF / int_a0412c52	comment	Gun Nut: Earl Ramsey, a guy Pamela is interviewing when George interrupts with a "Bulletin" to invite Teri to dinner at a French restaurant for her birthday.
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UHF / int_a4b6f8d6	type	Jingle
UHF / int_a4b6f8d6	comment	Jingle: "Spatula City, we sell spatulas... and that's all!"
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UHF / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
UHF / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: The boulder chasing George through the "Raiders" dream sequence actually stops and turns to continue the pursuit when George flees away from its path.
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UHF / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
UHF / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Raul Hernandez. It would have been a case of Laser-Guided Karma instead, had his actor Trinidad Silva not been slain by a drunk hit-and-run driver before the rest of his scenes were filmed.
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UHF / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
UHF / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Parodied in the Rambo scene. A mook with a machine gun can't even hit George from about two feet away.
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UHF / int_aa2e07f1	type	Fire Hose Cannon
UHF / int_aa2e07f1	comment	Fire Hose Cannon: Played for laughs. When a kid finds a marble in a sandbox filled with oatmeal, he wins the prize of drinking from the firehose, which blows him across the room.
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UHF / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
UHF / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Stanley of all people, and twice no less. He gives the first one on his television debut, using his work as a janitor as a metaphor for how you can't ever give up, no matter how rough (or stained) life gets, and you just gotta scrub and scrub until you get it done. The viewers go nuts for it, and even the morose George is visibly inspired. He gives another around the end of the film when he's returned safely to U-62, rallying the troops to see the telethon through to the end to stand up to the evil bullies of Channel 8. For all of his Manchild tendencies, Stanley has some Hidden Depths in there.
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UHF / int_ab9311f0	type	Closer to Earth
UHF / int_ab9311f0	comment	Closer to Earth: George's girlfriend, Teri.
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UHF / int_abe0f934	type	Dissimile
UHF / int_abe0f934	comment	Dissimile:
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UHF / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
UHF / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The villain accidentally saves the station and is Hoist by His Own Petard. Part of it comes when the deadline hits and Big Louie's limo promptly arrives. Harvey tells RJ that he wins and begs him to sign the contract, but rather than take a few seconds to sign the contract right away, RJ decides to give the town a speech about how tearing down the station will benefit the town. This allows enough time for a last-minute purchase of the remaining stock, allowing Louie to be paid in time and RJ to lose out on ownership.
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UHF / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
UHF / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The cameraman's expression when the shop teacher slices off his thumb on the tablesaw. George's expression screams this when he suddenly remembers that he was supposed to meet Teri and her parents for dinner. An hour ago. The look on Fletcher's face when he begins hearing the rant that he delivered to Teri going out over channel 8 (thanks to Philo hijacking the signal). At the climax of the film, Fletcher has arrived and unplugs the countdown clock, going "This party is over, Mr. Newman!" (with George glaring at him). Harvey then notices something. "You can say that again." Big Louie has arrived on schedule, and they're still short of their goal.
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UHF / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
UHF / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: Parodied, along with 1-Dimensional Thinking, with the boulder in George's dream sequence in the opening. When Al turns a corner to avoid it, the boulder turns the corner, too.
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UHF / int_afc52a86	type	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
UHF / int_afc52a86	comment	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: As a parody of Geraldo Rivera's trashy talk show, George announces his next topic: "Lesbian Nazi hookers, abducted by UFOs and forced into weight-loss programs!"
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UHF / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
UHF / int_b11ac9f5	comment	A package meant for Channel 8 (Fletcher's station & lair of doom) arrives at Channel 62 (George's UHF station) by accident. George offers to deliver it personally to Fletcher. Pamela warns "...he's not the nicest guy in the world." After George scoffs and says "You just have to know how to talk to those guys..." CUT TO Fletcher berating his son about a pencil (see Abusive Parents example above).
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UHF / int_b2e10cc9	type	Growing the Beard
UHF / int_b2e10cc9	comment	Growing the Beard: In-Universe, George's attempt at running a kids' show is a lackluster mess. But Stanley manages to revive the show single-handedly, and George's attempt at running the station, with his wacky sense of humor.
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UHF / int_b4d3489e	type	Severely Specialized Store
UHF / int_b4d3489e	comment	Severely Specialized Store: Spatula City provides the page image. Remember— they're in the Yellow Pages, under "Spatulas"!
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UHF / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
UHF / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: At Prince — while promoting the film in '89, Al described it as "Like Purple Rain, but it's intentionally funny." During the DVD Commentary, Al at one point states that Stanley's line while being held hostage ("It's an orange!") is one of the stupidest things he's ever written. Jay Levey chimes in — "Right up there with 'Show me the money'." Al responds "Did I write that?"
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UHF / int_b79ac005	type	Scary Librarian
UHF / int_b79ac005	comment	Scary Librarian: Conan: The Librarian.
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UHF / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
UHF / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: George is this in spades, especially in the film's early scenes.
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UHF / int_b87d659f	type	Consolation Backfire
UHF / int_b87d659f	comment	Consolation Backfire: The protagonist George discovers at one point that he is broke, can't pay the rent, and has just run his uncle's business into the ground, with no hope of being employed by anyone in the city (as he's already been fired from every business, and his uncle will certainly not offer him another job after he's ruined his TV station). He recalls his girlfriend, saying, "Well, at least I have Teri..." Cue phone call from Teri calling to tell him that he is an insensitive creep for failing to show up at the birthday dinner he promised, and that she never wants to see him again. In The Wheel Of Fish, the contestant has a choice of a red snapper or whatever is in the box. She picks the box and wins... absolutely nothing.
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UHF / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
UHF / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: Since the concept of UHF stations are not commonly known overseas, they asked Al for an alternate title. He suggested "The Vidiot," or "Vidiots." The film was then released in some countries, much to Al's chagrin, as "The Vidiot From UHF," succeeding only in transforming an incomprehensible title to a terrible one. The Latin-American Spanish dub is known as "Los Telelocos" ("The TV Crazies" in English)note Which seems to be a fairly common practice, with Caddyshack being renamed Los locos del Golf (The Golf Crazies), and Police Academy being renamed Locademia de Policia (Crazy Academy of Police). and the French one as "TÃ©lÃ© Ringards" ("TV Dorks" in English). In Israel the title was translated as 'Mission for Beginner Broadcasters', riding on the coattails of the cult success of Police Academy, which was translated as 'Mission for Beginner Policemen'.
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UHF / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
UHF / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Just try to take Stanley's mop away. We dare you.
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UHF / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
UHF / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Bob, who randomly (and inexplicably) reminds George of his recent break-up when he's already at rock bottom.
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UHF / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
UHF / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu??: In an ad for Town Talk, George interrupts a seemingly pleasant Satan by throwing a cup of water in his face, shouting "You make me SICK!!"
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UHF / int_bff6c493	type	Crazy Homeless People
UHF / int_bff6c493	comment	Crazy Homeless People: The coin-collecting bum who ends up saving the station. In an often-missed gag, his first appearance has him hitting up George for change; not as a handout, but because he wants to break a dollar. Later, R.J. Fletcher gives him a single coin... that happens to be also a extremely rare coin, and makes him thousands of dollars.
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UHF / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
UHF / int_c0d598fe	comment	When he stops by the station to engage in Evil Gloating by informing George and his friends that he will be acquiring the deed to Channel 62 from Uncle Harvey in exchange for helping Harvey pay off his gambling losses to Big Louie, then deciding to demolish the studio when Bob reminds him it's illegal for someone to own two television stations in the same town, George notifies his Aunt Esther, who predictably is not happy about her husband deciding to sell the station behind George's back without his consent, and forces him to allow their nephew a chance to match Fletcher's offer before Big Louie's deadline expires, screwing Fletcher out of what could have been an easy victory for him had he just kept his mouth shut.
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UHF / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
UHF / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: R.J. Fletcher shouts at his son for not giving him a Rolex for Father's Day. The homeless man, whom he gave a penny to, buys a Rolex for himself from selling that valuable rare penny.
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UHF / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
UHF / int_c36cba70	comment	R.J. Fletcher's henchmen have kidnapped Stanley and locked him in a storage closet, and one of the thugs' is losing his patience after Stanley's blindfold has fallen off:
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UHF / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
UHF / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: "And Victoria Jackson as Teri". Apparently, Al and Victoria were dating at the time, which couldn't have hurt.
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UHF / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
UHF / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: George, Bob & Stanley, quirky as they are, are all fundamentally good-hearted people and easy to root for.
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UHF / int_c60b080b	type	Real Trailer, Fake Movie
UHF / int_c60b080b	comment	Real Trailer, Fake Movie: Gandhi II and Conan the Librarian.
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UHF / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
UHF / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: And it justified all the references by having them all be from the station or from George's imagination. George's show "Uncle Nutzy's Clubhouse" takes its name from a article in an issue of MAD called "MAD Looks At A Typical Kiddie TV Show". Similarly, George's last name, Newman, was chosen as a reference to the magazine's mascot, Alfred E. Newman. At the beginning, George works at Burger World, a place mentioned a year before in the "Fat" music video, when the fat, black guys say that they haven't seen Al eating at Burger World lately. Stanley's speech about running to a window and shouting "These floors are dirty as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" is a reference to the famous scene in Network. The whole concept of a station/network rising to instant unscripted prominence could be considered one, too. Philo is named after Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the television (and is played by Anthony Geary, who, like Farnsworth, was born in Utah and raised as a Mormon). George molds mashed potatoes into Devil's Tower like Richard Dreyfus in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". The final scene is a fantasy sequence with George and Teri as Rhett and Scarlett in Gone with the Wind. Stanley waves his mop like a Star Wars light saber, complete with the sound effects. One of the unseen shows on U62's lineup is "The Volcano Worshippers Hour". The Volcano Worshippers were a made-up group that Al created in high school just so he and his other friends on the yearbook committee could get an extra picture of themselves in the yearbook. The "Money For Nothing" parody is all about The Beverly Hillbillies. It contains scenes from the show as well as parodies of the original song's video. When George is threatened by Fletcher's henchmen while attempting to rescue Stanley: "Redrum! Redruuum!" Philo is first seen testing an Interociter. The high school shop teacher Joe Earley was named after Al's high school friend who performed with him when Al was just getting started. Similarly, Joel Miller, the boy who found the marble in the oatmeal and was sprayed with the fire hose on Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse, was named after Al's dorm roommate at Cal Poly who was also an early member of his band. Shaft is referenced in "Gandhi II": R.J. Fletcher's Engineered Public Confession is remarkably similar to one given by Andy Griffith as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes in A Face in the Crowd: On the DVD's behind-the-scenes audio commentary on this scene, Al mentions: The revamped version of Town Talk is full of references to Geraldo Rivera, such as his infamous "investigation" of Al Capone's vault, and the time a guest broke his nose.
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UHF / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
UHF / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: George is told that his Uncle Harvey is at a late-night business meeting; cut to Harvey at a poker game.
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UHF / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
UHF / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Basically all of the sympathetic characters, but particularly Stanley and Philo who is an alien.
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UHF / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
UHF / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: R.J. Fletcher and his goons.
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UHF / int_cc8e6ce1	type	Politician Guest-Star
UHF / int_cc8e6ce1	comment	Politician Guest-Star: Parodied. In-Universe, Mikhail Gorbachev is depicted as an upcoming contestant on the U62 show Celebrity Mud Wrestling.
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UHF / int_ceabe589	type	Incoming Ham
UHF / int_ceabe589	comment	Incoming Ham: Fletcher's Establishing Character Moment: George, when he makes his first entrance on Uncle Nutzy's Clubhouse. Sadly, the children don't share his enthusiasm. It works like a charm when Stanley takes over, thankfully.
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UHF / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
UHF / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: During the Indiana Jones fantasy scene in the intro, one of the men accompanying George pulls a gun on him from behind. George sees this coming though, and uses his whip to sever his assailant's arm. The assailant, who seems more surprised than hurt, quickly retreats. (The crew also mistakenly showed his left arm being severed, but cut to his right arm falling to the ground.)
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UHF / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
UHF / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Because of Al's refusal to use vulgar words, the script is prone to liberal uses of "slime", "scum", "weasel", "pinhead", etc. in place of heavier words, the heaviest insults being "sucks", "crap" and a mention of "hell" in George's answering machine message to Teri. RJ Fletcher's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the town is notoriously this. "Festering bowl of dog snot"?
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UHF / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
UHF / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: George acts this way when he unlocked Al Capone's glove compartment.
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UHF / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
UHF / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": From "Town Talk": With R.J. and Richard Fletcher: R.J. Fletcher's henchmen have kidnapped Stanley and locked him in a storage closet, and one of the thugs' is losing his patience after Stanley's blindfold has fallen off: After George has just broken into the Channel 8 studio offices to rescue Stanley:
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UHF / int_d2502c9b	type	Smoldering Shoes
UHF / int_d2502c9b	comment	Smoldering Shoes: The machine gun mook after George blows him up with an exploding arrow in the Rambo sequence.
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UHF / int_d264e7d4	type	Bullet Catch
UHF / int_d264e7d4	comment	Bullet Catch: In the Rambo parody Imagine Spot, George catches a bullet in his teeth, chews it up, and then fires it from his mouth like a machine gun.
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UHF / int_d2b9897a	type	Idea Ding
UHF / int_d2b9897a	comment	Idea Ding: Happens when George gets the idea to hold a telethon for his TV station.
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UHF / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
UHF / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Virtually every major dickish thing RJ Fletcher does in the film comes back to bite him in the ass later on: His decision to cruelly fire the station's janitor Stanley Spadowski on the assumption that Stanley threw away an important document, then not bothering to re-hire him when said report was actually on the seat of his office chair, results in Stanley getting picked up by George and becoming the new janitor and then flagship star of Channel 62, which outclasses Channel 8 in the ratings and infuriates RJ. His "festering bowl of dog snot" tirade to Teri when she attempts to talk him out of continuing his feud with George provides Philo with the perfect spycam-footage by which to reveal Fletcher's contempt to the public, as well as the FCC (see below) and destroy his Villain with Good Publicity status. When he stops by the station to engage in Evil Gloating by informing George and his friends that he will be acquiring the deed to Channel 62 from Uncle Harvey in exchange for helping Harvey pay off his gambling losses to Big Louie, then deciding to demolish the studio when Bob reminds him it's illegal for someone to own two television stations in the same town, George notifies his Aunt Esther, who predictably is not happy about her husband deciding to sell the station behind George's back without his consent, and forces him to allow their nephew a chance to match Fletcher's offer before Big Louie's deadline expires, screwing Fletcher out of what could have been an easy victory for him had he just kept his mouth shut. He is ultimately undone because he condescendingly gave a single penny to a beggar. Said penny happened to be a rare one worth thousands, and the bum was able to save U62 by buying up the last of its stock. When the time limit on George's moneymaking scheme expires, it's not enough for Fletcher to just hand over his money to Harvey... he has to engage in more Evil Gloating to berate the crowd there to save the station— giving George enough time to sell the outstanding shares to the beggar and pay off the debt. Fletcher also failed to pay his license fees on time, which would normally just be penalized with stiff fines, but with his crummy attitude being outed to the public, the FCC guy decided to just revoke his license right then and there.
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UHF / int_d74f8f88	type	Free Prize at the Bottom
UHF / int_d74f8f88	comment	Free Prize at the Bottom: Stanley Spadowski, while hosting his show, goes through the process of digging a cheap plastic toy out from the bottom of a box of cereal.
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UHF / int_d820f28	type	Reaction Shot
UHF / int_d820f28	comment	Reaction Shot: Being a goofy comedy, the film is filled with them, most notably from the heavyset cameraman who tends to react in horror to the things he's filming (and not without reason).
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UHF / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
UHF / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: George and Bob give no reaction to the antics of the martial arts dojo they share their building with. Including a man being thrown out a window, and someone else punching his fist clear through the wall. The implication is that this is so common that they don't even notice it anymore. There's also the moment when Philo begins to hijack channel 8's signal during the film's climax. The U-62 broadcast tower glows blue and crackles with electrical bolts, and seemingly nobody outside in the crowd notices (at least on-screen). Presumably Philo enhanced it with his alien tech.
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UHF / int_dc0d80ee	type	High-Pressure Blood
UHF / int_dc0d80ee	comment	High-Pressure Blood: When the shop teacher slices his thumb off, he squirts blood all over himself and copiously stains George's shirt when showing him his injury.
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UHF / int_dc335a04	type	Ear Worm
UHF / int_dc335a04	comment	Ear Worm: The hard rock mash-up of Dire Straits' Money for Nothing music video with The Ballad of Jed Clampett is so goddamned catchy that at least part of the lyrics will get stuck in your head.
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UHF / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
UHF / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Bob and Pamela, from some moments at the end (and some trimmed-off parts from that sequence).
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UHF / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
UHF / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: This is Played for Laughs when George is about to lose the station, and Teri left him. The next day his mood is comically nihilistic when he tries to do "Uncle Nutzy's Clubhouse."
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UHF / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
UHF / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: Parodied in George's Rambo fantasy. After rescuing Stanley with a chopper that is visibly unarmed, he still manages to blow up the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, and the Hollywood sign.
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UHF / int_e01c3d03	type	Black Comedy Animal Cruelty
UHF / int_e01c3d03	comment	Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: Raul tries to teach poodles to fly by throwing them out the window, expressing disappointment when he sees that all this accomplishes is creating a pile of dead poodles under the window.
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UHF / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
UHF / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: After hijacking Fletcher's feed and playing the video of him trashing everyone in town, Philo sits back in amusement and eats some popcorn from a laboratory beaker.
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UHF / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
UHF / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Stanley, so very much. George shows shades of this as well.
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UHF / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
UHF / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Stanley Spadowski. He's a simple minded Manchild who loves his job.
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UHF / int_e3d2f2	type	The Fool
UHF / int_e3d2f2	comment	The Fool: George Newman.
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UHF / int_e5016cf	type	Big Win Sirens
UHF / int_e5016cf	comment	Big Win Sirens: Used in "Stanley Spadowski's Funhouse" when the kid finds a marble in a sandbox full of oatmeal. His prize? Getting blasted in the face with a fire hose.
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UHF / int_e63270bc	type	Mr. Imagination
UHF / int_e63270bc	comment	Mr. Imagination: George; he tends to get fired a lot because of his constant daydreaming. He finally manages to put this trait to good use at U-62, with his various ideas for wacky, home-grown programming. Stanley is one to a lesser extent.
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UHF / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
UHF / int_e71db2e	comment	Depraved Kids' Show Host: Downplayed with George having to deal with Teri berating him for no-showing at her birthday dinner, and Channel 62 experiencing financial difficulties. The next day, "Uncle Nutzy" loses it and takes his frustrations out on the audience of kids.
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UHF / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
UHF / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: Right at the end of the film, George and Teri seemingly spontaneously act out Gone with the Wind. Then when Teri says "Because tomorrow is another day!", George glances at the camera and says to the audience "I knew she was gonna say that".
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UHF	hasFeature	UHF / int_e8e3807
UHF / int_e8f2d4f2	type	The Devil Is a Loser
UHF / int_e8f2d4f2	comment	The Devil Is a Loser: Satan appears as a guest on Town Talk, and George is able to insult him to his face without apparent consequence.
UHF / int_e8f2d4f2	featureApplicability	1.0
UHF / int_e8f2d4f2	featureConfidence	1.0
UHF	hasFeature	UHF / int_e8f2d4f2
UHF / int_e906fcc0	type	1-Dimensional Thinking
UHF / int_e906fcc0	comment	1-Dimensional Thinking: Double-subverted on the Raiders sequence. George, who definitely didn't go to the Prometheus School Of Running Away From Things, sidesteps the rock that is after him at the first chance he gets. The double subversion is that the rock stops on a dime, turns, and keeps chasing after him.
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UHF / int_e906fcc0	featureConfidence	1.0
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UHF / int_ea5c413d	type	Biting-the-Hand Humor
UHF / int_ea5c413d	comment	Biting-the-Hand Humor: Al kicks off the DVD Commentary (following confusion at the MGM lion's presence) by singing "Orion, Orion, is bankrupt, now!" to the Orion logo theme. Became Gallows Humor when you consider Orion did bankrupt themselves with stupid decisions like this film's release.
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UHF / int_ea5c413d	featureConfidence	1.0
UHF	hasFeature	UHF / int_ea5c413d
UHF / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
UHF / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: R.J. Fletcher gets kicked right in the crotch from another senior citizen at the end (see Humiliation Conga below). During the Gandhi II sequence, Gandhi himself knees a bad guy right in the crotch.
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UHF / int_eaf5a1ac	featureConfidence	1.0
UHF	hasFeature	UHF / int_eaf5a1ac
UHF / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
UHF / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: R.J. Fletcher, who else?
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UHF / int_eb9afb9d	featureConfidence	1.0
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UHF / int_edc5ac07	type	Excited Kids' Show Host
UHF / int_edc5ac07	comment	Excited Kids' Show Host: Stanley Spadowski proves to act like this all the time. Putting him in front of the camera was just lucky. Subverted beforehand in that George tried to fill this role and failed miserably.
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UHF / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
UHF / int_eef90616	comment	One scene has a brief shot of the U-62 Fall Schedule, which includes shows like The Flying Pope, Wonderful World of Phlegm, and Bestiality Today.
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UHF / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
UHF / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: Philo heads back to his home planet once the station is saved.
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UHF / int_f0fe7e80	featureConfidence	1.0
UHF	hasFeature	UHF / int_f0fe7e80
UHF / int_f197c220	type	Burger Fool
UHF / int_f197c220	comment	Burger Fool: George and Bob start off the film working at Big Edna's Burger World, but they can't even hold down that job.
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UHF / int_f197c220	featureConfidence	1.0
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UHF / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
UHF / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": The owner of Spatula City makes a very stilted appearance in the commercial for his store.
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UHF / int_f19e8a55	featureConfidence	1.0
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UHF / int_f4faa8f8	type	Pity the Kidnapper
UHF / int_f4faa8f8	comment	Pity the Kidnapper: After being kidnapped, Stanley spends so much time talking and rambling that the kidnappers are seriously tempted to just murder him.
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UHF / int_f5418d03	type	Kitschy Local Commercial
UHF / int_f5418d03	comment	Kitschy Local Commercial: There are a few of these, including the Spatula City ad ("we sell spatulas, and that's all!") and the ad for Crazy Eddie's Used Car Emporium.
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UHF / int_f5418d03	featureConfidence	1.0
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UHF / int_f642b1f9	type	You Bastard!
UHF / int_f642b1f9	comment	You Bastard!: Not towards the movie itself, but done in-universe with George's introduction to the Roadrunner cartoons (shortly after breaking up with Teri), in which he describes them as "a sad, depressing story about a pathetic coyote in futile pursuit of a sadistic roadrunner, who mocks him and laughs at him as he is repeatedly crushed and maimed." On a more serious note, when RJ Fletcher invades the U-62 Telethon during its' final moments, unplugging the clock and bellowing "This party is over, Mr. Newman!", George just stares at Fletcher with a look that screams this.
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UHF / int_f642b1f9	featureConfidence	1.0
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UHF / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
UHF / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: George and company have to fight off loan sharks, mobsters, and high competition for the sake of their little UHF station. But once he gets Harvey's signature on the station lease, instead of R.J. Fletcher, it proves to be worth every moment.
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UHF	hasFeature	UHF / int_f64a9cf7
UHF / int_fb5ab090	type	Loan Shark
UHF / int_fb5ab090	comment	Loan Shark: Uncle Harvey owes $75,000 to an unseen shark, "Big Louie", who has a detachable hand that he can replace with a cleaver.
UHF / int_fb5ab090	featureApplicability	1.0
UHF / int_fb5ab090	featureConfidence	1.0
UHF	hasFeature	UHF / int_fb5ab090
UHF / int_fc0e4e49	type	Styrofoam Rocks
UHF / int_fc0e4e49	comment	Styrofoam Rocks: Parodied. In the opening sequence, a rock bounces right off George Newman's head mid-fantasy and does nothing to him.
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UHF / int_fc0e4e49	featureConfidence	1.0
UHF	hasFeature	UHF / int_fc0e4e49
UHF / int_fd9763d3	type	Non-Ironic Clown
UHF / int_fd9763d3	comment	Non-Ironic Clown: Bobbo the Clown in George's "Uncle Nutsy" segment. He doesn't end up enjoying his role much.
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UHF / int_fd9763d3	featureConfidence	1.0
UHF	hasFeature	UHF / int_fd9763d3
UHF / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
UHF / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: R.J. Fletcher is not a subtle antagonist. Sure, he's not the only ham in the movie, but he takes his villainous acting to comical extremes.
UHF / int_fdf22cfd	featureApplicability	1.0
UHF / int_fdf22cfd	featureConfidence	1.0
UHF	hasFeature	UHF / int_fdf22cfd
UHF / int_ff9e9596	type	DVD Commentary
UHF / int_ff9e9596	comment	During the DVD Commentary, Al at one point states that Stanley's line while being held hostage ("It's an orange!") is one of the stupidest things he's ever written. Jay Levey chimes in — "Right up there with 'Show me the money'." Al responds "Did I write that?"
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UHF / int_ffaa675b	type	Asian Speekee Engrish
UHF / int_ffaa675b	comment	Asian Speekee Engrish: Played for a pun in the last act: a bunch of Asians jump out of a supply closet to surprise someone: "SUPPLIES!" Though the joke would be lost on people not aware of jokes involving Asian accents, since as Al points out in the commentary, the setup for the joke got cut for time.
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UHF	hasFeature	Absurdly Ineffective Barricade / int_585e7a79
UHF	hasFeature	Abusive Advertising / int_585e7a79
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UHF	hasFeature	Almighty Janitor / int_585e7a79
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UHF	hasFeature	Artistic License â€“ Music / int_585e7a79
UHF	hasFeature	Asian Speekee Engrish / int_585e7a79
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UHF	hasFeature	Big Word Shout / int_585e7a79
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UHF	hasFeature	Telethon / int_585e7a79
UHF	hasFeature	The Ahnold / int_585e7a79
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UHF	hasFeature	The Family for the Whole Family / int_585e7a79
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UHF	hasFeature	Trapped by Gambling Debts / int_585e7a79
UHF	hasFeature	Umbrella Drink / int_585e7a79
UHF	hasFeature	Vomit Discretion Shot / int_585e7a79
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UHF	hasFeature	With Lyrics / int_585e7a79
UHF	hasFeature	You Do NOT Want to Know / int_585e7a79
UHF	hasFeature	Your Favorite / int_585e7a79
UHF	hasFeature	Good News, Bad News / int_585e7a79

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