But it did not have that effect, and it actually disappeared kind of quickly.
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But it tested so well in the screenings that Orion figured that it would be competitive during the summer, and there was talk that they thought that this movie might even save their struggling studio. If the movie had been released during a sleepier time of the year, I’m sure it would have done quite a bit better. I understand that was a pretty tough time for you? The film came out against some tough competition summer of ’89, and as you said, it didn’t fare so well.
Starting the opening weekend of the movie when it didn’t perform so well, I’ve been second guessing things I should have done, things I could have done better, and I guess that’s a natural reaction. When you look back at it, is there anything you wish you’d done differently? It seems like once or twice a year, I go to a Q&A screening of the movie somewhere in the country. I’ve seen the film more times than any healthy person probably should over the course of my life. I know there’s still a lot of young fans of UHF that maybe don’t get all the pop culture references in the movie, but still appreciate it on a certain level. Some of the parodies are a little dated: I’m not sure how many people 25 years later remember the whole Al Capone phase of Geraldo’s career…. I think most of the physical humor and most of the gags still play. We caught up with Weird Al to talk about how he views UHF these days and how, in some ways, the film’s off-the-wall shorts inadvertently prophesized a little site we call YouTube. It’s why the movie is getting a shiny new 25 th Anniversary Blu-ray release, which becomes available today. The film’s initial failure took a toll on Yankovic, but in the years since its release, UHF has slowly and steadily achieved cult status. It bombed badly though, in a historic summer ruled by blockbuster heavyweights like Batman and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Its distributor, Orion Pictures (which went out of business in 1998 before relaunching this year), was so convinced that UHF would take the box office by storm that it slated the movie for a primetime July release.
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Yankovic’s 1989 comedy UHF, about ne’er-do-well who takes over his uncle’s fledging TV station and turns it into a local sensation by programming absurdly weird shows like Wheel Of Fish and Stanley Spadowski’s Clubhouse, was expected to make the comedian-musician a movie star. There was a time, too, when he also made a play to rule Hollywood. He reigned supreme in the ’80s (“Eat It”), ’90s (“Amish Paradise”) and ’00s (“White and Nerdy”), and his July LP Mandatory Fun became his first no. “Weird Al” Yankovic is the king of the pop parody.
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