#4 UHF


Weird Al: Dreamy teen sex symbol of the year, every year.

This movie is so funny, I just don’t understand why it’s the only movie Weird Al Yankovick ever made. Even if you don’t like his music, it doesn’t matter in the slightest. UHF is about an oddball loser whose uncle wins the deed to a shitty UHF cable station in a poker game. The same loser then goes on to become the most successful station in America, with shows like “Druids on Parade”, “Wheel of Fish”, “Underwater Bingo for Teens” and “Stanley Spadowski’s Clubhouse”. Michael Richards as Stanley Spadowski gives a particularly compelling performance as a half retarded janitor/children’s show host. There are so many funny scenes, TV show vignettes, faux commercials and bits of dialogue in this movie that I almost don’t know where to begin. Just watch it, it’s funnier than a deaf one-legged rapper on an ice skate.

B-Movie clichés: Bizarre humor, evil adversary, midgets, Weird Al, climactic showdown, embarrassing appearkiller klowns
ances by now famous celebrities.

WTF quote: Teri: Hello, stranger.
George Newman: Teri, what are you doing here? I thought you never wanted to see me again.
Teri: Whatever gave you that idea?
George Newman: Well, I guess my first clue was when you told me you never wanted to see me again.

#3 They Live


Stevie Wonder accidentally kicking the crap out of some dude with a luxurious mullet.

Are you familiar with the “Obey” clothing line? Its whole philosophy is basically lifted from this movie, in which aliens control our minds thorough subliminal messaging. Only with the help of magic sunglasses can our hero, played by the magnificent “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, see through their clever ruse and identify who is really human and who is an alien in disguise. It’s worth it to watch this whole movie just to see Rowdy and that other dude, Frank, fight each other old school WWF style (for 20 odd minutes) in an alleyway because Frank refuses to put on the magic sunglasses. They bodyslam each other and hit one another with trash cans and everything! It’s so bitchen’.

B-Movie clichés: Wrestlers-turned-actors, pod people, homeless heroes, space monsters, climactic showdown.

WTF quote: Nada: I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.