# Weird: The Al Yankovic Story **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426 "2010-04-17T03:10:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/21 "2010-04-18T02:23:18Z")
> [@unclviny](#): > > UHF is awesome!, > My favorite part was at the end of production when they were shutting down Spatula City… Wuh-wuh-wait! Is Spatula City closing? Or did they ALREADY shut it down? Shoot – I would’ve stocked up! And picked some for the kids’ Christmas stockings. What’ll Si Greenblum do now? There was _only one (1) place for all my spatula needs_. Are you saying now there’s ≤ 1? ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/22 "2010-04-18T04:21:48Z")
I saw UHF twice–_twice_–in the theater when it initially came out. I also immediately bought the soundtrack and used clips of it on my answering machine. Nothin’ but UHF love here. Supplies! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/23 "2010-04-18T04:33:58Z")
Just watched UHF “On Demand” the other day. Again. Great stuff. Loved this trailer, too. Ninety minutes of the same? I don’t know if that would fly, but I know I’d watch it…TRM (who first saw Weird Al live at the Spirit Club in San Diego in 1982, as the third act in a six-act bill) ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/24 "2010-04-18T09:45:24Z")
Spatula City is closing? But… but… how will I say “I love you” now? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/25 "2010-04-18T16:35:03Z")
Strange stuff. Add me to the list of people who never knew there was anything but love for UHF! ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/26 "2010-04-23T03:05:07Z")
I always thought Al should go back to his roots and the culinary wisdom that has guided him with such greats as My Bologna, [Fat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqz1ojIQTBk), and Eat it. I propose a challenge… [Suppertime](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PDns23RWY), Fresh prince groove for this coming summer… I remember “Summertime” and the Summer it broke, fondly. Great Nostalgia and a perferct setup for Suppertime… I don;'t know if Will Smith would be up to the licensing? Jazzy Jeff could probably use the royalties. ---
**Author:** ![snowmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@snowmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowmaster)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/27 "2010-04-23T15:33:25Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > Forget the haters, \*\*UHF \*\*was an awesome movie. Word. Say, kids, who wants to DRINK FROM THE FIRE HOSE!?!?!?!?! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/28 "2010-04-23T16:52:29Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > UHF had a plot? 😃 _Supplies!_ ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/29 "2010-04-23T19:30:51Z")
Today, we will be teaching poodles how to fly! Lemme be your hog… I almost hurt myself laughing when I first saw UHF. Own the DVD (Hmm…perhaps I shall break it out and watch it this weekend) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/30 "2010-04-23T20:03:36Z")
I would SO torrent that! ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/31 "2010-04-24T13:35:04Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I would SO torrent that! You get to drink from the fire hose. ---
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/32 "2010-04-24T13:57:56Z")
I would actually go see that in the theater. I don’t know what that says about me, but there it is. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/33 "2010-04-25T00:15:25Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > I always thought Al should go back to his roots and the culinary wisdom that has guided him … Back? He never left. His most recent CD had the food related Trapped in the Drive Through, a 10 minute song about, well, being trapped in a drive through. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/34 "2010-04-25T11:27:26Z")
Oh man… I actually teared up at the prison scene. With the shirt. Culinary wisdom? Dude started out with “Another One Rides the Bus” and “Yoda”. Those are his roots. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426/35 "2010-04-25T17:00:42Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Wuh-wuh-wait! Is Spatula City closing? Or did they ALREADY shut it down? Shoot – I would’ve stocked up! And picked some for the kids’ Christmas stockings. As far as I know, you can still borrow books from Conan the Librarian. Loved the trailer. I’d go and see the movie, if it ever got made. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/536426.md?page=1)