Plot summary
In the film, Yankovic plays George Newman, the "daydreaming loser" (to quote IMDB's plot summary), whose uncle wins the faltering UHF television station (channel 62) in the poker game and puts George within charge. A station struggles, & 1 nighttime George works late & forgets a birthday date he install using his girlfriend Teri (Jackson). She dumps him, & witharound his consequent depression he leaves function when you took a middle of the day to attend a bar, allowing the wyrd however magnetic janitor (Richards) in charge of the babies's indicate presently around progress. a indicate becomes a hit among two youngsters & adults, & a station is suddenly the virtually all successful station inside town. the creator (McCarthy) of a rival VHF station, channel 8, the network affiliate, is furious at existence beaten by the UHF station & schemes to benefit control of channel 62, which he intends to transform into the parking area. He plans to acquire a station from either George's uncle, whose play has left him by having the material debt that needs to become repaid quickly. Thanks to the telethon, George is able to came higher by owning the money his uncle needs, & a station becomes a publicly owned company, while channel Eight loses its broadcasting license. George & Teri develop back together.

Within average Weird Al fashion, a film has many parodies of popular media, including Gandhi 2, Conan the Librarian, and "Spatula City". As the matter of fact, this entire flick can be considered a takeoff of the pic Network (especially the line "These floors are as dirty as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!").

Reception
Fallowing super successful trial screenings, Orion Pictures freed UHF in July 21, 1989 as a hopeful summertime blockbuster. Still, a critical response was blackball & UHF was overshadowed in the theaters by lot big films like Lethal Weapon 2 and Batman. A initial failure aside, UHF became super popular in personal streaming streaming, by owning out-of-print video cassettes selling in eBay for sizable amounts of money. It was rereleased in DVD in 2002 by MGM, to the joy of its fans. the DVD contains a bit of extras including a music video of the movie's theme song.

Soundtrack
"Weird Al" too freed the soundtrack for the film around late 1989, entitled UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack And Other Stuff.

Trivia
Based on data from either Al on a UHF DVD comment track them scenes that earned the picture a PG-13 rating from the MPAA are the poodle dog flying retired the window & whilst Joe Earley (played by Emo Philips) inadvertently cuts his thumb murder using a table saw.