History Headscratchers / UHF

*** HEY, THAT CHIPPENDALE CAME ON TO ME!! How was I supposed to know it was only assembled last week? The Do-Not-Remove tag said it was an antique!

** You also may have answered your own question on this one. Sure, they presumably made a lot of money off of promos, but then George goes off the deep end and spends all that money on those things you mentioned, all before his uncle loses $75,000 on a bet later in the movie.

** Sure.

** Not my thing, personally. But hey, as long as you own it or have the owner's permission...

* Sex with furniture. Wad'ya think?

** Big Edna only arrived in time to overhear George calling her a "pathetic tub of lard." She probably jumped to the conclusion that both Bob and George (no, not [[Webcomic/BobAndGeorge that one)]] were badmouthing her when they thought she wasn't looking.

** Big Edna only arrived in time to overhear George calling her a "pathetic tub of lard." She probably jumped to the conclusion that both Bob and George (no, not [[BobAndGeorge that one)]] were badmouthing her when they thought she wasn't looking.

** GEORGE was the one who ruined the fries and was unproductive, Bob seemed to take his job seriously at least.

** He did ruin a large batch of fries, and it's implied that he's particularly unproductive.

* Why was Bob fired from Burger World in the beginning? While obviously it was needed to advance the plot, it's not like he was doing anything that would have warranted getting fired.

** Presumably, there were actually more than 150,000 shares, with George retaining more than half so that he wasn't selling the station. Thus, all Fletcher buying the stock would have done is bail the station out of its crisis.

The U62 station just needs $75,000. Given that's a lot of money for a time when you could buy a new truck for $7,000 - but still one must wonder why they couldn't raise the money without selling the stock (or have to worry about selling LESS stock)- if their station was really finally doing so well, a bank may have been willing to offer a loan. They had computer-graphics promos, that wasn't cheap in the late 1980's. They could afford to bring over Mikhail Gorbachev to come do mud wrestling. Weird Al himself mentions near the end of the DVDCommentary that "Boy, for a TV station that was hurting for money they sure have a budget for fireworks."

Then there's the obvious...akin to WhyDontYouJustShootHim. Fletcher could have just bought all the stock.

** Philo could have made the promo himself, given all his scientific equipment. Someone on the staff or a volunteer could have rigged up the fireworks on the clock. Gorbachev could have been an impersonator (Al mentioned that he was on the commentary).

** A deleted scene shows George attempting to get a loan from a bank and denied, with the implication that nearly all the banks in town are in the pocket of Fletcher.

The U62 station just needs $75,000. Given that's a lot of money for a time when you could buy a new truck for $7,000 - but still one must wonder why they couldn't raise the money without selling the stock (or have to worry about selling LESS stock)- if their station was really finally doing so well, a bank may have been willing to offer a loan. They had computer-graphics promos, that wasn't cheap in the late 1980's. They could afford to bring over Mikhail Gorbachev to come do mud wrestling. Weird Al himself mentions near the end of the DVDCommentary that "Boy, for a poor TV station they sure have a fireworks budget."

The U62 station just needs $75,000. Given that's a lot of money for a time when you could buy a new truck for $7,000 - but still one must wonder why they couldn't raise the money without selling the stock (or have to worry about selling LESS stock)- if their station was really finally doing so well, a bank may have been willing to offer a loan. They had computer-graphics promos, that wasn't cheap in the late 1980's. They could afford to bring over Mikhail Gorbachev to come do mud wrestling. Weird Al himself mentions near the end of the DVDCommentary that "Boy, for a poor TV station they sure have a fireworks budget."