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YMMV: UHF
  • Americans Hate Tingle: Apparently Indians don't find the action-movie depiction of their former spiritual leader in the spoof trailer "Gandhi II" all that funny...
  • Complete Monster: R.J. Fletcher.
  • Crowning Moment of Funny: "SUPPLIES!"
  • Dude, Not Funny!: Television broadcasts of the film edit out the bit in the "Crazy Eddie's Used Cars" commercial where he threatens to club a baby seal if he doesn't make a sale in the next hour. However, they keep the part where the young child gets blasted across the room by a fire hose.
  • Ear Worm: "U.H.F.", the movie's title theme.
    • "Welcome to the Fun Zone."
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Watch Raul's Wild Kingdom and tell me he's not eerily prescient of Cesar Milan.
  • Memetic Mutation: "STUPID! YOU SO STUPID!!!"
    • "YOU'RE FIRED! GET OUT!!!"
    • "SUPPLIES!"
  • Nightmare Fuel: Philo's true form.
    • The effect was done by the same people behind Large Marge.
  • Older Than They Think: In the post-analog world, this is pretty much the last place that even mentions UHF frequencies.
  • Vindicated by Cable: Ironically, it might have done better at the box office had Orion Pictures not been so excited by how well it performed at test screenings. They gave it a summer 1989 release that placed it amongst films like Batman, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Ghostbusters II, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids and so on. Lost in the shuffle, it found its audience through its subsequent video release and TV airings.
    • As a result, and as Al sang in the commentary, "Orion! Orion! Is bankrupt, now!"
    • It was one of the top rentals after its release on VHS, and became a #1 seller when it was released on DVD.

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