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* {{Medley}}: "The Hot Rocks Polka", which is a medley of various Music/TheRollingStones songs.

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* {{Medley}}: "The Hot Rocks Polka", which is a medley Polka". Songs featured, in order: "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)", "Brown Sugar", "You Can't Always Get What You Want", "Honky Tonk Women", "Under My Thumb", "Ruby Tuesday", "Miss You", "Sympathy for the Devil", "Get Off of various My Cloud", "Shattered", "Let's Spend the Night Together", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", [[RunningGag and "Ear Booker Polka" by Al Yankovic]]. As you've no doubt guessed by now, all but the last one are songs by Music/TheRollingStones songs.(''Hot Rocks 1964-1971'' was the name of their 1971 GreatestHitsAlbum).

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* ParodyCommercial: "Gandhi II" and "Spatula City" are this, which are taken straight from the film.
* RecordProducer: Rick Derringer.

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* ParodyAssistance: A segment of the "UHF" video parodies the video for Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love", with Al in the middle of a group of women (with Al's trademark glasses and mustache) miming playing to the song. The women? The same ones from Palmer's video. Yes, really.
* ParodyCommercial: "Gandhi II" and "Spatula City" are this, which are City", taken straight from the film.
film, are this.
* RecordProducer: The last of Al's albums to be produced by Rick Derringer.
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# "Isle Thing"[[note]]Parody of Tone Loc's "Wild Thing"[[/note]]

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# "Isle Thing"[[note]]Parody of Tone Loc's Tone-Lōc's "Wild Thing"[[/note]]
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# "Spam"[[note]]Parody of R.E.M.'s "Stand"[[/note]]

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# "Spam"[[note]]Parody of R.E.M.'s Music/{{REM}}'s "Stand"[[/note]]
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# "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies"[[note]]Parody of Music/DireStraits' "Money For Nothing"[[/note]]

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# "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies"[[note]]Parody of Music/DireStraits' "Money For Nothing"[[/note]]Nothing", featuring the lyrics to ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'' TV theme song[[/note]]
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# "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies"

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# "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies"Hillbillies"[[note]]Parody of Music/DireStraits' "Money For Nothing"[[/note]]



# "Isle Thing"

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# "Isle Thing"Thing"[[note]]Parody of Tone Loc's "Wild Thing"[[/note]]



# "She Drives Like Crazy"

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# "She Drives Like Crazy"Crazy"[[note]]Parody of Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy"[[/note]]



# "Spam"

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# "Spam""Spam"[[note]]Parody of R.E.M.'s "Stand"[[/note]]
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* NoticeThis: Al purposely has "Look at my butt" put on his leather jacket in his parody of Music/GeorgeMichael's "Faith" in his video for "UHF".
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* GirlsWithMustaches: Seen on the women parodying those found in Robert Palmer videos in the video for "UHF".
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* ShoutOut: To ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' in "UHF".

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* ShoutOut: To ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' in "UHF".
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* ShoutOut: To ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' in "UHF".
-->''Don't you know that we control the horizontal? We control the vertical, too.''
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* FoodSongsAreFunny: "Spam", a parody of R.E.M.'s "Stand".

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* FoodSongsAreFunny: "Spam", a parody of R.E.M.'s "Stand"."Spam".
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* FoodSongsAreFunny: "Spam", a parody of Music/REM's "Stand".

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* FoodSongsAreFunny: "Spam", a parody of Music/REM's R.E.M.'s "Stand".
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* FoodSongsAreFunny: "Spam", a parody of Music/REM's "Stand".
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* SpecialGuest: Mark Knopfler of Music/DireStraits plays the guitar on "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies".
* SomethingBlues: "Generic Blues".

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* SomethingBlues: "Generic Blues".
* SpecialGuest: Mark Knopfler of Music/DireStraits plays the guitar on "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies".
* SomethingBlues: "Generic Blues".
Hillbillies".
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: "The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota".
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: "The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota". (Are there bigger balls of twine in other states?)


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* SeverelySpecializedStore: "Spatula City".
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* BrickJoke: Bernie the hitchhiker in "Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota".


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* FilkSong: "Isle Thing", a parody of Tone-Lōc's "Wild Thing", is a lesser example of this for ''Series/GilligansIsland''.
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* MinisculeRocking: "Let Me Be Your Hog", coming in at 16 seconds.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/uhf_and_other_stuff_cover.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"We got it all on UHF!"]]
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* ParodyCommercial: "Gandhi II" and "Spatula City" are this, which are taken straight from the film.
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* {{Medley}}: "The Hot Rocks Polka", which is a medley of various Music/TheRollingStones songs.
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* CarSong: "She Drives Like Crazy".
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Averted when he sings about the TropeNamer in "Spam"; he pokes fun at it for being MysteryMeat, but seems to be genuinely pleased with its versatility.
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** "The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota" -- Harry Chapin and Gordon Lightfoot
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* Instrumentals: "Fun Zone".

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* Instrumentals: {{Instrumentals}}: "Fun Zone".
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* Instrumentals: "Fun Zone".
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* InTheStyleOf:
** "UHF" -- The Jacksons' "State Of Shock"
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* FaceOnTheCover: "Weird Al", as taken from the poster for ''UHF''.
* RecordProducer: Rick Derringer.
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* SpecialGuest: Mark Knopfler of Music/DireStraits plays the guitar on "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies".

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* SpecialGuest: Mark Knopfler of Music/DireStraits plays the guitar on "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies".Hillbillies".
* SomethingBlues: "Generic Blues".
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* CameraAbuse: Punches the screen and cracks it in his parody of Music/BillyIdol in the video for "UHF".
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# "The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota"

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# "The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota"Minnesota"

!!''She tropes like crazy.''
* DrivesLikeCrazy: The subject of "She Drives Like Crazy".
* SpecialGuest: Mark Knopfler of Music/DireStraits plays the guitar on "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies".
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''UHF -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff'' is the sixth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, which was released in 1989. It is partly a soundtrack album to the film ''Film/{{UHF}}'', while the rest is just parodies and comedy songs that are not related to or used in the film.

!!Tracklist:
# "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies"
# "Gandhi II"
# "Attack Of The Radioactive Hamsters From A Planet Near Mars"
# "Isle Thing"
# "The Hot Rocks Polka"
# "UHF"
# "Let Me Be Your Hog"
# "She Drives Like Crazy"
# "Generic Blues"
# "Spatula City"
# "Fun Zone"
# "Spam"
# "The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota"

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