Today is "UHF"
Starring 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Michael Richards, Victoria Jackson, Fran Drescher and David Bowe
George Newman (Yankovic) and his best friend Bob (Bowe) run through a series of low-wage jobs before coming by a position to be TV station managers at a UHF Station called U62. A small assortment of strange beings are also employed at the station and quietly go about their dreary routines until George and Bob give them higher ranking positions that end-up irritating the bigwigs downtown. A news-reporter can't seem to cut a break from Channel 8's well-groomed daddy's boy, and a cool, calm and collected scientist named Philo seems to totally wipe out the "moral fiber of the community" whilst snacking on popcorn. Airing re-runs and local advertisements of sleazy car salesmen, the team of the inventive television managers put all their friends in the spotlight as fish-wheeling Judo game show hosts, barbarian librarians, a meaner-than-hell Ghandi, a no-holds barred talk show involving serious bodily injuries and a friendly janitor who reminds of Kramer, as a very popular kids' show host.
The mafia-type thugs kidnap the show's hero and by the time they notice how completely unhinged their competition really is, they plan to rub him out. But as luck would have it, George has Vietnam flashbacks, bursts in as Rambo claiming to be their worst nightmare, the supplies closet is full of Judo-kicking students trained to black belt status as they come out ready to fight with a war cry of 'SUPPLIES', and of course Philo foils R.J. Fletcher, the ridiculously mean and vicious station owner of Channel 8.
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