Bad Movie Thursday

Viewing Date: 9/11/2025

Starring: Weird Al, Fran Drescher, Michael Richard, Victoria Jackson

Plot: An unemployed visionary becomes the manager of a local television station. The station becomes a success, with all sorts of hilarious sight gags and wacky humor.

Rules

• New Spoofs or parody (one drink per scene)
• Clumsy Slapstick
• Looking directly in the camera
• Dream Sequence
• “Channel 62”

Quotes

• “I don’t know the first thing about working at a TV Station.” – “Don’t worry, Bob, it’s just like working at a fish market. Only you don’t have to clean and gut fish all day.”
• “People like that should be put to sleep.”
• “After 15 years they just toss me out like an old bag of moldy tangerines.”
• “Hey, these floors are dirty as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
• “Badgers…Badgers…We don’t need no stinking badgers.”

Viewer Quotes

• “A hot dog in a twinkie with E-Z Cheese?” – “We’ve got to have a bet where the loser has to eat one of those.”

What We Learned

• The best way to eat a hot dog is in a twinkie wiener sandwich
• Owners of big TV stations are total A Holes.

Final Take

This was not too shabby. Lots of slapstick and the rules definitely paid off. Weird Al’s brand of humor isn’t for everyone, but if you like his songs then you’re probably going to like this.