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Like Weird Al's music, the film focuses its comedy on oddball humor and [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|satire, parody, and pastiche]] of pop culture. Released in 1989, at the height of Weird Al's popularity, the film was expected to be a summer blockbuster, but barely broke even at the box office (opening against the 1989 ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' movie, after all) and instead became a [[Cult Classic]].
Then again, maybe a feature making fun of independent local TV does fit best [[
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** Aside from the obvious, he's also depicted ordering a steak.<ref>Hinduism considers practice of the consumption of beef taboo.</ref>
** It's Weird Al. [[They Just Didn't Care]] because they were deliberately [[Comically Missing the Point]]?
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: As the trailers embedded in the film are jokes (where the corresponding feature presentations don't actually exist), the joke by necessity must be self-contained within the fake trailer.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Sylvester Stallone]] was going to cameo as the helicopter ride ticketer during the ''Rambo'' parody scene, but had to cancel due to schedule issues.
** And as mentioned above, Al originally wanted Joel Hodgson to play Philo.
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