'Weird Al' Yankovic - UHF Music Video Comparison

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This is a frame by frame comparison between Weird Al's UHF music video and the various original music videos that were parodied on it.
All of these music videos were cut and (with the exception of Sledgehammer) either sped up or slowed down to fit UHF's tempo and Al's movements and timing. Sledgehammer was untouched and only cut to preserve the stop-motion effect.
Once In A Lifetime was heavily edited because of Al's mix of David Byrne's arm flailing and other David background dancers not corresponding to the original video, so Byrne in the right was greenscreened back for the first dance, but not the second as that one had more background Byrnes that could not be deleted. The background Yankovics as a result could not be compared, but they did reference Byrne's original moves, which only needed to be sped up to fit Al's timing.
All copyrights belong to their respective owners, and this video was made solely as transformative work to showcase Werid Al's attention to detail. Absolutely no copyright infringement intended.

List of music videos used for this comparison, in order of appearance:
0:00 - "Weird Al" Yankovic - UHF
0:21 - Guns 'N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
0:35 - George Michael - Faith
0:52 - "Weird Al" Yankovic - UHF
1:06 - Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
1:18 - "Weird Al" Yankovic - UHF
1:25 - Prince - Little Red Corvette
1:39 - Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
1:47 - Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
1:53 - ZZ Top - Legs
1:55 - "Weird Al" Yankovic - UHF
2:10 - Billy Idol - White Wedding Part 1
2:22 - Prince & The Revolution - Let's Go Crazy
2:25 - The Beatles - Your Mother Should Know |
2:36 - INXS - Mediate
2:40 - "Weird Al" Yankovic - UHF
2:55 - Randy Newman - I Love L.A.
3:02 - Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
3:06 - "Weird Al" Yankovic - UHF
3:21 - Prince & The Revolution - When Doves Cry
3:30 - Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
3:33 - Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better (from Stop Making Sense)
3:36 - Guns 'N' Roses - Welcome To the Jungle
3:40 - ZZ Top - Legs
3:44 - The Beatles - Your Mother Should Know
3:47 - Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
3:54 - "Weird Al" Yankovic - UHF

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Holy crap, I knew this was based on the popular MVs of the time, but I didn't realize it was practically shot-for-shot identical! How did they even do that with the technology of the time?

quicksilvertongue

>tfw you will never drink from the firehose

ElCidTheScienceKid

This is awesome! Only thing that could've made it better were the originals for the movie references too, but this is great!

MysterClark

Wow, great editing! It's really impressive that Al got the Sledgehammer one so perfectly

Vitorio

I am impressed how closely he was parodying the UHF clips. So perfect. 😂😂😂
Weird Al is always awesome. And UHF is a great movie.

2:59 I never even realized that part was a parody to anything

TheDreadedZero

This is so cool! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this

dnofhay

I can only imagine the amount of work in putting this together. Well done!

artistwithouttalent

I've been waiting for someone to do this for decades. You are a hero.

memphiselle

I've seen this movie at least 27 times.

DeconvertedMan

I thought it was going to be showing differences in an alternate version of the video, this was a lot better :D

I still remember that Weird Al special in the 90's where they showed the original and then his parody of the video/song, it was all over VH1 for the longest time.

cujoedaman

Great job!!!.
Al is better looking than all of these pop stars. You can really see it when he dresses up like them.
It's that afro, mustache and glasses that hide his good looks.

zoetercy

Man, I cant believe this is the only music video of UHF on YT

NecoLumi

Great work on putting this all together!!

TheKamrenB

As someone who had never seen most of these videos, I'm surprised by how faithful Al was. A lot of things that I assumed were jokes were actually in the originals... but I guess that's the '80s for you.

j.m.turner