Spatula City

Infobox Song
Name = Spatula City
Type = Song
Artist = "Weird Al" Yankovic
Album = UHF


track_no = 9
from Album = UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack And Other Stuff
Released = July 18, 1989
Format = Cassette, CD
Recorded = March 2, 1989
Genre = Comedy
Length = 1:07
Label = Scotti Brothers
Artist = "Weird Al" Yankovic
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = UHF
Type = studio
Tracks =
# "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"

"Spatula City" is a commercial parody by "Weird Al" Yankovic for a spatula outlet store in the movie "UHF".Spatula City is owned by Sy Greenblum (himself a parody of famous Remington Razors CEO and spokesman Victor Kiam). He says (while very obviously reading from a cue card) "I liked their spatulas so much, I bought the company."

Commercial

"Spatula City" was intended largely as a spoof of commercials airing at the time for Circuit City. In the commercial, Eldon G. Hallum plays the father, Sherry Engstrom plays the wife, and Sara Allen plays the neighbor.

Notes

*The "Spatula City" sign was placed on a real billboard in Tulsa, OK, for the film, and was left there for several months after shooting was over. According to the DVD commentary, many tourists would exit the freeway like the billboard said, and would drive for long periods of time looking for Spatula City, thinking that it was real. The billboard could be seen from eastbound SH-51 at its intersection with Memorial Drive.
*"Spatula City" is frequently played as a parody on the Rush Limbaugh show. Presidential Aide Karl Rove jokingly asked Rush Limbaugh whether Spatula City was a real store, in Limbaugh's August 15, 2007 interview with him.

ee also

* List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic

References

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081507/content/01125106.guest.html