Is This It?

This is perhaps the most poignant scene in "Weird" Al Yankovic's movie, UHF.

Some people think it's a metaphor for man's struggle to understand women.

Well, sorry, it is actually ironic.

This scene demonstrates the quality of a system or relationship where it may appear to the participants that they are working together to bring about the desired result, but the outside observer knows that the system or relationship will never bring about the desired result, no matter how much the participants or observer really wish it would. Hence, the irony.



This irony is situational irony. "Situational irony is the disparity of intention and result: when the result of an action is contrary to the desired or expected effect." The blind man might think he knows what the intended result should be, but it is unlikely in the extreme that his actions will ever yield the desired result. The tragedy is the observer would really like to hear the poor man answer, "Yep!" But, alas, he never will.