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What do you call your remote?

by Bob Sassone, posted Jun 17th 2008 3:03PM

remoteIt's one of the eternal questions in life: what do you call your remote?

Tim Dowling over at The Guardian has a story about all of the different names that TV viewers have for that little device that saves us from having to walk across the room and has probably contributed to the onslaught of ADD we have. All of the names we've all heard are on the list, such as "clicker" (my mom used to call it that), "flipper" (which was popular with Frank on Everybody Loves Raymond), "wand," and "changer." Of course, The Guardian is a British paper so you're going to get some words that Americans really aren't familiar with, such as "tellychanger," "podger," and "hoofer-doofer." Most people I know just call it "the remote." We should come up with a different name for it. "Binky" is good, but that's already taken for pacifiers. How about "the glooptron?"

I call mine "Jessica."

[via TV Tattle]

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Paul Camp

I call mine "Where the f**k are you?"

June 24 2008 at 12:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rick

Remote...sometimes the Flicker.

June 18 2008 at 10:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sam

Any other "Flinker" people?

June 18 2008 at 9:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Edd

The Megatron! (to quote Peep Show)

I once did what they did in that show, which was to cellotape three remotes together (TV/Sky/Xbox DVD), which meant it never got lost (too big!) and everything was in one place.

Like a few others I also only need refer to a 'mouse'. Live TV does my nut in :)

June 18 2008 at 8:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave

Usually "the remote". Occasionally "master control".

June 18 2008 at 8:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Amber

remo

June 18 2008 at 7:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Katie

My dad and I have always called it the "Kadoofery" god knows why. But it's a fun word to say.

June 18 2008 at 5:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thomas Cushard

My family is probably some of the only people to use:

"Tv Box"

to refer to the remote control.

My girlfriend's family uses "channel changer" which I have never heard either.

June 18 2008 at 2:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Charlotte

we call it "the beeper."

June 18 2008 at 2:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tingrin87

we used to call it "the clicker" because our old one had a little button on the side that activated a backlight, and made a "click" sound whenever it was pressed.

now, we've moved away from clicker, and just call it a remote.
but you have to be specific, because there's a tv remote, cable box remote, DVD remote, VCR remote, fireplace remote, and overhead fan remote. (no clue why we have the VCR remote out, i cannibalized its batteries months ago, and the VCR's been disconnected for ages)

June 18 2008 at 1:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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