Pickles by Brian Crane for July 26, 2020

Why look for the remote again when it is kind of useless now?

I think rather than look for the remote, buy a new TV (and some sort of tether for the remote to the chair or side table)

The DIL went down to see her sister and my son had to search through the living room for the actual TV remote. That little candybarlike thing that finds channels on the internet cannot do everything.

My grandson in his car seat behind me likes to open and close the door, lower the widow, whack me now and then.

(I wish Patsy would quit griping at him about the head part. It’s cute too. We will reconsider when he gets a baseball bat.)

Naw, I think the stick is fine.

Oh, sure, you can change the channel, but look what it does to the vertical hold.

Who remembers the time when you had to get up to change the channel, before TV remotes?!

It probably took him as long to find the stick…

Earl you came through for us again ! You may keep the pointed hat ;-)

You couldn’t do that with the stick either, (pun)?TVs don’t have buttons anymore, you HAVE to use the remote

OMG Earl that has got to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen you do and the only time I have to agree with Opal. I’d be freaking furious. Now you have to replace a TV which isn’t inexpensive today when if you only got off your duff and looked for the remote; which is probably under you seat cushion or the chair. All of this could have been avoided.

Have we ever seen what they do with the space behind the tv? The middle of the room…really? Is there an extension cord running across the carpet?

I hate to get up for anything trivial like change a channel. The remote was the greatest invention ever made-Mute button the best button.

We only had three channels….we usually sat right in front of the TV so it wasn’t a problem….LOL

Since we only had three channels when I was a kid, getting up to change them wasn’t a problem very often.

He should’ve secured the base to the stand with screws.

Back in the 50s, my parents rented out a furnished apartment with a TV. Renter glued tabs on the volume and channel selector knobs. Had a stick with a clothespin on the end to turn the knobs.

Earl you are a pushover.

They have these armchair caddies that will hold the remote for you. I had my daughter make me one and as long as I remember to put it back I never lose it. Best $10.00 I’ve ever spent. It has 2 compartments, one for the remote, and one for my phone.

Oh, the horror

The loudest I’ve LOLed at a daily comic strip is years.

My favorite is the mute button.

I was the remote control when I was a kid.

And voice operated.

Maybe there’s a reason they have kits to secure flat screen TV’s and furniture to things so they don’t fall over. On a serious note a number of people and especially children are hurt or even killed each year by unsecured furniture falling on them – the kits are dirt cheap and easy to use. Get ‘em, use’ em. No excuse.

Mine often hide in my butt crack. I just saw an ad for a doo-dad that turns any tv monitor into a touch screen. What a country!

I’m old enough to remember that my parents had to get up to change channels. Remotes started to appear as I got older.

Now WHO could have seen THAT coming..!!!???

how do you change channels tapping on the screen Earl?? any buttons would be at the base.

Just for s&g’s after reading this strip I looked for buttons on my new television. Guess what? Couldn’t find any!

I do have 3 remotes to operate it, though. One which turns on the set and selects what I want to use it for – ie. television, internet, iPhone, Android, etc. etc. The second is turn on cable television, control the t.v. volume and channels and the third gizmo is a mouse for operating android and internet features on this 55" screen machine.

Life was a lot simpler when I used to have to get up and change the channel by turning the knob on the front of my 19" B&W set and maybe adjusting the rabbit ears for a clearer picture…

It’ll be in the box with the new TV

I not only had to get up to change the channel, I also had to go to grandma’s house to even see a TV.

That’s one way to get off of the couch.

They needed a bigger flat screen TV anyway. Do not remember when I last saw any channel/on-off controls on the front of a TV.

my dad used to tell me that’s why he had kids….

Yes, and we only had 4 channels which went off about 10:pm.

Now that large TV will need to be replaced. I remember the days had to get up and change the channel. We only had 3 or 4 to chose from.

I have to say, I miss the days when the stations would sign on, and off, with the National Anthem, and after about 2300, it was all just static, until the test pattern came back on at about 5, until the stations signed on, at 0600.

I bought a Jerold controller that you ran cable through and pressed buttons on it to change channels.

My first t.v. with remote control was a big old RCA console color unit that I bought second-hand. I didn’t need the remote … If I jangled my keys on my key ring just right, the channel would change!

Not too bad when there was only 4 or 6 channels. (nothing of interest on any of them. NOW 200+ channels, nothing of interest)

Me. I remember. and I still have to do it sometimes because my remote is emotional and I am technologically incompetent.

Want to hear my mishap tv story? (Of course you do!) I bought a tv for $200. I set the feet on even though I didn’t have the required screw driver. Oh, how did I do that??

Hmmm… with duck tape! Okay then! Then I let it sit there on the tv stand… till one day I realized the tape was not very secure anymore. And I sat in front of said tv until it wobbled and (dare say??) it fell! While I was arm lengths from catching it. But nope, did not! Oye!!

But that’s not the end of the tale. I bought another tv, set it up in my bedroom and moved it to the living room. But the old tv was flat on the tv stand. I set the new tv on a big pillow (why?? No telling, seemed like a soft place…)- and somehow the tv slid… and… fell! The screen was broke like the 1st one. Double Oye!

I would have no tv because I sure wasn’t shelling out $200 again! I lucked out at a thrift store and found a tv (All three tvs were large smart tvs) for $50 and I have had this for three years! No more breaks!!