Remote Control 1988

[@WilliamBone-e7v]

I actually was a contestant on Remote Control in 1989. Not only did I win, I had an absolute ball doing this show. One of the best times of my life! R.I.P. Ken Ober

[@billybandyk0720]

Mr. Bone; Congrats 2 u, buddy. BTW; when in 1989 was ur appearance? I might have seen u on that particular "episode" of Remote Control.

[@WilliamBone-e7v]

I think it was Somewhere between March and June 1989. In any case, glad you enjoyed it, if you saw me.

[@billybandyk0720]

@@WilliamBone-e7v That sounds SPOT-ON INDEED!!!!! I'm.proud of u, buddy. BTW; how was Kari Wuhrer back then?

[@dtaidi]

Wow...I just had a flashback...

[@WilliamBone-e7v]

@@billybandyk0720 I'm afraid Kari wasn't on my show. It was Alicia Coppola.

[@chucksudduth]

I used to watch this everyday on MTV. It was a great game show to watch.

[@jr-fu6gj]

Who would have guessed all these white peole would grow up to support people who will force u to give birth even if u die from it and blame an election loss on black people.

[@tirkentube]

did they always suck out the middle player? because it appears she was the only one who could have been sucked out based on the backstage only having a hole behind her. i realize she had the lowest score at the time, but what if one of the others had a lower score? how would they get sucked out?

[@cherrywilson6267]

Oh to be a kid AGAIN. I MISS the 80s….you can keep this new world we are in.

[@NarcFreedom]

Who made this world though? I tend to blame our parents. But, I don’t know. The 40/50 year-olds circa 2000. That generation with the AOL mergers, the W Bush era. Our generation has been able to vote for a long time, and as the echo-boomers we have large and increasingly younger population as new generations come of age. Why have we failed?

[@johnphantom]

I miss the night life, and cocaine, while forgetting the results.

[@colleenfrank1678]

Boy you said it!!! I feel like I got dumped on planet weird. It’s full of people who complain but do nothing. I have to bribe my kid into socializing. No malls, no clubs, nothing interactive like we were

[@colleenfrank1678]

@@NarcFreedom lethargy

[@scottmattern482]

As you type this on KZbin comments with your cellphone...

[@CCGator29]

Seeing Kari again makes me remember why I watched and enjoyed this show so much as a young man...

[@juanelorriaga2840]

She was something and loved her dance scene in “Thinner”

[@yailineeshelman3218]

Life was great..soooo happy that I was able to experience MTV in it's prime!!❤❤

[@davidhutchinson5233]

Gen X shows were nothing short of awesome.

[@phildodson6141]

Yep! I'm 49....used to watch this and club mtv! 80s were the best!

[@ALTDOK667]

I'm a GenX. This show is tripe. Sorry.

[@davidhutchinson5233]

@@ALTDOK667 Awww it was fun. Lighten up.

[@jeffnelson2930]

@@ALTDOK667And yet you came here anyway. While opinions vary.....real men don't apologize. Man up dude.

[@ALTDOK667]

@@jeffnelson2930 Well, I couldn't very well say much about it without first watching it. SORRY!

[@Chuc_9600]

Brings back awesome memories!! RIP Ken Ober 🙏🏾🕊🙏🏾🕊🙏🏾

[@mr.mcpurrz3143]

Thanks for the heads up. Had no idea he passed so young.

[@nan639hildonen]

Such memories! A great time to be a teenager.

[@modelcitizen1977]

I had a girlfriend who looked exactly like Tricia. She was a Blockbuster Video assistant manager. Her name even started with T. What a wild time to be alive.

[@mitchevans4597]

Steak umm. 1 percent steak. 99 percent umm? -David Letterman

[@juanelorriaga2840]

Haha

[@hollykane4000]

I was 8 when this aired. Best Era ever

[@daendiznigh]

OMG I forgot all about this !! Used to watch it as a MTV kid!! Thought I was so mature watching it 😂✊ I’m 45 now , this is bad ass

[@NarcFreedom]

Our childhood was the best ever. Even though we were living with the prospect of a hot war with Russia and AIDS, things were vastly more creative, inventive, and optimistic. Movies were funny, now classics, TV shows became iconic, music had variety and artists for everyone.

[@daendiznigh]

@@NarcFreedom absolutely 💯 even my kids love and adore the 80s , mostly because I raised them on 80s classics and entertainment. Seems to be the best decade ever.

[@patrickfisher4151]

It is amazing how many SNL alumni were on this show before becoming big

[@kaleidoscopeeyes1184]

I remember this episode! This takes me back to my misspent youth as do the commercials.

[@briangoldsmith8709]

This show was the BEST! I had the video game version for my Nintendo. Man, time goes by way too fast.

[@informer]

Man this brings back the memberberries. I used to have the biggest crush on Kari, who didn’t at the time. This show was also the first time I saw Adam Sandler, to bad he wasn’t in this episode. Oh and love the commercials, I forgot all about Adam Curry and his mountain high hair haha. We used to call him the guy with big hair. Thanks for sharing this gem.

[@peterjv8748]

I liked Marisol the best.

[@jenny5309-k3j]

Loved this show!! It's so cool to see this after all this time. I love that the commercials are included too. How could they not know Cary Grant??

[@michaelhill3305]

I feel like I just stepped out of Mr. Peabody's way back machine. Thank you for posting

[@matthewcolicigno8132]

Talking Pinball Wizard commercial just activated a lost childhood memory. Loved that game.

[@atworkstation]

It introduced us to Colin Quinn as well as Adam Sandler

[@samanthab1923]

Dennis Leary too

[@jason916]

And Kari

[@seanryan3020]

I remember when I first saw Colin Quinn on SNL, I was like, "That guy from MTV's Remote Control? "

[@billybandyk0720]

atworkstation; Adam Sandler was actually in an episode of "The Cosby Show" b4 he appeared on Remote Control.

[@drewrosecrans9728]

MTV ruled 💯🤘🎸 gen x baby 🎸🤘

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Such nostalgia watching this show. Thanks. Happy New Year.

[@qrste81]

The highlight of this video is the world’s hippest Steakum ad ever made.

[@samanthab1923]

My younger brother lived on those things

[@55Porter]

Tricia was the archetypal super cute 80's girl.

[@MrSheckstr]

Trish was a dish

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Really? Her eyes are super close together and she has such a messed up grill. She had cute hair and that was about it.

[@thorguff]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465, you don't understand what archetypal and cute mean.

[@YachtsOnTheReg7]

Kari Wuhrer was hot

[@Buckseed]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Cootchie don't have no face!

[@claytonbouldin9381]

I used to watch this everyday after school. Thanks for posting!

[@ojc147]

This show was so awesome. I had totally forgotten about it. Thanks so much!

[@Srial3523]

You are doing the true god's work here. Bless you. Loved this show as a kid.

[@blazeandcyrus]

Ladies bring back the big hair! Thanks for posting this, what a flashback

[@shannonphx407]

No thank you! So many stinky perms and aqua net. Phew.

[@mcsmoothie7052]

In retrospect, there was nothing attractive about that look.

[@spacey_gracie]

I looooove me some good big 80s hair styles..

[@CuteLesbo69]

Nope

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@shannonphx407 That was the only time I got called a name - it was in middle school and because I got a perm WITH blonde highlights (I’m a brunette). A mean girl called me “wormhead.” :( I don’t miss those stinky perms either.

[@Does_This_Look_Infected]

If someone starts a Kickstarter for a time machine to go back to the 80s I am so in.

[@JRFrancisco20088]

The 80's were awesome. No cell phones, social media, or made-up political issues. And we liked it that way.

[@YachtsOnTheReg7]

Me too!

[@oldman_thompson]

36 years ago, and I still have the theme song memorized. I don't even remember the names of my friends in high school.

[@jasongodwin1319]

If you're looking for more remote control as well as week in rock year in rock from 80s-90s I hvae many on my channel. I don't have anything monetized I just wanted to preserve it for all of us nostalgic for that time period.

[@WhiteKnightCutlass]

I'm there dude

[@thevisionary2007]

Thank you! I've been watching it recently, it's my go-to channel now for my drinking nights!

[@Dingoplexor]

Subbed you’re the man

[@CKM-gf3ik]

Seeing that commercial for that MTV1-900 number, what scams they were. My sister and her best friend rang up a nearly $200 bill calling the "New Kids on the Block" hotline when we were kids. They had to work off the bill at my dad's store the entire summer that year. I still tease her about it to this day.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Lol! That’s hilarious.

[@kingporter67]

Tricia is a super gorgeous, vivacious lady in this 1988 Remote Control classic, awesome Remote Control episode classic!!

[@WhiteKnightCutlass]

I had such a crush on karie, damn where did the time go, this was on every night when I got home from my busboy/closer job in a restaurant when I was 16 years old, I would watch it before trying to go to bed for school

[@HankBukowski]

Twelve year old me loved this show.

[@jjgrumbach5043]

Ditto lol

[@jenh9221]

8 year old me loved this show. The underwear episode!

[@jessica7657]

The 6 year old me loved this show as well! I remember watching it with my dad! 😊

[@leftyf74]

Crazy... Two things that really stood out: 1) There wasn't 3 minutes of commercials every 5 minutes of game time. If this show was filmed today, there would only be time to select 3 or 4 channels. The rest of the time would be commercials and confessionals with the contestants. 2) Tricia was an undeclared major and not too ashamed to admit it. My kids basically needed to declare their college majors when enrolling for classes their freshman year of high school.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

What on earth are you talking about? Declaring a college major as a freshman in high school???

[@joshuapowers4623]

The commercials thing is what deregulation looks like.

[@greedo2660]

@@joshuapowers4623 Yep, and also now every other commercial is from the pharmaceutical industry. You never used to see that, I think it was illegal.

[@twlightzone2065]

This was such a fun game show .Too bad Buzzr hasn't picked this up to rerun.

[@Rewindium]

The music video clips in the bonus round are the hurdle for a chance at reruns

[@PlayerWM86]

Only one problem: Remote Control is owned by MTV/Viacom; Buzzr is owned by Fremantle. I'd like this series on Paramount+ in the MTV section (if they have all the episodes from 1987-90, remastered).

[@reyray7184]

Baby boomers hated this show so this is the only way anyone will get to enjoy it. And that's why it got canceled right away.

[@gameshows5973]

and the V of doom is an even bigger hurdle. @@Rewindium

[@BRUTUSPLAC]

I WANT MY MTV 1981-1997

[@maxmotors9497]

I didn’t have cable u til I was an adult so I missed Colin Quinn on mtv, thanks for bringing it back for all of us

[@RADIUMGLASS]

I remember that Franklin speller being on display everywhere electronics were sold and every game show always gave it away as a consolation prize.

[@Matucks]

Wow memory unlocked I totally forgot about this show, MTV was cool

[@RoadCone411]

Trisha was cute - she’s well over 50 now. Hope life was kind to all three contestants

[@DTD110865]

She was. I was going to bring that up, but you beat me to it.

[@John-lp5xh]

She went down in a blaze of glory sue ee cyde by cop May 2003

[@localnemesis94]

@@John-lp5xhwhat

[@tranzco1173]

It's true, got caught up in the H, was jonesing so hard she tried to stab a cop. She was from Boston. @@localnemesis94

[@TuriyanGold]

@@John-lp5xh What the eff?

[@Colortiniz]

I went to a taping of Remote Control. Good times.

[@christineh4192]

I attended three tapings.

[@Colortiniz]

@@christineh4192 I remember it was at Unitel, I think on 10th Ave.?

[@vortex19464]

Ah, yes, back when life was fun.

[@RC-gg1ib]

Soooooo fun

[@greg55666]

Isn't it amazing?

[@YachtsOnTheReg7]

Everyone (both the extreme right and left) is too busy being offended about every single little thing today to have fun.

[@MasterRoss-sn7dl]

It really was

[@Throbingkcoc]

It's because people were busy listening to good music, doing good non pharmaceutical drugs and having sex.

[@rustyaxelrod]

Collin singing “Your mama loves me..she loves me, she gets down on her knees and (mumbles with his hand over his mouth) me” I was in a motel in Kings City California when I saw that and laughed for two days. Just kinda funny but his delivery was perfect!

[@atworkstation]

RIP Ken Ober (1957-2009)

[@animallover6193]

pretty sad...dying from heart disease--at age 52! way too young!!

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

His actual name was Kenneth Oberding. “Blewish” folk like him constantly try to hide the fact they’re “Blewish” by changing their surname/shortening it. And yes, I had to write his ancestry as “Blewish” because YT doesn’t allow us to talk about them.

[@OneTimWhatley]

@@animallover6193 Cigarettes will do that to a body.

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

Loved this show. Adam Sandler as Stud Boy was so hilarious.

[@rs3370]

Holy hell, I completely forgot about this show. This was my jam in middle school!

[@888jerm888]

MORE REMOTE CONTROL EPISODES PLEASE!!!

[@starlightrocks7]

It wouldn't be the same.

[@SupaEMT134]

​@@starlightrocks7I think he means for them to upload more episodes

[@datamemory]

Living in Europe it was a treat to actually see this show and american commercials. What a walk down memorylane. The prices seemed great but were actually kind a crappy quality 🤣

[@ambermchugh9381]

Forgot all about this show. Thanks so much, i really enjoyed this. (Could actually really use that brand new VCR)

[@SarahMarieStetler]

Not two, not three, but FOUR heads! 🎉

[@megancarroll]

Woah! Somehow the whole theme song of this show is committed to memory.

[@timothyypa]

Loved this show, watched it often! But yeah it marked the beginning of the end of what MTV truly had meant to be.

[@glennhubbard5008]

I like to think it was The Real World five years later.

[@tod3msn]

Always liked Kari, Ken and Colin. I thought Colin Quinn had that boozy gruff voiced that reminded me of Dean Martin funmeister. God bless, Ken. RIP.

[@drewrosecrans9728]

OMG 😳 i was 21 when i first saw this show so awesome 👍👍👍 takes me back 💯

[@KJ-of6lf]

Always loved "sing along with Colin"!

[@pauljohnson8847]

The 80s were a different planet that I cannot get my children to understand. Good for them. It was a decade that doesn't need much attention but it did happen (i think).

[@ChatGPT1111]

So you're the only person on the planet that thinks now is better?😂😂😂

[@dennisdezarn5895]

Wow! Too bad the 80s were awesome.

[@spacewarpphotography1667]

Oh, boy! I can't wait to get just one of those talking games! Especially since this thing called "Game Boy" doesn't come out until early next year.

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Gen x baby we rule 💯 today's shows has nothing on US!

[@minnesotaclay]

Loved this show! The commercials 😂

[@v4vannatta521]

I was 4 years old, and when those electronics came up those "oo's" and "ah's" were genuine, my friends. Camcorders, VHS players, spelling calculators... the future of technology had begun.

[@RageTVHTX]

Kari Wuhrer was the reason I watched

[@billybandyk0720]

Likewise here.

[@philipbenner]

Only reason to watch

[@billybandyk0720]

@@philipbenner U betcha.

[@YachtsOnTheReg7]

She was smokin'

[@samanthab1923]

8 Legged Freaks

[@mr.brenman2132]

Colin Quinn. One of the greatest stand ups ever.

[@kiradax9431]

whoa...and just like that I am 12 years old and watching MTV way past my bedtime

[@jimmyjames6267]

This was the beginning of the end of MTV as we knew it!!!

[@sxa1313]

Hard to believe I was 18 when this aired.

[@allexisberry7367]

I was literally 7 and had an older sister . Our tv was always on MTV. I remember this show well.

[@tranzco1173]

My sister would not leave the house if they said they were gonna play a video she liked at the beggining of each hour, with the moonman and flag. Crazy addicted to MTV.

[@allexisberry7367]

@@tranzco1173 I so wanted to be like her so if it wasn’t Nickelodeon, it was MTV.

[@ryanb9873]

No Agenda podcast baby! Adam is still killing it

[@dgeorg02]

This was fun to watch. I was a fan back in the day. The commercials and prizes are fantastic to see too.

[@24james]

I would watch this show over & over…just to get a glimpse of Kari Wuhrer. She’s still a fox 36 years later💯✔️🔥❤️🦊 🥰

[@craigdixon6496]

I remember this episode, I bet my friend that Jason would win. What I did not realized, it was the replayed episode of the show. So I lost $20 on Jason, damn it!

[@aaronl_trains_and_planes]

I forgot all about this show. I watched it all the time!

[@robsherwood2909]

The last decent thing to appear on MTV.

[@rayc4244]

Wow - it's hard to believe these "kids" are pushing 60 (as am I!) Nice to see this again.

[@realretrorelapse]

I know. I was just a small child when this was on the air but makes me feel old

[@Pdasilva0324]

@@realretrorelapse I was in my tween-early teen years when this show was popular and now even I am inching closer to 50. Time flies as they say

[@eddiebranden1]

Colin Quinn was 29 years old here.

[@robertferguson5562]

The beginning of the end of MTV, hate you trivia lovers😠

[@kevinbrown6072]

Im.57 so yes those kids looked like they were my age

[@LilTurtleBug]

Core memory unlocked ❤ I loved this show

[@JamieNiemeyer-tz7zy]

I rember this show I use to watch it alot 😊 they should bring shows like this back . But I guess in today's world 🌎 😕 😔 I wouldn't fly . Still neat to see it thought . Thank you 😊 jamie ❤️ 🎉

[@johnnyboycassidy749]

The funny thing about this show is that the budget was obviously so low ...that all the contestants, talent, and audience were all from the Tri-State area. They couldnt afford to pay anyone to travel to the studio lol

[@mtbiker4life918]

always loved this show!

[@PlayitagainVHS]

I remember first seeing Adam Sandler on this show.Before he was famous.They need to bring this show back ! My god this was such a entertaining game show.👍🏻🙂❤️Kari was so hot 🔥 back then.I wonder what happened to her? Collin - the whip cream guy! Lol RIP Ken Ober 🙏

[@macmediaandmore]

Kari was on Sliders for 2 1/2 seasons, among other tv and movie work.

[@billybandyk0720]

A.L.H.M.; B4 he appeared on Remote Control (& SNL), Adam Sandler actually made his acting debut in an episode of "The Cosby Show". W/that said, u r in the majority RE: Adam Sandler being 1st seen on Remote Control. He was fuckin' hilarious as "Stud Boy".

[@cschamby8545]

This is so nostalgic. Awesome

[@DarkKnight22679]

They need to rerun these on Pluto TV

[@JeffSchall]

Who would have ever thought that glass-shards-gargling-sounding sidekick, Colin, would be a regular on SNL one day?!

[@Zachariah3D]

It's great to see Colin Quinn casually smoking on MTV 🚬

[@rossrobertson674]

Who knew he'd go on to 🐓 tease Lady Di on O&A 😂

[@gheller2261]

No, it's really not.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@gheller2261 It is. Go be a little miss stuck up prissy somewhere else.

[@YachtsOnTheReg7]

@@gheller2261 OK Karen 🙄

[@gmh471]

@@YachtsOnTheReg7 Yeah, that's not what Karen means.

[@melvinsmiley5295]

I miss the 80s…how can we go back 😢

[@njbebop]

Thanks for the memories!!!

[@RichardGarza-zo9mo]

I remember this show when I was a teen in the 80s. Kari looks smokin 🔥. This is before Colin, Adam, and Denis were on SNL in the 90s.

[@DorianFeatherstone]

🤔 Luke Perry in the Levi's Jeans commercial ?...and Jennie Garth in the Steak-Umm commercial ?

[@sharonharris9782]

I was 15 years old when this episode premiered. Oh the great memories

[@moi5219]

I’m old enough to remember this show but too young to know the trivia!

[@AmIEvilYesIAm]

Weird watching something and for a half hour feeling like you did when you were 15. Even tho she was older Trisha looks like someone I would of asked to go to a Motley Crue concert with. I can imagine for the next 10 years after, anytime Greg would play trivia he'd yell out Ed Begley Jr hoping it would be right.When you were a teenager things seemed shitty alot of times but looking back now they feel a little less shitty. Gen X til I die .🤘

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

“Gen X til I die.” Generally, that’s how that works.

[@AmIEvilYesIAm]

Unless I get bit by a vampire and become immortal, then I'll have to come back and change it to "Gen-X forever".

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

People looked younger back then !

[@Anon0987-l6d]

I was 6yrs old watching this, had no clue what i was watching and barely understood anything, but the wackyness stage set is what allured me

[@scottbakanumba1heathen313]

Loved this show!

[@camoanddonuts7894]

I miss the 80s "Undeclared" Gregory: ahhhhh

[@camoanddonuts7894]

I do too

[@89Timex]

Back when Mtv had the occasional show amongst their music videos. I never remembered Colin Quinn being on this show.

[@stanleyfranks9891]

Sandler came on from time to time too

[@streetrai]

I seriously only watched that show for Kari Wuhrer

[@billybandyk0720]

The ONLY reason 2 watch Remote Control (Kari Wuhrer)!!!!!

[@philipbenner]

She had the 2 best reasons to watch

[@billybandyk0720]

@@philipbenner Yup; I know WTF u mean (her "Golden Globes").

[@April21Volunteer]

Colin was such a riot. "Kaaah-ri!"🙄Uggh. Annoyed me everytime she did that.

[@glennhubbard5008]

But she was so hot.

[@April21Volunteer]

@@glennhubbard5008 😄Yeah, I figured a guy, or 12 would say something like that. Not doubting her looks. I just got sick of that repetitive shtick/line.

[@glennhubbard5008]

@@April21Volunteer Well, I understand. When she first appeared on Sliders, she really irritated me.

[@April21Volunteer]

​@@glennhubbard5008 I liked Sliders, & didn't mind her so much on it, but, on Swamp Thing, I started to see the Kari Wuhrer(Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson)same damn character portrayal thing. Can't tell her characters apart. Just figured - she's your basic pretty face, T & A actress.😅

[@arthurwatt5162]

Wow, tricia was kind of cute. Lol. 80's look for sure. Probably because it was 1988. 😅 i was 26 and feel like im 80. Lol

[@brettthebassist]

One of my favorite episodes was the Red Hot Chili Peppers were on.

[@steelstreet79]

Bring back the 80s style back.😊