I was seven when this aired. Remote Control was one of my favorite shows. I had to sneak out of bed to watch it. Catching it again evokes such nostalgia it's palpable.
I love this, with th original commercials. I can watch this at night, lights off, and jus forget it's the current year and ge a glimmer of abetter time, both culturally for the US and in general for myself. The promises of childhood and an untapped future. It is a true injustice that, regardless of age, we grow up in a time that is gone by the time we are adults.
Right, back then i would tape mtv in the evening and watch later cuz i wasnt allowed to stay up late watching the tv. i wish i still had my vhs collection , how dino of me.
However, one could argue, this is when MTV started becoming what it is today. This is a game show full of pop-culture references and NO music videos - which was the purpose of MTV just 7 short years before. Music-less shows like this, The Real World, and Singled Out helped to kill the M in MTV by the end of the 90's.
No, this is when MTV violated one of the simplest ethics of any product or service; _"If It's Not Broke, Then Don't Try To Fix It."_ After this is when it went all downhill with their endless experience of revolving tv series/programs. Causing them to end up like other major tv networks... being (a bunch of sellouts and) bought out from another major media entity.
@@OGRE_HATES_NERDS i get the joke, but you're not understanding what he's saying. when this aired, watching mtv was something that was considered 'cool.' nowadays not so much
I fell asleep when I saw it in the theater in 1989. Tried to watch it with my daughters 2 years ago and we all fell asleep. Absolute snoozefest. I have never understood its popularity.
It"s disturbing how easily I knew it was a Pert Plus commercial from memory & the shape of the bottle after not having thought about the brand in decades.
What a great surprise blast of nostalgia! Thanks for posting this... I haven't seen any clips of this show since it went off the air. This was such a great concept that I'm amazed they haven't tried to revive it. It really felt like a guy doing a game show in his basement. Love the sets, the tone, the goofy characters, the music bits, everything about it. RIP, Ken.
It would be a hard show to replicate. This was pre-Internet (at least for most of the world, I saw my first Internet demo in grad. school a few months after this was taped) and pre-DVD. You had to put in some serious TV watching time during your childhood and on nostalgia cable channels at the time to accumulate the "worthless" trivia. No TV boxsets, trivia websites, or binge watching streams. Google has devalued trivia as a hobby.
Holy shit... I'm 10 again, laying on the floor, on my stomach, head in my hands staring at my grandparent's wood panel TV at 10pm on a Saturday night. Fuckin' CRAZY! I even remember some of these commercials because of how many times I heard them growing up. Especially that music compilation @ 22:40 ! I don't know how many times I've heard it, but I'm sitting here at 44 years old and knew every song that was coming up... I watched a lot of MTV back in the day!
This used to be on Australian TV at Midnight every Saturday night back when I was in High School. I used to love it and watched it religiously every week. It's great to be able to relive this stuff through people posting it on RUclips.
Thanks for posting this great show! It was such a great time back then. We had so much fun. This was my favorite show. Then we had all the great videos 💖💕💞
i remember this starting, and hating the fact that they were doing a dumb game show on a channel that was up until then nothing but music videos. this was the beginning of the end
I am so glad you posted this with the commercials included. Wow, the nostalgia. I was a Sr. in high school when I watched this show and continued watching into my freshman college year. Oh, the nostalgia. Also, I loved hearing about your first hand experience of driving the car that you won. Did you keep the telescope?
This is a great piece in the style job with the commercials and the fact there is no Internet you have to send a postcard if you want to enter a contest I love it thanks Jim
Today is my sister Kim's birthday and I miss her like you couldn't believe. She looked just like this hostess on this show in the 80s. Lost her in 2011. She'll never grow old. Thanks for posting this.
How fun! They really should reboot this show. The commercials add so much to the nostalgia! I was 7 when this show aired but I remember watching this at my friend's house.:)
@@robertdog absolutely. I remember before remakes and so many sequels came thinking I hope they redo this or make a sequel to that, only to see the sequel, prequel, or remake destroy the legacy, canon, or mystique of the original or said crappy movie or show is the worst of all of the movies.
At 9:12, MTV promoting The Week In Rock. I remember watching MTV in the spring/summer 1989 and seeing Remote Control weeknights at 7 pm. MTV aired different shows at 7:30 pm following Remote Control. The shows were: Mondays: Now Here This. MTV's guide to new music. Tuesdays: Half Hour Comedy Hour. Wednesdays: Just Say Julie (My Personal Favorite MTV show after Remote Control). Thursdays: The Big Picture with Chris Connelly. By the mid-1990s, TBP would become the MTV Movie Special series. And, Fridays: The Week In Rock. I might be right about this. Also, l had hoped that Kari had stayed on Remote Control until the end. Remember being disappointed that she had left and Alicia replaced her. But, Kari would become a VJ in the early '90s. She replaced Summer Sanders on another MTV game show in the mid '90s: Sandblast with Peter King.
Congrats on the big win! After your first couple of answers, I was rooting for you. You knew your stuff! Man, I loved this show and watched it all the time (I had just moved out on my own). Great memories of a great time in my life!
Thanks, Steve. It was a good time. I was slow on the buzzer starting out. Realizing you don't get penalized for wrong answers didn't really dawn on me at the start either.
So many awesome comics got famous due to this show including our moderator Ken Ober May he RIP, Colin Quinn and of course Adam Sandler. Remote Control paved the way for game shows within a show.
Teenage me used to go to a local pizzeria with a mural of the Mediterranean on the walls, fake rubber grapes "growing" on arbors, and MTV on the TV with the sound run through the jukebox sound system. Lost count of how many plates of spaghetti I consumed while watching "Remote Control".
+Chad Mosher I did. Mitsubishis were pretty new to the U.S. market at the time. I got a call from the factory asking what color I wanted and to which dealer I wanted it shipped. It was my first new car. I drove it into the ground.
@@act4666 Thanks! I'm glad that my VHS recorder was working fine on the night it aired, and the tape survived long enough to get a good digitized copy off it. It's too bad MTV didn't do as well.
Thanks so much for posting this video from when you were on Remote Control. I absolutely loved that show and watched it every evening. I wanted so badly to be a contestant on there. Also I'm surprised no one mentioned the Club MTV tour commercial, which ironically said it was featuring great live performances. Little did anyone know how false that statement was, mainly with Milli Vilinili.
Ha ha "Blame it on the tape skip!" Yeah in real time during their so called live performance the tape got stuck on repeat. I remember watching this show on MTV back in the day. This was back when MTV actually played music videos. Its great now we have RUclips and streaming services watch all the great shows from the past decades.
I went to that concert when it came to Houston. When they mentioned Tone Loc and Paula Abdul at the beginning of the show I figured it must have been 1989. It was cool seeing the latest in non-computer technology at the time.
I was there! I saw this in real time. A good 80's trivia question is, "What was the FIRST video played on MTV?... The Buggles. But for years my youthful clever retort was, "Ok...what was the SECOND video played on MTV?"... Pat Benatar. As things faded over the decades, I questioned myself, but this confirms it. I was right! HA!
Right? Except the ones for beer, soda, shampoo + conditioner, an exercise bench, a bicycle, a guitar, and breath mints. But other than that, almost every ad.
21:15 omg the Club MTV live concert tour! You guys remember that? Right before Milli Vanilli was exposed! Lmao goddamn I love this! Thank you and god bless everyone who recorded Remote Control and posted it on RUclips.
Summer, 1989, I was in my 20's and living in SoCal, walking distance to the beach, and this was on TV. We thought it would last forever.
Watching this makes me regret not enjoying my time more during the best decades
Don't worry. I wasted countless hours watching TV.
If you’re not enjoying the present to the fullest, then you learned nothing.
I enjoyed the hell out of it and miss it terribly 😢
I was seven when this aired. Remote Control was one of my favorite shows. I had to sneak out of bed to watch it. Catching it again evokes such nostalgia it's palpable.
I was 6 so crazy how some things just get stuck in your memeory
I was 13 lol
I was 7 too.
I actually thought they murdered the losers for real O_O
I was 11 and I also watched this episode when it aired. Good times
I was the same age but don’t remember this show.
I love this, with th original commercials. I can watch this at night, lights off, and jus forget it's the current year and ge a glimmer of abetter time, both culturally for the US and in general for myself. The promises of childhood and an untapped future.
It is a true injustice that, regardless of age, we grow up in a time that is gone by the time we are adults.
Right, back then i would tape mtv in the evening and watch later cuz i wasnt allowed to stay up late watching the tv. i wish i still had my vhs collection , how dino of me.
Wow, I feel the same very deeply.
The present and future is very sad and depressing.
Preach!
Keeping the commercials for the nostalgia was amazing to watch. Thank you
"Hey, man! Is that Freedom Rock?!"
"Yeah!"
The best of Vietnam era rock.
“Well turn it UP, man!”
I forgot about that commercial 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Better then anything mtv has on today
Soo Mello. Great era.
Time goes swoosh
However, one could argue, this is when MTV started becoming what it is today. This is a game show full of pop-culture references and NO music videos - which was the purpose of MTV just 7 short years before. Music-less shows like this, The Real World, and Singled Out helped to kill the M in MTV by the end of the 90's.
@@barkboingfloom I agree. Kinda the beginning of the end.
Who here knew the difference between Dolby b;c and s? Hehehe
It's not music.. so stîll the same crap from any timeframe or perspective. This is what ruined MTV... it is what started it.
when MTV was cool
It wasn't cool to have this.
When tv was cool
what do you mean? this isnt a music video
No, this is when MTV violated one of the simplest ethics of any product or service; _"If It's Not Broke, Then Don't Try To Fix It."_
After this is when it went all downhill with their endless experience of revolving tv series/programs. Causing them to end up like other major tv networks... being (a bunch of sellouts and) bought out from another major media entity.
@@OGRE_HATES_NERDS i get the joke, but you're not understanding what he's saying. when this aired, watching mtv was something that was considered 'cool.' nowadays not so much
That Batman trailer was awesome! It's awesome that this episode was filmed at the time Batman was released in 1989. Best Batman movie ever!
Yes!!👍
For sure 😎
Best movie.
I remember that commercial. I must have seen it 50 times that summer.
I fell asleep when I saw it in the theater in 1989. Tried to watch it with my daughters 2 years ago and we all fell asleep. Absolute snoozefest. I have never understood its popularity.
"Is that Freedom Rock, man?" "Well turn it up!"
Wow! Totally forgot about this gem from my youth. Never missed an episode. When MTV was fun and cool. Sigh.
Thanks for the good times, Ken. RIP, man.
No way. Awe man
Nigel?
They still don't know why ken died
@@joannajamerson35 Probably a vaxx reaction.
@@joannajamerson35 - Heart disease, unfortunately.
They blew the question about stock car racing. The first guy had the correct answer.
Wow, I could have won a phone with an answering machine!?!? Mind BLOWN!
I used to hang out at my boyfriends house and chill on his waterbed watching this while he was at work lol...
Preview of Batman in theaters during commercials of this show, what a great time to be alive. Would go back to this time in a heartbeat.
I love how Jack Nicholson got top billing over Michael Keaton in the commercial lol
It"s disturbing how easily I knew it was a Pert Plus commercial from memory & the shape of the bottle after not having thought about the brand in decades.
I buy the travel size for backup
Ha ha, I'd forgot how great this show was --- and the 80s commercials are a bonus.
aah, old school mtv, how I miss you
What a great surprise blast of nostalgia! Thanks for posting this... I haven't seen any clips of this show since it went off the air. This was such a great concept that I'm amazed they haven't tried to revive it. It really felt like a guy doing a game show in his basement. Love the sets, the tone, the goofy characters, the music bits, everything about it. RIP, Ken.
It would be a hard show to replicate. This was pre-Internet (at least for most of the world, I saw my first Internet demo in grad. school a few months after this was taped) and pre-DVD. You had to put in some serious TV watching time during your childhood and on nostalgia cable channels at the time to accumulate the "worthless" trivia. No TV boxsets, trivia websites, or binge watching streams. Google has devalued trivia as a hobby.
Yes!! I said the same thing. I can see Adam Sandler producing it.
With a mother upstairs who had serious boundary issues.
@@jamesgall7881
Glad to have lived the Zero-Google Pre-Internet age.
And best of all No Goofball Social Media.
Only four seasons?! This show deserved more love...
It’s 2023 and I’m in love with Gina. 😢
The 80's and 90's were the best decade's. Screw the 2000's and the last 20 years.
Better times. Gotta love the real live studio audience and improvisation.
Holy shit... I'm 10 again, laying on the floor, on my stomach, head in my hands staring at my grandparent's wood panel TV at 10pm on a Saturday night. Fuckin' CRAZY! I even remember some of these commercials because of how many times I heard them growing up. Especially that music compilation @ 22:40 ! I don't know how many times I've heard it, but I'm sitting here at 44 years old and knew every song that was coming up... I watched a lot of MTV back in the day!
Thank you for posting this, I used to watch this when I was a kid.
The hostesses on this show were always so attractive.
Loved this show!! RIP Ken Ober
KEN OBER DEAD?!
@@jasonmartin3570 Yes, sadly, Ken Ober died in 2009 from the swine flu at age 52
@@lakebay972 wasn't swine flu.....dude died from a heart attack
@@furnitureconsortium I hate when people don't check their facts before they comment, it happens so much on here, mis information, so irritating!
“Colin is a closed man. He doesn’t smile when he’s happy, he doesn’t cry when he’s sad!”
I didn't come here to make friends. I came here to not beat off.
He's this!
Gina is cool as hell, lowkey
Colin Quinn was funny as hell on this show.
I was 8 when this was on. It feels like a fever dream that never actually happened.
Thanks for this. Takes me back. Loved that you included the commercials too.
I actually had that car, and it was surprisingly fun to drive. RIP Pietro
God, we were all so young and nerdy! Fun to watch as always. Classic MTV.
This used to be on Australian TV at Midnight every Saturday night back when I was in High School. I used to love it and watched it religiously every week.
It's great to be able to relive this stuff through people posting it on RUclips.
Thanks for posting this, I just watched this, and the memories it brought back where awesome.
I really liked the commercials.
Good times!
Honestly Alicia Coppola was the reason I tuned in! Super gorgeous!!!!!
Thanks for posting this great show! It was such a great time back then. We had so much fun. This was my favorite show. Then we had all the great videos 💖💕💞
Wonderful how it was to go back in time and watch this again! This is when MTV was awesome, and actually played music videos.
wow, commercials were way better back then, ofc the effects were bad, but there so subtle, now they are so deliberate and loud, too engaging.
The voices were always comfy too.
i need that freedom rock cd. i forgot to order it when i was 6.
Honestly, that seems like a pretty sweet compilation.
Probably find one on eBay...with any luck, it might even still be sealed!
😂😂😂😂😂😂 that made me laugh. I needed that!
Wow, this was awesome! I watched Remote Control all the time. I especially love that you left the commercials, thanks!!!
Hey Thanx for posting this...loved this show takes me way back
This show was awesome! Thanks for keeping the commercials too. "Party with Millie Vanillie!"
That concert tour was where Milli Vanilli got exposed originally for lip syncing.
I haven't watched this show since the 80's and I instantly remembered the opening theme song without missing a beat.
I was 11 when this aired and I still remember watching it all the time. Watching this is like being in a warm blanket. Thanks for posting!
I loved this show! I was 13 and didn't know as many answers as Jim here, but still fun to watch. I had the board game too. :D
i remember this starting, and hating the fact that they were doing a dumb game show on a channel that was up until then nothing but music videos. this was the beginning of the end
It has been told Jim is still working out on his soloflex, and getting to his destinations on his lotus mountain bike.
He even looked athletic to begin with on the show anyway, as did the other guy.
Don't forget the sweet Epiphone guitar
Great job!!! That show looks SO fun to do!
Whose here after Johnny Lawrence said to bring back Remote Control?
PHENOMENAL UPLOAD! Thanks!
This was awesome! Thanks for sharing
Thanks! Good memories.
CLUBMTV: "Live" performance by Milli Vanilli!
I am so glad you posted this with the commercials included. Wow, the nostalgia. I was a Sr. in high school when I watched this show and continued watching into my freshman college year. Oh, the nostalgia. Also, I loved hearing about your first hand experience of driving the car that you won. Did you keep the telescope?
Me too..
Sorry, I didn't see your comment earlier. I did keep the telescope for a while. It was a rather low-end model, and I didn't have much luck with it.
@@jamesgall7881 Thank you for your response! I loved reading all of your "first hand" experiences!
r u related to colin
@@BaseballPlayer0 No, I'm not related to him ... But how cool would it be!
It’s all coming back to me now…
Forgot all about this
I have been on a kick trying to rewatch all the Remote Control episodes. Great to find this one here.
The first real game show for us Gen Xers.
Loved the Adam Sandler 'Stud Boy " skits! Used to watch this all the time in 8th -9th grade.
That's the name of it. Haha tnx
This is a great piece in the style job with the commercials and the fact there is no Internet you have to send a postcard if you want to enter a contest I love it thanks Jim
Word!
Today is my sister Kim's birthday and I miss her like you couldn't believe. She looked just like this hostess on this show in the 80s. Lost her in 2011. She'll never grow old. Thanks for posting this.
How fun! They really should reboot this show. The commercials add so much to the nostalgia! I was 7 when this show aired but I remember watching this at my friend's house.:)
WHOA! That Code-A-Phone is AWESOME! 8:25
It tells you the date AND time of calls!!!!!
I remember when MTV actually played music videos .
22:40 RIP Red Noize. I grew up in Colorado Springs, and while I was not a fan of the radio station at the time. I respected him....still do.
Wow
Thank you for archives
I love that the old commercials are in this too!
I miss the old MTV
This show was the best! I was in high school when this aired, great MTV memories! Love that the commercials of the time are in there too.
This show should be revived!
I appreciate the thought, but they would screw it up.
@@robertdog absolutely. I remember before remakes and so many sequels came thinking I hope they redo this or make a sequel to that, only to see the sequel, prequel, or remake destroy the legacy, canon, or mystique of the original or said crappy movie or show is the worst of all of the movies.
@@deacongowan117 like the MacGyver remake
At 9:12, MTV promoting The Week In Rock. I remember watching MTV in the spring/summer 1989 and seeing Remote Control weeknights at 7 pm. MTV aired different shows at 7:30 pm following Remote Control. The shows were: Mondays: Now Here This. MTV's guide to new music. Tuesdays: Half Hour Comedy Hour. Wednesdays: Just Say Julie (My Personal Favorite MTV show after Remote Control). Thursdays: The Big Picture with Chris Connelly. By the mid-1990s, TBP would become the MTV Movie Special series. And, Fridays: The Week In Rock. I might be right about this. Also, l had hoped that Kari had stayed on Remote Control until the end. Remember being disappointed that she had left and Alicia replaced her. But, Kari would become a VJ in the early '90s. She replaced Summer Sanders on another MTV game show in the mid '90s: Sandblast with Peter King.
I still own at this trivia!
I love watching the commercials. I am a 80s kid
I've always wanted to be on a game show. Especially on Nickelodeon.
Congatulations you're going to be on Nicrolodemon, it's a hell of a show.
I loved this show-I always watched this from home after school. Great memories
This was the start of the end for MTV, as they switched from actual music where they were king of the hill to just another anything but music channel.
You fvking legend! I remember watching this episode at a friend's house.
The original female host was Marisol, who was a university student. She is now likely a grandmother!
Congrats on the big win! After your first couple of answers, I was rooting for you. You knew your stuff! Man, I loved this show and watched it all the time (I had just moved out on my own). Great memories of a great time in my life!
Thanks, Steve. It was a good time. I was slow on the buzzer starting out. Realizing you don't get penalized for wrong answers didn't really dawn on me at the start either.
Except for the racing question - they got it wrong, it was stock car racing - NASCAR
@@Dont_Tread_On_MeOber was a moron.
So many awesome comics got famous due to this show including our moderator Ken Ober May he RIP, Colin Quinn and of course Adam Sandler. Remote Control paved the way for game shows within a show.
I love these commercials especially the movies just enough with out spoiling them
Teenage me used to go to a local pizzeria with a mural of the Mediterranean on the walls, fake rubber grapes "growing" on arbors, and MTV on the TV with the sound run through the jukebox sound system. Lost count of how many plates of spaghetti I consumed while watching "Remote Control".
This is awesome i remember watching this a few days after i graduated from High school
Thanks for posting! Hope you enjoyed the car. :)
+Chad Mosher I did. Mitsubishis were pretty new to the U.S. market at the time. I got a call from the factory asking what color I wanted and to which dealer I wanted it shipped. It was my first new car. I drove it into the ground.
@@jamesgall7881 And an 'Auto Reverse' Deck too! Cause those 'auto stop' decks sucked. I remember..
So how's life, James?
@@jamesgall7881 congrats on the big win!!!!
@@act4666 Thanks! I'm glad that my VHS recorder was working fine on the night it aired, and the tape survived long enough to get a good digitized copy off it. It's too bad MTV didn't do as well.
Thanks so much for posting this video from when you were on Remote Control. I absolutely loved that show and watched it every evening. I wanted so badly to be a contestant on there. Also I'm surprised no one mentioned the Club MTV tour commercial, which ironically said it was featuring great live performances. Little did anyone know how false that statement was, mainly with Milli Vilinili.
Ha ha "Blame it on the tape skip!" Yeah in real time during their so called live performance the tape got stuck on repeat. I remember watching this show on MTV back in the day. This was back when MTV actually played music videos. Its great now we have RUclips and streaming services watch all the great shows from the past decades.
I went to that concert when it came to Houston. When they mentioned Tone Loc and Paula Abdul at the beginning of the show I figured it must have been 1989. It was cool seeing the latest in non-computer technology at the time.
🎶'Girl you know it's...Girl you know it's...Girl you know it's...Girl you know it's...Girl you know it's...Girl you know it's...'🎶
I really loved and still love this game show sad they never released it on DVD would so buy it and yes RIP Ken
I was there! I saw this in real time. A good 80's trivia question is, "What was the FIRST video played on MTV?...
The Buggles. But for years my youthful clever retort was, "Ok...what was the SECOND video played on MTV?"...
Pat Benatar. As things faded over the decades, I questioned myself, but this confirms it. I was right! HA!
Almost every ad is something a smartphone can do now.
Right? Except the ones for beer, soda, shampoo + conditioner, an exercise bench, a bicycle, a guitar, and breath mints. But other than that, almost every ad.
Except for the beer
@@Plusse lmfao
Yes we use to watch this every evening as a kid
Nice vídeo. Congrats from Brazil. Here at TV Globo had simular program in Domingao do Faustao every sunday.
L.A. Gear, I actually had a pair back in ‘91
21:15 omg the Club MTV live concert tour! You guys remember that? Right before Milli Vanilli was exposed! Lmao goddamn I love this! Thank you and god bless everyone who recorded Remote Control and posted it on RUclips.
thanks for make'n me 8 years old again the commercials are the best PART !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First time I ever recall seeing Colin and Sandler was on Remote Control.
I remember waching this
Code-a-phone actually tells you the time and day of the message. LOL
I would always watch this show after spending the day in College. It was my comfort food!
Omg! I used to watch this as a kid. And the game on Nintendo, used to play that as well.
As a kid I always wanted to be in one of the chairs that flipped or smashed through the wall. 😂 Also, thanks for leaving the commercials