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* There was a slightly different TV Remote batteries gag on ''Series/{{Coupling}}''. Steve checks the remote to find there aren't any batteries in it ''at all'', points this out to new girlfriend Susan, and is bemused when she goes [[ADateWithRosiePalms into her bedside table]] to get them back... when those are dead too, she opens up a drawer to reveal several huge multipacks of spare batteries.

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* There was a slightly different TV Remote batteries gag on ''Series/{{Coupling}}''. Steve checks the remote to find there aren't any batteries in it ''at all'', points this out to new girlfriend Susan, and is bemused when she goes [[ADateWithRosiePalms into her bedside table]] table to get them back... when those are dead too, she opens up a drawer to reveal several huge multipacks of spare batteries.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "The Inconveniencing", Grunkle Stan loses the TV remote and refuses to get up and change the channel, even when a cheesy old romantic period piece movie comes on TV. Later he is so transfixed by the movie that he misses Dipper's phone-call for help from a haunted convenience store.
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* ''ComicStrip/HeartOfTheCity'': [[http://www.gocomics.com/heartofthecity/2009/07/16/ Good thing it landed on something she wanted to watch.]]

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* %%* ''ComicStrip/HeartOfTheCity'': [[http://www.gocomics.com/heartofthecity/2009/07/16/ Good thing it landed on something she wanted to watch.]]



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* ''Webcomic/{{Sheldon}}'': [[http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/020114.html Arthur can't change the channel on his own.]]
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* %%* ''Webcomic/{{Sheldon}}'': [[http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/020114.html Arthur can't change the channel on his own.]]
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** Doubles as a ContinuityNod to a similar situation in the first movie. Instead of a remote, it's a baby monitor that loses its batteries, and Woody is the only one who knows how to use them.

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** Doubles as a ContinuityNod to a similar situation in [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory1 the first movie.movie]]. Instead of a remote, it's a baby monitor that loses its batteries, and Woody is the only one who knows how to use them.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E3LostInCouchPatAThon Lost in Couch]]", Patrick's remote control is personified as a raging monster called the Remoto Dragon. It ends up attacking Patrick because its batteries are dead. He feeds it some batteries to recharge it, then it shrinks down and licks him affectionately.
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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''

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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''

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** Another Energizer advert features the same gag. Only this time the parents are desperately trying to change the channel because the nature documentary on screen is graphically describing the mating habits of rhinos in front of their two kids.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Oil Drums" is all about the Titans losing the remote control, and ends with the HardTruthAesop that getting out and expanding your horizons is what rots your brain, while mindlessly watching television all day is what's good for you.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Oil Drums" is all about the Titans losing the remote control, and ends with the HardTruthAesop SpoofAesop that getting out and expanding your horizons is what rots your brain, while mindlessly watching television all day is what's good for you.

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