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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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 💖💕💞
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.
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 TH-cam.
Top notch quality on the video, Jim. You've proven VHS at the SP setting holds up remarkably well. Loved seeing the commercials also. Curious to know how the car and other winnings changed your life for the better after your big win on MTV's best gameshow!
I was in grad school at the time, so the car was the big game changer. Going from an old beater to my first brand-new car (with no mechanical problems and an air conditioner) was a big help. I had to declare the value of all the prizes as income on my taxes but paying that was easy compared to the benefits. I gave some of the prizes to my brother and sister who were in the audience during the taping. I had the car for about 10 years. I think the only prize I still have is the Remote Control board game (although the CDs are digitized as part of my iTunes library). Thanks for asking.
The actual first gen footage would be even better. A lot of sketchy VHS recordings leads to younger people thinking that AV quality was hot garbage in the analog era. But the original broadcast masters as originally televised looked quite good by the late 80's. On the NFL's TH-cam page, most of the older Superbowl footage is clearly not from the broadcast master tape. But the few that are, look quite good.
@@jamesgall7881 Hi Jim, would you mind talking a little bit about how you got on the show? Did you just call in? Did you write in? Did they fly you to New York? Just curious about the process you went through back then to get on an MTV Game Show in the late 80's.
@@skelter1153 Good question. I loved game shows as a kid and always wondered who the people on game shows were (and why so many were from California). ----- I was a graduate student at Penn State at the time and watched a lot of MTV (my hometown, where I was also an undergrad, did not carry MTV on their cable system, so it was a brand new experience for me); it was my substitute for radio when I read and studied (no Internet and no Starbucks, but MTV was on all night). One day, there was a notice posted in the Student Union that MTV was coming at a certain date and time to hold tryouts for Remote Control. I was big on TV trivia, so I thought I'd give it a try. This was pre-Internet and pre-DVD and only a few shows were available on VHS at a hefty price (one episode per tape), so you really had to watch TV and reruns over a period of time to know the trivia (no binge watching or googling answers). At the tryouts, maybe 100-150 people showed up at the auditorium in the union, and the tryout was run by two talent coordinators from the show (they were present at my taping so they seemed to handle all the contestant issues). We were given a TV trivia test. As I remember it, the test was just over one page and fill-in-the-blank answers. I remember I blew the first one, which was to name all the original VJs (because I had been watching MTV for only two years). After the test, they corrected them (we didn't see the scores), and they called people to come up on stage and say something about themselves. It was pretty apparent that they were looking to see if we were nervous speaking to the group and could say something interesting with very little prep (unfortunately, quite a few people just froze). After this, they consulted for a little bit and then called the names of about 20 people who were selected as contestants. As we were all from the same college, they took down our contact information and told us we would receive a phone call about the date of our taping. They filmed the episodes in advance, shooting five a day (meaning they could get 25 shows in a week). When we were informed of the date, we needed to show up in the morning at the studio in East Harlem; we weren't reimbursed for travel, expenses, food, or anything. I think this is why you see mainly college students from the northeast (it was about a 4-5 hour drive for me, so that wasn't too bad of an investment). That was about it. I got the call I think a few weeks in advance and arranged for my brother and sister and a few friends to meet me at school, so we could head to NYC together (they are in the audience). It was all done with a landline phone, a AAA road map (and one of NYC we bought when we got close to the city).
@@jamesgall7881Congrats 🚗 Bet that was a game changer car. I loathed not having a car back then, 88 just out of high school and still riding my bike. I vowed to get a good car completely paid off. And to this day I buy outright. In the end, Was the Mitsubishi as durable as Honda or Toyota? 250k miles I'm guessing??
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 TH-cam 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.
+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.
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 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
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
@@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.
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 TH-cam.
Having learned decades after this what a genius Colin is (not to mention having Ken just die all of a sudden) really causes me even greater disdain for MTV for how little they valued them, though I'm fine with the way they treated Adam Sandler however horrible it may have been.
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.
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.
When this show aired on MTV when I was very little (like when I was two or three), the air raid siren that would go off when someone was being taken "Off The Air" would scare the crap out of me, forcing me to cover my ears (and do like what people would do when an earthquake strikes) whenever that sound would go off. Then again, this show first aired on MTV in 1987, one year before my ASD diagnosis.
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.
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.
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.
@@gizzyguzzi Donnie and Cale got into the wreck, but it was mainly Bobby and Cale that fought. Hence Bobby's famous quote, "he then went to beating on my fist with his nose".
Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough both drove in NASCAR. The SCAR in NASCAR stands for Stock Car Auto Racing.. which actually was the right answer. Jason should have had +20 points (170) and Jim -20 points (155). Jason got screwed. (Indianapolis Car Racing could technically be correct as both drivers did drive in the Indy 500... however Jim would not have had the chance to answer if Jason's answer hadn't been incorrectly called wrong.) The answer on the card was probably just "Auto Racing".
Yep Jason was screwed in this episode, I know it's spitting hairs over something that happened 30 years ago but his answer was clearly correct and would have changed the outcome of the show.
The question I would ask to solve this one way or the other would be "SCAR" may stand for "Stock car auto racing" but are the vehicles in NASCAR stock cars? If not he didn't get screwed, and I don't know if technically NASCAR cars are stock cars.
@@loraleijessick9581 even if you want to pick nits and say that NASCAR cars are not stock (they were certainly closer in 79 when the fight happened) the answer of Indianapolis 500 cars is in NO WAY correct. Indy cars are very different beasts. In addition, this show was several years before NASCAR would race at Indy and they were never in the 500. Jason got hosed.
@@composerdave68 NASCAR racing was indeed stock car racing, because they raced versions of stock cars you could buy at a dealership. Indianapolis car racing isn't even a thing. Those are called "open wheel" cars. The four major forms of racing are Formula 1, open wheel, stock car, and drag racing.
They're talking about when Ken was a kid/teenager in the opening, yet they show a clip from LMAD that was less than five years old at this point(mid 80s All New version). No one is sure where the TPIR logo in the opening came from. This airing is from between 6/23/89 when Batman 1989 movie opened and 7/6/89 as Lethal Weapon 2 opened on 7/7.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Keeping the commercials for the nostalgia was amazing to watch. Thank you
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 😢
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
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.
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.
Wow! Totally forgot about this gem from my youth. Never missed an episode. When MTV was fun and cool. Sigh.
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.
"Hey, man! Is that Freedom Rock?!"
"Yeah!"
The best of Vietnam era rock.
“Well turn it UP, man!”
I forgot about that commercial 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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!
Thank you for posting this, I used to watch this when I was a kid.
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 💖💕💞
The 80's and 90's were the best decade's. Screw the 2000's and the last 20 years.
Colin Quinn was funny as hell on this show.
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 used to hang out at my boyfriends house and chill on his waterbed watching this while he was at work 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
They blew the question about stock car racing. The first guy had the correct answer.
Thanks for this. Takes me back. Loved that you included the commercials too.
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
Wow, I could have won a phone with an answering machine!?!? Mind BLOWN!
aah, old school mtv, how I miss you
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.
It’s 2023 and I’m in love with Gina. 😢
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!
Better times. Gotta love the real live studio audience and improvisation.
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 TH-cam.
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!
Top notch quality on the video, Jim. You've proven VHS at the SP setting holds up remarkably well. Loved seeing the commercials also. Curious to know how the car and other winnings changed your life for the better after your big win on MTV's best gameshow!
I was in grad school at the time, so the car was the big game changer. Going from an old beater to my first brand-new car (with no mechanical problems and an air conditioner) was a big help. I had to declare the value of all the prizes as income on my taxes but paying that was easy compared to the benefits. I gave some of the prizes to my brother and sister who were in the audience during the taping. I had the car for about 10 years. I think the only prize I still have is the Remote Control board game (although the CDs are digitized as part of my iTunes library). Thanks for asking.
The actual first gen footage would be even better. A lot of sketchy VHS recordings leads to younger people thinking that AV quality was hot garbage in the analog era. But the original broadcast masters as originally televised looked quite good by the late 80's. On the NFL's TH-cam page, most of the older Superbowl footage is clearly not from the broadcast master tape. But the few that are, look quite good.
@@jamesgall7881
Hi Jim,
would you mind talking a little bit about how you got on the show?
Did you just call in? Did you write in?
Did they fly you to New York?
Just curious about the process you went through back then to get on an MTV Game Show in the late 80's.
@@skelter1153 Good question. I loved game shows as a kid and always wondered who the people on game shows were (and why so many were from California).
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I was a graduate student at Penn State at the time and watched a lot of MTV (my hometown, where I was also an undergrad, did not carry MTV on their cable system, so it was a brand new experience for me); it was my substitute for radio when I read and studied (no Internet and no Starbucks, but MTV was on all night). One day, there was a notice posted in the Student Union that MTV was coming at a certain date and time to hold tryouts for Remote Control. I was big on TV trivia, so I thought I'd give it a try. This was pre-Internet and pre-DVD and only a few shows were available on VHS at a hefty price (one episode per tape), so you really had to watch TV and reruns over a period of time to know the trivia (no binge watching or googling answers). At the tryouts, maybe 100-150 people showed up at the auditorium in the union, and the tryout was run by two talent coordinators from the show (they were present at my taping so they seemed to handle all the contestant issues). We were given a TV trivia test. As I remember it, the test was just over one page and fill-in-the-blank answers. I remember I blew the first one, which was to name all the original VJs (because I had been watching MTV for only two years). After the test, they corrected them (we didn't see the scores), and they called people to come up on stage and say something about themselves. It was pretty apparent that they were looking to see if we were nervous speaking to the group and could say something interesting with very little prep (unfortunately, quite a few people just froze). After this, they consulted for a little bit and then called the names of about 20 people who were selected as contestants. As we were all from the same college, they took down our contact information and told us we would receive a phone call about the date of our taping. They filmed the episodes in advance, shooting five a day (meaning they could get 25 shows in a week). When we were informed of the date, we needed to show up in the morning at the studio in East Harlem; we weren't reimbursed for travel, expenses, food, or anything. I think this is why you see mainly college students from the northeast (it was about a 4-5 hour drive for me, so that wasn't too bad of an investment). That was about it. I got the call I think a few weeks in advance and arranged for my brother and sister and a few friends to meet me at school, so we could head to NYC together (they are in the audience). It was all done with a landline phone, a AAA road map (and one of NYC we bought when we got close to the city).
@@jamesgall7881Congrats 🚗
Bet that was a game changer car. I loathed not having a car back then, 88 just out of high school and still riding my bike. I vowed to get a good car completely paid off. And to this day I buy outright.
In the end, Was the Mitsubishi as durable as Honda or Toyota?
250k miles I'm guessing??
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 TH-cam 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...'🎶
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.
Gina is cool as hell, lowkey
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!
Great job!!! That show looks SO fun to do!
"Is that Freedom Rock, man?" "Well turn it up!"
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!
Wonderful how it was to go back in time and watch this again! This is when MTV was awesome, and actually played music videos.
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!
Wow, this was awesome! I watched Remote Control all the time. I especially love that you left the commercials, thanks!!!
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
Hey Thanx for posting this...loved this show takes me way back
This was awesome! Thanks for sharing
Thanks! Good memories.
God, we were all so young and nerdy! Fun to watch as always. Classic MTV.
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
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
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 TH-cam.
Honestly Alicia Coppola was the reason I tuned in! Super gorgeous!!!!!
I have been on a kick trying to rewatch all the Remote Control episodes. Great to find this one here.
Thanks for posting this, I just watched this, and the memories it brought back where awesome.
I really liked the commercials.
Good times!
Having learned decades after this what a genius Colin is (not to mention having Ken just die all of a sudden) really causes me even greater disdain for MTV for how little they valued them, though I'm fine with the way they treated Adam Sandler however horrible it may have been.
Adam Sandler doesn't give a crap what you think
@@gizzyguzzi
I would bet money on that
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
CLUBMTV: "Live" performance by Milli Vanilli!
Whose here after Johnny Lawrence said to bring back Remote Control?
The hostesses on this show were always so attractive.
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.
I love that the old commercials are in this too!
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.
PHENOMENAL UPLOAD! Thanks!
I haven't watched this show since the 80's and I instantly remembered the opening theme song without missing a beat.
I was 8 when this was on. It feels like a fever dream that never actually happened.
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.
Wow
Thank you for archives
Nice vídeo. Congrats from Brazil. Here at TV Globo had simular program in Domingao do Faustao every sunday.
This is awesome i remember watching this a few days after i graduated from High school
What I want to know is.... who won the ectomobile?
Im glad im not the only weird one that wants to know the answer to that question!!! I did an embarrassing amount of research to no avail :(
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.
The first real game show for us Gen Xers.
I love these commercials especially the movies just enough with out spoiling them
thought i was the only one who remembered this show
no
k jay
Good show. 😄
Hell nawl Lol🤘
No you’re not. I watched this quite a bit
K jay. This is when MTV was real music TV. Now MTV isn't worth crap. Goes to show how much we lost.
VH1 and BET turned out to be crap to.
Ha ha, I'd forgot how great this show was --- and the 80s commercials are a bonus.
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.
I really loved and still love this game show sad they never released it on DVD would so buy it and yes RIP Ken
When this show aired on MTV when I was very little (like when I was two or three), the air raid siren that would go off when someone was being taken "Off The Air" would scare the crap out of me, forcing me to cover my ears (and do like what people would do when an earthquake strikes) whenever that sound would go off. Then again, this show first aired on MTV in 1987, one year before my ASD diagnosis.
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
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
WHOA! That Code-A-Phone is AWESOME! 8:25
It tells you the date AND time of calls!!!!!
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 remember when MTV actually played music videos .
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.
thanks for make'n me 8 years old again the commercials are the best PART !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You rock!
My buddy Lee was an 'Audience of One' on Into the Night with Alan Havey
I was a senior in high school...I wanna go back in time !!!
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
The original female host was Marisol, who was a university student. She is now likely a grandmother!
First player robbed. His answer “stock car racing” was correct
And it was Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison. Not Bobby.
@@gizzyguzzi Donnie and Cale got into the wreck, but it was mainly Bobby and Cale that fought. Hence Bobby's famous quote, "he then went to beating on my fist with his nose".
I MISS My MTV
Me too Hun 😱😭
Omg! I used to watch this as a kid. And the game on Nintendo, used to play that as well.
I would always watch this show after spending the day in College. It was my comfort food!
Yes we use to watch this every evening as a kid
It’s all coming back to me now…
Forgot all about this
I loved this show-I always watched this from home after school. Great memories
I still own at this trivia!
Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough both drove in NASCAR. The SCAR in NASCAR stands for Stock Car Auto Racing.. which actually was the right answer. Jason should have had +20 points (170) and Jim -20 points (155). Jason got screwed. (Indianapolis Car Racing could technically be correct as both drivers did drive in the Indy 500... however Jim would not have had the chance to answer if Jason's answer hadn't been incorrectly called wrong.) The answer on the card was probably just "Auto Racing".
Yep Jason was screwed in this episode, I know it's spitting hairs over something that happened 30 years ago but his answer was clearly correct and would have changed the outcome of the show.
The question I would ask to solve this one way or the other would be "SCAR" may stand for "Stock car auto racing" but are the vehicles in NASCAR stock cars?
If not he didn't get screwed, and I don't know if technically NASCAR cars are stock cars.
Better yet, it wasn't Bobby. It was his brother Donnie.
@@loraleijessick9581 even if you want to pick nits and say that NASCAR cars are not stock (they were certainly closer in 79 when the fight happened) the answer of Indianapolis 500 cars is in NO WAY correct. Indy cars are very different beasts. In addition, this show was several years before NASCAR would race at Indy and they were never in the 500. Jason got hosed.
@@composerdave68 NASCAR racing was indeed stock car racing, because they raced versions of stock cars you could buy at a dealership. Indianapolis car racing isn't even a thing. Those are called "open wheel" cars. The four major forms of racing are Formula 1, open wheel, stock car, and drag racing.
They're talking about when Ken was a kid/teenager in the opening, yet they show a clip from LMAD that was less than five years old at this point(mid 80s All New version). No one is sure where the TPIR logo in the opening came from. This airing is from between 6/23/89 when Batman 1989 movie opened and 7/6/89 as Lethal Weapon 2 opened on 7/7.
@bucky468 The "Price Is Right" clip in the opening was derived from a 1976-77 CBS promo film. (From their 76-77 "The Hot Ones!" promo campaign.)
The first day MTV aired, my sister's boyfriend and I watched it nonstop. There had never been anything like it before.
Hey man is that Freedom Rock you're playing?
Yea man
Well turn it up man
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.