# Where is the TiVo remote?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-tivo-remote/124754>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 20, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-tivo-remote/124754 "2002-08-20T15:56:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-tivo-remote/124754/1 "2002-08-20T15:56:46Z")

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Come on!! It was there yesterday! NOW IT ISN’T ANY FRIGGIN WHERE!!!

_whimper_

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**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-tivo-remote/124754/2 "2002-08-20T19:23:34Z")

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Did you look under the couch cushions?

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**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-tivo-remote/124754/3 "2002-08-20T19:27:10Z")

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To the tune of “I’m the Slime”, by Frank Zappa:

I defy intuition  
I’ll bewilder your skull  
For my odds are quite tiny  
But they’re greater than null.  
I’m the tool of the physicist  
And the sci-fi folks too  
For I am destined to scramble  
Or teleport you.  
I may disdain all causality  
But I can be quite nice  
For a free will philosopher  
Or a God that plays dice.  
Your confusion will grow.  
Do you think you know?  
[Stochastic Ooze](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=131504) ate the remote  
for your TiVo.

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**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-tivo-remote/124754/4 "2002-08-20T19:36:17Z")

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> Did you look under the couch cushions?

No no no… **Opal** , look behind the couch. Maybe Jesus has it.

😃

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**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-tivo-remote/124754/5 "2002-08-20T22:56:36Z")

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Dominic found it about 20 minutes ago on a box in the kitchen. He is the new Household Hero.

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**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-tivo-remote/124754/6 "2002-08-21T08:04:58Z")

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Odd.

I read this thread, then went into the den to watch the Simpson’s…

NO TiVo remote!

I still hadn’t found mine when I headed to work though.