What do you call the device you use to change the TV channels?

[Miles 2,512]

This question was one of the common questions asked in the slightly recent phenomena called the "accent challenge," but it was the most interesting question to me... And the reason is that I've never seen anyone answer the way my parents and I refer to the device. 

My parents and I refer to this device as "the switch" like, "hey can you pass the [tv] switch" most of the time.

So, where are you from, and what term do you use to refer to this device? (We're from central Illinois)

[ChB 18,532]

I'm from California, and my family either calls it the remote or the channel changer.

Edited January 30, 2017 by ChB

[They call me Loyalty 1,941]

Service staff uses tv in this place. I've heard them call it "el control" or "control remoto"

Which is basically "tv remote control"

Edited January 30, 2017 by They call me Loyalty

[Confetti Nova 58]

channel changer because that's what my father ingrained in us from a early age  

[Will Guide 21,325]

Remote is what I call it. I wouldn't call it the Switch, because as a Nintendo gamer, I'll be getting their new video game system this March and I don't want to cause confusion.

[Brony Number 42 9,926]

The knob, if it's an old TV. I have only heard remote or channel changer. I remember ones that were attached to a cord.

[Clod 8,293]

I call it a remote. My great grandmother used to call it "the box"

[Widdershins 9,955]

   Huh. I've always called it The Clicker. In fact, think I call any & everything electronic that activates something else as "The Clicker." Even if it doesn't actually make a clicking noise!

  Augh! Now I'm questioning everything! Here goes another Existential Crises!

[Thuja 3,658]

​The remote, I've never heard it be called something else.

Edited January 30, 2017 by Thuja

[FlitterFlutter 1,568]

I always call it the controller... Like can you pass the TV controller?  

[Dreambiscuit 8,024]

I usually just call it the Remote or the Controller. But I sometimes call it the Thing (which is my generic term for almost everything electronic). 

[KrazyDashie 1,846]

either remote or controller

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 40,276]

Simply the 'remote', or, if I am wanting a more personal touch, the 'Television Commanding Device'. Makes me feel powerful. Puny electronic machine! I control thee with this plastic stick with many buttons MWAHAHA!

[Techno Universal 2,575]

Well for me it's the toilet brush... For some reason I think the TV is a toilet that's constantly flushing when it's on but it gets clogged when it's a bad show or it gets boring so to change it I have to clean it and unclog it with my toilet brush remote. It's probably because I'm obsessed with toilet jokes...

[Tropico 225]

im from spain and we call it "mando" which means "controller" 

 

mando is a short version of "mando a distancia" wich translates to "remote controller"

 

"control remoto" is fine to say too in spanish, but i think its more south american spanish than spain spanish.

 

 

as for english, i would call it "tv controller"

[Luminance 2,181]

Literally, I call it "where's the remote?" because I lose it so many times that it became normal to say that!

[Ganondorf8 11,118]

My family tend to call it either the remote, the T.V remote, or the remote control.

[SONICchaos 824]

I'm from California, and my family either calls it the remote or the channel changer.

Quoted for truth

 

My family does the same

[superdogz1999 551]

I call it the magical channel changing remote device that keeps disappearing. Cause I keep losing it.

[Dynamo Pad 10,777]

I mostly call the device the remote, channel changer, or remote control. 

[Props Valroa 26,034]

I call it the clicker. Lol 

[Celtore 2,769]

"The IR blaster", or more commonly "the remote." Not that I really watch tv often, I usually want it to either check the local news or change the volume.

[Nara 84]

In Poland we call it "pilot"

[StormBlaze 991]

remote or controller is what I call it..... my Mum however calls it the "Doobry" (Doob-brie) 

 

My sister and I freaked the hell out when we were watching Miranda and this scene happens because Mum's exactly the same!!! Never EVER heard anyone else call the remote a doobry

[Nsxile 25,669]

The TV remote... What else would it be called?