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

[ClashCityRocker]

I've just watched Tenable and the thing I thought it was called didn't make the top ten of names.

I'm honestly, genuinely shocked. I thought it was really common and would be the most obvious answer.

(Pinger)

The buttons.

The plonker

Another household who called it the Fat Controller! My brother was Thomas Tank obsessed as a child

Also sometimes the doofer, though lots of things were doofers in our house

The doofer.

The clicker or the yolk

Also the Frank (Zappa). The Apple TV is called the Slither as it's so damn thin and always gets lost.

Remote, my parents call it 'the box', I have never heard of pinger

I call it the remote. DH’s family call it the box I hadn’t heard of anyone else calling it that until this thread

In our house it's the remote but in DH's family home it's the clicker and in mine it's the flipper.

If someone said "pass me the box" I would be confused, thinking they meant the actual TV.

The troll or troller (short for remote control)

Remote

Does no one else call it a Gizmo? 😲

Might be showing where I'm from here cos I think it's a regional thing maybe?

Clicker

The remote or the twiddler.

We are evenly split in our house. DD3 and I call it the doo dar, DD3 & DH the doofer. "DD1 Is at uni so avoids the conflict. There are wars, I tell you, wars!!

The Oofer Doofer or the Magic Troll, because my now 14yr old used to call it that when she was little. She couldn't say remote control, but somehow came up with Magic Troll.

Telly buttons

Used to call it the zapper, now call it the afstandbediening. Its Dutch and since i moved to the Netherlands i found it the most complicated word I had ever come across, so i had to say it about 100 times to learn it. Now it's the first bloody word i think of when i see it!

'Telly buttons' or 'Oofah doofah' here.

We call it the remote but ds when he was little used to call it the merote so we stuck with that for a while

I would usually say ‘remote’ or maybe ‘remote control.’

Growing up my parents would say ‘the controls.’

Never heard it called most of these names.

Froller

In our house it's called the godbox because whoever has it has all the power 😄

The buttons. As in "can you pass me the buttons please" or "where's the buttons".