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)

Bopper.

Remote or doofer

DP calls it doofer lol where did that even come from??

I call it a remote. EX used to call it the mokey (she is scouse)

It's the doofa in our house.

Remote or remote control

I'm another one who's never heard it called anything else.

The remote, the thingy or the oofer doofer (autocorrect didn’t like that!) The last from Noel Edmonds, I’m afraid. Was it Telly Addicts?

The remote
The controller
The buttons
The
The...oh I was sitting on it

The Buttons

Hoffa hoffa hole in our house, from when ds couldn’t say remote control

It's called the box.

With us it has always been the Vertical. This stems from an old TV programme where someone said "We control the horizontal and the vertical" at the beginning, DH would grab the ... err ... thing and gleefully say "I control the vertical".

The Outer Limits! 😄 I do hope it’s the 60s version you’re calling old, and not the 90s version, mind you.

As for the op, ‘remote control, or possibly in extremis the ‘whizzer’, although that makes my teeth itch.

🤨 to ‘doofer’ to being the number one. Calling bullshit on that one, I’m afraid.

A doofer is any kind of thingummy. I think it is a lot older than Noel Edmunds.
As we are in France we call it a zapette.

We have two one to turn the tv on its known as the silver thing as in get the silver thing out of the dogs mouth ,and one for virgin media which is known as the black thing as in get the black thing out of the dogs mouth

It's a remote in our house, but quite often the doofer at my mum and dad's.

Anyone not familiar with the term is either too young to remember Noel's Telly Addicts, or has far better taste in TV than me

bopper

lmao

Remote. Or if that word goes missing for some reason, doofer.

Doofer: An object or device of unspecified name or nature.
Origin 1930s: perhaps an alteration of do for in phrases like that will do for now.

Remote (control).

That there rat bastard.

The glipper. One of the kids called it that and it's stuck

I don't have a tv any more so I usually say remote if I mean one of those channel changing devices. My dad calls is a clicker or a zapper and always has done

Doofer as a word for a thingy, a whatchamacallit or a doobry is old, but Noel Edmonds certainly popularised it as the name for a remote control.

Knob box

But usually the remote

I really like zapette though!

Remote.

Zapper.