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I think I found the original idea for this.

posted 10 years ago by cshibles101
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It even uses the same name. I'm not saying he directly copied it but the similarities are pretty ridiculous.

Goosebumps, one of my favorites childhood shows, has an episode called, "Click" where a young boy buys a universal remote that he finds out controls his universe around him. He misuses it and it turns out to be trouble for him after. When his friend makes him throw it away, he retrieves it again because he can't give it up but his excuse to his friend who later catches him with it again is that it kept reappearing in his room.

I wonder if they saw this episode and wanted to make the movie or if all of this (seems unlikely though) is just coincidence. If you want to see what I mean, it's on Netflix. It's in season 3 and the episode is called Click. Watch it and give your opinion!

[–] DoTheUrkel2 10 years ago

Coincidence. The idea of a remote control that controls everything is hardly an "out there" idea. I bet everyone I know has thought about that at one time or another.

[–] briand10 10 years ago

There was a lawsuit about this before it came out.

[–] Calvin_Ligula 10 years ago

Nobody cares and this has already been mentioned a bazillion times. I guess you missed it all those times which is weird since you seem to be exceptionally keen on details. Its in the trivia section for Christ's sake.

[–] Ceephax 9 years ago

Hey, be nice. I don't know why but that seemed to really hit a nerve with you didn't it, Calvin_Ligula.

I can also tell from your other posts that you're a complete wanker who takes his sexual frustrations out on these message boards. You don't hide it half as well as you think my son. You aint fooling nobody.

[–] harmisjack 10 years ago

I came here to post the exact same thing. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some inspiration from that episode. But the messages behind the movie and TV episode are almost the same, but handled differently. In the TV episode, Seth failed to comprehend that he shouldn't be so greedy, and to watch out how he treats other people. Even after he was lucky enough to fix the remote, he held on to it and ended up "powering himself down". In the movie, Michael Newman learned not to rush through his life and to look out for other people other than himself all the time. The Goosebumps ep. ended on a darker note because it left us assuming Seth wouldn't be given another chance because the battery power on the remote was almost dead. Michael Newman was given the happier ending, getting another chance not to make the same mistake.

[–] CromeRose 10 years ago

The original idea for this was written by Charles Dickens in his novella A Christmas Carol, featuring one of his most famous characters, a stingy old miser named Scrooge. It was published in December of 1843 - yes, that's eighteen hundred and forty three, exactly one hundred and forty nine years before R.L. Stine published his Goosebumps books and one hundred and fifty two years before the TV series. You should read Dickens's novella, it's very short compared to most of his works, and it has ghosts and scary death in it. Click is a great adaptation of this story idea, though. I think it's a wonderful movie.

[–] bbclark3 9 years ago

I was thinking A Christmas Carol too. Even the end of Scrooge when he wakes up and realizes it was a dream, or hallucination. He learned a good lesson from the ghosts he saw. Just like Adam Sandler did when he woke up.

[–] salimy3k 9 years ago

There was a skit on The Benny Hill Show which had the EXACT same premise as this movie - except that it was less than one/tenth the length and had double the laughs. Oh, and there was no Adam Sandler to completely ruin the jokes.

[–] kenoh89 9 years ago

The Remote Control Man from S1E10 of Amazing Stories has a similar premise, and that came out way before Goosebumps. Though, he bought a TV with it. In the end, he finds out that Family comes first, and that you can't simply pause, stop and rewind your problems away.