Remo | The abused TV remote control

Remo wants to host a TV show dinner party with friends

Last night I was looking at the stars through the living room window. If I could ask for one thing I would wish my owner would sign up with TVissimo. I heard over the grapewine the neighbors had signed in and now they get together with their friends and have TV parties. They have Pizza Dinners instead of eating out. Even now I can hear them all the way across the street laughing at a Seinfeld's marathon while my owner is pressing my channel buttons without being able to find something fun to watch. Oh there's the Seinfeld marathon, it's on this channel! No wait don't change it! It'll be on after the commercials are over! Nooo! She changed it. Oh well here we go again, up and down changing channels into the rest of the night. If she had only searched all available shows on all available channels on her cable or satellite service and saved those programs of interest to her own Favorites list for the future, this wouldn't have happened. Then she could have simply clicked on Search My Favorites for Tonight between 7 and 11 and the precise schedule of the favorite programs showing tonight would have appeared – AND - we could have seen an entire movie by now! If only she... Oh no! It's the news channel... Fiuf! She changed it. Thank you commercial brake.
I bet we could have so much fun if we threw one of those TV Dinner Parties. Because my owner is an excellent host and I, well I would polish my buttons and put on my biggest smile. All the family and friends would be together enjoying a meal and a laugh. But my owner just won't listen.
She has just pressed my 'Off' button. 'Nothing interesting to see' she says with that sad face shown when she is disappointed with TV. My owner gets up and throws me on the coffee table.
I 'm looking at the stars now. If she would only subscribe to TVissimo...

Remo is unsure how to find something interesting on TV

Yes, yes, I know I look a bit sad and tired. Can you see the black rings under my buttons? The thing is I've been having this recurring dream for the past few nights and I can't get much sleep. You want to know what it is?

Well I'm laying on the couch, peacefully as we remotes should be, then my owner comes, excited to watch some TV, as owners should be. She presses my 'On' button, and everything is fine. Then she presses the 'up channel', the 'down channel', then the 'up channel' again. I'm dizzy and she can't find something interesting to see. We go through romantic movies, animals running on open pastures, waterfalls, a lady selling earrings, a series, an action movie, a comedy show, a man on a treadmill...the news! She stops pressing my buttons! Oh no! We're going to watch the news again! Hours and hours of depressive talk about how bad the economy is and boring explanations of how this happened. I can see my owner is getting restless. The words "Credit Crunch" flare up in fat red letters across the screen. My owner starts scratching her head, nervously. A man with a mustache appears on the screen and says "Sorry fellows but we're all going down, this thing called the economy is never ever going to get itself together....we're doomed!" and he stars laughing, his mustache shaking like the hips of a Hawaiian dancer. I can see my owner is so nervous and frustrated she is now pulling at her hair. She grabs me, I think she is about to change the channel but she pauses. She looks so sad! She takes a big look at me and then....fium! I'm flying like a wingless bird through the skies.

And then I wake up.

You see why I'm so tired... If we cold only have a way of finding something interesting on TV without all this hassle ... (something like TVissimo, so we could simply go to a channel and let me take a well deserved snooze, is that too much to ask for?)