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Stay Tuned (1992) is an American comedy film directed by Peter Hyams starring John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, and Eugene Levy.

Ritter plays Roy Knable, a couch potato, and Dawber plays his neglected wife Helen. After a fight, Spike (Jeffrey Jones) appears at the couples door, offering him a high tech new satellite dish system. The dish soon sucks Roy and Helen into a hellish television world, full of satirical shows and movies. If they can survive for 24 hours, they're free to go. Their children (played by David Tom and Heather McComb) eventually catch on, and pitch in to help their parents.

The most noted sequence of the film is an animated sequence directed by Chuck Jones where the couple become cartoon mice who are chased by a robot cat.

The early 1990s musical group "Salt N Pepa" have a cameo near the end of the film. The DJ in that segment of the film was throwing records at Roy Knable like they were blades but Roy dodged them all and confronted Spike who simply told him that he had won and proceeded to hand back his remote. The music video ended and Roy used the remote to save his wife from being run over by a train.

Parodies

Some films and TV shows parodied include:

Wayne's World
, -- Duane's Underworld
Silence of the Lambs -- Silencer of the Lambs commercial
Three Men and a Baby
, Rosemary's Baby
-- Three Men and Rosemary's Baby
The Dukes of Hazzard -- David Dukes of Hazzard
Driving Miss Daisy
-- Driving Over Miss Daisy
Northern Exposure -- Northern Overexposure
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous -- Autopsies of the Rich and Famous
The Exorcist
-- The Exorcisist
Murder, She Wrote -- Murder, She Likes
Leave It to Beaver
-- Meet the Mansons
thirtysomething -- thirtysomething-to-life
Beverly Hills 90210 -- Beverly Hills 90666
I Love Lucy -- I Love Lucifer
Golden Girls -- Golden Ghouls
Married with Children -- Unmarried With Children
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air -- Fresh Prince of Darkness
Facts of Life -- Facts of Life Support
My Three Sons -- My Three Sons of Bitches
Diff'rent Strokes -- Different Strokes (about two elderly men literally having strokes)
WWE (then called World Wrestling Federation) -- Underworld Wrestling Foundation

Other shows:

Off With His Head

At one point, Roy Knable stumbles through a channel onto the set of Three's Company, the TV show that catapulted John Ritter to fame in the 1970s. Two women dressed as characters from the show say, "where have you been?" This sends Roy into a screaming fit, quickly changing the channel.

Trivia

Four of the actors in this movie went on to have guest appearances in the tv show The X-Files. Rebecca Toolan, Robert Wisden, Susan Blommaert and John B. Destry play characters in each. Rebecca Toolan plays Cecily Barth (Crying Widow) in the Sadistic Hidden Video segment of the film and played Fox Mulder's mother on 11 episodes of The X-Files. Robert Wisden is one of the men who cares for Rosemary's Baby in Stay Tuned, and played Pusher in the X-Files episode of the same name. Susan Blommaert is seen in the film as Ducker, an underworld executive, and appears in the X-Files episode Die Hand Die Verletzt as substitute teacher Phyllis Paddock. John B. Destry appears in Stay Tuned as Sackler and in two separate X-Files episodes, Max and War of the Coprophages.

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