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To celebrate today's release of Adam Sandler's Click, which by now you surely know concerns the wackiness—with heart!—that ensues when a man comes to possess a remote control that can manipulate the real world, the Ironic Sans blog shared a post listing ten other projects whose creators were diddled by the same "magic remote" muse. A taste:

· Benny Hill. His Golden Classics DVD contains a skit called "Henry's Remote Control" in which "Benny discovers he can control the real world with his remote control and sets off on his journey, leaving his nagging wife in 'freeze-frame' mode."

· George Jetson. In a 1985 episode of The Jetsons, "George Jetson happens to sit next to a brilliant, but unrecognized genius. This genius has invented the one-of-a kind Re-Play-Ola. The genius decides to give it to George because the genius can always make another one. The Re-Play-Ola has the ability to rewind time, allowing the person who possesses it, the ability to rewind, modify, erase, and the unusable stop button."

· R.L. Stine. He wrote a short story called "Click" for his Goosebumps books that was eventually adapted into an episode of the Goosebumps TV series. From tv.com: "Seth Gold is sick of being ordered around by his sister, his mother, and his father. His hobby is channel-surfing, so he orders a remote from a company in a magazine... Seth notices it can also be used to change the radio station... As a joke, Seth presses the Pause button while aiming the remote at his sister. His sister actually pauses! Seth now realizes this new remote can control more than just the TV."

We almost feel sad for Sony, who paid $1.75 million for the Click spec script that planted the latest flag in this frequently claimed storytelling territory. They probably could've optioned the rights to that episode of George Jetson's life story for a fraction of that price.