You fool, mother could also just hit “last” and catch you in both deceit AND boobin
Not if Nickelodeon is right next to Cartoon Network. You hit “last” and then change the channel. That also gives you cover for why you’re holding the remote and changing channels.
60 and 59, bro 😎
I feel seen
Yeah but if you were watching Nick at nite the whole time, why did the channel number flick on the screen for a second?
I switched away during the cash for gold commercial
Make sure to hit last, channel up, last. Foolish proof. I’ll never get caught.
This guy faps.
Here I thought I was the only one this clever.
Red shoe diaries
Ah, a man of culture, I see. This was my choice.
I think you meant Emmanuelle.
On showcase haha.
Red Shoe Diaries, backed by Much Music (I’m Canadian)
y’all remember that vcr trick that you could unscramble all the PPV channels… golden times… golden times.
Wait. what black magic is this? 12 year old me desperately wants to know.
Dunno how replies notify… but I replied to a reply on your reply.
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I have no idea. If you recorded something on vhs it didn’t play it back unscrambled did it?
so what you did was set your vcr to the ppv channel you wanted. and then kept flipping between channel 3 and 4 on the TV until it just unscrambled it. It apparently had to do with the vcr’s ability to like fix when old vhs tapes would get wonky and like have mess and like lines. the color wasn’t always right… but for free WWF (i’m that old) ppv and… well pron… it was great.
I had a similar trick. If I set the VCR to channel 4 and the TV to channel 3, it would shift all the cable channels down one. So Cinemax which was channel 14 and blocked would come in as channel 13 completely clear.
Brilliant maneuvering
the real hero is in the comments, 25 years later…
I thought I was the only one smart enough to devise this plan!
Eurotrash was an option in the UK for those without any satellite.
We had Sky, it was British Sex for me.
Had C-band satellite as a teen. All the good channels locked. But if the satellite Spacenet 1 transponder 18 was locked, you could “fine tune” the reception from say, Galaxy 3 transponder 18 by holding the step up or down button, and manually swing the dish halfway across the sky to the same position where Spacenet 1 is. As the descrambler thinks you are watching a different satellite altogether, there is no more lock. And since you never actually visited a bad channel, no way to tell with history or last buttons.
Respect.
Incredible.
How did you even find this out?
We knew that if you pressed the satellite button and channel up/down, it let you manually move the dish, and it didn’t care how long you did it. There were also numbers to indicate the position of the dish. The rest was just sheer determination.
Desperation
Real Sex always seemed so not sexy. I mean, I’d watch it for boobs as a kid, but I was always kind of turned off by the whole show, idk.
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To young me the most interesting part of that show was the beginning and seeing Mulder (David Duchovny) in something outside of the X-Files
I always set the last button to the TV guide channel. It made it less suspicious if they saw the channel change. Or at least that’s what I reasoned.
…and the mirror on the bedroom door set so that I could see who’s coming down the hall.
But if you could see them, they could see you …
But you were in the dark, camouflaged in your bedding. Anyone coming down the hall was a silhouette against the white walls of the hallway.
Here I am watching scrambled Sex and the City, wondering when it will get to the good part.
In Canada, we had “Bleu Nuit”. It was on at 2am, Saturday night, and played racy French movies. The only problem was the movies ran the gamut from 1.5 hour long naked lesbian makeout to a single scene with boobies somewhere in the middle. You took your chances. I swear there was one that didn’t even show anything (but probably talked about sex. Dunno, I don’t speak much French.)
ah yes, spice
