A sunny summer day. Timestamp: 06 JUL 1997 2:37 PM. A little girl in one of those kiddie swimming pools with flexible sides, a couple of feet deep. “Daddy, come in the water.” Daddy hoists a leg, mugs for the camera, side-flops in. The side of the pool collapses. Daddy and daughter are borne out into the yard on the resulting wave. Oh, the looks on their faces, the confusion and terror. You watch it again and again. And again.

You don’t care anymore what America thinks the funniest home video is. You found it one Sunday evening. And with your Direct TV/Tivo Remote DTV36, you can replay it over and over. And over.

Don’t let the name fool you. It works with series 1, 2, and 3 TiVos, whether they’re Direct TV models or not. At this price, put one in every room. Or use them on pranking missions, crouching outside the homes of your friends and neighbors and controlling their TiVos as if by magic. If you get caught and your DTV36 remote gets confiscated or destroyed, big deal. You’re only out 99 cents.

You weren’t there on that magical July afternoon in 1997, wherever "there" was. But you’ve got the next best thing: the right episode on your TiVo, and the right remote in your hand, the right wine in your glass. So relive it, in slo-mo and reverse and sped-up, with the push of a button, again and again.

And again.

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