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show no feel for genre and no genuine wit.' Rita Kempley of the Washington Post called the film 'wonderfully silly' and a 'zippy action spoof.' Variety reported the film was 'not diabolical enough for true black comedy, too scary and violent for kids lured by its PG rating and witless in its sendup of obsessive TV viewing.a picture with nothing for everybody' it noted that the 'six-minute cartoon interlude by the masterful Chuck Jones, with Ritter and Dawber portrayed as mice menaced by a robot cat.has a grace and depth sorely lacking in the rest of the movie.' Time Out called it 'pointless 'satire'' with the 'emotional depth of a 30-second soap commercial.' Box office Stephen Holden of The New York Times called the film a 'cleverly plotted movie' based on a 'nifty satiric concept' but said that 'most of its takeoffs. The film holds a 47% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 17 reviews. The film was not screened for film critics. Tim Burton was originally chosen to be the director on account of his art and style, but left to direct Batman Returns. Parker wrote the entire script for the film, under working title Terrorvision (not to be confused with TerrorVision), inspired by the idea was ' The Evil Dead meets Monty Python'. The group's manager and primary producer Hurby 'Luv Bug' Azor (credited under his birth name 'Herby Azor') and his brother Steve Azor appear as dancers during the 'Start Me Up' segment.Having learned a valuable lesson after his adventure, Roy dramatically cuts back on his TV viewing, quits his job as a plumbing salesman, and opens his own fencing school, in which he advises one of his students that watching too much TV can get you into trouble. In the end, Spike gets eliminated by the Rottweiler on the command of Crowley ( Eugene Levy), a vengeful employee he banished to the system earlier, and is then succeeded in his executive position by Pierce ( Erik King), a younger upstart employee. By pressing the 'off' button on the remote, they are evicted from the dish moments before it sucks their neighbor's abusive Rottweiler into the TV and destroys itself. After being pursued by Spike through several more channels, Roy finally confronts his enemy in a Salt-N-Pepa music video, manages to get hold of Spike's remote, and uses it to save Helen from being run over by a train in a Western movie. Having no choice, Roy re-enters the system to save Helen while bringing his own remote control with him, allowing them to control their journey. This infuriates Spike to the point that he makes good on Roy's contract, releasing him, but not Helen, as she was not in the system under contract. He and his older sister Diane ( Heather McComb) are able to provide assistance from the real world. Through tenacity, improvisation, and sheer luck, the Knables stay alive, and their young son Darryl ( David Tom) recognizes his parents fighting for their lives on the TV set. Spike pursues them, entering some shows along with the Knables to halt their advance.

The dish eventually sucks Roy and Helen into this warped world.

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If they can survive for 24 hours, they are free to go, but if they get killed, then their souls will become the property of Satan. The 'candidates' are sucked into a hellish television world, called Hellevision, and put through a gauntlet where they must survive a number of demonic satirical versions of sitcoms and movies. Unbeknownst to Roy, Spike is an emissary from hell who wants to boost the influx of souls by arranging for TV junkies to be killed in the most gruesome and ironic situations imaginable. Spike ( Jeffrey Jones), a mysterious salesman, appears at the couples' door, offering them a new high-tech satellite dish system filled with 666 channels of programs one cannot view on regular television. After a fight (which involved Helen smashing the family television screen with one of Roy's fencing trophies as a wake-up call to reality), Mr. Struggling Seattle plumbing salesman, former fencing athlete, and couch potato Roy Knable ( John Ritter) lives with his neglected wife Helen ( Pam Dawber), a vitamin product senior manager.