Yes. It could control everything, pretty much literally. Not in a making them follow your every command kind of way, but the functions worked on people and machines and the screen settings. It's probably going to be really hard to explain if you're not familiar with TV or anything, though.
[Including that he totally alluded to his life in the TV show, but this is confusing enough. Still, that probably made the remote work in the first place.]
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[Including that he totally alluded to his life in the TV show, but this is confusing enough. Still, that probably made the remote work in the first place.]