Sky remote has hidden ‘magic trick’ for when you can’t remember the name of a film – and finds it instantly

YOUR Sky TV remote has a special trick that’s perfect for when you’ve forgotten the name of a film or show.

If that movie title is driving you crazy, don’t reach for your phone – try this instead.

You can actually search for TV shows and movies just by saying famous quotes from them.

So if you know you’re looking for the film where someone says “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”, your Sky remote will know that you’re looking for Apocalypse Now.

And if you remember that someone said “I see dead people”, Sky knows you mean The Sixth Sense.

It’s built directly into your Sky Q box as a feature so you don’t need to download any extra apps.

All you need is the voice remote with the microphone button and you can get started.

HOW TO USE SKY TV QUOTE SEARCH

Searching for a movie with its quote works just like any other spoken Sky Q remote request.

Just press and hold the voice button and speak clearly into the microphone.

The microphone itself is just below the Sky button on your remote.

Then once you’ve finished speaking, release the voice button.

Your Sky box will process the request and should hopefully pull up the results.

Here’s a list of movie quotes that will trigger their respective movies to appear on Sky:

• 42nd Street “Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star!”
• A Few Good Men “You can’t handle the truth!”
• A League Of Their Own “There’s no crying in baseball!”
• A Streetcar Named Desire “Stella! Hey, Stella!” “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
• Airplane! “Surely you can’t be serious!” “I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.”
• All About Eve “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”
• Animal Crackers “How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.”
• Annie Hall “La-dee-da, la-dee-da”
• Apocalypse Now “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
• Apollo 13 “Houston, we have a problem.” “Houston, we’ve had a problem” “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”
• Auntie Mame “Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!”
• Avengers: Endgame “I need three gaziliion heroes”, “I need four gazillion heroes”, “I need five gazillion heroes”, “Bring me Mjölnir”
• Beyond The Forest “What a dump.”
• Bonnie And Clyde “We rob banks.”
• Bumblebee “Show me four broken toys”
• Casablanca “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” “Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.” “Round up the usual suspects.” “We’ll always have Paris.” “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
• Chinatown “Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.”
• Citizen Kane “Rosebud.”
• Cool Hand Luke “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
• Dead Poets Society “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
• Die Hard “Yippee-ki-yay”
• Die Hard “Now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho!”
• Dirty Dancing “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
• Dirty Harry “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” “Do you feel lucky, punk?”
• Dog Day Afternoon “Attica! Attica!”
• Dr. Strangelove “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”
• Dracula “Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial “E.T. phone home.”
• Field Of Dreams “If you build it, he will come.” “If you build it, they
• Frankenstein “It’s alive! It’s alive!”
• Funny Girl “Hello, gorgeous.”
• Game of Thrones “winter is coming”
• Gone With The Wind “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
• Grand Hotel “I want to be alone.”
• Incredibles 2 “we need elastigirl”, “you have powers”
• Jaws “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
• Jerry Maguire “Show me the money!” “You had me at hello.”
• Jingle all the way “Jingle all the way”
• Knute Rockne All American “Tell ’em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.”
• Lampoon’S Animal House “Toga! Toga!” “Bluto.”
• Little Caesa “Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?”
• Love Actually “show me christmas favourites”
• Love Story “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”
• Marathon Man “Is it safe?”
• Mary Poppins Returns “We need the world’s most famous nanny”
• Mary, Queen of Scots “Two quarrelling queens”
• Mean Girls “on Wednesday we wear pink”
• Midnight Cowboy “I’m walking here! I’m walking here!” “Ratso.”
• Mommie Dearest “No wire hangers, ever!”
• Moonstruck “Snap out of it!”
• Muppet Christmas Carol “Bah Humbug!”
• Network “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
• Now, Voyager “Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.”
• On The Waterfront “You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.”
• Poltergeist “They’re here!”
• Psycho “A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
• Rocky “Yo, Adrian!”
• Scarface “Say ‘hello’ to my little friend!”
• Shane “Shane. Shane. Come back!”
• She Done Him Wrong “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” “Why don’t you come up and see me sometime.”
• Some Like It Hot “Well, nobody’s perfect.”
• Sons Of The Desert “Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!”
• Soylent Green “Soylent Green is people!”
• Star Wars “May the Force be with you.”
• Sudden Impact “Go ahead, make my day.”
• Sunset Boulevard “I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.” “I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.” “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”
• Taxi Driver “You talking to me?”
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day “Hasta la vista, baby.”
• The Godfather II “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
• The Graduate “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?”
• The Grinch “You’re a mean one, Mr Grinch”
• The Grinch “Take me to Whoville!”
• The Jazz Singer “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!”
• The Lego Movie 2 “Two worlds colliding”, “Three duplo aliens!”, “Three lego aliens!”
• The Lord Of The Rings: Two Towers “My precious.”
• The Maltese Falcon “The stuff that dreams are made of.”
• The Pride Of The Yankees “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”
• The Sixth Sense “I see dead people.”
• The Terminator “I’ll be back.”
• The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre “Gold hat.”
• The Wizard Of Oz “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!”
• Titanic “I’m the king of the world!”
• Top Gun “I feel the need – the need for speed!” “Goose.”
• Wall Street “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
• When Harry Met Sally “I’ll have what she’s having.”
• White Heat “Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” “Cody.”
• Yankee Doodle Dandy “My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.”

It’s worth noting that the result will only appear if Sky currently has the movie.

If it’s not available when you search, it won’t show up.

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OTHER SKY VOICE TRICKS

There are plenty of other ways you can use the microphone on your Sky remote to speed things up.

For instance, you can ask for specific apps to launch – like Netflix or YouTube.

And you can ask for a channel change too: just say “Sky Atlantic” or “ITV”.

Similarly, you can request recordings that you’ve made using your Sky box.

CAN’T GET VOICE CONTROL TO WORK?

Here are Sky’s official tips for fixing Voice Control…

If Voice Control isn’t working, check your Sky Q remote for problems:

1. Remove the battery cover off the body of the Sky Q remote.
2. Take out the batteries and insert them again, matching the + and – signs.
3. Once the batteries are in place, replace the cover by aligning the catch with the remote body and sliding forward, so it clicks back into place.

Press help (?) on your remote to check it has battery power:

• If the LED light at the top of the remote flashes , then press and hold the Voice Control button. If you don’t see the search screen then replace the batteries, and press the Voice Control button once more.
• If the LED light at the top of the remote doesn’t flash , then check the batteries are in correctly. If they are, replace them with new batteries. Press and hold the Voice Control button, if you don’t see the search screen then pair the remote.

You can play or pause, which isn’t wildly useful – but a better trick is “skip three minutes”, allowing you to breeze past ads in recorded TV.

And if you’re looking for movies, you don’t just need to use the title or quotes.

You can ask for an actor, or even movies that meet a specific star rating.