After getting a taste of what these gloves are capable of, Alex gets an idea. He looks for the TV remote in the living room, finding and holding it in his gloved hand. At first, it's just a typical gray TV flicker, but as he stares at the device, some of its buttons get bigger as others disappear. The whole thing gets bigger and brighter to match his cartoonish hand. After a few moments, the remotes is now little more than a rectangular box with a few bright round buttons on it and a springy antenna at its tip.
Now with a cartoon TV remote, Alex moves on to the next phase of testing; He points it at the TV and holds his breath, "moment of truth..." In an instant, the TV is engulfed in grey static and emits a jarring "pshh" sound. It only lasts less than a second, but afterwards the once flat screen TV has changed into a much different form, now brightly colored, thick and boxy with a pair of rabbit ear antenna sitting on top.
Just as the look of the TV has changed, its contents has as well. Alex was pretty sure he had left the channel on one of those cable channels that show crime drama reruns all day. However, to his astonishment, what was on the screen showed a cartoon cat and dog as a pair of detectives investigating a crime scene where an anvil had flattened a hapless victim, and soon the title card appeared, Paw and Order, before going to commercials. Alex surfs a few of the channels, finding only cartoon parodies of familiar shows; a fight scene where a blond doe in yellow jumpsuit dispatches an army of raccoons with a mallet, a football game between the rams and the jaguars where all of the players where actual rams and jaguars, even c-span where a particularly ancient looking turtle took as long as he could to talk about absolutely nothing.
"Go back to the one with the top food places," Mojo said, apparently having taken a seat on the couch. "They were going to show that one place with the tuna." Alex complied, but was too curious about what to do next to pay attention to the show.