Stay Tuned is a 1992 American fantasy comedy film directed by Peter Hyams and written by Jim Jennewein and Tom S. Parker, with an animated sequence supervised by Chuck Jones.

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 gruesome and ironic situations.

Roy and Helen are sucked into Hellevision and are put through a hellish game show, wrestling match, and the comedy-drama "Northern Overexposure",[b] in which they meet Crowley, an exiled former co-worker of Spike's.

While watching the TV, their young son Darryl recognizes his parents fighting for their lives as animated mice in a cartoon in which a robotic cat pursues them,[c] after which they become separated.

Darryl, a tech geek, uses radio equipment to patch into the miniseries and convince the characters he is God, demanding they let his parents go, which infuriates Spike.

She finds herself tied to a cart stacked with dynamite sitting across a railway track in a Western movie, with Spike announcing that the 3:10 to Yuma is due soon.

He and Spike then fight over the latter's remote and this causes the two to be zapped through more demonic and twisted parodies,[e] a violent ice hockey game, a crash test dummy demonstration, and an episode of Three's Company.

[9] 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 ... show no feel for genre and no genuine wit.

"[11] 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.