Here's a dangerous trick: call the TVs "telescreens", and refuse to do anything in the presence of them. That might trigger a helpful response, depending on what kind of people your parents are and whether they've read Nineteen Eighty-Four. If they're the wrong kind of people, though, they might just turn it into a joke and make fun of you for it, so only use it if you are pretty confident that it will have the desired result.

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