I used 'stty sane' or mucked with 'tset' directly. To many possibilities of 'reset' being aliased to something I might not want.

setting TERM=vt100 (with a “reset” for good measure afterwards) usually works for most if not all terminals nowadays

Kids these days and their 'everything is a vt100'. Perhaps true nowadays, but certainly not always (looks at his HP700/96).