.pause is not a function

$('.flexslider'.).remove(); works

but when you use pause or play you get is not a function in the console.

What is interesting is I can get it to pause by doing something like:

$('#flexslider-slider').flexslider({
          slideshow: false,
         });

But you wrap that in a .click function it doesn't work.

Anything help would be cool, thanks.