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Escape Call
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A character knows that there's something coming up that he would love to get out of, so he arranges for someone else to phone him during the event, pretending that there's an emergency and forcing him to leave. Used most often in comedies, where there's a lot of potential of hilarity ensuing (including the possibility that his friend will "forget" to call for whatever reason). An invoked variety of Deus ex Scuse Me. Compare Phoney Call, where the character just pretends that someone's calling him, or uses a concidental unrelated call for this purpose. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Examples: |
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Played with on The Big Bang Theory. Howard wants the astronauts to nickname him Rocket Man, so he arranges to have Raj call him during a teleconference, with Elton John's "Rocket Man" as the ringtone. Unfortunately, they also hear Howard's mother call him down for breakfast, warning him that his Froot Loops are getting soggy. So Howard's astronaut nickname becomes Froot Loops. | |
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In Casino, when Ace Rothstein's secretary announces the arrival in his office of a local official he doesn't really want to meet with, he asks her to call him back in a few minutes so he can get away from the meeting. | |
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The Office: Jim actually does this twice. He does it once to pretend his condo is on fire in order to leave Michael's dinner party, and once to fake a business crisis to avoid lunch with Pam, Michael,and Helene. Both times backfire. Or, more accurately, both times are foiled by Pam immediately figuring out his scheme. | |
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Will & Grace once opened with Will on a date which ends up not going well. It turns out that he had arranged for Grace to interject with one of these. Sure enough, she calls and frantically tells him that Stan (Karen's husband) had a heart attack. When Will acknowledges the call, Grace tells him that Stan had a heart attack for real. | |
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Chad's girlfriend arranged one to escape from a roleplaying game in Knights of the Dinner Table. However, when she realised Chad's friends were not as bad as she had feared (and that they would recognise the call for what it was and that it would be incredibly rude of her) she switched her phone off. | |
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During Abby's first date with Marc in Love and Capes she had one of these set up with her sister, but didn't need it. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager. In "Nothing Human", Captain Janeway arranges a Yellow Alert to be called so they won't be forced to endure two hours of the Doctor's self-aggrandizing photography montage. Unfortunately having already endured the complete version, Commander Chakotay sees no reason why his colleagues should be spared. | |
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How I Met Your Mother There's an episode which revolves around this, with Barney and Robin arguing over whether it's fair to use this to get out of dates based on bad first impressions. It backfires spectacularly; the date does indeed go poorly, but Robin gets a genuine emergency call, and can't convince the scorned-feeling guy that this is the case. Another episode of the show has a variation, with Lily (sitting in another part of the bar) calling Ted while he's chatting with a previous Girl of the Week and an old college friend of hers, to advise her dense male friend that the two girls are competing for his attention. |
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Lampshaded in an episode of Frasier, where Frasier is set up on a blind date with Faye, the daughter of a woman he met at a shop. He gets the call, rejects it because he's pleasantly surprised, only for her to call him on it. He admits to it, asks her how she knew, at which point she, sheepishly, also receives a phone call. | |
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