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The Penguins of Madagascar, "An Elephant Never Forgets." A man is confronted by Burt the elephant and calls Animal Control: | |
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Scream Queens (2015): In the episode "Mommy Dearest", when Dean Munsch tries to call 911 to report an attack by the Red Devil, she gets a recently implemented one of these, much to her annoyance. Though to be fair, an earlier episode had proved that even when the cops had an actual operator, they weren't all that useful either. | |
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In Angel, the Wolfram and Hart intercom seems to frequently misdirect people. Given that the options on their tree range from "I need legal representation" to "I'd like to sacrifice my first-born son to a demon", this has caused some uncomfortable moments. | |
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Quark. In "May The Source Be With You", while trapped on an enemy Gorgon warship the Bridge Bunnies are trying to send a message, but get stuck on hold with a long line of complaining Gorgons forming up behind them. | |
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Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space. Captain Proton tries to contact the Space Rangers during a robot uprising, and finds himself stuck on hold because everyone else is doing the same. | |
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The Simpsons In the episode "Bart of Darkness," a "Rear Window" Homage, Bart thinks Ned Flanders killed his wife and sees Ned arrive while Lisa is investigating. Bart tries calling the police... Given the tone of voice used, it's possible the "Rescue Phone" was supposed to be a parody of the now-defunct Moviefone service. In "King-Size Homer," when Homer attempts to call the nuclear plant to warn them of an impending disaster (listen here): And in "Home Sweet Home-Diddly-Dum-Doodly," Homer and Marge try to call their kids while in foster care, only to get an automated message stating that the Flanders' phone number can't be reached and ends with, "You negligent monster!" Another gag is that whenever a family member is put on hold, the music that plays relates to whatever problem they have, causing them to break down in tears. Examples include Marge calling the mental institution to which Homer has been committed in "Stark Raving Dad" and having to listen to an easy-listening version of Patsy Cline's "Crazy", or Homer calling the missing child hotline after Maggie runs away in "Homer Alone" and being subjected to Player's "Baby Come Back". In "The City of New York Vs Homer Simpson". |
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Full House: In "Day of the Rhino", Michelle and Denise order an Action Rigby figure based on Rigby the Rhino, a Barney-like orange rhinoceros, only to feel ripped off when they are sent a tiny figurine. When Michelle shows her figure to Joey, they call the Rigby hotline to complain, only to get a recorded message from it. Specific complaints the hotline addresses include "Press 1 if your Rigby pen is leaking" and "Press 2 if your Rigby sticker turned everything in the washing machine orange". The appalled Joey notes, "Remind me to cross those off my Christmas list!" As for disappointment with the size of the Rigby toy the girls have called about, pressing 3 gets the automated response: "It's not the size of your Rigby that's important, it's the fun you bring to it!" | |
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Blue Beetle once needed to reach Max Lord in an emergency but had to suffer through the Superbuddies answering machine service. | |
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In How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, when the Grinch returns to his cave, he checks his answering machine, which has this outgoing message, "If you utter so much as one syllable I'll hunt you down and GUT YOU LIKE A FISH! If you'd like to fax me press the star key." Needless to say, he doesn't get many voicemails. | |
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Wondermark had a Mad Science style phone menu — page #651; Those Volatile Menu Options. Very hardcore. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Not played for laughs. At all. Hughes discovers evidence of Father's plot and rushes to inform Roy. However, he decides to use a phone box instead of the military lines. As per military regulations, the operator tells him he can't make the call prompting some desperate yelling until they tell Hughes to give them the passcode which causes him to waste time reciting it. By the time Roy is finally reached, Envy has already killed Hughes and hung up the phone. | |
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: In "Homestar Ruiner", attempting to call Bubs using Homestar's phone results in a phone tree. Strong Bad quickly hangs up because "You can't prank a phone tree. Besides, the last time I navigated Bubs' TeleStand, I wound up with a crate full of rhino horns... and not even the endangered kind!" The fifth episode, "8-Bit is Enough", features the Videlectrix Guys, a couple of very-low-tech computer programmers, pretending to be an automated phone service. Their options for "one," "two," and "three" aren't helpful, so you have to say "four" in order to get anywhere, even though they didn't even have an option four. |
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In an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Carl loses both of his arms, and attempts to call the hospital using only his tongue. The automated message refers him to a ridiculously long number. | |
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Taz-Mania: Taz gets caught in a loop of these in "Taz in Keeweeland" when calling a hotline for help catching the Keewee bird. The complex process of navigation always ends with him being instructed to press the 'pound' key, at which point the Keewee pops out of the handset and pounds him on the head with a mallet. | |
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"A Skit About Robots" from MC Frontalot's Secrets from the Future album ends with Frontalot threatening to stab the phone computer in the EPROM, prompting it to apologize for its misbehavior. | |
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Paranoia. Ah, Paranoia... | |
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Parodied by Dennis at one point in Double Homework if the protagonist calls him hoping to gain information. He answers the phone pretending to be an automated system for a support hotline to assist with exactly the kind of problems the protagonist is experiencing at the time, including the ones caused by Dennis himself. | |
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) Twilight's attempt to reach Celestria only to get a letter back, which reads like an automated message, explaining she's away. | |
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Curtis has the title character's father attempt to contact some organization via phone. After getting increasingly frustrated, he screams into the phone "If you'd like to come over with a can of gasoline and burn us to the ground, please press...!" only to have the automated response parrot it back to him. | |
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House of Mouse One episode has Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy attempting to deal with an automated greeting service in front of the phone company. Mickey follows the instructions given to him to the letter but gets nowhere. Donald tries to mess with the system and it decides that Donald wants to pay his bill, followed by a mechanized arm trying to take Donald's beak. When they take it off the wall and try to destroy it, it says "If you really want to smash me, stomp harder!" In the short "computer.don," Donald tries to buy and install a computer after Daisy accuses him of being old-fashioned and calls him a dweeb. He calls the computer company and receives this message: |
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Verizon customer support. Even if you get to talk to an actual person, they'll just redirect your call back to the menu, which competes with House of Leaves in labyrinthine magnitude. A lot of Verizon support vendor operators actually don't have access to billing information for security reasons. If you ask them to, they'll usually stay conferenced on the line with you to walk you through whatever automated system you need to navigate to complete your transaction. | |
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One Dilbert strip shows Dilbert stuck on one of these lines. By the final panel he's gotten a hammer and is about to smash the receiver. | |
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The Oatmeal would rather be punched in the testicles than call Customer Service. | |
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SCP Foundation has SCP-361, a device used for divining using animal organs. If a fresh sheep's liver is placed on the device, it gives increasingly complex instructions, shutting down for twenty-four hours if one is not completed. It also speaks in a language and tone tailored to the user, so to a speaker of modern English it sounds like a phone tree. ("Welcome to HarusCo! Your sacrifice is very important to us! For Tinia the Thunderer, please perform a horizontal incision on the offering. For Aita of the Underworld, please perform a vertical incision. For Maris, lightly cover your offering with the ash of a dead warrior related to you by blood.") When they had SCP-1510 (the cursed spirit of a Roman soldier who is trapped in his old helmet and possesses the wearer) use the device because he is from the same general area and time period, the instructions were in Latin, and sounded like what you might expect from such a device. ("Son of Romulus, speak the words thy father taught you, and your watcher will speak, his words carried by our spirit.") | |
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Subverted in Small Soldiers: Alan tries to tell the phone operator about the rampaging toys but she can only spout out rehearsed responses (she also calls him a "ma'am"). Eventually an exasperated Alan says, "Is there a machine I can talk to? Just patch me over to a machine, please." | |
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Garfield — "If you'd like pepperoni, press one." This strip features Jon trying to call Liz only to receive the following message: "You have reached the veterinary clinic of Doctor Liz Wilson. If this call is an emergency, press six. If you wish to make an appointment, press two. For billing, press three. For office hours, press four. For directions, press five. To speak with the receptionist, press one. Para Espanol, presione siete.note For Spanish, press seven. To leave a voicemail for Doctor Wilson, begin speaking after the beep. Please leave your name, the date and time you called, a number you can be reached at and a brief message." Jon ends up leaving a snore as voicemail. This strip has Jon trying to reach customer service, only to receive the following message, much to Jon's annoyance: "Thank you for calling customer service. Press one to leave a message that will never be returned. Or press two to speak to a representative who will never answer." |
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| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_4617a9f2 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_4617a9f2 | comment |
One episode of Married... with Children subjected Al Bundy to this trope when he called an auto parts dealer to find an alternator for the Dodge. As just one example of what he had to sit through, after six hours on the phone: About halfway through the call, the automated voice chirpily greets Al by name, as it's apparently asked so many questions about his car that it's now narrowed the potential callers down to just him. And then to make matters worse, when Al finally got through to a live operator, he had to go get his credit card... and Kelly comes in and hangs up the phone while he's away, forcing him to start all over again. Is it any wonder Al dies of bleeding stomach ulcers by the time he's sixty? (Since the rest of the episode was a Field of Dreams parody, the episode ends with the line, "If you build it they will come. If you want them to build it for you, press 1.") |
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| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_4617a9f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_4617a9f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Married... with Children | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_4617a9f2 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_49c05a1a | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_49c05a1a | comment |
In The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss episode "Almost There", Fox in Socks and Mr Knox have won a free vacation. However, they have to claim it at the travel centre where they're confronted by a screen with a cheerful, computerised "Travel Poobah", who gives them 100 options to press, none of which are claiming free tickets. The last option is "If you would like to speak to a real person, press 0". Knox does, and she says "Well, why didn't you say so in the first place?" The entire screen then rises up to reveal that the real, decidedly uncheerful Travel Poobah has been standing behind it the entire time. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_49c05a1a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_49c05a1a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_49c05a1a | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_4d16dd68 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_4d16dd68 | comment |
The heroes of Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes try to warn a concert venue that their patrons are in danger of being murdered. This fails terribly due to a frustrating phone system. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_4d16dd68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_4d16dd68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mr. Mercedes | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_4d16dd68 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_51ef8ae4 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_51ef8ae4 | comment |
There's an entire episode of The Garfield Show dedicated to this joke. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_51ef8ae4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_51ef8ae4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Garfield Show | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_51ef8ae4 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_52690c13 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_52690c13 | comment |
Penumbra has a computer terminal near the end of the game that contains a questionnaire to activate the "Emergency Security Protocol" designed to create the last line of defense in the event of a crisis situation. But if you get all of the proper criteria filled, the program says, "Sorry, the facility is currently in a state of emergency, so the Emergency Security Protocol cannot be engaged." | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_52690c13 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_52690c13 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Penumbra (Video Game) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_52690c13 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_530b6b18 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_530b6b18 | comment |
Madam & Eve: Played with in this comic,◊ which features all of the inconvenience with none of the machinery. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_530b6b18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_530b6b18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Madam & Eve (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_530b6b18 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_5755b96a | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_5755b96a | comment |
The Order of the Stick gives us the ThorPrayer© system. Which is later discontinued due to "too many people getting colon tumors by mistake." | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_5755b96a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_5755b96a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Order of the Stick (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_5755b96a | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_577107ce | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_577107ce | comment |
A puzzle in Syberia involves using a canal mechanism to allow a boat to tow the spring-loaded train to the winding mechanism. Unfortunately, it requires a numeric password and the only apparent help is a phone that leads to one of these... that serves as no help whatsoever. The way to know the code is to remember what the last two buttons you had pushed during the call were, and use them as the code. (Humorously, it turns out to be 42). | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_577107ce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_577107ce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Syberia (Video Game) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_577107ce | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_585e3bca | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_585e3bca | comment |
Cop (1988) opens with an unseen burglar trying to report a murdered woman in a house he'd broken into. After a comic sequence of him trying to get past this trope (including foreign language versions) he gives up and calls the operator, offering to pay for his call with some stolen credit cards. The operator decides to connect him to the detective protagonist instead. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_585e3bca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_585e3bca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cop | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_585e3bca | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_58a0656b | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_58a0656b | comment |
In PAYDAY 2, Guest Fighter Jacket communicates through pre-recorded messages. When he answers a pager, he uses one of these. It does not rouse Pager Guy's suspicions any more than the rest of the crew's responses. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_58a0656b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_58a0656b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| PAYDAY 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_58a0656b | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_5c897f4a | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_5c897f4a | comment |
Schlock Mercenary: One strip has this happen during a riot with emergency services. Another time, Legs manages to get past the machine and speak to someone useful by conference-calling a suicide hotline. Poor thing was on the verge of pulling her own plug. |
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| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_5c897f4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_5c897f4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_5c897f4a | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60570997 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60570997 | comment |
S.S.D.D.: Trisha, Maytec's customer service AI, was designed to be unhelpful to discourage people from calling, the fact that this makes most people hate her might be one of the reasons for her occasional homicidal impulse. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60570997 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60570997 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| S.S.D.D. (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60570997 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60a9e4fb | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60a9e4fb | comment |
At one point in The Mysterious Mr. Enter's review of the Teen Titans Go! episode, "The Return of Slade", Mr. Enter decides to call Cartoon Network to talk to them about cancelling Teen Tians Go! due to the writers being under the delusion that their questionable morals are the kind that can save modern cartoons. On the other line, an automated message tells him to buy five new Teen Titans Go! toys to continue the conversation. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60a9e4fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60a9e4fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mysterious Mr. Enter (Web Video) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60a9e4fb | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60f02ddb | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60f02ddb | comment |
On American Dad!, Roger and Steve call a company to complain about a shoddy novelty product they bought. They are left on hold for what is implied to be days when they finally reach voice mail. But when Steve asks for billing, the machine reroutes them to Barbara Billingsley (of June Cleaver and Jive-talking Lady fame). | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60f02ddb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60f02ddb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| American Dad! | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_60f02ddb | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_65790110 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_65790110 | comment |
World Wide Weather has its own "Automated Response System" in Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't So Frightening. Granted, the phone itself talks. Humorously, the Complaints department is actually complaining, and the operator can't understand what you're saying. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_65790110 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_65790110 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pajama Sam (Video Game) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_65790110 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_6644f858 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_6644f858 | comment |
Sherman in Sherman's Lagoon has gotten stuck on phone technical support services before. In one Sunday he works as the technical support for a company, but has no idea what they do or what they make. Callers have to navigate hundreds of automated menus, and most get caught in an infinite loop. The few that do make it to Sherman all say the same thing; | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_6644f858 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_6644f858 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sherman's Lagoon (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_6644f858 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_69e78fe3 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_69e78fe3 | comment |
Subverted repeatedly in The Hero of Three Faces, which has several strips about how people refuse to engage with these things, then complain they don't work. Guess what Paul Gadzikowski's day job is? In one Good Omens strip, Aziraphale asks Crowley if he invented them, and Crowley says no, he just encouraged everyone to believe there was no point trying. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_69e78fe3 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_69e78fe3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Hero of Three Faces (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_69e78fe3 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_6c0aaca7 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_6c0aaca7 | comment |
Old Harry's Game: In the New Year special, Satan ends up having to borrow Welsh Death's phone (it's a long story) to contact the real Death. He gets an answerphone, but is distracted when the service he wants comes up, and has to go around again. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_6c0aaca7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_6c0aaca7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Old Harry's Game (Radio) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_6c0aaca7 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_706b3301 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_706b3301 | comment |
The Jolly Roger Telephone Company is a company that provides bots which are designed to waste the time of telemarketers and other unwanted callers. The bots are designed to detect if they are themselves speaking with a screener bot or some sort of automated system and push through in order to get through to a live human. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_706b3301 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_706b3301 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jolly Roger Telephone Company (Website) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_706b3301 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_7680545c | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_7680545c | comment |
One episode of The Nanny has Fran calling the NYPD to try to report a lost child. The first menu she gets says, "To report a murder, press 1. For mugging, press 2. For bomb threats below 34th Street, press 3. 34th Street to 72nd, press 4." | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_7680545c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_7680545c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nanny | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_7680545c | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_7884ec15 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_7884ec15 | comment |
On an episode of Seinfeld, George calls a number thinking it's the Mr. Moviefone directory, but really it's just Kramer imitating the voice. After George pushes some buttons to select a movie, Kramer realizes that he has no idea what it is and just replies (in Moviefone voice), "Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you want to see!" At the end of the episode, the Moviefone guy arrives to take revenge for the stolen business. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_7884ec15 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_7884ec15 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Seinfeld | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_7884ec15 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_78d6f120 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_78d6f120 | comment |
In Destroy All Humans! 2, you can use the phone not only to increase or decrease your infamy, but to simply prank call the police. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_78d6f120 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_78d6f120 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Destroy All Humans! (Video Game) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_78d6f120 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_82392342 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_82392342 | comment |
The Flintstones: Joe, a war veteran, calls a suicide prevention line and is immediately put on hold. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_82392342 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_82392342 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Flintstones (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_82392342 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_83264fb1 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_83264fb1 | comment |
The Bastard Operator from Hell seems to have some experience making these. He and the PFY have discussed making recursive ones in at least one story. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_83264fb1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_83264fb1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bastard Operator from Hell | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_83264fb1 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_852c2c3 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_852c2c3 | comment |
Please Hold: This is the central conceit of a Black Comedy short film. Mateo is arrested by a drone and taken to an automated prison cell without ever laying eyes on a human being. He is trapped in a hell where he has to deal with awful automated phone trees, except it's not to find out about a charge on his credit card bill or make a hotel reservation, it's the justice system and he's trying to find out why he's in jail. As he is screaming at the video phone to find out why he has been arrested, the AI on the other end says "I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Please try again." | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_852c2c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_852c2c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Please Hold | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_852c2c3 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_854aece7 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_854aece7 | comment |
In Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Ratchet attempts to gain entrance to Captain Qwark's HQ while being pursued by robots intent on destroying him, ultimately failing due to the intercom in the main entrance having one of these. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_854aece7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_854aece7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (Video Game) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_854aece7 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_89e40f73 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_89e40f73 | comment |
Evil, Inc. has recurring filler comics where Lightning Lady answers calls from dissatisfied customers. And insults them a bit; they market to and employ supervillains, after all. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_89e40f73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_89e40f73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Evil, Inc. (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_89e40f73 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_8ab885d6 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_8ab885d6 | comment |
A Sally Forth (Howard) strip features her husband recording an answering machine message with a set of "Press X" options, finishing with the statement, approximately: "Press any button you like. The whole point of Voicemail is that we don't want to talk to you." He'd started off by asking Sally if his voice sounded unfriendly enough. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_8ab885d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_8ab885d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sally Forth (Howard) (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_8ab885d6 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_8cf9e301 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_8cf9e301 | comment |
The King of Queens: One episode featured Kevin James' character winding up on one of these. Then he wound up in "voice-prompt hell". | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_8cf9e301 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_8cf9e301 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The King of Queens | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_8cf9e301 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9058ad7e | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9058ad7e | comment |
The Terminator. Played for Drama when Sarah Connor is trying to call the police from Tech Noir. When she finally gets through to Detective Traxler, she begs him not to put her on hold or transfer her to another department. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9058ad7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9058ad7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Terminator | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9058ad7e | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9068877a | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9068877a | comment |
Bank of America's phone network gives a nod to Red vs. Blue and asks those who would like to discuss their mortgages to press eleven. Many automated services nowadays do use numbers higher than 9 for their options. You just need to press the buttons in a sequence in order to give the number it asks—so, in the example above, if you want to press eleven you press 1 twice. |
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| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9068877a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9068877a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Red vs. Blue (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9068877a | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_976efc02 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_976efc02 | comment |
In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode The Starfighters, Crow gets stuck in one of these because he can't get on the Internet. When he is finally able to get someone to answer his call, he can't respond because he's in the middle of "refueling" (i.e., his beak is stuck up Servo's hoverskirt). Parodied when they watch "Space Travelers". After one of the astronauts dies, his wife is led to a phone and Joel quips "If you have a husband in space, press one. If you have a dead husband in space, press two." |
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| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_976efc02 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_976efc02 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mystery Science Theater 3000 | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_976efc02 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_98744614 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_98744614 | comment |
Brave plays the gag with a witch's cauldron, using vials of potions instead of numbers. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_98744614 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_98744614 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Brave | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_98744614 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9bc7bee7 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9bc7bee7 | comment |
Mixed Nuts: Philip tries to call the Los Angeles Times editorial desk, but has trouble getting past the automated greeting. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9bc7bee7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9bc7bee7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mixed Nuts | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9bc7bee7 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9e2dbb4d | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9e2dbb4d | comment |
The Regular Show episode "K.I.L.I.T. Radio" has Muscle Man attempt to get the song he wrote for his girlfriend on the radio. He calls the station and he gets what he thinks is the automatic service. He presses the number 0—which normally lets you talk to an operator—but the automatic service continues to be on the line. He keeps pressing the number 0 in hope that he'll talk to someone but to no avail, resulting in him smashing the phone towards the table. This is the first hint that there's something wrong at the station. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9e2dbb4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9e2dbb4d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Regular Show | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9e2dbb4d | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9e876c22 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9e876c22 | comment |
The Good Omens Fan Fic Great are the Myths puts a case of this in Heaven's waiting room when the demon Crowley pays a visit: | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9e876c22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9e876c22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Good Omens | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_9e876c22 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_a77de360 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_a77de360 | comment |
An unusual example from one episode of Dilbert — the Trope Namer for Pointy-Haired Boss attempts to check how his IBM stock is performing, but calls Moviefone and purchases tickets for a movie at the local mall. He gives up, stating "that thing never works anyway", then decides to go out and see a movie— the exact one he just got tickets for. He ends up doing everything you're not supposed to do at the movies (talk through it, switch theaters, and spoil the endings for people in line), which gets him chased by a horde of angry theater ushers. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_a77de360 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_a77de360 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dilbert | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_a77de360 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_a895e9d3 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_a895e9d3 | comment |
Portal 2: "If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, or require a Spanish version of this message, feel free to take a complimentary piece of stationery, and write us a letter." | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_a895e9d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_a895e9d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Portal 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_a895e9d3 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_aa83a626 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_aa83a626 | comment |
The sketch comedy series Studio C uses this in "Background Check". | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_aa83a626 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_aa83a626 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Studio C | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_aa83a626 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b0fc9724 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b0fc9724 | comment |
Saturday Night Live has a sketch in the episode hosted by Kieran Culkin where he plays an increasingly frustrated customer wanting to cancel his cable subscription, only for the incompetent customer service transferring him from one rep to another, not even helping him canceling his service. At one point they transfer him to Domino's Pizza of all places. Apparently it's such a common occurrence that the Domino's employee knows how to transfer the customers back to the company and get them to their cancellations reps. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b0fc9724 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b0fc9724 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Saturday Night Live | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b0fc9724 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b320dc1a | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b320dc1a | comment |
The "T-Bagging'" skit on Ludacris' album Chicken-n-Beer is all about this: | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b320dc1a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b320dc1a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ludacris (Music) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b320dc1a | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b3f687d1 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b3f687d1 | comment |
In one FoxTrot strip, a certain someone re-programmed the answering machine to say, "If you are calling for Paige, press 666." Cue this exchange in the end panel: | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b3f687d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b3f687d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| FoxTrot (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b3f687d1 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b517d654 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b517d654 | comment |
Infinity Train: In the "The Tech Support Car" short, there's this incredible line: | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b517d654 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b517d654 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Infinity Train | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b517d654 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b55489e1 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b55489e1 | comment |
In Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the Green Goblin trying to leave a message for Jameson is interrupted when the receptionist puts him on hold, he has to navigate the recorded menu options, and finally gets the answering machine. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b55489e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b55489e1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (Theatre) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b55489e1 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b633b466 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b633b466 | comment |
Late in Space Quest V: The Next Mutation, if you tell Flo to hail Starcon, a jingle plays while a text box appears that says "You have reached Starcon Central Command. All our wavelengths are busy now, but if you stay on this frequency, an operator will answer your call in the order it was received. Currently you are 2,856,875,333." | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b633b466 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b633b466 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Space Quest V: The Next Mutation (Video Game) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b633b466 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b86fe5e5 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b86fe5e5 | comment |
A Prairie Home Companion had a sketch on this topic. Among the endless bizarre menu options was one to order a pizza so the caller won't starve while waiting for a human operator to respond to the call. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b86fe5e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b86fe5e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Prairie Home Companion (Radio) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b86fe5e5 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b93925 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b93925 | comment |
Poor Brenda comes across a particularly absurd example of this in Le cœur a ses raisons when trying to call Becky Walters... It has everything, from the incredibly ridiculous number presses... | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b93925 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b93925 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Le cœur a ses raisons | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_b93925 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bc848d30 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bc848d30 | comment |
Happened in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Krab Borg", where SpongeBob and Squidward thought Mr. Krabs was a robot. Spongebob tries to call the Navy for help, triggering the following dialogue: | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bc848d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bc848d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| SpongeBob SquarePants | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bc848d30 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bed62589 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bed62589 | comment |
When Too Much Coffee Man travels to the future, he discovers that trials are now conducted through Interactive Voice Responders | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bed62589 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bed62589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Too Much Coffee Man (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bed62589 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bf22eee | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bf22eee | comment |
The Cathedral of Life has a very unhelpful phone system in The Visitation. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bf22eee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bf22eee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Visitation | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bf22eee | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bfef9cdb | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bfef9cdb | comment |
Episode 60 of Welcome to Night Vale has Cecil being put through to one of these after calling to fix the water. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bfef9cdb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bfef9cdb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Welcome to Night Vale (Podcast) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_bfef9cdb | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c43df4d8 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who: "The Invasion" has the Second Doctor have to do this with an automated receptionist and not enjoy it. Which Zoe later drops a Logic Bomb on. "Planet of the Dead": The Doctor calls UNIT for assistance and gets stuck in this ("If you want to report a UFO sighting, press one."). One of the people trapped in the bus tells the Doctor that he can get to a live person by holding 0 when he calls. In "Resolution" the Thirteenth Doctor tries to call UNIT to warn of an alien who wants to Take Over the World, only to get an operator on the UK Security Helpline. Turns out UNIT has been shut down due to lack of government funding. |
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| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c43df4d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c43df4d8 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c63366f9 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c63366f9 | comment |
Undergrads: A character attempting to reach his school's Financial Aid office ends up enrolling in Ancient Roman History 101 and buying two tickets to Annie Get Your Gun instead. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c63366f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c63366f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Undergrads | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c63366f9 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c8cfcfd | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c8cfcfd | comment |
Gotye dedicated an entire song to phone-answering robots called "Thanks for Your Time". | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c8cfcfd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c8cfcfd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gotye (Music) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_c8cfcfd | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_cbef68d4 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_cbef68d4 | comment |
The News Quiz: One of Jeremy Hardy's rants: Fred Macauley: |
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| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_cbef68d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_cbef68d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The News Quiz (Radio) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_cbef68d4 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_cd306b80 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_cd306b80 | comment |
Ave Maria: One of the ride services Moshe manages to call has the standard "For X, Press 1" option menu. The only problem is that Moshe is using the nuns' old rotary telephone. He slams the phone down in frustration. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_cd306b80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_cd306b80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ave Maria | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_cd306b80 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d0eb13d4 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d0eb13d4 | comment |
In Fear, Inc., a woman is desperately phoning the title company to call off the psycho who is stalking her with a spiked baseball bat. The operator who takes her call places her on hold—complete with inappropriately jaunty hold music—as the psycho advances. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d0eb13d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d0eb13d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fear, Inc. | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d0eb13d4 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d31ffd8d | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d31ffd8d | comment |
Get Smart has a scene where the Big Bad calls the White House to extort a few billion dollars from the US government in exchange for not releasing nuclear weapons' arming codes to several crazy dictators. He gets caught by one of these. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d31ffd8d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d31ffd8d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Get Smart | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d31ffd8d | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d48d17d | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d48d17d | comment |
In Paddington (2014), when Mr Brown tries to call The Authorities. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d48d17d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d48d17d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Paddington (2014) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d48d17d | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d4fe015f | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d4fe015f | comment |
QI once had a gag of this nature. Alan's buzzer in Infantile went: | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d4fe015f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d4fe015f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| QI | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d4fe015f | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d54b59cc | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d54b59cc | comment |
Played around with in Demolition Man, where the following line is said by an actual person: | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d54b59cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d54b59cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Demolition Man | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d54b59cc | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d68df17d | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d68df17d | comment |
Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear once did a news segment on the phone parking services (replacing the cities parking meters). He tried to order a parking space using this service on the show, requiring him to put all sorts of numbers (car registration number, credit car number, number for the parking place, etc.) only for it to tell him to try again. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d68df17d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d68df17d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Top Gear | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d68df17d | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d8520b74 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d8520b74 | comment |
Bob Bell from the Sam & Max: Freelance Police games by Telltale Games talks like this at times, being a sentient telephone who talks like a smarmy phone-tree announcer. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d8520b74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d8520b74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sam & Max: Freelance Police (Video Game) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d8520b74 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d9c602eb | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d9c602eb | comment |
South Park: Kenny dying (as usual) and being embalmed with Worcester sauce in a freak accident creates a Zombie Apocalypse. When the boys call the helpline on the sauce bottle, the third option is "If your town is being overrun by zombies..." | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d9c602eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d9c602eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| South Park | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d9c602eb | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d9e517bd | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d9e517bd | comment |
Top of the Line (Editor-Bug): In The Remedy, Zim has to deal with one of these to get onto the mechanics planet Aggrage 9. It's actually a fairly easy and straightforward example, but he's still annoyed by it. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d9e517bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d9e517bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Top of the Line (Editor-Bug) (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_d9e517bd | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_da3a2b69 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_da3a2b69 | comment |
This turns out to be the punchline of a scene in The Munsters episode 'Don't Bank On Herman'. Herman and Grandpa get locked in a bank vault and can't contact the police using the emergency line because of what seems to be a case of The Operators Must Be Crazy. Eventually, Grandpa gets fed up and tries to explain the seriousness of the situation to the operator. The following exchange happens: | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_da3a2b69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_da3a2b69 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Munsters | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_da3a2b69 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_dddb5ff9 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_dddb5ff9 | comment |
Twice in Burn After Reading does Linda have some trouble with the computer voice on the phone not understanding her instructions. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_dddb5ff9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_dddb5ff9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Burn After Reading | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_dddb5ff9 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_e16e3320 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_e16e3320 | comment |
Utopia (2014): The absurdly complicated registration system for the solar panels scheme Scott attempts to sign Tony up for in "Grand Designs". | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_e16e3320 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_e16e3320 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Utopia (2014) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_e16e3320 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_e78b97c7 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_e78b97c7 | comment |
Thomas Sanders calls AT&T's help line and interrupts the operator with "To talk to a customer, please press 1." The operator actually hits the button. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_e78b97c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_e78b97c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Thomas Sanders (Web Video) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_e78b97c7 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_eba6e33d | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_eba6e33d | comment |
Alan Partridge Mid Morning Matters had us overhear a one-sided conversation between Alan and a voice-recognizing cinema booking service: | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_eba6e33d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_eba6e33d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Alan Partridge (Franchise) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_eba6e33d | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_ece923b6 | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_ece923b6 | comment |
Plonqmas: Plonq’s 911 phone call unhelpfully devolves into a labyrinth of Button Mashing in “A Plonqmas Tale — 1999.” It's especially inconvenient given that he's on fire at the time. | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_ece923b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_ece923b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Plonqmas | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_ece923b6 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_eed288ec | type |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_eed288ec | comment |
A puzzle in Zork: Grand Inquisitor involves figuring out the automated service on the "Hades Shuttle Courtesy Phone" to summon Charon's boat, which features instructions like "To press 3, please press 7." One can figure out how to navigate it normally (which takes a while), or use the Simplify Instructions spell "Kendall". There's even a key you can press to make the entire instruction list be recited backwards. And it works. Subtitles and all. |
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| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_eed288ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_eed288ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Zork: Grand Inquisitor (Video Game) | hasFeature |
For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_eed288ec | |
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One Frasier episode has a frustrated Martin attempt to navigate one of these, made even worse by the fact that the options were voice-activated ("PER-SON-AL."). Frasier attempts to enter a code that he heard will get you straight to an operator. It doesn't succeed, but he does manage to qualify for a small-business loan. If he's remembering his high-school Spanish correctly. | |
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Cartoon Network aired a commercial for Dexter's Laboratory in The '90s that revolved around this gag. The episode "Voice Over", involving Dexter having no patience for his computer fixing her own voice chip, makes one alteration after another with his wrench, and one of the resulting voices is an entirely useless loud male voice that is this trope, keypad and all. |
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| For Inconvenience, Press "1" / int_ffd0b173 | comment |
Fonejacker: "Hello and welcome to the Flat Line. Is it a... HOUSE or a... FLAT you are interested in?" | |
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