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A Prank Call is a prank call. Except when it isn't. Phone calls can often be quite tricky things. Because the person on the other end of the line can't see you, it is often necessary to explain who you are and in which situation you are right now. And because of the same reason, the person at the other end has to take your word for it. But what if your situation is a truly bizarre one? What if it is very hard to convince other people, that Ninja Pirate Zombie Robots really exist, and that a group of them is in your house right now? Or what if you are a celebrity, and the message you want to deliver is: "I want you for my next album/movie/whatever!"? Well, the persons called will simply refuse to believe you. They will think that you are just a prankster with a sick/unfunny sense of humour. They will either hang up without any further words, or will angrily snark at you, and then hang up. Can result in an Oh, Crap! moment if the called persons notice their mistake afterwards, fearing that they may have insulted someone important, or that they screwed up the opportunity to accept an unique offer. Though if they are lucky, the caller will realize what went wrong and try again. Related to Cassandra Truth; You Have to Believe Me!, Your Costume Needs Work, Funny Phone Misunderstanding, The Operators Must Be Crazy. If it's a 911 call, it can overlap with Police Are Useless. May involve a person with an unfortunate Real Joke Name. May also involve an Evil Phone. |
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Deku? I think he's some pro...: Nedzu becomes suspicious when over 15 different recommendation letters come in asking to allow Izuku a chance to take the Recommendation Exam, having apparently dealt with students with hacking skills and tech quirks to fake their way into enrollment. Aizawa confirming all of them were legitimate takes Nedzu by surprise. | |
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Sleepless Domain: At the beginning of Chapter 10, Kokoro receives a threatening phone call, and initially asks the voice on the other end if this is some kind of joke. However, when the voice mentions her mother — who was killed in a monster attack shortly after her daughter was born, and whose connection to her was covered up by the CDD — she has no choice but to take it seriously. | |
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In the first story arc of A Certain Magical Index, Touma desperately calls a number of research facilities to try and get more info on Index's perfect memorization ability. He finally gets somebody on the line only to be yelled at for making a prank call about magic so late at night. | |
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In God Told Me To, a man calls the police station, saying another attack will occur during the St. Patrick's Day parade. He is assumed to be a prank caller, and everyone except Pete is surprised when the murders happen on schedule. | |
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In season 5 of Arrow, when Oliver is finally allowed to call home to let his mother Moira know that he's still alive, she thinks it's a cruel joke and admonishes him for stirring up her grief five years later. He has to talk fast to keep her from hanging up on him. | |
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Subverted in Chuck, when Chuck has to call in to reported a stolen Delorean with the license plate "Demorgan". The guy on the other side of the line thought it was a prank call, but Chuck managed to talk him around. | |
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In Cheers, Sam and his friends are on the look out for a prank from a rival bar owner. When a slightly hammy and unlikely-looking 'fire safety inspector' appears, they send him packing covered in foam. Then Rebecca casually remembers to mention that she is expecting a fire safety inspector to call at some point later that day. | |
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In The Simpsons, Moe Szyslak receives prank calls so often (mostly by Bart), that he sometimes mistakes genuine calls for pranks, such as when an important book author wants to invite him to a literary conference. Inverted in one episode when Bart makes a genuine prank call for a "Hugh Jass" on a busy night — only for a guy actually called Hugh Jass to be present to take the call. In the episode where Homer has to go undercover with the FBI regarding Fat Tony's dealings, his "making bones" ceremony involves bringing Moe out for Fat Tony to exact revenge on because the latter mistook Fat Tony's requesting to speak with a Russian associate for a prank call. It's not completely Moe's fault, however, as aside from Moe being pranked call so often, the person Tony wanted to speak to also had the Unfortunate Name of "Yuri Nator". In "My Sister, My Sitter", Lisa tries calling the hospital to get an ambulance for an unconscious Bart, but they refuse to oblige because Bart had earlier make a prank call to them. In "Homer the Smithers", Mr. Burns tries to call Smithers but doesn't know how telephones work and mistakenly calls Moe's Tavern and Moe thinks Mr. Burns is pranking him. Inverted in "Lisa's Rival" when Bart makes the old "is your refrigerator running" call to Skinner, who confirms that his fridge wasn't running and thanks him for sparing him quite a bit of spoilage. |
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The first time Haru calls Tsurezure's house in Ojojojo, his sister hangs up the phone the second Haru refers to herself as his girlfriend (he hadn't told anyone in his family that he was dating). | |
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On All My Children, as Will tries to force himself on his wife Hayley, she barricades herself in the bedroom and frantically calls her ex-boyfriend Brian for help. Unfortunately, Brian's wife An-Li picks up. Already unconcerned, when Will picks up the extension sounding completely calm, An-Li is now certain that Hayley's actions are just some drunken attempt to get Brian back and hangs up. | |
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911 Operator: One of the situations is a phone call from someone ordering pizza. The caller had actually been kidnapped, with the person forced to speak in code in order to avoid spooking their captor. Failing to realize this and hanging up results in them getting killed. 112 Operator has a similar situation with a caller pretending to speak to her mother; ignoring this one turns out even worse for you, since a child is involved. | |
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Harry's Mad: Madison/Mad calls the police from the house being used by his birdnapper, the criminal Silver Ware, but when he describes himself as about to escape through the chimney and being only nine inches tall, they think it's a prank. Late in the book though, it's revealed they actually did follow up on the tips he gave them, and as a result both Silver Ware and his contact (who handles stolen birds) have been arrested. | |
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In Air Force One, when the President calls the White House from a staffer's satellite phone, the White House operator naturally assumes it is a prank call...until the President tells her to trace the call and look at where he's calling from. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life has a variant of this. In "Pranksters", Rocko learns that his grandmother has arrived to O-Town and needs somebody (who isn't Heffer) to pick her up from the airport. So he calls the other citizens, who all instantly refuse, thinking that Rocko is trying to pull a prank on them given the holiday during the timeline of the episode. | |
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Supernatural: In the Season 4 premiere, Dean is inexplicably resurrected and dumped in the middle of nowhere. Desperate for help, calls his surrogate father Bobby, but Bobby thinks it's a demon imitating Dean to be cruel. He threatens Dean and hangs up on him. | |
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In the film Small Soldiers, the protagonist's love interest is trying to call the police to help with the army of killer toys. At first she says that it isn't a prank call, and then says that it is a prank call, and asks if they'll come arrest her. They hang up. | |
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A street story on Sesame Street has Oscar the Grouch trying out his new cell phone. He annoys Gina by repeatedly calling her at Hooper's Store. After two or three such calls, Gina thinks she's scolding Oscar, but it's actually Mr. Handford calling. | |
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In one episode of Murphy Brown, Murphy gets kidnapped by radical environmentalists trying to get publicity for their cause. Unfortunately, everyone they try to contact to tell about this either thinks it's one of Murphy's pranks, or has been pranked by her recently and as such is glad to see her go. In the end, Murphy ends up annoying them to the point where they let her go to get rid of her. | |
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In Hot Fuzz, Angel thinks that a call from Peter Ian Staker (P.I. Staker, to explain why), is a prank call. He was ridiculed in a local newspaper and became a bit of a laughing stock. To be honest, reporting a missing swan that ran away from a swan castle sounds ridiculous. Moreover, Nicholas stays at a hotel called "Swan" and his room is called "Castle". When the caller introduces himself as P.I. Staker, Nicholas gets really angry and loses it ("Piss taker? Come on!"). Gilligan Cut to him interviewing one Mr. Staker whose swan really did run away. | |
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In the The Adventures of Dr. McNinja story Space Savers, Chuck Goodrich calls Doc's brother Sean "Dark Smoke Puncher" McNinja for help when Doc is attacked by a ghost manifesting as a cloud of dark smoke. Sean thinks they're making fun of his ninja name, and hangs up. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "The Hitchhiker" has a woman being chased by a strange creep. Near the end, she finds a phone to call her mother, but the mother says she thinks it's a prank since her daughter died two weeks ago, and it is there she finds out who that creep was. | |
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In the Sonic Boom Synchronous Episodes "Trains, Planes, and Dude-Mobiles" and "Sticks and Amy's Excellent Staycation," Sonic and his friends are mistaken for a wanted criminal called the Bike Chain Bandit (who they had picked up in their Dude-mobile earlier) and thrown in jail. Sonic uses his One Phone Call to call Amy and beg her to bail them out, but Amy, who is busy fighting Belinda alongside Sticks, brushes it off as one of Sonic's pranks and hangs up. | |
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In one episode of Kenan & Kel, the duo thinks a clown at Kyra's party is the same one that robbed Kenan's workplace so they call the cops and all they say is "We have a bad clown in our living room" they understandably think it's a prank call. Turns out it wasn't the same clown and the only reason the cops came was because they caught the real one who robbed the store and wanted an identification | |
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DC Super Hero Girls: In "#DCSuperHeroBoys", General Zod and his minions escape the Phantom Zone and terrorize Metropolis while Superman is away. Supergirl calls Superman and asks for help, but she had apparently given him false alarms about Zod before, so he hangs up on her. | |
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In the episode where Homer has to go undercover with the FBI regarding Fat Tony's dealings, his "making bones" ceremony involves bringing Moe out for Fat Tony to exact revenge on because the latter mistook Fat Tony's requesting to speak with a Russian associate for a prank call. It's not completely Moe's fault, however, as aside from Moe being pranked call so often, the person Tony wanted to speak to also had the Unfortunate Name of "Yuri Nator". | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In "Telephonies", the Gangreen Gang prank the titular heroes three times into believing that Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and HIM were all committing crimes, prompting the girls to erroneously pummel them (two of them, at least). After the trio of villains discover that the Gangreen Gang had been prank calling the girls to beat the trio up for crimes they didn't do, they give the gang a good beating, and the Mayor arrives just in time to witness the physical altercation. He calls the girls to inform them of this, but because the Gangreen Gang had pranked them so many times, the girls don't believe him and just return to bed with Buttercup using her Eye Beams to vaporize the Powerpuff Hotline when he tries to call them again. | |
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Happens in The X-Files, episode "Bad Blood". A drugged Mulder is trying to get Scully's help, but he's incapable of speaking intelligibly. She dismisses his call as a prank, commenting "Creep". | |
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In Die Hard, John McClane uses the radio he steals from the villains to contact the police on an emergency frequency and call for help. The dispatcher doesn't believe him, especially after confirming that there had already been a "prank" fire alarm from the same location. | |
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Gilligan's Island: A transoceanic telephone cable washes ashore onto the island. They tap into the cable and somehow manage to call a mainland US telephone operator. When they frantically yell things like "Help, we're stranded on a desert island!!" , the operator just bemusedly hangs up. The castaways also once play out a low-tech version of this trope involving a lost homing pigeon. They send it back to the mainland over and over again with pleas for help and keep getting replies from the owner, who thinks he's found a new pen pal with a great sense of humor. |
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The Archer episode "Vision Quest" has most of the main cast trapped in a stuck elevator. When Ray realizes that his phone has reception and calls 911, the operator assumes he's making either a prank or frivolous call and disconnects him. Then when he calls back she has the number blocked. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look has a sketch featuring a trio of billionaires who keep calling up random phone numbers, trying to give away their MASSIVE YACHTS. They can't understand why nobody wants them... | |
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In Vice Versa, when Judge Reinhold's character races to answer the pay phone that one of the kidnappers is calling to, he is breathing so hard on his end for about less than a minute that the female kidnapper thinks it's a pervert on the phone until Judge's character reveals who he is. | |
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The Flash (2014): In "A New World Part One", Barry Allen is stranded in the year 2000. He tries to call Professor Martin Stein for help getting back to the present. Even when Barry displays knowledge of his research, Stein thinks this is a prank call and hangs up on him. | |
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In ATOM GRRRL!!, this happens when Big E calls Jessica for help after murdering a cop. | |
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Comes up fairly often in London's Burning, most notably in one episode where the Fire Brigade get multiple actual prank calls about a local school being on fire. Blue Watch quickly figure out that one particular group of students are involved, including Kevin's little brother, but can't prove anything. Turns out the kids are hoping that after a few repetitions of this, the fire crews will be less than prompt about showing up when they set the place on fire for real. | |
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A Different World Jalessa calls her husband to tell him that she's gone into labor. Unfortunately, because all she can do is gasp and moan on pain, he thinks it's an obscene phone call and hangs up in disgust. | |
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The calls in Crank Yankers *are* pranks in Real Life, but apparently genuine in the puppets' universe. | |
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In Killer Klowns from Outer Space Officer Curtis Mooney dismisses a sudden barrage of calls from the entire town reporting Klown attacks and a radio call from his direct superior requesting him to call backup as the Terenzi Brothers (somehow) convincing the entire town to prank him so he will decide to quit being a police officer. | |
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In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Rooney gets a phone call from Sloane Peterson's father saying that her grandmother has died. Knowing that Sloane is Ferris Bueller's girlfriend, and that Ferris is skipping out on school, Rooney assumes that Ferris is pranking him. So he insults the "father", demanding that he bring the grandmother's body up to the school for confirmation. Then Ferris calls line two. Then, as Rooney stammers an apology to Sloane's father, a subversion occurs: we discover that it was Ferris' buddy Cameron who was making the phone call. So it's a prank call mistaken for Mistaken for Prank Call. Played straight when Jeannie calls 911 after she finds Dean Rooney snooping around her house. When the police arrive, Rooney is gone, so they assume Jeannie was prank calling and arrest her. |
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In Andhadhun, someone calls the police saying that Inspector Manohar was the one who dumped Mr. Sinha's body. The police officer receiving the call dismisses this as a crank call. | |
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In I'm Alan Partridge, the hotel receptionists have been taking phone messages for Alan from a prank caller giving joke names, and mistake Bill Oddie for one of them. | |
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Spider-Man: Homecoming: Mr. Delmar, witnessing Spidey fight a gang of bank robbers dressed in Avengers masks, calls the police saying "Spider-Man is fighting the Avengers in a bank on 21st Street." | |
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Del Boy is on a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? style quiz show, while Mickey Pearce harasses Rodney with prank calls. When Del uses his "phone a friend" to call Rodney, he initially assumes it's Mickey, but then realises. Unfortunately, he gives the wrong answer. Later, Del gets a phone call from the producer saying the question was worded poorly, and he's won after all. Absolutely certain that this is Mickey, he says to give it all to charity. | |
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Get Smart A public phone booth turns out to be a Drowning Pit. Smart has to get the operator to put through a call to CONTROL because he doesn't have any coins, but can't get the operator to believe that he's drowning in a telephone booth. In another episode Smart has faked his death, and can't get Larrabee to believe it's really him when he calls for help. Larabee hangs up, but help arrives anyway after Larabee traced the call and discovered it came from a Shoe Phone. |
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In Peanuts, we cut from Charlie Brown having a romantic moment with Peggy Jean to him on the phone. | |
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In Modern Family, when Claire decides to bring back her and her husband's sexy roleplaying alter egos Clive and Juliana, she phones Phil as Juliana, and he tells her she has a wrong number and hangs up. | |
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In The American President, Sydney Ellen Wade gets a call just after talking to a male friend. The caller identifies himself as President Shepherd, and she tells him she doesn't believe him, then says some unflattering things about the President. Um... it's really the President. This is directly followed by an Oh, Crap! moment. To resolve the issue, and verify his real identity, Shepherd calls her again, but tells her to immediately hang up and call the White House telephone operator to be put through to him. |
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In one of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect end up upon Earth in the near past. Arthur suggests to warn their past selves about the impending destruction of the planet. Ford however doesn't consider this to be a very good idea. He proceeds to perform an improvised miniature sketch, in which he is Arthur calling himself. The past Arthur hangs up as soon as the future Arthur tells his name. | |
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A variant in The Class Menagerie: When the gang is trapped in a dorm about to be overrun with ravenous tropical ants, the 911 operator mistakes it for a confused spring break drunk's call. | |
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When the crew of Cabin Pressure take a booking from the Princess of Liechtenstein, both Martin and Douglas are initially convinced that it's a hoax by the other. | |
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One example was told in a news story regarding a town/neighborhood somewhere that was named South Park. It was considering changing its name after at least one genuine emergency call to 911 was ignored by the operator who thought that the call was a prank. | |
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There was once a Mickey Mouse comic wherein Mickey was terrorized by the villain via phone. At one point, when the phone rings again, Mickey has had enough, picks up the receiver, and angrily yells at the caller before the latter can say a word. Too bad it was Minnie calling this time... | |
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Breaking Bad: In "One Minute", Hank is sitting in his car when his phone rings. A digitally disguised voice warns him that two men are on their way to kill him and that he has only one minute to get ready before they reach him. Hank initially thinks it's a prank call from Gomez, but as he's calling Gomez's cell to chew him out, he gets paranoid that the warning might be legitimate, and starts mentally preparing. It is fortunate that he does, because the the warning allows him to narrowly fend off a murder attempt by two cartel hitmen. | |
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You Had Your Chance To Help Years Ago And You Blew It: Paris initially tried to contact the Justice League for help with Hawk Moth, but because Ladybug’s abilities undid all the damage, Guy Gardener found no proof of the attack and assumed it was a prank call. All further distress calls were blocked by him and it took four years for the rest of the Justice League to learn about the attacks. | |
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In Eight Legged Freaks, Chris has this happening to him after he calls to report the town being overrun by the giant mutant spiders. Made all the more painful considering he had to fight past the spiders, climb on to the roof and ascend to the top of a radio tower in order to get a signal to make the call. Adding further insult to injury, at the end of the film the police finally arrive. They had not believed the reports of the spiders but believed Harlarn's theory that the assailants were extraterrestrial in nature. | |
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On Friends, Phoebe reaches Emily's stepmother's cell at the Ross/Emily wedding. When she explains she can't be there because "I'm pregnant with my brother's triplets" the stepmother asks "Am I on the radio?" | |
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Only Fools and Horses: Del Boy is on a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? style quiz show, while Mickey Pearce harasses Rodney with prank calls. When Del uses his "phone a friend" to call Rodney, he initially assumes it's Mickey, but then realises. Unfortunately, he gives the wrong answer. Later, Del gets a phone call from the producer saying the question was worded poorly, and he's won after all. Absolutely certain that this is Mickey, he says to give it all to charity. In the episode "Dates", Del has earlier pranked Albert with a policewoman/stripper and is expecting some kind of retaliation. When he is told at the end by a policewoman that he is under arrest for some fairly far-fetched sounding reasons, he automatically assumes that the prank is being repaid. When he tries to assist the 'stripper' to undress, a definite Oh, Crap! moment results... |
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In Major League, Jake is sweating it out in the Mexican league when someone from the Cleveland Indians calls him to join their team this year. Jake doesn't believe the call is real. | |
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An episode in season two of Cobra Kai has a prospective customer ring Johnny Lawrence and inquire about whether or not his dojo accepts genderfluid/genderqueer students. Dumbfounded, Johnny questions whether or not they're prank calling. | |
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