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Ridiculously Long Phone Number
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A phone number is much longer than a real phone number, or noticeably longer than other phone numbers given at the same time. The entire number may be listed or the audience may simply see a character dialing far more digits than would be reasonably expected without seeing which digits they are. Sometimes the number will be an international number and the extra digits are presumably country and area codes, but more often than not no explanation is given. Usually a type of Overly-Long Gag. See also For Inconvenience, Press "1". Sort of Truth in Television: To dial on a public phone from Tokyo to Guadalajara, Mexico, for example, you have to dial 0041-010-52-33-XXXX-XXXX, where 0041 is the long distance carrier,note In this case, Softbank, and this prefix is actually optional, though it's usually not recommended to omit it for the reason shown below. 010 is the international long-distance code,note If you chose to omit the carrier selection prefix, you will be connected through the default carrier for your phone company, usually NTT, which is well known for its extortionate rates. 52 is Mexico's country code, 33 is Guadalajara's city code, and XXXX-XXXX is the local phone number. Also, any extra digits are ignored once you've finished dialing a full valid number, so sometimes harmless extra letters are tacked on to a mnemonic (i.e. 1-800-BUSINESS-NAME). |
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Sheep in the Big City had one episode where they cut to commercial as a character picked up the phone. When it returns, the character is still dialing, and the narrator comments, "If you're wondering why he's still dialing, he's calling one of those really long collect call numbers." | |
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The Simpsons: In "In Marge We Trust", when Homer calls Japan, he dials a ridiculous series of digits (we can't see what he's dialing). At one point, he touch-tones the theme to The Magnificent Seven. (Note that it's made to seem longer than it is by Homer looking back to the phonebook after every digit.) There was a similar bit in "Bart vs. Australia"., where Bart plays a phone prank in Australia and the dial tone sounds like the National Geographic theme. Another example comes from "Poppa's Got A Brand New Badge", where Homer creates his own security agency. He implores customers: "don't dial 911, dial 636... 555... 347... 2." |
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Stuart Ashen once did a fake promotional message to support Sad Onions (long story). The YouTube comments were quick to jump on the fact that the long phone number he recites is different from the number that scrolls along the bottom of the screen. Someone put the "promo" into its own video, here. | |
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In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Homestar Ruiner, if Strong Bad attempts to call Homsar with Homestar's phone, a really, really long sequence of simulated button presses (via speed dial) is heard, though the numbers can't be seen. | |
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A B-Plot in Vicious has Violet head to Buenos Aires, where she leaves Freddie and Stuart a message stating she's in trouble. The contact number she leaves is "0054-770-09-0B-B04-K51Q". | |
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Uncle Grandpa: Andrew W.K.'s party hotline's number is 555-5555-5555-555-555555555-5555-55-5-5-55-555-555-555555-55-55555-55-55. D and J's plumbing has another long phone number. 1-555-0175-D-AND-J-TODAY-FOR-ALL-YOUR-PLUMBING-NEEDS, Extension 402. |
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Inverted in Supernatural, where Crowley's phone number is just "666". | |
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Recurring villain Dr. Jacques von Hamsterviel's phone number is, in one episode, given as "5550198293434533655882". | |
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Inverted in the Simple Samosa episode "Pimple Samosa", where Samosa calls a TV station on the phone to try out a new pimple cream and get rid of an annoying talking pimple named Peter he has developed. The number he calls is literally just "1". | |
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The technical support line for the Insan-O-Flex in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters. Also the emergency number Carl had to dial after Meatwad sawed both his arms off. |
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Inverted in 'Allo 'Allo!: in one episode, Heinrich Himmler's phone number is stated to be simply "Berlin 1". | |
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Saturday Night Live: An Alec Baldwin episode had a false ad promoting a new collect-call service: Another SNL episode from the early 90s featured a commercial parody of a phone company willing to provide top notch customer service, which allowed a customer to choose 123-456-789note Hyphen locations estimated as her number. |
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Help!: In a surreal comedy bit, John Lennon dials one of these from his below-ground resting area in the Beatles' house, to set off Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr's alarm clocks late at night. | |
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The Amanda Show did this for each of its "When ______s Attack!" sketches; for example: "1 (500) I-Just-Saw-the-Brady-Bunch-Attack-Some-Person-and-Now-I'm-Calling-This-Number-to-Report-What-I-Saw". | |
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The "new emergency number" in The IT Crowd, complete with jingle: That's ♪ 0118 999 881 999 119 725 ...3 ♪ | |
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In Little Britain Abroad, Caroll Beer dials a lot of numbers on the telephone in order to call someone. | |
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Beef And Dairy Network Podcast hosts a competition named "Beef Call" with a ridiculously long phone number. To help the listeners remember it, it is transformed into a 3-minute long ballad with many doubles, triples, a backup singer and interpretive dance. | |
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In "In Marge We Trust", when Homer calls Japan, he dials a ridiculous series of digits (we can't see what he's dialing). At one point, he touch-tones the theme to The Magnificent Seven. (Note that it's made to seem longer than it is by Homer looking back to the phonebook after every digit.) | |
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The Soup had a gag like this, but it was intentionally parodying 10-10-321 (formerly 10-321) and a host of other similar ads that were advertised at the time, especially on E! network. The chain ended with "...and pi, then press 1, and then the number you want to dial!" | |
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Used in You Don't Mess with the Zohan to have some Palestinian-Americans call an extraordinarily long number to reach the "Hizballah Phone-Line". It turned out that "terrorist-supply service will resume as soon as negotiations break down". | |
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Stray: In the subway, you can find a line map. In small print at the bottom is the city's customer service number: 000 455 785 99 001 987. (Yes, one group of two numbers). | |
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A fake advert in Homestar Runner features Senor Cardgage Mortgage inviting you to "come along down and dial 555-55-55855-55-5-SENOR-MORT-GAGE-TODAY!" | |
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In Family Guy, a Cutaway Gag involved Hitler as the host of a TV talk show. When the Griffins return from their vacation in Italy, Brian gives Stewie the long Italian phone number of 195-655-501-881-453-989-900-168-94-52. Inverted in a Cutaway Gag in "Peter Griffin: Husband, Father...Brother?" featuring Peter's ancestor Osias, owner of one of the first telephones: |
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In "Chef Rotten Food" on LazyTown, this is combined with 555 with a phone number that's nothing but 5s that seems to keep going and going. | |
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Done on The D-Generation. A poll on a news show was "Do you think unions have too much power?". The number to call for "yes" was short and the number for "no" was ridiculously long. | |
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Day Job Orchestra's Star Trek: The Next Generation Gag Dub "Happy in Paraguay" ends with a phone number for ordering DJO apple juice, spoken very fast: "ACT NOW CALL 1-800-608-652-5612..24-652-642-, THAT'S 1-800-608-56-56-56 1-800-608-642-562-642 1-800-56-56-56-"*BOOM*! | |
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